"No way." I say reading some papers, the papers had written the places where we were going to film the movie, and those weren't the places I want expecting.

"Are you sure that all of them are in Europe?" Kenzie asks.

"Yeah, Romania, Czech Republic, France. We're literally starting the new season and I really want to do the movie, but what if the producers want me to stay at the studio instead?" I say and put the papers on a pink folder.

"Hey, remember that your 'role'." Kenzie says and makes some air quotation marks, "On the show is this super successful young kid, it's like the perfect one."

"Sounds weird. But I hope I can go, but I really wouldn't want to leave." I say, "And it would be for two weeks."

"You would literally come back the week we go to LA." Kenzie says, "I'll go get ready for dance, you should too."

Kenzie stands up and leaves to her to, I put the folder on the table and sigh. I didn't expect to have to travel that much. Is it worth it? Maybe. I go to my room and change into my dancewear. I do my hair on a ponytail and take my dance bag. I'm not really in the mood right now, I'm literally leaving for almost two weeks, and I was starting to consider dance fun again. Well, that was until the whole Holly blowout after awards. We get to the studio and enter Studio A for pyramid.

"So the moms said they had some unresolved issues about the competition. All of that chaos shows you that I'm the one that's under the microphone all the time. Everything I say, everything I do. Somebody is gonna pick it apart." Abby tells us, "And when you question, that's like questioning my vocation in life. I do my job, and in the end, I know what I'm doing. It comes down to that. Congratulations, the group was number one. It was sassy, it was fun. I loved the group number. This is a really big week. We are headed to New Jersey and we are attending In10sity Dance Competition."

You are headed, you are attending.

"Unfortunately, Maddie and Melanie are not going to be with us this weekend at competition. Maddie's flying to Los Angeles. She's gonna be working with Sia again. She's doing a huge benefit concert. Melanie's flying to Europe to start filming her movie, and she's going to be out for two weeks. She'll come back in two weeks and meet us in LA, we're all gonna in LA in two weeks. They're opening doors for the Abby Lee Dance Company. Because this kid's getting a job, and that kid's getting a job, and that's kid's gonna get a job and that's how it's gonna work."

Abby then reveals all of our headshots taken, my favorite is probably the one with the green jacket, I actually look a little bit like Kenzie there. 

Melanie

Maddie   Mackenzie

Nia ​     Kalani    Kendall

Fourth week on a row at the top, I know this is my last week at the top for a while. 

"The group routine is about religion and it shows diversity in religion. So, solos. Mackenzie, you will be doing, of course, a jazz acrobatic routine. And if you don't do it the way I want it, this may be your last solo of the season. The next solo goes to a guest."

A guest? Guess she wants to replace me already. With no other than JoJo.

"So JoJo is gonna be a guest with the Abby Lee Dance Company. She will be filling for two of the Zieglers. Now, JoJo, those are big shoes to fill."

"I can do it." JoJo answers.

"They're both most known for lyrical, so you will be performing a lyrical solo."

"Yeah, thank you Abby." Jessalyn says.

If they're going to be answering every single little thing, I wanna go. Kidding, I like that they're active, if it is good.

"Did you have a question?"

"Do you think I could replace Chloe?" JoJo asks.

Chloe is Chloe, there's only one of her. JoJo can literally be JoJo, why does she have to be someone else?

