I had expected Larry to get into trouble at the studio with his lilac tights. Just shows how clueless I am. The teacher loved that Larry wore lighter color tights. That allowed him to see better how Larry’s leg muscles worked. Black really isn’t a good color to wear in class but tell that to teen boys who already are body conscious. And, of course, the girls in his class loved it even more now that they got a better look at his quite nice legs. Good thing for Larry that he already had a girlfriend. Otherwise he’d have been under siege.
Well, he did have a girlfriend at that time. That changed later. In a very unexpected way. As expected of a popular boy, Larry assiduously attended every major sports event in school. In particular the baseball games. The team really was very good so it was worth going to the games. Even I liked watching and to be honest I’m no sports addict. So both Larry and I (and Betty) were excited when we took our seats for the great grudge game against the school’s arch enemies. Larry was very attentive as the cheerleaders were warming up. Warming up is always important but this time more than usual since they had no spare (she had moved out of town). Then Sheila slipped and twisted her ankle. Of course, Larry left us to get down there. The big question was now what would the cheerleading squad do? This was THE game of the season and without a full squad could they go on? They could.
When the game started they had a full squad there. I recognized Larry in Sheila’s lilac and black cheerleading uniform. Well, at least the skirt was longer than the skirts he normally wore. OK, I’m his mom but Larry was good. Really good. All those hours watching Sheila practice had taught him all the necessary choreography. Something that he was trained in from ballet. The moves were not above what a skilled ballet dancer could easily manage. And he had really entered into the spirit as well. The school won the game.
Sheila had twisted her ankle really bad so she could not come back to cheerleading for several weeks so Larry kept filling in. By the time Sheila came back she was relegated to “replacement”. Larry was persuaded to become one of the regular cheerleaders. That broke up their relationship.
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Okay, this just got creepy!
The teacher loved that Larry wore lighter color tights. That allowed him to see better how Larry’s leg muscles worked.
Why the heck is a teacher staring at Larry's legs? Is this a pedophile? What the heck???
Well at least Larry is surviving off of cereal in the meantime...
Sephrena
Perhaps I should have been more clear
and written "ballet teacher"
As far as I know Larry only wore the lilac tights in ballet class.
I suspect he likes the flow of air around his legs too much to do it in other settings.
And remember: Cereals usually contain far to much sugar.
Other Teachers
That still leaves other teachers to observe Larry's great legs.
Oh BTW, poor Sheila.
-- Daphne Xu
I take no responsibility for what those teachers do
If they look at Larry's legs they have taken on a life of their own.
Yes, Sheila is the one person in this cereal that does come out worse. I hope she at least found the little toy in the box.
Missed the point?
I rather expected the ballet teacher to be a her, not a him.
I do not think I have ever seen a male ballet teacher since almost all pupils would have been young girls.
I have had several male ballet teachers
At least five on a more regular basis
One who had taught Baryshnikov at the Vaganova School in Leningrad.
One who had been the principal dancer at the Royal Swedish Opera. (including pointe classes)
One who was an active dancer at the Lithuanian National Opera (he was allowed to use their big practise studio for his classes. What a glorious feeling to be able to really move around!)
And two others with less impressive CVs.
However, I agree that the vast majority of ballet teachers are women. One reason for that is that there are more women dancers (who eventually become teachers).
Young Love
Sugar, remember many of the things you "loved" growing up and it wasn't only the opposite gender. That came later after the toys, the games, parties, going out to whatevers. Eventually it evolved as life, emotions, and things around changed. It's easy or hard to accept changing times and conditions in life, all depending on the internal strength more than physical of the individual.
Hugs Bru, an inquenchable thirst for knowledge defines some. You, my love, would be a most interesting read.
Barb
Never really warmed up to cream as an outstanding color. Tia sent me some pictures. The lady in the pics was delicious eye candy in an ultra soft cream colored, cocktail dress with a low cowl neckline. Simple single strand, gold necklace, single small diamond stud earrings. She had long wavy sun kissed blond hair. She wearing understated makeup. Stunning simplicity with angelic innocence and I recognized her. I'd ask to borrow the dress except I couldn't carry off the attitude..
Oklahoma born and raised cowgirl
It's getting harder every time to replace
things you used to love but for some reason don't give you that joy any longer.
Just a word of warning
The next two parts will be rather short. On the other hand the Grand Final on Sunday will be all of (almost) 750 words long.