11-22-2018, 10:20 PM
Ballet was a highly competitive and cutthroat business. It took dedication, hard work, and above all the desire to be the best. You had to start young and work constantly, dance all the time, dance through the pain and injuries, dance when you really didn't want to dance, dance when all you wanted to do was sleep. It meant rejection, disappointment, teasing, scrimping and saving in order to pay for the best schools. But when you succeeded, it was all worth it.
And Drew Prentiss had succeeded. He was the lead male dancer at the Pennsylvania Ballet in Philadelphia at the age of 25. That didn't mean he could slack off. He kept working just as hard because he knew he could be better. All of the rest of the dancers worked just as hard and for the most part they got along. He knew that he was lucky to be a lead dancer at his age and he did what he could to make sure people liked him.
That meant going out when he would rather go home after a show or spending time with someone's annoying boyfriend or girlfriend. Sometimes it meant both.
Tonight it meant a strip club with at least half of the company. It meant drinking vodka tonics and watching half-naked men dance for him instead of being the dancer. It meant laughing and leaning against Paige, the lead female dancer, wishing that he was in his bed sleeping the whole time. It meant being a little too drunk when he went looking for the bathroom and turning down the wrong hall.
it meant opening a door and finding a naked man. It meant stepping inside instead of shutting the door and walking away.
Well, sometimes he wasn't so smart.
And Drew Prentiss had succeeded. He was the lead male dancer at the Pennsylvania Ballet in Philadelphia at the age of 25. That didn't mean he could slack off. He kept working just as hard because he knew he could be better. All of the rest of the dancers worked just as hard and for the most part they got along. He knew that he was lucky to be a lead dancer at his age and he did what he could to make sure people liked him.
That meant going out when he would rather go home after a show or spending time with someone's annoying boyfriend or girlfriend. Sometimes it meant both.
Tonight it meant a strip club with at least half of the company. It meant drinking vodka tonics and watching half-naked men dance for him instead of being the dancer. It meant laughing and leaning against Paige, the lead female dancer, wishing that he was in his bed sleeping the whole time. It meant being a little too drunk when he went looking for the bathroom and turning down the wrong hall.
it meant opening a door and finding a naked man. It meant stepping inside instead of shutting the door and walking away.
Well, sometimes he wasn't so smart.