Tales of the Hearts

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The school was buzzing the day of the rivalry game. The whole team was hyped and the pep rally planned for this afternoon made it nearly impossible to focus on school work.

The thumping music echoing in the gym vibrated his chest as we all ran out onto the basketball court, jumping and cheering to get everyone to join in on the excitement. Niall handed him the microphone.

"Tigers! Are you guys ready for tonight?" Liam shouted.

Everyone responded with thundering cheers, including his teammates. "It's been 15 years since we let the Eagles beat us. Are we going to let them
beat us tonight?" everyone in the crowd answered
with a resounding no.

"No! Because who are we?"

TIGERS!"

"I can't hear you! Who are we?" Liam repeated.

"TIGERS!" the crowd responded again.

"I expect to see you all come out tonight and support the team while we take on the Eagles tonight! But now, we' re going to see the dance team's competition ready program! Tigresses, get out here!" Liam introduced, the crowd and his teammates clapping as the dance team headed out onto the court and we ran off to the side. Liam handed the microphone off and sat with the team.

The pep rally went by quickly and everyone was
buzzing by the end of it. When classes were finally
over, we headed to the locker room, a wave of students wishing us luck on our way. Harry blasted
his pre-game playlist as we got ready, everyone
singing along and jumping around with excitement
grinned at the team's excitement and checked his
phone.

Good luck tonight! You guys ae going to do great:)

Liam smiled at the text from Zayn, feeling his mood
instantly increase and his chest flutter at his message.

"Ohh, what girl's got Jones smiling over a text?" Harry teased, coming over to pinch his cheek.

"Piss off." Liam said, swatting his hand away. Harry and a few others off his phone and laughed as Liam smiled and shook his head.

Once everyone was geared up and ready to go, they stood in a circle in the locker room, coach in the middle.

"Okay boys. It's the big one. We've been training for this all year. We've beat them 15 times, we can
beat them a 16th. We're also going to have our best underclassman in the starting line-up, so everyone give a hand to Tomlinson. He's worked hard, and it's paying off." everyone cheered for Louis, clapping him on the shoulder and congratulating him. He smiled and thanked everyone around him.

"Alright that's enough of his blabbering. Payne, you're up"

Coach exited the circle and looked down at his clipboard as Liam stood in the middle, looking at his teammates.

"Who are we?" Liam shouted.

"TIGERS! the team shouted back.

"what are we going to do?"

"WIN!"

"And how are we going to do that?"

"TOGETHER"

"1,2, 3, TIGERS" they all shouted together before Coach signaled to them that it was time to get on the field. They jogged out, immediately engulfed in the anticipation in the atmosphere. The band was
playing loudly, the audience was clapping and screaming, and the cheerleaders were in full force
We started our warm ups, watching and sizing up
the Eagles players.

"They're looking better this year." Niall said to me.

"So are we." Liam responded, smirking. Niall smirked back and nodded.