As soon as I get to cheer practice I see that everyone is staring at Emma as she yells at the group of girls in front of her
When I walk up next to her, since I'm co-captain, some of the girls look at me with relief
"Amelia, I need to talk to you" Emma says as she grabs my wrist and yanks me off to the side
When she stops in front of me I see her current situation.
She looks tired and green.
"They're not ready. We have a football game in a week. What the fuck am I going to do?" She asks as she rubs her temples and paces in front of me
I've never seen her this stressed before.
"What do they need help with?" I ask
"Their flips, landings, posture" she says as she taps her fingers to list out the problems
"Can I see them rehearse it and make corrections from there?" I ask since I can't agree nor disagree with her since I haven't seen the routine yet
"Whatever" she says as she leads me back towards the group of tense cheerleaders
"You guys need to relax. Tensing causes hesitation and you can't hesitate during this routine or it'll look unprofessional" I say as I stop in front of the girls
"Preform the cheer you just learned in 5 6 7 8" I say counting them off before I start the music which causes them to fall into the steps.
Emma was right.
They weren't on beat, they were sloppy, some of them kept stumbling after a flip while the bases looked confused.
This team was a mess.
When they stop, off beat might I add, I just stare at them in shock
"I'm going to be honest," I say with a deep breath "that was horrible" I say which makes a lot of their faces fall
"You guys used to be so perfectly on beat that it was crazy. What happened?" I ask in disappointment
Some just looked away while the others where looking at me with an impatient look.
"The flyers need to tuck in their stomachs and focus on completing the flips while the bases need to at least look like they know what they're doing" I say which earns me some nods
"The tumblers need to lean forward a little when you land on your heels so that you don't fall back" I say which earns me some more nods
"And everyone needs to work on their balance and synchronization" I say
"Any questions?" I ask but get nothing so I nod my head
"Okay, then let's go through this one more time" I say before I count them off and start the music again
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An hour later.
They're mostly on beat and their posture is way better.
"Go change. We'll meet tomorrow after school for another practice" I say with a smile which causes them to cheer in relief before they walk towards the locker room.
As I walk to grab my bag, I'm stopped by a big hand on my wrist. I turn around and see Easton looking at me with an angered expression.
"What happened?" I ask as I go to hold his face but he pushes my hands away
Okay, I get that he's mad but that's so rude.
"Why didn't you tell me?" He asks in an emotionless tone which causes me to stare at him in confusion
"What?" I ask
"Don't play dumb with me Amelia" he says in a clipped tone
"Why have you been lieing to me this entire time. I love you and you just lie to my face" he says which causes me to become more confused but happy that he's using present tense
"Lieing to you about what?" I ask which causes him to roll his eyes
"This whole time I thought that you liked me, but in reality it was just a dare" he says
"who told you that?" I ask as I go to touch his cheek again but he just moves away from me
Ouch, that hurts.
"Don't touch me because if you touch me then I'm just going to be under your spell again" he says in frustration
"Do you want to talk it out?" I ask as I try to be the rational one here
"No, just," He says before he takes a deep breath and looks me in the eyes with so much sadness that I felt tears well up in my eyes "don't talk to me or acknowledge me again" he says before he turns around and walks away
My chest hurts.
It feels like someone is suffocating my heart.
It feels like I'm running out of oxygen.
I try to claw and my throat so that I can gain some oxygen but to no avail.
Tears start to fall from my eyes as I fall to the ground.
"That's what you get for taking my future husband, you bitch" I faintly hear Emma say before she retreats out of the gym doors
The tears start to fall out of my eyes more freely now.
This was it.
My vision started to become blurry.
I begin to feel lightheaded.
"Amelia" I hear Stella yell out which causes me to slowly turn my head towards her body that's running towards me
"Help...me..." I whisper out of my closing throat as I reach out to her distanced figure before I collapse and everything goes black.
I felt painful and numb at the same time.
The boy that I fell for thinks that everything that I told him was all a dare.... a measly joke.
He hates me and wants nothing to do with me.
There's only one person to blame for this.
She's the only person that hates me enough to watch me crumble to the ground while she tries to rise above me.
