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Chapter 4: First practice

The day after finding out she was going to be a team tumbler for the cheer squad , Genie was walking with her friends in the school hallway when her attention was drawn to a little yellow post-it note stuck onto her locker , along with a few others. The note read "Thankyou number 81 for trying out. Our first team practice is tonight (9/1/18) , at 4pm sharp in the sports hall. Please all meet in the corridor of the changing rooms and we will sort out from there. Thx , Coach Aria x" . Genie grabbed her diary from out of the locker and resting the book on her knee for support she wrote - " First cheer practice 😊 , tonight 4Pm sports mhall!!!!" - she then closed her diary , put in her backpack and skipped off to first lesson of the school day. Around 6 hours later , Genie and her friends were dismissed from their most hated class (Geology). She greeted all her friends goodbye as they left school and she began to walk to the sports hall when she suddenly stopped and realised her friend Anna who also tried out for the team was not anywhere to be seen. She thought about Anna and became a bit insensible about hers and Anna's friendship. Then , Genie remembered she had her first lesson of cheer that night so she gave up her insecurity and skipped along to the changing rooms to change into her new official training kit. After finishing off her largely volumed ponytail in her hair , she added her new royal blue sequin stoned bow in her hair and stepped into the corridor where she greeted her new teammates. Another questionable scenario entered Genie's brain. "Where's Anna? Did she not reach the team? I haven't even seen her all day?" Many rhetorical asks were at the tip of Genie's tongue. She creased her stance then kept talking to her new teammates. Coach Aria walked in and yelled above the chatter "Quiet please!" - all the athletes zipped their mouths. " Could you please all make your way to the sports hall. Tumblers on the bench and bases/flyers in the groups and formation you were put in...". Genie ran into the sports hall and sat herself on the bench along with the other tumblers. The bases were that tall sat down in their groups on the mat the flyers in between them were unseeable. As soon as the full team was sat in the sports hall , Coach Aria taught them a 1:15 routine that they were to perform in one month at the local carnival. The team started practicing their tumbles and stunts and then began to do their routine on and off with a few drink breaks...