The Gym, Thursday morning

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Amber should have taken into consideration the amount of eggnog she drank yesterday, before agreeing to dance for Triela this morning. A hot shower helped some, and putting on her tap costume livened her spirit even more. But ugh, talk about a headache that Tylenol wasn't helping fast enough.

She arrived early enough to set up her portable cd player and then worked on stretching. Its been a while since she's tapped and she felt oddly rusty. Hopefully by the time Triela arrived, she'd have worked out all the kinks and decided the best way to do that was to go through her routine, at least once.

[Squee! I found a youtube link! I love this movie! Gym is totally open!]

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Triela had kept tabs on her roommate's morning activities, and tried to arrive about twenty minutes after Amber. She was grinning as she came in, oddly excited by the prospect of seeing her friend tap dance.

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Amber was relacing her right tap shoe when Triela came in, and she grinned. "Heeeey. How are you this morning?"

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Triela shot Amber a critical look. "Better than you, I suspect. After all that egg nog yesterday," she teased.

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She wrinkled up her nose. "Let's just say I don't want any eggnog any time soon."

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Triela grinned.

"Are you okay to do this?" she asked, genuinely concerned. "Because we could always do it another time."

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"I'm fine. I actually need to do it and I've already worked through it once. The play is tonight and I think sweating this... ickiness out of me will do wonders."

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"Okay then!" Triela beamed. "Is there somewhere in particular I should sit, or something?"

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"Sit anywhere you like; I'll tap just right here," she extended her arms, indicating where she was talking about.

"And... I can't believe I feel oddly nervous about this." Grinning, she set her music to play and got into position.

Then she totally started to tap her heart out.

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Triela settled in to watch. Her body stilled and she leaned forward intently.

It was... interesting. Triela had never really thought of her roommate as especially coordinated or anything, but... She clearly was.

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Amber grinned at Triela. Tap dancing was her life. It's what she did and she missed it. She was enthusiastic, despite her pounding head, and when the routine wound down to a close, she stood still, looking at her roommate expectantly.

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Triela applauded. It wasn't wildly enthusiastic, but Triela wasn't a wildly enthusiastic person.

"That was really good, Amber. I didn't know you were so talented."

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"Thank you," she beamed. "Have you ever seen dancing like this before?"

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"No," Triela shook her head. "Ballet, but this is different."

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"What did you think? Really think?"

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Triela considered for a moment how honest she should be, but Amber did ask...

"You're good. You'd probably be good in a fight with the right training. You move well, you're coordinated, and you're precise." She smiled a bit awkwardly. "I don't know if that's very helpful..."

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Amber grinned. She didn't expect anything else from Triela, actually. "It's very helpful and you've paid me a great compliment. Thank you."

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"Well, you're good," Triela said again. "You totally should have made me watch you earlier!"

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"I don't do this often enough," she told her, looking sheepish. "Or I would have."

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"You should start," Triela grinned.

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Amber shrugged. "It's not going to make a career for me."

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"Why not? Seems like you might be good enough," Triela leaned forward, genuinely curious.

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"I don't think it will pay the bills, Triela. And while I'm good, I'm not good enough. Not by a long shot."

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"Well, you're the expert," Triela shrugged. Then grinned.

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"Not an expert," she chuckled. "Besides, I want to be a journalist."

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Triela blinked. "I didn't know that!"

She was beginning to realize that there was a lot about her roommate that she didn't know.

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Amber really didn't talk a whole lot about herself. About her family, yes, but her? Not just randomly.

"Mhm, I do."

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"How come?" Triela leaned forward, voice curious.

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"I like the investigative side to it. Finding the story, you know? My mind finds it exciting."

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"That's pretty cool," Triela nodded. "What about the writing part? That's hard to do well, right?"