Go! Fight! Twin! by Belle Payton

Author:Belle Payton
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Simon Spotlight

CHAPTER

Eleven

Ava was hot and sweaty and totally sore, but she still felt exhilarated. Cheerleading was really fun! It wasn’t exactly a contact sport the way football was, but there was a lot of teamwork and real athleticism involved. These past few days had given her a newfound respect for how coordinated and highly trained a cheerleader needed to be.

“So how terrible were you?” Alex asked her in a low voice. They were on the late bus home, still in disguise, sitting close to the front, where there were empty seats all around them. Most kids preferred to sit toward the back.

Ava hesitated. “I tried. I wouldn’t say I was terrible, but I wasn’t great or anything,” she said. “I intentionally didn’t jump very high on my hurdle or my pike.”

“Do you think you’ll be cut?”

Ava pressed her lips together uneasily. She was worried about this. She hadn’t paid a lot of attention to how the other girls were doing. It was hard to compare yourself when you were trying to learn a complicated routine. “I think so. I hope so. There were some really talented girls, like Rosa and Lindsey. And there were some girls there who really, really want to be on the team and have clearly put in a lot of practice. It makes me feel terrible that I could be keeping someone off the team who deserves it.”

Alex shook her head. “You won’t be, if you get cut. There are several girls vying for just the few slots. Not all of them will make it. You haven’t deprived anyone.”

“Well, there’s also Molly, who still has a sprained ankle. She was there today, participating for the first time, and her ankle was pretty heavily taped. She did okay but was clearly not a hundred percent. This isn’t a game, Al. It’s pretty stressful to think I might be bumping some deserving girl off the squad. I better get cut.”

They rode in silence for a while. Then Alex said, “Corey knows.”

Ava turned to her, eyes wide.

Alex explained how Corey had jumped in and saved her from Coach K’s question. And how he’d guessed she wasn’t Ava but had promised he wouldn’t tell anyone.

Ava got a creepy-crawly feeling along her spine. This was getting more and more complicated. She liked Corey. He wasn’t the kind of guy who would go around telling everyone, but still. It would be a huge disaster if her football teammates found out she had tried out for cheerleading, even if she was pretending to be her sister! She groaned softly.

“Anyway,” said Alex briskly, “tomorrow it will be over. They’ll post cuts first thing in the morning, and I’ll be off the team and can go to Coach Jen and ask to be manager. And you can go to football and we can pretend it never happened. We got away with it, Ave. I can’t tell you how grateful I am that you were willing to do this for me.”

Ava managed a small smile.

“Oh, and one more thing,” Alex added mischievously.

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