"If you really wanna dance and work hard at your craft, you could replace anybody. Well, anybody but my favorite. Well, Moms go upstairs, let's get started."

~~~

I close my suitcase and take it downstairs.

"If you come back and I'm Mackenzie Vertes, don't ask why." Kenzie says as soon as I get outside.

"Mackenzie Vertes." Maddie says and laughs.

"I'll be a Vertes now, if I'm staying with them for two weeks, you'll also be staying with them when you come back next week." Kenzie tells Maddie.

"I know, it's gonna be so fun." Maddie says.

"Sounds cool, meanwhile I'll be traveling on Europe." I say putting my suitcase on the trunk.

"Melanie do you have your phone? And your jacket?" Mom asks giving Maddie her phone.

"Not my jacket." I say and run back inside.

I take the jacket from my closet and put it on. I go back outside and get in the car.

We soon arrive to the Vertes' house.

"Well, see ya." Kenzie says and gets off the car.

Mom also gets off and they enter the house.

"I'm really nervous, I've never traveled by plane alone." Maddie says.

"That sounds so cool." I say.

"Not cool, scary!" Maddie tells me, "So many things could happen."

"Just trust." I tell her.

"Guess you're right." Maddie says and takes out her phone, "Selfie?"

We take some selfies and Mom arrives, then we go straight to the airport, we get our stuff, go through security, and we just had to wait.

"Maddie call me as soon as you get there, be really careful and avoid any strange people." Mom says, she sure worries a lot.

"Yeah okay. I think they called my flight now." Maddie says.

"Oh, okay. Love ya." Mom says and Maddie starts walking away.

"Love you both." Maddie says and disappears on the distance.

"Ready for 8 boring hours of flying?" Mom asks and I stand up.

"Sounds iteresting." I say and we both go board the plane.

The flight was a little bit painful, no really, my back started hurting. I watched a couple movies and fell asleep. 

"We're now to our destination, France. Local time is 10:30 am."

"Wait, but wasn't it--" I say.

"Time difference." Mom answers.

•One Week Later•

"5 minute break."

Eloise, the actress who plays Grace's cousin, Sylvie, and I have gotten close ever since we started. I'll just help you catch up, we have worked withe everything outside of France, the France are the only ones left of the movie, and we also have a week left to wrap up. Yeah people here think that it's great to film a whole movie in two weeks, oh well.

Eloise and I then start our way to the top of the Eiffel Tower, but as we continue a boy runs into me.

"Je suis vraiment désolé." He says and I look at him confused.

"Any idea of what he just said?" I whisper.

"Kinda, I think he said sorry." Eloise whispers back.

"Uh..." I say, waiting for him to get a clue.

"Attends, tu n'es pas cette fille de l'émission Dance Moms?" He asks and I nod, only because he mentioned Dance Moms, "Sorry, guess you don't speak French."

"And I didn't know you spoke English." I say, "Melanie Ziegler."

"I know, Antonio Bernard." Antonio says.

"Eloise Webb." Eloise says.

"So we were just trying to get on the top before having to head back, but I think we'll have to go already." I say and turn around.

"Everything's really crowded today, it's weird, because it's normally full, but not full full." Antonio says.

"We're actually filming a movie, that's why." Eloise tells him.

"We gotta go now, bye." I say.

We leave and prepare to film the next scene. They brush my hair and make sure my makeup it's good and it's ready to go.

"Action!"

I'll leave this clear, I play Grace, Eloise plays Grace's cousin Sylvie. Fabrice plays Grace's uncle Bernard, Lili plays Grace's aunt Sophie and Virginia plays Grace's mom.

I look over to Eloise.

"My Mom said that Gustave Eiffel designed this tower for the World's Fair in 1889. Just think. All these years later, we get to stand here and enjoy the view." I say and Eloise looks at me.

"Yes it is pretty." She says and then looks back down, "But I have it seen it already. Many times before."

"Well, maybe so, but if I was lucky enough to see this whenever I wanted, I would never get tired of it." I say and we both remain silent.

Wouldn't that be really cool? See the Eiffel Tower every day and be able to get on it whenever you wanted? I would love that. I look back and notice Antonio, he's now one of the extras, cool.

"Bernard, I'm having the baby." Lili says.

"Yes my chri. I know. We're having a baby." Fabrice says and I try not to laugh.

"No, I mean I'm having the baby right now." Lili tells Fabrice.

"Okay I see" Fabrice says and 'realizes', "You're having the baby-- You are having the baby right now?"

"I'm having the baby right now.

"We are having the baby." Fabrice says.

"Girls, let's get Aunt Sophie downstairs." Virginia says and we start walking.

"Everyone out of the way." Fabrice says and we stop, "I'm having a baby. No I'm not having a baby. The baby  and my wife are having the husband. I mean-- I'm the baby and my wife is having a husband. No-- I'm the husband and my wife is having a baby!"

I keep trying not to laugh and he suddenly stops talking.

"Why am I telling you this? You are not the baby. Out of my way." He says,  "I have everything under control. Let's go."

We start our way down.

"Cut!"

"Now I don't know who's having the baby." Eloise says as we continue walking.

"Me neither." I say.

