AN- Sorry this was a little late, I was meaning to update every week but I just don't think I'm going to be able to keep up with that so it might have to be a bi-weekly thing. Everythings kind of crazy at the moment with subject choices for next year already, its only term two and decisions about uni and blah blah blah. I just want to say a huge thank you to DareBare13, I actually though you were telling me it was crap at first lol thank you. And rocknroll300 thank you for taking the time to tell me you liked it, and of course those people who put me on story alerts, thank-you.
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Bubble Heads, Muscles and Ever Afters
Chapter 2. Shake Your Booty
I woke up this morning feeling confident that I could do this, but now, after school, standing in the doorway to the school gym watching just about every other girl that can fit in a cheerleading uniform at this school I wasn't so sure. All the practice that Chloe and I had been doing with Hannah this past week in the lead up to this suddenly went down the drain. There were so many other girls trying out, most of them were younger and prettier then me, and I'm feeling fairly certain that they have better chances of getting the squad because their younger, their not going to be leaving at the end of the year.
"Sarah!" I heard Hannah yell. I looked around and spotted her in her uniform standing near the judging table with Chloe and another girl who was in a La Push Wolves cheerleading uniform too. I walked over with some trepidation. "Hi Hannah, Hi Chloe." I said with a slight shake in my voice. "Don't tell me you're nervous, you're like super over qualified for this, you know, stop stressing." Hannah said with a high pitched girly laugh. "Thanks Hannah, I know, it's just that I've never done cheering, you know." It suddenly occurred to me just how much I was saying 'know' and I hoped I wouldn't suddenly start giggling and saying 'like' all the time. "You'll be fine, this is Maxi by the way," Hannah made a gesture toward the other girl in the Wolves uniform. Maxi was very pretty, she had flawless mocha coloured skin with dark brown hair and chocolate eyes and eyelashes that were so long that I could have sworn she had eye lash extensions. "Hi Maxi, you guys aren't judges are you?"
"I am, so is Claire Young and Ellen Colbey, and Mrs Defoe is supervising. I think every ones here now so we better get started, I'll see you two latter." She said with a friendly smile before walking over to stand behind the Judging table.
"Excuse me! Excuse me everyone! Can I have your attention please!" Mrs Defoe said through a microphone a few seconds latter. The room fell silent. "Thank-you, I will be your supervising teacher, but I would like to hand over to Claire Young, La Push Wolves Middle school Cheerleading Captain." There was a smattering of applause while Claire took the microphone. "Right, we have five places available on the squad and two alternate spots. Tryouts are going to be over the next. Today where going to teach you a short dance routine, a cheer that goes with it and well go through some basic jumps and tumbling. At the ends of the day were going to watch you all perform in groups of five or six. After that we're going to invite twenty of you to come back tomorrow and do a further tryout, including stunts. Now we don't want you all worrying what people think of you here, just go for it, we're looking just as much for people willing to give it a try as much as we're looking for skill." Claire had a huge smile on as she finished up. "And remember, have fun!" She said as she handed the microphone to Ellen.
"Hey girls, can I get you to stand in a line please, and we'll assign someone to run you through everything." It took a little bit but eventually every one was in a line through the middle of the gym facing the bleachers. Ellen had a Cheerleader go along the line and count us of into groups of ten and put a cheerleader with each group. Soon there were five groups in separate areas of the gym learning a short routine.
My confidence had come back; Chloe and I were sitting next to each other on the bleachers waiting for our group's turns' to present in front of the judges. I wouldn't say I had it in the bag but I was defiantly in with a chance. There were some girls who more than probably wouldn't make it to the next round; they just couldn't pick the routines up. At least I had that to my advantage, I was used to learning things like this quickly.
Soon I was standing in the middle of the gym with four other girls, none of whom I knew any more than the fact that they weren't in my year level. Surprisingly this made it easier, Chloe was watching me intently so that she could give me feed back when we came back tomorrow. Ashley, the girls who had taught this group the routines counted us in "1, 2, 3, 4!" Then along with the other girls I yelled as loud as I could with a smile on my face,
"Hey, Hey, Get Ready
Ready for the Best
We're the Wolves from La Push
Doing it together
We'll Prove that it's True
So Everybody Fight for the Blue, Purple and White"
I did the basic steps along with the other girls and was pretty sure I'd gotten it all right, so taking my que from the girls in the groups previous I yelled "Go Wolves!" and did a high kick and some jumps, before walking back to the bleachers to sit with Chloe and Hannah.
