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"Man, I'm nervous," Bri spoke as she and Nayeli headed back down to the basketball court, where they had tryouts. It'd been two weeks since and they were just now getting results.
School had been good to her so far. She was really enjoying the change in scenery from Atlanta to Louisiana and although she missed her family, she was starting to enjoy coming into her own as an young adult. Her 19th birthday would be here before she knew it.
"Yeah me too," she nodded. They had just gotten out of psych, and both were done with classes for the day. She and Bri were cool, they had each other's numbers now and talked pretty often, she felt like she had made another friend.
On their way there, she got a message from Samara.
Lea🌸: you got this bitchhhhhh! rooting for you from my boring ass chem lecture 😚
: lmao! thanks roomieeeee 🖤
She smiled tucking her phone away, before they both entered the gym. The coach, captain and co captain and two other girls stood in the gym, confusing both Bri and Nai. There were more than fifty girls who tried out, so for only four of them to be stood here was a bit alarming.
"Welcome back ladies," the captain grinned. "If you forgot, I'm your captain, Tierra and this is our co captain Angel. Coach Key is right over there, hey coach!" Tierra called, making the coach shake her head.
"Now, if y'all remember, we had about fifty girls try out, and a hundred over two days. You four were the only girls from the first day that made it. We can tell you have some skill and we'd love to work on helping those skills grow," she said, making Nayeli smile slightly from her spot. "I'll warn you now if you didn't already know, cheer can be hell. So if you don't think you can handle it, we understand," she nodded, waiting on someone to leave.
"Hm. I like y'all. The girls from day two dwindled down to one. Welcome to the Grambling State Tigers, ladies," she smirked, and Nayeli couldn't help the grin that formed on her face. "Practice starts Monday at 7 am for early workouts and then again at 5. If you have evening classes, let me, Angel or Coach know," she informed them. They all nodded eagerly and then were dismissed from the tiny meeting.
The coach and captains left first, leaving the four girls just looking at each other with smiles on their faces. Bri was first to introduce herself to the other three, and shockingly, Nayeli went next.
"I'm Taya, y'all can call me Tay, nice to meet you," the lighter of the two spoke. Nayeli thought she looked like the poster child for cheer with her perfect posture and bright smile.
"I'm Jaslynne, call me Jas," the taller girl smiled a closed mouth smile and waved. She was the tallest of all the girls, and Nayeli along with Bri were the shortest. Tay was in the middle of them, about 5'7.
Although she was quite literally the spitting image of her father, one thing she didn't inherit from him was her height. She was only 5'5, but her legs made her look taller than she was. She was a little slimmer and was made up of all legs. At first she hated it, because her younger siblings had two tall parents, and she knew despite her being the oldest, they were gonna tower over her one day.
