GABRIELLA
The floor is cold against my palms and I stay there for a moment, just breathing, letting the shock of the fall settle before I try to take stock of the damage. My right leg is throbbing. My toes feel like they are about to fall off. The music is still playing in the studio, the same song I’ve been playing over and over for the past hour while torturing myself with the spin I’m trying to perfect. I reach up to kill the music on my phone but my arm is shaking too much to do it smoothly.
But I barely register all of this, not when the studio doors slam open and Leon marches across the room in a few strides. He crouches down before me and silences the music from my phone on the floor across from me. I look up at him and the words come out before I can even think about it.
“Get o
