practice makes perfect

Covet: Felix was already in the gym, running his warm up laps in the gym. He was in the zone as far as being there and being focused on practice tonight. Once he finished his laps he went and grabbed a drink of water then started to go shoot practice shots, pivoting around and all that, still warming up. // Cadence was in the cheer gym having spent the last little bit doing conditioning work outs since she'd been a little lazy lately. She had a good sweat going on and was ready to hopefully get a good practice with no interuptions. // Kelsey made her way from the locker room into the cheer gym, her brain was thinking about the blocking and things that were going on tomorrow, she walked into the gym and gave Cadence a wave, before she sat down on the mats and started to get stretched out.
Alexithymiaa: -Steph walked alongside Bryan as they both made their way down the hallway toward their respective gyms. Steph stopped outside of the main gym door as Bryan pulled it open, leaning over to give him a little hug. "Let me know if you need anything. I'm only across the hall." Her eyes flicked into the gym to watch the running arounds before turning and walking across the hall to the cheer gym, sweeping her hair out of her face and avoiding eye contact with Cadence cause that bitch planned to cancel their plans. "Hey Kels. Ready for tomorrow?" // Bryan pulled open the gym door and gave Steph a little half hug before he turned and walked into practice, making his way across the gym and just heading straight for the rack of basketballs to pull one off. He bounced it a few times in front of him before lifting it up over his head, kind of just chucking it at the hoop with no real ambition to get it through.-
Tsaaq: Remy dribbled a basketball while nodding his head, conversing with Coach Fitz. "I think if we win at least one game our stats won't be in the shitter by the end of the season." He said before going to spin the ball on his finger. He went to wave at Bryan as he walked into the gym. // Coach Fitz nodded her head as she sat on the edge of the bleachers, staring at her clipboard a moment. // Hayley jogged into the cheer gym and chugged some of her water before tossing her gym bag aside. "Hey guys." She greeted before looking to Kelsey. "Oh right, your thing is tomorrow." // Thaddeus finished up his laps then grabbed a ball as well, sort of just flying under the radar for now.
Covet: Felix  looked over at Bryan, then to Remy as he talked to Coach Fitz, working on his shots, while avoiding Bryan like the plague, he wasn't sure what kind of bomb he was working with there and had no intention of setting it off this week, accidental or otherwise. // Cadence watched as Kelsey came in then looked over at Steph, watching her avoid her gaze entirely, then saw Hayley follow in shortly after her, "Hey ladies, glad to see you all. Enjoy your vacations? Because We've got a LOT of work to do in a little amount of time." She told them walking over while they warmed up// Kelsey nodded her head, "Totally ready, like so ready you don't even know. But there's so much to do, so I'm kind of anxious too." She said, "Are you guys ready?" She asked with a smile, twisting around to stretch out her back.
Alexithymiaa: -Steph nodded as she sat down on the mat, spreading her legs into a wide straddle and leaning forward to walk her hands out until her torso pressed to the floor. "Ready as I can be without any real plans." Her eyes finally drifted over to Cadence, nodding her head. "If I can call that a vacation. But I'm ready to get some work done." // Bryan just watched the ball bounce repeatedly after hitting the back board and not going in, turning his head to look over at Remy and sending him a wave in return. Turning back, he put his hand up, eyeing Felix. "Hey, pass me one."-
Tsaaq: He nodded his head and glanced at the rest of the team. "Head's up." Remy called out. He tossed the ball over to Bryan. "Okay guys." He said as he grabbed another ball for himself and went to run towards the court. // Coach Fitz monitored the males carefully, obviously deciding whether or not she should say anything just yet. "Get nice and warmed up fellas." She shouted. // She went to lean forward so she could stretch her hamstring. "It was okay." She chimed in then looked around at the others. "Uh, as ready as I'll ever be?" She replied with an awkward tone. // Thaddeus threw his ball towards the hoop and successfully got it in and went to take a place beside Felix as he went to catch one of the balls. "Want some advice or do you want me to shut up and walk away?" He asked.
Covet: Felix bounced the ball he had a couple of times, debated shooting himself, but he saw Remy bounce a ball to Bryan so didn't worry about passing his over to him.  He looked over at Thad and raised an eyebrow curiously, "Advice, I suppose. I don't really tell people to shut up or walk away."// Cadence nodded her head, "Good. I need that same kind of enthusiasm from all of you, because these next few weeks are going to be tough. I expect you guys to be nearly eating, sleeping and breathing these routines. I think i have the last of the measures worked out for the dance. I was playing with somethings over the break." She said to them going to pull the song up on the stereo with her phone. // Kelsey  nodded her head, "It's going to be easy, all of that will be figured out tomorrow, we can't do anything too big because we've got limited space."  She said then listene to Cadence, who was clearly determined to get something done today.
