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CHAPTER 4

Nick Narrating

Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. She was in a fucking bikini. A white one with flowers on it. She was fucking hot. I wasn’t going to be able to do this. Maybe I should just go back to the room. But how would that look? I couldn’t leave right after they showed up. But I couldn’t take it. Okay Carter. Just remember that water is not a good lube.

Everyone said hi and me, Howie, and AJ got back in the pool. Jess went and started rubbing sun block on her body. What the fuck? It was 9:00 at night. And an indoor pool. And Danielle and Haley started getting towels out and everything.

All of a sudden I heard someone yell “CANNONBALL!!!!” and felt a huge splash. I looked over to see Danielle in the pool and Haley on the side laughing. I guess it was pretty funny. Then Haley had jumped in the pool. Before I knew it I was in a swimming race with Danielle and Haley. Why the fuck was I racing? Oh yeah. Haley asked. I couldn’t say no to her. Then Danielle picked AJ to be the judge. Great. He’d make me look like an ass either way. We started and I was sucking it up from the beginning. Haley and Danielle were both twice as far as I was. So I just gave up and watched. Haley was losing, so she cut in front of Danielle at the very end to screw her up. Haley won, but Danielle was ready for a rematch. She finally convinced Haley to one and Danielle was in the lead. About half way down Haley climbed out of the pool and walked to the end. She jumped in and hit the side right before Danielle got there.

“What the fuck was that?”

“You never said we had to swim,” Haley pointed out with an innocent smile.

“That’s true,” I said.

“Aww, thank you Nick. See Danielle? Nick agrees with me!”

“Fine. I give up.” Danielle said.

“Good.” Haley replied. Then Haley turned away and Danielle dunked her head under water. When she came up all she could say was, “Bitch!” Then she dove on top of Danielle forcing her under water. Damn. They should not be doing that. It was getting me really worked up. Really, really worked up. I wanted her so bad. It should be illegal for her to be that sexy. It was making my hand sore. And I hadn’t really had a chance to find a groupie either. Oh, I was definitely gonna need one tonight.

We screwed around in the pool until 10:30 then we all got bored and sat on the side. I ended up right next to her. Fuck me, please. I was so worked up I had to keep my towel bunched up on my lap just so nobody would notice anything. All everyone was doing was talking. Then Danielle had the bright idea to play truth or dare. I couldn’t believe we agreed to it. We weren’t even drunk!

“Okay, since it was my idea I’ll start. Haley truth or dare?”

“Truth.”

“How many guys have you uh, been with?”

I figured she’d get embarrassed or something, but she just did a quick count in her head and replied, “Five.” At least I knew she wasn’t waiting for marriage. That would suck. “Okay. Nick, truth or dare?”

Oh fuck. “Uh, truth.” So not ready for a dare. Unless it was fuck Haley’s brains out, but I doubted that would be it.

“Okay, how many girls have you fucked, if you can count that high.” Oh, fuck. I don’t even know! What should I say? “Oh my God! You don’t know?!” At least she seemed amused. At least she knew I got around.

“You don’t know?” AJ asked. “That’s fucking pathetic. I figured you’d have a chart or something!”

“He used to have a chart from when he was like 17 remember? I bet he still has it under his bed.” Howie eagerly replied.

“Shut the fuck up!” After about ten more minutes of teasing we decided the game was over. Well I decided. We talked a little more, but the girls decided to leave around 11. As the girls packed their stuff Howie, AJ, and I started to leave, but I dropped my stuff. Then I guess Jess noticed AJ had left and went running out after him. Danielle followed muttering something about a fucking whore who would hump a stick if it were big enough. I had to stifle a laugh.

Then I noticed Haley was still packing her stuff. I picked mine up and walked up behind her. I put my lips next to her ear and whispered, “Good luck at competition Haley.”

Haley Narrating

Holy fuck. Does he know what he’s doing to me? Well, yeah most likely. That’s why he’s doing it. Bastard. We were alone too. When had everyone left? Then he ran his fingers down my arm and whispered, “I hope you don’t get hurt when you perform. Then wouldn’t be able to do all those tricks you like to do. You are the most flexible one on the team. You do all those tricks the best.” Mother fucking bastard. He was killing me. It was taking every ounce of self-control I had not to jump him right there. And he knew it. Fucker.

“I guess.” Time for revenge. I turned around to face him, walked in a little closer, and said, “I know you wouldn’t want that would you?

