Soaring [ej caswell]

Seven: What Team?

Nothing else really happened Friday night at homecoming. EJ and I danced and it was like stupid romantic. After that we just kind of jammed and Ashlyn joined us. It was a fun night. The only difference was now, EJ and I are a little more nervous around each other. We've been stealing glances all morning.

Is this actually happening?

"Okay, guys. We're gonna get one in for practice, okay? We're all gonna jump on the count of three. Ready? One, two, three" Big Red instructs and we all jump but we're all off.

We're taking pictures for the cover of our program for the HSM. We all got into costume, some of them being comical. Hence Ricky, wearing basically a Justin Bieber wig that looks absolutely horrendous. And Sebby looks iconic, but when does he not? Then I look normal, like I belong in 2006.

"Oh, my gosh. I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry" Kourtney says running in front of us, cutting through "I'm so sorry, y'all"

"Kourtney" we groan.

"One, two, three"

We all jump again, absolute nightmare.

"Wait, what happened?" Big Red asks.

"Where to begin?" Ricky sighs.

"I think you went early" Seb tells Ricky.

"Are we jumping on three or after three?" I ask.

"Yeah, the count of three, ready?" Big Red answers.

"Nah, man, you need some new words"

"I think I broke a heel" Seb says.

"You guys, this isn't that hard. You smile, you leave the earth, you land" Carlos cuts into all of the commotion.

"It's a little hard to smile when we don't even know the plan" Ricky says.

"I can't look at Ricky. Is that a problem?" Nini asks and we all giggle.

"Okay, let's take a five" Carlos says.

"On five or after five?" Ricky asks walking away.

"I think he's mad at us" Seb says.

"Maybe just a little" I laugh.

*Later*

"Did we get a good photo for the program cover?" I ask. Gina and I both looked over Big Red's shoulder, looking through the pictures.

"That's a question I'm not ready to answer" Big Red chuckles.

"Hey, jumping on cue is much more complicated than it sounds, okay?" Gina says.

"Here" Big Red says handing me the camera as Gina and I look through the pictures as he walks over to Ricky.

"Oh my god, Ricky's hair" I bust out laughing.

"Oh my god, I can't" Gina laughs.

Gina isn't too god awful. After EJ telling me that they weren't together and it was just some stupid plan, that I still think he's not telling me all of, I realized that she isn't the worst human being on the planet. She's nice, to me at least.

Now we were waiting for Miss Jen and Carlos. They're both late and we have no idea where either of them are.

"Guys, let's just start. Flip to 'When There Was Me and You' in your script" Natalie says.

"Oh, should we maybe wait until Miss Jenn gets here?" Nini asks.

"Well, I don't know. Apparently nobody's in charge"