My First Stage

You are practicing your first dance, over and over. With your tiny hands and feet, you try to grasp that annoying concept called coordination. You take your time, but you finally figure out how to do the dance. It takes you a lot of time, but with your teacher's help, you learn how to do each dance step correctly.
It's reaching the performance date, and you're SUPER excited! You practice so hard, for so long, until you get the sequence right.
PERFORMANCE DAY! It's all good until you are 2 SECONDS away from hitting the stage! You are freaking out, trying not to mess up your makeup or your beautiful costume and hair. Turns out, while you were worrying, you ate all of your lipstick, go figure.
You are about to go on stage, and all you can hear is the muffled sound of the audience, and the muffled sound of your dance mates who are constantly telling you, SMILE! Oh does that make you angry! When you tell someone to smile, over and over, it can only lead to stress, which you are feeling.
Trying to smile, you look over to the left side of the stage to see your mom, standing there, proud and tall. She gives you the greatest smile, but then she does it, she lips "S-M-I-L-E". That just threw you off, because right after she did that, the curtains opened and the music began. You can see a HUGE audience, all eyes on you and your partner, who are the youngest people in the group and the leaders of the whole group. You can't seem to turn on that "SMILE" switch, so you look over to your partner. You can see ALL of her shiny white teeth! The intro to song is done, and now it's time to start dancing. You do the steps, thinking, "good, good, I'm doing it right..." Then you look to the left, your mom mouths, "S-M-I-L-E". You take a deep breathe, and lift the corner of your lips slightly, but after TEN SECONDS of holding them up, they fall. You go through this routine of you looking at your mom, smiling for a bit, and then frowning, over and over. It's not until you do your most FAVOURITE dance step that you smile on your own. You do your favourite step, and you smile huge for the world to see, without anyone telling you to smile. Once that step is over, you go on the way did before, with your routine.
After the dance if over, the one thing you care about, the one thing that matters is that you smiled on your own, on stage! Yay!