Nick Narrating

Oh fuck. That came back to bite me in the ass. “I, uh, y, y, yeah.” I stammered. What a fucking loser am I?

“See you Sunday Nick.”

Once I got back to my hotel room I headed straight for the bathroom. I needed a cold shower. And fast. After I showered I went into the bedroom and turned on the TV. Wait it was only 11:30. The bar was still open. I could find a groupie still. I headed down for the bar. It must have been my lucky day. There was an empty stool right next to a hot brunette. She was only a little drunk and less than ten minutes later we were back in my hotel room. Thank God. I was going nuts without anyone to fuck. I felt like some high school loser jacking off every 20 minutes. Not tonight.

End Narration


Sunday 4:30

“Jeff, Alex?” Brian asked.

“Hi. Before we go,” Jeff said, “this is my wife Kendra.”

“Hi.” They left the hotel and made the short journey to the convention center where the competition was being held. It was huge. It was like a freakin’ arena just divided into sections. But before they could go in they had to buy tickets. They all purchased a wristband, and Alex purchased the program book and an event t-shirt for Haley. The shirt was pretty cool. It had a swirl design that said in big letters CHEERSPORT NATIONAL COMPETITION 2005.

Nick Narrating

Damn. I didn’t know it was a national competition. I guess I never thought about it though. “Before we do anything we need to double check the time they compete and everything.” Jeff stated. He led us over to a bench in the crowded hallway and started looking through the program. “They compete at 6:21, and there are four other teams in their division, but we go first. That’s only about an hour away. We should buy any food we want and then go into Hall C where they’ll be performing.”

Shit, this was a detailed process. We went to get some food and then sat down towards the back of the arena. We could move up into priority seating closer to when they perform. I watched some of the teams, but they were co-ed teams. They were really good. Some of those guys could tumble twice as well as the girls. That was kinda scary. But some of the stunts they did were unbelievable. They were tossing the girls like I couldn’t believe and flipping them around and everything. I’d shit myself if I had to do that.

“Jeff we’d better head up to priority seating.” Kendra stated. “It’s 6:15.” So we all headed closer to the stage. Only one more team was left before Haley’s team went. I wondered if she’d be doing those flippy things. She probably could. Before I could finish my thought the guys next to priority seating were ushering all the SCA fans into the reserved rows. Jeff, Kendra, and Alex all rushed forward and found seats for everyone in the second row, dead center. I could see really well. I figured it was kind of stupid to have the priority seating, but when you were up here you could see the faces of everyone on the floor.

Then, the announcer boomed, “Next, the Southington Cyclones from Southington, Massachusetts!!!” The DJ played Irresistible by Jessica Simpson as they ran out onto the floor. Why, I don’t know. Haley found us in the crowd and gave us a quick smile. She looked nervous. Then the music started, and Haley and two other girls stayed bent down for a little while when the other girls were throwing a bunch of standing tumbling. Then when the other girls were done the three in the front stood up and did the standing twisting thing I saw Haley fall on at practice. All three of them landed it perfectly, and when they stood up they all had huge smiles on their faces, and all the SCA fans were screaming.

Next, they went to what looked to be stunts. There were about 40 girls on the team, so there were 8 stunt groups. Then all eight stunt groups threw the fliers into the air, and some fliers twisted and others kicked, and I couldn’t see anything else. Then they went to the running tumbling. Haley went last and did something I couldn’t even name let alone do. Then they did more stunts where Haley pulled her leg around and shit. All the stunts were unbelievably steady. Then they moved and did jumps, and I thought Haley was going to kick herself in the face she jumped so high. Then they moved to a formation where the stunts were really close together. When they went up all the stunts were connected. In the middle and on the sides they had low pops that helped the one legged stunts switch feet and everything. Then they twisted down and moved to a similar formation. This time there were only five stunts up. The middle was a low, and grabbed the feet two other girls stuck out to her. Then Haley and another girl I didn’t recognize popped up and actually did a flip around the legs. Everyone cheered. It was amazing. Then they moved to another formation and did their four-line cheer.

Cyclones are back
A team like none before
National Champions
Back once more!
Cyclones!

