Juliette - Melissa Amondo (the reading list .txt) 📗

towards the door. Then she stopped and turned back at me. “Maybe you should come check it out tonight at 7:30pm. It’s at the restaurant on campus called Jazz moon. Swing by!” She said. “Sure! I’ll be there. Thanks.” I smiled. She smiled back and said, “Great, see you then.” and she walked out the classroom. I was pumped! What was I going to wear?! Trouble Maker

I totally forgot that practice was today at 5pm. I was going to have a very eventful day. I had three classes today and all we did was go over the syllabus. I kept thinking about what I would where tonight and how excited I was to go to an event tonight. I really feel like I have to redeem myself tonight. After my class was over, I headed back to my dorm room. To my surprise, the roommate from hell was there. “So it looks like we’re going to be stuck together.” She said. “Look so.” I replied. Go me and my attitude. For attitude almost seems natural. She brings it out in me. She was so rude to me, I can’t help but to care about her feelings either. “Listen, we are going to cohabitate together, so let’s start over. I’m Stacey. What’s your name freshman?” She asked. “Well it’s not freshman!” I snapped. “Wow! You’re sensitive.” She replied sarcastically. “My name isn’t freshman. Once upon a time, you were a freshman.” I replied. She really gets under my skin. “Ok! Geez. What is your name roomie?” Stacey said. She looked irritated now. Good. “Juliette.” I replied. There was nothing else I wanted to tell her.  “Well nice to meet you Juliette. I’m sorry we started off on the wrong foot. Your right, I was a freshman before. It was not right of me to act that way towards you. Hopefully we can have a good year.” She said. I could tell she was really trying to get along with me now. I nodded. “Sooo, where are you from?”Stacey asked.  I didn’t want to let my guard down with her, but she was being nice and actually trying to initiate a conversation with me. I guess and can try to be nice. Maybe we really can be good roommates after this. “I was born in New York, but lived in ft. Lauderdale for about 6 years now.” I answered. “Oh cool, I’m from Jersey! We’re neighbors!” Stacey replied. I laughed a little, “Yeah, I guess we are.” Stacey smiled. “So do you have plans tonight Juliette?” Yes I do! I wanted to shout. But I had to be cool about it. Didn’t want her to know I was a loner. “Yeah. I have cheerleading practice and then going to Jazz moon after. What about you?” I said calmly. “You’re on the cheer squad! My best friends are also on the team!” Stacey replied. Crap. Maybe I gave her too much detail. “Well I didn’t make the team; I will be the new equipment manager.” I said not making any eye contact. “Oh. Ok. Cool. My best friend Heather is the Cheer Captain and my other bestie Bianca is also on the team. They wanted me to try out. But cheerleading isn’t my thing.” I started thinking maybe if we get along, she can put in a good word for me and I can get on the team. “Yeah, I was never really into cheer leading either, but wanted to try something new.”I replied. “So that explains the dance moves to dirty pop.” She laughed. I chuckled, “Yeah.” She walked up to the mirror and I couldn’t help but to admire her beauty and style. “I’ll be going to the Jazz moon tonight as well. Do you know what you’re going to wear?” She took that question right out of my brain. “My closet sucks.” I can’t believe I said that. She looked at me through the reflection in the mirror and smirked, “I’ll hook you up girly.”