Next up was Chloe's group, the last group. She did a great job, she's naturally athletic, just her kind of sport doesn't usually involve short skirts and shouting 'SHAKE YOUR BOOTY'. When she sat back down Hannah leaned over to say "You guys are a shoe in, the others don't stand a chance." She's such a sweet girl, I love her to bits; she's smart to, just a little naïve. Just then Claire got up to talk, "Okay, girls, you all did really well. You can all take a brake, go get a drink, have a chat, but be back here in twenty minutes. Can all the current members of the Wolves come down here to help decide. Thank-you." Hannah went down to talk with the other girls. Chloe and I talked about who we though would make the team. Some really desperate girls started to do flips and walkovers in a desperate attempt to show off their skills before any final decisions were made, I don't think any of the actual judges were paying attention.
Twenty five minutes latter Claire called us all to attention. "We've made out decision on the final twenty, when I have finished reading the list out, I'd like you to leave if you aren't called out. If you are called out we'd like you to stay behind so we can talk to all of you." A lot of girls looked kind of crushed as she said this, she hadn't even gotten to reading the list. "Lily Nokomis, Ava Donoma, Madison Little, Sophia Lomais, Natalie Davidson, Milly Sherry, Alyssa Kenda, Grace Poole, Brianna O'Cain," by this point I was getting a little nervous, "Leah Daniels, Sarah Rozene," Yay, now I just needed Chloe to get in too, "Abigail Hendricks, Mia Nokomis, Olivia Valencia, Emily Ross, Mellissa Downing, Charlotte Schuss, Isabella Heartly, Jane Nano and Chloe Imala. If you all could stay behind."
Claire handed the mic to Ellen Colby, "Hey Girls, We are all really proud of your effort today and I can't wait to see you back here tomorrow. We need you to bring comfortable and tight fitting clothes because you're going to be trying some stunts, we are in need of two new flyers so whoever is most confident and comfortable with that will most likely be our new flyers. We also need three new tumblers, you all showed great potential in that area so tomorrow is just about narrowing down the field. Hope to see you all tomorrow." She said with that smile that all the cheerleaders around here seemed to have. Eventually Chloe and I left, we both wanted to get an early night's sleep before tomorrow. I had a feeling that I was going to be bruised and battered before the week was out.
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Next day I went through the motions of school, I was really nervous about the final day of tryouts, it wasn't that a really wanted to get on the team that badly, it's just that I felt like I had to prove myself. I bore my fears in quiet solitude though; I didn't feel like having people tell me I would be fine, it wasn't any of their business. Chloe knew though, she could tell by the way I wasn't talking as animatedly, how if there was a lull in the convocation I wouldn't bring up something meaningless and stupid to talk about, I would just sit in the silence, she could tell in the way I chewed on my fingernails, but didn't bite them off. They were things that would be perfectly normal for someone else, but for Chloe and me they told a story.
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I got in. It wasn't a big deal really. I was fine, probably not the best at being a base, I just didn't have the muscle for that, sure I was strong but I wouldn't hold a person above my head for that long. It made me appreciate male ballet dances all the more. I was one of the new La Push middle school cheerleading team flyers. Next week we are going on a camping trip as a team bonding exercise. It sounded stupid but apparently it was some sort of hazing, nothing bad just the new girls doing all the dirty work for the other twenty, more experienced cheerleaders. We're going to stay in the forest behind Claire Young's house, there's apparently a big paddock out the back there, like a hundred meters from the house and Claire borrows these two huge tents from the school for us to all sleep in. I'm actually getting excited. I can't wait til' we get our uniforms. The only bad thing about joining the squad is that I have to quit one of my private dance lessons now. It's not that bad though. I didn't really need them anyway; ballet was always just a hobby, now I got twenty-two instant friends, just add water.
AN- so tell me what you think, I'd really like to know. I want Sarah to be just any other girl with a normal uncomplicated life (if it's possible to put those things together). If you're getting board though don't worry, a very important flea bag or two are coming into the next chapter =) I've already planned it all out.
