Author's Notes: to Jax and Lynette, just stay with me. I know what I am doing. Mostly. Anyway here's another one.
Fly… - Chapter 11 – Nobody's going to catch me.
The next day was just as uncomfortable as the last.
Alice had informed the team that Savannah was stepping down and she would be running the team. Even though Savannah had agreed to give the team up, it didn't stop Alice from twisting the knife. She was getting an insane amount of pleasure from winning.
"Savannah and I have decided that the best thing for the squad is for me to be in charge." Alice said smugly as she stood in front of the team. Of course this decision was met with a chorus of groans and discourse. However that just seemed to fuel her confidence.
"If you are all finished, I liked to explain why this is happening."
"You gotta be fucking kidding me." Lewis said. He knew Alice had to be pulling something. He looked at Savannah who was avoiding eye contact with everyone in the room. There was definitely something going on. Whatever his ex had on Savannah had to be fairly incriminating. He looked to his right and saw Marti who looked like her head was about to explode.
"You need a leader who is focused on the goal of winning Nationals and Savannah has admitting to being distracted by other interests. So she stepped aside for the good of the team." Alice said with a smile as she made eye contact with Marti who was glaring at her. She could swear the blonde was trying to melt her face.
"Savannah, is this legit?" Darwin, one of the spotters, asked from the back. The entire team got quiet and looked at Savannah.
"Yeah, Alice is in charge and I'll be stepping down effective immediately." Savannah said sounding as robotic as possible. The gym went silent once Savannah said that. She had spent all of last night trying to convince herself that this was a good idea. That she could handle not being in charge of the team. She looked over at her girlfriend. It only took the taller girl a few seconds to lock eyes with her. She was doing this for her. And this terrible feeling that was still surrounding her would go away as long as she had Marti in her life.
Marti stared back at her girlfriend and she couldn't believe that Savannah was really going to let this happen. Last night she felt confused. Right now she was pissed.
Really pissed.
She was mad at herself for coming back to the room yesterday. She was mad that she put Savannah in the position to lose the team. If she was only stronger, then maybe she wouldn't have given in to Savannah so easily and then things wouldn't be like this. And she wouldn't have to be standing here looking at that dumb ass smirk on Alice's face as she stood there barking out the new schedule for the team.
"Fuck this." Marti said and marched towards the exit.
"Excuse me, Marti. But this is a mandatory practice. If you leave, don't bother coming back." Alice said from the front of the gym. The blonde paused for a moment and for a second there, it looked like common sense was going to prevail.
"Fine by me." Marti hissed without turning around.
"Now Marti, remember our deal…" Alice said.
"You know what? Fuck you, Alice! You made a deal with Savannah and not me! So this thing you are trying to hold over her does not apply to me!" Marti shouted as she stomped her way over to where Alice was standing. The team of course responded with a resounding 'oooo'.
"I can't believe this…" Savannah whispered. It was like her sacrifice meant nothing to Marti. At least that was what it sounded like. The former captain felt like she had just been slapped across the face. She knew that Alice wasn't going to back down from Marti and she knew that her girlfriend wasn't going to back down either. And since Marti declared that she had nothing to do with the arrangement when she didn't want anything to do with the current situation.
"You unbelievable bitch! You have always thought you were better than me! Since the day you showed up, you have been nothing but a pain in my ass!" Alice bumped her chest against Marti's chest so they were standing face to face. She had been waiting for a long time to beat this Amazon down.
"I am not scared of you. Savannah, Lewis and the rest of these guys might be scared of you but not me!" Marti shot back.
"That's it…" Savannah had heard enough. So now Marti thought she did this out of fear. She couldn't take this anymore. Savannah could feel the tears starting to fall and quickly ran out of the gym.
Marti was going to do this. She was going to beat the shit out of this bitch. Just as she was getting ready to throw a punch, Marti saw Savannah run out of the other door of the gym. She couldn't believe it. She wasn't going to stay there and try to break this fight up. Or even try to remind her why she shouldn't be pushing Alice's buttons right now. But she didn't do any of that. She just left. The law student was all alone.
Like always.
Unfortunately for her, Alice noticed that Marti was not paying attention to her. So she quickly tackled the blonde and brought her down hard on the floor.
"You stupid fucking bitch!" Alice shouted as she struggled with Marti.
"I am going to break you in half!" Marti screamed as she and the new head cheerleader rolled on the gym floor. Alice managed get a punch in before the team pulled them apart but Marti barely felt it. The tears had started to fall almost instantly. She desperately scanned the gym hoping that maybe Savannah had gone for help or that she had came back while she was fighting. She could still hear Alice yelling at her.
"You are so done! As long as I am in charge, you'll never be a Hellcat!" Alice shouted.
Marti just stared at the girl. How did this happen? Things were spiraling out of control and she felt like there wasn't anything she could do to stop this. She wanted to say something snarky back to Alice but she couldn't. What would be the point? The only person, who believed in her, had left her all alone.
"Fine. You win. Fuck this." Marti didn't stay to hear Alice's answer. She didn't care anymore. She turned around and made her way out of the gym.
To be continued…