“So do you have any other hobbies?”
“Umm… sometimes I like dancing…”
“That’s cool…”
“Do you dance?”
“Professionally? No.”
“Really? You walk like you’ve had some kind of training… in your muscles.”
“Pfft~~ Okay?! Well. In high school, I did jazz ballet. But it was just an extra-curricular, it wasn’t anything serious.”
“Oh… not only ballet, but JAZZ ballet… did you get any classical ballet training?”
“I don’t know. Maybe just in the warm-up exercises?”
“That’s really cool your high school had ballet.”
“What do you mean?”
“I don’t think all high schools have ballet…”
“Pfft~~ It was an all girls’ school! Of course we had ballet!”
(Turns to another friend who went to an all girls’ school) “Did your school have ballet?”
(Nodding) “Yes…”
“See?! ALL all girls’ schools have ballet. Of course!”
“Yes, of course… for the little Princesses…”
“Exactly.”
…
“So, you can pirouette?”
“Yes… but… I’m not like BRITNEY SPEARS”
“I’ve always struggled with pirouette”
“Why?!”
“I don’t have a strong core. I have surface muscles. Not the core ones.”
“Oh… well, it just takes practice.”
…
“Tell me more about your high school… jazz ballet…”
“I don’t know what to say. It’s just an after-school hobby. I wasn’t that serious about it.”
“Did you have to stay back to practice in the gymnasium?”
“Ugh… no… we had a ballet cabin…? Who says… gymnasium?!” LOL
“Woah. A whole building? Just for ballet?”
“It’s a ballet cabin. Am I saying this weird?! It’s technically a whole building, but it’s a small building. Just a little ballet cabin.”
“What do you mean?! WHAT DO YOU MEAN?!?! I don’t understand how your school had a ballet cabin.”
(Turns to other friend who also went to an all girls’ school)
(The friend explains, more logically, more practical. Wikipedia-like explanations).
“So… does the girls school have security?”
“Yes.”
“Oh. That’s good. See I was picturing a ballet cabin where perverted men will go and stalk them…”
“OH MY GOD…”
“But it’s good to know that there’s security.”
“Yes. And German Shepherds.”
(Friend who also went to an all girls school): “They’ll kill on command.”
(Blank…? Expression? I’m not sure, in this moment)…
“We’re not kidding.”
“I just, I’m kind of curious. Like, not in a perverted way… How could I see a high school girls’ ballet cabin one day?”
(Eyerolling)… “MAYBE… if you’re a parent?”
“Oh. Okay. Nevermind then.”
“What?! Why is this a big deal?!?!!”
“It’s not… it’s just like… you’re like the Crane…”
“The Japanese story?”
“Yes. You go into your ballet cabin. You work your magic. Nobody’s allowed to see it.”
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