A Short Story Of Ivy Blackwell's Addiction To Dance

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Ivy Blackwell’s dreams were killed on that fateful night in December. There was always one person in the wing who she had a sense was going to stab her in the back. Something always happened after her success, something personal to emotionally hurt her. Ivy could sense there would be danger in her performing but never that much danger. Ivy loved ballet; she started dance lessons at the age of 4. She danced constantly, including practice after school. She lived, ate and breathed dance. On all of her exams she achieved the top grade in her class. Although it started as a hobby Ivy slowly became addicted to dance. Now at the age of 18 she was at a university for the arts. It was coming up to Christmas, in fact it was only a week away; Ivy was the sugarplum fairy in the University's edition of the nutcracker. Everyone loved when Ivy danced since the way she moved was elegant and graceful. A few of the other girls in her classes didn’t like her; they were envious of her and the way she danced. These girls were plotting to do something that would stop her dancing forever. Those particular girls didn’t get any important roles just background roles. “IVY! I need you to practice your solo one more time” Miss Spencer Proclaimed. Miss Spencer new that Ivy was one of her best dancers in the class; because of this she pushed Ivy harder than the other girls. …show more content…

It was the end of the ballet; everyone had performed. Bright lights beamed down on the stage like the sun shining down on earth. All of them were happy although 3 girls were fuming. Angelica, Beth and Chloe were waiting; it was nearly time for their plan. The girls, A.B.C as they call themselves, had planned to injure Ivy. Ivy was always kind to them, she talked to them as did everyone else but they hated her. They were extremely jealous of her because of how skilled she was in her academic work and dancing also because everyone loved