Chapter 1
Today is a Thursday. Why can't it be Friday? This week is going by so slow. My friends and I are ready for it to be Friday because we are cheerleaders. We have been cheerleaders for our school since sixth grade when we could join the cheerleading squad. We have been practicing cheerleading since we were little, but now we can have a squad with just us on it, which is really cool. Of course we have football player boyfriends. A year ago we all started dating our boyfriends around the same time. The football boys, and us cheerleaders are the most popular kids at school. Even though we are popular, we are still nice to everyone who is nice to us. Only a few people at school don't like us, but that's their loss for not getting to know us.
There are seven of us on the squad. There is me, of course, and my name is Hannah Taylor. I am a sophomore, head cheerleader, and my parents work at the school. My dad is the head football coach so football is pretty important in my house. Football is important to most everyone in Dillon, Texas, where we live. Dillon is a tight community where everybody knows everybody. I have lived here my whole life, and I don't plan on leaving. My mom is the principal at the high school although she used to be the counselor, and I have a younger sister her name is Julie. Julie is a freshman she is fifteen years old only one year younger than I am. We don't hang out much because we mostly hang out with our friends and boyfriends, but when we do hang out we get along great most of the time. She is dating Matt Saracen they have been dating since school started which was a month ago. Matt is a sophomore just like all of us cheerleaders. All of us sophomores are sixteen. Matt is a goody two shoes, but I guess that's a good thing since he is dating my sister. He lives with his grandmother because his mom left when he was a baby, and his dad is in the Army he has been Matt's whole life.
While Matt is a goody two shoes my boyfriend Tim Riggins is a party animal, but he is a very good football player. We have been dating since my freshman year. Tim is seventeen like most juniors, and ever since his freshman year he throws parties at his house every time we win a football game which happens almost all the time, but only freshman's through seniors can come. Tim can do whatever he wants because he doesn't have any parents. Tim parents left him when he was little, and they went their separate ways. No one knows what happened to them, but frankly no one cares anymore because they were such horrible people. His only family member is his much older brother named Billy. My parents don't like me dating Tim or even hanging out with him because Tim has a bad reputation, but once you get to know him he is a very good guy. He owns a car garage with Billy where they fix people's cars which they are great at. Billy is a very good brother he supports Tim in the choices he makes, and he goes to every one of Tim's football games. All of us teens usually hangout at Tim's house because there are no rules, or we go to the garage to hang out.
Then there's Jennifer Echolls my best friend we have known each other since we were babies because our parents are best friends they even went to high school together a long time ago. Jennifer helps me with my homework, because I am not really school smart I'm more street smart. She is the smartest kid in school. You can ask her anything and she will know it. She even knows many different languages including sign language which all of us cheerleaders know. Her parents are movie stars so that would make it difficult for her to live a normal life is she didn't live in Dillon. Since, she lives in Dillon everyone respects her and her family's privacy. Jennifer unlike me has an older brother his name is Logan. Logan is a junior, he is a class clown unlike Jennifer who is quiet, calm, and pays attention in class. He also gets in a lot more trouble when Jennifer rarely gets into trouble. Jennifer is dating JD McCoy, and he is also a sophomore. His dad used to be a baseball player, so they are really wealthy, and they live in a really nice huge house. His mom doesn't work because they are so well off. Jennifer's parents adore JD because he loves sports, and Jennifer's family loves sports, but JD knows not to root for the team he likes if Jennifer's parent's don't like that team even though he does. Jennifer doesn't care if he likes different teams than her parents do because she understands that everyone has their own opinions and she loves him.