The Girl is Mine The Next Step

Previously on The Next Step...

There were so many great dancers who didn't make the cut.

Tiffany, Stephanie, some of the J-Troupers, Beth.

I knew someone would be cut, but like, I didn't think it'd be us!

With Amanda in there, any chance of them winning Nationals is gone.

So, did you think about what I told you at Regionals?

James is a loyal boyfriend.

I can trust him.

She's my girlfriend.

Emily and I have this plan to break up Michelle and Eldon.

-You know what I just loved, Hunter?

-What, what's that?

-Your head slide.

We're going to make Michelle realise she still has feelings for Hunter

by making her jealous.

Hunter's on the Nationals team.

That's going to be bad because of drama, but, whatever,

we'll deal with the drama.

Hey!

-Hey.

-Hi.

What's this emergency?

As I'm sure you saw on your way in,

Beth is pretty upset that she didn't make it into A-Troupe.

Yeah, it's terrible.

-Right, James?

-Yeah.

She was so upset when she didn't make it, so, to cheer her up,

I decided to give her

a duet at a small dance competition.

But then her duet partner Charlie bailed on her

-and she's gone all... Beth again.

-Yeah.

Anyway, that is why I brought you guys in.

James, I would really appreciate it if you stepped up

and decided to be her dance partner for the competition.

James should not take the duet.

You know, I don't wanna say anything

cos Kate's right there, but, hopefully he'll say no.

'I don't really know what I should do, because I look at Riley,

'and she didn't say anything, and Kate'

really needs this done, I can tell.

Sure.

Thank you, I totally appreciate that.

Yeah, don't worry about it.

Why don't you go tell her the good news?

OK, sure.

Um, I'll catch you after, I guess.

'I don't understand why James agreed to this.'

He knows how I feel about Beth.

Um, I'm probably going to get drinks and stuff.

Perfect.

-All right, enjoy.

-See ya.

-Can I get one strawberry...

-You don't even get what I'm saying!

I don't get what you're saying,

you're not even making any sense right now.

-Well, that's your problem. Oh, oh, wait!

-What?

This is it. This is the dress of your dreams.

-My dreams?

-Yes.

-Yo, what?

'It is kinda weird seeing Emily and Hunter getting'

along so well.

I mean, I don't know why they're always hanging around together.

Yo, put this back, you're not making any sense right now.

Emily and I have been hanging out a lot,

but it's just a part of our plan to make Michelle jealous

so that she'll want me back.

It seemed pretty easy making Michelle feel jealous about Hunter.

But now, I need Hunter to make Eldon feel jealous about me.

-Hey.

-What?

Eldon just walked in.

So I'm going to go, and you're going to talk to him.

-Don't mess this up.

-OK.

I dunno, it's been kinda hard making

this Eldon kid jealous. Maybe he'll respond more to the direct approach.

Yo, Eldon! Come here, bro.

Hey, man.

Hey. man! I just wanted to say I'm excited to be here,

and I'm looking forward to our friendship.

Yeah, totally!

When Hunter said that he wanted to be boys with me,

kind of makes me trust him a little more.

But I really like Michelle.

And I want to be the one dating her.

But you know, I just wanted to tell you that, because we're friends now.

'Eldon needs to know'

that I'm not going to give up on Michelle.

I'm coming after his girlfriend.

# We, we are gonna show the world

# Everything we're made of

# We're gonna tear the roof off this place. #

Stand up!

Listen, me and Michelle are perfect together

and nothing's going to come between us, so...

Michelle's my girl, I don't know what

he plans on doing about that, but me and Michelle are pretty solid.

Bro, you know nothing about Michelle. What's her middle name?

-Why does that matter?

-What's her shoe size?

I don't know, but I'm not creepy, so...

When was the moment she decided to become a dancer?

Her middle name is Beatrice.

Her left shoe is a 7, while her right side is a 7.5.

And the moment she decided to become a dancer was with me

during our duet at summer camp when we were nine years old.

It kind of worries me because he knows a lot about her and

I don't know that much about her. So, what's your point?

My point is, you don't stand a chance.

Yo, you don't know me!

But I know Michelle.

How about this? We'll have a dance battle.

If you lose, you back off from Michelle.

If I lose, I'll get out of your way. If you don't show up,

I'm just gonna have to take her the old-fashioned way...

with my charm. I'll see you later, OK?

'Personally, I would dance battle anyone.

'But, I don't really wanna put me and Michelle's'

relationship on the line.

MUSIC: Tied To You by The Next Step

'Right now, I'm just learning the choreo'

for this duet that I'm now doing with Beth.

And just, yeah, just follow me.

I want to do like a...

There?

Yeah! That looks good.

I actually don't mind Beth's choreo, you know, it's not bad.

OK. Yeah, let's try it.

OK, so it's... Whoo!

What?

Come on, you can trust me.

