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Cheerleading

Leah's POV

"So what are you going to do?" Kim continued to question me about Sam.

"I'm going to do nothing."

"What?! He left his girlfriend for you!"

"SHHH!! The last thing I need are ridicules rumors going around."

"There not rumors if there true." She said this time whispering.

"Then this would be a rumor. Sam is just messing around."

"Then why you, he could 'mess around' with any girl in this school. Why you if he doesn't like you?"

"Because I'm the only one who doesn't swoon every time I see him. It makes it like a challenge or something. I don't know he wants what he can't have."

"And he can't have you?" she said, not believing me.

"No he cannot. He is an ass. I wouldn't date him if he was the last person on earth."

"So you're telling me that if Sam came up to you right now and asked you to homecoming you would say no." I flashed back to my dream, I did want him to, but I had too much pride.

"Yes."

"What? You would say yes?"

"No, yes I would say no!"

"So you would say no?"

"Yeah."

"Yeah you would say yes or yeah you would say no?" she was doing this on purpose now.

"If Sam asked me to homecoming I would say no!"

"Really?" I heard a male voice behind me and recognized it instantly. I turned bright red.

"Oh, hey Sam. We didn't see you." Kim stuttered.

"Obviously." he sounded so arrogant. "So you wouldn't go out with me Lee?"

"Not if you begged." I said trying to hold on to some of my pride.

"That's a shame because I was going to ask if you wanted to go to homecoming with me." my will almost crumpled.

"Save your breath." I said trying to be strong. I walked away before I could do anything stupid. Kim chased after me.

"Om my gosh! I can't believe you just did that!"
"Did what? I told you I would say no."

"Yeah but I didn't actually think you would!"

"Relax Kim, it's no big deal."
"Are you still going to tutor him?"

"Yeah, I told the principle I would."

"But won't it be awkward."

"No, he really doesn't like me; he's just trying to push my buttons. And if I stop tutoring him he wins."

"So this is all just a game."

"For him, pretty much." I said with some bitterness in my voice.

"Oh honey, do you actually like him?"

"No! Of course not! Now I have to get to class, I'll see you at lunch." I walked off before she could try and say anything. The rest of the day was quiet, Sam didn't talk to me and Kim just talked about cheerleading. She got me to agree to try out with her but I said I would go after her, so I'll probably just sneak out while she's up. Lunch ended to fast and the next few classes were even faster. The last bell rang and I walked outside. It was raining again. I hated it here, as soon as I could get out I would. I heard someone call my name and I turned around. Of course it was Sam.

"What do you want now Sam?" I asked as he walked over to me.

"Look I'm sorry about this morning but I really need your help." Normally I would dismiss him, but he looked desperate.

"With what?"

"I'm failing Geometry and I won't be able to make the football team if I have any lower than a C." of course, this was his big crisis.

"Good." I began to walk away.

"How is that good?"

"Because you should learn your lesson, you blow off your classes and you get kicked off the team."

"Lee, please. I need your help." He sounded so desperate, I felt bad for him.

"Fine! Will you stop annoying me now?"

"Sure whatever you want! Thanks Lee! So when do you want to get started." We had already walked to my house.

"There's no time like the present." He smiled at me and I swear my heart stopped.

"Okay well let's get to work." We headed up to my room. We both sat on my bed and pulled out our books.

"Leah, I lied."

"About what?" I wasn't exactly sure what he was talking about.

"I'm not just failing one class, I'm failing like 6."

"What?!?! You're failing all but one class! It's the third day of school, how do you do that?!"

"Lee, calm down, I just didn't feel like doing anything."

"Okay so let me get this straight, it's the third day of school, your failing all but one class and you lied to me about it. Is that is?"

"The only reason I lied to you was because I figured you wouldn't want to tutor me if you knew how many classes I'm failing."

"I shouldn't tutor you, you lied to me!" he looked down, not wanting to meet my eyes. "But I will because I'm too nice for my own good." He looked up and smiled.

"Thanks you, Leah. I owe you."

"Whatever, okay what class are you doing the worst in?"

"I think math or maybe Spanish, well I'm pretty bad in English to, oh and there's World History. But I have a test in Biology and mythology."

