Just Remember

Chapter 2 One Pirate's Loss is another Pirate's Treasure

For the rest of the last class period the students of the school were sitting on pins and needles awaiting that final bell to ring out. When it finally did there was a mad scuffling and rush for the doors, and droves of students flocked out into the halls. Grace got pushed and shoved, and completely turned around before she managed to make it to the girls gym where the tryouts for the Gymnastic team and the pep squad was being held.

She smiled as she approached the sign up table and didn't notice how one of the younger students had whispered into the ear of the Captain of the gymnastic team with an evil smirk upon her face.
"Are you here to try out for the Gymnastics team," asked the team captain after nodding at her newest team member's input?
"Yes, I was one of the top Gymnasts in my old school, before we moved here," Grace said with a hopeful expression on her face not noticing that Alice was frantically waving to Wendy who was trying out for the pep squad at that moment.

"Oh, that's too bad. Unfortunately we're limited on how many we can accept this year. It's a pity that we can't take on another, or I'd definitely let you try out for the team," the Captain said with a nasty look on her face that Grace definitely noticed.
"Okay, thank you for your time anyway. Maybe there is another team that I can join," Grace said as she turned away and walked over to where the table was for pep squad sign ups.

"Is there room on your team for one more member to join? I'm actually really good at Gymnastics, but they said that there was a limit to how many members that they could take this year," Grace asked politely once again?
"Yes, we're still holding auditions, but I'm afraid that we can't accept you because it would be too much of a liability on the team. What would our principal and the coaches and the super intendent of schools say if we let you on our team, and you got hurt? Sorry, but we can't take a blind girl on the team," said the Cheer captain in a voice that Grace could hear was full of a mocking tone.
"Oh, Okay, thank you for at least telling me why you wouldn't let me on the team," Grace said as she exited the gym and walked out to the outdoor game area of the school where tryouts for the football team track and field , and the flag core were in session.

Her father pulled up in the jeep to pick her up and noticed his daughter's glum expression as he approached her as she watched the tryouts for the football team and the flag core take place without her. "I expected you'd look happier than you did when I dropped you off Gracey. Didn't you try out for the Gymnastic team," he asked as he took her heavy back pack and laptop case from her hands and handed them over to his driver?

"I didn't exactly have a very nice time today daddy. I thought that I'd feel better after I tried out for Gymnastic Team, but they said that they were only accepting a small number of students this year," Grace said numbly as she watched everyone else looking as if they were having great fun.
"What about Cheer squad or whatever they call it here? Did you try out for that? You'd have been great with your Gymnastic skills," her father asked as he gently wiped a tear from her cheek that had escaped her eye?

"Yes, but they didn't want me either. They said that having a blind girl on the team was too much of a liability and that they didn't even want to risk me getting hurt by allowing me to try out," Grace said as she turned and started to climb into the back of the Jeep only to be stopped by her father's hand on her shoulder.

"Well then, you should give the Flag core a shot, don't you think," he said as he held her from moving into the jeep with a determined expression on his face.
"Daddy, what's the chance that you'll just let this drop People here have already made it crystal clear that they don't want me here. If they don't want me here than I don't want to stay any longer than I have too. Maybe you could get transferred to somewhere where the students aren't complete and utter hard headed morons," she said as her father spun her around and marched her over to the flag core try outs.