Hey everyone! I am really sorry, I did not have time to do this earlier. I had some personal things to deal with and just hope they will be okay so that I can get back to a normal update routine.

PLEASE READ: In a previous chapter I bolded words to try and make the writing a bit clear. Basically I think of it like a tv show, you know where they shpow you two sets of people reacting to something. SO I tried my best to make it clear in this chapter. I either put -Back to Aria... or -Lacrosse Boys. This is just so that in you mind you can visualize it better, the one part is where Aria is with the cheerleaders and the lacrosse boy hint is to tell you, its where the lacrosse boys are watching from.

If it doesn't make sense and it's just too confusing, let me know and I'll either leave it out or try some other ideas. Let me know if you prefer the bolding or if any of you have a better idea :)

okay enough talk, enjoy!

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OLIVIA POV

"What the hell is he doing?" Olivia asked confused as she lifted one eyebrow. She watched as Stefan went towards the cheerleaders.

"And he knows Aiden is trouble," Kira said worriedly.

"Holy crap!"Olivia exclaimed as she saw Stefan hold Aria from falling.

"Oh my gosh," Kira said as her eyes widened, "Maybe he likes her?" Kira concluded.

"But he's never really mentioned her," Olivia said unsure.

"Maybe he's been hiding it from us," Kira figured, "You know how he likes to keep a lot of things to himself."

"I know, I just wish he'd tell us. I feel like he hides so much," Olivia said sighing. Stefan was always very honest, he didn't lie to them but he didn't tell them everything either.

"I don't like the feeling of this," Kira said still anxious watching as Stefan and Aiden were exchanging words.

"Stefan!" Olivia screamed as she saw Stefan hit Aiden squarely in the jaw.

"Oh no," Kira said freaking out that the coach would suspend him.

"He's going to get suspended," Olivia said sadly echoing Kira's thoughts watching as the coach came to speak to Stefan.

"Wait it seems like the coach is fine with them," Kira said dumbfounded.

"I don't know how but I don't think the coach saw everything," Olivia said relieved watching Stefan walk back to the pitch.

"Something's up with him," Kira said, "These past few days," she paused, "He's not telling us something."

"Yeah, I think you're right," Olivia said but was quickly distracted once she saw Stiles going up to shoot.

"He's totally going to score," Olivia said with a confident smile.

"Are you sure?" Kira asked not convinced watching Stiles do his strange stretches.

"Well, he's here for tryouts right?" Olivia said but her face dropped when she saw how bad his shot was.

"Points for effort?" Kira shrugged.

"Wait, isn't that Scott?" Olivia said unsure and immediately Kira became more focused on the field.

"Where?"she asked but she saw him in goal and watched with joy as he saved a shot.

"Yeah it is!" Kira said smiling.

"Go Scott!" Kira and Olivia heard Aria scream.

"I didn't know he was that good," Olivia said surprised.

"Neither did I!" Kira said excitedly but her excitement faded when she saw Elena and Allison cheering for him and Scott looking their way. She sighed.

"I don't have a chance," Kira reasoned.

"Are you kidding?" Olivia said, "Of course you do because we have a secret weapon."

"We do?" Kira said not convinced.

"Yeah!" Olivia said, "We have Stefan and he'll be on the team so he'll get to, you know, speak to Scott and Stiles."

"Doesn't mean they'll actually like us," Kira said sighing.

"Be optimistic!" Olivia said and Kira just rolled her eyes playfully at her friend.

"Look I'm sure they'll be a party for the team, we can go as Stefan's plus 1's" Olivia said already making a plan.

"But there's two of us," Kira said now sighing even more heavily.

"Like any one counts," Olivia said, "I'm telling you Kira, this year everything changes."

"It doesn't seem to be going that way with the way Stefan keeps attacking Aiden," Kira sighed again as she saw them clash once more.

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ARIA POV

By the time I got to the cheerleaders I was stomping with rage. I just felt so much anger and didn't even want to control it. I wanted to prove to everyone that I was going to be on this team whether or not I actually liked cheerleading.

"Okay, everyone listen up," Caroline said with her hands on her hips, "This is the final round."

"This will determine whether you actually have what it takes to be a cheerleader," Lydia said.

"We'll do routines and you just keep following. We'll give you one free pass to make a mistake otherwise you're out," Caroline said.

"Exactly," Lydia agreed.

