I'm Back

Chapter Four

*Alexa's school outfit imagine the shorts black *

(To clear up any confusion the Ford Family and the Richards Family are not related. They are good family friends not cousins! Sorry I didn't elaborate earlier)

Chapter 4

The end of the school day came quickly and with no complications, which was surprising because I expected Melissa to cause some kind of drama. I was at my locker, putting my books away, when Noah leaned against some lockers that are next to mine.

"Hi." I said.

"Hi." Noah copied.

"How was your first day at Townsend High?" I asked him, shoving books in my locker and slamming it closed.

"It was pretty good. How was yours?" He smiled, his adorable dimpled grin.

"It's not exactly my first day here, in case you forgot I went to school here for awhile before I went to boarding school." I laughed.

"I meant how was your first day back and being a senior in high school."

"It was okay, definitely less dramatic than I expected but hey it only my first day I'm sure I'll stir up some kind of drama. I always do, intentionally or unintentionally." I said with a shrug And a smirk.

"Well I'm positive something of interest will happen soon enough." He responded, "It's bound to. Especially with the way things were when you left."

"Of course it is." I sighed banging my head in my locker.

"What time are try outs?" He asked.

I looked at the clock, "3:20pm is when they starts so in about fifteen minutes..... Shit."

"What's wrong?" Noah questioned.

"Nothing really. I just don't think I have any clothes to wear for try outs but I might have something in my car." I waved my hand towards my car, which is parked in the farthest corner of the school parking lot in the shade next to some trees. We started walking that way.

"Did you see any of your old friends today?" He asked.

"Yeah, I saw some people I used to know but I cut ties with everyone when I left for boarding school so I really talk to them other than superficially. How about you? Did you make any friends?"

"I already have friends here because of the football camp I did in the summer."

"Well that's good." I said reaching my car. I unlocked it and popped the trunk. I opened up the trunk as Noah put his bag in the passenger seat. "Ha! I found it!" I shouted.

"Found what?" Noah said taking a seat in the grass about five feet from my car.

"My gym bag."

"And?"

"And" I emphasized "if I'm lucky, I have some cute my clothes in here!" I finished.

I started rummaging through the bag. I found an White nike sports bra that's a little tight, plain black cropped yoga pants, and white nike tennis shoes. A cute matching outfit that I didn't even know I owned, how convenient. I went on the side of my car that was opposite to Noah so he couldn't see me and made sure no one could see me period while I changed out of my cute outfit. I exchanged my outfit with the one I found. The sports bra was a little small and it squished my boobs together so much I could barely breath but it will be fine for tryouts. Then I took off my shoes and pants to slip on my leggings that surprisingly fit like a glove making my butt look Ass-tastic. The shoes also fit well but they will be okay for today. I threw my clothes in the car, put my hair up in a ponytail, and walked around it. I saw Noah sitting on the ground, running his fingers through the grass. He looked up at me, shamelessly scanning my body with his eyes, but I didn't feel the least bit uncomfortable.

"You are going to distract every single one of the football players." He said, standing up and dusting his hands off on his shorts. I rolled my eyes.

"What are you going to wear for your tryouts? You don't have any gym clothes here." I asked.

"Charlie, said I could borrow his extra gym clothes until I got my own." He replied.

"That was nice of him." I said as we entered the field where both tryouts were to be held.

"Good luck, Lex." Noah said, jogging towards the locker rooms.

"You too!" I yelled back. I made my way towards Miss Betz who told me to go stretch. I walked over to all the girls who were already stretching. They were all in clusters except there was one girl who wasn't in a little clique like group. She was a sweet looking girl. Her auburn hair matched her eye color and was up in a bun. I went over to stretch with her.

"Hi, I'm Alexa Richards." I reached out to her in a friendly way. She looked at me but never directly in my eyes.

"H-hi, my name is Bria." She said, timidly.

"What made you want to tryout for the cheer, Bria?" I asked.

She grimaced, "My mother."

"So you don't really want to cheer?"

"I do but not for the same reason my mom wants me to. She wants me to be more social. I just want to cheer." Bria said, opening up to me a little bit.

"I think it's great you just want to cheer. You don't have to become friends with these slutty bitches. I know I sure as hell don't plan on it."

"You're a lot nicer than I expected you to be."

I tilted my head, "Why's that?"

"All the boys have been calling you sexy Lexi and all of the girls think you're a bitch. I heard some say that they think that you you're better than everyone else because you haven't talked to anyone." A mildly confusing statement but I understood.

"The only reason I haven't talked to anyone is because no one has made any attempt to talk to me. If anyone would like to talk to me then I will gladly speak with them. But I really want to make and effort to only surround myself with good people. I had shitty friends before and I don't want that again." I laughed. "Really the boys couldn't come up with anything better than sexy Lexi?"

Bria and I continued to talk and stretch more until Coach Betz blew her whistle and practice tryouts began with no Melissa in sight.

We did different cheers, different  routines, different step combinations and stunts. The girls that couldn't keep up got asked to leave and the girls that could keep up were separated into groups and taught different routine and after successfully or unsuccessfully completing each routine you were either bumped up or down. Bria and I made we're fast friends and we both made Varsity.

For the most part, practice went as expected. Noah was right about me distracting the football tryouts. The guys trying out for the football team were definitely distracted by me, but Noah was distracting the Cheer girls in the exact same way. Melissa showed up mid try-outs and made it hell. Since she's a captain she doesn't have to try out. She looked off though, like she had something big in her mind. I don't know if it was good or bad but whatever it was it must've been huge because she looks completely thrown off.

Tomorrow at school the roster of everyone who officially made the team will be posted in Ms.Betz's room. Noah was already waiting for me at my car after try-outs were over because my practice ran a little longer than his. Today was mostly conditioning and It killed me. I am out of shape. I don't look out of shape but man oh man was that work out hard so I'm taking an ice bath the second I get home.

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