OOC: Co-post with Asendavia.
[hr]Sarah looked at Hjalmar in the face, asking shyly, “Uh, do you know how to do this? I’ve never done this before.”
“I’ve done it a couple of times back in Asendavia, it’s been a few years though,” he admitted.
“So how does it work? Where do I put my hand?” Sarah replied, wondering if her left-handedness would be a problem.
“If we’re going for a traditional slow dance, then my left hand should grasp your right hand at the height of my shoulders. My right hand would be at your left hip and your left hand would be around my shoulder. If we want a simpler slow dance, then you hold me by the shoulders and I hold you by the waist.”
“Uhh…” Sarah responded dumbly, trying desperately to grasp on to what he was saying. “Let’s go simple.”
“Yeah, I was hoping that you would say that,” Hjalmar chuckled lightly.
Sarah put her hands on Hjalmar’s shoulders and Hjalmar put his hands on her waist. “Now what?”
“Now we just sway together, back and forth. We can also do a ‘step touch’ where I move one step to the right with my right foot, you, one step to the left your left foot, and then we tap the ground and reverse the motion Just make sure that we keep in sync.” After a few moments of silence, he began to speak again. “This is starting to sound way too complicated for something as simple as dancing,” Hjalmar commented.
“I agree,” Sarah stated. She was given a book on dancing, but she had never bothered to read it since it was too complicated. "So…what do you mean by ‘tap the ground and reverse the motion?’ "
"When you move one step in a given direction, you tap the ground with that foot and then move one step in the other direction. Then, you just repeat that over and over again.
“So just back and forth? What’s the fun in that?”
“There’s not much fun in it. Most of the fun comes from talking.”
Talking seemed easy enough for Sarah. She looked over and saw Luke break-dancing. “Is there anything else?” she asked.
“No, just this, for eternity. Back and forth, back and forth, back and forth,” Hjalmar glanced towards Luke. “I’ve never seen anyone break-dance at a school dance before.”
They started to dance. Back and forth, back and forth… Finally, Sarah broke the ice. “So…how are your classes going?”
“They’re going good, I guess. How about yours?”
“They’re going fine. Who let Mr. Peterson be in charge of the dance?”
“Uhh, I’m not sure. I didn’t pay attention to any of that stuff.”
“Do you have him as your teacher?”
“Yeah, he’s all right as a teacher.”
“I have Mr. McHeffey, and he’s super strict.”
“Also history. Are you ready for the test on Friday?”
Hjalmar shrugged. "Yeah, whatever. I’ve always been good with history, so no worries there.
Sarah began running out of questions. “Is it just like this for the rest of the dance?”
“I guess? I don’t really know what else to do.”