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Hey guys I forgot to add one part to the end of chapter1, it's not much but it ties in to chapter 2. So I'm going to add the whole last paragraph to this post, sorry. Happy reading and don't forget to review!!
Chapter 1(contd.)
It's been one year since that dreaded day, and I am finally getting back to my old self. My best friend Angela tells me how bad I had become. I just couldn't care about anything, it was too hard to show any sort of emotion without remembering what happened that day. So I didn't, I never smiled, never laughed, I did nothing. My softball coach didn't want me to quit, so he told me I could sit out for the remainder of the season, but I had to promise him I would play the following season, I agreed. My cheerleading coaches were a different story. I'm on two different squads, an all star squad, and my high school's varsity cheer squad. My all star coach threatened to fine me for every missed practice, competition, fundraiser, and so on, the fine per missed event was insane. I couldn't add any more stress to Charlie's already stressful life, so I stayed on the all star squad. The situation with my school squad was similar, so I stayed on that one as well. That was a year ago.
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Chapter 2
It's the last week of school, the last week of my sophomore year. Everything was some what back to normal. I started practicing with my softball team three weeks ago, and they couldn't be happier. As for cheer I was actually trying, up until two weeks ago I was a zombie. I was me again.
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"Bells, what time do you get out of practice today?" Charlie asked me through my door.
"Umm…I think 6:30" I said while staring at my very full closet trying to figure out what I should wear to school. I finally grabbed a pair of dark blue American Eagle denim shorts and my favorite teal Lacoste polo. This will do, I thought to myself as I slipped into my clothes. I was about to leave my room when I realized I didn't have any shoes on, as I walked back to my closet I glanced at the clock on my bedside table.
"SHOOT!" I yelled. It was already 7:45; I had to be at school by 8:05 for a softball meeting. I ran the rest of the way to my closet and grabbed my favorite pair of madras print Sperry Top-sider's, threw them on and ran downstairs, I sprinted to the kitchen.
"Whoa! Slow down speed racer!" Maverick laughed "Late again, are we?"
"Just shut up and get my keys!" I scrambled through the pantry until I found my box of strawberry pop tarts.
"B, I put your keys on the table by the front door. Oh and dad wanted me to tell you to come straight home after you get out of practice, he has some surprise for us." He snorted "Anyway, I'll see you at school, don't be late!" He yelled from his room.
After I got my pop tart, I grabbed my backpack and my Coach wristlet from the hallway closet, and then I ran out the front door. I was halfway across our front lawn before I realized I forgot to get my keys off the table by the door. I threw my backpack at my car, ran back inside grabbed my keys, and once again ran back to my car. I unlocked my car, yanked my backpack off the ground and threw it onto the passenger seat; I started my car and backed out of my driveway so fast I almost hit our mailbox. Once on the street I hit the gas and sped my way to school.
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I love my car; it's a 2007 Ford Mustang GT convertible, black with silver racing stripes. It was a gift from my dad for my sixteenth birthday. My car is the most beautiful car I have ever seen, ok so I'm a little biased but I don't care, I love it. It was definitely a surprise when I got it; I assumed I would get a truck, actually everyone I knew assumed I would get a truck. We're a truck loving family, so when I didn't get a truck everyone, myself included, was a little shocked. Maverick was more upset than I thought he would be, he didn't want me to get a small car, he didn't want me to get a car at all. Maverick has always been very protective of me and I guess the thought of me driving myself around without his supervision upset him more than it should have. For weeks after I got the car he would secretly follow me, or have his friends follow me, they are just as protective as him. He even went as far as to tell Charlie to take my car away, and for no reason I might add. Charlie told him he had to accept the fact that I was growing up, and that if he wasn't careful he might end up pushing me away. After talking with Charlie, Maverick decided to let up a bit, which I couldn't have been happier about.
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Before I knew it I was pulling into the athlete parking lot which was, of course, located directly in front of the athletics building. My high school has two separate buildings, the athletics building and the academic building; and three parking lots, the faculty parking lot, the regular student parking lot, and the athlete parking lot. This school is huge, ever since it was built it's been the largest private high school in the whole state of Texas. Like they say "Everything's BIGGER in TEXAS!" They're also very particular when it comes to who can park where. As you drive into the athlete parking lot there's a sign that says "ATHLETES ONLY". Before the start of a new school year each student is given a parking permit with a number on it that corresponds with a numbered parking space in your designated parking lot. In the regular student parking lot it goes by grade. In the athlete parking lot it's a tad different, the captains of each sport get first row parking, and then the rest of the parking lot is assigned by sport. Thank goodness I'm the captain of the varsity softball team, otherwise I would be stuck somewhere in the middle, and the athlete parking lot is quite large.
I pulled into my parking spot, turned my car off, jumped out and ran into the athletics building. Thankfully our meeting was being held in the game gym, which was in the front of the athletics building. I was ten minutes late.
"So nice of you to join us, captain." Coach Jones said sarcastically.
"Sorry, it won't happen again." I promised.
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The meeting this morning was pointless, Coach Jones went over the same stuff he always does at the end of the year, he reminds us to stay active over the summer and he recommends a few softball camps he would like us to go to.
The day seemed to be going by so slow, I was in my last period advanced physics class when the end of day announcements came on over the intercom.
"ATTENTION ALL FACULTY, PLEASE RELEASE ALL FOOTBALL PLAYERS, SOCCER PLAYERS, AND CHEERLEADERS. THANK YOU."
"Bella, Christi you girls can leave." Mr. Garcia said acknowledging the recent announcement.
Christi was already at the door waiting for me by the time I had gathered all of my things.
I met her at the door and we headed towards the athletics building.
