Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2003 07:51:40 +1100
From: iarwain <iarwain7@ains.net.au>
Subject: Shockdance. Chapter 10.

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ShockDance Chapter 10.


In the second two weeks of September there was a semester break and William
made everyone go to a private dance studio for a condensed course of 10,
two-hour sessions.  The instructor's name was Arthur and he was expert at
his job.  He made everyone laugh all the time, but he worked them so hard
that they were exhausted at the end of each session.  William had invited
him to the last Saturday night show so he knew the atmosphere and what was
expected, and while they were doing the course he came to all of their
shows.  They had to do all the training in a G. string, thong, or costume,
and he was continually stirring and touching them.  Arthur was blatantly
gay, and in a very short time Trevor decided he really liked him, because
underneath his noise and activity he seemed to be quite sensitive.  He had
a twinkle in his eye and somehow got everyone to do exactly what he wanted.
At the end of the first session Arthur told William that he expected Trevor
to stay for extra work because he needed it most, and it was quickly
arranged that Trevor would stay after the first five sessions and then be
driven home.  When the others were getting dressed William told Trevor to
do whatever Arthur suggested.

"But nothing more than a blow job or a jack off, unless you're happy with
it.  I think that's what he's going to try!"

When the others had gone Arthur set some music going and asked Trevor if he
was happy to practice without his costume.

"What?  All the time?"

"Yes!  I want you to become more relaxed about your body!"

"Do you really mean that, or do you just want to look at me?"

"Now Trevor!  I'm the instructor here so you should trust me!  The answer
is yes to both questions as a matter of fact, but we'll keep work separated
from play!"

"Okay!  As long as you do the same!"

"My pleasure!  Now Trevor! Did you realise that your sense of rhythm is
almost as good as Vincent's, if not better?"

"You must be joking!  I'm nothing like Vincent!"

"That's what you think now, and you're right that there is a long way to
go, but Vincent's been dancing for fun all his life, whereas you've never
danced at all before these shows started!"

Trevor was quite impressed by this.  He stripped his costume off then
watched as Arthur did the same.

Arthur taught Trevor three fairly simple routines and for the next half
hour he had to do them over and over again in different ways.  Arthur was
pushing hard all the time, telling Trevor to put more meaning into it.

"Trevor!  You're still just doing it!  You've got to mean it as well!"

Trevor got more and more frustrated as the time went, because no matter
what he did he couldn't seem to satisfy Arthur.
 In the end he got annoyed and stomped his way through one of the routines
only to be startled by Arthur giving him a sudden shake.

"You did it Trevor!  That was great!  I could see your annoyance in every
movement of your body.  Now do it again, exactly the same except you
control the feelings!"

Trevor did it again and then for a third time, as something clicked into
place in his mind.  Arthur beamed at him.

"See!  I knew you could do it.  Now copy this, but do it your own way!"

Arthur did the same routine but Trevor could see that now he was showing
his happiness with Trevor's success.  Trevor did the steps with a happy
feeling and Arthur show his approval.  After a couple more times Trevor
once more had the same feeling of something settling into place.  Arthur
looked at him sadly and did the routine with dejection.

"Oh no!  Trevor!  You're never going to learn this!"

For an instant Trevor was upset, till he realised that that was what Arthur
wanted to project.  He hung onto the feeling and put it into the steps and
his body.  Then again, and again, while Arthur nodded.  Arthur gave him a
big hug and held them close together while he talked.

"You took a while Trevor, but it came together with a rush at the end.
Could you feel the difference yourself?"

Trevor nodded and went to move away, but Arthur kept hold and kept talking.

"You're already a different dancer to when we started today and we have to
see if we can lock today's work in properly tomorrow!"

When Arthur stopped talking Trevor wondered what to do because he just
stood there with their groins pressed together.  Once again Trevor went to
move apart but Arthur just tightened his grip.  Trevor felt himself
starting to respond and Arthur grinned at him.

"Good!  You're showing some interest in me.  Now do the routine and show me
the same thing!"

