Almost strong

Chapter 5

It's has been almost a week since the show, seeing McKayla, doing gymnastics, being at the gym, and freaking out at the gym. But I think I am feeling better about her going to college. I mean it might be kinda cool being the oldest but I'm still gonna really miss her. It's just going to be really hard having nobody to talk to at practice, nobody the knows when I cry and knows what to say, nobody to help me with my mental blocks, pretty much I will have no one. I wish I had somebody that wants to talk to me and we'll talk me when I need somebody.

When I got into the car to go to the gymnastics show I was about to just cry my heart out. I thought that we were going straight to the show but we weren't to the style to get McKayla flowers for graduating. When my mom was in the store me and my brother were making jokes. They were some weird jokes about like grad fasting which is really kinda weird now that I think about it. My Mom came out of the state's and then we went straight to the show. I was a little late for the show but when I got there I jump in and started to warm up. McKayla was sitting next to Mrs Johanna, and everyone else was sitting with there groups of two. Which, once again, I was alone with noBody to talk to. We were pretty quick warning up but once we were done we got into our tumbling lines and started to do round off backhandsprings. My first tumbling round I did a high one backhand spring and Mrs Shannon got kinda mad. When I was walking off the floor all I could think of was how much I had to pee. I didn't realise that I was saying, out loud the I need to pee. The girls kept giving me this look of like confusion and then I realized that they were looking at me like that because of me doing this chanting whisper thing of me saying I need to pee. There were two more people in front of me, than it was my turn. I was pretty nervous to tumble, because I didn't tumble for about a week and anything can happen in a week. When it is my turn I am standing in the corner and I take a deep breath and start to run. I do my round off and it wasn't straight, I do my backhand spring but I have bent arms. I go for my layout and I am really high. I've never been that high, it was pretty awesome. " April, you piked down in your layout." Mrs Shannon said. I nodded my head. "Are you okay?" McKaya asked me. I nodded again. "Are you sure? You look like you're about to cry." She asked me again. " I am about to cry." I answer. "But why?" She said looking at me with tears in here eyes. "Because you're leaving." I answered choking on my words. "Aww." She said about to cry herself. "Can I twist?" I asked both oh the coaches, but only Mrs Johanna looked over. She nodded over to Mrs Shannon like I needed to ask her instead. So I asked again. "Can I twist?" She nodded and the said "sure." I was in the corner about to run, but I am really nervous. I don't really understand how to twist and nobody really tells me how to twist. I started to run then I did a round off backhandspring back layout half but when I was twisting the half I twisted a little to much and I landed in a squat position. "I did it! I didn't land on my butt!" I yelled with joy. "Do the layout in your routine." Mrs Shannon said with some anger in her voice. Mrs Shannon walked over to the other coaches. "She's twisting around like its an Arabian." Mrs Shannon told one of the other coaches. I was waiting in line trying not to cry, because of Mckayla leaving and because I have been practicing that half twist for months and when it came to the show I couldn't even do it. I do a front tuck front handspring. "Ew that was weird." I said in discussed. "What? Mine?" Emily asked me. "No I'm talking about mine, I didn't see yours." I said with a little bit of a Laugh. "Okay." Emily said. Emily starts to run and dies a front tuck. It look great, but her arms were a little bent. I still really had to pee, but I had to wait. I go to the corner and took a deep breath and started to run. I did a front tuck front handspring and I got a lot of power and did a high front tuck out of it. "Good job April, go to beam." Mrs Johanna told me. "Okay." I said and then I went to the beam.