I'm physically present in the dressing room or you may say backstage of our auditorium. But mentally present in the volleyball ground. It's my first time as a cheerleader groupie. Usually cheerleaders can't be supporter of any individuals or a team. They're quite like cold-hearted supporters with a smile faking on their face,forcing those fake smiles to seem to be so real. I have hated the concept of cheerleader in a match always. Like it's tormenting enough to not to be able to cheer for my favourites heartily.
I hope Haze and Ele make it there to support Rosa right now. I just don't want her to be upset about the last match she played.God! For God's sake! She wasted her two complete self-study-classes crying and questioning her own ability!
-"Hey,Rae! What are you doing? Everyone is ready to leave,but...why are you still undone with your makeup?" Stephanie said rudely,"Moreover,your simple-makeup!"
She's the most hateful senior among the cheerleader groupies. She is so into herself. If there's a term more intense than 'Narccist' in a negative way, I'd have used that very term as adjective before her introduction. She said 'Moreover your simple makeup' as if she had to say it to insult me.
The cosmetics are on the dressing tables behind the mirror I'm standing right now. All other groupies are still putting on their makeups. But she picked up only on me. Yall wanna know the reason? Well, don't laugh after hearing me out.
When everyone else of the cheerleaders agreed to put on those makeups willingly, I offered to put on my own makeups as I don't like...no, it'd be more appropriate if I say I HATE putting on heavy makeup on my precious moistured skin. And now! Now,she's roaming around me to just get on my nerves and make a scene. But maybe she's unaware of my power of ignoring shitty people like her.
IN THE VOLLEY GROUND,
Thank God! I put on light makeup! Today's sun seems to be angrier than the previous two days. I was planning to look for Rosa the first thing after entering the ground,but ended up grinning at Stephanie as she's tensed enough to maintain her heavy makeup while others are moving normally,even though some of them put on as much as she did.
The announcers took their respective positions inside announcement booth. I let a heavy sigh out as soon as I saw Ele in that booth. Oh no! How could I forget that Ele is the permanent anchor of any festival and 'any festival' includes volleyball matches too! Does it mean there will be no permanent and hearty supporter for Rosa?! I wish Haze were not occupied! But...just as hard as I was wishing Haze to be one of the supporters in the bleacher, I guess God predetermined her destiny so hard that Rosa had no supporter there for her at the final match!
I think my day is not going to go well. At first, Ele and her goddamned messy place and now finding Ele as the announcet,Haze as the rest compiling team's member and last but not the least, myself as a cheerleader out of nowhere. Goddamnit!
"Today I welcome you all to the 'Versheeyank Volleyball Ground' to witness the last day of 'Redpeers Volleyball Team Vs Versheeyank Volleyball Team' match 2020. We all witnessed two great matches between Redpeers and Scholastica previous day and 'Scholastica Vs Versheeyank' on the very first day of the tournament. I humbly request the supporters, cheerleader team and referee to take their respective seats. Now the match of 'Redpeers VolleyTeam Vs Versheeyank VolleyTeam' is going to start within a few minutes."
Ele stopped and my heartbeat went frantical with nervousness. I wish our school weren't the host so I didn't have to wear this stupid costume and dance like a crazy puppet under scorching sun.
But unfortunately, military institutions never prioritize the wish of students. And to students, a comfortable working day is nothing but a 'Wishful thinking'. Whatever, we all took our positions at the right side of the 1st volley ground of the field. Within 50 seconds, the whistle got blown and music got played with exploding frequency. I bet the supporters on the bleachers are enjoying tgis exploding sound of the music that filled the ground with their heart's content.
I don't know how much time ellapsed and how many time outs did pass for which team. Funnily enough, I gotta confess that I didn't even know which team was on the lead. Not only me, no cheerleaders can ever know the team on lead! But still it's called 'CHEERLEADER'. Well, I'm not saying, 'no cheerleaders', I mean 'cheerleader team of our school'.
Finally, I heard no music filling the ground anymore. All I could hear was real CHEERS of the supporters of the winning team. The first thing I saw after the music stopped was the scoreboard that was put behind the ground.
For a moment, I was standing there unmoved. I saw all my groupies to run towards the winner team to have photoshoot with them. But standing there unmoved, I was actually thinking of the words that could console Rosabel.
".....Congratulations, Redpeers!" I could feel the mixture of sorrow and anger of Ele in the word 'CONGRATULATIONS!" even though I'm quite sure others didn't notice.
And yeah, finally I found the words of condoled to console Rosa!
"What are you crying for! Losing is just a normal feature of game, isn't it? Even BTS didn't make it to the way toward Grammy Award at one go!"