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soon as he was done she went quickly back into her position, smiling happily.
    Julian looked at the clock; they were almost halfway through the class, and still only the first group had received any attention at all. Mr. Demidovski hadn’t even changed groups yet, and Julian was getting cold from doing nothing after barre — now even if Mr. Demidovski did call on him he wouldn’t be warmed up. The others were all marking it on the side, but there wasn’t really enough room for Julian to work, he decided after a second’s glance around. He felt — he didn’t exactly know how he felt. Sad? Disappointed? Seriously, picking Kageki over me? Kageki is good and stuff, but he’s seriously short, and he doesn’t have as good a body type as I do.
    â€œJulian!” hissed Jessica, elbowing him in the back. Julian came back to his surroundings with a start — Mr. Demidovski was frowning at him, and the whole class was staring at him. Julian smiled at Mr. Demidovski, slightly embarrassed, and quickly untangled himself from the barre , managing to knock over someone’s water bottle in the process.
    â€œYou must pay attention during class time,” said Mr. Demidovski, no longer bothering to look at Julian. “Otherwise you waste your classmates’ time, you waste the teacher’s time, you waste your time, and you waste your parents’ time and money.” Julian felt his face turn bright red.
    Mr. Demidovski continued, and Julian spent the rest of the class in a miserable blur. Why was I so stupid ? Now I’m probably never going to get a correction from Mr. Demidovski. What if he takes away my scholarship because he thinks I’m not working hard enough? At last it was the end of first class. “What do we have for second class today?” Julian asked Tristan as the girls put on their pointe shoes.
    â€œ Pas de deux class with Mr. Yu? Like we always do on Wednesdays?” answered Tristan, grinning at him. “Dude, I swear, you are so spacey sometimes.” He went off to practise his pirouettes and talk to Alexandra.
    Julian shrugged and dropped to the floor, stretching his turn-out with his face pressed to the floor so he didn’t have to look at anybody. The floor actually felt pretty good on his hot face, as long as he didn’t think about all the sweat it was covered in from the Youth Company, who had just been in rehearsing their contemporary piece.
    Mr. Yu came in with a huge scowl on his face, and everyone immediately went quiet. They eyed him warily. He strode to the front of the class, and stood there for a second. “Mrs. Demidovski,” he announced with a heavy sigh, “would like to watch you today. So be good.” He went to the side and dragged a chair from the side of the room to the front, and banged it down beside his chair. He eyed the space between the chairs for a second with his head cocked to one side, and then pushed the two chairs carefully farther apart, to the giggles of his students. Then he went and carefully escorted Mrs. Demidovski in, his face pained.
    â€œTallest to shortest, girls’ line front, boys’ line back,” said Mr. Yu with impatience. “Quickly, quickly!” They assembled in seconds, already having their places memorized. “Tristan, take Anna, take Grace, take … Alexandra.”
    Julian was next in height, and he tensed, hoping he got partnered with good people to make up for last class.
    â€œJulian — take Taylor …”
    Taylor gave Julian a huge grin as she joined him, and he smiled back at her a second late as he waited for Mr. Yu to assign him more partners. But Mr. Yu just moved on to the other boys, giving them all three partners, even little Michael, and giving Tristan and Kageki each one more partner when he realized he was going to have two girls left over.
    â€œYay! Now we get lots of practice together.” Taylor grabbed Julian’s arm and led