OK. I know. Here we go.

-OK. Yeah.

-And...

See? That wasn't bad.

-You're good at that.

-Thank you. OK.

'Seeing James and Beth dance, kind of hard, I mean, they have'

this chemistry. But I'm sure it's nothing.

Like, they've danced together in the past,

so, I mean of course they'd have some kind of chemistry.

I wanna try it maybe...

Hey, Riley, what's up?

-Hey.

-Hey.

Thanks.

Thanks.

-So how are things going?

-Good!

Amazing! He's doing so well.

I just taught him it and he's already got it nailed.

-Yeah.

-Yo!

I have this hip-hop part I wanna add.

James and Beth do not work well together. I mean,

James is very hip-hop, and Beth... Well, Beth is an idiot.

Baby ballet class is our most basic dance class that we

offer here at The Next Step Studio.

If your child is interested in dance, it is

the perfect class to put them in

to start getting them used to the studio environment.

Everyone try to be a fairy!

Margie really likes to take charge of the other students.

She does animal exercises and ten years down the road,

she'll probably make a great dance captain.

Right now, I've just walked in to my biggest nightmare.

Let's do some ballet, you know?

Plies.

Chloe has had to split her time between job and dance.

So, I offered her a job here at

The Next Step, so she can always be around dance.

OK, guys, let's all get together and start the ballet class.

'Some people just don't like kids.'

And I'm some people.

OK, come on! You, come here.

-Hi, do you remember me?

-No, not really.

My name is Margie, I was at dance camp.

So, why are you nervous?

Mm, there's just a lot of you guys and it makes me

-really uncomfortable.

-Well, you gotta get used to that!

I don't really want to.

Actually, I'm going to help you.

-Uh, no. I'm OK.

-Come on, kids!

Let's give her a big hug so she can get out of her fear.

No, no, no!

Whoa, whoa. That's a lot of little hands on me, OK.

It's taking all of

my might not to just run out of that room.

-Are you feeling better?

-No.

Hug her again!

'I feel like I'm a fish in the ocean and I'm surrounded by'

jellyfish and slowly they are just consuming me.

-It needs to be higher.

-Yeah?

-Give me it. Ready?

-Now bend. Stay up.

-Bend?

-Bend it, yeah.

-What do you mean bend?

-Flex it.

'I enter Studio A to'

get some advice from James and West

-about this dance battle. Yo, James.

-Yo.

-We need to talk, now.

-Bro SOS.

All right.

OK, catch up with you later, James.

'As Beth walks over to me, it is very awkward.

'I don't know what she wants.

'I mean, we never talk.'

Obviously, cos it's Beth.

I have a problem. It's about one of my friends. OK.

But this has nothing to do with you, right?

-No. No, no no, no.

-OK.

'I don't want James and West to'

find out that it's me in this situation because,

I'm a little embarrassed about it.

But, for argument's sake, can we call this friend "Eldon"?

-"Eldon".

-Sure, yeah.

-Yeah,

-OK. But, it's not me.

Oh, yeah, it's not you.

OK. "Eldon" has a girlfriend, all right?

Sorry. Can we just call his girlfriend "Michelle?"

-Just for the purpose of the story.

-Just for the story.

Just so we can like wrap our heads around it.

-Yeah, it's not Michelle, though.

-No.

-No.

-No. "Michelle."

-"Michelle."

-Just "Michelle."

-OK. Yeah.

-Yeah.

-OK.

-So, "Michelle"...

-Mm-hmm.

..has this ex-boyfriend, let's call him "Jorge."

"Jorge."

So we have Eldon and "Jorge."

And "Michelle."

And "Michelle."

OK. OK.

Eldon is a huge doofus.

He thinks that we can't comprehend what he's actually saying.

So "Jorge"

challenged me... I mean "Eldon" to a dance battle.

Um...

What's so funny? Like, what did I miss?

Yo, just do the battle, man. Put "Jorge" in his place.

-Show him up.

-Yeah, man! This needs to be done.

At the end of the day, you are the best dancer in this studio.

Maybe even "the country".

OK, but it's not me. It's like the other "Eldon".

Listen, any "Eldon" should battle any "Jorge" to get any "Michelle".

All right. Thanks, guys. That helps a lot.

That other Eldon guy is going to be really happy to hear that.

-You got it, buddy.

-Happy to hear that.

-Yeah.

-I'm going to win

this dance battle, and I'm going to put "Jorge" in his place.

Hi, Emily.

That would be a really great colour on you!

It's, like, 20 different colours.

'I mean she's co-dance captain and'

I really want her to like me as a person, not just as a dancer.

Listen, I was just wondering,

since we're on the same dance team now and everything, if we could

put the problems from the past behind us and we could be friends!

Amanda!

I don't trust you.

I need to talk to you.

I'm sorry you feel that way.

