Is It Really Worth It

Chapter 4: Just Think About It

The next day in first period class, Sakura was extremely tired because her and Li has stayed up all night talking on the phone.

Li talked about some new boy that had come to the gym to try out for the basketball team. He said the boy was tall with short black hair and foggy blue eyes. Sakura knew exactly who he was talking about, but she didn't say anything. What would she say? "Oh yeah I know him. He likes me by the way." No, she couldn't say that. That would cause problems, big problems.

English class rolled around and Mr. Arnold approached Sakura while she was sitting at her desk doing the current assignment he had just assigned to the class not too long ago.

"Sakura, I need to talk to you about yesterday's project"

"Okay"

Sakura followed Mr. Arnold out into the empty hallway.

"I realized I didn't have a project from you when I noticed a beautiful poster in the garbage can. What was that about?"

"In the trash?"

Mr. Arnold nodded.

"But, I didn't turn in my project myself, my class partner Nina said she'd turn it in for me."

"Well, that's where it was. In the garbage."

Sakura was shocked. She couldn't understand why Nina would want to sabotage her work. What did she do to her? She thought they were friends. Maybe it was an accident.

"We will confront this problem tomorrow when she returns to school."

Nina wasn't her today. She's have to ask her about it tomorrow. Sakura didn't think she'd do it on purpose. Nina was so friendly to her. Accidents happen right?

After school Sakura found Li walking towards her with his basketball uniform.

"You made the team?" Sakura asked. Although she felt kinda stupid afterwards because he DID have a uniform after all.

"Yup" He stopped in front of her.

"That's great! Congratulations!"

"Thanks, are you gonna try out for anything?"

Sakura wanted to do cheerleading of course.

"Yup, cheerleading. If I make the team I'll make sure I yell your name super loud."

Li laughed. "You will, you're great. They'd be crazy not to put you on the team."

Sakura politely thanked him. He always boosted her spirits and gave her compliments. With Li by her side she felt invincible.

Try-out's were after school today, so Sakura closed her locker and headed to the gym. Li followed her.

Try-out's went on forever, there were so many girls trying out but Li and Sakura patiently waited for it to be Sakura's turn. When it was, Sakura approached the table where the upperclassmen cheerleaders sat, looking at her.

There were four cheerleaders. A blonde, a brunette, a red haired girl, and the last girl had black hair. The blonde popped a bubble with her gum and began to speak.

" Hey, I'm Brittany, so why do you want to be on this team?"

She was looking at a clip board full of names and the other cheerleaders were crowed around her watching sakura intently.

"I'm good at it and I'm pretty flexible. I've always done cheerleading and I want to continue doing it because I love cheering."

"Okay, nice response it's something we've been looking for so, do you have any special talents?"

"I have a couple tricks of my own."

"Care to show us?" Brittany asked.

"Yeah, sure, alright" Sakura responded, enthusiastically.

Brittany played a tape and Sakura walked over to the mat and did a series of flips and a few cheers, while Brittany was writing down notes, and the rest of the cheerleaders had all eyes on Sakura.

Brittany stopped the tape and the rest of the cheerleaders applauded.

"Excellent job, nice form. I like you, you have heart. Unfortunately I don't make the final decisions our captain Nina does. I'm just the co-captain. She'll be back tomorrow and I'll talk to her about you, so we'll let you know by tomorrow."

"Okay, thank you." Sakura headed back over to where Li sat patiently waiting for her. "I have to wait for my results, they said they'll talk to Nina for me. She's the captain."

"Really? I thought only upperclassmen could be captains?"

Sakura pondered for a minute. It was true after all, Nina said she was a freshmen. Why would she lie? There was also still the fact that she sabotaged her work, or maybe she didn't, but now if Sakura made the team, she would also be her captain.