《TNS Piper Season 8 (Must Read)》The Aftermath
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"Game on.." Those were Summer's last words, before Nick took A troupe to studio 1. They were fuming with anger.
"We deserve to go to Nationals!" Kenzie yelled while the others yelled in agreement. "They could never win nationals, just look at them and look at us, we're the better fit, that's why we are called A troupe and they're B troupe!!" Richelle shouted.
They all suddenly turned on Nick, " Nick! You can't possibly be thinking about letting THEM go to nationals instead of us!" Amy said, in mild disbelief. "Guys let's not argue, we can work this out, the next step's a family!" Piper pleaded, everyone looked at her with dismay and reluctancy. She folded her arms and stared at each and every one of them. "Fine!","fine","fineeee.." everyone mumbled. Nick took that opportunity to slide out of Studio 1 so that he could go think to himself. Upon realisation, A troupe ran after him and begged him to tell them what he was going to do. "Alright fine! Will everyone calm down already! I have an idea but you should all go home and come back bright and early at 8:00am and we can discuss things further". A troupe grumbled in agreement and left the studio.
Hand in hand, Piper and Finn went to the bus stop to wait for Riley who was coming to them up. "Hey guys, how are you?!" Riley gushed, she had some big news to share with Piper and Finn. After they caught her up on all the latest drama in the studio, Riley decided to wait a day or two before giving them the good news. When they reached Riley and James' apartment, (Piper was staying with them as her mum was busy at work) they all just crashed onto the plush, velvet sofa. After James came home from work, they all just chilled and watched movies and ate food, until Finn had to go home. Piper, Riley and James also went to bed to get ready for their next eventful day...
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Piper woke up bright and early and began her daily morning routine. At 7:45am she had finished her breakfast and was about to head out to go meet Finn so that they could go to the studio together, but he was already there about to knock on the door.
"Oh Finn, hey!" Piper giggled as they shared a kiss. "Hey Pipes, let's get going and see if Nick has come up with anything about Nationals." Finn said as he kissed her forehead and they started walking to his car- well his mum's car! When they arrived, Richelle was packing studio A. Piper tapped her on the shoulder and she jumped, " WHAT, WHAT IS IT?!! Oh, Piper, Finn, it's only you guys.". "Woah, Richelle relax!" Piper laughed. Richelle explained how she questioned Nick calmly ( meaning she frantically yelled at him during interrogation) and he told her that all of A troupe had to be there before he could tell them the news.
"Five..six..seven...nine..TEN!!" Richelle yelled happily as she ran to Nick's office and told him that all of A troupe had arrived. Nick stood nervously in front of A troupe, not knowing how they were going to take the news. "Guys, the only way to settle this is a dance battle, the A troupe from a couple of years ago also went through something quite similar, but this time it will be the whole of A troupe versus the whole of B troupe and we'll see which team is stronger and maybe we can find a couple of alternates from this whole debacle."
All of A troupe were gaping at Nick but slowly started to accept their fate that none of their spots on A troupe were safe. "Its okay guys, we can easily take them on, I mean thats why WE'RE A troupe and they're not!" Kingston exclaimed. The rest of the group nodded enthusiastically in agreement. They huddled up and Nick told them the date of the dance battle, it was in 2 days time, they had to come up with some killer choreography and work on their group chemistry if they wanted to win. The dance battle was so soon as nationals was coming up very soon, and they didnt have time to waste.
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Amy hugged Henry as they swayed gently from side to side and Piper clinged on to Finn's hand. Ozzy hugged Richelle as everyone was having a bit of a sad moment as they were all wondering what would become of them if they lost this battle, surprisingly, she didnt reject his hug.
After that, they rehearsed and rehearsed and rehearsed. They brought their best dance moves forward and tried their hardest to learn some new ways, there was no way B troupe were going to win this. "Let's go out together and do something fun" Piper exclaimed. They all kinda gave her weird looks as if to say 'really Piper, we need to get ready for this dance battle!'. "Yeah, come on guys, it'll be great bonding, so that we really look together on the day of the dance battle." Finn said, backing up his girlfriend. They ended up agreeing to go bowling and to an arcade near the bowling alley and had a blast.
"That was so much fun, I honestly can't believe how awful you are at bowling, Kingston!" Lily said, laughing at Kingston. "Okay babe, laugh all you want, I for one had a great time" Kingston replied. "Yeah that was a blast!", Amy said. They talked and talked on the walk back to the studio. In two days time, they were going to have to prove their love for A troupe through dance....
Hope you guys enjoyed my first chapter! I know it's not very long but this is my first story, hope you love this story! xoxo!
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