Trevor tried but he knew it didn't really work.

"No Trevor!  There was nothing there.  Come and hold me again!"

As soon as they were together Trevor felt himself stiffening again.  Arthur
waited a bit longer this time, before slipping his hand in to hold Trevor's
cock.

"Wow!  That's something!  You make up your mind when you're ready to do the
dance!"

Trevor really didn't know whether Arthur wanted him to dance or to stay
together.
 He opted for the dance because of Arthur's earlier comment about
separating work and play.  He knew what Arthur wanted and the almost got it
right before he was called back again.

"I'd been holding you Trevor.  You do the holding this time!"

"Show me what you want please Arthur!  I thought I nearly had it that
time!"

Trevor gasped a little as Arthur did the routine.  He could tell that
Arthur was doing it solely for him and he could see that Arthur wanted his
body.

"Was that acting or did you mean it?"

"It was both Trevor, which is the easiest.  With your show you need to be
able to do it even when it's not real!"

Trevor tried again and this time he knew it worked.  Arthur nodded and made
him do it twice more.

"Excellent Trevor!  Now show me annoyance!"

The change of emotions was rather sudden but Trevor settled himself for a
moment then did the routine.

"Great!  Now happiness!  That's it!  Sadness!  Now show me that you want my
body again!"

Trevor grabbed the feelings from his mind and did the dance that Arthur
wanted.  When he finished he was so excited he did the routine to show his
thanks, then went and held Arthur.

"Arthur!  You're a great teacher!  You annoyed me at the start but now I'm
so impressed!"

"I had to get under your skin Trevor.  You're a very private person and I
had to get you to react to me.  I'll annoy you again too but it's all to
make you better.  Now close your eyes and do exactly what I do!"

Trevor closed his eyes and felt Arthur hold his neck with one hand and then
gently hold his cock with the other.  He gasped a bit then did the same to
Arthur.  Trevor's cock was hard in moments and he felt Arthur very gently
squeezing him.  After a minute he was getting very aroused and wondered
what this was for.

"What am I supposed to be thinking about Arthur?  Am I meant to be learning
something?"

"No!  We're just enjoying holding each other!"

Trevor opened his eyes and moved away with a laugh.

"I thought you said you wouldn't mix work and play?"

"I'm not!  I was giving you a rest!"

Arthur taught Trevor some exercises and told him that tomorrow he had to be
able to demonstrate three new feelings with the routines.

"Now Trevor!  Come and lie down on this mat!"

"Is this work or play?"

"You can tell me when we finish!  On your stomach first!"

Arthur warmed some oil in his hands then smoothed it over Trevor's skin and
proceeded to give him a thorough massage.  Trevor had never had a massage
before and he thought it felt wonderful.  Arthur smiled when Trevor turned
onto his back and revealed his fully fledged erection.

"I can see you're enjoying this Trevor!  I hope you're concentrating,
because you have to do the same for me tomorrow!"

Trevor didn't worry but closed his eyes and gave little sighs of
contentment as Arthur's expert hands worked on the muscles of his body.  He
jolted up when he felt oil smoothed on his cock and rubbed into his balls.

"No!  Just lie back and relax while I finish you off!"

Trevor closed his eyes again and the sighs turned to moans at the feel of
the oily hands on his cock.  It only took moments for his body to reach the
stage of spurting his come on his chest and stomach.

"Come on Trevor!  You can go to sleep when you get home.  It's time to have
a shower"

Trevor reached for Arthur's cock but he moved away, saying that it would be
his turn the next day.  Arthur kept Trevor laughing on the way home in the
car and as he was dropping him off he told him to get a good sleep.

"I want you to stay all afternoon tomorrow and you're going to be worn
out!"

As soon as he was inside Trevor stripped and found William.

"I don't know how you found him William, but he's brilliant!  Did you pay
him extra to work with me, because he wants me all afternoon tomorrow as
well?"

