It's Maggie Brooks's first year at Eden Hall Academy and she can't wait to dive into a school year full of fun. Down to earth and understanding good girl, Maggie finds herself getting into a crowd her brother and his friends don't necessarily want...
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The next day at lunch, Maggie sat with her friends at the table in the cafeteria. It was a quieter lunch among the group. The cafeteria was rather loud, but when wasn't it? That was the time of the day friends got to be who they wanted to be and hang around with their friends during the breaks between classes. She liked lunch because she got to speak about everyone and everything with her girlfriends.
Her best friend, Neveah Lancaster, was a rookie cheerleader on the team. She'd been doing cheer and gymnastics most of her life. However, she was a rookie to the cheer team at Eden Hall, doing a bunch of dirty tasks before she would make her way to the top. Neveah was a tall blonde who'd hit puberty in the sixth grade and since then had breasts and wider hider, a more mature voice and figure, along with a maturity to her that made her more attractive in a way.
Many liked her. Sometimes Maggie envied her best friend, but really, it was Neveah who envied Maggie. The girl with two brothers and many friends. The girl who went on vacation three times a year outside of the country. Who's parents put aside time to spend with their children. Neveah did not have any siblings and her parents both worked constantly, her father often away on trips and mother arriving home late. Neveah was often over at the Brooks' household because it was filled with more excitement compared to her own.
Maggie lifted her head, sipping on the brown milk through the straw. She noticed Cole had snatched a boy's lunch off his tray, digging inside the bag before taking everything but the carrots, in which he tossed aside to the boy and pushed him away.
"Who're you looking at?" Neveah prodded her best friend, nudging her in the side. Maggie coughed on her milk and wiped her face with the napkin before turning in her seat to her best friend, brown milk staining her light purple shirt. "Sorry."
Maggie shrugged. "It's okay." She sighed. "I'm not staring at anyone in particular, just wondering why Varsity's picking on JV."
"I don't see the issue. They're all boys and jocks, I think they can handle themselves." Neveah answered. "Hey, check that out." Neveah tapped Maggie's shoulder.
Both turned and looked across a few tables to the older cheerleaders sitting together. Below the table, a boy crawled below the wooden surface looking up skirts and admiring what he saw. The smirk on his face gave away his pleasure and he wasn't going after girls his own age, but looking at the ones a few years older. He claimed they were more mature and good looking, something he wanted and knew he could possibly get.
"Wow." Maggie shook her head. "Didn't take him for an older girl kinda guy."
"Why? Wait, you met him?"
"Yeah." She nods. "Kind, just like his friends." She points to the table where three boys had gotten up and left the cafeteria.
"Jocks, I think you'd do well with any of them." Neveah points.
"No." Maggie shook her head, cheeks flushing a red of embarrassment. "No way. Why would you even think that?"
"Um, hello?! If you're not with us, you're with your brother and his friends. They're total jocks, might I remind you."
Maggie found her face heating up some and Neveah was right. If she wasn't with her friends, she was her brother and his friends. That was simply because they all knew each other well and she found them to be fun to be around. However, lately within the last few days she has found them annoying. Especially Rick and Cole, who were led to believe they were better than everyone else and advising her who she could and couldn't hang out with.
"I don't know, Nev." She shook her head.
Across the cafeteria, Neveah furrowed her brows upon seeing three boys walk in and get stopped by Rick and his clan of jocks. Maggie approached their table from dumping their trays into the garbage and placing them above the trash bin. She watched the exchange quietly. Maggie knew Rick and Cole were against the newcomers of JV, but she knew it wasn't to make differences. Those kids were there for the simple fact that they were good, better than her brother and other friends who didn't make the JV team.
She noticed the three boys, whom she'd only been introduced to Russ Tyler, walk in together casually. Almost suspiciously she noticed. It was odd, but she wasn't going to peel her eyes away. It seemed too good to be true, people were actually standing up to the Varsity boys and it wasn't her. It was something she couldn't not watch.
Cole and Rick had stood, stopping the boys and one of them came forward, trying to reach for his lunch once again. "I heard there's tension between both those teams." Neveah stood, standing beside her best friend now.
"So I've noticed." She nods.
Cole had pulled something out of the bag and she watched as the three boys had dropped what they had and turned running. They ran towards them, going for the cafeteria doors by their side. Varsity ran like a stampede of horses out the cafeteria as they chased the three JV boys. Behind them, the rest of the JV team followed to see what was going on. Maggie noticed the few who were keeping up with the group and then the few who hadn't been running, some distracted or too slow to keep up.
"Should we follow?" Neveah asked.
"I think they can handle it." She replied.
"It seems fun." She shrugged.
Maggie looked to her best friend. "I kinda do wanna see what happens. Let's go, but keep quiet." She nods and got up.
Neveah and Maggie walked out of the cafeteria through the opposing doors that the others had ran from. Maggie was intrigued and she wanted to know what they were doing. Why Varsity ran after those three boys like they had. Why was there more tension than needed? JV was an odd bunch of kids mushed together to create a team and friendship, they seemed rather interesting that she wanted to know more about them.