Alexithymiaa: -Steph nodded and pushed up to her feet, swinging her arms around to loosen up a bit. "Okay, let's do this then. Let's see 'em." // Bryan caught the ball Remy passed to him, beginning to dribble it before giving a little jump shot and missing that one as well. Letting out a sigh, he turned and walked across the court, dropping heavily onto the bleachers.-
Tsaaq: Remy passed his ball between his legs to each of his hands before dribbling. He looked over to Bryan and frowned a moment, going over to him. "Wanna try one more time?" He asked him carefully as he tossed the ball from hand to hand. // Hayley rose her hand a moment then lowered it quickly. She got up from the mat once she was done with her stretches inhaling deeply. "So we should practice like, all the time then?" She asked anyways.  // "I just don't want to seem like a know it all or anything." He muttered then stared up at the hoop. "Your wrist could stand to be more limp. You don't look very relaxed. Not that you suck. Just a tip." Thaddeus said with a small shrug then furrowed his eyebrows cause 'tip' always sounded gay.
Covet: Felix looked at Thad and listened to him, then extended his wrist, making it more limp flopping it about, " Got it, I'm a little stiff today, I was at the gym late last night. But I appreciate you looking out, Dude" // "Yeah, basically, Well.. but still remember school and try to have a life. Those are important things too." Cadence hit play on the stereo and started in on the motions, swaying her hips about and using her arms in some technical motions that I'm just kind of winging at the moment because I'm sure it's a lot more involved than what I'm typing up right now. When she got to the part at the end, she made sure the motions were crisp and clean so that the girls could pick them up. "What do you think? Need any changes?" // Kelsey watched Cadence getting up to go through the first part of the routine that she did know, then stopped to watch Cadence as she showed them the last part.
Alexithymiaa: -Steph kept her eyes on Cadence as she danced, taking note of her motions as best as she could. "There's a part in the middle you could turn into a ripple pretty easily. Not that it doesnt look good as it is, but a ripple would be cool." // Bryan lifted his eyes to look at Remy, shaking his head. "Nah, you go. I suck today. It's fine. My legs kind of hurting me anyway so it's probably better if I don't get in anyone's way."-
Tsaaq: "Come on man." Remy sighed and tucked the ball under his shoulder. "We're a team okay. I gotta help you get through the suck." He said firmly. "We can try to shoot from here. How dope would that be huh?" He went to plop down beside Bryan and glanced over at the hoop. "There would have to be a lot of force to it... That sounds like physics but you're good at sciencing. Right?" He turned to the other male again. // Hayley watched Cadence's dances and nodded her head along with the beat of the song, already attempting to memories her cues. She looked over Steph when she spoke then turned to glance at Cadence again, awaitting her reply. // He shrugged again. "No problem." Thaddeus said softly "I just figured I'd run it by you and try to help out a little."
Covet: "I like the idea of team work, we can all help eachother get better, Uh.. Felix by the way." He said as he picked up a ball and shot it sinking another basket, but the motion felt more fluid.// "Oh, a ripple, I was thinking it lacked something there, but the ripple would be a great addition." She said looking at them, then counted out the motions," Let's pick it up from the top and try to add that ripple in, Five six seven eight." // Kelsey was a little confused where the ripple was supposed to go but she figured she'd pick it up when they got to it.
Alexithymiaa: -Steph jumped into line with Cadence, counting with her and following the motions as they started. She snapped her motions precisely one after the other, keeping in time with the music. // Bryan just kind of watched Remy, reluctantly putting his hand out for the ball. "Math, but yeah. Still not going to sink it from here though. Shits just not going to happen regardless of what equation I give you that would make it happen."-
Tsaaq: "Not even geometry?" He asked as he handed him the ball. "We could turn it into this elaborate pass. I can run over there now?" He suggested with a raise of his eyebrow. // She went to get lined up with the other girls. "Uh, what exactly is a..." She began to ask then gave up halfwaly through once they started to routine. // "Thaddeus." He nodded his head. "I think you live in the same house as me. I think. I've seen you in the morning sometimes when I'm in my car." He said as he went to shoot another basket.
Alexithymiaa: (Thad that sounds creepy as fuck)
Tsaaq: ((Well, it's the truth.))
Covet: "Right, okay yeah, I've seen you around a bit there too." He said then tried to remember what Jade had said about Thad, but shrugged it off because teamate and now was basketball time not worrying about roomates time. " So another baller lives at the house and we still don't have a hoop outside? That needs to be remedied, then we could at least do some one on one stuff." //  Cadence turned mirroring their motions, queing up the ripple when she got to that count, " From left to right It's going to go Hayley, Steph, Me, Kelsey there's going to be half step between each person moving, then we'll go right back into it together all synced up again." She coached them //  Kelsey watched then went over the moves, counting the timing in her head so that it would be lined  where Cadence needed her motion to be in the ripple.