They did more stunts and then went to a dance formation. They started dancing. If you had told me the best thing they did was dance I wouldn’t have believed you. But they were amazing. Haley was right at the front with Danielle, Melissa and someone else I didn’t know. The dance was super fast, but nobody messed up at all. Then they moved did a little more tumbling and the music ended with a boom. They held the ending for a minute, but then they all started jumping up and down and ran off the floor. Danielle had picked Haley up and was spinning her around. I guess they were happy with their performance. Everyone around us was jumping and screaming too. I never thought of cheerleading like that. It was nothing like I thought. I followed everyone to the side of the floor where I saw the team hugging and everything. Danielle was still carrying Haley, and Melissa was there hugging her too. Once they let her go she came over and hugged Jeff, Kendra, and Alex. She had a lot of make-up on again. But so did all the cheerleaders walking by. Maybe it was part of the uniform.

“Did our tumbling hit? I couldn’t see everyone.” Haley asked.

“Yeah, the tumbling was great.” Alex answered. “I think I counted three touchdowns, but that was it.”

She seemed happy with that. I hadn’t noticed any mistakes, but I’d seen a total of about eight cheerleading routines in my life.

“OH! We gotta go watch the teams we compete against!” Haley started running to the front so she could see who was performing. Apparently she thought they sucked cause she said, “Well, cross them off. They’ve had four missed motions and eight no nine touchdowns already. And they are just shitty.”

End Narration

They continued to watch and there was only one other team that even had a prayer of beating SCA. It was a close call. The awards ceremony didn’t start for another twenty minutes. So Haley turned to the five guys and asked, “So what did you think?”

“You guys were great.” AJ said.

“It was incredible.” Said Kevin.

“Yeah, nothing like I expected.” Brian replied.

“Thanks. You probably all thought the whole sponsorship was a stupid idea when you heard about it huh?”

“Well, yeah.” Howie admitted. “We pictured cheerleading as a bunch of blond sluts jumping around for football players.”

“Most people do. And they think we’re stupid. We’ve heard it all.”

“Yeah, but you were valedictorian.” Nick argued.

“I know. It’s everyone else who thinks cheerleaders are slutty bimbos jumping around for football or basketball players. All-star teams don’t even cheer for a sport. We just compete.”

“How often do you compete?” Brian asked.

“Usually, every other weekend. Sometimes every weekend. It depends. Since there were two in New York these past two weekends we’ve competed at both. This is one of the biggest ones we go to. We go to a big one in Dallas too. And sometimes we go to one in Disney World. That one is in April on the 17th I think. That’s our last one this year.”

“Wow. You guys compete a lot. Do you ever compete against teams from other countries?”

“Not really. There are some Canadian ones, but most teams are from the U.S. I guess it’s not a big sport anywhere else yet. There is a world’s competition for all-stars, but it’s just the top teams from a bunch of the national competitions. Cause there’s different organizations like the National Cheerleading Association, World Cheerleading Association, and a gazillion others.”

Before they could get any further in their discussion Melissa came over to get Haley to go to awards. “Bye guys. See you later.” She walked over to her team, and she joined her team. The awards started about 15 minutes late.

“Sorry for the delay everyone. We had a tie in the Open Elite All-Girl division, but we reviewed the tapes and it’s worked out now.”

SCA was freaking out by now. They knew it was close, but they didn’t know it would be that close.

Nick Narrating

They announced a few other divisions before Haley’s. Her team looked really nervous. They announced fourth and third place as someone I’ve never heard of. Then they carried on about how close first and second were and I could tell Haley’s team really wanted to win. They announced second place and I don’t know who it was but it wasn’t SCA. But SCA started jumping up and down. Now I I’m confused. Oh, right, if they had already announced the other three teams, then SCA had won. Duh, Carter.

Haley’s team was really happy. It must be a big deal. They got a banner and a big ass trophy. Some people on the team were crying, others were hugging, and some were just shocked. Haley was kind of a combination of all of them. Danielle was hugging everyone she saw. It was pretty funny. Eventually Haley came back to us. Everyone congratulated her and everything like that. It was all a blur. Then Jeff thought it would be better to wait to leave until more people had left, and we all agreed. They played some music and Haley, Danielle, and Melissa were dancing around to it. Everything was fine until they started playing what was apparently one of Haley and Danielle’s favorite songs. They started singing along and dancing.

Here’s the thing we started out friends
It was cool but it was all pretend
Yeah, yeah, since you been gone

Fuck. She was dancing. She was dancing before, but not like this. And she was in her uniform. It showed her stomach, just like all the other cheerleaders’ uniforms. And she was so fucking hot. I wanted her so bad I could’ve burst. Literally. I’m just glad there weren’t many people around anymore. Maybe nobody would notice.

“Nick,” Brian whispered, “you doing okay over there?” Fuck. He had noticed.

