Jane Roquefort hoped to be a great cheerleader, in the athletic sense. Determined, focused, and a quiet loner, she kept out of the school gossip channels, practiced harder than the other girls, and put her best into learning the routines. Her scholarship to the prestigious Redlands High School for performance sports, relied on her talent and performance in the cheer squad.
Her talent though, was often the source for jealousy from the other girls in the squad. Especially when her great performance often stole the attention and praise of their attractive Head Coach, Adam Sanders. Adam Sanders loved teaching Gym and coaching cheer at the esteemed high school.
Although he had only planned it to be a temporary job before he made it to the big league and became a professional supporting coach for a college team, he knew he would miss the nubile bodies of the teenage girls dressed in skimpy outfits. They flirted shamelessly, gave him an eyeful (often on purpose) and he had no obligations to call them back the next day. It was almost a win–win. Except for the fact that he often went home too horny and frustrated that he'd end up coming to school the next day even grumpier than the last. This earned him the reputation of being a harsh teacher. He new his colleague 2nd Coach Ben Thomas felt the same most days.
Regardless of the perks or non–perks of the job. Teaching and coaching high school just didn't pay very well. He just needed to get the girls through to nationals his resume and CV would be complete and finally just maybe the colleges would look at him.
He knew the girls were divided over their new recruit on scholarship, he had seen the nasty looks pass between them. But he also knew that Jane was quiet and reserved, she couldn't have done anything to incite those looks or nasty words. It was only her talent.
Squad Captain Brittany Tanner was especially jealous of this fact. With her particular brand of bullying, Brittany was great at pranks, especially with the help of her loyal drones who followed her everywhere; Amy and Susan. The three girls harboured a loathing for innocently 'talented' Jane and they had planned a rather ingenious prank to get her kicked off the squad and return the spotlight and praise to them.
When Jane was dutifully doing her extra practice in the Gym one afternoon, they had sneaked into her bag and swapped the routine choreography instructions for a different routine.
To ensure the success of her prank Brittany approached Jane before training the next week.
"You've learned the new routine right?"
"Yes, of course." Jane said.
Brittany smiled. "Great, it'll be our main focus this afternoon in training."
Jane nodded. Everything was in place.
When it came to training and 2nd Coach Thomas kicked off the warm ups, Jane was fine. The same as any day. But when Coach Sanders began the routine rehearsal, Jane was lost. The moves and turns she was doing was not in any way synchronised to the rest of the girls. She did a cartwheel and almost mowed the lot of them down.
"Stop! Stop!" Coach Sanders shouted, blew his whistle. He was irritated, the finals were coming up the next week.
"Jane, what are you doing? Don't you know the routine? The finals are next week."
Jane looked a little confused but, eager to keep the coach happy she said "Yes Sir, I'll try again."
What was happening? thought Jane. Why didn't she know the routine? Brittany had made sure she was up to scratch with the other girls so why was she messing up? Jane couldn't figure it out.
Brittany smirked as the girls took their positions and started again. Jane bumbled through the routine, trying to copy the other girls as best she could, it was so confusing, and the opposite to what she had practiced all week. It came to one point where she ended up collapsing the pyramid the team was working on. Squeals and protests met the air as bodies rolled everywhere.
