hi I'm Riley I'm a contemporary dancer at the next step and this is my draw my life the next
step dance studio is like a family to me I mean literally I dance there with my sister Emily but
I've also made so many great friends there and it's where I met James James and I have been
together ever since we did the duet for our first regionals and we've been going strong ever since
well minus the time when we broke up and got back together and then there was also that other time
that we broke up you see things got complicated between us the first time when the next step went
in for nationals there was this dancer on B troop the who turned out to be James's ex-girlfriend so
yeah that was fun one day I went to the studio and James was already there with Beth and they
were kissing I mean technically best kissed James but that didn't matter at the time I was just so
hurt that I broke up with him but James worked hard to change my mind about us and we work things
out then atriev also won nationals and things just could not have been more perfect except the next
step going to international this was everything he had ever worked for the internationals included an
exchange program where we had to host a dancer from another team and that's where I met Ella
Ella came to join us from the UK and made quite an impression when she arrived basically I I did
not like her at all but then I got to know her and we actually became best friends Ella was so much
fun and really realized that if the community connect every now and then you know just like
James always says so even worried about it saying so he didn't quite see it that way she didn't say
that Ella was a good friend for me and I'll admit that really affected our relationship and what do
you know it turned out that James was right Elif started letting me down all the time but then at
international Seoul alone she actually stole my choreography I felt so completely betrayed to even
won the title of Miss international soloist getting enough voice to put the team in the
lead with my routine I couldn't be friends with her anymore after she did that to me and things
still weren't going smoothly with James either he had been torn between dancing and his music for a
while now and he chose internationals to tell me that when it was finished he was leaving the next
step I was so shocked I mean dance is what brought James and I together and his decision meant that
our internationals duet would be our last dance together but that dance took the next step to
international victory and I wouldn't have changed that moment for the world after our internationals
when it was time for a whole new adventure for the next step and for me to miss Kate was leaving to
judge a dance show in the UK and asked me to be the studio head it was such a shock and an honor
but I never imagined what a huge challenge it would be so when James went to London with West
and Elvin for a competition part of me wished he would stay here and support me with James away I
was really struggling Noah was injured and the next step lost the first regional qualifier so
I found myself turning to my friend Alfie Alfie had just joined a troupe after moving here from
Switzerland he was one of our best dancers and I found out a real quick print and just like a
prince Alfie was always there to rescue me when I was down gradually we started to grow closer until
one day what was I thinking I loved James but I couldn't deny that I felt something for Alfie soon
and the worst part Piper James's little sister saw us kissing she called James to fly home and I had
to tell him everything so now I had to choose change for Alfie all the confusion meant that I
wasn't focusing on the studio Louis injury meant that he couldn't dance and despite everything it
was James who stepped up the dance of Alfea and we finally made it through the reason not
that I could celebrate though James went straight back to London it was over the senior with James
gone Alfie and I started dating but something just didn't feel right and when Alfie offered
to fly me away somewhere all I could think about was James and the next thing I knew I was on a
plane to London instead I followed my heart it was always Jane so I fixed things with James but I'd
been neglecting my job as studio head I came back to lead the next step through regionals but it was
too late I hadn't been taking care of my team my friends and we lost I was devastated but I learned
so much about myself but despite everything I feel so lucky I love James and I know that
whatever happens things will always turn out okay next year the next step will have their moment