AN: I'm sorry if I'm the worst updater ever…

It was the week of homecoming and the whole school was buzzing with excitement. The cheerleaders had their halftime routine down path and the football players knew their plays forward and back. Massie had finally begun to, surprisingly, like school. Everything had seemed to just be going right for her! Alicia had quit messing with her during practice, her coach praised Massie's every move and gave her the position of center flyer, schoolwork was easy as could be, she hadn't seen Landon Crane in over a week, Skye Hamilton found another boy to harass, and, best of all, Massie's relationship with Derrick couldn't be any more perfect! In fact, they were going to the homecoming dance together Saturday night. Massie had her dress already picked out, a tight, mint green dress that not only made her look tan, but accentuated her curves enough for Derrick to want to devour her. Everything was perfect, but perfect wasn't going to last as long as Massie had hoped…

Friday Night

Derrick sat on the football turf stretching his quads, it was 20 minutes until his first football game of the season, not to mention it was the homecoming game- the entire school was already starting to file in the bleachers all coming to watch him and his team, he couldn't disappoint.

A shadow covered the evening sun shining down on him; he looked up to meet the eyes of his amber eyed girl smiling at him.

"Can I sit with you?" She asked

Derrick nodded, patting the ground next to him. Like him, Massie was already dressed in her uniform, a tiny navy blue skirt and top with sparkly orange letters spelling out OCD and a huge bow in her tied up ponytail to match.

"You nervous?" She asked, a small hint of a giggle in her voice.

Derrick sighed, running his fingers through his hair," I don't know, I just don't want to look stupid next to these guys. I mean, I'm just a freshman, it's a big deal I'm on this team-I don't want to let anyone down."

Massie nodded," I understand completely Derr, I'm on the same boat as you! I don't know, all we can do is go out there and do our best. We have to put our nervousness aside and show everyone why we're here you know?"

He smiled, leaned into her, and kissed her forehead, "You're right. We're going to do awesome and even if we don't we have each other just in case the entire school hates us after tonight. So who cares, right?"

Massie gave Derrick a look, he laughed and kissed her forehead again, "I'm joking, Block, promise!"

She smiled, "I know. Well I'll let you finish warming up; I can't wait to cheer for you, Good luck!" She kissed him on the cheek and pranced off.

Derrick watched her return to the rest of her squad, smiling to himself, "Damn." He thought upon realizing how much he liked Massie.

He watched her a little while more before being tackled to the ground by who other than Spencer Block.

"Dude! Are you pumped or what? I'm so ready to go out there and kick Abner Double Day's ass!" Spencer exclaimed as Adam and Aiden joined them.

"Spencer, stop tackling our team, I can't risk anyone getting hurt tonight!" Adam exclaimed, for it being his first game as the captain Adam didn't look nervous at all, he looked in his element.

"How you doing Derrick? You ready?" Aiden asked sincerely

"Ah, I don't know, I'm sort of freaked out, but I mean I know it'll be fun!"

Adam patted Derrick's back, "Dude, you're legitimately better than a third of the kids on this team. I wouldn't have you start tonight if you weren't. We all know what you're capable of; I can't wait to see you in action."

"Thanks man." Derrick laughed.

"And besides, we wouldn't even let Massie talked to you, if you weren't good at the game." Spencer chimed in.

They all laughed, slowly Derrick's nervousness began to disappear and before he knew it they were in the team huddle screaming off chants at each other, the game was about to begin…

XXX

The game had begun; Massie's squad lined the sidelines facing the home bleachers that were over pouring with OCD fans. Massie had never seen so many people watching her before in her entire life. The score was 7-0 OCD a minute before half time. The cheerleaders all grouped up into a big circle counting through the routine in their head, making sure their shoes were on tight and readjusting hair.

In the center of the circle was Alicia who was looking into a compact mirror applying lip gloss despite the fact the wind kept making her hair stick to it. Massie looked to the game and saw her brothers. Adam was yelling out numbers, Spencer was at the far left end of the field, and Aiden was on the bench. Then, she saw Derrick who was opposite to Spencer and closest to Massie. Though he was wearing a helmet, Massie could see how happy he was, and he was doing awesome the first half. Massie didn't know all of the technical terms but apparently he got a safety and the stands started chanting his name. Massie took a deep breath, suddenly nervous. She knew she could do this, but she was so scared.

A hand gripped her shoulder hard and Massie's soft amber eyes met the fiery Alicia's, "You better not mess this up for me, Maysie, because if you do I can promise I'll make your life hell."

Massie looked at her paralyzed, not knowing what to say or do because of how nervous she was.

Alicia rolled her eyes, "You're such a freak." She turned to saunter off.

Massie quickly regained her composure, took a big gulp and pulled Alicia back around, "You shouldn't be the one talking, Uh-licia, you're the one who couldn't even hold me in the air the first two weeks of practice. I heard coach was considering moving you back down to JV, so, how about you don't mess this up for yourself, okay?" Though it wasn't exactly true Massie felt a new sense of confidence overcome her as Alicia's jaw dropped open, Massie gave her a smirk, and this time it was her who was sauntering off.

XXX

"Ladies and gentlemen, let's give it up for the OCD Sirens!"

The crowd burst into a cheer that probably would've broken the sound barrier. Massie and the rest of her team ran out onto the field taking their spots. They stand with their heads down waiting to hear the start of their song; Massie can't even finish taking her deep breath before the song Burn by Ellie Goulding begins to play.

Massie hit all of her ground moves perfectly, and her flips were right on point. Massie wasn't nervous about that though, as they all ran into their stunt groups, Massie's stomach sunk a little. The moment of truth.

Massie was lifted in the air.

"So far so good" she thought.

She pulled her left leg up and into a bow and arrow. Massie felt secure, but she realized there were only 3 sets of hands gripping onto her foot; she tried not to pay attention to it, though she knew what was happening. She dropped down, and then was lifted back up to do a scorpion. She hit it perfectly, despite the fact that her back, Alicia, stood there staring at her.

"What was she doing?!" Massie screamed in her head though her face displayed a smile.

She dropped down and was lifted again to do the hitch, this would be interesting. Massie felt one of her bases arms quiver a little as the flyers to Massie's right and left lifted their feet to her shoulders. They waited for the counts to go by before each flyer from the outside in twisted down back to the ground. Massie was the last to do this since she was middle. Her turn finally came, she twisted and fell into the cradle, but since Alicia decided to still not help out Massie's head and back fell straight back catching Alicia's smirk at her. Fortunately, Massie's other bases didn't drop her to the ground and everything looked like it was supposed to be the way it was.

They finished their routine, the cheerleaders waving at the crowd as they ran back to the sidelines. Massie looked at her coach whose face was red with anger. She stared directly at Alicia. Alicia walked past Massie as if she had just beaten her at something. Massie wanted to cry, though the routine went well, Massie didn't understand what she did to make Alicia dislike her so much also, she threw out her back a bit when she fell straight back. Massie took a seat on the sideline bleacher hunched over for the sake of her back. Olivia along with other members of the team ran over to see if she was okay. While being bombarded with questions by the other cheerleaders Massie looked up at Alicia who was staring at her too. Alicia flinched a little, shrugged, grabbed her water bottle and began cheering on the side line again.

Nothing can ever be perfect for too long, and though this may have been seen as a little bump in the road, Massie was about to hit an even bigger pothole.