Chapter 3:Tripple back
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Chloe's POV
I purposely mess up my jump series during warm ups and I see my mom glaring at me from her front row seat.
I wink and smile at her and she can't help but laugh, I finish my beam warm up with my double pile.
If you guessed that I was just psyching out the competition you guessed right. But wait until the see my tipple back dismount on bars.
"Great job on the double pike but you did mess up on your jump series, if you stay focused I know you can do a perfect routine on beam today."
"Thanks coach I will."
"It your turn on vault." Coach instructs. I look too see where Ginelle is I realize she's rehearsing her floors routine.
I watch her as she goes for her final tumbling pass, I cross my fingers praying she sticks the landing.
But she lands flat on her face and I run over to her.
"Hey, are you doing okay?"
"Yeah I'm fine." She says but I can see the tears in her eyes and hear the giggles of some of the meaner girls.
"Don't you dare cry, because if you cry I'll cry." I say forcing my eyes to water.
"If you start crying I'll start crying." Ginelle sniffles.
"Okay so nobody's going to cry, even if we mess up?" I ask her while helping her up.
"Deals." She grabs my hand and we shake on on then hug.
We went back to warm ups and before I knew it warm ups were over and it was time for first rotations.
Through out the day I purposely make tiny mistakes so the judges would make small diductions.
The day ended with me in 5th place and Ginelle barely making it in the top 20 at 19th.
"Cutting it a little close there Giselle." Raven taunts Ginelle and we pick up to leave.
"And I don't know how how made it the 5th place with all those mistakes you made. I bet the judges are playing favorites." She smirks at us and her friends laugh.
"You think you guaranteed a spot on the team because your mom is the junior national coach and you think your all that good but news flash. The only reason you're at the top is because the NGO wants to keep your mom working for them!" I shout the last part.
I instantly regret what I said when I see all the gymnasts and their coaches that didn't leave yet.
They all know that what I said was true so none of them said anything, they all looked the other way with satisfied looks on their faces.
Some of the girls she bullied started laughing at her.
"Raven what's going on here." Ms. Clinton walks in at the worst possible time, Ravin is about to cry to her mom about what is said but is cut off by ky mom.
"Come on girls the taxi is waiting."
Ginelle and i run out of there laughing and my mom joins in our laughter not knowing why we're laughing and that just makes us laugh harder.
"Great job both of you, I'm so proud of you girls." She congratulates us,"Ginelle I'm not coach but I've been watching you train forever and I could tell you were scared out of you mind today."
"I was, I was so afraid of messing up that all I did was mess up." She start crying and my holds her and starts drying her tears.
"Its okay sweetie. Look at this way, you messed up all your routines and still made it into the top 20. Do you know what that means?"
"No."
"It means that you deserve to be here, and you have what it takes to be number 1. All you need to do is take a deep breath and let all your hard work pay off sweetheart."
"Ready?"
"Ofcourse, if you weren't good enough you'd never make it this far and I wouldn't be friend with you." I joke at the end and she starts laughing.
"Thanks." She rolls her eyes dramatically and wipes her nose.
Tomorrow we're taking everyone down.
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