Authors note: Ok, I'll admit it out loud and clear. I'm a cheerleader, ex-cheerleader to be exact. Just thought my cheer-life experience might make for an interesting story, with a couple of twists of course, portrayed from Sora's point of view (POV). Comments and constructive criticisms are welcomed with open arms but pul-lease…No. Flaming. Thank you and I do hope it's to somebody's liking.
Italics are for thoughts.
Chapter 1 – Carrot-top Cheerleader
"You did what?!"
Honestly, here I was trying to keep a low profile as always when my so-called 'best-friend' blows his mind for the whole wide world to see. Well, technically, only the world which is the school cafeteria.
"Sit. Down.You. Dummy!" I hissed, quietly as possible, looking up at his standing figure from across the cafeteria table towering a good deal taller than that of my sitting one. My words must have gotten to him. The next thing I knew, mop-haired boy glances around the huge room of space-or shall I say the mob of curious slash pity slash irritated slash 'what an idiot' faces-out of the corner of his eye. Portraying an emotion recognizable only as 'embarrassment', I, along with everyone else in the room, watches as a crimson blush creeps its way onto mop-haired boy's cheeks, of course, since his gaze was cast to the floor by this time, that blush was only visible to me.
"As you were!" I couldn't just let him suffer now could I? What kind of 'best-friend' would I be then?
Strangely enough, at my command the swarm of both middle high and high school students carried on with their previous endeavors, ignoring Tai's little-ok, maybe not so little-outburst. Tugging on his long school uniform sleeve, I forced mop-haired boy back down onto his seat in an instant.
"Are we sane now?" I asked, emphasizing the word 'sane'.
There wasn't much I could read off his expression, was he thankful that I had come to his rescue? Was he speechless from that one moment of pure embarrassment? Or, was he still reeling from the news I had just delivered to him right before his 'you did what?!' exclamation.
Answer?
A minute later I was clutching a pair of peach-red chopsticks in my right hand, having given up on Tai and fully ready to just dig into my mom's homemade bento when he opted to finally look up from the untouched tray of food before his seat and into my deep red-amber orbs, a highly teasing grin plastering itself on his face. Obviously, 'somebody' wasn't all that shy anymore.
"So" he began rather shortly, his tone of voice equally as teasing as his grin. My eyes narrowed, an obvious attempt to ready myself should he shoot me a comment I didn't quite want to hear.
Ring!!!!!!!!!!!!! Saved by the bell!
Whatever witty quirks he had planned in that mischievous mind of his however, was laid to rest-at least for the time being. Not looking even a bit disappointed, Tai went on with his sly reply.
"Catch'cha at the game, cheerleader" he says, adding a playful wink to the mix before heading off with his food tray.
And that was that. I had auditioned for the school's Cheerleading squad and passed with flying colors. Flying huh? Will probably be doing lots of that soon. Seventeen year old school star soccer player Taichi Kamiya a.k.a. Tai dumped his untouched food into the huge wastepaper basket at the far left corner of the room and his tray into the tray bin beside it while seventeen year old now newbie carrot-top cheerleader Sora Takenouchi just watches. She grins her reply…
"Yeah, catch'cha later superstar"
…and walks off to class.
To Be Continued…