Nico stood in the studio trying to fix his routine to the music. It was rather simple really, if the damn teacher hadn't picked a fast songs with a lot of steps. Nico felt bad for the new members, he had danced for over fifteen years so this wasn't so hard for him, but the new kids were sure to die. That's why he practice late now so that he could instruct the newbies while the teacher dealt with the experienced ones. He was always stuck doing that even if it wasn't his job and even if he didn't even get paid to do it.
   Nico started the music from the top and quickly jumped into the dance moves, he was sweaty and tired but he stop when he got it down completely.
   He took a side step, went down to splits and then rolled around to get up on his feet again.
   "You should go home we ended our session three hours ago." Jason said from the door.
   "You're not even in my class," Nico said pausing the music and breathed for a second before meeting Jason's electrical blue eyes.
   "Well, you ended five hours ago, I ended three." Jason specified.
   "Why you still here then?" Nico asked, it wasn't unusual that he stayed, it was unusual that Jason did.
   "Work." Jason shrugged and went over the stereo, he picked up the CD, "what track?"
   "Seven."
   "Fuck me thats one hard!" Jason said whistling an impressed tune.
   "That's why I am here." Nico said shrugging, "I want to do it correctly so that I can help the new kids tomorrow."
   "Jackson's still a pretentious ass?"
   "That with a sarcastic undertone and a habit of letting me do his work." Nico smiled sitting down to stretch beside Jason.
   "Why don't you tell the headmaster?"
   "Because... well... I don't know..." Nico thought about it, he really didn't know why he didn't tell the headmaster of the dance school.
   Nico pondered for a minute while Jason kept on reading the track list. Whenever he found a song he liked he hummed a little, sometimes he even tapped the scar he had on his lip with his middle finger. Now Jason wasn't stupid just oblivious sometimes, and with saying that, no Jason did not realize that he was telling Nico to fuck off in finger language.
   "Would you show me?" Jason said after reading the whole track list twice over.
   "The dance?" Nico stretched his feet to keep them warm.
   "No your favorite movie, of course the dance," Jason laughed.
   "Nah Jackson wants it to be a surprise to everyone on the opening weekend when we do all of our shows."
    "I'll show you ours," Jason offered.
   "Chase won't have your head for showing me your dance, I need something juicer!" Nico complained and started stretching his arms.
   "How about the dance I do with McLean? That girl will rip my balls off if she knows about me doing the dance."
    "Isn't that hard since it's a duo routine?" Nico asked, "besides I can't step in , you and McLean do tango, I can't tango."
   "I know, I know, you only do ballet and break dance." Jason sighed with a smile on his lips. "I guess you'll refuse that I can teach you?"
"Bingo," Nico winked and got up.
"What can I do to let you show me?" Jason sounded desperate.
The two of them had started this school together, when they were younger Jason had danced ballet with him but as they grew up Jason changed direction. Either way they had known each other for years, Nico knew Jason's own body like the back of his hand. They had after all danced together, grew up together, laughed together. It would be weird if he hadn't know Jason and the way he walked, talked, laughed, breathed, danced.
There really wasn't anything Nico wouldn't do to make Jason happy. But now... was he really going to disappoint his teacher? It's not like Jackson would know or find out. Nico bit his bottom lip as he thought about what he should do.
   "You can't see the whole thing... it's a... hm..." Nico wondered what part of the dance would scare Jason off best.
   "Couple dance?"
   "Not exactly, but kind off."
   "What does that mean?" Jason laughed.
   "The song is about teasing or well scolding someone. So Percy have one of us on a chair while the other do the teasing." Nico explained, "but the chair dancer or whatever to call him have moves too so that we complete each other, I know both parts but originally I am the teaser."
   "Who do you tease? Usually it's a girl teasing." Jason furrowed his brows in confusion.
   "This poor kid Leo Valdez. We are a bit short on girl, two to be exact. And Jackson loves to punish me, he just picked the Valdez kid since no one else picked him while they were teaming up." Nico smiled a little because that Leo kid was cute and a little awkward, but he also was a great dancer.
   "If I just sit on a chair then, would you show me your part?"
   Nico slowly nodded yes. He knew he would regret it if he did, but he would regret it if he didn't. So while he nervously bit his lip he went to get the chair that Jason would sit on.
   "Is it break dance?" Jason asked.
   "I don't think you can call it that, Jackson says it is I say it's more of modern or hip hop or a mix and then you throw in some Nicki Minaj. I honestly think we need a new teacher." Nico snorted and placed the chair in the middle of the room. "Ready?"
   Jason sat down on the chair, nodded, and then took the remote from Nico so that he could focus on the dance instead of the stereo.

The first part was a lot of hands, Nico's hands flew from Jason's mouth, eyes, down to slip up his loose white shirt. He snapped his fingers, twirled around, sank to the floor in that sexist way they always made girls do. He got lost in the dance, he actually forgot that he was dancing with/for Jason. He focused only on the hand moves, his feet, he even started singing along. That was suicide!
At the end when Leo was supposed to stand up and do a lift on Nico he caught himself and lost the rhythm. He stared at Jason with flushed cheeks. Doing all of those things on Leo didn't mean much, but lifting up Jason's shirt to his abs, to stroke him up on his thigh, to touch his lips with his fingertips.
It was a little... weird.
Jason noticed that Nico had frozen so he stopped the music.
"That was amazing, you're right that wasn't break dance, more something Chase would teach." Jason commented, "but it was amazing, and sexy."
Nico walked to the stereo and took out the CD, he was done for the day, he lacked his things hastily before going to the door.
"Well I guess this is a sign that Jackson and Chase have a thing for each other," Nico opened the Glassdoor.
"Hey what is it?" Jason asked confused.
"Nothing."
"Bullshit, come back here," Jason ordered and Nico obliged. "What is it?"
"I didn't think much of the dance when I did it to Leo since... well he is a nobody to me, just another dancer. But you. Jason we are friends and I... touched you."
"You can touch me, plus that was a dance," Jason said shrugging, he didn't understand why Nico got so flustered.
"I almost took your shirt off!" Nico screamed. He didn't mean to scream but the thing bubbling in his chest couldn't cool down.
"Nico what is going on?"
"You are rather oblivious Grace, he likes you," Piper stepped into the studio with a smirk.
"How long have you been there?" Nico asked.
"The dance." She said nonchalant, "I can believe that you can't see me as a girl, but Nico is your friend, he is more than a dance partner to you, and he likes you."
"How do you know that?" Nico and Jason said at once.
"The eyes don't lie. Neither do hips," Piper winked.
"Is that true?" Jason asked.
Nico thought about the song and the dance. How it had felt to place his hands on Jason's body. Sure he had liked Jason a lot, he was always more comfortable when Jason was around. More at ease.
"I guess." Nico confessed.
"Well I'll leave that to you too, see you at eight tomorrow Grace, I need you to do the routine correctly." Piper said leaving them alone.
"I like you too," Jason said.
"You do?" Nico couldn't understand why he sounded so small.
"Yeah." Jason smiled.
"Want me to teach you the dance?" Nico asked.
"You just want an excuse to take my shirt off," Jason flirted.
"Maybe." Nico flirted back.