Chapter 4

"Okay so all of you obviously wanna be cheerleaders," Emma says as she yells at all of us girls on the bleachers waiting to tryout

"But sadly only three of you girls will make it, So do your best" she says, back to her overly excited attitude, then going behind the small foldaway table with her co-cheer captain.

She called girls to tryout in alphabetical order

"Amelia" she calls my name after six other girls. I make my way off the bleachers and towards the front of the table

"Whenever you're ready" Emma says then smiles at me, I nodded and took a deep breath trying to relax then I started my routine.

When I finished my routine I was breathing very heavily to try and catch my breath but, that didn't last long before I was tackled by the cheer squad, all of them had very excited faces

"Omg that was the best routine I've seen in my 3 years at this school" Emma shout excitedly in my face as the rest of the cheer squad happily agrees

I smile weakly at all their compliments since I'm still out of breath

"Thanks guys, I really appreciate it." I say honestly "but I don't think you should say such things in front of all the participants" I say pointing towards the bleachers where some of the girls were either glaring at me, smiling at me, or watching the football participants tryout for a spot on the team

"Oh yeah, my bad" she says then gets up, I stand up immediately after and go to walk back to my spot on the bleachers but Emma stops me

"Meet me in the locker room after tryouts" she says then smiles, I nod my head then go back to my seat to see a nauseas Stella

"Stells are you okay?" I ask her softly as I sit down and rub her back

"Do you know how much harder you just made tryouts for all of us?," she asks turning towards me and laughing but I could see the sadness on her face "When did you even learn those moves?" She asks curiously

"I don't know, it just came to me" I shrug causing Stella to scoff "a triple back-hand-spring plus a upsidedown scorpion doesn't just 'come to you'" she says mocking me making me laugh

"I honestly think it was a in the moment thing" I shrug as they call Stella's name "now go make the team, make me proud" I say smiling to her.

She takes a deep breath and nods then walks down the bleachers and does her routine, I feel my phone vibrate in the middle of her routine

I fish my phone out of my pocket to see that I have two new messages from him

Easton- Wow, what you did out there was amazing

Easton- Am I allowed to call you a cheerleader yet?

I laugh at his second message as I blush from the first, he never compliments me...that's a first

Amelia- I don't know yet. Am I allowed to call you a football player yet?

I type out my message and send it as soon as Stella sits down looking stressed

"What if I don't make it?" She asks me

"Then we'll still be best friends. It won't be the end of the world" I laugh at her crazy assumption

"Yeah I know but, we wouldn't get to see each other as much" she says

"As long as I see you after school everything will be fine" I say smiling at her causing her the same reaction.