birds of a feather

first of the season

FIRST NIGHT

This week's been hectic. Social media posts have been and I've had to skip media meetings because of cheer. Granted, my media group is very very understanding, sometimes I missed being behind the scenes. I liked not being known but now I'm a cheerleader who spends so much time with the women's basketball team. Rumor has it I'm dating Azzi Fudd. After our Chic-Fil-a run, someone took a picture of us together and it blew up the basketball community. Neither of us spoke on it publicly. We simply just laughed it off. I helped decorate the gym with the balloon arches and all.

I finished up getting ready. Kassy, Luis, and Michael stood in the living room waiting for me. I come out waving my pompoms. 

"It's her debut as a UCONN cheerleader!"

"Woo!"

"You guys are so corny"

"We're just proud of our girl."

Oh how I love this group and the way we celebrate things.

We make our way into the gym I go to my team and I wave at the basketball players. The camaraderie sports brings for people is insane. I'm normally on one side of the camera just watching it unfold. Now I'm on the other end. It's so weird. 

The players come out to their songs and we're waving our pompoms up. Kylee had mentioned something about a kickback. I wasn't familiar because after we shot content for this, we'd go back to the apartment and edit everything with an ordered pizza. I told her I would think about going. The first night goes on with the best student section ever. It's fun being on this side of things. Once the gym is empty, I'm grabbing my things and headed to the media group.

"So I was thinking we do pizza and wings?" I told the group.

"Why don't we go to that kickback?" Kassy asked.

"You sure? I mean I can edit."

"No. We deserve to go out and have fun." Kassy nodded. It was a surprise because she's the one who made it a tradition to make us sit in and edit.

Luis checks her forehead with the back of his hand, "Hm she seems fine."

Michael holds her face checking her eyes, "Pupils are normal, no signs of a concussion. What's the catch?"

"No catch. Look, everyone had a good time tonight and we owe it to ourselves to have fun and go out. So we in?"

"Sooo in. I can change in the car."

"What you have clothes in the car?"

"My cheer track suit." I laughed, "It's too cold for anything else."

"That's true."

We head to the kickback which is hosted by the men's basketball team in some kind of house I'm not even sure. 

Paige is running up to me and Kk is with her too.

"B! Hi!"

"Hey. You looked good in your uniform. I didn't get to tell you in the gym."

"Thank you P." I snickered, "Where's everyone else?"