you've always admired lottie from afar — as did the whole academy — but you can't remember ever having a conversation with her before you got paired up for this project.

it was for choreography class, and you expected her to be prissy and hard to work with, but she's been... quite the opposite.

it's a late friday night at the studio, and it's just the two of you, practicing for your performance on monday. you're both exhausted, but also unwilling to stop until it's perfect.

"we need to work on that lift," she says as you finish the routine for god knows what time. "i can tell you're nervous about it. it's never as smooth as i've seen you be."