Let's Play a Game

Chapter 10:Stop playing innocent

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All I can hear is the buzz of conversation and laughter. The stands are full, not an empty seat in my sight. The waves of white and red all around the field.The warm autumn brease brushes against my exposed skin. I'm glad that the first game is so early in the year, these skimpy cheer uniforms didn't offer me any warmth. Just like any cliche the first game of the season was against Eastdale Angels biggest rivals; Westdale Devils (*Im sorry I had too😂)

I know it sounds stupid but don't worry it's a lot more idiotic when you're watching it up first. Take it from me, I mean I am on the cheer squad. Monica of course was putting on her act, or maybe she really was that nice when you get to know her or at least in places where she's comfortable. I don't know how long she's been doing cheerleading but anyone can clearly see she loves it. She just wanted the squad to be at it's best. She was pumping up the cheer squad with some positive motivation, at least her version of it.

Me and Nina were on the ground stretching. Nina practicing the splits and me my over spilt. It surprised me how easily I managed to keep and regain my flexibility. I had to quit gymnastics about a year ago.
"What's up with Isabelle anyways?" I ask Nina. She shrugs in response "No clue, she's acting all weird" I grimace "We were fine and now she's avoiding me, I don't get it"  Nina bites her lower lip "Maybe you should just talk to her about. From past experience Isabelle isn't good with talking about her feelings by herself. Which is why you should go up to her" I nod, but what did I do wrong?

"Oh shit" I curse under my breath. "What?" Nina asks "I forgot my pom poms in my gym locker, we need them for the first routine, I'll be right back" I say as I get up from the ground. I'll  have to be quick. As I jog into the front entrance of the school I see Isabelle at a locker looking frantically for something.

Now would be the perfect time to talk to her, why she was inside the school all alone at this time completely slipped my mind. "Isabelle!" I call out to her. Isabelle jumps slightly at the sound of her name. She whirls around and sees me, her face drains of colour and quickly slams the door shut. "Hey!" She pipes out nervously. I smile at her warmly, at least she wasn't running away from me.

I frown "Were you going through my locker?" Now I was confused.  "Uh" She bites her lower lip. "What the hell Isabelle, what were you even looking for huh? This is a total envision of my privacy." In reality if Nina had been looking through my locker I wouldn't think much of it, I'd think she would have been pulling some prank on me or looking for my notes.

The fact was that Isabelle had been mad at me. She was up to something, I didn't know what though. I intended to find out.  She stays silent staring at me, she was at a struggle for words. Then her face hardened "What's it to you Lilly" "

"It's my freaking  locker, that's what it's to me." What was going on with her? "Were you looking for something, do you need some of my notes. If that's the case, I'm not mad at you" Isabelle laughs coldly "Oh my god, you are so naive. You know exactly what you did to me. Stop playing innocent"

"No, I don't know what I did. One minute you're my friend the next you're ice cold" I say a little bit annoyed with her acting all high and mighty. Like she was some perfect angel.

"You started dating Julian" she explodes with rage. I'm taken aback "What" I gape

"You knew I was upset over my breakup with Anthony and now you're dating his best friend. Do you know how that makes me feel?"

"You're mad at me because I'm dating you're exes friend?" I echo in disbelief

"You're just playing yourself, their all the same. I'm just looking out for you" she fumes

"Your 'looking out for me' by completely ignoring me and going through my locker?" I question

She grits her teeth together "You're not hearing a thing I'm saying"

"No, I'm pretty sure I'm hearing things pretty clearly. What I'm hearing is that my supposed friend is being spiteful cause I have boyfriend that has nothing to do with her. I have a friend" I sneer that last word "who's looking through  my locker for god knows what"

She snorts "Fine, have it your way. You don't see what's in front of you, he won't do anything but break your heart" too bad I'm fake dating him I think to myself  "you'll see I'm right, just you wait" and with that she stalks away from me. I can't believe this, she made no sense. She was looking out for me? Yeah right, but what was she doing in my lock-

"Lilly!" Someone yells my name, it's Nina. "huh?" I say. "Lilly, what are you doing just standing there. Monica's looking for you c'mon!" My eyes widen "damn it" I sprint to the locker room and rip open my gym locker. I grab my pom poms , slamming my locker shut and sprint back to the field with Nina. We're breathing heavily when we make it back to the field just in time.

"Alright Angels, gather around" Monica calls to us "Its the first game of the season. We are going to do our best, no mistakes" she says pointedly giving me a glare  "Now let's make our school proud" we all cheer "Go angels!"

We all grab our pom poms, mine already in hand, and get into formation. Our varsity football team runs onto the field. The crowd starts roaring, well Eastdale was.

My eyes gaze lazily at our football team and I catch a glimpse of some very familiar messy black hair and a pair of blue eyes, the face smirks at me winking as he continues running with his team. Since when had Julian been on the football team?

I whisper to Nina "Julian's on the football team?" She covers her mouth and giggles "You didn't know you're boyfriend was on the football team. I shake my head in embarrassment. I guess I didn't know as much as I pretended to know about him. It had been 4 years since I last saw him and 7 since we were actually friends. I guess a lot of things have changed and new things have come along him(and me)

The game had started I snap out of my little daze and cheer along with my squad.

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The last seconds on the clock were ticking down. Julian was running, dodging and knocking down anyone that came at him. Time seem to freeze before my eyes and then..
We had won, we won! I cheer loudly, personally I didn't really care about school spirit but the adrenaline pulses through my veins. I cheered and giddily laughed turning to look at Nina that looked ecstatic.

Julian had taken off his helmet and was cheering loudly. I watch him and smile, he looked so happy. The next thing I knew I was being swept up into the air by none other than Julian, of course. "We won" he practically screams. I giggle "I know"

Julian set me on the ground, he looks down at me with a look on his face that I just couldn't describe. I give him a weak smile. "It's all a game right?" I ask. He nods "Yeah" he says hoarsely, must be from all the yelling I think to myself.

A/N:
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