Falling, Fallen

Chapter One: Assessment

Liana's POV:

I take a deep breath as I slowly get out of the car door leading to the path of my new school, Laguna Beach High, I slowly but surely make my way up to the field for the first day of cheer practice but before I enter the oval, I take a deep breath and think to myself and wonder what the heck I'm doing, being all nervous and worried, I've got to walk in their and be as confident as I can be, this is nothing I've never done before, so let's do it and do it proudly.

  I take my new mindset and confidently march into field to meet up with the rest of the team, there's not to many of us as there's about 20 of us there, all girls.

I look over to a group of girls that look rather nervous because today is the day were we are assessed for the first time to figure out who will be cheer captain and co-captain, this moment is something a lot of us have been waiting for, so the stress is definitely there.

But I'm not going to let it get to me so instead of worrying I'm going to start stretching so I know I'm prepared.

Just as I finish up stretching properly with some other girls Coach Beck starts to walk over, she claps her hands twice ready to give us our first instructions.

"Alright girls! Now I know today is a bit of a stressful day as we are selecting the captain and co-captain but keep in mind we aren't just looking for your skills but we are also looking for the way you show confidence, resilience and sportsmanship, now we are going to get straight into it so finish your stretches and come over the right, we are doing tumbling first!" Coach Beck explains, I stand up from my position and head over to the right with a few other girls, and eventually the rest of the team makes their way over.

"Okay it seems all of you guys are here so we might as well get started, so here we are going to start of with tumbling, get in a line and show us some combos! First I want all of you to show me a standing back handspring whip series to layout!" Coach Beck instructs.

The first girl, Casey, goes first as a few others go before my turn and as my turn comes I prepare to do my pass.

It's now my turn to do the pass, so I stand a bit forward from the line, take a deep breath and immediately just go for it and hit the pass perfectly! As I turn around to walk back to the line I see Coach Beck smiling and writing something on her clipboard which hopefully is a good sign.

All of the girls finish doing their first tumbling pass as coach Beck tells us to do our next pass.

"Now girls I want you all to do a punch front back handspring to full twist!" She yells

Everyone including me does their tumbling pass and basically everyone nails it, looks like I've got some pretty good competition but at the end of the day they're still gonna be my team mates.

Just as we think we're about to move onto stunts, Coach Becky give out another instruction.

"Thanks girls, we're about finish tumbling but can we have Liana Cooper do another skill for us, we just need you to do a round off whip back handspring full twist"

I slowly make my way to the front of the line, slightly nervous as I've never done these skills in this order together, the other girls around me look rather nervous too.

I close my eyes and take a deep breath and go for gold, I do my tumbling pass and completely ACE it! I stand up smiling and walk back to the line, as I walk back I notice everyone including Coach Beck clapping for me.

As a team we all walk over to the middle of the field behind Coach Becky as she stands in front of the large group of people waiting for her to give some sort of instruction.

"Girls now we are moving onto stunts, we will sort you into temporary stunt groups based off of your tumbling skills, so we have Maddie as flyer, Kaitlyn, Selena and Rosie as bases, Next group Lexie as flyer, brooke, Gabi and Charlotte as bases, then we have Daisy as flyer, Karina, Ella and Kirra as bases, Liana as flyer, Casey, Mia and Pippa as bases and finally we have Layla as flyer, Gracie, Willow and Olive as bases, head to your groups please!" Coach Beck announces.

I walk over to the middle of the field as that is where My stunt group is, I stand in the middle of the three girls, Casey is back base as well as Mia and Pippa being side bases

"Next up we are just going to do some casual heel stretches, libs, tick tocks and some full ups! Let's start of with heel stretches" Coach
Beck exclaims

I get ready to stunt when I get pushed up into the air, I put my leg up making sure it's as high as I can get it, I put my leg back down as I am being brought back down to the floor, as I go down I see Coach once again smiling at everyone writing something down.

Time Skip

We have now just finished stunts and jumps and we are heading home, but before we leave Coach Beck tells us to come to presentation tomorrow and watch the awards from last year's cheer and basketball be presented as she will make it public then who is captain and co-captain.

I leave the field and head to my car in the parking lot, as I go to unlock my car, I see Casey walking next to me

"Hey Liana, good job today, your really good!" She compliments

I smile at her as she smiles back, "Thanks Casey, your amazing and your tumbling is awesome!" I say back to her

She unlocks her car and begins to speak, 'aw thank you! Hey did you want to hang with me and some of the other girls on the team at school tomorrow?" She offers kindly

I nod my head repeatedly, "Yeah sure! We can meet out the front of the school in the morning, I think we have a couple of classes together anyways" I explain

"Yeah I think we do, well I need to get home for dinner but I'll see you tomorrow!" She tells me

"Yeah me too, I'll see you tomorrow!" I exclaim and shut my car door, waving to Casey as we both reverse out of the parking lot

I make my way home as I walk through the door of my house, immediately being greeted by my mum and my little sister, Adelaide.

Adelaide walks up to me and gives me a hug and without even saying a word, drags me to the dinner table to sit next to her, as my mum dishes up my plate and puts my favourite, butter chicken right infront of me

"So Liana, how was your day today and how was cheer?" My mum questions, I look up at her and swallow the little bit of food

"It was good thanks! Today at cheer it was an assessment for captain and co-captain so it wasn't too long, but it was super fun" I recall

"Oh well that's nice, when do you find out?" She questions

"Tomorrow at presentation, so we just go to the basketball courts down at the high school and then she'll tell us there" I explain

She nods slowly and moves on to Adelaide, Adelaide went to the shops with her friends and worked on their project together, so I guess we both had some pretty filled days

I finish off my dinner and head to my bedroom to get ready for bed as I slip on my PA black silk pajamas and do my night routine, turn off all of the lights and head to sleep.

Author's Note

OK first chapter done! I think this one is pretty good, but I'm kinda excited to see where it goes, I'll post whenever I'm not at school and I'll try to get chapters out as soon as possible!! Enjoy!

Word count: 1423