All I Ever Wanted
Chapter 1:
Allayla
"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.
sorry, the spacing's weird. witty did that on it's own
:/
All I Ever Wanted Chapter 1: Allayla "I'm not trying
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