"He is very expensive Trevor, but the extra work is his own idea.  I'll
check it out with him tomorrow!"

After tea Trevor worked on the exercises and his other tasks, then went to
sleep as soon as he finished his sex session with Jake.  William had
reduced these to an hour when the sex show didn't happen, but they still
had to do them.  The next day, after teaching some more warmup exercises,
Arthur made Trevor teach the others the routines and show them the happy,
sad and annoyed interpretations.  He then had to try and get them showing
the feelings as well.  It just didn't work and Arthur took over.  He
started making it hard for William.  Trevor wondered what would happen,
because William didn't let anyone push him round ever.  William blew his
stack eventually and yelled at Arthur who just seemed to be pleased.

"That's better William!  But don't say anything.  Dance your feelings at
me!  It's the only way I'll take any notice of you!"

William glared at him but made the effort.  It worked and on his next try
Trevor could see William's feelings in his dancing.

"Trevor!  Do it with him!  I want to see two angry dancers.  Good!  Now
everyone else try at the same time!"

Arthur kept them working hard, learning new steps and routines and always
pushing them to show their feelings.  Trevor thought he was amazing,
because one moment he'd have everyone laughing and the next he'd be
pressuring them to do something better.  When everyone else left, Arthur
made some sandwiches for lunch and they had a break for half an hour.

I'm not charging for your extra time Trevor.  I think you've got potential
and I enjoy your company.  I'll work with the others too and lift them as
much as I can.  But tell me!  I haven't really figured your group out
properly because it looks like William runs things, but he's younger than
any of you.

"You figured things pretty well Arthur.  William discovered we were all gay
and brought us together.  He is very strongminded and it was his idea to do
the shows.  It is working very well for us now and we all enjoy it!"

With a bit of a shock Trevor realised that this was true.

"We all live at my house and that works well too!  Jake keeps us fit and we
help him with his study, and William keeps us organised.

Have you been running this studio for very long?"

"I've been here five years and I'm hoping for another three or four before
I do something else!"

After a drink of orange juice they went back to the studio.

"Okay Trevor!  Are we wearing costumes today?"

Trevor stripped and watched as Arthur did the same.

"Great!  Now show me your three different emotions!"

Trevor did this and Arthur was pleased.  He taught Trevor some more basic
routines and got him to show the same emotions with the different steps.
For the next two hours he made Trevor learn and practise a new dance or set
of steps roughly every 10 minutes.  Thank goodness Jake and William had
made him get fit.  He never would have lasted otherwise, and by the end of
the time he was still exhausted.

"Arthur!  We'll have to stop!  I don't know how you keep going!"

"One more routine Trevor, then I've got some exercises for you to learn!"

At the finish Trevor flopped down in a chair to recover his breath and
promptly got told off.

"Trevor!  Come and walk with me!  Always warm yourself down when you
finish.  It only takes two or three minutes but it will stop your muscles
from getting stiff and sore!"

Arthur wiped himself down with a damp cloth then rubbed himself dry with a
towel.  He watched Trevor do the same then went to the mat.

Okay Trevor!  It's my turn for a massage now.

It couldn't have been a very relaxing massage for Arthur because every few
minutes he would swap places with Trevor to show him exactly what to do.
It took half an hour before they finished and Arthur was satisfied.

"You've got good hands too Trevor!  By Friday you'll be very good at this.
Now!  Am I going to get a reward?"

Trevor grinned at him.

That depends!  Follow my instructions and do exactly what I say or the
reward stops.  Put your hands behind your head, close your eyes and say
nothing.  Can you keep them closed or should we find something for a
blindfold?

Arthur looked at Trevor them closed his eyes and relaxed back.  Trevor
intended to make Arthur remember his reward and he worked hard at it.  He
quickly but gently aroused him, building him to a high level of passion
then keeping him there for over half an hour before finally bringing a
desperate Arthur to a climax.  He gently milked Arthur's cock and held it
as it gradually softened, then leaned down to give him a soft kiss on the
lips.

