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Chapter 2

This is kind of how the cheer performance was. They may be little kids but their really good.

Casey
" wake up case!" Lillian yelled at me. I groaned as I got up and started climbing down the ladder of the bunk beds. The orphanage was a big building with 10 rooms filled with 15 girls. I shared a room with Lillian and may. Lillian is 15 and May is almost 12. She will be in 2 months. There was a bunk bed in the left corner that I shared with May. Mine had a teal colored comforter with pictures of heels on the wall. Mays comforter was yellow with a sunflower pillow. Lillian's twin bed was on the right with a black comforter. I did all my bathroom duties and got dressed. I put on jogging pants that stopped at my knees and a crop top that said; ' I had nothing else to wear today, so I wore this.' . I pulled my hair into a tight ballerina bun. I pulled on my pink trainers and went on my morning run.

Bianca
I started to get dressed. I put on a long sleeved long silky white shirt and a leather skirt with cut out triangles on the bottom. I put on my silver sparkly heels with them. I brushed out my hair making it soft and straight. I grabbed my purse and applied another coat of lipgloss. I blotted my lips once more checking myself out in the mirror. " perfect." " honey! Come on you're going to be late!" My mom yelled from the kitchen. I went into the kitchen rolling my eyes. Jessica my moms best friend was sitting at the kitchen island. " hey. Bianca." I just scoffed and got a energy drink from the fridge. I never liked Jessica. Why? Because she takes my mom away from me. Their always going shopping or going to book club etc. it really gets on my nerves. I sat down next to Jessica opening up the drink. I gulped it down. " well sweetie I'll see you later. Jessie and I are going out to the new Italian restaurant. I heard they have the best wine." She kissed my forehead and Jessica grabbed her hand and they left. My eyes lingered on their joined hands for a second. After they left I quickly grabbed my phone and called Kate. She always has the best advice. On the third ring she picked up. " he-" " hey! Kate! Somymombroughtjessicaoverandtheywereholdinghandsandithinkjessicaisalesbian. " I said in one big breath. Somehow Kate understood everything. " listen. Even if she is I'm pretty sure your mom knows. So if your mom makes a decision to live that lifestyle then accept her. If it was the other way around I'm pretty sure you would want your mother to accept you." I let her words sink in. " oh wow. Kate and always her wise words." She laughed. " I'll see at school. Today is Friday and our cheer performance. Remember bring your red ribbons." The phone hung up and I rushed upstairs to get my red ribbons. ----
Kate ( I promise last pov switch 😉)
I just got off the phone with Bianca and I finally found my performance cheer outfit and tennis shoes. I put them in a Pink gym bag. I put my red ribbons also into the bag and started getting dressed. I put on a loose white blouse. And a black skirt that reached my mid thigh. I slipped on my heels and curled my hair to the side. I grabbed my bag and went downstairs. My mom was in the living room talking to my father at the time. " Mia! Outfit check!" Mia came shuffling in her small black heels. She dusted her hands off on her dress. " ok. Good job today." I smiled. " thank you Mia. " she grinned then her face looked as if she remembered something. " I won't be here this weekend because I'm going to see my sister. Also your parents want to see you." " ok do you know what they want?" She just had a sad face and walked away her heels clicking as she started dusting the Picasso picture. I slowly walked to the living area and my mother was sitting next to my dad. I sat in the white leather arm chair as my parents looked at each other. My mom nodded. His hand was on his lap and my mom grabbed it. " so. We have something to tell you." Silence. I nodded indicating for them to go on. He took a deep breath. " so you know how your sister has been super tired, losing a lot of weight, and has been feeling week?" My mom eyes were filled with un shed tears. " yes. But the doctor said she is fine. Nothing's wrong with her right? Right! " I stood up raising my voice. " sweetie please sit down." My dad pleaded. My mom started sobbing. " tell me she's ok! Tell me everything's going to be fine!" " Leah was diagnosed with leukemia!" My father shouted. I immediately shut up. My eyes went wide and my breath hitched in my throat. A anxiety attack. I fell on the ground in shock. I tried to catch my breath but I couldn't. It was like something was pushing it down building up pressure in my stomach. I started choking. My mother wrapped her arms around me. " honey? Honey. You have to breath. Calm down and breath." My father sat there not knowing what to do. I slowed down my anxiety and took deep breaths finally I was okay. I sat there for a second in silence. " Kate. We need to talk about how Leah-" I stood quickly. " I have to get to school or I'm going to be late. " " Katie." " bye mom and dad." I grabbed my bag and quickly walked out of the house. I got inside my cherry red jeep and drove out and into the street. -----
I finally pulled up to the school still somewhat in a daze. I got out my jeep and entered the school doors. Bianca skipped up to me or more like hopped over to me in her heels. " hey!" I just ignored her and kept walking. " okay." She said awkwardly. I got to my locker and put in my combination. I grabbed my books and put my bag in the locker. " so Casey told me you're trying modeling. I think you would be the perfect model." She said with a lot of enthusiasm. I sighed rolled my eyes. Can't she see that somethings major is wrong with me!
   Of course not she's not a real friend. My conscience said.
Bianca and I have been friends since middle school. I slammed my locker and turned around facing her. I put on a fake smile and said, " I'm fine just tired. "  she smiled widely. " good! Because you need to be okay for the performance!" She walked away and started chatting with a girl from one of my AP classes. I looked at her with shock. That bitch!
Told ya!
I rolled my eyes. Which is something I've been doing a lot lately. Well time to put on a lot of fake smiles and tell people I'm okay, when I really want to do the opposite. I wanted to cry in someone's arms and tell them I'm not okay. I was never okay. -----------
Cheer performance/practice
I finally got my outfit on and was ready to perform. It had a tight long sleeved crop top and tight shorts. The top had one sleeve red and the other black. The main part was black with a football number on the front in glitter. The shorts were all black with red belt like thing and zebra printed strip. Like on the top. The girls was only a skirt and top with their hair in ponytails. I had glitter on the side of my eyes and my hair Ina bun with my red ribbon. Sawyer was in the front with me. During a cheer was the only time we got along. Mainly because we knew our parents would get affected if we did Anything wrong. Other times you were lucky if you didn't see a glare being passed to the other person. " formation A" I yelled out to the girls. Two girls( sawyer and Leanna) pushed me up in the air and I raised my arms like a v. The other girl was on one knee the heads down and arms pushed up on the ground. I looked at the woman to start the music and she pressed the button. The music started and the crowds attention was placed on us. After all we were the best cheer squad in the county. The two girls pushed me up and I fell down and they caught me. They placed me down. I ran to the edge and started doing front flips across the field. People clapped as I flipped. I landed on my two feet. I put on the best fake smile I could muster and blew a kiss to the audience. Finally towards the end it was time for the big finale. I took a deep breath. All eyes were on me. I started running and did a backflip in the air. I spun around in the air twice and one of the boys on the cheer team caught me with my feet landing on his hands and my arms in the air as a v again. They crowd stood up clapping for us. I jumped off into a split and started blowing kisses to each section of the audience. Then I saw him standing in the audience. He had a slight smirk on his face as he clapped slowly. Then a girl came up to him turning his attention to her. She whispered something in his ear and he nodded. They walked off quickly together. ---------