Chapter 4

Valentina's pov

"Bitch guess what?" Gina asks as we sit down on our usual lunch table.

"Fernanda Garcia asked me out!" She continues excitedly, slightly squealing.

"No way. Who is that?" I asked confused. She gives me a, "bitch really" look.

"She's the prettiest girl in this entire school, besides you of course. I've had a crush on her, since last year when I was on the cheerleading team. Also she's best friends with Heaven."

Oh so that's why she wanted Ginas number. Make sense!

"I'm happy for you! Wait she just asked you out like that? No flowers or anything?" I ask slightly upset.

"She just asked me if I'm available tomorrow. I said yes, and she asked me if I wanted to do something with her, so I said yes." Gina smiles, giving me half of her sandwich.

As I was about to say something, I see Heaven and two girls walking towards our table with roses in their hands. I quickly turned my gaze to Gina, but she's looking at one of the girls; which I'm assuming is Fernanda.

Heaven hands a rose to Gina, as well as the girl after her and Fernanda. In an instant, Fernanda pulls out a poster board that was on her other hand on her back, and faced it towards Gina.

I look at the poster board that read, "Will you go out on a date with me?"

Cute, but miss girl didn't have to go all out. Okay I'm jealous why can't I have that? I totally envy Gina right now, but in a good way.

I'm so happy for Gina. I can tell by the giant grin on her face that she's happy and although I just met her a few weeks ago, she's already my best friend and as long as she's happy, then I am too.

"Yes I'll go out with you stupid." Gina rolls her eyes playfully, and gets up from the table to hug Fernanda.

This is so cute that I legit want to cry. Why can't I have that? Is that too much to ask for?

Gina detaches herself from the hug and goes up to me and hugs me so tight, that I can barely breathe.

"G- Gina you can stop hugging me now." I stutter out, as she apologizes and jumps up and down in pure excitement.

"I'm so happy for you." I smile.

I really am happy for her. I love to see my friends and family happy it just makes myself happy from that.

"Thank you Val, I really appreciate it." She says with a grin, sitting back down on the table, me doing the same.

"Hey, can I ask you a question?" I ask, curiously how she met Fernanda. She never told me that part and me being curious, wants to know how.

"Sure." She says closing her lunch box.

"How did you meet Fernanda?"

"We met when I was a cheerleader last year and she was too, but I quit." Gina says. The tone in her voice sounds like she's upset.

"Oh. You don't have to answer this, but why did you quit?" I ask. I really wanted to know why. Not because I'm being nosy or whatever you call it, but I simply want to know everything about her now that she's my friend. I'm sure she would do the same thing to me in this situation.

"I couldn't stand Heaven. She treats us like complete shit just because she's the captain. It's been like that since freshman year, and I finally decided enough is enough, so I ended up quitting as well as half the squad."

"Right now, there's only about 10 girls on the squad. They need at least 11 or more to compete in the competition. You know that I saw some posters outside on the hallway for auditions to become a cheerleader?" Gina continues, rambling at this point.

Suddenly, a idea popped into my head. Now, I don't know if this idea is good or not but I'm going to wing it.

"I should join the cheerleading squad." I say really fast, but Gina looks at me with wide eyes and shakes her head.

"No no no. You're my best friend. I'm not going to let you join something that is going to destroy you. For one, Heaven will stress you out. Although you do have the body for it, I don't want you to come to school stressed as fuck for the rest of your senior year." Gina genuinely sounds concerned for me, but that still wasn't going to stop me.

If Heaven wants to ruin my life I'll let her but I want to join to meet more people. In high school popularity comes from joining a sport, dating someone who's popular, and being a cheerleader. Other than that, you're considered a loser or a nobody according to them. Plus, I like being a cheerleader. I always wanted to become one when I was little.

I was about to say something but the bell rang. Gina looks at me briefly, and I sigh. You know what I'm joining!

I get up grabbing my backpack and slinging it over my shoulder.

"I'm going to join. I get your points and I understand you, but I just want to be able to join something I like." I say looking at her and she nods.

"Okay. If you join, then I am too. You aren't handling this shit alone." She says, walking to her locker as I follow her.

"You don't have to do that." I retort.

I like that she doesn't want me to do it alone, but if she quit because she can't stand Heaven, then why would she join again? She's risking it for me and I don't want that.