"There you are Arthur!  You can open your eyes now!"

"My god Trevor!  That was amazing!  I've never had anyone keep me so
excited for so long!"

Arthur reached out for Trevor but Trevor grinned back at him and said it
was his turn the next day.  As soon as Trevor got home he fell asleep and
complained when William woke him for tea.

"I'm wrecked William and he wants me to work just as hard tomorrow!  It's
harder even then Jake's workouts!  Can I go to bed early tonight?"

"All right!  You can go at nine o'clock but you have to watch TV with me
till then!"

This meant William would be sitting on his lap and bouncing up and down on
his cock every time there was a set of advertisements, and he'd have to
come two or three times.

"My poor body!  Nobody worries about it except me!"

In the morning Trevor was staggering around like an old man.

"Jake!  What will I do?  Arthur said he was going to work me just as hard
every day this week!"

Jake just laughed at him and made him do some loosening up exercises.

"I'll have to give your fitness routine a boost if a bit of dancing wears
you out!"

Trevor didn't say anything but he laughed to himself because he knew Arthur
wanted to work with Jake in the second week and he thought Jake might be
whistling a different tune then.

Arthur made things tough for Vincent on Wednesday.  Trevor wondered what he
was doing because Vincent could already show his feelings well, but it
turned out he was pushing Vincent with his timing and technique.

"Come on Vincent!  I want you to do this the way I tell you!  You're
changing the steps to suit yourself and your timing is slightly off!"

Trevor could tell that Vincent wasn't all that happy, but Arthur kept the
pressure on him and explained his reasons.

"Concentrate Vincent!  That's not good enough!  It's all been too easy for
you!  When you're a star you can't just be good!  You have to be perfect!"

Vincent stopped dancing and looked at Arthur.

"That's not fair, because I'm not a star!"

"Well!  You're either being modest or silly!  Of course you are!  You're
good enough to set people's hearts on fire or move them to tears!  Your
friends all know that!  Am I right Trevor?"

"Yes!"

"Now Vincent!  Dance these routines with me and I'll show you what I mean!"

For 20 minutes Arthur and Vincent danced together and Arthur called out
every mistake that Vincent made.  Vincent got more embarrassed as the time
went on and at the end he apologised.

"I'm sorry Arthur!  I see what you mean!  I've been a smart-aleck haven't
I?"

"No you haven't!  You're just sloppy, and I have to get you out of that!  I
want you to stay this afternoon with Trevor!"

Arthur spent the next half hour teaching everyone a routine where they were
all doing the same thing and interacting together.  Timing was critical and
Trevor found it took a great deal of concentration.  He was just getting
the hang of it when Arthur yelled at him for having no feeling in his
steps.

"But you haven't told us what sort!"

"Well think of one then!"

"What if I'm happy and William's sad and Jake's acting angry?  We'll all
look silly!"

"That's better than looking like a line of robots!  Watch each other!  This
is teamwork now!  Everyone else take your lead from Trevor!"

They had to practice this three more times, and each time Trevor had to
project a different mood.  Arthur did the same thing all over again with a
different routine but they had to take their cue from William instead.

"You've got a long way to go but you're not totally useless!"

Everyone was pleased because they knew that coming from Arthur this was
praise indeed.  For the last half hour they went through all the exercises
he'd been giving them.

"William!  When you're at home I'd like all the ones who don't stay behind,
to practice what I have been showing you for about an hour each day!  I
don't really want to waste your time going over things we've already done!"

William nodded and Trevor grinned to himself.  Knowing William they'd
probably have to practice for two hours.  Arthur provided a light lunch and
some juice then sent Trevor and Vincent to the studio while he tidied
things away.  Trevor took his costume off and Vincent automatically
followed suit with a casual comment about being in the nude once again.
Trevor saw Arthur's eyes widen at the sight of two nude guys but he also
casually stripped as if that's what he'd been expecting.