The next scene was going to be on a car, so we get on the black car and yeah, we had to put our seatbelts on.

"Okay, action!" Vince, the director yells and they start filming.

"Oooooooh."

"Ooooooh"

 "Just keep breathing." Virginia says from the shotgun seat.

"I'm breathing." Fabrice says and we all look at him.

"Not you, Sophie." Virginia tells him. 

"You're right. Sophie." Fabrice says and looks at Lili, "Are you comfortable, my chri?"

"I'm fine." Lili answers, "I just need to get to the hospital. Now!"

They starts arguing in French as Eloise and I look at both of them confused.

"Which way?" The driver asks.

"My way!"

"No, my way!"

 "The road is wider."

"There is construction."

"No, they finished that last week."

"Alright."

They continue talking and I start feeling a little bit dizzy. Then I see the hospital as we pass by it.

"Wasn't that the hospital?" I ask and the car stops, then we get in.

"Cut! That's all for today, we have tomorrow free and we'll finish between Wednesday and Thursday." Vince tells us as we get off the car.

"See you Wednesday." Eloise says as she walks away.

"Bye." I say and go to where my Mom was.

We go back to the hotel room.

"So we would be back Friday?" I ask as I sit on the bed, "Or are we waiting and going straight to LA?"

"I want to surprise them, so we're leaving Friday and we would get there Saturday." Mom tells me.

"And do you have any plans for tomorrow? I mean I have a free day, and we have not been able to do anything because of filming." I say.

"I kind of have the whole day planned out." Mom says and I look at her shocked, "What? I literally have to be sitting the whole day waiting for you while you work."

"That's so cool, again, I wish Kenzie and Maddie were here." I say, "Maddie's back at Pittsburgh now?"

"Yeah, she arrived Sunday night, that would be Monday midnight here." Mom says, "We're going to the hotel's restaurant to eat, so get changed."

I go take a shower and get changed into a dress. Thanks to a YouTube tutorial, Mom does my hair. She gets ready and then we go to the restaurant. We get a table for two and we get the menus.

"Quelle sera votre commande pour aujourd'hui?" The waitress, Dianna asks.

Mom and I look at each other, I then read the menu.

"Un ordre de Bœuf bourguignon s'il vous plaît." I say.

"Pareil pour moi s'il te plait." Mom says 

"D'accord, je reviens tout de suite." Dianna says taking the orders and walking away.

We watch her as she goes into the kitchen.

"Our french is kinda good." I say and we laugh.

"I didn't know you knew some french." Mom says.

"I took some online classes with Kenzie a while ago, when we came here for all of the ALDC stuff." I tell her.

We start talking about random stuff and 25 minutes pass by. 

"Then how do you say fork in French?" Mom asks.

"Fourchette. Spoon in French is cuillère and knife in French is couteau." I say, "Fourchette sounds funny."

"Hey, do you remember that time that we went to a restaurant and you thought that the fork was for brushing your hair, like Ariel?" Mom says and I look at her.

"Shhh!" I say and she laughs, "That's embarrassing!"

•~Flashback~•

It was May 12, 2010. I was 3 years old back then and we had decided, well, they had decided to go out to eat. The girls that were there were Nia, Paige, Brooke, Maddie, Kenzie and I. 

"What are you doing?" Kenzie asks as I play with the fork on my hair, "Your hair is gonna be dirty."

I ignore her and continue playing.

"Mommy!"

"What's wrong Kenz?" Mommy asks Kenzie, and she points at me, "Melanie, what are you doing?"

She takes the fork out of my hand and I look at her.

"That's for eating, not for playing." Mommy tells me and I start crying.

"What's wrong with Mel?" Paige asks.

"She was playing with the fork and Mommy took it away." Kenzie tells Paige.

"Oh Melanie." Paige laughs, "You can play with my tablet if you want."

"First she needs to finish her food." Mommy says and I cross my arms, "You don't want to eat anymore?"

I shake my head 'no'. 

"I wanna be mermaid!" I say.

"Mermaid?" Brooke asks, "Oh, right."

•~Present~•

"So, after all, did I play with Paige's tablet?" I ask as we laugh.

"Like for five minutes." Mom tells me.

"Do you have another story?" I ask again.

"Well, there's another Melanie meltdown story." Mom says.

"Wow, I was a crybaby." I say, "Tell me!"

"It was at a dance competition, it was because Maddie wasn't with you and she was on stage instead." Mom says.

•~Flashback~•

It was October 23, 2010. I was 4 years old there. I was sitting on Mommy's lap and Kenzie was sitting beside us.

"Mommy." I say, "Where Maddie?"

"She's going to dance now, Mel." Mommy tells me.

"She's going to look so good!" Kenzie exclaims.

"I want Maddie to be here." I say.

"She can't be here right now." Mommy tells me.

"Please welcome now Miss Maddie performing, 'Somewhere Over The Rainbow'." The announcer says and Maddie goes onstage.

"MADDIE!" I yell.

"Shhh!" Kenzie says.

"Melanie!" Mommy says, "Be quiet."

"I wanna be with Maddie." I say and start crying.

"You can't right now baby, come here." Mommy says and hugs me.

•~Present~•

"Why me of the past, why?!" I ask and cover my face.

"I have no idea." Mom says and Dianna comes.

"Voici vos commandes, soeey pour avoir pris autant de temps. Prendre plaisir."  Dianna says as she puts the plates on the table.

"Merci." We say and she leaves.

•Next Day•

I wake up and go brush my teeth, then I eat breakfast and change my clothes.

