New Beginnings
Chapter 3
Thanks for all your reviews. This chapter explains why they moved.
Disclaimer-Do I really have to put this? I don't own any of the characters... blah blah blah.
"Hey Emma! There you are! I was looking for you," Courtney called across the gym. Suddenly one of those not nerdy-not cool kids came into the gym. "What are you doing here?" Courtney asked her. "You're not trying out, are you?"
"Actually, I was planning to," the girl said politely.
"I hope you don't think you're gonna make the team, right Emma?" Courtney asked.
"Yeah," Emma said, a little uncertainly. "'Cuz you're not."
The girl started to cry and ran out of the gym.
"Well, that takes care of that," Courtney said. "Before you try out, I want to ask you a few questions. Like do you have any siblings?"
"I have a little sister named Callie. She's 5." Emma replied.
"And why did you move?"
"My dad got some dinosaur job that he really wanted so we all had to move."
"What do your parents do?"
"My dad studies dinosaurs, and my mom used to work at Ralph Lauren, but now since we moved she had to quit and decided to be a stay-at-home mom."
"Okay. My dad is a sports reporter and he earns so much. We have a really big house."
"We have a big house also because when we moved my dad's job gave it to him. I has a lot of bedrooms but it probably isn't as nice as yours because he doesn't earn as much as a sports reporter would."
"Okay, now you're going to try out. First I'm going to do a routine because I'm captain and you have to copy it, and then you're going to make up your own routine on the spot. If you're really good you might be assistant captain." Courtney started doing her routine, and Emma copied it almost perfectly. Then Emma did her own routine. Courtney told her that she made the team. Emma wasn't supposed to know yet but neither she nor Courtney cared. All that mattered was that she made it.
"You're going to be assistant captain," Courtney told her. "I already told them. I got to decide since I'm captain. Hey... can I come to your house after we go to the mall?"
"Sure. Do you wanna sleep over? It's a Friday night. My mom will be happy that I made the team. She was a cheerleader in high school. I'll call her now." Emma took out her phone and called Rachel.
"Hi mom. Oh really? In that case, can I go to the mall with a friend? Come on. I'll be careful. And she knows her way around. Thanks. Also can she sleep over? Oh right, because of Callie. Okay hold on a sec. I'll ask her." She turned to Courtney. "My mom says I can go. Also, she wants to know if you can take me to the mall because my sister has chicken pox and I haven't had them yet, and if I can sleep over at your house instead."
"Yeah, it's fine. My sister can stop at your house so you can get your stuff on the way to the mall."
Emma told her mom all this and they all agreed.
"Come on." Courtney said. "My sister's probably waiting outside." Sure enough, she was. They stopped at Emma's house. Courtney thought that it was small compared to hers but a lot bigger than a lot of other people's houses. Then they got back in the car to go to the mall.