All I Ever Wanted
Chapter 1:
"I'm not trying out for the
cheerleading team," I said for the one hundredth time to my
mom.
"Oh, but honey, you know that it would make your father feel
so proud to see you cheering him and his team on! Think about it,
at least. For me? And your dad."
"I already did think about it. And I have come to the
conclusion that I'm not a peppy girl who wants to wear short
skirts and do silly cheers. And I already do cheer his team on...
Just a little more subtler then the girls on the team and I do it
from the bleachers. Where I'm happy."
She didn't seam to understand my point because she kept going
on about how happy I would make everyone if I did this.
"Hey!! I was on the cheerleading team for Dillon High School
when I was your age and we did not do 'silly
cheers'", she quoted me. " We worked VERY hard. And
we really did do the team a favor... Which is something that I
think you could do!"
"Mom, you just need to understand that this is something I
don't want to do. I don't really like the idea of
football as it is... So why would I want to be on a team that
cheers for the football players when I'm already forced to do
that? I mean, you're lucky I even show up at these games.
They drive me crazy," I argued. Keeping my temper calm
around my parents was hard work. I was getting to that age where
every thing they said to me made me want to vomit. I was fifteen
and already ready to move out.
You could not even imagine how badly I wanted to move out
of Dillon. It was a small town that I wanted nothing to do with
anymore. I was done with it.
"Alright, Allayla. Do what you want... It was just a
suggestion," she said as she walked into the living
room.
I sat down at the kitchen table and thought for a minute.
school started in two days and I really wasn't looking
forward to it. That also meant that football season was going to
be starting again soon.
School bored me. It was pretty easy. I was a straight A student.
Classes weren't very hard. Tenth grade seemed to be going my
way. I really didn't go out much so friends and guys never
really distracted me. My plan wasn't really to pick up
friends on the journey of my life. It was just to get through
school. Get a good scholarship to a college outside of Texas and
away from the people in Dillon, graduate, get a descent job, and
have a family who won't be dragged into the world of football
and small towns.
That was all I ever wanted.
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