Michelle the Cat/History

== Childhood ==
=== Early life ===
When Paul and Dawn gave birth to Michelle, they already adopted Maranda, her older sister. When the delivery was made, Maranda held the baby before her own mother. Then her mother realized that her baby was a cryer. They wanted to keep the "M" in the name. They originally picked "Mia", but they wanted to lengthen the name to "Michelle".
The parents realized that parenting was a very hard task to handle, because all she did was cry and it was very hard to calm her down. However, they started to realize that she was happy around her sister, so the parents had to teach Maranda how to get to know them better. However nothing was working until she turned two, and she was more happy around her parents, because of what Maranda taught her.
When she was 3-4 she was still trying to figure out what she wanted to be when she grew up. She knew she didn't want to make it into the buisness world, and her parents weren't ready for her to do anything yet. Her all time idol was her sister, and she wanted to look up to her to see what she wanted to do, but she had no idea either.
=== The Journey Begins ===
Finally, around the same time, Maranda told Michelle to ask her parents what they did. That's when her parents really opened up to her. Her mother was a professional ballerina, and her father was a guitarist and music producer. While her mother wanted to introduce her to dance, her father wanted her to be interested in music. They then put their ideas together to make her a performing arts kid. 
They looked in to a program for people from ages 4–14 called "The Dreams Performing Arts Academy". However, this course ran in the same hours of school, so in order for her to go here, she had to be homeschooled, but her parents wanted to spark her career, so she homeschooled Michelle and sent her to the academy in place of the elementary school.
Now, this academy was a six and a half hour that runs from 9AM-2:30PM and for five days a week, just like school. However, they have three programs to offer;two of them repeat. The first program was an introduction to performing dance. The second one was an introduction to performing music. And the third one was an introduction to performing acting. It was also considered her audition year, since after completing the introduction courses, they have to audition to see if they are paying attention and improving.
Michelle was considered an acting prodigy, as she picked up on many techniques quickly and showed to stand out in front of the class. She also was proven to be a different kind of dancer in her dance course, and not much of a good singer. She was offered singing lessons for an hour after the program ended by her teacher, as she started to improve. All of her instructors liked her very much and didn't want her to leave the year after she started. At the end of the year, she aced auditions and was eligible to go back on the second year.
=== Making Her Own Choice ===
During her time at the Dreams Performing Arts Academy, she was very interested in her acrobatic technique, and she wanted to start something;gymnastics. Her instructors asked if she took classes, and she said no but she thought it would be a cool thing to do. As much as she begged, her parents wouldn't allow her to go to a gym, making her very upset.
That's when she decided to rebel against her parents and looked up videos online about how to do certain skills. Conveniently, she already had a couple of mats at home because she had to practice dancing. She usually did it when her parents weren't home. Just like dance, the cat was a fast learner, learning all sorts of cool new tricks and combos, such as cartwheels, rolls, and even handsprings.
Everyday, after she came home, she would practice her skills and work her way towards her backflip tuck. She got her tuck in a matter of only two weeks of training. She became an amazing little gymnast, and her instructors at the school saw improvement in her dancing because of these tricks.
However one day, she got her roundoff back handspring back layout with a half twist. Her parents spied on her watching her practice, until she attempted a full twisting backflip, and landed on her knees. She laughed and got up, about to try one more time, until her parents came out and grounded her for a month for going behind their back.
She was miserable for the first four days. Being only seven years old, she got upset very easily when she had something taken away from her. She often times ignored her parents because of what they did. Exactly a week and a half later, Paul and Dawn agreed to unground her and sign her up for gymnastics as long as she promised that she was going to be safe. Her dreams came true.
=== The Real Push ===
Now the cat was seven years old. Because of her abnormal talent in acting and dancing, she was placed to take classes with the 12-14 year olds. Her instructors thought that she was slacking off because she found the work of the normal 5-9 age group was too easy, so she placed her with the almost-graduates to give her a chance to shine and even graduate 3 years earlier.
For her dancing, she was classified as an acrobatic dancer, because while she wasn't as graceful as some of the others, she shows true power and was able to perform acrobatic stunts that were harder than they normally would be. She saw that this course was a lot harder, and in turn worked a lot harder. The group in this course were very advanced, a little over her level.
