"No." Marcy didn't even think about it.
"Come on, Patti!" Santana begged with a poked out lip.
"Let me say it in Spanish. No."
Karen laughed. "Give it up, Tana. She hasn't said yes to me and I've been pleading for years."
"I'm not giving up yet!" Santana snapped. "Come on, Gladys! We gotta get in formation!"
The cheerleaders flounced off as Mercedes Catherine and Marceline Anne climbed the rapidly filling bleachers.
"She's going to keep begging." Mercedes Catherine warned.
"And I'm going to keep saying no. I don't want to be a cheerleader." Marceline Anne didn't care.
"I think it might be fun. Everyone wants to be a cheerleader. Thin, blonde, homecoming queen."
"You were homecoming queen last year and you weren't a cheer girl."
"I got lucky. Besides, there's also prom queen."
"You want to be prom queen?"
Mercedes Catherine lifted a shoulder. "I don't know. Maybe?"
"Shouldn't you have more exposure for that? Be in more clubs?"
"I was thinking of joining glee club and maybe the Black Student Union."
"Pass."
"Marcy!"
"I don't even know what the glee club is!"
"Singing!"
"In front of people?!"
"It's just like choir!"
"I hated choir!"
"But you love to sing!"
"In the shower and in the car!"
"You have a beautiful voice! Come on, Marcy. Join with me."
"What?!" Marceline Anne was taken aback.
"Please?"
Marceline Anne hated that word. It always made her agree to everything. "Fine but the others have to agree. Every one of them. Except Malcolm. His photography meetings are right after school on Tuesdays and Thursdays. What time and days are glee club?"
"Right after school Tuesdays and Thursdays." Mercedes Catherine said sheepishly.
"He won't be able to do it. Chase might not want to do it. He has to watch his little sister after-school."
"Aww! He has a little sister? How old is she?"
"Eight. His big sister takes care of her during the weekend. She's twenty one."
"They spaced their kids out."
"That's what I said."
"So Chase has the weekends off?"
"Yes. Or whenever he has a game. I think that's why he's in so many sports. So he can have a break."
"Where is she during basketball practice?"
"A friend from school takes her to her house and he has to get her from there. On Tuesdays and Thursdays, he has to walk from here to her school to get her then walk home."
"Do they live far?"
"Does it matter? Walking home sucks. Especially in the winter."
"Can't we do something for him?"
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Morphine
Romance"I can feel you; just like a drug..." Marceline Anne Taylor-Jones is what one would call a bad girl. She does what she wants when she wants because she wants. Malcolm Chang is what one would call a good boy. He follows the rules and does what's requ...
