"Peyton!!" My mom yelled.
"What!" I screamed.
"Loose the attitude! You have to get going or your going to be late to practice!"
"No one would notice anyways" I murmured under my breath.
I get my sports bra and spanks on, grab my phone, keys, and a granola bar then walk out the door. I have Cheetah practice and I live about 30 minutes (walking distance) from the cheer gym. I have to walk since I don't have a car and my mom is a bum. Right now it's summer and it sucks walking, the Texas heat is terrible.
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When I get to the gym I walk in the side door and set my stuff down. Then I walked up on to the mat, jumped three times and started stretching. By the time I'm halfway through the whole team has arrived and started stretching. When coach blows the whistle we line up shortest to tallest because stunting is always first during summer practices. I'm pretty short so I'm always towards the front.
I fly today as always. We played around with some new body position counts.
Afterwards we tumbled and jumped.
Summer practices are always simple like this. They are always generally fun, well as fun as they can be for a girl with only one friend on the team.
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When I got home my mom was no where to be found. Which I guess is normal. I go into my room and lay down. Right as I'm about to fall asleep I get a text. I look down and it's from none other, Matt Smith.
'Hey I'm hungry' it says.
'And?' I reply.
'Come over'
I grunt and get out of bed. He lives the next street over from my house. I put on my nike free runs and pull a light hoodie over my sports bra. I grab my house keys and head over to his house.
I never know if his parents are home or not and they don't always know Matt invites my over so I go around to the side of the house and climb through his window. Sure enough he is sitting on his bed.
"Hey Pey" he says chuckling as I struggle through his widow. When I'm fully in side I just look at him with a strait face before asking "are your parents home?"
"No" he quickly says back.
"Alright then let's go make food" I say and walk out of his room. He got up shortly and followed me into the kitchen.
"Frozen pizza" he suggest
"You called me over here to make a frozen pizza?" I ask annoyed
"How about a chicken salad?"
"That sounds better" I say smiling
We both pulled out what we needed and made it quickly, since the two of us were starving.
When it was done we ate and had small talk about practice.
"So who based you today?" he asked.
"Jimmy and Bryant"
"There good bases"
"Yeah the stunt was fun" I reply.
"So did you make friends with then?"
"Of course not." I answered.
"Pey you have to try to make friends." he says sighing
"No I don't Matt I have already tried. I tried the past two years I've been on the team. They just don't like me!"
"Your not trying. That's the only problem, because if you were they would see the you that I do and they would love you." he said calmly.
"I TRY!" I yell. I get up from my seat and storm towards his room. I grab my phone and turn around to go out the front door.
"What are you doing?" he asks angrily
"Leaving." I say.
"Peyton Wait!" he says. I pause in my tracks. He just called me Peyton. he hasn't called me Maddie in years. It's always been cricket, that's his name for me.
I feel Matt put his hand on my shoulder and I quickly turn around and push him away.
"JUST LET ME LEAVE!" I scream. Before I could blink he had engulfed me in a hug. I don't know why but I just bursted into tears. And Matt just hugged me. And I just cried.
