"Next!"

The gymnasium was filled with the sounds of white sneakers hitting the floor and the cheers of the students. The first, second, and third years smiled as they did various tricks and jumps. Sitting at a table judging the new cheerleaders was Vanessa Romano, Serenity Morales, and their coach Imike. The three sat with clipboards in front of them watching the girls try out for the recently made cheer team that the two girls had made. Serenity had just moved to that school, finding comfort in Vanessa who was the only girl who really understood her.

"Okay, first off thank you for joining us and preforming," Vanessa called as she stood up, the clipboard close to her chest, "look for the list posted in the hallways of who made it in."

Once the girls left, the smiles on the threes faces dropped. "27 isn't making it, right?" Serenity asked, "her kicks were low, her jumps were sloppy."

Coach Imike shook her head and showed the list of names to the girls, "this is jv, this is varsity, add or remove who you see fit, until then I'm off — make sure to post it when you're done revising."

The coach left the two girls alone in the gymnasium, they sighed when they realized their time was almost done. They had the gym from 4-5, but from 5-7 the volleyball club was scheduled. "I'll put away the table," Vanessa called as she stood, "you get the volleyball equipment out, we might as well help them."

Serenity groaned, "are you serious? It's not our responsibility to set up for those... men. They're muscly and perfectly capable to do it themselves."

"You could take the hint and just set it up so you can gain muscle, think of it as a lesson to not talk back to the captain," Vanessa smiled. The two have been friends since forever, Vanessa being the one to introduce Serenity to cheerleading.

"Fine, you win," she muttered as she started to walk to the boys locket room. The locker room had a closet where all of the sports equipment stayed when not being used, Serenity never offered to help when they were transferring the equipment for her gym class, she only watched. But now she was bent down in the closet, trying to pick up the poles for the volleyball net.

Serenity's stray black hairs fell onto her face as she picked up the black pole and started carrying it out, she placed it on one corner of the gym and went back in the locker room to continue. The poles weren't heavy, just annoyingly thick — all she could think about is if she was able to lift girls and catch them then a pole is nothing! The sounds of footsteps repeated in her ears before she heard the door to the locker room open, "Vanessa, can you help me, please? I can only carry one at a time," she complained. The cheerleader put the pole down to fix her maroon bow that became loose.

"My names not Vanessa, but I can help," a masculine voice said as he appeared into view. "Why are you in here?" His head tilted and the blonde hair moved slightly. His weird expression told her what she needed to know, even if it was covered with a smirk.

"Who... wheres Vanessa? This is the last time I'm doing something she said," Serenity's left eye twitched before she stepped over the pole on the ground.

"Wait— who are you?" The man called out after her as he followed her out the locker room.

"Why did you make me have to help set up? Look what happened!" The co-captain whined to her captain, who was talking to presumably the captain of the volleyball club.

The boy talking to Vanessa sighed as he turned, seeing the blonde run out of the locker room, "Atsumu, what are you doing?"

" 'm sorry, Kita! I was getting the nets to help you set up and then I saw 'er and—" Astumu's big brown eyes shifted from Kita to Serenity. Kita's expression held stern, Atsumu hated when people gave him that look; his mom always did it and by default, Osamu. " 'm sorry," Atsumu lowered his head in protest, but muttered the words.

"I had a heart attack, what if I died?!" Serenity threw her arms over Vanessa, "you know about my ten-year war against men."

Kita's eyes widened before the captain started, "when we were seven, this boy—"

"Shh!" She put a hand over the girls mouth, "let's just go, the other boys are coming soon."

HELLO? ☎️

LOWKEY i wrote this like a month ago and forgot so here i guess... not edited or anything
RIP my will to write