"Mind if we watch?" Tyler asked flirtatiously on behalf of the players.

"Be our guest," Caroline smiled and the entire lacrosse team all came to stand next to each other.

Okay, this is going to be more nerve wracking than I thought.

I walked towards the end of the line of girls and stood a bit behind so that I was more hidden.

I can do this.

"Wait," Lydia said, "Who's that standing behind?"

I froze.

"Aria," Caroline said sweetly coming to stand in front of me.

"Why don't you come stand in the center?" she asked sounding sweet but the devilish tone was evident.

It took everything for me to keep my composure.

"Unless of course you're scared and in that case, you shouldn't even be here," Lydia said from the side. I could feel everyone's eyes on me including the lacrosse team. I had too much pride to say no. I wouldn't let them win.

"Sure," I said as nonchalantly as I could but inside I was freaking out. If I screwed up, it wouldn't just be the cheerleading team that mocked me but the lacrosse team as well. The thought of Tyler, Jackson and co. constantly mocking me did not sound very appealing. I walked to the center trying my best to avoid eye contact with anyone.

-Lacrosse Boys

"I have a bad feeling about this," Stiles whispered to Scott.

"Yeah me too," Scott said in agreement, "Plus cheerleading is not her strength. Why would she choose to do this? "

"Hey isn't that your girlfriend McCall?" Jackson asked Scott mockingly and immediately Scott's temper began to rise.

"Calm down," Derek said sternly coming to stand next to him and Scott decided to bite his tongue and say nothing.

-Back to Aria...

"Okay, music please," Caroline said to her helpers as the music began playing and she began with her routine.

All I had to do was look at her moves and no one else and I would be fine. Her first routine was simple enough but I knew I didn't look great doing it. I could tell by the quick glimpses I caught at the lacrosse players.

Ignore them, you got this.

Lydia then did a routine that was a lot more complicated. I overthought everything and screwed it up. Badly.

"Aria, look like you already blew your free pass. One more mistake and you're gone," Lydia told me unsurprised. What was I going to do? Just then I had a flashback.

"Dad I can't do it," I said just giving up.

"No," my father said, "Lovacs never give up and I am not raising a quitter."

"But dad, I can't get it right," I complained.

"You can do almost anything if you focus on the task at hand and don't overthink it but rather trust your instincts," he said teaching me.

"Remember, sometimes the reason you think you can't do it is because you're afraid to fail," he said, "But sometimes you need to fail so that you are able to learn."

"Okay," I said taking a deep breath and I slowly aimed my bow. It took me a lot longer than normal till I let the arrow fly but when I did, I hit a perfect shot and I never missed after that.

"Aria?" Bonnie said bringing me out of my daydream.

"What?" I said shaking my head.

"You okay?" she whispered casually but her eyes had worry in them. She was asking about my memories.

"Yeah," I said shrugging it off.

-Lacrosse Boys

"Seems like your friend gets stage fright," Tyler said nastily to Stiles, "Just like you, she also sucks."

"You little piece of-," Stiles said as he attempted to charge at Tyler but Stefan held him back.

"Leave him," Stefan said and Stiles held back irritated.

"You're lucky he held me back or I was going to kick your ass," he said to Tyler who looked at him like a joke.

Stefan gave Derek a worried look knowing that Aria spacing was due to the memories.

-Back to Aria...

"Okay, last chance," Caroline said to me and her voice clearly showed she regretted I even had one.

I took a deep breath. What my dad said was right. I just mustn't be scared to fail, it's not like I was that popular at school anyway. All I had to do was focus.

"Okay here we go," Caroline said and this time I just focused on her, blocking everything else out.

I did the routine and this time decided to actually have fun while doing it.

"Looks like you're still in," Caroline said with a fake smile but I could tell she could not be more irritated.

We did two more routines and by now I was actually having fun. Just shutting out everyone else and making sure I was nailing the moves.

-Lacrosse Boys

"Aria doesn't look too bad does she?" Aiden whispered seductively and Stefan, Derek and Scott all felt their anger rise.

"The things I would do to-," Aiden began to say but was cut off as Scott tackled him to the ground.

-Back to Aria...

I looked in shock at the commotion. It seemed like someone had tackled Aiden.

No shock there. He's such an ass.

I tried to see who it was and when I finally figured it out. I headed towards them.

Why was Scott getting involved?

"Scott!" I shouted worried that he could wolf out at any second. I quickly pulled him off Aiden and luckily he didn't resist.

