At the orphanage
The staff was left with no choice but to let Mia go when she saw Lakshmi’s car driving towards them. She didn’t quite agree at first but after much persuasion from Lakshmi she finally gave in.
“Please ma’am, my life depends on this right now” Lakshmi was being too dramatic even Mia found it amusing.
“Is any guardian going to be there? I mean your parents, will your parents be there?” The lady kept on questioning Lakshmi who clearly had no patience and endurance.
“Yes my nanny is going to be there, my parents are out of town for now” Lakshmi still kept her hands together and was pleading with the lady who was having quite a battle of different thoughts in her head.
“Okay but she will be back by Monday afternoon right?” The lady asked again and Lakshmi agreed to bring Mia back from school on Monday.
“She really loves you so much” Lakshmi told Mia once they were seated comfortably in the car.
” No she doesn’t. No one there loves me, she is just doing that so she doesn’t lose her job or get arrested for child neglect” Mia was being so realistic and Lakshmi was quiet. She was trying to understand where Mia was actually coming from.
“So..?” Lakshmi was trying to spark a conversation but Mia remained silent.
Mia and Lakshmi soon arrived at Lakshmi’s house, words alone could not qualify the beauty and size of the house. It made Mia remember how big and beautiful their house used to be before the incident.
Mia was about to bring her bag with her when Lakshmi stopped her, there were alot of maids in the house at her beck and call.
Mia was settled in Lakshmi’s room and both girls were in the bed.
“I want to sleep now. It’s 9pm. Good night” Mia got herself comfortable in Lakshmi’s bed.
“So early Mia? You can’t sleep now. we have to watch some video on my tablet first” Lakshmi tried to persuade Mia.
“No, I always sleep at 9 every night. I can’t change it” Mia was being stubborn. Lakshmi didn’t even try to persuade Mia any further because she knew Mia was not going to change her mind so she just retired to bed as well.
At exactly 6 am Mia was already awake and she was in the bathroom.
Lakshmi only woke up because she heard the sound of the running water.
“What is happening?” Lakshmi lamented as she rubbed her eyes, forcing herself to wake up from her sleep.
“Mia are you in there?” She got up from the bed and knocked on her bathroom door.
“Yes,” Mia answered from the inside.
” What the hell is wrong with this girl? It’s 6am on a Saturday morning , why is she up so early?” Lakshmi murmured.
“I heard that,” Mia said quickly.
After having breakfast, not too long Lakshmi’s door bell rang at exactly 9am.
“We are here” the two girls that offered to be a part of lakshmi’s dance crew were at the door.
Mia and Lakshmi peeped from the dinner table. Lakshmi couldn’t believe that they actually came.
“Madam, should we let them in?” The maid who opened the door came to ask Lakshmi.
“Yes please do” Lakshmi stood up from her seat to go and welcome them.
“So you actually came? That’s nice, come in” Lakshmi ushered them in herself.
“Yes” they removed their backpack and Lakshmi signaled for a maid to take the bags from them and keep it in one of the guest rooms.
All four girls started to scroll through the internet, watching different dance videos and looking for inspiration. Lakshmi was already getting fed up because nothing good was coming out even after 4 good hours of browsing there wasn’t any positive result.
“This is just frustrating, there is no good thing on the internet these days. How useless” Lakshmi threw her phone on the floor, smashing it into pieces.
The other two girls looked frightened, their names were Grace and Juliet.
“What did you do that for? Now your phone is broken” Juliet was a bit shaken but she managed to ask.
“I’ll get another one. James! James!” Lakshmi yelled out.
“Yes ma’am” a Butler rushed into the room at once.
“Go get me another phone and don’t take more than 30 minutes’ ‘ Lakshmi instructed and he nodded his head, picked up the broken phone and dashed out.
She brought out her laptop and they continued browsing, finally Lakshmi found a unique dance she could try out.
The girls began to train and they were terrible at dancing, Lakshmi was getting really annoyed by the whole issue. Juliet was too fast and Grace wasn’t flexible, her body was so stiff that she could barely get any move correct.
“So you girls decided to join me so you can make a mockery of me?” Lakshmi was being very sarcastic and even with her sarcasm, her anger could easily be perceived.
“There is no need to upset Lakshmi, according to human research it takes 2 to 6 months for newbies to become Masters in dancing,” Mia smiled.
“Are you serious? Six months! Mia we barely have a month and these girls know nothing about dancing. They are even worse than you.. no offense” Lakshmi was getting annoyed.
“Non taken, maybe I can help,” Mia offered and then stood in the middle of the room.
She looked at a spot for over 5 minutes, Lakshmi and the other girls couldn’t understand but Mia was actually replaying what Lakshmi did in her head.
“Ok try to follow me, two steps to the right and slide to the left leg” she demonstrated and in her first attempt she perfected it
Lakshmi’s eyes widened and she even dropped her jaw.
“What the heck!” Lakshmi exclaimed and the girls just shrugged and followed suit. They tried and got it after 3 good attempts.
“Mia you are a very good dancer and a better dance teacher than I am, please join my team so we can be four please Mia please” Lakshmi kept on pleading.
“I don’t like to dance. ” Mia went to sit down on the couch while she watched the other girls practice. After 4 hours of practice the girls got very tired and it was time to retire to bed. While Grace and Juliet shared a room, Mia and Lakshmi slept in the same room.
The next day the girls were up and practicing again, this time they had mastered the dance better than yesterday. They learnt and mastered 2 dance steps in two days, they were slow but Lakshmi had faith