"So where are we going first?" I ask as Mom does my hair.

"It's a surprise." Mom tells me.

"Not fair!" I say and she laughs.

We take our phones, she takes her bag, and we leave. She calls a taxi and we go to the first place. None other than the Arc De Triomphe.

"Whoa." I say, "This is so cool!"

We take some pictures and selfies and we go to the next place. We get on the bus and go to the second floor. The tour starts.

"Is that the Louvre?" I ask as we pass by the museum.

"Yup." Mom answers.

We pass by a couple other places. We get off and get inside, to the top. 

"This view is amazing." Mom says.

"Mhm." I say.

We soon realize that it was almost 8 at night.

"We need to go back, you need to get up early tomorrow." Mom says and we start walking.

"The almost last day." I say.

•Day After•

"Action!"

Eloise and I pretended to be asleep on some couches when Virginia enters the room.

"Girls. Wake up, wake up. Guess what?" Virginia asks as we 'wake up', "The baby's here."

We get up and go to the room where Lili is on a hospital bed with Fabrice and the baby, and it IS a real baby, not a doll.

"Hi girls. There she is. Meet Lily." Lili tells us.

Lili and Lily, wow.

"Lily. Pretty name." I say and get a little closer, "She's so small and makes all the noises. She sounds like a new born puppy."

Then we laugh and look at Eloise who was standing by the door.

"Sylvie." Lili says, "Do you want to hold her?"

"No, I'm too nervous." Eloise says in French.

"You don't have to be nervous." Lili tells her.

 "I'll hold her." I say and Lili hands the baby to Virginia, who gives it to me, she remembers me of my cousin Natalya, though she's 3 now.

"Hi. Hello. You ready? Now make sure you support her head." Virginia says as I take her, "Here we go. You got her."

"Wow-ow-ow." I say smiling looking at the baby, "I've never held a baby this small before . . . A perfect little angel."

"Great! That's all for today!"Vince says.

"Here, I don't want to make her fall." I say as Virginia takes the baby.

"But you were holding her so good." Virginia says, "Do you have any younger siblings?"

"No, I'm actually the youngest, but I do have a younger cousin." I tell her.

"That explains it." Virginia says looking at the baby, "Well, see you tomorrow."

"See ya" I say. 

The day after was the last day of filming, and we were filming one of the last scenes, we had filmed the rest at this point. MasterChef Junior Competition.

"Next scene is with Joe and Melanie." Someone from the crew says.

We get on our places.

"Action!" Vince yells.

"Hello, Grace." Joe says and I look at him.

"Hello." I say.

"Tell me something. If you win all that money, what're you going to do with it?" Joe asks and I try to remember everything.

"I'm going to buy a . . . Panini?" I ask and everyone laughs.

"Cut! I know you're excited because you'll soon be able to go home, but we need to finish. Remember everything and let's continue." Vince says.

"Okay!" I exclaim.

"Action!"

"Hello, Grace." Joe says.

"Hello." I say.

"Tell me something. If you win all that money, what're you going to do with it?" Joe asks.

"I'm going to buy a panzerotti 12 cubic foot, 3 level industrial baking oven, with sound separation, humidity controlled and passive crisper." I tell him and he looks surprised.

"Whoa! That is very very specific, young lady." Joe says.

"Well. My grandparents, they have this amazing bakery. The first 3 ptisserie in Bentwick, Massachusetts. Bu we have a problem. We need a new oven. And. I want to make sure that I can bake with my Grandma and Grandpa forever." I say and start to tear up, luckily no one could see it on camera.

I just would love to ever be able to bake with my Grandma, I never even met her, I wish I did.

"Oh." Joe says and I realize, he noticed my watery eyes, "Keep cooking, good luck."

"Thank you, chef." I say. 

He leaves and we continue cookout, yeah we actually had to cook, we didn't have to pretend to.

"Alright, everybody. Finishing touches. Here we go. 10, 9..."

"Come on, Grace."

"3, 2, 1. Okay, hands in the air."

We all raise our hands.

We then move to our next position.

"5 finalists already in place. Competition for that 6th and final spot is really intense. So, Grace. Show us what you got to offer us."

I walk up to the middle and put the tarte Tatin on the table. He takes a piece of it, looks at it and then eats it, why do I actually feel nervous, this is just acting, I'm not even on the real competition, if I was I would burn the kitchen down

"I'm sorry, young lady. But that, tarte Tatin just qualified you for the last spot the final challenge. Congratulations, Grace."

Everyone starts clapping.

"Thank you chef." I say smiling.

A couple hours pass by, and we were finally at the end. 

"The winner of $100,000. The winner of the title of America's Best Junior Pastry Chef. The recipient of the most coveted MasterChef trophy is Grace!"

Everyone starts cheering and I run to hug Joe. I take the trophy and we all start celebrating

 "That's a wrap!"

"C'mon!" Eloise says taking my hand.

We go to another room, where there were some party decorations and a lot of people. It was a party, and we ate and played for a long while. I had already lost track of time.

"It was a pleasure working with you, I hope we can work together again someday." Virginia says.

"Yeah, same." I say, "Well, goodbye."

Mom and I go back to the hotel room and go to sleep, it was already 3 am.

