Dialogue Sequence-A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words

“Sixth place goes to Heart N Soul John, Jacob, Caylie and Marybeth.” Said the announcer guy.

“We won we won we wonnn!!!” Caylie screamed in our ears while jumping up and down. “It only took us four years to get here, but we finally placed and it is AWESOME!”

We  shimmy around all the other teams excepting high-fives, pat on the backs, leg grabs, applause and just praise from every jumper. We get through the crowd and run up to the man holding our ribbons, and then dash to stand behind the sixth place sign.

“We are now officially as cool as the big kids, with our ribbons, and our sign and our pose.” Maybe one day we can be staffers.” John whispers to me.

“God, I hate that pose. Just think about it we will now be remembered as the choo-choo train group. Whyyy??” I say.

“ That pose is what got us here so just hush it up and smile for the camera.” Caylie said.

 We don’t really listen to the other names being announced as we are to excited to care. We all just stand there thinking about our journey, and how maybe if we hadn’t missed on that quad, or that switch, we could of placed higher maybe even win overall. But nobody dares to say because they don’t want to bring us down. Finally they finish with the places and we scurry back to show off our ribbons.

“Congratulations.” “Good job, guys! Way to go! Congratulations.” Our teammates said as we sit down in our little team blob. “I am so proud of you guys. With all of that fighting, arguing and last minute routine changing, none of us thought you would qualify or make a full routine for that matter.” Coach Ann declaims.

We all sit down and just think about the struggle it took us to win, and Caylie,our group leader, says “Do you guys realize we placed with only like half of the practices some non-winning teams use? We can totally win this thing next year…. If we practice more.”