Dance With Me by Jenny Bloom

Author:Jenny Bloom [Bloom, Jenny]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Published: 2020-06-29T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

When Jayla originally invited me to, ‘her place’, I was thinking it was just a different floor in my dorm building. Heck, I would’ve gone with a different dorm on campus. But as we walked out of Wallsburgh and into the city streets, I suddenly realized what she meant.

“You’re okay walking around after dark, right?” Jayla asked. “I promise my apartment’s not too far—we just head up the hill and take a left at the top.”

I quickly shook my head. “N-Naw, don’t worry about me. I walk farther just to get a bite to eat.”

Jayla snickered from behind her hand. “Guess I should’ve expected that from the residential, rough-and-tumble cowgirl. I’m starting to think you’re not scared of anything.”

I was terrified of messing this up, if that counted. But I had to admit, I wasn’t as nervous as I was last time it’d been just the two of us. I would have thought being in my own backyard might make me feel more at-ease, but somehow, getting out completely was playing out to be the better option. Maybe because there wasn’t any pressure to be like we were in school; out in the city, I was just any other passerby, walking home with someone I kept interchanging between a friend and more so. There wasn’t anyone I knew watching us; no Sasha to tease me or bug about intricate details, though I knew it’d happen once I got back. Here and now, it was just us, free to be a truer part of ourselves.

God, but I still wanted to vomit my insides up thanks to nerves alone.

“Hey, so,” Jayla sounded as awkward as I felt, her hand rubbing the back of her pixie-cut while she grinned. “I wanted to say thanks. For coming back to hang out with me; I didn’t realize how tense I was until we stepped out of Wallsburgh.”

So, the feeling was mutual. “Yeah, of course,” I began. “You seemed like you just needed to turn it all off for a night.”

Jayla nodded, her breath catching in the air and swirling up into the cooling night sky. “Jesus; I can’t believe fall’s just around the corner. Feels like only a few months ago that school kicked back into gear.”

That feeling was mutual as well. It really did feel like only yesterday that I stumbled off my first city bus and into Wallsburgh Uni. “Time really flew by once productions started rolling,” I said.

Jayla’s smile turned a whole lot more somber. “Yeah. The theater tends to eat up a lot of time and attention.”

Crap. I wanted her to forget about that whole mess, not make her miss it more. “So, what’s this, ‘must-see’ movie you were going on and on about?” I asked. “because let me tell you, if it doesn’t live up to the hype, I’m going to be mighty disappointed.”

Jayla let out that one-of-a-kind laugh of hers, mood immediately brightened up. “Oh, don’t worry. I haven’t found a person yet who hasn’t bawled their eyes out at this flick.

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