"Good!  Now Trevor!  We're going to teach Vincent as many of those steps
and dances you did yesterday as we can in half an hour!  You already know
them, so your main effort will be to do them with feeling!  Vincent!  Put
your mind into gear because we don't want to waste Trevor's time!"

Trevor was impressed with Vincent because he learnt them about twice as
quickly as he had, but he didn't have much time to do anything except
concentrate on getting the feelings to work.  They worked like whirlwinds
and Trevor was relieved when they stopped.  Vincent whispered to him.

"Trevor!  Does he keep going like this?  My brain is conked out and so are
my legs!"

Arthur heard him.

"Vincent!  You wimp!  All you're doing is learning steps!  When you're
putting mood into it and interacting with other dancers at the same time,
then I'll call it working!  Your legs can't be tired yet!  We've still got
nearly two hours to go!
 I suppose I'll have to slow down for you!

Now stand together will you!  With the kind of show you're putting on, you
need to be close to each other!  How close are you happy with?"

Trevor grinned and pulled Vincent tight against him.

"I'm the sand and Vincent is the sea!"

Vincent thought for a second.

"I'm the ship and Trevor is the harbour!"

"I'm the sheet and Vincent is the doona!"

Vincent jumped up and held Trevor's shoulders and wrapped his legs round
his back.

"I'm page two and Trevor is page three!"

Trevor dropped Vincent and gave him a kiss on the mouth.

"We're Siamese twins!"

Arthur stopped their carrying on.

"All right!  I get the picture!"

Well nearly, because Vincent butted in.

"No you don't!  I'm the picture and Trevor is the frame!"

Arthur rolled his eyes.

"So we can do what we like and no one will be embarrassed?"

As if on cue Trevor and Vincent said together.

"Only you!"

"Oh my God!  It's Laurel and Hardy without the humour!  Shut up you two!
I'm trying to talk!"

Trevor put his hand over Vincent's mouth and Vincent put his hand over
Trevor's.

This was too much for Trevor and he burst out laughing.  Vincent did the
same and they couldn't stop for a while.  As they recovered Arthur was
looking at them.

"That was actually quite clever!  Have you done it before?"

They both shook their heads.

"Well!  Let's do some work for a change!  For the next half hour your
bodies must be held close.  Trevor!  You stand behind Vincent and hold him
against you.  I'll do a little routine and you two copy it.  We'll soon see
how close you are because if you don't click with your timing you'll be
kicking each other and looking like a drunken octopus!"

They were more on the same wavelength than they realised, because after a
few clumsy minutes they started working as one.  It took a great deal of
concentration and Trevor found himself strongly aware of Vincent's body and
his movements.  He loved the close feeling of working together and was
surprised at how complicated some of the routines were.  After about 10
minutes another problem reared its head.  Quite literally, because his cock
liked the feeling too and started to stiffen.  Vincent knew straight away,
and started giving extra pressure, rubbing him for a stir.  This made
Trevor fully erect and he couldn't concentrate properly.

"All right you two!  What's happening now?  You were working like a dream
machine but you suddenly lost it!"

"It's Trevor's fault!  He's poking a hole in my back!"

Trevor went red.

"I'm sorry!  I can't help it and Vincent is making it worse!"

Arthur looked at them.

"All right!  You move in front now Trevor, and we'll see it Vincent can
control himself.

Again everything went like clockwork for about 10 minutes and Trevor felt
the same unity as before, but then he couldn't help laughing as he felt
Vincent stiffen against him.  He jumped away to show Vincent with his stiff
cock.  Arthur stared, then laughed.

"Okay!  What are you going to do about this?  I can't solve it for you and
you can't stop dancing in a show just because you've got a hard on!  The
best I can say is to ignore it and concentrate like hell on your dancing!"

Trevor grabbed Vincent and held him ready to dance.

"It's pretty hard to ignore but I'll do my best!  He goes pole-vaulting
with it you know!"

"Trevor!  Will you stop the pillow talk in the middle of my dancing
instruction?  We'll be taking half an hour extra to get finished at this
rate!"