Alexithymiaa: -Steph watched, her motions slowing as she tried to catch her breath. Planting her hands on her hips, she kept her eyes on Cadence, kinda panting as she did. "Just one second. I'm going to get some water." She held up one finger, stepping out of line to walk quickly out of the gym, turning to the water fountain positioned on the wall as she leaned over and drank from it. // "Geometry is math." He spoke in monotone, taking the ball from Remy. "Yeah. Go. Run." He nodded his head, waiting for Remy to do the thing before chucking the ball over to him, his heart clearly not in it.-
Tsaaq: "I know geometry is math." He said with a shake of his head. "I was saying the type of math this type of thing is... Like when people use it for golf." Remy went to stand up. "You don't have to be a dick." He whispered as he jogged over to the hoop and watched as the ball bounced and rolled in his direction he caught it and sighed. "Okay well. I tried." He grumbled, tossing the ball over his shoulder. // Hayley stopped a moment. "Oh, okay." She said as went to attempt the move granted the timing. She rose her eyebrows once Steph stepped off. "Are you okay?" She called out.  // "We could buy one and put it up by the garage or something?" He suggested. "I had a basketball hoop thing in my room but it seemed kind of like a bad idea. My mom always had a thing with balls and inside the house."
Covet: "I've got one for paper tossing in my room, but it's not really the same.  That might be all mom's, Mine wasn't fond of them either." Felix said rolling his eyes, because you gotta practice somehow when it's cold out. // "We're at a good place to stop, if you guys can have that down by this week, all the way through." Cadence said watching Steph walk off, looking at the other two girls. "I want to see this looking clean Come June sixth. Sooner if possible"//  Kelsey nodded her head, adding it to her mental list of things to do after they got this shoot done. "I think that's totally doable. If you want Hayley, we could get together sometime and work on the routine together."
Alexithymiaa: -Steph finished her water slurping because you cant drink water from a fountain without slurping that shit, turning to push back into the cheer gym, seeing the girls kind of wrapping up for the night. She casually strolled over to Cadence, keeping her tone light and care free. "Hey so about Thursday? Something came up and I'm going to have to take a raincheck. But we'll chill soon, kay? Awesome." She smiled and quickly turned away from her, trying to make a beeline for the door because she wanted to go pick up Bryan since they came together. // Bryan propped his elbow on his knee, clenching his hand into a loose fist and dropping his chin down onto it to stare at everyone else actually practicing.-
Tsaaq: Remy sighed and clapped his hands loudly. "Okay guys. Great job. I think we're getting way better. I think we should take whatever personal time to practice. No pressure though. But if we could not lose miserably in our next game that'd be a great way to the end semester. Also not stressting out Coach." He called out before waving in Fitz's direction then waved off the rest of the team members. // She pouted then forced herself to stand up straight. "Yes ma'am." She said with a nod of her head. She turned to Kelsey and smiled. "Yeah, that sounds fun. We can practice." Hayley said as she went to grab her gym bag. // "I can go and pick up a hoop thing for us..." Thad said and bounced the basketball. He looked over to Remy and nodded his head but made a note to not say shit so no arguing would start.
Covet: "That works, especially if we're supposed to be practicing on our own. I'll help put it up just let me know when." Felix said, then cheered out because team spirit and all that once they were cleared to go. He made his way out of the gym and saw Steph, giving her a wave before he went to go change and all that good shit. // "Wait, something came up?" Cadence asked then watched her bail, "What the fuck, Dick" Cadence said then grumbled getting her things gathered up so that she could meet up with Remy after his practice. // "Great, next question, would you like a ride home? Since it's kind of become habit?" She asked with a friendly smile.
Alexithymiaa: -Steph waved to Felix in the hallway, walking into the gym where he'd just come out of and heading over to Bryan on the bleachers. "Ready to go?" // Bryan sighed and nodded, pushing himself up from the bleachers. "Yeah, let's go." Keeping his head down, the two made their way out of the gym, heading down the hallway and to the exit to make their way out to the car.-
Tsaaq: Remy sighed, seeing some of the guys were with it but not Bryan. He grumbled and made his way towards his bag and sluggishly made his way out of the gym. // She smiled and nodded her head once more. "Yeah that'd be cool. If you don't mind." Hayley adjusted her strap on her gym bag. // Thad gave him a thumbs up as went towards the locker room so he could change before leaving for OCH.
Covet: Cadence walked over to console Remy seeing that he looked down after practice. She rubbed his shoulder intending to go home and sleep and fuck it off probably. // "Not at all, it would be my pleasure" Kelsey said with a grin, making her way out to where her vehicle was.