TGLC TWINS

Competition

"Ok meet back in 50 minutes," Liam says as he waves bye.

"Emily?" I hear Jack say my name from behind me and I put up my index finger in an attempt to wait one second. But since it's Jack it doesn't work. He grabs my waist and turns me around so I'm facing him. I'm in the midst of laughing when he pulls me towards him and kisses me.

"Um that was unexpected, to say the least but okay..." I laugh as I say this but then Jack starts to say something and it's not directed at me.

"Can we help you?" He says it coldly and with a hint of hatred in his voice.

"Actually, Emily can." He responds to jacks question and I already know who it is, but how could he possibly be here? I mean of all places at a cheer competition. He doesn't even participate in cheer... Nevertheless, when I turn to face him he's in a cheer uniform.

"You're ON THE TEAM I LEFT?!?!" But he doesn't even do cheer

"Yeah your old base, Ben Philips, left to try out for top gun. And I'm thinking of doing the exact same at the end of this season... So I hope to see you soon Emily!" I stare at him blankly and he starts to turn away seemingly pleased with my reaction.

"No Toby you will not be seeing me soon because you're not coming to top gun because I don't want you there." He turns back around to face me.

"Now baby doll don't be saying things you don't mean." And that's the last thing he said before Jack grabbed his shoulder turned him around to face him and punch him square in the face!

"Don't be calling my girl baby doll and winking at her." Jack pulls me away to a corner away from all the commotion.

I slap him. "What were you thinking you're not going to be allowed to compete!!!" He's rubbing his cheek

"I was thinking that that bastard called my girl his baby doll! Now I don't know a reasonable man who wouldn't do that!!! And I'm aware I'm not going to compete but you have to know that you're going to be fine out there ok I'm going to be at the front of the Matt cheering you on!!!" I kiss him on the cheek I slapped and whisper.

"You're lucky I'm not a base because that would've hurt WAYYYY more." We both laugh before trying to find coach to explain what happened and why.
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"Well, at least, your here on time where is the rest of the team?!?" It's been 50 minutes which means more people should be here but instead there's only Jack and me. Since we got here we managed to explain to the coach what happened and why and he completely understood! Apparently basically the same thing happened to him when he was our age so everything works out! But he's not sure if Jack will be able to compete.

"Sorry we're late we had to convince stupid Toby not to do anything well stupid and tell on Jack. Wow that sentence makes me feel like I'm back in kindergarten."  Emma says when she arrives with eight other people hot on her trail.

"Yeah that's fine so what did he say?" Coach asks Emma

"Well that he wasn't going to tell anyone but her wants to see Em after..." I nod my head and turn to Jack who seems to be more than a little upset with his offer. "Babe listen, you don't need to worry about him. I'm all yours forever ok?" He nods his head and coach yells for us to do our team warm up and then stretch individually. Alexis starts playing our music as we warm up and almost everyone around us starts singing along to it, it's really inspiring and just about everyone's faces light up.

Once we're done stretching the coach give us an inspiring pep talk and we head out to the practice gym... Not a single stunt hits. We walk over to the tumbling strip silently because not only did we just embasrrasse ourselves but judging by the look everyone has on their faces we're all scared about what's going to happen on the performance floor. On the tumbling strip only a few people land their tumbling and out of those no one lands every pass... Voach looks terrified and mad I would be to we only have two runs to get the triple crown and if the same thing happens on this mat well it would be a mirical if it didn't transfer over to the preformance floor. We all go to our opening spots an dwait for coach to tell us what's going. 

"Listen up! I don't know whether to tell you stunt through or nothing's going! This has been the worst warm up I have ever seen and it better not be about to continue! Stunt through and if you feel the need to tuble well go for it." He turns around and plays the music forcing us to go into the worst stunt through we've ever done. It started off fine with one one person fallign from the openig stunt but after that things got a lot worse, few people hit the main stunt and only one person fully rotated their basket then when we got to the pyramid half of it fell down and the other side wobbled so much it seemed like we were on a boat. I thought coach was going to turn the music off before the dance but no such luck, we had to continue making fools out of ourselves in front of every other team in that practice gym. "Okay, well that's that get off the floor you don't deserve to be standing on it."

"Um sir, sorry to interupt but you still have a minute on the floor." He just waves the poor guy off and proceeds to wish us luck then head out to the music board. So I gave the team a pep talk.

"Hey guys could we just gatehr round? Thank you. Ok so we all know what just happened int he practice gym wasn't us not even close to it and we have to go out there and show those people that we are a everywhere team we could be on a boat and could hit this routine so just focus in and do it for that little 9 year old you who couldn't just quit and cuase you to break all the bones in your body." Everyone laughs and then put their games faces on as we go into position and hold one to peoples hands three per row. 

"PLEASE WELCOME, TOP GUN LARGE COED TO YOUR UCA STAGEEEEE!" The announcer calls out and the person backstage give us the go ahead.

We go out and take our positions and it feels like I'm there for two seconds before the music starts Jack does all the same things that he always does but this time before every stunt I hear a hint of a nervous ring to his voice and as much as I try to not let it affect me I bobble after the handstand up but it regain my balance quickly and continue to finish the stunt and so does everyone else! So far opening and main stunts have hit also as far as I could see there weren't any touchdowns! Moving into the pyrami dwe're all confident and other than a major bobble everything goes perfect going as the first motions of the dance are preformed everyone in the audience starts clapping to the beat and singing along and it's the most thrilling experience I've had in forever.

Once we get off the  stage we are greet ed by Liam and he is applauding us but he's not as happy as he always is after a preformance like that. "Listen everyone i'm proud of the team that was out there today, out on the stage but the team that was in that practice gym, well I didn't recognize them and I hated having to see them so please do whatever you have to dso I don't have to coach that team ever again. Also I'm giving you a heads up, first practice back I'm changing your whole routine and you will be getting new music shortly after. Thank you for forgetting what happened in the practice gym and putting on an amazing preformance out there, it meant a lot for me to see what kind of a team I had been coaching this season, please keep this attitude toward everything that might go wrong this season and come back to the gym at your best. Love you nuggets you're free until tonight at 10 when you have to be safly tucked in bed.