Emma DíLance.
As soon as I arrive at football practice I try to search for Amelia across the field since we both practice on the same field.When I spot her I see that Emma and her are talking about something. She looks calm and relaxed while Emma looks annoyed and stressed.I wonder what they could be talking about?As soon as I'm about to walk over there and answer my own question, my teammates encourage me to come back to join them since practice is about to start.I nod and walk over towards them. I guess that problem can wait.-In the middle of practice I sneak a peak at Amelia and see that she's busy cheering with the cheer team while this girl off to the side was twirling her hair and waving to me.No thanks, I already have a girlfriend who's amazing in my eyes.I turn away from her with an emotionless expression and continue practicing with the guys.-After practice that girl who was checking me out, and not even paying attention to the squad, came up to me with a flirty expressionIn all
I woke up in Stella's room to the sound of angered yelling going off in the next room."What the fuck is your problem?" I hear an angry Stella yell"What do you want?" I hear an annoyed Easton yell back"I want you to stay away from my best friend since you can't seem to be logical around her""It's not my fault that I get lovesick around her""You call that love? You decided to believe her enemy instead of listening to her, her enemy you dumbass. Out of everyone, you fucking chose Emma DíLance" Stella yells so loud that I jump from shockI've heard them fight many times, but it's never been this bad."How was I supposed to know that they were enemies?""Um, it's pretty fucking obvious, dumbass""Stop calling me a dumbass" He says before Stella goes quiet for a couple of minutes"Stay away from her. You obviously don't know how to treat her, so just stay away." I hear Stella yell quieter"How am I supposed to apologize to her if I have to stay away from her" He says with an annoyed to
As soon as I walked into school it was a mad house.I was immediately surrounded by boys from every stereotype, from the chess club to the Quarterbacks.They all kept asking The the same questions which consisted of..."Amelia, now that you're single, do you want to go to prom with me?""Would you like to go on a date with me?""Who are you going to prom with because it should be me"While others just kept handing me flowers and boxes of chocolates.Easton broke up with me yesterday at the end of school where only the cheerleading team and football team were present but most likely in the locker rooms.When I finally manage to get through the crowd of boys, I sprint towards my locker only to accidentally run into someone.I feel all the gifts fall out of my grasp as I prepare myself to fall to the ground but it never came.I slowly peek open my eye only to see a brown pair of eyes looking down at me with amusement"Are you okay?" He asks when I can stand on my two feet again"Yeah, So
"Hello?" I ask as I tap on his shoulderHe turns around and I'm met with those same pair of brown eyes that I saw in the hall today."I thought you were going to stand me up" he says with a lighthearted laugh that makes me smile"Of course not" I say as I grab his shaky hand and lead him over to the ticket booth.He ordered two tickets to watch the movie "Chicken Little" since it's a comedy and there currently weren't any scary movies playing."Since you paid for the tickets, I'm paying for the snacks" I say which makes him smile as turns towards me"I don't remember agreeing to that" he says with a teasing voice as we walk into the snack court"Well you're going to" I say with a smirk as I walk towards the popcorn counter."Hello, We'll take the buttered popcorn" I say to the brown haired guy whose behind the counter as the brown eyed boy walks up beside me"Of course, pretty lady" the guy behind the counter says with a wink before he starts to prepare the popcornOh my fucking goodn
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Remember when I said that Stella and I would go prom dress shopping after school?Yeah, well that never happened.We got swarmed with homework since it's close to the end of the year so we had to put shopping off for five days.When I woke up from sleeping in Easton's room, his mom playfully bombarded me with many questions while Stella just smiled.I told her that him and I were just friends.After I told her that, her mood seemed to dampen.Stella and I are currently at the mall.She said that I would look good in a black dress while I said she would look good in a white dress so that we wouldn't spend all day looking through dresses since we're on a time crunch."You should try this on" she says as she hands me a long sleeved black dress with some lace detailsI take the dress and walk inside of the dressing room. When I have the dress on I look in the mirror and critique how it looks on me.It's off the shoulders and the sleeves are made out of lace while the rest of the dress is