Why us? - Montgomery De La Cruz

Liberty VS Westfield

The crowd was cheering loudly, colours of blue and white cascaded amongst the audience like a shield on one side of the crows while a deep crimson, representing Westfield, stood out like a sore thumb on the other side. 

The two schools had always had a huge rivalry between each other as both had had exceptionally great sporting teams and both schools were known to be 'cultural, safe and respectful' 

But it was highschool, and like every high school student knows, highschool is far from 'cultural, safe and respectful' sure it was sometimes fun, full of laughter and love, making new relationships and friendships, getting ready for the so called 'real world' but that was only a small part of what highschool really was.

Highschool was the hell on earth, surviving highschool is one of the biggest achievements a person could have. Bullying, assault, rumours, friends turning to enemies. You get to know what loyalty is, you get to know what heartbreak is and in all reality, highschool is the door way to life, and life sucks, so you need to know if you can survive it. You are expected to have this 'perfect' image but the human race is full of judgement and deception, but highschool can be survivabal, you just have to find the right people to get you through it, and for Ella Emblen, those people were Montgomery De La Cruz, Jeff Atkins, Justin Foley, Scott Reed, Zach Dempsey and Hannah Baker.

Ella was currently standing with the rest of the cheerleaders, all wearing the infamous, revealing uniforms that Montgomery loved on her but hated her to wear in front of other guys, especially the whole school. Ella had been cheering for her team the whole night and her voice was getting softer as her throat got more tired and sore by the minute, but she didn't stop because she wanted to show her boyfriend and his team how great they were doing.

The crowd hadn't stopped cheering either, and the game was almost done; as they watched the football game in front of them, liberty was behind by four points and there was less than a minute left on the clock. Ella was waving her pom-poms even more now and the cheer team quickly began using whatever they had left of their voice and continued to cheer for the team, she knew how important it was for them to win this game and she was positive that they could win it, they were the liberty tigers and losing wasn't something that they liked, especially when it came to Westfield. Everything went in slow motion as they all shared looks and  continued cheering loudly for her boyfriend and her friends. 

Ella watched as a big guy from Westfield shot forward and tackled Montgomery to the ground harshley, she had  flinched and she knew it was part of the game but she wanted nothing more than to go out there and hit that guy in the face and make him apologise to Montgomery. Both teams had been playing exceptionally well this game with both offense and defense, but both teams had gotten a lot of tackles in and a large majority of the boys looked like they were in pain, but still they continued to play the game

They all got back on side, and began to think about what play to use to try and win the game. They all got into their positions and got ready for the next run, liberty had the ball on their side and Montgomery was going to throw it, as ella watched bryce, Zach and Monty all give each other a knowing look, she knew that they had a plan to win, and she was confident that they had the will power to make it work.

"Come on Monty Baby, show them whos the best fucking football player in this stadium" Ella yelled out and he looked over at her and sent her a quick wink before the cheer coach scolded her but Ella ignored her as she watched the game in front of her. The whistle blew and Monty took a few steps back and then threw the ball hard towards Bryce who was running up the right side of the field, Bryce caught it and made it in the try zone, winning the game for the team, the crowd erupted in cheers from the side supporting liberty

All the football players ran to each other and congratulated each other and especially Bryce, Ella ran over to them quickly with a big grin on her face, she had blue face paint on and on her left cheek was the number 32, which was Montys jersey number. Monty notice her straight away and an even bigger grin made its way onto his freckled face and he pulled his helmet off quickly, chucking it on the ground and when she ran to him he picker her up and wrapped his arm around her waist, pulling her into him, her arms went around his neck and then leaned forward roughly placed his lips on hers, it was sweet, passionate and rough at the same time, the kiss went on for about 10 seconds before the football team all separated and bryce and scott noticed the couple

"alright de la Cruz, save that for the after party" Bryce laughs and  pats monty on the shoulder with a smirk. Monty grins and pulls away from his girlfriend, he had instantly missed the feeling of her soft lips on his rough ones, but he knew he could wait a few hours and they would be right back on there

"Fuck off Brycey" Mony says with a grin and punches bryce in the shoulder and then him and Scott hall Bryce up onto their shoulders 

"fuck me you are heavy" Monty complains as soon as he and scott begin carry bryce

"yeah man, no wonder why Westfield couldn't tackle your ass" Scott laughed and Monty and Ella joined in

"fuck you guys, my fat ass saved yours, butterfingers" bryce states with a laugh

"all of you guys did great" Ella says and grins at them all, proud of them all for winning the game

"hey" zach says as he runs up behind them and pushes bryce off their shoulders "lucky i was doubled up all night or else you wouldn't have gotten shit"

"come on Zachy, we all know that your sport expertise is basketball" Ella says with a grin and they all laugh

"you are so getting your dick sucked tonight" monty says as he jumps on Bryces back

"hey monty, you wanna do the honors?" Scott asks 

"no way bro, ill be busy" Monty replies with a grin and a wink and then he jumps off bryce and wraps his arm around his girl and she pushes him of with a scoff, but the grin on her face told them she wasn't that angry with him however Zach had taken that as his cue to leave, Ella didn't miss the sad look that had resonated onto his face

"party at your place walker?"  Scott asks, as usually after the team had won a game they would all go to bryces house to drink and smoke weed afterward 

"nah no way dude, his parents are home" Montgomery says "we are hitting the docks"

"yeah see you guys" Bryce says and then runs off, leaving Monty, Ella and scott to keep walking

"see ya" Scott says and waves to Bryce

"bye brycey" Ella and Montgomery both call out and then Ella jumps onto Montgomerys back, not caring about how sweaty he was

"you boys did great tonight, i saw some scouts up on the stands and I'm pretty sure i saw them watching both of you" Ella says with a grin and she places a kiss on Montys cheek

"nah they were probably just watching Bryce" Monty says with a laugh but Ella knew that the laugh was just a cover up. Montgomery seemed tough, he built a wall, he made a reputation for himself so that he could hide the fact that he was actually an emotional person with many feelings and Ella knew that he was insecure, especially when it came to bryce 

"Well i had my eyes on you the whole night" Ella says with a smile and then bends down closer to his ear to whisper to him "and i think that seeing you running around knocking everyone over, is one of the fucking hottest things that i have ever seen"