"I know I don't have to, but I want to."

"Now come on, we have class and we have to meet up after school for auditions. We start today to get it over with. I'll text you okay?" She continues, and I nod walking to my class, which is Biology.

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"You want to practice it one more time?" Gina asks.

We're currently practicing for the auditions. I feel confident, but I also feel nervous. We decided on doing our routine together that way it wouldn't be so hard on us.

"No, I got everything. Do you?" I ask and she nods taking a sip of her water.

"I'm scared that we aren't going to get in." I say fiddling my fingers.

"Trust me, they're desperate we will make it." Gina reassures me as I put my shoes on.

"I hope so." I giggle walking out of the locker room and walking towards the gym, Gina following behind me.

Automatically I see Heaven, some cheer girls, and the coach sitting down on a table laid out in the back of the gym. Gina and I stand in the middle. Heaven looks at the coach briefly, then her gaze loves up and down my body. I was wearing black leggings with a white crop top.

"I see that you want to join again miss Carter." The red hair coach said, raising her eyebrows slightly.

"Well my best friend wanted to join, so here I am again." Gina shrugs, motioning her hand towards me.

The red hair coach which I think her name is Coach Sanders, looks at me staring at my eyes intimidating

Damn does everyone have a problem or something?

"Before we start, can I get your name? I know Gina's, just not yours."

"Valentina Gomez." I reply, and she nods writing it down on her paper.

"Just so you know, this is an audition which means if we don't like what we see on your routine or whatever you're doing, you'll not be accepted." Coach Sanders says.

Everyone including Heaven were staring at us. I felt uncomfortable with the staring but whatever.

"We understand." Gina and I say in unison, making us giggle a little. Heaven rolls her eyes in annoyance.

"Get started then."

I look at Gina and she nods in acceptance. She gives a signal to a girl playing the music.

All you can hear now is the music blasting through the gym.

Can't stay at home, can't stay at school

Old folks say, "You poor little fool"

Down the streets I'm the girl next door

I'm the fox you've been waiting for

Gina and I start dancing separately. We move our hips then when it gets to the best part of the song, that's when the fun begins.

Hello, daddy, hello, mom

I'm your ch-ch-ch-cherry bomb

Hello world I'm your wild girl

I'm your ch-ch-ch-cherry bomb

Gina picks me up and I don't know how I do it, but somehow my feet were above Ginas hands. I give Gina a signal that I'm going to do do a backflip and she nods, as she holds tighter onto my feet.

I do a backflip landing right on me feet. Gina starts tumbling from in front of me.

I do the same, and I just keep tumbling until Gina stops which causes me to stop.

The music was about to end, so Gina holds me again until my feet were on top of of her hands as she holds onto me tightly making sure I don't fall. As she's holding me up, I lift my arms up to make in look like a 'V".

The music then stops which makes me carefully get down to the floor.

The cheerleaders and Coach Sanders starts clapping, but Heaven on the other hand... she just stares blankly at me.

What the fuck is her problem?!

"Oh my god, that was amazing girls. I really like the way you two improvised on the tumbling, and I really like the way Gina holds Valentina without struggling. I must say that what you both did was very impressive." Coach Sanders smiles.

"Heaven what did you think?" She continues, making Heaven break out of her trance.

"They were okay, but I don't think they were cheerleader material. I mean... I can do that." Heaven scoffs.

"I would love to see you try." Gina challenges as Heaven stands up from her chair but Coach Sanders holds her back.

"Okay let's vote in it. All those in favor of Valentina and Gina joining the squad?" Coach Sanders raises her hand as well as basically everyone, except Heaven.

"You guys are in. Welcome back Gina, and welcome Heaven." Coach grins, "Meet me at my office. I need to get you your uniforms."

I squeal and jump onto Gina and hug her tight as she wraps her arms around my shoulders.

"Congratulations losers." Heaven rolls her eyes, then tries to leave but then I speak up.

"Aren't you supposed to be captain of the squad?" I ask getting out of Ginas grip. Heaven slowly turns back around facing me.

"I am, so what?" She asks and I smirk.

"Can't call us losers when we're apart of your squad, now." I smile.

"Oh really? And who said that?" She asks crossing her arms.

"I did." I respond, turning my heel and leaving to head towards Coach Sanders office.