Teaser Tuesday

It's been so long since I've teased, but I wanted to share something from my WIP, the one with a small town, a dance team, and a krumper.

This tease is from the first chapter, but it's not the very beginning. All that happens before this is that you see Tiffany go the football field where she dances every night. Usually, she's alone, but that's not the case tonight. 

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And I'm not alone.

I was, I was alone for seventeen years, but tonight there’s someone on the bleachers, watching me.

For the first time in seventeen years, I’m scared and wish Ethan was here.

But I can’t leave, because I need this. It’s the only chance I have to be alone, to be myself.

There’s one minute until tomorrow, so I put my headphones on and press play, letting love and confusion and pain fill me until the beats are so loud, the feelings are so loud, that I need to move, I need to release them.

I fly across the field and I fall but I don’t care, I don’t care, because I’ll get up and stretch, I’ll stretch so far, I’ll prove that I can control my body, this stupid football field, this ridiculous school, I’ll control all of it and everything will be fine.

And I do and everything is ok.

I turn the music off and it’s the first day of school.  I’m Tiffany. I’m a senior who has spent every year of high school on the honour roll. I’m captain of the dance team. I’m Ethan’s girlfriend, and I always have been.

What I feel has now power over me because I'm stronger, better than that.

I put my hood up as I pass the bleachers on my way home, because the boy is still there, still watching me.  And, despite what I’ve done, I’m still scared.

 “Hey!” he calls, and I walk faster. “Relax, I just want to talk.” Faster, faster. “I get it, you know. I don’t have anywhere else to go, either.”

I can always walk faster.