4th floor common room, Sunday early evening

[minnesota-teen.livejournal.com]

Amber was feeling restless so she put on her tap shoes and headed down the hallway to the common room, ready to make some use out of it. Seeing no one around, she put on some music and began warming up by doing a few leg and arm stretches.

After that? She started tap dancing to her hearts content, loving every single minute of it.

[the CR is open like an open thing that's public. yep.] 

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[oncourtandstage.livejournal.com]

Link had had a wonderful day lazing around in bed after waking up with Christian. He hadn't particularly felt like getting up to do much of anything actually, until now that he decided to try and find some food.

So he came down to the common room, where he found a girl tapdancing. "Wow," he said, grinning. "You look like you could be on Corny's show!" He gave a wink.

[palestshadow.livejournal.com]

Amber von Tussle was still not entirely clear on how she got to this tiny island. But she was rather enjoying her stay. Other than the mishap with the disgusting Irishman, things had been simply rosy.

She leaned into the common room, raising an eyebrow and watching the other girl tap for a few minutes.

"Your form gets sloppy when you switch steps," she said derisively. It didn't, but that didn't mean Amber couldn't say it, now did it?

[minnesota-teen.livejournal.com]

Amber grinned wide and slowed down just enough to be able to speak without jarring her words. "Corny?"

[oncourtandstage.livejournal.com]

"Corny Collins!" Link said. "Of the Corny Collins Show, in Baltimore? I'm on the Council -- we're the dancers on the show." He grinned. "Link Larkin."

[minnesota-teen.livejournal.com]

Amber nearly tripped over her own footing when she heard that mean comment from the girl with the... beehive? "I'm not a professional," she said in the nicest tone possible.

[oncourtandstage.livejournal.com]

"Amber!" Link exclaimed, staring a bit. "What are you doing here? And there's no need to be cruel."

Would you swim in an integrated pool?

[palestshadow.livejournal.com]

"You don't say," Amber said, with her most plastic smile. "I would have never guessed."

[palestshadow.livejournal.com]

"Link!" Amber said, smiling brightly and walking over to him with her arms extended. "It's so good to see you! What are you doing here?"

[minnesota-teen.livejournal.com]

"I've never heard of it," her smile was still going strong. "I'm Amber Atkins from Mount Rose, Minnesota. Just a small town with very few TV's," she added so he wouldn't take offense. Corny Collins Show? What a name.

[minnesota-teen.livejournal.com]

Okay, Amber stopped dancing and placed her hand on her hip. "No one is askin' you to stand there and watch me dance. I'm not performin' for anyone but myself. So..." She waved her hand. "Just turn around with your fancy self and be off." Not that Amber wanted to make enemies so soon coming to Fandom, but seriously, this girl might as well be named Becky Leeman.

[oncourtandstage.livejournal.com]

Link returned the embrace almost mechanically, although his smile was just as bright. "I asked you first," he said, winking. "All I know is that I woke up here yesterday. I figured a producer brought me or something." It went without saying that it wouldn't be the first time he (and likely she) woke up without remembering the night before, all thanks to a producer.

[oncourtandstage.livejournal.com]

"Amber? Really!" He grinned. "It just so happens that my girl back home in Baltimore is named Amber. Well, little darling, it's a pleasure to meet you! Where'd you learn to dance like that?"

[palestshadow.livejournal.com]

"I was only trying to help," Amber pouted. "No need to be snippy about it."

[minnesota-teen.livejournal.com]

"Amber is a great name; ma always told me so," though Amber suspected her carnie of a father had a hand in naming her. "Very nice to meet you too, Link. You're name is very unique. I like it. Oh my gosh, I've been dancin' since I was little, nothin' special... just a bit of tap is all though I did perform not to long ago in a talent portion of a beauty pageant."

[minnesota-teen.livejournal.com]

Crap. Now Amber felt bad. "Do you, uh, dance then?"

[palestshadow.livejournal.com]

Amber held the embrace for just long enough that any onlookers would have a lovely camera angle of her and her clearly devoted boyfriend before stepping away again and adjusting her hair. "The same happened with me," she said. "We must be here for an important audition."

After all, that was what the casting couch was usually pulled out for, wasn't it?

[oncourtandstage.livejournal.com]

"A beauty pageant, really?" Link winked. "I bet you won, too, didn't you?"

[oncourtandstage.livejournal.com]

"There's a lot of people here," Link said. "And some strange stuff. I dunno what's going on, but I really want to find out soon."

[palestshadow.livejournal.com]

"I do," Amber said, smiling sweetly. Well, "sweet" in a fake, brittle sort of way, but that went without saying for nearly everything Amber did. "I happen to be a Council Member for the Corny Collins Show. Maybe you've heard of it?"

[minnesota-teen.livejournal.com]

Amber's smile fell. "The pegeant was rigged."

[palestshadow.livejournal.com]

"Do you think it's dangerous?" Amber asked, batting her eyelashes. So far, she hadn't encountered "danger" as much as "hot college boys", but there was no need to worry Link with details.

[minnesota-teen.livejournal.com]

Amber lifted a brow. "Only a moment ago when I met Link Larkin. That's a little strange, ain't it? The two of you bein' here and from the same show. Kinda cool too. So you dance on TV then?"

[withoutverona]

Still dealing with the idea that it was 2007, Frank more or less staggered into the first room he found at the dorms with people in it and threw himself into a chair, where he sat with his eyes closed.

[oncourtandstage.livejournal.com]

"No!" Link gave a bit of a gasp, carefully calculated, and pouted artfully. "That's horrible! You would definitely have won if it hadn't been, though."

[oncourtandstage.livejournal.com]

"I haven't seen anything really dangerous," Link said, shaking his head. "Everyone's been really nice, actually."

Like Christian.