Trevor knew that Arthur was serious this time but he could see also the
twinkle in his eye.  Vincent settled as well and they completed another 20
minutes of the twin dancing.  Arthur was absolutely delighted.

"That was amazing!  Most pairs would have to practice for weeks to reach
the stage you two did then!  Have you ever done that before?"

"Not really!"

"You've still got your hard on Trevor!
 How did you cope with it?"

"I don't know!  It was really hard, I mean difficult, Arthur, but I kind of
focused on the steps and pretended I was part of Vincent!  I could tell
Vincent was helping me too.  He was sort of saying don't worry about it,
with his body!"

"We'll do something special with this because it's quite rare to be so in
tune, and we can make it look spectacular.  Last night I was thinking about
you two and I've come up with a little story for you to dance.  Trevor!
You'll be a lonely guy with no one in your life, when along comes Vincent
who is everything you dream of.  He seduces you and you fall in love with
him.  Everything is great for a while with sex, excitement and happiness,
but then he loses interest and abandons you and you do the lonely bit
again.  I've choreographed parts of it for you, and we'll build more of the
steps over the next three or four days.  Vincent!  I want you to do part of
your own special act, as it's beautiful and quite original.  You'll see
where that fits in.  We'll learn as much of the choreography today as we
can!"

Trevor started to feel scared.  This was making everything a bit too real
and he was worried that he wouldn't be good enough to match Vincent.  Next
thing he knew was Vincent giving him a big hug.

"Come on Trevor!  It will be our special, and we'll be working together,
not trying to be better than each other!"

Arthur didn't give Trevor a chance to worry because for the next hour he
made them learn the steps for all the parts he'd worked out.  At the end of
the time he looked satisfied.

"I think it's going to work, but tomorrow will tell.  I want you both to
stay in the afternoon again.  Now we've got some exercises!"

Vincent groaned.

"When do these exercises end?"

"Never!  They just keep getting harder if you're really serious!"

When they'd finished and had a wipe and a rubdown, it was massage time.

"I really want to give you a good massage this afternoon Trevor.  You've
still got some shows tonight haven't you?"

Trevor had to practise his new skills of massage on Vincent, and Arthur
helped and corrected him.  When Vincent turned onto his back he was just as
aroused as Trevor had been.

Arthur laughed.

"You are like twins aren't you?  What will we do here Trevor?"

"We'll work on the body first and then the ah! .. Flagpole.  Vincent you
keep your eyes closed till we're finished!"

Trevor loved doing this massage for Vincent, and he watched carefully and
matched Arthur's technique.  When they finished he started playing with
Vincent balls and nodded for Arthur to work on the flagpole.  When Vincent
came, Trevor gave his customary kiss and cleaned him up.

"Hey!  Don't go to sleep flagpole man!  It's my turn now!"

Trevor took his place on the mat and closed his eyes.  He could feel the
difference between Arthur's firm hands and Vincent's gentle touch.  They
soon developed a pattern where Vincent would repeat whatever Arthur had
been doing and Trevor felt so relaxed he drifted off to sleep.  He woke,
from a beautiful erotic dream where he was dancing with Vincent, to the
realisation that he was just about to come.  He climaxed and opened his
eyes to see Vincent grinning at him.

"Talk about sex mad!  Your body goes to sleep but your cock doesn't!"

Arthur was smiling as well.

"How do you feel now Trevor?"

"Wonderful!  I'm not going to move for another year!"

This lasted for about two seconds of course, because Vincent started poking
and tickling him.

"Come on!  Up you get!  It's time for home!"

After a quick shower and thank you to Arthur, Trevor and Vincent drove home
and went straight to bed.  As soon as Trevor closed his eyes William was
shaking him.

"It's nearly time to go, so if you want something to eat you'd better
hurry!"

