Life of a competitive cheerleader

"Real peice of work "

We're 3 hours into the practice and so far it's been half conditioning and half watching the new routines slowly learning them and then half avoiding drew or the jerk .

"Okay girls time for tumbling "

I look across the gym to my friend Ryan and we both smile he's my tumble buddy , There's a tradition at the gym where each season you choose a partner who you tumble with and try to learn new moves with at the same time all season . we've always chose each other .

He runs across the gym to me and gives me a little shove then says , "Ready to get your ass kicked ryes?

I shove him back and he starts laughing while he wraps his arm over my shoulder " just kidding now lets show them how it's done " he says with a huge smile .

"Let's do this " I reply with a equally big smile

Tumbling has always been a favorite of mine it takes a lot of hard work , consistency and time , whenever I want to learn a new tumbling pass I always set myself a date that I have to get it down by so then I really work myself to get it. we all get split up and put in different corners with our partners and a coach or co coach chooses a corner two . in our corner it's me and Ryan , my friend Rachel and Katie , tucker and abbey , and then some girl I don't really know with Brandon . and were waiting
for a coach to walk over to our corner to start telling us what passes to do .

" Yes it's Courtney! " I hear abbeys little voice say . just as I see Courtney walking over .

"Alright guys were gonna work some basics at first " she said with a smile in her face . " I want you to do round off back handspring backs , then on your way back do round off back walkover backhand spring backs" , "got it "

"Yeah" we all say in sync

"Okay tucker abbey your first lets see it "

I give abbey a high five as she walks past me , she really is like a twin of me she has the same brown wavy hair , we both have the same small body's except for she's a bit taller than me maybe 5'4 and we both have hazel eyes.

They both start on there toes then run and do a clean round off back handspring a skill we got when we were 10 ,then a super fast back tuck.

"Great job guys but abbey extend your arms more going into your backhand spring " Courtney tells her

"Ok " abbey responded sounding disappointed she was always hard on her self because her parents always were.

"Alright brook Ryan lets go " me and Ryan walk to where we start our tumbling pass I look over to Courtney and guess who standing right next to her watching us , drew . he had this smug look on his face too smug for me.

"C'mon let's go guys " Courtney commands .

I roll my ankles then get on my toes and run round off back handspring back tuck executed cleanly and in perfect formation me and Ryan end at the sane time and laugh .

"And back "Courtney yells

We do the next pass and finish up the rest of the groups turns .

"Ok I'm gonna split y'all up with a coach or captain your gonna do freestyle tumbling for a little while then start pyramid stunting and lifts."

"Okay ummm" she hummed

"Abbey tucker Ryan and brook your gonna be together and go with our new coach drew get to know him get used ti doing sine stunts a d stuff with him "

" Of course!" I mumbled under my breath as Ryan practically dragged me over with him following drew to where we would begin to do stuff .

"So Ryan and tucker right " drew asked as he pointed to each one .

"Yeah "they both responded .

Ok I want you too to take abbey " he said in a question mark tone .

"Yep that's me "abbey stated cheerfully to him .

"Ok I want you to to base abbey and do half twists full twists , scorpion basket tosses and regulars formations got it ?"

They nod and back away a little to start I turn to follow them but drew stops me and says in a low voice " now where are you going , your with me teal girl "

"You know I do have a name and its not Teal girl" I stated

"Ok teal girl" he said while stifling a laugh.

I rolled my eyes and said " ok what are we doing . he gave me a smile and said

"Let's start with your full twists they seemed a little off earlier .

I was about to protest but remembered that my twist did feel a bit off and I didn't really feel like arguing so I just sighed and stood in front of him , he grabbed my waist and I jumped up on 1..2 ..3..4 now I was up and I felt very steady he was really strong . and 123 I said in my head as I switched to one foot on one of his hands .

"And scorpion position " he commanded

I went into the position and prepared to twist .

"And 1..3..5..7...8 " we both count then he dipped and I was in mid air I bring one leg out then quickly wrap it around the other tuck my arms in and twist this one feels right like I did it perfectly and I land in a cradle in his arms he stares at me and for a second I look straight into his eyes they're this green color almost this emerald - I stop myself once I realize what I'm saying and that he's still holding me

"So are you just gonna hold me all day" I ask I try to wiggle out but he doesn't let me go .

"Nope" he says then drops me straight on my back .

" Um ow thanks a lot " I say sarcastically . he reaches his hand down to help me up I ignore ur but he grabs and helps me anyways .

"Sorry he says innocently you said to put you down .

"Actually I didn't but thanks " I say sarcastically .

"Oh so you wanted me to keep holding you ?" He says all cocky

"No" I say calmly rolling my eyes ugh whatever lets just keep practicing .

"Your gonna he a real piece of work this season aren't you " drew questioned

"I was about to ask the same thing from you" I said

"I guess we'll find out "

"I guess so "