Skates Out // a Luis Mendoza Fan Fic

39. The show

Luis. 

I forgot sometimes that the girls were famous, that JJ had a gold olympic medal hanging in her bedroom but then things happened like them being asked and paid to perform at some billionaire's party and I remembered. They'd all gotten a ticket they could give to someone to bring them along and Charlie, Banks and I had gotten them. I could only assume that JJ and Viola had forced Elsa to give her ticket to him because I couldn't imagine her doing it willingly. 

"Jesus christ." Charlie muttered as we walked into the backyard of the guy's house, "this place looks like the fucking white house."

He wasn't joking this house was massive, like a hundred times the little house that I lived in. It was insane to think that people actually lived like this. We made our way through the crowd of guests to where the had set up an ice rink in their back garden. A whole ice rink. 

"People like this make me feel sick." Adam muttered looking disdainfully at the guests who were dripping in designer walked around. 

Charlie and I frowned, "you are people like this." Bank's was father was also crazy rich. 

He nodded, "exactly. I know from experience they're all assholes." 

Before we had a chance to ask what that was all about the lights in the garden were switched off and floodlights around the ring came on. A man in a black suit stood in front of the ice, "thank you all so much for coming!" he called as everyone started clapping, "we're so happy to have you here, so please enjoy the show! Please welcome onto the ice Miss Julia Jerome, Miss Viola Santos and Miss Elsa Stromberg."

We all turned to watch the rink as Jazmine Sullivan's "Bust Your Windows" came on and the girls skated out onto the ice taking their positions. They were all wearing matching black skating dresses  and their hair was tied up in the usual matching ponytails. The girls twisted around the ice in perfect sync, not a finger was out of tie with the others as they leapt up into their tripple axel spinning around before landing on one foot the other leg extended. I couldn't look away from them because they all looked magical. 

Dancing along to the music as if it were the easiest thing in the world, which I knew it wasn't, they had the crowd staring at them as if Jesus himself had descended to dance on the ice. The routine wasn't one of their most complicated ones but it was really good, they made it really good. 

When the song was over they were standing in the middle of the ice again  in their poses as if nothing had ever happened. The crowd errupted in cheers and clapping as Four Minutes by Madonna came on, grins cracking on their faces the girls pulled the bow on the back of their black dresses and pulled them off only to reveal blue velvet leotards with little golden stars sewn on the sheer parts of it. 

Smiling like they'd won another world champoionship they started off into their new routine and this one was complicated, apparently they'd been conserving energy with the first one. Energy they hadn't needed it because it still looked like it was as easy as breathing to them. 

I locked eyes with JJ as they spun around on one leg the other pulled up behind their head, she winked at me as they wound out of the turn breking into a backwards cross over run across the ice. I barely noticed as Ida came up behind us to watch the show, she offered me a nod in greeting her eyes trained on her three star dancers as the skated around looking like angels I knew they weren't. You never would have guessed that JJ and Elsa could be pains in the ass watching them dance around like that, you never would have guessed that one of them had broken her ex boyfriend's ribs before and the other one's favourite hobby was being a bitch. 

Thank god I hadn't blown JJ off when she'd asked me to be her fake boyfriend because oh my god would I have regretted that. I guess Charlie had come off the best of us considering he was Viola's actual boyfriend and she was the easiest to get along with of the three girls. But at least I wasn't in Adam's position where she hated every cell in his body. But I guess he was okay since he was completely in denial about the fact that he liked her.