It was the next day and I woke up a new person. No care in the world and I felt like Brooke. The biggest bitch. People knew I was one if I had to be and at this point I had nothing to lose. So who cares?
We go outside and our buses are here. As we are loading up the buses I see Carson, Ruben, Aiysha, and Sarah walking up to us.
"Goodie!" Brooke and I both say.
"Brooke I don't think you stole the spirit stick anymore." Carson confessed. "Like i giving a flying tuck what you think?" Brooke said. "Well I do think you wanna win camp championships as much as i do." Carson said.
"So what?" Brooke asked.
"Well if there was any chance of staying to compete you'd consider it right? Even if it meant coming together." Carson said. "Ew that's like cheer-cest!" Chelsea stupidly said. "Chelsea I meant combining our teams!" Carson said annoyed. "Look it's about not quitting. Pepper wants her camp to win. I think she'll help us." she said. "Brilliant plan Carson!" Brooke said sarcastically. "Look I think the Jets are already on the spirits hit list." Carson said. "Because of you!" Brooke said turning away. "Okay well if we leave now we'll all stay cursed. Come on Brooke." Carson begged. "Boo that freak! We're outta here." Brooke said turning away.
I noticed Carson going up to Penn so I thought I should go and try to talk to Ruben.
I walk up to him. "Look Ruben. I'm sorry for saying what I said. That was really bad." He just looked at me. "You know what? I could be a bitch but I'm not."I was at lost for words. I didn't even know what to say. "This could be ending better." "Look you were right. Later Maddy." he said turning and walking away. Penn walks up next to me and says he has an idea.
We go up to Brooke and she says "What? You guys wanted me to say yes to Hilary Duff light? Strap on a pair Penn." "Can I borrow yours or Maddys?" he asked. "Don't even try to out bitch us." Brooke said. "Yeah they're like the olympbitch champions." Chelsea said. "Yeah no doubt I just never pegged you guys as quitters." he said. "We aren't quitting Penn, we are embracing our futures. Which is freaking bright. Everyone says so." Brooke said. "They say a lot of other stuff about them too you know." Chelsea said. "Shut up Chelsea!" Brooke and I both say. Brooke looks at Penn and Brooke looks at me trying to get a reassuring look. I give her one.
Brooke gets off the bus and goes over to what's left of the Sharks. They get into a fight and I had to go over and break it up. We all agreed that I should go with them to talk to Pepper.
"You two perform together? In what? A cheer death match?" Pepper asked. "No we would be-" Carson gets cut off by Brooke "Co-Captains". "Pepper even with only half our squads, you still have the best cheerleaders in camp" I said.
"Hey p-dog!? It's only a jump if your feet come off the ground. Okay hun?" Pepper said completely ignoring us.
All of a sudden in the distant I hear "WE ARE THE FLAMINGOS!"
"Look please give us a second chance." Carson begged. "Sorry I don't believe in those angel pants so y'all just-" Pepper gets cut off by Vance and the Flamingos coming through camp. "Damn no Flamingo could throw down like it last year." Carson said.
"GET OUT OF MY CAMP VORHEES!" Pepper yelled.
"Hey wouldn't it be fun to like rip them a new one in championships?" i said. Pepper reconsidered it and we are back in.
Brooke, Carson, and I came to the conclusion that we will be co-captains for the team.
We walk into the gym "Alright you guys we called you all here to tell you that Pepper got us approved with the council." Carson said. "And now all we need is a new name." i said. "Yeah i was thinking he wasn't west spirit?" Brooke said.
"Ain't that an Amtrak Train?" Penn asked.
"Why can't we have a cool name? Like Tomcat or Bennifer?" Chelsea said with a huge smile on her face.
Penn and i both hmphed at her idea."How bout the Jarks?" Ruben offered.
"How bout the Sharts?" Sarah asked.
"Ew!" we all said.
"How bout the Shets?" Penn said. "I mean i don't see you guys coming up with something better."
We look at each other and come to an agreement.
"All right um we're the Shets." Carson said.
"This ain't gonna work. Remember what happened to Tupac and Biggie?" Aiysha said. "We'll make it work." Carson said.
We called everyone to positions. We were combining the best parts of each routine so it should go fine. Carson pulled Penn and Chelsea to the back and Brooke insisted that Sarah should go to the back.
"Cause gothasarah can dance her little ass off!" Carson said. "And cause we are a team Brooke." I said giving her the look.
She gave in and told Chelsea to go to the back. Carson did a whole 8 count scenario for us to try. It was pretty easy and we all started to get the feeling.
First practice as the Shets ended which didn't matter cause we had another one in a couple of hours. I started to just walk away to clear my head and didn't even realize Ruben was running after me.
"Hey Maddy!" "Oh hey. What's up? Did you have a question about the routine? We can talk next practice."
"Well no I was actually thinking we could talk. I mean clearly we aren't sticking to our own coasts right now and now we are cheering together so-"
"Look Ruben our teams got a second chance. That doesn't mean we need one." I said. "Look Maddy I'm sorry for accusing you of stealing the stick. You were my baby and I did that to you. It wasn't cool of me. and I'm very sorry. I should've known you would never do that." Ruben said.
"I don't know I'll have to think about it. But I'm more focused on our team. We don't have much time and we have a lot to do. So we'll see." I said walking away.
We were at our second practice just doing choreography and it was going pretty well. After practice they had a Hawaiian themed night for us. We were sitting at the table and Sarah came with a milk carton.
"Pepper has lost her mind." Ruben said. Given that the carton of milk had "Missing" on it with a picture of the spirit stick.
We all started to make assumptions about who took it. Prairie Dogs, Flamingos. Carson insisted we do our routine one more time and we all threw food at her. I got up and left to be away. Brooke came up to me and said she was gonna talk to Penn for Carson and that I should talk to Ruben. So I go and find him.
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Bring It On: In It To Win It
RomanceLove story with Maddy and Ruben. Just like the movie. Short story.