I sat on the cozy grass, my back up against a solid palm tree. The sky was crystal clear with the warm California sun overhead. Sun rays broke through the tree canopy overhead and beat down on my exposed shoulders and legs. My bare unpainted toes wiggled in the blades of grass beneath me. I wore short tight black shorts, with a tight white tank top and white sports bra as it was a perfect 25 degrees Celsius. I pulled on white ankle socks and clean all white Adidas Superstars and walked towards the UCLA gym for my cheerleading audition.
I entered the UCLA gymnasium and was greeted by five athletic and attractive cheerleaders who sat at a table just behind the school logo.
"Welcome!" said the beautiful blonde girl in the centre. She had the friendliest of smiles.
"What's your name and any particular music you need?" she asked.
"I'm Brianna Nicola. Everyone calls me Bri! You can play Katy Perry, California Gurls please," I responded.
One of the girls queued up the song and it played loud over the stadium's speakers. My hips started to sway seductively while I grabbed a scrunchie off my wrist to put my hair in a quick ponytail. I put both arms into the air in a 'Y' shape and stood on my left leg my right knee bent in front of me. I could not have started more basic but I knew how to entertain. My leg came down and kicked back up again quickly my right hand grabbed my foot my leg fully extended above me.
"Ready girls?" I shouted, as I smiled and winked.
It was time to get into my bag of stunts. I cartwheeled to the left took it into a back handspring, back handspring, back flip. I Perfectly landed on two feet and then I stepped my right foot back, hands overhead and popped my ass out. Next, I ran toward the logo and did a front handspring, front flip and front roll and finished on my back in the center of the logo. I did a kip up to get to my feet turned my back to the girls, slapped my hands down on the logo and twerked my booty towards the five girls. I was very used to having all eyes on me. I back flipped and took it down to a full split and laid my torso on the logo and popped each butt cheek up and down.
The music finished and I worked my way too my feet and all the girls clapped for me. It was a short performance but showed off my athleticism, flexibility and stunts.
"Wow that was incredible," the blonde in the middle said. "How many years of cheerleading experience do you have?"
"I actually don't have any actual cheerleading experience," I responded. But I have done gymnastics and dance since I was five."
"Well you are incredibly athletic and we can definitely use you on the team. We can definitely work with you for cheer specific training. That was the best tryout we have seen so far this year."
"Thank you! I would love to be on the team," I responded with a big smile.
The girls all congratulated me before they left. I was then approached by the head cheerleader. She was gorgeous! She was taller than me probably five foot seven, with long slim legs and an athletic, toned figure. She had long and straight bright blonde hair down to mid back and emerald green eyes. She repped school colors and wore light blue skin tight leggings and a gold sports bra with UCLA written on it in blue.
"I'm Madison Kay, I am the cheer captain. Welcome aboard!" she said with her hand out.
I met her hand with mine. "Nice to meet you!" I responded warmly.
"Lucky for you Bri we are having our start of season sports party tonight at the cheer house. It is actually in a couple hours. All the varsity sports teams are invited and all come in their team Uni's. If you got nothing going on I can take you to the house and get a Uni for you and we can get ready together."
"That sounds great!" I said enthusiastically. "I got nothing happening I'll come with."
Madison lead the way out of the gym and I followed close by her side excited to go to my first party at UCLA. I was new on campus and new to California and looked forward to really finding myself. I hoped this was the first step in my journey.
"So Bri I saw on your form that your 20 years old and a freshman," said Madison. "What have you been up too the last few years?"
"Well when I finished high-school I took a year off to teach dance and gymnastics full time," I responded. "I saved up and spent the next year traveling around Europe while working waitressing jobs".
"WOW! That's hella cool," she exclaimed. "I have never left North America. Def on the bucket list to hit up Europe."
"Best experience of my life," I responded. "And I really needed it. I grew up in a really small town in Northern Ontario. I needed to get out of there and get in some trouble."
"And did you?" she asked with a big smirk.
"I definitely did" I said and gave my hair a playful flip. "Europe was very different and definitely the change I needed but it was time for me to get back to school and hopefully still get into a little more trouble along the way."
I was surprised by how comfortable the conversation was with Madison.
"Girll I can't wait to hear all about it and I will find lots of trouble for you don't worry about that," she said as we approached a massive home which was actually more like a mansion. "Welcome to the cheer house!"
"Holy crap! You live here? This place is massive," I said.
"I do Girl!" She said proudly. "The cheer house is literally the best. 8 bedrooms upstairs and I get the master as the head cheerleader. 7 other senior cheerleaders live with me. We have the most epic parties. You'll see tonight."
She opened the black metal gate and entered a gorgeously landscaped courtyard which was surrounded by a high hedge fence all around for privacy. Madison led me across the long stone path to a large wooden door which was left open. Inside were the other 4 cheerleaders I saw at the tryout and around 10 other girls. Each one wore various versions of the cheer uniforms all in white, yellow and powder blue. Everyone was incredibly gorgeous and the uniforms were all short, tight and very revealing.
"Hey Bae!" A short and sexy Asian cheerleader said. "Better go get your fine ass dressed before the teams start showing up."
"Don't worry bout me Boo, U know ill be good," Madison said before she took out her cell phone and put it in a bin with several other phones. Madison looked at me with her cute smile. "House rules for our parties. Absolutely no phones, computers, iPads, or cameras allowed."
"What really?" I said shocked. "What's the deal with that?" I asked.
"Our parties can get kinda Rachet and out of control," she said with a cheeky grin. "Drinking, drugs, nudity and sex. We don't ever want leaked pics or vids to ruin anyone's future. We all party hard with no pics and social media to worry about."
"Well I guess the makes sense," I said before I placed my phone in the bin with the others. The other cheerleaders put the bin in the closet and locked it up.
"Alright let's get dolled up Bri!" exclaimed Madison excitedly as she grabbed my hand a lead me up a spiral staircase to the beautiful master bedroom. The large room was decked out with white furniture. a large king bed with a UCLA blue and yellow comforter, UCLA banners on the walls and tons of different uniforms on the bed.
