We can't dance (best dressed winners)

A mystrevious feline pulled the snover feline towards the dance floor, his long cape flowing behind him like he was royalty. She wore a short black dress with sleeves that flowed into dark blue. A silver pattern wrapped around the hem of her dress, around her neck, and her sleeves as if she was wearing jewelery. It flowed with her body as if the dress was the surface of water and she was the current that moved it. "Come on Treff~" The feline purred as she tugged onto her paws, her form floating in the air. "It's just one little dance!"

"I... I'm telling you Nikko I..." He was pulled onto his back legs and he felt his heart skip a beat as he nearly tumbled forward. Under his elaborate cape his legs were trembling uncontrollably in an attempt to balance on the grafted wooden stilts. "I _can't_." It was too late, he felt himself rocking back and tried to stabilize by taking a brisk step or two, falling helplessly away from Nikko's paws.

Nikko's paws reached out on their own as they pulled onto the larger feline's fur in an attempt to pull him back. Her right paw went behind his head to pull him upwards, and her left paw tried to wrap around his side, but he fell too fast for her to get a proper grip so she ended up clamping onto the fur around his chest. She tried to yank him back into a standing position, but was instead pulled down with him, not being able to wrap her soul around him fast enough so he would instead end up floating. She landed harshly on top of him, her paws around him with a 'Oof!'

At first he froze in a haze of panic, adrenaline, and genuine concern if she'd hurt herself trying to catch him like that. "auh- I- n-" The tom stuttered as he helped her up and backed off a little, still stunned as the thought of her suddenly laying on him started to sink in, "i-I'm so sorry, I didn't mean t-" He bowed his head slightly, his heart pounding from the embarrassment and an un-tamable burning in his chest. "I-I would love to dance with you m'dear but I... I can't." His face had flushed beet red beneath his white fur.

Nikko rubbed her head slightly, but a smile was still on her face. Seemingly not deterred from the failure to dance. "Nonsense!" Nikko shook her head slightly. "I'll help you dance!" She then- without the slightest of warning, rose to her own hind paws, her legs shaking as she took a step back, trying to keep her balance. She pushed her tail against the ground like a kickstand and pulled at Treff's cape lightly. "Come on, I'll keep you up and you just have to follow my pawsteps!"

Treff didn't look up at first when she pulled at the hem of his cape, but when he met her eyes he knew she wouldn't let him fall again. There was a short pause as he calmed the whirling flurries in his chest and tried again to place his paws firmly onto her shoulders. The weight that he had to share with her was considerable and they were standing at a closer distance than before. His heart raced, entangled with concurrent worry and desire. "okay... but... if I get too heavy, tell me to get down."

Nikko felt his paws on her shoulders as she felt her tail strain under the weight. She focused on keeping him upright at the moment, using it as a direction from her complaining tail. "Alright, lets try to take a step to the left." Nikko paused, "Okay?"

He stared at her paws in anticipation, assuming she meant her left. "Okay." He followed her as she led the movement and miraculously neither of them threatened to lose their footing. "that... that wasn't so bad."

"See?" She grinned, adjusting her paws so they rested around his larger torso, pulling him forward and keeping him from falling. They were practically chest to chest- only a centimeter separating them. "Dancing is just a bunch of steps!" She grinned, lifting her left paw and setting in down. "You just gotta work on keeping yourself upright." She grinned. "Try sticking out your chest. Be proud! You're doing amazing~"

He looked up from their paws and gazed into her eyes as she encouraged him, a smile coming to his face that he couldn't suppress. "Nikko." He pressed his cheek against hers and whispered sweetly into her ear, "You just made a lame tom dance, if anyone's doing something amazing here it's you." He chuckled lightly as he pulled back his head to meet her gaze again when the next song began, "This one's slow... I think we could handle it."

Nikko grinned, a faint blush covering her features like it was airbrushed onto her fur. She let out a small giggle as it escaped her throat, "Just follow me~" She purred sweetly as she took one step, then another. Waiting just long enough so that Treff wouldn't get lost. She slowly started to turn, her tail picking up like and setting down as if it was another leg. She hummed ever so slightly as she switched from paw to paw, trying to stay in tempo with the beat. Words played out from the music as if played from a lyre. Carefully strummed and plucked to match each movement. Their pawsteps weren't perfect, but it felt as if this brief moment in their long existences...was. 


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