4th floor common room, Sunday early evening

[minnesota_teen]

Amber was feeling restless so she put on her tap shoes and headed down the hallway to the common room, ready to make some use out of it. Seeing no one around, she put on some music and began warming up by doing a few leg and arm stretches.

After that? She started tap dancing to her hearts content, loving every single minute of it.

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[oncourtandstage]

Link had had a wonderful day lazing around in bed after waking up with Christian. He hadn't particularly felt like getting up to do much of anything actually, until now that he decided to try and find some food.

So he came down to the common room, where he found a girl tapdancing. "Wow," he said, grinning. "You look like you could be on Corny's show!" He gave a wink.

[minnesota_teen]

Amber grinned wide and slowed down just enough to be able to speak without jarring her words. "Corny?"

[oncourtandstage]

"Corny Collins!" Link said. "Of the Corny Collins Show, in Baltimore? I'm on the Council -- we're the dancers on the show." He grinned. "Link Larkin."

[minnesota_teen]

"I've never heard of it," her smile was still going strong. "I'm Amber Atkins from Mount Rose, Minnesota. Just a small town with very few TV's," she added so he wouldn't take offense. Corny Collins Show? What a name.

[oncourtandstage]

"Amber? Really!" He grinned. "It just so happens that my girl back home in Baltimore is named Amber. Well, little darling, it's a pleasure to meet you! Where'd you learn to dance like that?"

[minnesota_teen]

"Amber is a great name; ma always told me so," though Amber suspected her carnie of a father had a hand in naming her. "Very nice to meet you too, Link. You're name is very unique. I like it. Oh my gosh, I've been dancin' since I was little, nothin' special... just a bit of tap is all though I did perform not to long ago in a talent portion of a beauty pageant."

[oncourtandstage]

"A beauty pageant, really?" Link winked. "I bet you won, too, didn't you?"

[minnesota_teen]

Amber's smile fell. "The pegeant was rigged."

[oncourtandstage]

"No!" Link gave a bit of a gasp, carefully calculated, and pouted artfully. "That's horrible! You would definitely have won if it hadn't been, though."

[minnesota_teen]

Link, Amber decided, was very cute. Pout and all. "Thank you for your confidence in me, Link. But you see, I became Princess when Becky Leeman, the winner, blew up when she parked her butt on that swan float in the parade. It was awful. We all smelled gasoline."

[oncourtandstage]

"Gasoline? It caught on fire? Amber, that's awful!"

[minnesota_teen]

"It just didn't catch on fire, it blew up with her on it," she said easily, as though it wasn't nothing. "No one much liked Becky Leeman," she added to make it sound better. If that was at all possible.

"What do you do on your show, Link?"

[oncourtandstage]

"... Oh." There wasn't much more to say to that.

"Oh, well, I dance, and I do some singing," Link explained. "It's nothing big." He grinned and gave her another wink.

[minnesota_teen]

No, there really wasn't. It just wasn't pleasant.

"Tap dance?" she asked hopefully.

[oncourtandstage]

"Nah, more social stuff -- ballroom, that kind of thing. Stuff to do with a partner." He grinned. "I do a mean cha cha, and I'm working on a new twist on the twist."

[minnesota_teen]

She raised her brows, grinning. "Oooo! Old songs!"