"Ladies! Listen up!" Coach Greenshaun held her left hand in the air, and snapped loud enough that the group of cheerleaders around her silenced. "Y'all know the drill. Drop 'em if you want on the bus."
Janet and Dani exchanged wide eyed glances. They had both though the rule was just a rumor spread by the older girls to scare the first-year students on the team. Dani's brain held on to the doubt until she saw the girls in front of her comply, pushing their bright red cheer briefs, and the panties beneath them down their thighs.
Next to her Janet said, "oh my god," under her breath.
The cheerleader closest to their coach plucked her underwear off a shoe, and dropped them in a bag their coach was holding. The coach checked her name off a list, then the girl climbed the steps into the bus, clutching the hem of her skirt down and against her ass. The process repeated a few times before Dani admitted to herself they weren't putting her on, and even then, she had to look over to Janet to confirm she wasn't dreaming.
Janet and Dani had met just a few weeks ago at a new student orientation. They were at Drayden University in Northern California on cheerleading scholarships, and both had come from small towns in the parts of the country where most of their neighbors had been cornfields. They were both petite, near a hundred pounds, and just above five feet tall. Each had been the most skilled cheerleader at their high school, and wouldn't have had the opportunity to go to a college as nice as Drayden if they hadn't been. Dani's skin was deep olive, and her hair jet black, long and curly. Janet was a natural redhead, and when cheering had to keep her C-cup chest strapped down under two sports bras, each a size too small. Both had made a few friends with the rest of the cheer squad, but had become quickly close.
When Candice, the team captain, had told them about the bus rules they had agreed afterward that she was just trying to scare them, and hadn't bothered to confer beyond themselves. Confronted with it though, the reality of Coach Greenshaun's rule settled on the two terrified 19-year-olds.
No panties on the bus. If they behaved for the four-hour ride, they got them back at their destination. If they didn't they could either leave the team right then and there, or cheer without them. Janet and Dani both needed their scholarships. In the event they left the team, they would also be leaving school, and sticking their parents with the five figure bill for their first semester, a prospect that wouldn't sit well in either household.
The pair watched wide eyed as girl after girl did what was necessary to board. Candice approached the head of the line, panties and briefs in a ziplock bag in her hand. Her blonde bob was flawlessly trimmed just above her jawline, and her makeup just as stern as it looked every day. She held the baggy out to Coach Greenshaun, and the older woman looked at them for a moment before asking, "That mean you already took them off?"
Candice flipped up the hem of her skirt, and Coach nodded slightly and checked her name off the list.
Dani asked Janet, "did you write your name on yours?"
"Nope. I seriously thought they were joking about this."
Eventually the crowd of cheerleaders had all boarded, save Janet, Dani, and three other first year students. Their coach said to them, "I'm not impressed ladies. This rule goes especially for freshmen."
Frowning as she did, Janet reached up under her skirt, and looped her thumbs into the waistband of her panties. She moved her knees back and forth to wiggle her thighs enough to that both pairs dropped to her shoes. Dani watched as they slid down her friend's legs, and was surprised to see the other girl was wearing under her cheer briefs. A pair of completely sheer black bikini cut panties, with an inch around teardrop cut out of the back right under the waistband. Dani didn't even know where to by a pair of panties that non-functional. Janet's face had turned nearly as red as her uniform. She dropped her panties in the bag with the rest of the team's and stepped up into the bus, radiating embarrassment.
Dani slid her hands up the outside of her thighs, and reached for the elastic waist. She was going to spend the next four hours wearing a tiny pleated skirt, without panties. Something about that idea filled her with shame, but on it her crotch went hot and slick. The plain cotton bikini-cut panties came down her thighs, rubbing damp against her leg. As she dropped them in the bag she hopped the coach wouldn't notice that her panties were so wet. Dani climbed into the bus, pinning her skirt down as the overweight, male, bus driver watched every move she made.
The last few girls behind her did what they had to as she found a seat. Janet had taken a seat on the aisle about half-way back, next to a blonde second-year girl named Ashley. Candice sat at a seat all the way in the back by herself, the other 4 seniors on the team all sitting across the aisle or in front of her. A row up, and across the aisle from Janet, Dani found a vacant seat next to a dark-haired and pale girl she hardly knew. "Hi," Dani awkwardly pushed a curl of her hair behind her ear, and said, "can I sit here?"
The older girl hardly looked up from her phone, but cleared the seat next to her. As soon as Dani was seated the girl she sat next to held up the front of her skirt between her finger and thumb, parted her knees, and snapped a series of upskirt selfies. "Your first time on the bus?" Her voice caught Dani off guard. It was rough, breathless, in a way that sounded like she had just finished fucking someone.
"Yeah."
The other girl smiled, and said, "You get used to it." She opened her Instagram, and said, "I'm Charlotte."
"Dani."
She watched wide-eyed as Charlotte posted one of the selfies of her naked, bald, pussy with the hashtag #cheerhard. "Nice to meet you Dani."
Coach Greenshaun climbed the stairs onto the bus, and Dani half panicked when she saw the bag of panties was no longer in her hand. She took a mic like a CB from above the driver, and held it before her mouth. The PA shouted for her, "We got a long ride today, ladies. Let's have it as quiet as we can. First stop is about an hour."
Dani whispered to her neighbor, "What happened to the bag?"
Charlotte scanned down her Insta feed, notifications already rolling in. "She locks it up in the baggage hold on the side until we get where we're going." She put her phone to sleep and set it down in her lap. "You seen Cuthbert before?"
"No."