I changed quickly in the shorts and shirt that were laid out for the practice and went back to the gym. Rose and Alice were already there sitting on the floor with their short and shirt on. I went to sit next to them and they smiled. "Stretch if you want to look human" I whispered and we started stretching.
Just then Lauren, Jessica, Sophia, and Jenny came in. Jenny was a tall girl with straight midnight black hair; she was in my trig class. Sophia has dark blonde hair and she was with my in gym. They glared at us and sat at the other side to start stretching.
"Lauren just said we probably can't even tumble" Rose hissed and I glared at Lauren.
"Do you want to teach them a lesson?" Alice asked smiling. We nodded and she got up. She went to the middle and I noticed they were watching us. Alice ran and did a round off back hand spring perfectly. Then Rose went and did a double full. They looked at me and I just did a simple round off.
I glanced over to where the girls were and they were glaring at us. Alice smiled and we laughed. 9 girls came in and sat down in a group. I recognized 6 of them from my trig class. Angel, the girl with the pale blonde hair that went up to her back; Britney, the girl with the brown (almost blonde) wavy hair; Meredith, the girl with the midnight black hair; Bonnie, the girl with the red curly hair; Selena, the girl with the short black hair; and Caroline, I was actually friends with her, she was very sporty and her curly pale blonde hair was always up in a pony tail. I was actually friends with Angel, Meredith, Bonnie, and Caroline. Meredith and Bonnie were very sporty too and Angel was like an angel that never got in trouble.
They walked over to me and I smiled "Hi Caroline, Angel, Meredith, and Bonnie" I said and they all murmured hi.
"Bella,
this is Katherine" she said pointing to a girl with brown hair
"Cristina" she said and a girl with blonde hair that went to her
shoulders smiled "and Alexis" she said pointing to the girl with
super dark brown hair. "Nice to meet you" I said and they smiled
"Well, you already know Alice and Rosalie" I said pointing at
them.
Alice waved and Rose just nodded. "Hello" they all said
and Alice answered immediately "Hi, I'm Alice, nice to meet you"
she said as nicely and very enthusiastically.
They all smiled but it looked shocked. Probably due to the fact that a Cullen was actually talking to them.
"Have you ever cheered before?" Alexis asked and Alice and Rose nodded.
"Yeah, we use to be cheerleaders before we moved here, and we loved it" Alice said and then Rose added "I was actually the captain of the squad" she said looking very smug and then she flipped her hair. Well at least I wasn't the only person she disliked when she first met them, of course she liked me now and we were friends but she hated me at first.
"Oh, that's cool, maybe you could be captain here too, and you look like a cheerleader being the most beautiful girl in school, and could probably make a great one" Christina said and Rose smiled. Saying she was the prettiest in the school instantly made Rose like her. "Thank you…" but before she could continue Jessica, Lauren, and their crew came up to us.
"If you even think you have a chance to be captain your wrong because I will be captain and Jessica and Jenny will be co- captains" Lauren said glaring at Rose and Alice.
Rose just looked at her and said "Well first you would need to fix you makeup, you look like a clown with so much on, then you attitude because cheerleaders are supposed to be peppy and cheerful, and then most of all you should fix your face because you should be pretty" Alice and I high-fived her and Lauren glared at her.
"You should fix your attitude… I mean you're the one who's always flipping her hair and thinking you're all that" Jessica answered.
"Even if I do flip my hair and think I'm pretty, which I am" she added and we all nodded "I am actually nice to people and don't make them feel like trash un-like you that isn't even pretty… and looks like a clown"
We all laughed and she Lauren answered even madder than before "Hey, guys actually like me and love my makeup" she answered stiffly.
"Well, I see why my brother turned you 2 girls down" Rose said and Alice smiled smugly while I laughed.
Jessica and Lauren looked like they were about to rip our heads off. "He wasn't thinking when he said no!" Jessica screamed and glared at me.
"Yeah, well he doesn't like when girls wear makeup and try to be superior and everything" I answered and smiled. Rose and Alice put their arms around me and nodded.
"Well then why did he pick you?" Lauren asked.
"Because Bella doesn't wear makeup, she doesn't try to be popular, she's very pretty, she knows how to have a good time, she gets along with all of us, and she is very nice" Alice said. I smiled and I put my arms around them too.
They were like my sisters in a way and I loved all of the Cullen's. Lauren and Jessica just kept glaring and Sophia and Jenny were behind them glaring.
