Life Goes On | Wyatt Lykensen

Chapter 12

As cheer tryouts begin, A-loras heart rate skyrockets. She copies the moves of those around her as she watches Bucky walk around the gym doing cheer poses for people to copy.

A-Lora watches as Bucky makes his way over to a guy who had his phone out to take a photo. Bucky gabs his number and rips it in half. A-Lora stifles a laugh as Stacey looks over at her.

Bucky makes his way back to the front of the crowd with his assistant captions and clap's his hands. "Alright everyone, follow after me."

With that, Bucky does a few cheer steps and everyone copies after him, A-Lora follows his moves with perfection. Imitation being one of her best skills.

After being given those first steps, Bucky and his captains make there way back into the crowd ripping off more numbers of the other teens.

"Alright everyone, grab some pom-poms and get into formation." Bucky shouts as Lacey and Tracey point to the bin of pom-poms.

A-Lora make her way over to Bree and Addison. "How are you two handling this?" A-Lora ask as she wipes sweat from her forehead.

"I'm feeling great. I have a good feeling we'll all make the team." Addison smiles and Bree gives a slight shrug as the girls grab there pom-poms getting into formation.

"Now my assistant captains and I will give you a set to follow. In small groups you all will copy our set. Got it?" Everyone gives a firm nod as Bucky and his assistant captains make there way to the outside of the triangle formed by all the applicants.

The four head cheerleaders perform a short set and imeadeatly after make there way to the inside of the triangle signaling the smaller groups to copy after.

A-Lora was in the second group with Addison and Bree, and once it was there turn, the tree girls and the rest of their group perform their set flawlessly.

After the three groups had performed there set, Bucky made his way to the front of the group kicking out the girl who failed to execute the set perfectly.

Bucky then leads the group in another cheer set which ends up with all of them crouched onto the floor expect for one girl closer to the front who's dragged to the bleachers imeadeatly.

Upon seeing this, A-Loras beating heart begins to clam down as she realizes that she might have a good chance at making the team, since she's already come so far.

Sometime later, after being tossed and twirled, A-Lora found herself huddled up with Bree and Addison awaiting the instructions for the final part of tryouts.

"You guys got moves." Bucky calls out to the remaining contestants. "But can you win over a crowd? Get them to worship you. Like they worship me!" Bucky threw up his arms and a giant cover fell from behind him. Behind the cover, sat the teens who didn't make the teem, cheering Bucky on.

A-Lora's heart rate picks up again as Bree quickly captures the attention of A-Lora and Addison.

"Who am I fooling? Bucky's never gonna let me on the team. He'll clip my wings." Bree turns away from the girls making her way to the bleachers, "I'm never gonna fly."

"Wait Bree-" A-Lora tried to call after the broken hearted girl. Addison looks over at A-Lora, "It's alright Lorry, I'll talk to Bucky after tryouts." A-Lora smiles at Addison glad that she cares so much for her friend.

Bucky then pushes forward Addison as it's now her turn to hype up the crowd.

Addison steps to the front of the crowd, as she performs a small set, shouting the mighty shrimp cheer.

The teens cheer her on as she makes here way over to the small crowd with the other teens who are now official cheerleaders.

"Next!" Stacey shouts as she pushes A-Lora forward. At first, A-Lora hesitates unsure of what to do but then she makes her way to the front and performs a small set she saw one of the contestants performing earlier adding in a few flips to hopefully impress the crowd.