This story is completely a work of fiction and fantasy.
I remember Christmastime, I was alone maybe five left alone with the Christmas tree and the TV on. The TV for once wasn't what was captivating, the magical ornaments that included figurines of angels and elves, and the glitter on the Christmas tree was.
But something caught my eye, it was a production of the Nutcracker. It started with scenes of snow covered streets decorated for Christmas and faded into the orchestra hall and on to the stage. I was immediately captivated by the magical Christmas scene, and the beautiful costumes and sets of the production. Even at that age, the tights of the women and men captivated me. I was so immersed that looking back at that memory I almost feel like I became one with production and that the stage ceased to be stage and I was in the fairy-fantasy land of the Nutcracker ballet.
The feeling of that memory never left me and later in life I developed a love of ballet, ballet music, costumes and the tights they wore. Something about that material the way it concealed and revealed the legs fascinated me. To me ballet represented a magical world I could escape into even as an adult.
Years, later, when I was 28, one night I was at a beautiful ballet, a production of Sleeping Beauty and suddenly that memory of being drawn into a living live version of the ballet came up again. It was only for a fleeting moment but for a few seconds I felt like I was in the production as a cast member, but the stage had become a real life fantasy land.
I left the ballet in daze, wondering about this strange feeling. Was it real? Or my mind playing tricks? A lucid dream? I became obsessed with trying to slip back into this world but nothing I could do seemed to trigger it.
But one day around Christmas, I was sitting in a room with a tree, and out of the corner of my eye, I saw a production of the nutcracker on the screen, I began to be pulled into it like a trance I don't know how long I stared but I slowly became more and more in a trance like state and my eyes slowly shut. I don't know how long they were shut- it felt like a few seconds or a few years- but when I opened them I was in a long corridor of what looked like any modern office building, but at the end of the hall, I saw two women in dark leotards and pink tights swiftly walk by and enter a room at the end of the hall.
Intrigued and curious to know where I was, I followed them to the end of the hall. The room had a door with a window on it and from there I could see it was a ballet studio and the two women had joined a ballet class.
All of the women were gorgeous ranging in age from what looked like 18 to late forties but even the ones in their late forties had beautiful ballet bodies, seemed to retain their youthful features and the only indication of age was streaks of grey and gentle signs of maturity on the face.