Pretty Little Liars Next Generation

Nationals Dance Competition

Here is the next chapter. I hope you enjoy it. It will be written in Deylia Rivers POV and will focus on her nationals dance competition with Branden. Some relationship drama will happen in this chapter as well. This is going to be a really long chapter to make up for not updating in awhile.

Nationals Dance Competition

Deylia POV

The one thing about dance competitions that I really loved was being able to miss a few days of school. My parents are ok with me missing some school for competitions. They have been so supportive of my dancing ever since I started. My mom actually encouraged me to dance and enrolled me in my first dance class at age 5. She wanted me to be a ballerina but quickly realized that I hated ballet. I didn't hate dance, I loved it. It was just that I didn't want to be a girl in a tutu. I still remember the day my parents found out that ballet wasn't for me.

Flashback/Memory

I was turning 6 in two months and my first dance recital was in just a few weeks. My mom had just picked me up from pre kindergarten. It was year two of preschool. My parents didn't think I was ready for kindergarten yet since I was developing slower then other kids my age. I was six months older then most of my parents friends kids had been when they started walking and talking. My little brother Tyler is 4 and he just stated preschool. If my parents don't put him through two years of preschool then he will be in the same grade as me.

"Your ballet class was canceled today because the teachers sick." My mom had said

"Yes." I said

"You are happy, I thought you would be sad." My mom said

"I don't like ballet mommy, the tutu's make me really itchy." I said

"You'll love it after your very first dance recital. I took ballet at your age and so did your grandma." My mom said

"I can't be a ballerina mom, the teacher said I wasn't graceful enough." I said

"I will have to talk to your teacher. She shouldn't be telling that to little kids. Your dad and I think you are the perfect little ballerina. I thought you loved dancing." My mom said

"I love dance mom, just not ballet." I said

"I'll talk to your dad and see what he thinks. You can still be a dancer without ballet if that's what you want." My mom said

Later that night I was playing with a barbie doll and Tyler was playing with his firetruck toy. Our parents talked as they watched us play.

"Look, the dance pictures arrived in the mail today. Deylia looks so cute in that tutu but she's not smiling." My dad said

"We need to put her in a different dance class in the fall." My mom said

"Why, is there something wrong with her teacher?" My dad asked

"No it's Deylia, today she told me that she hates ballet." My mom said

"Why?" My dad asked

"Apparently the teacher told Deylia she wasn't graceful enough to be a ballerina." My mom said

"We can find Deylia a new teacher, with my job we could probably even afford private lessons. We've saved up enough money because your mom has been babysitting the kids for free so we can afford to splurge a little bit." My dad said

"Caleb, we agreed that we would take the money we saved up and buy a bigger house. I know that my mom offers to babysitting the kids for free but I really think we need to pay her next time." My mom said