twice a week.” she laughed. Caleb joined in with the laughter, remembering Maggie’s disinterest in dance the first class. “Anyways,” she continued, “I had a stupid fight with my boyfriend and needed to vent, so I called Maggie. I didn’t mean for her to bail after your show. I’m sorry.”
“No, not at all.” Caleb brushed off the apology. “I’m glad she was able to be there for you.” he continued, looking over at Maggie with a smile, who forced one upon her own face in return. “Plus, I’m also glad it wasn’t because she thought our music sucked and had to flee.” he joked.
“You guys were great ! I loved your music.” Maggie cut in.
“Thanks! That means a lot. I’m g lad you came out and saw the show. Even if it did break your rules.” Caleb said, causing the both of them to chuckle.
“Yeah, well, I’m here to “grow” remember?”
Taylor just stood back and watched the goings on, making a mental note to grill Maggie about this later. “I should be going, I just wanted to pop in and say hi. Oh, and to pay the tuition so that Maggie can continue to be all yours.” Taylor joked. Just as Taylor had made her mental note, Maggie did her own, reminding herself to smack Taylor for that last comment.
“Well, it was nice meeting you, Taylor. I hope everything worked out with you and your boyfriend.”
“Oh, yeah, we’re good.” she assured him. “It was like it never even happened.” she stated firmly, giving Maggie a knowing look as she spoke.
With that, she turned and left, leaving Maggie and Caleb alone in the studio. Caleb stood there for a moment, eyeing Maggie before breaking out in to a smile.
“You know what? I think today we should branch outside of what we’ve been doing so far then. You know, allow you to “grow” some more. How ‘bout it?”
Before she could even respond, Caleb pressed the play button on the stereo and out came Usher’s “Yeah.” Maggie couldn’t help herself and broke down laughing. Not sure what was going on, Caleb could only stare, but then found himself cracking up too.
“I can’t tell if your laughter means you like the song?” Caleb managed to choke out.
“This...is...my...jam!” Maggie managed to get out in short breaths between laughs. After she took a second to calm herself down, she continued. “I taught myself part of the dance to this song. It is basically the only song I dance to when I’m out at a club.”
Caleb didn’t say anything. He only stepped aside and motioned with his arms for her to take the center of the floor. Surprising herself, Maggie did as he wished and got to a spot in the middle of the floor and waiting for the specific part in the song to come up, and when it did, she brought it. When the song ended, Caleb just stood there looking at Maggie; this shy young woman whom had no desire to dance, whom never went out on weeknights, whom seemed reserved, shaking her ass to Usher.
“Wow.” He mused, never taking his eyes off of her. “You’re just...you surprised me.”
“Well, those are about the only moves I’ve got, so...” Maggie trailed off.
The next track on the disc started up. It was still a hip hop beat, but it was much more lyrical and soulful. Caleb made his way over to where she stood in the middle of the floor, standing behind her, he put his hands on her hips.
“What are you doing?” Maggie asked in almost a whisper.
Caleb didn’t answer with words, he just started circling his hips in rhythm with the song, his hands guiding her hips to do the same.
She could feel his hot breath on the side of her neck and ear as his head rested to the side of hers. She was in some sort of trance, not really knowing what was going on, but so wrapped up in it that she wasn’t fighting against it either. She felt one of his hands leave her hips and grab her hand, and with that he spun her out, only to pull her quickly