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said,’ he repeats the offer.
    ‘I know. And today, yesterday – it was amazing. But it’s your thing, not mine.’
    I can see in his eyes he’s disappointed but I think he understands that I can’t be another backing dancer groupie.
    Tristanne’s hovering with her phone, pushing for the interview. ‘Myles? Are we cool?’
    ‘Two more minutes,’ Myles says to her.
    ‘Better not keep ‘em waiting,’ I say.
    ‘Don’t worry about them.’ He takes my hands.
    I wish we could just be spending time together. I wish we could be doing ‘our’ thing, but that’s not what the tour would be about. Life isn’t that simple. I can feel part of me being pulled towards him, but it’s not right for me.
    ‘I kinda have to go anyway. Do my own stuff.’
    ‘Is there anything I can say to change your mind?’
    There isn’t. I pull away from his hands – his seriously sexy hands. I have to go.
    A couple of days later we’re all watching TV in the living room at the boarding house. Myles’s interviewis on the TV. Even Ethan and Christian are drawn away from the pool table.
    ‘It’s the pizza guy,’ says Christian. ‘What’s he doing on TV?’ He must be the only person in the country who doesn’t know who Myles is.
    The interviewer asks Myles if he had someone special in mind when he wrote the song.
    ‘No but I met someone recently and I guess it’s her song now.’
    Then he introduces the video.
    ‘Okay, this is my new song,
Hey Girl,
and, Kat, if you’re watching, this one’s for you!’
    Sammy and Tara are in total awe and I have to admit it’s pretty cool having a song dedicated to you on national TV.
    Even Ethan, my ‘I’m going to be a serious choreographer’ big brother, reckons, ‘It’s quite cool’. That’s about as much praise as I’ll ever get from him.
    I have a moment’s regret about not going on tour with Myles. I know it wasn’t right for me but I had a peek at a life that wasn’t ballet, wasn’t the Academy and wasn’t what everyone’s assumed I’m going to do. For a second the thought that I don’t have to be a ballet dancer flashesthrough my mind but it’s so bizarre, I can’t hold onto it.
    Some day, I don’t know when, something will come along and I’ll know it’s my thing. And I’ll drop everything and run towards it. Until then, I’m no one’s backing dancer, not even Myles’s.

CHAPTER 6
    I try to remember what Myles told me, that relationships don’t need to be complicated, but that’s not easy when you’re the great Natasha Willis’s daughter. It’s the end of our first semester and that means demonstration classes when proud parents come to the Academy and beam about how far their talented little darlings have come.
    Tara, Sammy and I are waiting outside the Academy for our parents to arrive. Tara is hopping from one foot to the other, desperate to see her parents who have driven all night to come and see her. Sammy’s face lights up as his mother arrives, rushes out of her car and gives him a big hug. I get a peck on the cheek and a disapproving, ‘Is that chocolate?’ when Natasha steps gracefully out of her car.
    It’s not the warmest of greetings but that’s my mum. She is actually present, which is pretty good by her standards. As we walk into the building she acknowledges that we haven’t spent much time together lately and makes an offer.
    ‘It’s time you and I had a holiday together,’ she announces.
    ‘Can I choose where we go?’ I ask, knowing her choice would probably be two weeks at the Met in New York.
    ‘You choose, but there is a condition,’ she smiles.
    ‘What?’
    ‘You have to get good marks in your dance exams,’ she says.
    ‘There’s no way I can be top of the class,’ I warn her.
    ‘All I ask is you try your hardest.’
    ‘And I get a holiday of
my
choosing. Deal,’ I agree.
    ‘Marvellous!’ Natasha beams and strides into the Academy like she’s just aced a parenting skills exam.
    It’s a fair exchange and