~~~

I wake up at 9 am and I go brush my teeth and then sit on the bed to eat breakfast. Mom starts packing everything as I eat and then I change into this. I help her finish packing and we finally leave at 12:30 pm. We take a taxi and go to the mall. We go to Bonpoint.

"Can I get that jacket?" I ask showing Mom the jacket.

"Of course." She says, "Also can you help me get something for Mads and Kenz?"

"Yup!" I exclaim and take out a shirt, "What about this for Maddie?"

"Great." Mom says and continues checking other clothes.

I continue checking the rack and then take out another shirt.

"And this one for Kenz?" I ask.

"It's cute." Mom says.

"More like cool." I say.

We spend a couple hours shopping and buy some boxes to put the gifts in. We decided to take the gifts to a gift shop and get them wrapped up. For the rest of the group we got some candies. We still wanted to give them something. 

At 5:30 we go to the airport and bought tickets, the flight was at 10:30 pm so we went to eat and then go back at 8:30 pm and wait.

"They take forever!" I say as soon as my tablet turns off because it didn't have any more battery.

"In five minutes." Mom says.

"Wait, so we have been 2 hours sitting here?" I ask and she nods, "Whoa."

"Le vol à destination de Pittsburgh, en Pennsylvanie, embarque maintenant"

"That's our flight." Mom says standing up.

"Finally, and how long is the flight?" I ask as we take our stuff and start walking.

"8 hours long." Mom answers and I sigh.

We board the plane and go and during all the flight I didn't sleep a wink. 

"Arrivant maintenant à Pittsburgh, l'heure locale est 22h30, il y a un décalage de 8 heures"

"Local time is 10:30 pm? It's like we didn't spend a minute on the plane." I say.