For her acting, the 12-14 year olds were still no match for her acting. She knew how to show off true emotions like crying, laughing, joy, sadness and others, while still retaining her energetic mood and behavior. She was classified as a TV actress because during the musical numbers, her breath control wasn't as good as the instructors expected it to be, and she would be better off lip-synching in TV than singing with her notes being all over the place live.
One year later, she has proven herself to be worthy to be one of the first undergraduates and graduated the class three years early. Her family was proud of her, as she was the third child to have achieved this. Her instructors told her that she would have big plans for the future if she keeps up her career in performing arts.
=== New School, New Friends ===
Graduating three years earlier than she should of, it was time for Michelle to stop being homeschooled. Her parents enrolled her to start the third grade in Hillside Elementary School. Coming from a famous acting school into a boring old elementary school was a huge transition for her, since most of the material was usually different than what she was used to.
She was very depressed because the aids during recess would not allow Michelle to do even cartwheels because of safety concerns. She did them anyway, and often got in trouble. Her gymnastics was what got her involved with her first friends at school;a blonde hedgecat named Christina, and a brown fox named Alexis. The three of them started to hang out a lot with each other.
By the time she was nine, Michelle noticed that she shared a common interest with the both of them. She realized that Christina also was a gymnast. She wanted to teach her some of her own tricks and to improve together. She also realized that Alexis was a singer coming out with her own original music. Being a performing arts kid, the two liked talking about music a lot.
=== Michelle's Mom is a Hero ===
One day, Dawn walked in on one of Michelle's practices. There was a giant metal wall blocking the visitors area from the actual gym. There was a TV that always played a game show. Right after practice, when nobody was there except for Michelle and Dawn, the remote fell turning on the channel that shows the footage of what was really going on inside the gym. She spotted her daughter's team, and she did not like what she saw at all. 
Everyday when she came home from practice over the past couple of years, she would see Michelle looking like she just got back from rock bottom after getting crushed by boulders all of the time. She even lied and said that she just isn't landing most of her skills. And now, she knew that was a lie. Her coach was just horrible, and plain disgusting.
It was a male;about in his thirties. Every time she didn't land and stick a skill off of the vault, beam, bars or floor. He would beat them up, with either his fists, a whip or a tazer. Problem was that they weren't allowed to see what happens because there was a giant wall blocking the action and the TV always played the stupid game show.
She didn't want to be alone, so she leaked the footage online to social media like muzzlebook, ayetube and other things, and more people showed up. They were disgusted. So Dawn wanted to be the leader of this rebellion strike and get the police and government involved with this;this was basically a felony. Dawn then lead the strike which caught the attention of many figures of the government to do something.
Two weeks later, several police cars, news reporters, the governor himself, and a judge in the courthouse in Tamaruin City all showed up for justice to the children. They found him, all of his weapons and placed him under arrest for domestic abuse of each and every child. Apparently, this gym, all of the instructors were the same way, some even threatening to shoot of a person's toe if they can't point them. The whole gym was closed down and all of the money went to Dawn;the brave woman who started this all. All of the members contributed the hundreds of thousands of dollars they paid for every week.
Michelle was sad about not being able to go to gymnastics every week. About five months later, she was going to save up for a brand new family game room in the house, but she decided to spend it on something that would make Michelle's tears of sorrow turn into tears of shock and joy. She secretly was working on a construction project for a brand new gymnasium for a few months and revealed it to Michelle. In fact, the gym was in the huge acre that was left in the back of their house. She was so excited to own her own gym!
=== The Coach-Friend ===
Michelle was living the thrill of having her own gym called "Fifi Gymnastics Centre". Customers from around the city gathered to take lessons here, without the punishment, but still with strict coaches. Michelle, already being a great gymnast, liked to work on her own, check on the coaches, demonstrate skills for the other classes and more! But what she loved so much about it was being able to practice by herself when normal gym hours are closed.
One day, Michelle spotted Christina do a cartwheel. Being a great gymnast, Michelle admitted that she had perfect form and great legs. Michelle had a terrific idea that could bring the two of them closer as friends. Michelle asked Christina if she could be Christina's gymnastics coach. Christina thought of this to be a great idea, but at the same time a terrifying idea. She thought about it for quite a while.
She made her final decision. She told her, 'yes'. Michelle jumped up and down for joy! From there, Christina opened up a new chapter of her life to having Michelle coach her at her own gym. Christina was a quick learner, as she got dozens of new skills in a matter of only a week!Category:Sub-pages