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Chapter 17: Just a Normal Day...

January 30th 2022

"Hey Logan, come on we have to get going!"

"Yeah I'm coming." Logan shouted down the stairs to Breelan. She hated getting ready for practice and it would often take her at least 1 hour to complete everything.

"LOGAN! We are going to be late!" Gabi shouted up.

"I'm coming now!" She sprinted out of her bedroom and flew down the two sets of stairs to slip on her blue canvas shoes and follow her family out the door. There was just enough time for Troy to shout words of encouragement to his eldest daughter.

"Hey Lo. That mind block is nothing just think you are in the pool. Remember like yesterday in back yard ok?" Troy smiled when he heard a yes then he turned his attention back to Ella-Grace lying on his stomach. "Ella what are you doing?"

"Daddy me want to go to gym." She whined.

"I know Ella but you don't practice today but Logi, Bree and Kenna do." He rubbed his 5 year olds back and turned up the basketball on the tv.

"No daddy!" Ella knocked the remote out his hands and covered her ears. "Me sleep you no noise."

Troy grunted "Nap time huh?" He picked her up "Come - on Madi, Maebh nap time." He led his girls up the stairs and placed them individually into their beds. "Have a good nap my Princess" He said as he kissed them.

"Logan have a good practice ok." Gabi told her 10 year old as she walked through the doors into the practice area. "Right girls, lets get your shoes on." She sat in front of McKenna and placed her pristine white shoes covered with gems onto her feet. "There you go." Kenna got up and walked through the glass doors with a gold logo on that Logan had just walked through. "Sit down Bree or you'll be late." Breelan immediately fell to the floor and stretched out her feet to her mother who repeated the same process. "Ok have fun." Gabi kissed her daughter on the head and opened the glass door for her "Let's get that layout today!" Breelan high fived her mother then walked into the cluster of girls on the other side of the door.

"Hi Gabs, got your Dippers and Twinkle here today like normal?"

"Yeah." Gabi laughed at Logan's friend Drea's mother. "How's Drea?"

"She's good, got that cast off 2 weeks ago so this is her 1st practice back." Gabi nodded and smiled "I heard Logan had a mental block - I hope that goes before NCA!"

"Oh god yes. She has been worried for practice everyday since she got it."

"Ah poor kid."

The two adults said their pleasant goodbyes and walked off in different directions, Drea's mother walked to the parents viewing area while Gabi walked out the front door to run some errands.

Meanwhile, back inside the gym Logan had just finished her warm up run around the lengthy blue mat. "Twinkles. Over you come." Coach Chrissy waved to the 32 girls. "Ok girls, we have 5 weeks till NCA and this routine is a hot mess, flyers need to be clean - motions and tumbling needs to be sharp!" The girls all grunted and resumed their starting positions.

"Logan! Look happy." another coach, Kevin shouted at the 10 year old. Logan sarcastically smiled at him before his laughter made her truly break into a real smile.

Gabi had made it back into the parent's viewing room in just enough time to see this exchange of smiles and it made her happy. Logan had finally smiled at cheer practice since she got the mental block months back. Gabi silently cheered her on in her head as her centre stunt went up.

Back on the floor, Logan's stunt was going perfectly - the tick-tock hit, the scorpion hit and the arabesque hit, all that was left was the double down to dismount. At 1st it looked perfect, Logan had perfect form in the air but as she became closer to her bases a squeal was heard, from the Little Dippers, practicing on the next floor over which threw off her bases and all but 1 missed the catch. Logan landed hard on her bum and burst into tears.

Gabi gasped and intently looked at her daughter who was swarmed by people.

"Hey Logan? Are you ok?" The rest of the Twinkle girls asked. She was just sat on the floor crying. All 3 Twinkle coaches came rushing over.

"Come on. Get up." Kevin held out his hand and pulled the 10 year old up. He turned her around to see if there was any damage and there he saw a huge purple bruise forming. "Is your mom here?" Logan nodded and pointed to the class window. Kevin lead her to the parent's viewing room door where Gabi rushed over.

"Aww baby, it's ok. Your fine." She embraced her eldest and looked at the coach.

"I think you should take her to the hospital to check if it's just a bruise - we want to be sure." Gabi nodded and picked up her bag while Kevin patted Logan on the shoulder. "Lets go then, in the car we'll call daddy to come and get the other two."

Back at the house, Troy was wrestling with Ella-Grace who had refused to nap after 10 minutes singing in her bed. "You little monster!" He grumbled as he tickled her stomach. Her squeals were loud and almost deafened him. "Shhh..." He reminded her "Some are sleeping unlike you." Ella stuck out her tongue before clambering down to play with her princess castle.

Troy enjoyed the silence, 3 of the girls were at practice, the sextuplet boys were all at their practices, and Freddie had gone over to Zac's after football - all Troy had to do was take care of four 5 year olds and Annabelle. He decided to close his eyes for moment until he felt a tug on his trousers. He looked down and saw a smiling Hetty. "Oh. Hi, when did you wake up?"

She laughed as he placed her on his stomach "Just now. Ella squeak." Now it was Troy's turn to laugh; according to Hetty, Ella squeaks. The moments after Hetty wakes up were some of the best for Troy; he enjoyed having his little girl around and not in hospitals trying to figure out what is wrong .

Hetty was just about to drop off again when the phone fully woke her. "I'll be back." Troy said while moving Hetty onto the floor.

Hello? He answered, walking back into the living room

Hi, Troy me and Logan are on our way to the hospital so you need to pick up Bree and Kenna.

Ok. Wait why?

She fell during a dismount and has a big bruise on her bum. We are checking if it's nothing major that's all.

Troy felt Logan squirm in the car as her parents were talking about her bum.

Good. Pick-up at 5pm right?

Yep. Be back at the house when I can.

And with that Troy hung up the phone and walked back to the living room which now had two more occupants, Madi and Maebh, both with bed hair.