"On France it would be 6:30 am now." Mom tells me.

"I love that time difference." I tell her.

We get off and we buy some Doritos, we eat and then board another plane to Virginia, where the competition was going to be. The flight was 1 but and 10 minutes long, so we arrived at 12 am.

We get off the plane and we literally have no idea what to do next. I mean it was a surprise, so we couldn't tell anyone that we were at Virginia, now that according to us before we were in Paris, at the other side of the world. We just wander around and Mom starts looking for something on Google. I check my phone, 

12:50 am

I would love to be sleeping right now

"I found something." Mom says and I look at her, "There's some apartments available, we can literally just check in and get a room 24 hours a day. I'll call a taxi."

"I miss having a car of our own, even though ours is back home." I say.

The taxi soon arrives and it is a 40 minute ride, so we arrive at 1:40 am. We check in and enter the kinda small room, but it was still comfortable, and I literally fall into the bed asleep.

I wake up and look over to the couch, where my Mom was sitting using her phone.

"Morning." She says, "It is 9 now, go get ready."

I go brush my teeth and then change my clothes.

I style my hair into a high ponytail. We take all of our stuff again and then leave. Mom buys breakfast, that were actually two chicken sandwiches and we walk to a car dealer that was just 10 minutes away. Mom rents a car for a couple hours and it was . . . small.

"I know it's small, but we're only two, so that's okay, also I need to bring it back before 8 pm." Mom says as she opens the trunk, "And at least it has a trunk."

She puts the three suitcases on the trunk and closes it. I get in the passenger's seat and put my seatbelt on.

"At least I get to be on front!" I exclaim as Mom gets in the car and closes the door.

"Because it's the only seat available besides this one, just wait until you're 12." Mom tells me and turns on the car.

"That's 4 years away, until 2018." I say and turn on the air conditioner, "That sounds pretty far."

"Believe me, it will be here before you know it." Mom says and takes out her phone.

"Your destination is an hour away, you'll arrive to your destination at 11:40 am."

"Isn't there another way?" I ask.

"You're taking the fastest way."

Mom laughs and starts driving. I start playing on my phone and soon I feel the car stop, so I look up.

"We're there already? Wow, this car is really fast." I say.

"Melanie." Mom says and points at the car on front.

"There's a lot of traffic in the area, you'll arrive to your destination at 11:48 am."

"Geez, thank you so much GPS." I say and Mom laughs.

"You don't really like the GPS, do you?" Mom asks.

"The voice is kinda annoying sometimes." I tell her.

"The sandwiches are probably cold by now." Mom says and I take out the sandwiches.

I take a bite out of mine, and yeah, it was cold.

"Yeah, they are." I say and take another bite.

While we were stuck in traffic we ate our sandwiches and soon we continued our way. We arrive to the place the competition was being held at and Mom parks the car.

"Okay, let's get the gifts out." Mom says as we take our seatbelts off.

We get out and open the trunk, we take out all of the gifts and I wait for Mom to lock the car.

"I just want to make sure it's really locked, I don't want anyone stealing the car or anything in it, it's not even our car." Mom says and I laugh.

Mom had Maddie's and Kenzie's gifts, that were the bigger ones and I was holding the rest, that were smaller because they were only candies. We enter the competition place and I quickly recognize two people from the camera crew that were there, they see us and walk over to us.

"I thought you weren't coming back until next week." Craig, one of the people of the camera crew says.

"We decided to come and surprise everyone." Mom tells them.

"Okay, come with us." The other one, Yadiel says and they walk away.

We follow them and stop on fron of the dressing room.

"Wait here." Craig says and they both leave to talk with the rest of the camera crew. 

They all seem to agree and they come back to us.

"We're going to wait until the girls are ready for the group dance and then you both go in." Yadiel says, "We all thought that t would be a good idea to add it for the show."

"Great." Mom says.

We wait for like 5 minutes.

"Go in." Another person from the camera crew tells us and I open the door and we both go in.

We instantly hear screams and the girls run to hug me.

"I missed you Melie!" Kenzie exclaims hugging me.

"How did it go?" Abby asks.

"She wrapped up." Mom says and everyone claps.

"So . . . The costumes are pretty and it looks fun." I say as everyone calms down.