"Scott," I said seriously looking him straight in the eyes, "Calm down."

I saw his eyes glow slightly. He shut his eyes and took a deep breath. When he opened them they were back to normal.

I breathed a sigh of relief until I heard Aiden laughing. I was already in an angry mood and this was making it worse.

"You had to come save your friend?" Aiden asked, "It's funny, I was actually complimenting you."

I gave Aiden a death glare and walked over to him slowly.

"Is that so?" I asked him sarcastically.

"I was just saying that you looked really good," he said seductively licking his lips, "And that there are things-," but he was cut off by what I had done. I had kicked him where it hurts and hard too. I couldn't stand him and I was not in a mood to be messed with. He collapsed to the ground rolling in pain. I had no idea I could kick that hard. I was shocked and impressed by my own strength.

I did everything to keep my composure and pretend that I had planned that.

"You're an ass," I said irritated to him and I looked up to see the lacrosse team looking at me in shock.

"Does anyone else want to say anything?" I asked angrily looking directly at Tyler and Jackson but they seemed to actually have some fear in their eyes.

"Aria," Stefan said to me calmly.

"What?" I snapped. I noticed him glance at Derek.

"I'm fine, really, no thanks to either of you," I spat and I walked back towards the cheerleaders.

"Something is up with her Stiles," Scott said worriedly.

"Yeah I can see that," Stiles said, "Not that I'm complaining considering what she did."

"Aria," Bonnie rushed over to me, "You need to be careful. You're letting your emotions take over your judgement," she said worriedly.

"No I'm not," I snapped but I knew she was right. I didn't even know how to stop myself from being so angry.

"Think of a happy memory," Bonnie said quickly.

"Like what?" I said irritatedly but I knew she was just trying to help.

"Anything, just think," she said and I forced myself to find a memory.

"You got me a gift?!" I asked Derek shocked.

"Well we got you a gift," Stefan said with a proud smile.

"No," Derek corrected, "You just happened to be there."

"Right, I just happened to help you the entire time to look for it," Stefan said sarcastically and Derek glared at Stefan.

"It was my idea," Derek said.

"I inspired it," Stefan countered.

"Guys," I said but they didn't hear me.

"It was still my idea," Derek said.

"Guys," I said a little more persistent.

"Yeah but without me you wouldn't have managed to get it," Stefan said.

"Guys!" I shouted at the two of them.

"What?" Derek asked confused.

"Can I see it?" I asked.

"Yeah, sorry," Stefan said, "Well give it to her."

I watched as Derek handed me a box with a ribbon.

"We missed your birthday a few weeks ago so-," Derek said.

I took the box from him excitedly and opened it. There were two gorgeous silver rings. I looked up at the two of them raising my eyebrows.

"You're not both proposing to me are you?" I questioned.

"What? No," Derek said wondering why I would even ask that.

"No," Stefan chuckled, "And some would say I'm a bit old for you," he joked.

"That's cause you are," Derek said honestly as I rolled my eyes.

"Those rings will protect you from people like us," Derek said.

"You mean vampires and werewolves?" I asked.

"Yeah," Derek said, "Those silver rings were infused with wolfsbane and vervain."

"Plus," Stefan said taking a step forward, "It was done by a witch so the protection is guaranteed."

"How do I know which one is for which?" I asked as I inspected the rings.

"Guess," Stefan said and as he did I had already figured it out. The one ring had Derek's family pack symbol engraved and the other had the Salvatore crest.

"We thought we'd give it our own flair," Stefan said feeling proud.

"I love it!" I said happily going to hug the two of them, "I swear I'll never take them off."

"Aria?" I heard my name sounding distant.

"Aria?" another voice asked.

Slowly I saw everything come into focus again.

"Yeah?" I asked as if nothing had happened.

"She's fine," Bonnie told everyone.

"You sure Bon?" Elena asked.

"Yeah, right Aria?" she asked.

"Yeah," I said as simply as I could, "Just got a random stitch in my chest," I said hoping that excuse made sense.

"Are you really okay?" Bonnie whispered to me now a little more concerned.

"Yeah," I said feeling much calmer and happier. The memory of me kicking Aiden where the sun doesn't shine came into my head.I had to admit that made me feel even happier but remembering the force that I was able to kick him with actually worried me.

"How angry was I?" I asked.

