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Turning Pointe
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Author: Katherine Locke
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matter what, you know I’m still here.”
    I knew that, but I like hearing it. I pull my legs beneath me and stand up, offering him my hand. When I pull him to his feet, I step into his embrace and he rocks me back and forth.
    If taking risks is what we do, if we’re artists to our very core, then what he and I have is the next dance we’ll have to conquer.

Chapter Three
    Zed
    I don’t know who first decided that humans should cross oceans in giant metal capsules hurtling through the air, but I’m pretty sure we wouldn’t be friends. The seat belt light clicking off doesn’t ease my nerves at all. Next to me, Aly kicks off her shoes and stretches, her back arching a little bit. She offers me one of the bags of pretzels she bought before we boarded and I shake my head. I’ll need one of those puke bags if I eat anything. And if I smell puke, I won’t stop puking, making this the longest flight over the Atlantic in the history of mankind. We won’t land in Amsterdam for seven more hours, and I can’t even imagine getting through the next ten minutes.
    Aly still smells like chlorine from our swim this morning when she leans sideways and elbows me hard right in the ribs. “You’re white as a ghost.”
    “Put the pretzels away,” I mutter. “They’re making me nauseous.”
    The plane hits a patch of turbulence and I grip my armrests tightly. Aly reaches over and peels my hand off, one finger at a time, and lets me grip her hand instead. She smiles at me, her face clear of all that confusion from last night. I can’t tell if she’s getting better at clearing her mind of anxiety or whether she was, in fact, just talking about dance all along.
    “Once we’re cruising,” she says softly, “it’ll stop being so shaky. I promise.”
    “Don’t make a promise you can’t keep.” I lean my head back on the seat and her cheek presses into my shoulder. Her thumb glides across the back of my hand. Today, she’s the one offering comfort. The more she touches me, the more I think I’m losing my mind. I can’t shake the look on her face last night out of my head. The way she scooted away from me so she could breathe.
    “Tell me a story,” she says. “It’ll distract you.”
    I don’t open my eyes but I smile. When we were younger, we’d invent wild stories about what we had already accomplished. Being prodigies wasn’t enough. In our imaginations, we saved tigers and created world peace with ballet slippers on our feet.
    We are dancers. Even our feet dream big.
    No wonder we look at each other and see both anchors and wings.
    “What’s wrong?” Adrian asks, leaning over from his seat next to Aly. “I brought Twizzlers.”
    “Don’t,” Aly says. “He’s going to throw up.”
    “Oh, dude, gross. Don’t puke. That’s not cool.”
    Like I can stop motion sickness and anxiety with sheer willpower. I’m good, but there’s only so much I can do. “Trying.”
    “I didn’t know you were scared of flying,” Adrian says and then presses a water bottle against my arm. I yank away from the sudden chill. “Stay hydrated. It’ll help when we get there.”
    I lean my head sideways, against Aly’s. “We should learn to apparate.”
    “When you get into Hogwarts, I better be the first to know,” she says. “Until then, maybe you should stop hating Dramamine so much and just take it.”
    “You’d be bored without me to harass,” I tell her. I hate Dramamine because I hate feeling sluggish. It takes days for me to feel right after taking it and we don’t have the luxury of time. Land and dance is the name of the game on this tour.
    “I used to get stage fright,” Adrian says, popping his gum. “Like real, hard-core stage fright, you know? Where you just see the casting list and you start sweating? I passed out once.”
    “No way,” Aly whispers, in awe, like dancers who can fight stage fright are unicorns. I understand stage fright. I usually have to psych myself up for a performance, but once
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