Diary of a Preppy Girl

11: Cheerleading...Awkward Shopping

Hey beautiful people! I've finally finished the chapter and decided to post it as quick as possible before I don't have internet again. And before school starts.

So I hope you enjoy this!!!

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"1, 2, 3, and go!" I screamed at the girls. I clapped my hands and clicked play on the small blue stereo that stood on the bench behind me.

As the girls started our routine, I quickly joined in at the front.

The song When I Grow Up by the Pussycat Dolls blasted from the stereo that I had set up on the bleachers.

We were in the school field, practicing our new cheer routine for the Eagles football team. Rocky the eagle is our school mascot. Whenever we practice, Dale, our mascot guy is always with us, prancing around in the eagle suit. He always likes to flirt with me. But all guys in the school treat me like a goddess anyways. I am so lucky to be beautiful and rich.

Our routine went by successfully and ended with Dale shaking his tail feather towards the invisible crowd.

"Good job girls!" I yelled to them. "And Dale." I added smoothly, placing a hand on his shoulder.

"Thanks, beautiful." He told me. His tone was cocky and flirtatious.

I just laughed and walked towards the stereo to shut it off.

"Hey, D, are you still dating Daniel?"

I spun around to the sound of Dale's voice. "Oh Dale, poor Dale." I said, shaking my head and put a hand on his shoulder. In his other hand he was holding the eagle head. "I still am. But if we break up, then you can try your luck again. Okay honey?"

Dale's face turned tomato red and his boyish grin was gone. "Sure Diana." With that he walked away.

I chuckled under my breath and hummed our cheer routine song.

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"What have I gotten myself into?" Was my catch phrase in my head all day.

But really...why did I even agree to help her in the first place? First, she's unpopular. Second, she blackmailed me. And third, this could lower my reputation. We if God forbid anyone found out.

That is why I went through my clothes and found some older clothes that I wouldn't wear anymore. I put on my baseball cap that hasn't been used since I was five and had a strange obsession with baseball. Ew. Then I dug deeper and found some black plastic sunglasses that could shield my eyes. A last look in the mirror told me I did well. No one would recognize that its me. Plus everyone knows that I wouldn't be caught dead wearing such a horrible wardrobe. It reeked of unpopularity. Reputation for me is everything. Its crucial.

I had laid in bed the previous night and thought about what the next day of unpopular shopping will bring me. I would have to enter for the first time a store that was not a famous brand name with a designer that's unknown or some Chinese company made. What if I catch head lice or some disease in that store? Popular people cant afford to be diseased. Plus, they rarely are diseased. Only clean, healthy people can enter designer boutiques.

It was two in the morning when I finally fell asleep. My brain was too tired to function anymore so I finally fell deep into my beauty sleep.

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"Ugh, why me?" I grumbled as I opened my eyes.

I woke up with a throbbing pain at the back of my head. Probably the aftermath of those horrible thoughts I had lived through the previous evening.