"It would be so cool if you could dance with us." Maddie says.

"I can't, I haven't been here the whole week and I don't know the dance, and even if I knew it, I wouldn't take the opportunity away from someone else." I tell her as she opens the gift.

Everyone else continues talking in the background as Maddie takes the shirt out.

"This is so pretty, thanks!" Maddie exclaims.

"I like it so much!" I hear Kenzie say and I look over to her, she was also looking at the shirt we bought her.

"We have to go. Let's go. Let's do it." Abby says and my sisters put the shirts away.

The rest of the girls go backstage and I go with the moms and Abby to the audience.

"Next up is act number 72, 'Frozen Together'." The announcer says and the girls go onstage.

"WHOOOO!" I exclaim.

And see your eyes, landscape ice. Your Northern Lights, staying frozen...

When the group ends we cheer as they leave the stage and wait for a while for awards, I have no idea who did a solo today, so I'll be finding out now, and if they don't place I'll be hearing a lot about it at pyramid at Monday.

"We will be going by division, so first, we have the junior solo category." The Announcer says, "Our third overall, is act number 58, 'Fashion Victim'."

JoJo goes receive her award. Wait, didn't she have a solo last week? Oh yeah, Kenzie had mentioned something that Sarah H came in and took over her solo, wish I had seen it.

"Moving forward into the teen solo category division. Third overall, act number 57, 'Clueless'." The Announcer says as Kendall goes receive her award, "Second overall, number 32, 'The Raven'. And our first overall, act number 56, 'She's History'."

We cheer as Maddie goes receive her award and then wait for the teen groups.

"Now the teen small-group category. Our third overall, act number 70, Impossible. Second overall, goes to act number 72, 'Frozen Together'."

Kenzie goes receive the award and I can feel the disappointment between the moms, I feel bad for the girls, I mean second place is a big thing, but at the ALDC it's just the first one to lose. I stand up and go backstage to receive the girls.

"You guys did great today." I say and hug NIa.

"But we were second." Kendall says.

"Who cares? We had fun, that's all that matters." Kalani says.

We all walk back to the dressing room and talk on the way.

"All of that sounds so fun." Nia says.

"It really was, but it's so good to be back home, well, back in America at least." I tell them.

"Did you take advantage of the French classes we took?" Kenzie asks.

"Yeah, also Mom is so good with French." I say.

"I kind of expected it." Maddie says.

We enter the dressing room and I sit down beside Mom.

"Ladies, you're walking out of here with a second-place award. In an audition, there's no second place. There's 'You get the job' or 'You don't'." Abby says.

"So where does this leave JoJo, with you?" Jess asks and I start packing all of our stuff.

"I don't need another third-place dancer. I don't need that on this team. She is not going to LA as part of this dance competition team." Abby answers, "Am I going to represent her in LA? Yes, but you need to get her there. When you get there, give me a call."

Abby and Jess start arguing and Kira gets in the argument too. Abby leaves and we pack everything and leave too. We go out to the parking lot.

"Guess this is the end of my Vertes journey." Kenzie says hugging Kendall.

"When I came back, she literally pretended that she didn't know me, and when I said that I was her sister, she said that her sisters were Kendall, Ryleigh, and Charlotte." Maddie tells me and I laugh.

We get in the car and go back to the dealer, then Mom calls a taxi and we go to the airport. The flight was at 9:00 pm, so we had to wait for two hours. Maddie and Kenzie go to the bathroom to wash their face makeup off and then we go eat something. Soon it is time to board. It was a 5 hour flight, so we arrive to LA at 12:00 am at Sunday there. Mom calls another taxi and we go to the hotel, we arrive there at 12:45 am. We had two rooms, one for her and Mads and another one for Kenz and I.

"Goodnight." Mom says as we enter our room.

I jump to one of the beds.

"I've literally been on 3 planes on less than 48 hours." I say, "And they were all on different time zones."

"Sounds hard." Kenzie says, "But last week was a super drama week at the studio. Nia's grandfather is really sick."

"Oh, that's sad." I say.

I go take a shower and change into my pajamas, then I get into my bed and turn on the air conditioner, I scroll though Instagram and watch some Bratayley vlogs and I finally fall asleep.