3rd Person P.O.V.

Nick and Ben battled it out. In the end Ben won. Josh made a silent victory. Nick pouted "Now I have to carry Josh." "But don't you love me more than Evie." "That's for me to know." Nick said triumphantly.

Adrian looked infuriated. "Alright. I'll travel with Ben and Eva and Adrian you  can go with Josh and Nick." Chaz said. Adrian wanted to disagree but couldn't find a reason to so he complied while flashing glares at Ben and Josh.

"Rules are you can take whatever route you want and you can't unmount from your steed or person until you reach the theater unless you need a break. Any means necessary." Josh said.

"Mount your stress, or eh- er, mount your people I mean, I think." Chaz said. The others chuckled at his behavior. Well, except for Adrian that is. Josh came up with a plan with Nick to steer clear of Evalina and Ben to keep Adrian away from her.

Josh hopped onto Nick's back. "Gosh, Josh. What did you eat this morning, six plates of bacon?!?" Nick asked jokingly. "No. I only ate five." Josh responded in a posh manner.

Ben bent down. Evalina was nervous but hopped onto his back likewise. She wasn't wearing a dress or anything. She was wearing a jade green button up, some khaki pants, a black cardigan, some white converse, and fingerless gloves as usual. Plus her glasses. "You're so light." Ben said as he stood up straight like it was nothing.

Nick smiled and looked at Ben. "You're lucky. It feels like I'm carrying bricks on my back while you get to carry a feather or a cute little finch." This caused them to laugh.

"Alright, ready. Set. Go!" Chaz said. So the two groups went in different directions. Evalina was laughing as Ben picked up speed.

She felt the wind blowing through her hair as she secured her hands on Ben's shoulders. "I can't believe you still haven't slowed down." She said laughing. "I hope this isn't a bother." She said referring to her being on his back.

"Don't worry about it, E. Plus you're light as a feather." He said smiling up at her. They stopped to take a quick break at a park. Evalina was still on Ben's back and they were walking. Chaz smiled and took a picture of them from behind. Then he ran in front of them and took a picture of the two of them smiling when they weren't looking. Chaz got good candid shots and decided to post them later.

"I wonder how Josh and Nick are doing."Evalina said. "They're either arguing, winning, losing, think they're winning but are losing, vice versa, or joking around." Ben said laughing.

In actuality, Josh and Nick weren't far behind them, of course they weren't in the same area but distance wise. "I feel taller." Josh said looking around him. The sight earned a few weird looks from passing people, but it also earned a couple laughs.

"No! You're kidding. I feel like I'm carrying another human. Oh wait! I am." Nick said. "You wound me, dear sir." Josh said laughing.

"Aren't you guys trying to win this thing?" Adrian asked off-handedly, well more like aggressively. He ran his fingers through his black hair. "We are but Nick needs a break. Right, Nicki-pooh." Josh responded. Nick nodded his head vigorously. He knew the plan to keep Adrian and to find out more about him.

"So Adrian. How long are you gonna be here? I mean it's October and you gotta be heading back to school soon right. (A/n: sorry if the dates are a little confusing, I just want the tour days to go in chronological order so right now it's October 13)

"I'm home schooled and I'm probably gonna be here for one or two more days but I'll probably stop by at tour a lot because I'm constantly moving." Adrian said. He didn't care much about Nick and Josh only if they got in his way or were becoming mean or a nuisance to Evalina. Or if they liked her then they'd be another obstacle for him.

Adrian was surprised when he came to see Evalina again. To say the truth, she had changed a lot since meeting the Toursies. She was more open around them and not as shy as she normally would be. To Adrian it felt like part of his world was leaving when she opened up to more people

He was used to seeing the shy girl who's lonely around every one except him. That was before, now the she's opened up to more people. The Toursies had become her family. They wouldn't accept the fact that she was a loner so they forced her out of her shell to the point she became their little sister.

Adrian frowned at that. He missed when it was him and Evalina against the world. Now it's like him and his friends against the world and Evalina is there most of the time but she's different. It wasn't a bad different. But Adrian missed it being just her and just him.

Back to Evalina, Ben and Peggy. I'm just kidding you guys knew I meant Chaz.... I hope... anyway, on their end Ben was goofing off and took a selfie of him and Evalina. It was funny because she wasn't expecting the picture so she had that shocked face. Ben thought it was adorable and made a mental note to send it to Josh.

"So, Ben. When's your family gonna come visit again? I know they were here for opening night but I was too tired to go to the party." Evalina said. "I'm not sure, probably around thanksgiving because that's when Emma gets out of school again but there's a good chance they just might stop by as a surprise."

Ben said. "So, tel me all about your twin, Emma. What's she like?" Evalina asked curiously. She knew Ben was very fond of his twin and adored her, what she didn't know is that Ben also adored her but that's for another time. Can't spoil anything ;}

The smile on Ben's face grew. He began talking about his twin. From what she looked like, he showed pictures and described her, to funny stories, to her favorite color.

Evalina smiled. "You must really miss her. It must be super hard being away from her." She said thoughtfully. "It is but we always call and text." Ben said.

"That's nice. I'd like to meet her one day. Emma seems really nice." Evalina said. "She's the best." Ben said smiling. Chaz smiled at their exchange. He was officially for team Bevalina. I mean how could he not, they're so cute together. Chaz thought that Josh was overreacting but their adorableness is overwhelmingly cute.