"Okay-- wait your failing mythology! That's like the easiest class; we were raised on stories of our ancestors. It isn't even real mythology; it's a bunch of stories."

"I don't get it and my mom doesn't really know the stories; my dad left before he told me any." There was an awkward.

"Sorry."

"Whatever. I think I need the most help in Biology." He said stiffly. I know he didn't like talking about his dad. He left when Sam was four; just old enough to remember him, but too young to have a father figure. Sam became the man of the house and took care of his mother. I always admired him for that.

"What is the class you're actually passing?" I asked trying to change the subject and I was curious.

"Gym." He was always good at sports.

"Of course." We both started laughing; there was no tension any more. We worked pretty hard for about an hour, my parents were not going to be home for dinner so Sam and I went down stairs to heat some frozen food up. We just talked the rest of the time; Sam got done with his homework faster than I did.

"It's a miracle how fast you're learning. I don't even have to say anything." I said sarcastically.

"You're just that good." He teased back.

"Sam why do you insist I tutor you when you don't need it. You're smarter than all the kids at that school and yet you let yourself fail." I said getting serious.

"Maybe I'm just looking for an excuse to hang out with you." He said teasing again, but part of him sounded serious.

"You're failing all your classes just to hang out with me?" I said raising my eyebrow at him.

"Well it was the only way I could get you to talk to me."

"You could have just said hi."

"Really it was that simple? Well I'll try that next time. So can I still come over after school and hang out. Maybe I can even tutor you since I am the smartest kid at that school." He was never going to let me live that down. I should really think before I speak.

"Whatever you say." We ate and talked, just like the old days. The only thing that was missing was Jared.

"So I heard you were trying out for cheerleading."

"Where did you hear that from?"

"I know all the cheerleaders."

"Of course you do." He threw me a grin, I loved when he smiled. "So are you trying out?"

"Kim wants me to so probably."

"Do you want to?"

"I guess, it would look good on my college."

"Lee stop thinking about college and what your friends want. Do you want to be a cheerleader?"

"Yeah I guess it might be fun."

"You are too selfless for your own good. Is your cousin still bossing you around and taking all your stuff without asking."

"Emily's really nice. You just have to meet her."

"I'll pass, the way she treats you she seems like a bitch."

"And you treat me so much better." I was kind of joking but kind of serious at the same time.

"Okay I know sometime I can be an ass but you know I'm just joking." I smiled at him, until then I hadn't known he was joking. And for some reason it made me really happy that he had been.

Sam joined the three of us for lunch the next day. It was tryouts for cheerleading so I didn't get to hang out with Sam, but Jared was. It made me happy that we were all hanging out again. Tryouts went slowly, barely any one at this school had talent, Kim and I were so on the team. Then the head cheerleader came in, it was Sam's girlfriend, or more like ex now and the rumors around the school were saying that it was my fault. I slowly moved away from Kim so that she still had a chance to get on the team. She looked at me confused and then saw Sam's ex and nodded.

"Well look who it is, Leah Clearwater wants to be a cheerleader." She said coming over to me.

"You know I still don't know your name."

"You won't need to since I'd die before you became a part of this team."

"Well it's the rules that you have to give everyone a chance to tryout."

"Fine you want to try out? Give me a back-flip-standing-back-tuck-front-hand-spring-toe-touch." (A/N- I'm not sure if that is possible, sorry if it's not.)

"Can you give me something challenging?" I got of the bleachers and walked to the middle of the floor. I did the routine flawlessly. They were all looking at me shocked. "Have you changed your mind yet?"

"Your flip was messy." She was looking for an excuse.

"Give it a rest Rachel. Leah you defiantly made the team! That was incredible!" Sarah gushed. Now I remembered who she was. Rachel Black, she had changed so much. At least Sarah was still nice. Kim made the team to; we got our uniforms and went to the beach to meet up with Sam and Jared. We saw them and ran to them. When they saw us they could tell we made it. I ran to Sam and he wrapped me in a tight hug. Kim and Jared stood there awkwardly, but I didn't care what they were thinking or how we looked. It felt incredible having Sam's arms wrapped around me.