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Sarah/ flags ✅

I'm sorry you thought this was about pride :( it's actually a rant/projecting disguised as a fic! Based on a breakdown I had during flag auditions once... so highschool au !

Edit: yoooo, shout out to the rant fic. This sucked.
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Sarah sat happily on the bleachers, chatting with her friend, and field commander of their schools band, awaiting the results of the auditions.

"Hey, Sarah?" Their coach and parent of one of the girls called for her attention. She turned to face them, dreading whatever it would be.

"How's Specs doing? I heard you went over."

Sarah was rudely reminded of why she was almost late to the auditions. Her friend, who she had only just met this year, had unexpectedly lost a close family member and she was over at their house chatting with some of their other friends.

"He's fine, well as far as I can tell, and as well as one can be I suppose." Sarah smiled politely, though she didn't like their coach.

Just then the band direct came up to them, holding a computer. He went on for a while about how proud he was of everyone, etc etc.

Then the part everyone was waiting for, "I'm proud to announce that everyone made it in!" That was the obvious part, it was difficult to not get on the team. "And this years Feature girls are:" he started listing the names of all the girls in the years ahead of Sarah's and then the one other girl in her grade. But not Sarah

See, Sarah wasn't looking to get into feature. She knew she was a slower learner than everyone else, and that she was weaker and couldn't get flags for a while. But seeing everyone else except the first year girls, that was.... Insulting..

She felt her mind turn numb. Everyone else but her. It kept playing over and over in her head. She felt her eyes slowly water, though maybe it was her imagination. She suddenly felt like she needed to hide her face, and she put her head into her hands.

Tears flowed out, and she started crying. It surprised her, she didn't except to actually start crying. Especially not in front of the team. She turned away from them, towards her friends, the field commander, Muriel. She felt an arm around her and Muriel whispered "it's ok,"

After a moment Sarah felt herself calming down a bit. She stopped crying and looked back up. "I'm sorry," she whispered. "I think I need to.. go.." Sarah then walked out of the gym to sit against the wall in the hallway. Her knees pressed against her chest. She put her face into her knees and cried lightly again.

She called Davey and asked him to come pick her up.
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Based on true events ❤️
Except I didn't go home. A girl from the team (the daughter of the coach) came and tried to comfort me which made me feel worse and uncomfortable cause I don't like her. And then I went back out and had to see the scores and I placed worse than a newbie and I cried again ✨❤️

At least the other girls were supportive, they helped a lot.

Also apparently the coach asked "why is (wendigo) upset?" 🫥