Misconnected

Part six:

I had spent the whole last night planning my ribbon routine. It was mostly in my head still, but I knew how I wanted it. My hour in the arena this morning was good practice.. It was a little getting used to again, but it went well. Ryan called me right before I started practicing and wanted to meet up. I told them just to come to the bar when they felt like it. I was going to be practicing in the back room practically the whole afternoon.

~Ville’s POV~
We were at my house practicing when Bam, Ryan, Novak and Raab showed up. We all sat talking from that moment. That was about 2 hours ago, it was now 15.00. I laughed. "Ryan, what is up with you? You’ve been sitting squirming in your seat for the past thirty minutes now! " He sighed. "I just wanted to see Siri! But Bam insisted we’d see you first! " He whined.. I looked at him with a raised eyebrow. "No offence! " He quickly added. "But I haven’t seen her in years.. I want to see her dance! " I stood up laughing. "Well then let’s go! " He looked at me confused. "She invited us too, and I know where she practices.. so what are you waiting for! " He stood up immediately, but Bam spoke up. "We’re waiting for me to finish my beer! " I rolled my eyes and walked out with Ryan in tow, he’d follow eventually..

I led the guys to the bar where I met her yesterday. I could already hear music playing when we entered the front part of the bar. The same girls as yesterday were standing behind the bar and I think they almost fainted when they saw the group that walked in. I smiled and asked them if we could go to the backroom. They immediately nodded. My guess was, that they’d given us the money in the cash register if we’d asked for it. They seemed rather star struck..

We all softly entered the room and saw her standing with her back towards us. Bye bye beautiful from Nightwish was playing. I also recognized the first bit of master passion greed worked into it. She mixed it. I stood watching her intently, as did the others. I was amazed by her ability to dance like that on rock music, my bet was that most contestants would use hip hop music. After a few seconds her steps changed and she turned towards us. She immediately stopped dancing. "Jesus guys, you scared me! " She said with a hand over her heart. I grinned. "Well you said we could come watch.. and I brought company! " I pointed behind me and she saw Ryan. "Indy!! " She said happily. She skipped over and gave him a hug. He chuckled. "You dancing on Rock music Sir? Damn.. must be hard.. " She shrugged. "In my opinion, dance is an art. Hip hop music is for gyrating in clubs, not art. I’m also working a special start into my dance. But I won’t tell you. You’ll see that in two weeks.. " She said with a smile. Now I really was curious and I guess Bam noticed. He laughed. "That certainly got Ville’s attention! He hates surprises and secrets.. " He chuckled. I glared at him. Siri turned to me and smirked again. God she looks good when she does that. "Guess that’s his problem then! " She said laughing. I fake glared at her and she stuck out her tongue. "Well fella’s.. I guess you can take a seat over there.. " She said pointing to a few chairs in the corner. "If you really want to watch.. I’m warning you, practice isn’t that interesting. I constantly stop and try again.. " We all shrugged. "I’ve never seen worldchampionship level dancing.. so i’ll settle with practice.. " I said with a smile. She laughed and shrugged. "Suit yourself.. " She walked back to the cd player and forwarded the song a little. I was just going to ask why she didn’t start at the beginning, but she spoke up. "That’s the beginning i’m not going to show you yet.. " I closed my mouth again and waited for her to start. Her movements started out slow, but became more rapid as the song proceeded. I didn’t believe what I saw. She seemed to be made out of rubber. It was marvellous to see. Her body made exactly the right movements. I was captivated by her way of moving to such a quick and irregular beat. Half way through the song, she did some breakdance moves. I saw all the guys eyes widen a little at her ability to keep her body under control like that. After a backflip, she fell flat on the ground. I immediately stood up, but Bam pulled me down again. Her body moved to the beat and started moving again. *It’s part of the dance..* I slowly sat down again and watched her get up again. It was like she was attached to wires. Even Bam had nothing to say, and that rarely happens.

She stepped towards us, panting heavily but with a smile on her face. She looked more beautiful than ever. "I take it you liked it? " She asked us. We could only nod. "Where did you learn to dance like that? " Ryan stammered. She smiled and took a swig of her water. "Just watching. You don’t know how many nights I’ve spent in clubs just checking out the dance moves and watching ballet shows.. just to make them into other moves that suited me.. " I smiled. "If this doesn’t get you the title, I’ll eat my shoe. That was incredible.. " She laughed and winked at me. "Thanks for the compliment.. but I’m not there yet.. it takes a lot of practice to get even close to the level I want to be at.. So you won’t be seeing a lot of me in the next two weeks.. Sad, but necessary. " She chuckled. We smiled. "Then we won’t keep you any longer.. " Ryan said ushering us out the door. "We want you to win.. " He kissed her cheek and left. I stayed behind a little. "Siri..? " I asked her. She turned from the CD player and smiled. "Yeah Ville? " I scratched my head. "I know you’ll be busy these weeks.. but I figured you need a break at night, so I was wondering if you’d accompany me to dinner sometime? " She smiled. "I’d like that.. thank you Ville. Call me with a date okay? " I smiled and nodded. "Will do, bye sweetheart. " I kissed her cheek and hurried out after the others.

~Your POV~
One week had passed now and Ville and I were going out to dinner tonight. It felt strange, I hadn’t been on a date in a long time. And I was really starting to like Ville. He told me to dress nice. Well, if he meant a dress he can wait a damn long time. I hate dresses and I don’t even own one. I finally decided on black silk pants and a bloodred top. A black shoulder scarf to top it off and of course a jacket over that. It was still Finland.

A knock at my door got my out of my thoughts. I smiled, did one last check in the mirror and opened the door. Ville stood waiting with one single rose and a cheeky smile. I returned it and kissed his cheek. "You look great darling. " Ville said handing me the rose. I smiled. "Thank you.. " I put the rose on a table by the door and closed it. "So.. where are you taking me? " He smiled. "My favourite restaurant.. The food is really good there. I laughed. "Yeah you also said that about the bar I’m practicing at.. did I dress up nice for that? " He laughed. "No sweetheart, a restaurant He said stressing the word. I smiled and looped arms with him as we stepped outside. We walked under the black helsinki sky for a few minutes, just talking. That was until I caught a glimpse of a way to familiar red beard. I sighed. "What’s wrong sweetheart? " Ville said looking down to me. "Don’t look back.. " I started in a whisper.. "But your lover and his friends are following us.. " He sighed as well. "And we’re almost there. I don’t want them following us all night.. " He looked in deep thought. I tugged his sleeve and smiled. "Why don’t you tell the waiter that you had a fight with Bam and he’s looking for something to blackmail you so he’s following you. That way they won’t let him in the restaurant.. " He smirked. "Let’s hope that works.. " We entered the restaurant and Ville said something to the waiter in finnish. He nodded and motioned for us to follow him. We went into a separate room and he sat us at one of the three tables in there. When he left I started laughing, as did Ville. "This is even better.. " We both said at the same time. "Hah, I’d like to see Bam try and get past this one.. " Ville snickered. I smiled and looked at the menu in front of us. That decision was quickly made. I put it down again. "Uh, yeah.. you order for me.. " I said with a grin. Ville looked confused but quickly caught on. "Oh right.. " He laughed. "Well I’ll translate something for you. I don’t know what you want to eat.. " He said and started naming some things on the menu. I decided on a simple pasta. Ville had something typically Finnish, but the name alone scared me, so I didn’t ask any further.. He laughed at that. The waiter brought our food and we dug in. "Hmm, this is good! " I said after the first bite. Ville smiled and held out his fork for me. "Try some.. " He said with a smile.