“Fuck off Brian.” I muttered.

“Don’t get all pissy now. I won’t tell anyone. All I have to say is that I’m glad you picked someone nice this time.”

“Yeah. But I don’t want to wait two months before I see her again.”

“You could invite her to the show tomorrow. I don’t think they leave New York until Wednesday night. That’s the 23rd. And I think it was a really late flight. Like 8:30 or something.”

“But I don’t want to like ask her out. I barely know her.”

“Then invite all four of them. We could probably get them all access passes or whatever they’re calling them.”

“Okay. I’ll ask in a minute.”

“After you uh, calm down”

“Brian, shut the fuck up.” Fucker. I wasn’t exactly in a good position here. And he knew it. He was just fucking with me. He couldn’t give me a break here? Well, I guess I did make fun of him all through the As Long As You Love Me video shoot. He was flipping out over Leighanne. Yeah, payback’s a bitch. I watched Haley dance to a few more songs and continued to tell Brian to fuck off whenever he would bring up my um, problem.

I didn’t say much for a while to avoid making an even bigger ass of myself. Some of the other guys decided to hang with Haley, Danielle, and Melissa (Jen had decided not to come though) for a while at their hotel. I think they said yes because of me. I think Howie noticed my problem and just wanted to get back at me since I pick on him all the time. Brian and Kevin had figured it out and I think they truly wanted to help me, but they were going to go back to their wives in their rooms. I don’t know about AJ. I think he was too busy running away from Jess to really notice anything. She was throwing herself at him left and right.


Haley Narrating

I couldn’t believe they agreed to come back to our hotel. Once we were there we went to Danielle’s room. I decided to change out of my uniform, so I went to my room first. I was too tired to care about what I looked like, so I just threw on shorts and a t-shirt. I combed my hair out and headed to Danielle’s room. I walked in to find everyone sitting all over the room. AJ and Melissa were in the chairs, Danielle and Jess were on the loveseat, Howie and Jen were on the floor, and Nick was sitting on the bed. I sat on the other side of the bed. Shit. I was on a bed with Nick fucking Carter. And I already knew he thought I was hot. I really hoped we wouldn’t be left alone that night.

We talked for about an hour until Danielle decided she would need more pillows. She tried calling the front desk, but she couldn’t get a hold of them, so she had to go down to the lobby. She asked Melissa to go with her, so she wouldn’t be alone. AJ decided to go back to his room, although I think that had to do with the fact that Jess was all over him once Danielle and Melissa left. About ten seconds after AJ left Jess went back to her room. Then it was just Howie, Nick, and me. As long as Howie stayed at least until Danielle and Melissa were back it would be fine.

“I’ll be right back.” Howie said, “I’m going to get more ice. We’ve used it all.” He left to get ice. That left Nick and me alone. Oh, fuck.

Nick Narrating

They had to leave us alone? On a bed? Okay, Melissa and Danielle better get back soon. I wasn’t going to last long. “You guys were really great today. I didn’t really get cheerleading before.”

“Thanks.” Wow. This was really awkward. “You’ve been pretty quiet tonight.”

Yeah, because if I say anything I’ll make an ass of myself because I want you so bad. “I’m just tired.”

“Ah, rough night last night?” Holy shit. I couldn’t believe what she was implying. I just sat there in silence and shock. “What?” she asked. Um, I can barely form a coherent thought when I’m around you. I want a rougher night tonight with you. I want to fuck you until you can’t walk straight. I can’t keep my dick in my pants when I’m around you. Any of those would answer the question.

“Nothing.” I said quickly. Danielle and Melissa better come back SOON. It was taking so much self-control not to fuck her right there. It was ridiculous how much I wanted her. I had known her for exactly one week.

We both sat there until I broke the silence, “Is it true blonds have more fun?”

“You’re blond! You should know. I’m sure you have plenty of fun, especially since you don’t even know how many girls you’ve slept with.”

“Yeah, but I want a different perspective.”

“A girl’s perspective?”

“Yeah. Plus I can never tell when girls only like me because of who I am.”

“That must suck. I would hate that. How do you know who to trust?”

“You don’t. But, uh, you wouldn’t like to have that problem with girls huh?”

“Shut up!”

“Oh, don’t be so mad. I have nothing against a little girl on girl.”

“You’re sick.”

“I’m a guy.” She just laughed. Yeah, where was Howie? This was not going to end well if I was alone with her anymore. The whole girl on girl thing sent me over the edge.