[Open] You should be dancing, yeah!

[magicdancer]

Who: Shantae, Anyone Else
What: Let's dance our cares away! Dance party!
Where: The Brawler common area
When: Wednesday night
Warnings: F for FUNKY MUSIC

Shantae was feeling so cooped up she couldn't stand it anymore. Not being able to go into town was killing her. She would have loved to have a beach party after discovering it and the cache of fruit there, but it was still a little cold for that. She had to do SOMETHING to blow off steam.

So if anyone came by the Brawler dorms, or followed the sound of thumping music there, they might have found the strangest sight. Shantae had been busy, shoving all the furniture to the side to make floor space. And she was dancing. She was dancing her cares away to the music player she'd managed to track down. She wanted to practice, she wanted to move, she wanted to feel the beat flowing through her like water, touching her very soul and setting it ablaze. Dancing was life to her. And she wanted to live.

Care to join in?

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[garmentgoddess]

"Heeey, good to see you again!" Rene, despite being a Gunner, had been wandering around and heard the music. "Nice moves!"

[magicdancer]

"They ought to be! I've been dancing since I was a little kid!" Shantae declared with a broad grin as she shimmied a little, sliding her feet around the floor and shaking her hips.

[garmentgoddess]

"Ooh, show me that one." Rene was trying to copy Shantae's shimmy but coordination on the soccer field and coordination on the dance floor were two very different things.

[trustycrowbar]

Even though there was no school anymore, there was still something collegiate about the dorm rooms, Gordon found himself thinking at some point. The buzz of activity was always in the halls, the happy din of several bodies full of the same life and wonder and vigor as any apartment complex filled with freshmen on welcome week. Even the music was there, completing the picture to the point where it actually took him an hour to realize that it had been missing from the halls before now.

He didn't really have to wonder who was behind the change, either. He had to merely follow the music to find her. He leans against the wall next to the displaced couch, just... watching her for a while. She really was amazing in the way she moved, and now he didn't have to censor himself in thinking so. It was amazing.

"Looks like the natural order has been restored." He muses when the music dies long enough for him to be heard, giving her a warm grin.

[magicdancer]

Shantae knew he was watching. Just because she was in the zone didn't mean she wasn't keeping an eye out for anyone who might have come to join her. She looked over her shoulder, grinning at her boyfriend (That was still so weird to consider...).

"Dancing relaxes me. Helps me unwind and de-stress," she explained. "You should definitely try it! Or are you just happy watching the show?"

[trustycrowbar]

"Well, I AM very happy watching, don't get me wrong," He replies, leaving the wall and craning his neck to see if anyone else is around at the moment. "but maybe a little de-stressing isn't a bad idea."

[magicdancer]

Shantae turned and held out her open hands to him. "Then get out here and join me! I know you've got SOME moves in you," she teased with a playful wink.

[trustycrowbar]

He takes her hands, lifting one yo spin her as he slips into the center of the room.

"I have no idea where you got that idea." He quips.

[magicdancer]

Shantae twirls for him, her long ponytail swaying behind her, as she takes his hands and starts to move with him. "Well, prom night was certainly an eye-opener," she reminded him with a small smirk. "You surprised me then!"

[trustycrowbar]

That's right. The night he revealed the dark secret of his electives in college. In most of the dance he studied, the man wouldn't be nearly as mobile as his partner, but he does keep up with her now.

"I normally wouldn't dance at those events because I was a chaperone." He elucidates, taking her hand for a few moves. "And I never went with anyone who wanted to.

[magicdancer]

Shantae beamed at him, moving with the rhythm he set. "So my new boyfriend is smart, handsome, and knows how to dance," she teased. "If we still had formal dances, I would definitely be asking you out to them!"