Chapter 24

                                    

                                          
Sorry it is so late! I had exams and my formal and I was so sick yesterday because I had a bit too much to drink at the after party! :( 
                          
It's not edited by the way, I am still so tired! 
                          
Jalissa's POV:
                          
So today I have my first cheerleading competition ever. Last night the boys and I stayed at Kat's with her and Laurel because we had leave early to travel to Sydney. I am sitting in one of the two cars we took with Kat, Beau and Luke. The rest of the boys and Laurel are in Skip's car travelling in front of us. Beau is sleeping peacefully beside me and Luke is snoring away in the front seat.
                          
All of us decided to make a little holiday out of this so we plan to stay in Sydney for three nights. Once I see we are in Sydney Olympic Park I apply my bright red lipstick and silver and blue glitter to my eyes. I already have my uniform on and hair done so I am pretty much ready, all I need to do is put my shoes on.
                          
After ten minutes of trying to find a car park close to the venue we finally find one and park there. Whilst Kat pays for the ticket I wake Luke and Beau up. Their sleepy eyes and messed up hair gives off the vibe that they were in a deep sleep so I just tell them simply that we have arrived. I then hop out of the car and get a sudden chill, it isn't cold it was just a lot warmer in Kat's car.
                          
Once everyone is ready to start walking into the venue we pick up our stuff and off we go. The boys and Laurel purchase their tickets and we walk in to find a seat, even though it is seven in the morning it is already full of people.
                          
"Jalissa!" I hear a manly voice call from behind me. I stop and turn around with Beau since he is holding my hand to find Nathan smiling.
                          
"Oh hey Nathan, this is my boyfriend Beau. Beau this is Nathan my...” I start.
                          
"Back spot," he finishes my sentence shaking Beau's hand.
                          
"So you're the one who guards her life," Beau laughs at his own joke. Classic Beau behaviour.
                          
"That is me," Nathan laughs back, "Sorry to take her away from you but we need to get to warm up."
                          
"It's all good, good luck," Beau smiles kissing my temple and giving me a tight hug.
                          
"Thanks," I smile handing Beau my bag that I don’t need and heading off Nathan down some stairs towards the warm up area. I see all the people from my team in our sparkly blue uniforms stretching and jumping around. You can really feel the excitement down here but you can also feel the nervousness.
                          
"Okay team!" Courtney shouts, "I want everyone warming up their stunts after you have stretched then your tumbling and jumps. Also practise any dance that you need to. After that we will be doing full routines."
                          
Everyone scurries around to their stunt groups and starts stunting. I find my group and greet them all whilst Nathan and I stretch then we all start to stunt. Whilst I am being thrown through the air I think over my counts whilst trying to concentrate hard on what I am doing.
                          
After a few falls that we have we finally stick each stunt then move onto our tumbling. Since I am a 'capable and rising tumbler' I have a massive tumbling sequence in the routine that I am quite nervous about. I have to do a front somersault, roundoff, triple back flip, back layout, double full twist. If I just made no sense to you than just imagine someone doing a lot of flips and twists all in one go.
                          
I stick my tumbling with no wobbles then do all my jumps and dance. As we wait for the other groups to finish we fix each other’s hair and touch up any makeup.
                          
"Okay now we will do one full routine then it's off to compete. One the floor pleases!" Courtney shouts causing everyone to run to their spots on the warm up floor. The familiar music that I have listened to over one million times in the past few weeks starts playing making me put my thinking cap on and doing the best I can.