Crying On The Inside Chapter 3
Friday came quickly. After school there was so much
excitement because it was the first game of the
season.
Basketball besides football was big in their school
thanks to JC, Lance, and Joey. Of course the whole
team contributed but the focus was on the main guys of
the game. They scored the most and the coach made sure
they had the ball most of the time. Even though there
was obvious favoritism everyone had to admit the three
guys did have skills. After school the girls headed
home to freshen up for the game. Not to long after
they were on their way back to the school. They
decided to meet up with the other cheerleaders on the
football field to go over their performance. They
practiced until gametime. There wasn't a lot of
turmoil between these two schools. Last year they had
beaten Parkmont in the first round of finals easily.
After the girls took their seat on the bench in front
of a roaring crowd, they looked at the guys practice
for the last five minutes of warmup. Michelle watched
them practice and noticed that the other school had
improved and looked like they would give their guys a
good game.
"The guys are lookin good out there," Heather
said eying Lance.
Of course Michelle had to listen to
Heather's sexual encounters with Lance earlier in the
week. Michelle stayed quiet and asked no questions as
to not add fuel to the fire. Heather didn't talk long
except to say her experience of it was pretty much the
same as Brianna's. Now they were making references to
her and JC. But not to much.
"I know. But Parkmont boys look tough," Michelle
said logically.
"Sure but who's gonna beat us?" Brianna said
laughing.
The game started and Brentwood stayed in the
lead most of the first quarter. The game was exciting
and people were on their feet cheering the boys on.
When the first quarter was over the Parkmont
cheerleaders got up and performed a quick cheer to
represent their guys. It was cute but not comapred to
what the girls had planned.
The guys came out to play
the second quarter. Parkmont gained a lead but not for
long. At half time Brentwood was up by seven points.
The girls got up to perform their halftime cheer. They
didn't have on cheeleading outfits. They had on their
sweats that they practiced in. They lined up and did
the vocal cheer and then formed their pyramid. Then
they lined up a different way and when the music of
Christina Aguilera's "Dirrty" blasted through the
speakers the girls stripped of their sweatsuits to
reveal their very short tank tops and short flared
cheerleading skirts which had the school colors. They
danced and the audience clapped and danced along. Even
the guys on the opposing side cheered for them. After
all they might as well have danced in bikinis.
When
their dance was over they returned to their bench.
Everyone was on their feet cheering. It was if they
had won the basketball game. The guys came out to
practice to play the second half. The players had
their eyes on the Brentwood girls noticing they were
in different outfits. Some missed shots but when it
was time to play the straightened up to play the game.
Brentwood won the game 65 to 54.
The players retreated
to the locker room shaking hands. The girls went to
the locker room to get their things and then went to
the parking lot to wait fo the guys. People passed by
them and said how good they did. The guys came out and
went up to the girls.
"Victory party at my house. Yall in?" Lance
said.
Heather, Brianna, and Joey agreed. JC looked at
Michelle but didn't say anything. Michelle knew that
Lance's parents stayed in a whole other section of the
house and Lance might as well have had his own
apartment. That meant anything could go.
"You?" Lance asked JC.
"Man you know I'm there," JC replied. He looked
at Michelle who still looked hesitant. He pulled her
aside.
"Come on. Just for a little while alright," JC
said with his arm around her neck. "We have to
celebrate the win."
She really didn't want to go but
JC would ask until she said yes so she gave in.
"Okay. But not all night," she said. JC nodded.
They walked back to the others.
"We're in," JC said giving Lance palm.
"We'll meet you there in an hour," Heather said.
"Fine with me," Lance said getting into his car.
"See yall later," Joey said getting into his
car. They all parted ways. Michelle went home and
jumped into the shower. She let the warm water pour
down on her as she thought to herself. She really
didn't want to go to Lance's. He was her friend but
she knew the things that went on at his house. He and
Heather were doing it earlier that week! But she
trusted JC and he wouldn't pressure her. Or would he?
[chapter 4] [Crying on the Inside]
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