Since it was summer vacation for all of us at D.A.N.C.E, even the ones in university, we were going to rehearse for Internationals as hard as we could. We wanted to win again and make our dances a lot better.

Nobody was going to know what hit them this year.

We were all in the studio, deciding who would be doing what dance this year. Lilith asked if I wanted to take the male solo again and as much as I wanted to take it to defend my title, I told Jerome he should take it.

"No," Jerome said. "Stop being so nice. I know you want it."

"I do,...