I could see more girls had come in and were around us trying to see the fight. I instantly recognized Hannah, Rachel, Victoria, and Erica. Hannah had short pale blonde hair, Rachel had long burnet hair, and Victoria and Erica were blonde inseparable twins (LOL, my friend James made me put it in because he liked the show of the Ikki twins… though I don't like it muck… Victoria is Vikki's real name and Erica is Rikki's real name)
Then I saw Angelica, Amanda, and Tracy; they were best friends and were always together, they had long brown hair and were somehow tan.
"We are all of that… except wearing makeup and getting along" Lauren answered smugly and Alice and Rose nodded
"Exactly, you wear makeup which Edward hates, and our family is very important to all of us so he wouldn't go out with someone we all hated" I knew she was half right. Edward didn't even care if his family approved of me or not, but he does care for them a lot and does hate makeup.
Just then 3 girls walked in with a tall blonde woman. The woman looked like she was in her early 20's and was very pretty. I assumed she was the coach.
"Hello kids, I am coach Mandy, I have been a cheerleader since I was little and these are my daughters Stacey, Macy, and Kasey" she said pointing to the 3 blonde girls that were with her. "They are captain and co-captain of the squad in Seattle so they will be judges" she said and then looked at us. "There are 30 of you but only 20 will make the team, I will teach you the dance today and some tumbling you will need to know and tomorrow you will demonstrate and I will pick" she started explaining. We all nodded and I smiled, maybe it was a good thing Rose and Alice could memorize it in one look and teach it to me.
"Wednesday you will get your uniforms and you will start practicing and learning the cheers. Thursday I announce captain and 2 co-captains, then Friday is the pep rally and the football game" I didn't even know we had a football team in the school let alone a pep rally. "Then Monday the captains are taking over and I won't be back" she said and we smiled.
This would be nice to do, maybe even a good thing. Although Emmett would make us wear the uniforms and cheer for the guys.
"Ok, first the cheer motions, I want 3 lines of 9 people and 1 extra person in the back row" the girl I think was Stacey said. We all got up and Alice and Rose dragged me to the front row.
Jessica, Lauren, Sophia, and Jenny also got in the front row. After 10 seconds Angel and Britney came up front with us.
"Ok, first I want you to do 'L'" she said. I saw Alice raise her left hand and her right hand went out straight to form an L. I did the same just as they came to see me. She nodded and smiled. "Ok now a T" she said. That one was simple, all you do was get your arms straight to the sides to form a T. We continued like that for about 15 minutes doing Broken T, touchdown, Scorpion (which I almost fell when I did it) Buckets, high V, low V, etc.
We finally finished and they the girl named Macy walked forward and said "Ok, the stunts you need to know… first I will call your names and you will come to this mat to do it… and if you know you can't do it the don't do it" she said and then added "I want girls that have been in a cheer squad before to raise their hands" Rose and Alice raised their hands up and I knew they would be the only ones. This was the first year Fork's had a cheer squad.
"Ok, come forward and say your names" she said. They both walked forward smiling and Rose began "I am Rosalie" she said in a loud clear voice "and I am Alice" Alice said in the exact same tone.
"Very good, let's start with the basics… do a cartwheel" she said. Alice and Rose did a perfect cartwheel and I noticed they were smiling the whole time. "Ok, now a Round off" she said smiling. They did it perfectly again and everyone started clapping.
"Ok, back handspring" they did it perfectly again and by this point everyone besides Lauren, Jessica, Jenny, and Sophia were clapping. They continued doing Back tuck (which was practically like a back flip), Punch front (which was like a front flip), Round off back handspring, Layout, Pike, Full, Double full, Front hurdler (that one really surprised me), and ended doing a perfect Toe touch.
I saw 2 girls with black hair get up and leave after that demonstration and some people laughed. I knew how to do most of those from gymnastics but not all of them.
"Ok, very good girls" she said approvingly, y now I knew they would deffenatly make the team. "Ok, I will call you up and you will do the ones you think you can do" she said and started calling down her list.
When I was finally up Rose and Alice smiled and Alice whispered "You'll do great… better than Jessica and Lauren" I smiled and jogged to the blue mat.
I was able to do all of them except the round off back handspring, Front hurdler, full, and double full. (BTW, I forgot to put in the part where they use a trampoline for the full and double full… so just pretend it's there)
She clapped and I went back to sit down. "That was good, you're deffenatly making the squad" Rose said and we all liked arms.
"Ok, now for the dance, you will need to perform it tomorrow to make the squad, we will do it 3 times and then you may leave" she said and the song 'Please don't stop the music' started playing. I tried to catch most of the dance and it was easy.
When she finished dancing we all went back to the locker rooms to get our clothes but she stopped us at the door. We got to keep the small dark blue shorts and golden shirt for tomorrow.