"So, Bella" Christi began "are you like super excited about today's practice? I mean we get to practice in the boys gym today, and all the football players will be in there!" She squealed at the last part.
"Umm…I guess." She looked at me somewhat shocked that I wasn't as excited as she seemed to be. "Christi, you know I've known most of those guys since they were little, and you also know they're all like brothers to me."
She was silent for a moment, "Whatever you say Bella…Hey do you know which cheer camp we're going to this summer? I really, really, really hope we go to the one in Galveston, you know how much I love the beach!" She said nudging me with her elbow.
"I'm not to sure actually, whichever one we go to I'm sure we'll have a great time."
"Yeah" she said glancing at her watch, we were still in the academic building "oh, we need to hurry, we only have ten minutes." She started to jog towards the door at the end of the hall that led to the athletic building. I jogged along side her. Once we got into the athletic building, we went straight to the cheerleader locker room. It's an awesome locker room, the walls were covered in pictures of the past and present cheerleaders, our lockers were decorated with spirit items, things we made for each other, all in our school's colors black and silver; just like my car. The lockers lined three of the four walls, the fourth wall had ten separate vanities. Each vanity had its own set of outlets, a counter with a small sink off to the side, and a chair.
I made my way to my locker , saying "Hi" to every girl I passed. Once I got to my locker, I opened it threw my backpack inside and began undressing.
"Hey Bella!" our cheer captain Andrea greeted me, as she opened her locker which was next to mine.
"Hey, Andrea." I always felt a bit awkward talking to one of the girls while I was half naked. I mean I love my body, I'm in the best physical condition. It's just uncomfortable.
"So I was thinking…" she continued, "Maybe you could talk to your brother for me…"
"About what?" I could feel a blush coming on.
"Oh come on, Bella, you know how much I like him, how long I've liked him…PLEASE…Just talk to him…PRETTY PLEASE!" She looked so sad, it was kind of funny.
I really don't like it when girls ask me to talk to my brother for them, its weird. Andrea and her begging made it really hard for me to say no.
I let out a heavy sigh, as I put my hair up in a loose ponytail, by this time I was fully dressed in my practice clothes which consisted of a metallic silver sports bra, and black spandex short shorts, my name was written in silver script on the left leg of the shorts.
"Fine," She squealed "BUT…I'm only going to tell him you like him, what he does with that is his business."
"OH BELLA YOU'RE THE BEST!" She yelled. Everyone in the locker room stared at us for a moment, then looked away once they had realized what happened.
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Practice was long and tiring, I was glad when Coach Mandi let us go early. After getting my stuff from my locker and saying bye to the girls, I walked outside to the parking lot and noticed someone tall was leaning on the driver side of my car. He had his back to me, as soon as I took a few steps closer I recognized the massive body.
"Maverick?" I said walking towards my car "Where's your truck?" He turned with a smile on his face.
"Dad brought me to school he said he needed to use my truck today, and I couldn't bring his since it doesn't have a parking permit" He held his hand out and motioned for me to give him my keys.
"HA! No way are you driving my car!" I snorted
"Bella, Bella, Bella"
"Don't you triple Bella me…YOU ARE NOT DRIVING MY CAR!" I yelled. Out of nowhere someone had grabbed me from behind and yanked the keys right out of my hand. "HEY!! WHAT THE HELL!!" I wiggled out of the strangers arms and spun around so fast I almost fell. Just as I was about to fall the stranger caught me, I looked at him and it was none other than my brother's best friend, Robert. He looked back at my stunned face and smiled as he tossed the keys at my brother.
"Robert! My man!" My brother boomed.
"That was a lot easier than I thought it would be." Robert yelled back.
"I hate you! BOTH OF YOU!" I hissed. They laughed, they thought this was hilarious.
"Sorry Bella, I like you and all, but Mavericks my best friend, you know how it goes." I smacked his arm as hard as I could. "OW! What was that for?"
I glared at him for a second, then turned around and dramatically got into the passenger side of my car, I slammed the door behind me instantly regretting it, I love my car too much to hurt it. Maverick said bye to Robert and hopped into my seat. As Maverick started the car I pouted. It was a quiet ride home, I was so mad I couldn't speak, I knew if I did I would end up saying something that would hurt Mavericks feelings and I didn't want to do that. We pulled into the driveway; Maverick's truck was there along with my dad's truck. Once we got to the front door Maverick turned around to face me, well look down at me.
"B, you know I love you," He said with his goofy grin "and I'm sorry."
I couldn't stay mad at him so I gave in. I jumped up, he caught me mid air and pulled me into one of his bone crushing hugs. We stayed like that for a few seconds until he put me down. I looked up at him and smiled, he turned around knowing instantly he was forgiven and opened the front door, I followed him in, dropping our bags in the entry way.
"Maverick, Bella, is that you" Charlie yelled from the living room.
"Yea its us" Maverick said as he made his way to the kitchen, and I made my way to the staircase.
"Could you two come in here, I've got a surprise for ya'll" Charlie sounded like he was really excited about something.
"Dad can it wait until later, I need a shower." I did need a shower, I didn't even change after practice, I was sweaty and sticky.
"No, just get your little butt in here!" He was getting frustrated, I could tell.
"Fine, but you should know, I smell, and I'm sweaty so if it's ok with you then it's ok with me." I said as I walked to the kitchen where Maverick was. He was laughing at me, I stuck my tongue out at him, he laughed even harder.
"That's fine just get in here, both of you, now!"
We walked towards to living room and once Charlie had spotted us, he ran to us grabbed our hands and put them over our eyes.
"Don't peak" He said leading us the rest of the way to the living room with our free hands. After about five steps he stopped us "Ok open!" he practically shouted.
Both Maverick and I uncovered our eyes.
We gasped in unison.
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