CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX

NEW DANCE PARTNER...

NEXT DAY...

The school bell rang announcing the end of the school for the day and the school's entrance doors flew open. Minutes later, Lilliana and Tessa together with Jake and Daren walked out of the building with their backpacks loosely hanging over their shoulders. They crossed the street to get to the ice rink for the auditions. Walking through the glass doors, the small group of friends made their way to the audience seats and sat down.

They waited... and waited until too much time had passed and Mrs Bassett had finally ran out of patience. Getting her phone from inside her bag, she tapped on the screen before placing the phone's speaker over her ear and got up from her seat. She walked closer to the rink to talk with the person on the other side of the call. They had been sitting there for about an hour and oddly enough, none of the auditionees had shown up to their auditions yet.

Lilliana was beginning to worry, she bit on her nails while staring at the c