At this point they arrived at the theater. "Did we win?" Ben asked. "I don't know." Evalina said confused as he was. Ben, Chaz, and Evalina walked into the theater, Evalina still on Ben's back. They entered one of the practice or rehearsal rooms.

When they got in, Evalina hopped off Ben's back. "Thanks for not dropping me, Ben." She said. "My pleasure." Ben said in a fake British accent. This caused all three of them to start laughing.

"We should start warming up until they get here." Chaz said laughing. "Okay." They all agreed. All of them warmed up for about five minutes until they saw Josh and Nick enter the room. "Looks like we lost." Josh said, faking sadness.

Nick laughed. "Its probably because you two were going so slow." Adrian said as he walked in. "Slow and steady wins the race. Most of the time that is..." Josh said. This caused the others to laugh.

As the others were warming up Adrian walked over to the speaker and started playing music. Evalina started laughing. "This is the song you want me to do?" She asked. "Yup." He said smiling. "It's been so long." She said fondly remembering the past.

Evalina was laughing as they performed the song. It had been so long, it felt nice. They danced in sync laughing as they did so. Chaz, Nick, Ben, and Josh watched them noticing how it looked like they were connected at the brain if that makes sense.

When they finished the others clapped. "Adrian, are you a performer?" Chaz asked curiously. "I do Irish tap dancing but I mainly do sports. The dance we just did was for one of my competitions they wanted us to do a modern song that wasn't tap dancing and I needed a partner then there was the actual tap dancing part which I did on my own." Adrian said.

"We should have a competition." Josh said. "What does the winner win?" Evalina asked. "The winner.... gets to hang out with Evalina her next whole day off." Josh said smirking. "That means Evalina can't compete she can just dance something and we need a judge who doesn't care about the competition."

"I'll do it. I mean I love you ,E but I don't think I want to occupy the one day you get a break from all the boys." Chaz said . "I'll judge too." Nick said smiling. "I never agreed to this but thanks, Chaz and Nick."

"Alright so Adrian, Ben, and Josh are competing. You each have one hour then you have to come back. Go!" Chaz said. Everyone scrambled to a different room. Chaz, Nick and Evalina sat there.

"So, Razzle Chazzle." "Razzle Chazzle?" Chaz asked confused. "You guys shortened my name I saw it fitting I gave you a nickname. But I'll only use it when we're alone. Don't tell the others because then they'll try to annoy me." Evalina said laughing. Chaz nodded and ruffled her hair.

"Do you wanna choreograph something together? We can make it and record it." Chaz suggested since they had about 58 minutes. "Sure." Evalina said.

Evalina, Nick, and Chaz came up with a dance within forty minutes. They were laughing as they got ready. The performed it once then recorded it.

Soon it was time. Adrian, Josh, and Ben walked into the room. "Who wants to go first?" Chaz asked. Josh decided to go first then Adrian then Ben.

Josh got into the center of the room and Evalina ran over and started the music

https://youtu.be/sUKrTQRNZuw

Chaz, Evalina, and Ben clapped. Adrian just kind of stood there. Adrian walked up to the center of the room. Evalina pushed play on the music and he began.

https://youtu.be/uMpzOrrht4E

Evalina and the others clapped for Adrian. Ben and Josh were surprised at how good he was since his main focus was in tap. Adrian had so many emotions written on his face. It looked like he was trying to find something he lost. Like he was dncing for someone specific and only they could truly understand what he felt.   After that Ben took to the center of the room. Aren't dance offs fun?

https://youtu.be/894X4nV9Mys

Ben danced his heart out pouring his soul into the place. He was dancing for someone specific hoping that his message would reach them. Evalina watched his dance, he had exuded so much passion. At the end every one clapped for Ben, well everyone except Adrian that is.

"Alright so after studying each of your routines and careful examination" Chaz said. "the winner is... Ben." Nick declared. "Congratulations you win a healthy Evalina."Chaz said dramatically. Everyone laughed. Well everyone except Adrian.

To say he was upset would be an understatement. He was mad. Not only that he was leaving in a day. He clenched his fists and excused himself. "Wellp, I guess I shouldn't plan anything for my next day off." Evalina said laughing.

"I'll be right back, I'm gonna go get my equipment I left last night." She said running up to one of the dressing rooms.

"So, did you guys learn anything?" Chaz asked. "Yes, he's we did." Josh said. He and Nick recounted Adrian's behavior and what he told them.

"So he's leaving soon. That's good news. He seems off to me." Chaz said thoughtfully. "Yeah, and who knows if one day instead of holding in his anger he might lash out at one of us or worse Evalina." Nick replied.

"For now he seems pretty harmless." Ben said. "Other than the few words he says to is that is." Evalina came running back in. "Adrian had to go, his mom needed him to come help her with packing since they're leaving late tomorrow. Something came up." Evalina said. "So it looks like I'm stuck with you guys for the rest of the day."

Ben smiled, glad that Adrian was gone and glad that he would be spending a day with Evalina alone. Well, that's if Josh doesn't spy on them which is very likely.

"So, since we're done we that why don't we head back to the hotel to drop our dance bags off then we can go explore. Plus we can see if any others wanna join us." Chaz suggested. They all agreed.

So the group of five walked back to the hotel to get ready.

To be continued

Hello, hello, hello lovely Fansies/Spectators ^^ I hope you're enjoying this book. I added the dance battle because no book is complete without a dance battle ;} and we all know that it's interesting. I'm trying to update as much as possible only six more weeks. I probably won't have a chapter out next week because I have state testing everyday of the week. I'm trying my best and please hold on. Thank you 

~Specs