Dance Lover

• Mia Beaumont, Grade 5
• Short Story
• 2018

Lights, camera, action! Walking up onto the stage my heart pounding in my chest. The lights and the cheers from the crowd shook me. I was so nervous when I started to dance, I had forgotten everything. Until I fell
everything came rushing back to me my nerves and my fear it was terrifying. When I opened my eyes a tiny little bit, I could feel a cold breeze rush past but then I realised I had a dreadful pain in my back. I opened my eyes even more and I was in hospital! With my mum and dad, they had told me that I broke my back it was awful I even started to cry.
TWO WEEKS LATER...
I had been seeing a therapist and they told Me good and bad news. The good news was I was able to walk and the bad news I could not dance so my mum and dad taught me to walk again. I struggled to achieve my dream. But I believed in myself in that I could do it.
I told my mum and dad that I would like to
start my dance career again they said are
you sure? Positive I replied to them so about three weeks later I was ready to go back to dance I struggled to get back on top, but I managed to compete at this week competition with a solo and a group dance I came in the top 10 with a solo and top 5 in the group. After a up and down year I managed to start my own dance company about ten years later.
The End.