'I mean, it hurts, but, I see where she's coming from

'because I did do some really nasty things to them, and'

I guess I had it coming.

Our plan is moving way faster than expected.

And why is that?

-I challenged Eldon to a dance battle.

-You...

No, no, here's the best part! The prize would be Michelle.

You just ruined everything we have worked for.

No, this is perfect, what are you talking about?

-I'll beat him...

-You are going...

-And get Michelle.

-You're going to lose, Hunter.

-That's not fair. I'm not going to lose.

Unless Eldon breaks a leg, Hunter's going down.

I guess we'll just have to find out then.

-Yeah, I guess we will, cos you didn't make a backup plan.

-Hey.

'I'm ready to put Hunter in his place.'

I know I'm going to kill it.

I accept.

-OK. See you there.

-See you where?

He just accepted the dance battle.

I don't know how anybody could teach them,

they're just running around doing crazy things.

This is a dance emergency.

Make room, make room!

Chloe! I got your text, what's up? Well, I mean, at first

I thought there was like a kid missing, or someone got hurt.

-I need your help.

-With what?

-With the Baby Ballet class.

-Follow me!

Turns out it was just kids dancing.

They're just kids, Chloe.

How bad could that be? Thank you.

'Obviously West would join in dancing with the little ones.

'He pretty much is still a little kid.'

-How's it going?

-Nobody is listening to me!

-I think I know why.

-Why?

You need to lighten up, you need to believe in yourself!

Maybe Margie is right. Maybe I

do have to start believing in myself a little bit more

-and become more confident.

-Let me show you!

Kids, line up behind me right away.

'I'm shocked when Margie is able to get all these kids' attention.

'They'll listen to her but they' won't listen to me.

Come on, everyone, let's all be a butterfly.

Oh, what Margie says? You should do.

Do it!

To afford Nationals, I'll do whatever it takes.

I just know that Nationals is where I wanna be.

So, ready? Six, seven, eight. It's like... Ha-boom!

And pop, pop, boom. Push down.

Can we just go slower? Please?

-Sure. Let's go a little slower.

-OK. Thanks.

Ready? Six, seven, eight. And push. Jump up.

'Watching Beth trying to get the hip-hop section,'

it's kinda painful.

We've been at this forever and Beth just is not getting it.

Ugh, I'm having so much trouble with this part.

Really? OK.

-Yeah.

-I don't really wanna do hip-hop that much.

-True.

-Why don't, sorry, would it be too much trouble

if I did the dance and then maybe you could like see it.

-Yeah, that makes sense.

-All right, cool.

-You know the dance?

-Seen it enough times.

-I'll just watch. This time.

You think you got it?

-Yes, I'm fine.

-Let's do it. OK.

MUSIC: Tied To You by The Next Step

'Dancing with Riley is much more comfortable, because she'

hits all of it.

'I love dancing with James. We both kinda move the'

same way, and

'we've got this special connection whenever we dance.'

'Honestly, I wish that this duet competition was with Riley.'

That was so good.

'When I was watching James and Beth rehearse,

I felt, a little bit insecure, but'

now that I'm dancing with James, I couldn't be more sure.

As I watch Hunter stretch, I'm a little more nervous than I thought

I'd be.

-Yeah, look who decided to show up.

-Yeah.

For a second, bro, I didn't think you were going to come.

Well, I'm here.

Yo, you nervous? Looking a little sweaty.

Do I look nervous?

Let's go over the rules. Whoever loses backs off of Michelle.

-Yup.

-And we can never speak of this battle.

OK. OK.

'I'm putting Michelle on the line for this dance battle.'

I better not lose.

'Where I come from back in Madison, frankly, I'm the best dancer there

so I'm not worried about some Eldon guy.

DANCE MUSIC PLAYS

I'm not too sure about this dance battle.

Watching Hunter dance, uh I mean, he's good.

So I start doing this thing, and he does it as well.

And he held his for a while and I kind of fell.

So I know I have the upper hand.

I'm starting to have second thoughts.

Yo, what is that? Whack.

'Hunter's got moves that I can't do.

'I haven't really trained that much in break-dancing.'

What are you doing, bro?

'I'm just kinda getting a little'

less confident.

'The object of a battle is to back the person into a corner

'and make them feel defeated.'

Clap, bro.

So when I pull

out that head-slide and back him up into his backpack,

it's clear that I'm the winner.

'Just knowing that I have to back away'

from Michelle, I don't know how I'm going to do it.

It's the worst feeling I've ever felt.

I came to this studio for Michelle.

I'm just glad Eldon's not in my way any more.

-RECORDING:

-Let's go over the rules. Whoever loses backs off of Michelle.

Yup.

And we can never speak of this battle.

# We, we are gonna show the world

# Everything we're made of

# We're gonna tear the roof off this place

# You can never fade us out

# Don't even ask the DJ

# Everybody knows we own this land. #