The hour's rest was enough to keep Trevor going for the night, but he fell
asleep in the car after the show.  He didn't open his eyes again until
morning, and then was stirred because Jake had carried him into the house
and put him to bed.  He worked hard with Arthur but by the afternoon his
muscles wouldn't do what he wanted them to, and at the end of the day,
after he'd given Vincent and Arthur a massage he was feeling very listless.
Arthur thought it was funny.

"You and Vincent can have the afternoon off tomorrow, and I'll get Jake and
Eric to stay.  I want you to do an hour's practise on Saturday, and on
Sunday I'll expect you here at 10 o'clock in the morning and we'll work
till seven o'clock in the evening!"

"All day!  Arthur!  You're slave driver!  I don't think my legs will cope
with that!"

"Yes they will!  You'll recover by then and you'll have your best day yet!"

"Tell that to Jake!  He thinks I'm not fit enough because I can't get
through a few hours of dancing!"

Arthur was right, and by Sunday morning Trevor was feeling full of energy
again.  All day Arthur alternated with an hour on the special act, and then
an hour of general teaching.  Trevor couldn't understand what had happened.
Somehow everything seemed a bit easier and Arthur kept smiling at his
efforts.  When they had a short 20 minute break for lunch, Trevor couldn't
resist the impulse to give Arthur a hug.

"You're amazing Arthur!  I've never met anyone like you!"

They worked intensely for the next hour on the special act and then Arthur
spent an hour teaching them funny and ridiculous routines.  He wanted
Vincent to build a large repertoire of these.

"You're naturally a bit of a joker Vincent, and if you build that kind of
image your dramatic work will get more impact from the contrast!"  After
the next hour, Arthur announced that they now knew the complete
choreography for their special combined act.

"What you have to do now is practise till every step is completely
automatic and you don't have to think about it.  It takes about 11 minutes,
so I'll expect at least five run-throughs a day and you must always
practise together.  We'll do some interpretation work later, but after
today I'm not going to look at it till Thursday when you'd better be
perfect at every step!"

The next hour was spent on the twin work, as Vincent called it, and Arthur
made them learn five quite complicated routines and gradually build up
speed in each.  Trevor loved working with his body held close to Vincent
and spent most of the time with a very enjoyable hard on.  The next hour
amazed Trevor.  This was the work on interpretation for their special act
and as they went through Arthur would call out some idea they had to
follow.

"You're angry with each other!  You're both tired!  Do it at double speed!
In slow motion!  Camp it up!  Make it feel like a ballet!  It's a soap
opera!  It's a melodrama!  Play to the audience!"

He went on and on.  Trevor found this was incredibly difficult but he also
felt increasingly excited as he could feel himself succeeding and
improving.  Sometimes Arthur would demonstrate something and often Trevor
would follow Vincent's lead but mostly he worked things out for himself.
After a short break for a drink there was an hour of new types of dances
and steps and then Arthur had a surprise for them.

"I worked all the choreography to suit music which you haven't heard yet.
Have a listen and then we'll run through it!"

The music gave everything more life and Trevor felt energy running through
him like electricity as he danced in time with it.  Next Arthur blacked out
the studio and sat at a panel which controlled his basic lighting setup and
his sound system.

"Okay you two!  Do your best because this is a full rehearsal!"

Trevor did what he could and he knew that the sound and the lighting was
helping him.  He marvelled at Vincent's dancing but pushed these thoughts
away as he concentrated on his own work.  He finished by himself under a
single spotlight as he did the same portrayal of loneliness that he'd
started with.  When the lights went on two things happened.  Arthur stood
up and started clapping and Vincent rushed over to hold Trevor.

"Trevor!  I wouldn't really leave you alone!"

Trevor was astonished to see tears in Vincent's eyes and then Arthur
surprised him even more when he came over.

"I was right!  We haven't got one star!  We've got two!  Give each other a
victory hug them practise your steps while I organise some food!"

Trevor and Vincent went through their steps once more before Arthur turned
up with a steaming bowl of meatballs and pasta.  They sat next to each
other and stayed in the warmth of the studio to eat their meal.  Trevor
realised that Arthur was quite excited as they talked while they ate.