status : closed starter for @sebastianeu. setting : clarisse’s junior ballet class in a dance studio beyond the boundary, late morning.
❛❛ excellent, excellent ! now, next week, you are all going to try on your costumes for the very first time, so i want you all to be here. you can go. ❜❜ young eyes spark with excitement, all eager for their production of coppélia to finally take form. it is worth the journey beyond the barrier for this ⸺ to see the children dance and perform after all their hard work, hear their parents’ praise and chatter outside when the doors spring open and they are dismissed from their lesson. clarisse watches as they disperse, following her students to the door and making conversation with some of their relatives before ducking back inside when the majority have disappeared out the door.
immediately, her gaze finds sebastian in the opposite side of the room, and she beams his way, glad that he’s still there and hasn’t lost interest after watching a bunch of nine - year - olds pirouetting all morning. ❛❛ you do not always have to wait for me, you know that, don’t you ? what’s the worst that could happen to me if you left for a few hours ? ❜❜