"Very," Bonnie said, "I could sense it but don't worry it should settle in a few days."

"Only a few day? Oh that's great," I said sarcastically.

"Just keep a few good memories on hand," she said as we walked back to try outs. I looked at my hands noticing I had no rings. What had happened to them? They were important. I needed to find them.

"She's fine," Bonnie said to the other cheerleaders.

"You still think we should let her try out?" Caroline asked appalled at the idea, "Clearly she can barely keep up with us."

"Care, come on," Bonnie said, "Is anyone else here blowing you away?" she reasoned.

"Ugh, whatever, just go stand where you were and try not to screw up. It's enough you had to go violently bully one of the lacrosse players," she said clearly not happy.

Violently bully? Was she serious?

"That was completely uncheerleader like," Lydia said.

"And what? Flirting with every male is?" I said sarcastically but Lydia's glare told me to shut up.

"Okay, the real cheerleaders will nail this routine," Lydia said going to the front and once again I just tried my best to focus.

"You're out, you're out, you're out," Caroline said pointing to the people that made mistakes. I was waiting for her to point at me but she didn't.

"Did I actually do it?" I said to myself.

"Yeah, you're not that bad actually," Elena said to me.

"Um, thanks," I said.

- Lacrosse Boys

"Holy crap, Aria is actually really good," Stiles said feeling there might be a lot he didn't not know about his friend.

"Yeah," Scott said just as amazed.

"Plus it seems she might have some hot friends huh?" Stiles said winking and nudging Scott.

-Back to Aria…

"Last routine," Lydia said as she and Caroline did it together. This time it wasn't basic cheerleading moves. There were flips involved and I knew there was no way in hell I could nail that.

I started doing the moves managing to nail them but as I was nearing where the flips start I did not know what I was going to do. I stopped for a few seconds while the other cheerleaders did their flips. I noticed Lydia and Caroline staring me down knowing that I probably can't do flips.

Don't be afraid to fail Aria.

"Screw this," I said softly and decided to just dance to the music and make up my own moves. I channeled all of my music video dance moves as best as I could. Who cared about what they thought, what anyone thought? I never even thought I'd make it to the final round.

"What is she doing?" Caroline asked Lydia shocked.

-Lacrosse Boys

"Holy crap, I had no idea she had the ability to move like that," Stiles said dumbfounded.

"Yeah me too," Scott said just as shocked.

"Yeah!" Matt shouted out and Stiles and Scott looked at him not sure if what they saw was actually happening. It seems like he was cheering her on.

"Dude?" Tyler asked shocked at why he would even do that.

"What? She looks like she's having fun, way better than the robotic moves the others are doing," Matt said honestly.

"What the hell?" Lydia said as more lacrosse players started cheering me on.

Before I knew it, Allison joined in and gave up on the routine as well. After a while Bonnie and Elena joined in too.

"Look at them," Matt said referring to all the cheerleaders who were now dancing around, "Tell me they don't look hot," Matt challenged and Tyler stayed silent in defeat.

"What are they doing?!" Caroline shouted getting angry but for the first time the cheerleading squad was actually having fun.

"Allison!" Lydia screamed but Allison just ignored her.

"Stop the music!" Caroline shouted and the music stopped.

"Well aren't you a vibe killer," I said.

"You're out," Caroline said, "You didn't complete the routine."

Before I could say something Elena spoke.

"Are you kidding Care? When was the last time you saw that much energy in the squad?" Elena asked honestly.

"But she didn't complete the routine," Caroline said stubbornly.

"So what?" Bonnie said, "She did her own thing which probably takes more guts anyway. Elena's right, we need energy in the squad."

Caroline could not believe what her friends were saying.

"LET HER STAY! LET HER STAY! LET HER STAY!" I heard Stiles chanting.

Oh no.

"LET HER STAY! LET HER STAY! LET HER STAY!" I heard as Stefan chimed in with him. The chanting became louder as Scott joined in among others.

"This is insane," Lydia said irritated feeling as if she had lost control of the situation.

I looked to see Derek's amused smile.

"OH MY GOD! FINE OKAY?! FINE! SHE CAN STAY!" Caroline screamed at everyone accepting her defeat.

"WHAT?!" Lydia asked.

"Do you have a better idea?!" she countered and Lydia opened her mouth to say something but nothing came out.

"Exactly!" Caroline shouted back.

I couldn't believe it I had actually made the squad.