Dancing Diva and Dance

So as most if you know Diva dances, she has been dancing since she was 7, she begged and begged to take ballet, So I found a dance school and I enrolled her, thinking this would be a passing phase and she would want to quit. No not diva she learned quick and loved it and thrived. So the following year she tried out for their dance team and we began a new journey for her and dance. I had never seen a child take to something and be dedicated as she was her heart belonged to dance.

second year on the team she sprained her ankle right before her first competition but she danced she would not let the team down. she was dedicated and it showed. Now it has not been all wine and roses at the studio but as long as she thrived and loved dance I was happy.

Then as she got older it got harder, then she went into Middle school and found Track, When I say she hurdles like a gazelle it is an understatement as a 6th grader she was the only one to go to sectionals and she was ranked 5 in the district. Do she found another love. Well it got sticker as dance and school clashed with dates but we worked it out. Now 7th grade was a challenge and she had a hard time as again she was set to go t sectionals and this year she was ranked 3rd. But it was hard one her.

This year she decided to cut back on dance and take the time to devote her self school and sports with the school. Now I will never know if she made the right choice but I know she feels like an outcast at the one place she loved. Tonight on the way home she told me that the girls she has danced with for the past 6 years now treat her like she isn't there, they don't talk to her at all, or include her in anything they do away from dance. That light shone so bright now is so dim, it's heart breaking. Then tonight she tells me that she was asked to do wall stretches as they went over team dances that they would do on the night she doesn't go. So for almost an hour she was left to do her thing because she isn't dancing on the teams this year.

I finally asked her tonight if she wanted to quit. I can not see her feeling like she doesn't belong there any more.