A/N: Well wrote this because I needed to take my mind off of my other stories. Inspired by a post I saw on tumblr about an interview where Shay Mitchell was being asked the girl that was going to be the cheerleader would be Emily. So naturally I had to write paily.
Eh.. it's rough(took me two hours to write). but just needed to get it out of my head soooooo yeah! Enjoy!
Bring it on!
Paige always looked forward to games against Rosewood High School. She was sitting on the bus, mentally preparing herself for the game by listening to her go to song on repeat. The bus drive was no longer than twenty minutes but still Paige's mind wandered. It wandered to the green fields with the blue and white bleachers, the very bleachers where the cheerleading team would sit in the first row during the JV games. She smiled to herself as she thought about one specific cheerleader that caught her eye from her rival school. One girl that, for two years, she had her eye on. Paige McCullers was not a girl who sat on the sidelines, so for her to pine over a girl from afar, was a huge deal.
The bus came to a stop, bringing Paige back to reality which wasn't too far from her daydream. Paige smiled to herself as she got up from her seat in the back of the bus and gladly walked off the bus, breathing the fresh air on Sharks territory. She looked around the familiar scenery of Rosewood High and to the fields where her coach and teammates were walking to. She looked around at the student body that was filing out as she was walking through the parking lot. Her best friend Pru, nudged her as they passed the faculty lot to the student lot where a certain cheerleader was coming out of a car. Paige looked over her shoulder just as the cheerleader was reaching into the trunk to get something. Paige stopped in the middle of the parking lot and stared at the girl blantly.
She admired the girl's beautiful olive colored legs that seemed to be everlasting. Her luscious black hair draped over her shoulder was falling into the trunk getting in her way. She tried to tuck her hair behind her ear and when that failed, she quickly put her hair in a messy bun. She stands on her toes reaching more into her trunk making her calf muscles more defined than before. This girl was beautiful. And the crazy thing is, is that Paige didn't have to see her face to know that this was the girl that she looked forward to seeing at every Rosewood game. She imagined walking up to the girl and seeing the smile that she always admired from afar, up close, but that came to a halt when a car honking pierced through Paige's ears.
Next thing Paige felt was her wrist getting pulled away. She looked around to see her best friend worrying but also the raven haired cheerleader staring from a few feet away.
"Hey are you okay?" Said the girl that caught Paige's attention. Her voice so angelic now that Paige heard it alone and not mixed with the rest of the voices while she was cheering. She was in her blue and white cheer outfit with her skirt riding up just a bit as she came walking up to Paige and Pru. Paige was in such shock that the girl, she'd stare at when she was sitting on the bleachers cheering on her JV teammates, was speaking to her. Pru swung her bag hitting Paige in the back knocking her forward, also knocking Paige's goofy smile off her face. Paige quickly nodded her head and the raven haired beauty smiled before her attention was taken away by a few of her teammates. "I'm glad. I'll see you later."
"Yeah… hopefully." Paige's goofy smile reappeared as the girl walked away joining a few of her teammates as they whispered and giggled amongst each other.
"You got it bad McCullers. Why haven't you talked to her yet?" Pru pushed Paige and they started to walk towards the fields to catch up with the rest of their teammates.
"She's beautiful. I mean did you see her?" Was all Paige said before looking over to where the raven haired cheerleader was smiling with her group of cheerleaders.
During the JV game, Paige focused on the girl instead of the game at hand. Every time her team scored she didn't cheer the instant it happen, there was always a delay, even if it was by a few seconds. Pru and the rest of her team would start cheering and quickly Paige would notice and clap or stand up accordingly. But after the hype died down, Paige focused back on the cheerleader across the field. The cheerleader was shaking her pompoms from the lower bleacher seats in perfect synchronization with the line of other cheerleaders.
"Her name is Emily, P." Pru whispered to Paige with a smirk as she turned her attention back to someone who wasn't ignoring her. Paige was captivated by the no longer mystery girl and she could have sworn that the tanned girl was looking at her too.
"Emily…"
Emily kept her eyes on the girl as she was stretching right before the game. Before that, Emily watched across the field at the girl who she thought was intensely watching her younger teammates play. The girl caught her eye after the scare in the parking lot, she felt she heart stop when the heard the honk piercing through her ears and then a girl yelling a name. Paige, her name was Paige. Emily had seen her before but never thought twice about it, until today. She was captured by the brunette's brilliant smile when she said that she was okay. Emily had a familiar feeling in her stomach that had been absence in the last few years, a feeling that she missed. So naturally, Emily was fascinated with the girl that made her feel this way and stole a glance at the girl every time she leaned forward to stretch before the Varsity game began.
Emily was one of the co-captains of the Rosewood cheerleading squad. The cheer squad always cheered at games for the three major recognized sports in the school district; Football, Basketball and Field Hockey. Whether the game was home or away the cheer squad was always there, it didn't matter who was playing, boys or girls, the cheer squads of the district didn't discriminate.
Emily sat down and place her legs out in front of her reaching forward to touch her toes, in the process she lifted her head up just slightly to peek up at the field to see if she could spot the brunette. She quickly felt embarrassed when she was caught staring by the brunette and all she saw was a smirk before she turned her back to face the rest of her team.
The Varsity game started and all the while that Emily was cheering on her friend, Spencer and the rest of the field hockey team, her eyes just kept fixating on Paige. Paige was good and even took on Spencer more than once and beating her every time; giving Ravenswood a lead of two goals. It was almost the end of the game with one minute left at the second half, when the cheerleaders turned their attention away from the game in a last ditch effort to pump up the crowd. They were almost at the end of their cheer when someone from the crowd yelled 'look out'.
At that moment Emily and a few other cheerleaders turned around to be met with bodies crashing into them. Emily fell backwards and in anticipation for the blow to the head she slammed her eyes shut, but didn't feeling any pain.
"Are you okay?" Were the words that made Emily realize that there was a body on top of her. She opened her eyes to see the girl she'd been thinking about since the parking lot, hovering over her. Emily saw one hand that was situated near her face was holding the girl's weight off of Emily but that Paige's other hand was cradled under her head.
"Yeah, I'm fine now." Emily smiled up to the warm brown eyes of the stranger who was becoming less and less of a stranger as the minutes goes on.
"We should stop meeting like this." Paige smiled and it made Emily's heart beat faster than she was used to. Paige stands up reaching her hand out to Emily with the charming smile that Emily was starting to like, a lot. "I'm Paige, Paige McCullers." She says after pulling Emily up from the ground.
"Emily Fields." She smiled at the girl in front of her and for some reason she knew that this wouldn't be the last time she saw Paige McCullers, not by a long shot.
