@darling-of-the-dangerous
Valerie entered the dance studio and saw a few of her classmates sitting on the floor, already with their sketchpads in hand. She plopped down on the floor next to them, but kept to herself as she pulled out her supplies. It was so hard to draw people that were moving, and she wasn’t looking forward to this assignment at all. Nor was she looking forward to spending most of the day on the floor of a ballet school. Her butt was going to be asleep from this floor within the hour, and she had a good deal of other things she wanted to be doing.
She tried to force a positive thought. Surely there would be plenty of pretty girls, right? Suddenly that seemed like enough to motivate her at least a little. They had been allowed drinks with lids, so she took a sip of her coffee and got to work preparing her slides. Val didn’t know a thing about ballet, though she had seen Black Swan and knew it couldn’t be THAT crazy.
The dancers began to come in, and the woman she assumed was the teacher began to explain why there was a crowd of art students piled into the corner of the room. Valerie tried to make herself small. She felt pretty ungraceful amid these stunning girls who all seemed so prim and put together.
As the class started, she picked up her pencil and began to sketch.








