Avengers - The New Generations

Gymnastics - Part 2

Lila's POV

I waited all week for Saturday. I couldn't wait to go to my first gymnastics session.

Once it was Saturday I suddenly got nervous. What happens if I wasn't good enough, what happens if I hurt myself, what happens if I am a failure. I thought about these not so great things on the drive to the Gymnastics centre.

Once I got there I was greeted by a girl called Carly Tanner. She would be my coach, if I qualified for the same team as Addison and Jane. I shook her hand and said goodbye to my mum, who could only drop me off on weekends, weekdays was Jane's mum. The session was set to go on for 5 hours, it would be either the best or the worst 2 hours of my life.

The first thing I did, was get introduced to all the other girls. There was 10 girls including myself and Carly, the coach, so only 8 others I needed to meet. I already knew Jane and Addi, so that meant I only needed to meet 6 more girls.

The first girl I met was called Isa, she was small with brown hair, but she looked quite sweet.

The second girl was called Hannah. She was tall, with blond hair and fair skin. She looked a bit stern but once she smiled she looked nice.

The third girl was called Danielle, but she only wanted to be called Dani. She was an average night with brown hair and tan skin.

The fourth girl I met was called Daniela, but she only wanted to be called El or Ela.

The fifth girl I met was Alianna. She was very pretty and had long blonde hair.

The last but definitely not least girl I met was called Naomi. She had straight brown hair and wasn't that tall.

All the girls greeted me nicely and I hoped that I could stay on the team with them.

The first thing we did was warm up. Running around, sit ups, pull ups, arm excersises just to make sure we didn't get injured, at all.

Second thing we did was bars. We had to flip on the bars and then jump to another bar and do a flip off and land. It looked hard.

All the girls on my team got it instantly.

I tried once and I missed the bar.

I tried twice and I got the bar but then couldn't flip off right.

I could see Carly having doubts in me.

But the third time I got it, and I landed it pretty well.

We spent an hour working on bar skills before we moved to beam.

The beam skill was to be able to do a perfect side Ariel, a perfect back Ariel and a perfect front Ariel on the beam without dying.

Carly first checked that we could all do the flips on land, so we wouldn't hurt ourselves on the beam. Thank god, I could do those flips.

We were doing it on the high beam with the white foam blocks underneath. I watched all the other girls go. None of them could do all three tricks without falling off. Addi, Naomi, Ela and Alianna, fell off after doing the side Ariel, Jane, Danii, Hannah and Isa fell off after doing the side and back ariel.

Then it was my turn. I was nervous because if they couldn't do it, who would say that I could do it?

I stepped onto the beam and prepared myself. I was scared I was going to hurt myself, and flipping on a high narrow beam is scary.

I did the side Ariel and didn't fall off and landed it well, thank god. I did the back Ariel and landed it wobbly, but it still landed. Could I do this? I then prepared myself for the front Ariel. I flipped and landed it! I was the only one. All my team clapped for me. I took a step forward, just to balance my feet out, when suddenly I realised I step into nothing, the beam had finished. So I fell into the foam pit. Everyone laughed and helped me up and out.

We did floor, vault and rope during the last 3 hours of the lesson. Then it was over. The time had passed to quickly.

When my mum came to collect me, Carly invited her into her office so they could chat.

"So." Carly said. "Lila can stay in this level! She is very good at beam, and her flips are nice and neat, I think I might enroll her I some comps later this year and early next year for her to try. She's doing awesome and she needs to come 4 times a week insted off three. She needs to come Mon, Tues, Thurs, Saturday. Hope to see you on Monday Lila, bye!" Carly said as we left.

I told my mum all about my new friends who were al, around my age, and about my beam and about how much I enjoy gym. Maybe Auntie Nat can teach me more cool flips once I'm better trained. 

"Thanks mum." I said giving my mum a hug as we got home.

"For what?" She asked.

"For letting me do gymnastics with my friends, your the best, I love you mum." I told her.

"I love you too Lila." She replied.

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These last two chapters where mainly on Lila but the next ones won't be so much focussed on her, more the others.

The following chapters will include homecoming, middle school dance, Halloween dance, babysitting, band practises, dates and kisses and mission, avengers stuff, Wakandan visits ect ect!

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~WisdomSea