The New Kid: A Noah Centineo Fanfiction

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Marleigh's P.O.V.:

Today's practice ended up being one of my worst practices ever. I couldn't throw my tumbling pass anymore, I couldn't hit all my stunts and I kept falling out of them.

It was towards the end when our coach was so frustrated that she decided to have us practice basket tosses, which can be really dangerous out here, but I've done tons of them before.

I got ready with my stunt group and our coach called the counts and as my group threw me in the air, I felt myself moving sideways, and my group shouting at each other and by the time I was descending back down, I didn't know if anyone was going to catch me. Just what I need... to start the season with an injury.

I ended up being caught barely two inches off the ground and my back spot was laying underneath me to make sure I didn't hit the ground.

"Let's just call it a day, girls." Our coach said with a disappointed face.

I got up and walked off without saying anything to anyone. I was mad at myself because I ruined our practice and the whole team was taking the hit for it.

I grabbed my stuff and started to walk out of the stadium.

"Yo, sis! Wait up!" Vanessa hollered from behind me. She jogged to catch up to me, "Is everything alright?"

"Yeah, I just hate being the reason that we had a disastrous practice..." I frowned, "I'm supposed to be better than this, coach expects me to be a leader and I let her down today, I let everyone down."

"Babe, you can't be so hard on yourself!" She pulled me into a hug, "That basket was totally not your fault. Kennedy and I threw with way different force and you flew to the side... I'm just glad we could catch you before you nearly smacked onto the turf."

We both laughed, "Yeah, me too."

"Are you going to Austin's party?" She asked, excited.

"I don't really feel in the party mood." I frowned.

"What?!" She said, shocked, "Girl! Shannon and I are coming over and we are going to beautify ourselves and sex up this party!!"

I couldn't help but laugh at my crazy friend, "If it makes you happy, V-baby."

"You know it does!" She hollered as she walked to her car.

I got in mine and I saw that Vanessa texted Shannon through the group chat to meet at my place to get ready.

When I got home, I threw my cheer bag on the floor and ran up to my room to start going through my closet. I was so frustrated because I never knew what to wear to these types of things.

"We're here, hoe!!" I heard Shannon shout from downstairs.

An instant smile came to my face, "Upstairs!!"

Vanessa and Shannon appeared in my room a few seconds later and Vanessa came over and shooed me away from my closet so she could look through it. She would occasionally pull things off the rack and hold them up to think about them and then she would put them back.

"Why have I never seen your cute ass in this?!" She pulled out a black leather skirt.

"Um... Because you bought it for me and I'm too scared to wear anything that daring." I laughed softly.

"Oh, sweetie... Today is the day." Vanessa gave me a smile and threw the skirt at me.

Shannon cheered and went to my bathroom to dig through my makeup as Vanessa looked for a top for me to wear.