DASH: Rushing the Play by Kayley Loring & Connor Crais

Author:Kayley Loring & Connor Crais [Loring, Kayley]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-09-14T16:00:00+00:00

TWENTY-ONE

Charlie

I had been a bundle of nerves before the show. It probably didn’t help that I’d opted to go to a waxing appointment instead of grabbing dinner. It definitely didn’t help that I’d grabbed two pieces of cheese and half a glass of champagne backstage. It really didn’t help that Dash was in the audience wearing a suit and holding a huge bouquet of roses.

My mom and sister had flown in to see the opening weekend performances, but I was used to having them in the audience, so it didn’t make me nervous. Not that Dash was more important to me than my mother and sister. Not that he was important to me at all in the grand scheme of things, per se. But he was a large figure in my life at that point. Literally. He didn’t have a large part in my life, but he was large, and a large part of him had been in me. It was certainly the largest part that had ever been in me in my life.

And even though it wasn’t my job to make him practice and appreciate grace anymore, I still wanted him to enjoy this show more than he’d enjoyed the one I gave him in the basement. But I wanted him to enjoy it without the killer boner and the chair-breaking. At least not until we got back to his place.

It was when I was doing a simple emboîté that I suddenly lost my balance.

I’d felt dizzy, and even though I was upstage and I had only stumbled a tiny bit, to me it felt like I had done a face-plant center stage in the middle of a spotlight. I was horrified. I stayed in time with the music for the rest of the piece, but I felt off my game. I was so mad at myself for drinking champagne on an empty stomach. That was so unlike me.

Or maybe I was just giddy because of that large figure who was wearing the suit and holding the flower bouquet.

I wasn’t sure which was worse—the fact that I’d skipped dinner and had champagne before a show or that I was falling for Dash Taylor. None of it made sense. This was not who I was. This was not a part of the plan. This was not what I had spent most of my life training for.

But I wanted that big bouquet of roses.

And I really wanted all the other girls in the company to see Dash give me that big bouquet of roses.

So I suppose he was important to me. Maybe not in the grand scheme of things, but at this point in my life. I just couldn’t let myself lose sight of my goal, even though I’d lost the day-to-day passion for reaching my goal quite some time ago. Even though my entire body was constantly aching from how hard this choreographer had been pushing us.

But the passion that Dash Taylor inspired in me was strong whenever we were together.

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