‘Okay, stop,’ I blurt, holding up a hand in protest. ‘You have to explain whatever it is you’re up to.’
‘Me?’ Abigail asks, her eyes widening. ‘Nothing.’
If only I could believe that.
Abigail’s shoulders droop a little. ‘Okay, I agree that last year I alienated quite a few people around me.’
‘So now you’ve decided to be … nice?’
Abigail nods enthusiastically. ‘Nice, yes. I think opening up to people could even improve my dancing. Today, I don’t have to be perfect, I just have to be me.’
Grace stares at Abigail for a long moment, then moves a little closer to me.
‘If I get a choice of chaperone,’ she whispers, ‘do you mind if I pick you?’
Ethan walks into the studio just as Grace is leaving. It was our last stop on her tour of the Academy. They exchange a few words and then she’s gone, leaving me alone with him.
Have you read all of the Dance Academy
Season Two books?
Did you miss the Dance Academy
Season One books?
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Clark, Sherryl.
Kat: second chance / Sherryl Clark.
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Series: Dance academy. Series 2.
For primary school age.
Dancers--Juvenile fiction.
Interpersonal relations--Juvenile fiction.
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