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Is everyone in this school beautiful? Coach introduced me to the team. I got to put a face to Stacey’s besties Heather and Bianca. Heather was pretty, but Bianca was drop dead gorgeous. Everything was perfect on her. Beautiful long blond hair, with green eyes, perfectly tanned, perfect body, and a pearly white smile. In practice, everyone surrounded her, including our captain Heather and Sebastian. Sebastian made the team, and the way he was looking at Bianca, I can tell he was not gay either. Maybe she was the girl he was crushing on. I could see why he would be afraid to talk to her. Bianca was like a celebrity. The more I admired her, the more I wanted to be her friend. My thoughts were then interrupted by the Coach and Heather. “So Juliette, you will be responsible for locking up the gym after practice.” Coach Mary stated. “We practice Monday, Wednesday, and some Fridays.” Heather stated. “No one is allowed to be in the gym during and after cheer practice.” Coach Mary stated while handing me the key. “Ok, got it.” I nodded. “You’re responsible for picking up all the equipment left up and storing them away before you lock up. Practice is for an hour and the gym closes at 7pm.” Heather stated. She was slightly arrogant when she said that. “Alright, no problem.” I replied. “Great!” She said sarcastically and walked toward the team. “Don’t mind her. I will be leaving early today. But if you have any problems, do not hesitate to call me.” Coach Mary said. “No worries, I will.”  A few minutes after Coach Mary left, Heather and Bianca walked up to me. “We are shutting practice down early. But you still have to stay until 7.” Heather said. Was that even allowed? It was only 5:15pm.What was I going to do by myself in a gym until 7. “I can’t just close up early?” I asked. “No you cannot. Just in case Coach calls you or something, she will think we are still practicing.” Heather said crossing her arms and looking at me as if she wanted to bite my head off for even asking the question. I gave her a nod. She sort of scares me a little. They then went back to the team and I heard her telling the team about finishing practice early and started going through the schedule with them. I sat in a seat outside of the gym in the doorway watching them laugh and giggle while gathering their belongings. Maybe I can practice my cheer moves until 7 after they all leave. “Ahem.” I looked up to seeing a tall, handsome male stood over me. “Um...Hi.” I didn’t know what else to say. He smiled. “Can I get in beauty?” I felt myself blush. Did he really think I was beautiful? “No you know you cannot come in Cameron!” Heather stated from behind me. Good thing, because I was going to let him in. “Give me a break, it’s the first day of school. And I’m a real athlete.” He chuckled. “We are athletes too Cam.” Bianca smiled. He winked at her. “Cameron, you know the rules! Stop trying to take advantage of our new equipment manager.” Heather said angrily.”Cameron looked at me with his gorgeous eyes and said, “Am I taking advantage of you cutie?” I couldn’t even respond. I was too focused on not blushing! “Leave her alone Cameron!” Heather said. Cameron laughed. “Wow fine! See you around cutie.” And he walked out of the gym. I was freaking out inside. Did he really think I was cute? Was he really looking forward to seeing me around? No one has ever called me cute before, except my parents. Oh my God, I think I am blushing. When I looked around to see if anyone noticed, Heather was burning a hole in my face with her eyes. “Cameron is trouble and a big flirt. If you know what is good for you, you should stay away from him. No one is allowed in the gym after we leave, Capiche?” Heather stated. “Yep. I got it.” Heather and the team walked out and I was alone now in the gym. I picked up my cell phone and started browsing YouTube for a song to practice to, and that’s when I heard a basketball bouncing. It must have been Cameron waiting on the girls to leave. He is a rule breaker. I went to look and it was another guy walking in with headphones on bouncing the basketball. He was handsome but looked so serious. “Sorry, you can’t be here right now.” I said stepping in his way. He gave me a confused look. Then he took out his headphones. I guess he could not hear me. “What?” He said. “The gym is closed. You can’t be here.” I said. “It looks open to me.” He said and walked right pass me. I chased after him. “I’m really sorry. Those are the rules. You can’t be here.” He looked annoyed. “Rules? What rules?” He asked. I didn’t know the rules myself. “Coach Mary said no one is allowed in here during cheer practice.” I said. “I don’t see any cheer practice going on.” He was rude. I did not want to have to call Coach Mary on my first day, plus the girls would probably be upset with me if I blew their cover. I had to be stern. He put his things down and started removing his jacket as if to tell me that he was not going anywhere. I then grabbed his basketball. “What are you doing?” He said looking at me irritated. “You have to leave.” I said sternly. “Give me the ball.” He said walking towards me. I quickly backed up. “No. Leave.” He tried to grab the ball from me and I quickly turned and tried to run with the ball. He was fast and caught up to me. He tried to grab the ball and we tussled until he finally got the ball back.  “Don’t do that again.” He said walking toward basketball hoops. I was furious. If he wasn’t going to leave, I was going to be irritating. I walked onto the court. “Seriously?” He said. “Do you know who I am?” he asked. “No, and I really don’t care. You’re going to get me in trouble.” I said. He looked offended. Who was he? Why couldn’t he be like Cameron and just leave peacefully? “Listen, I’m just going to play a few games with my boy Cam and then we will leave okay?” He pleaded. “Cameron already came and left. He follows the rules.” I snarled. “Oh wow. Guess I’ll be practicing by myself then, unless you want to go a game of one on one?” He laughed while dribbling the ball around me. “No I don’t. I want you to leave please.” I said trying to be nice. “Here, I’ll tell you what. You make a shot and I’ll leave. I’ll give you three chances. If you miss, you can go sit over there and let me practice. Deal?” He smiled, almost like he knew I wasn’t athletic at all. It was worth a try, I had three