“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.”
