"Todays the day. The day that determines the rest of my life, my whole living existence. Am I being a little dramatic? Maybe, but thats not the point. Today is the day I find out if I made it onto the Las Vegas Aces majorette team. This is VERY impo...
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"Alright everyone let's take a 5 minute break!", Ms. Bria, the majorette coach calls out. I quickly jog to my bag rushing to get ahold of my Stanley cup. Grabbing a seat on the bench I sip on my water and catch my breath. One of the other girls on the team comes and sits next to me. Todays the first day of practice so I didn't know anyone's name.
"Hi, I'm Camryn", the girl says sitting next to me.
"I'm Kiara", I reply back blandly counting to sip on my ice cold water.
"You're really pretty by the way", Camryn keeps talking not taking the hint that I really wanted to be left alone. She seems really sweet though, I guess I could talk to her.
"Even when I'm all hot and sweaty", I say laughing. "Thank you though, you are too. Where are you from? Before Camryn got a chance to reply Ms. Bria blew her whistle signaling the end of our break.
"Now everyone listen up, because I'm only going to say this once. If we can run the routine perfectly I'll let everyone go early. But if not everyone has two laps around the court."
The sound of someone smacking their teeth interrupts the quietness in the gym. "You, run", Ms. Bria , slightly yells at the girl who made the interruption. "5, 6, 5...6..7...8"
As soon as Ms. Bria finishes counting I completely focus on the routine. I follow the motions and steps from earlier hoping I'm doing everything correctly. As soon as we finished everyone stands back at attention.
"Alright, alright", Ms. Bria says, walking around scanning the team. "Britney, Camryn, and Kiara. Please step up to the front." As soon as my name is called, my heart starts racing. I force my feet to carry me to the front of the room as much as I don't want to. "Britney, you're cut. I don't have time for the teeth smacking and attitude. That goes for everyone leave your attitude at home!"
"Please Ms. Bria, I didn't mean it I won't do it again!, Britney begs for her spot on the team. All Ms. Bria does is point towards the door and we all watch Britney leave.
"Anyone else wanna go?!", Ms. Bria asks. The only answer was silence. This place is really stricter than I thought it would be. "Kiara."
"Yes, ma'am?", I say cringing at the sound of my voice.
"You are the teams tail, congratulations."
I wanted to smile so bad, but I managed to contain it. "Thank you Ms. Bria" She nods moving on to Camryn.
"And Camryn, you are the captain of the team" The rest of the team claps it up for us. "This is how the formation will go from now on. If my formation is wrong its going to be a problem. Camryn will be on the first row by herself. Followed by two of you on the second row, three of you on the third row. And then, Kiara will be on the last row by herself. Does everyone understand?
A bunch of "Yes Ma'ams" echo throughout the room.
"Alright good, lets run the routine one more time in the new formation."
I get back into my spot now as the tail. Ms. Bria starts counting down and Camryn starts the routine off. After 8 counts the second row starts, then the third after another 8. "Come on 8th row get it together!", Ms. Bria calls out. Another 8 counts passes and its finally my turn. I take my time emphasizing the routine and my body movements.
"See you all in two days at 8 in the morning. Not a minute less. The first game is in about 2 weeks. So if you're not a fast learner, you better become one.", Ms. Bria says dismissing us.
As I'm packing my things up Camryn comes over to me. "Congratulations girl" I slightly laugh.
"You too, I'll see you on Wednesday" I say grabbing my things heading out the door.
Ever since I got to Vegas I've been pretty productive. I had been saving for a few months before I left just in case I did make the team. Long story short, I did get me a nice lil car.
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One thing about me is that I am a little lazy. Maybe more than a little bit, but we're not gonna talk about that. Even though I basically just got done doing a full workout I decided to go to the furniture store. My room is not as decorated as I wanted to be and we're gonna change that. If i went home first, I was not coming back out of that house. Que my laziness.
I finally pull up to my apartment after 2 long hours in the store. I didn't mean to spend the long in the store, but I'm very picky when its comes to things I want. I actually did find a lot of things that I wanted though. I had to out some of my bags down to open the door.
"Aja", I call out to her. "Can you come help me right quick?" I furrow my eyebrows at the sound of someone else's voice wondering who it is. Sighing I pick the bags back up knowing Aja couldn't hear me. I carry the bags struggling a little bit which causes me to smack my teeth. As soon as I do that karma comes to bite me back in the ass. My bags get tangled in each other making them even harder to carry. I lose my balance because of this tripping and falling. I actually wind up tripping and falling over someone instead of something. I could tell I didn't trip over Aja just by looking down on the ground.
"Fuck", I say frustrated. I finally decided to look up at who I tripped over and of course it was the last person i wanted it to be. Sydney.
