Bridge and I were sitting in the middle bleachers with crowds of our high school peers for Friday's pep rallies. The gym was noisy and all I could do was plug up my ears and smile as the noise got louder as New Tech High football's players and cheerleaders enter the room. I always loved pep rallies…just not the loud noises, I always get a headache afterwards.
Anyway, I looked over at Bridge who was looking over notes for our first period class after the rally.
I just rolled my eyes.
The noise started to subside when one of the teaching staff walked up to the microphone in the middle of the gym and started to flap her hands to signal for the students to calm down. Everyone started to sit down, which made a clear view for Bridge and I to see the football team and hyped up cheerleaders jumping up and down as they continued to cheer. They stopped cheering when the teacher at the microphone began to talk.
"Hi, everyone how are we doing this morning? Ready to get those brain working for class."
Everyone around us started Booing and saying No as the teacher laughed.
"Well sorry that you feel that way but you still have to deal with it," she continued. "But right now it's time to let your football team know how much we love them by showing how loud we can get in here. LET ME HEAR IT," she yelled.
Everyone yelled as loud as they could, shacking the whole school. Well I thought they shook the whole school.
"Okay, okay settle down. Now let's here it for our New Tech High's cheerleaders as they present us with a cheer."
The cheerleaders moved in the middle of the gym and got into position. A blonde-headed girl stood in front of the squad as she count backwards to start the cheer. The music started and they began to dance and do flips all over the floor. Everyone cheered… well… all the boys and the football players. When the music end and the cheerleaders did a finishing pose, everyone stood up and cheered and that's when the blonde-headed girl walked over to the microphone.
"Thank you for cheering and now I would like to present to you the New Tech's football team."
I smiled as all the football players ran in the middle of the floor and started jumping up and down yelling GO and WHO GOING TO WIN. I always like it when they did that…yeah, it was childish but it was something that looked like what a team should do together.
Again everyone cheered.
Bridge looked up from his notes to look at the team, he then looked at me.
He smiled. It caught me off guard.
"What," I asked.
"Nothing," he smiled.
"Then why are you looking at me and smiling."
"No reason, he said and went back to his notes.
I smiled and round my eyes knowing exactly why he was smiling.
I went back to the event going on in the center of the room and watched as one of the member of the football team walked over to the microphone. Everyone got quiet, but a noise from the distance broke the silence.
I looked over to the direction where the noise was coming from and saw a dark skinned boy Booing the team. A teacher, coming out from nowhere, grabbed him and he stopped his display of anti-school spirit.
Everyone direction went back to the boy at the microphone.
"Ignoring that, I would like to say N.T.H. is going to beat Jasper High tonight and we will win another game. As the quarterback, I will make it my duty and privilege to go the distance and I will make sure that our team will go all the way to state final and win just like my father did when he was my age."
Everyone started to cheer TATE and so was the cheerleaders. The head cheerleader walked over to the boy at the microphone and started to yell Tate in the microphone.
After a couple of more cheers and introductions of other football members, the pep rally was over.
All students and teachers started to head to their first period class. Bridge and I walked to my locker first before heading to class. Which was biology.
"So are you going to the field trip tomorrow for biology," Bridge asked.
"Yes, of course. Anything to get out the house with a bunch of orphans sounds nice to just about anything. I'm sure Mrs. Kat will understand."
"Speaking of orphans, you got to do something about your brother, Jack."
"I know but what can I do. I can't help it that he don't like the whole spirit thing and popularity thing," I said getting out my biology book and closing my locker.
