other back Her face in the smeary mirror glowed hot and sweaty The split wasn’t quite right her back knee was bent Tam snapped upright and dropped again There it was Arms up straight by the ears big smile back leg straight front toe perfectly pointed
Tam rolled into a front split then rose to her knees A-T A-T-T ATTACK she whispered to herself
After two years of tryouts and one nerve-wracking afternoon of waiting she was finally in She had made the freshman cheer squad And now here she was twenty minutes until the first practice She imagined the blue and white pompoms in her hands The mangy carpet and water-stained plaster of
