Chapter 14 - Sexy Routines, Part 1

As fate would have it, the next day, Logan found himself sent to the basketball court after class to help with cheerleading practice. To make it a family thing, Heather once again invited their younger cousin, Josh, to watch the practice. Just so Logan wouldn’t feel so alone there, and for that reason only if one could believe it, Sebastian decided he would join his best friend, and even tried to rope Cody into it, but their other friend already had other commitments and had to decline.

Fortunately for Logan, Heather went easy on him and didn’t have him do too many tasks, just get some props and stuff ready while the girls changed in the locker room. Getting it done quite quickly, Logan returned to one of the benches, where Seb and Josh had already sat down and were waiting for the practice to start.

“Okay, now we wait,” the older Ravers boy said as he plopped down on it.

“Holy shit, dude, I’ve never watched them practice,” Sebastian almost gushed, knowing that Logan had been invited a few times by Sharon, and since he was friends with the whole squad, they never minded his presence. “Is this your first time, Josh?”

The younger Ravers looked up, having been a bit distracted by the prospect of watching his sexy older cousin and her cheerleader friends again. “Huh? Oh, no, Heather let me watch them yesterday too.”

The other reason for his distraction was sitting nearby the three boys, using the opportunity to complete her homework. It was none other than Victoria, who sometimes got roped into attending the practice by her good friends Heather, Ashley, and Sharon.

“Get used to it, Josh,” the blonde gave him a resigned smile. “When Heather wants you to come watch the practice, there’s very little you can do to shake her off.”

“Vicky knows all about it,” Logan chuckled.

“I don’t mind it, really,” Josh quietly replied, returning the blonde’s smile with a quick one of his own.

Ever since he entered puberty, the freshman had developed a big crush on his cousins’ beautiful, super smart friend. So much that one of the first things he did as soon as the year began was to try and get a spot in the school paper that Victoria now headed as chief-editor. Luckily for him, there were a couple spots empty from students who graduated the previous year, and he was allowed in, with Victoria being gracious enough to act as some sort of mentor to him. He had to make herculean efforts not to stutter and blush too much around her.

“Speaking of friends and cheerleading,” Sebastian piped in. “Have you never been interested in giving it a try, Victoria?” He inquired with genuine curiosity. Despite being sort of friends ever since he got closer to Logan, he didn’t get many chances to actually talk to the rookie reporter.

“Just because I’m friends with a lot of cheerleaders, it doesn’t mean I want to be one, Sebastian,” the blonde answered, without taking her eyes off the notebook she was writing in. “Logan knows how many times they tried to convince me.”

“It was actually kind of funny, it took a long ass time for them to accept it,” Logan commented before he smirked. “Why can’t you follow in your big sister’s footsteps, Vicky?” He tried to imitate Heather and Victoria just gave him a quick, exasperated smile in response.

Josh swallowed hard at the mental picture of Victoria, gorgeous as she was, actually wearing the school’s cheerleader uniform. Her voluptuous butt, with the outward curve it had, could possibly lift up the already quite short skirt and show even more than the other girls. The crop top would leave her flat, smooth stomach on display, and her golden hair would fit incredibly nicely with the overall navy-blue color. Shit, she’d look fantastic in it!

While he was seemingly lost in his fantasy, another young man trudged over toward the group. A tall, somewhat gangly boy, he had his messy dirty-blond hair at neck-length, his green eyes showing a bit of surprise at the people he found there.

“Josh?” He inquired before nodding at Victoria as well. “I knew Victoria would be here, but you’re a surprise, dude.”

“Tristan?” Josh returned the question, confused at why the 16-year-old sophomore who was in the school paper with him and Vicky was there at the basketball court just moments before cheer practice was about to begin. “Uhn…, my cousin, Heather, invited me to watch practice again. I mean, I came yesterday and she invited me again.”

“Oh, makes sense, sometimes I forget you’re her cousin,” Tristan replied, sitting next to his friend and nodding at Logan and Sebastian as well.

Aside from the fact that both of them were in The Outlook, their school’s newspaper, Josh bonded with the other guy over their shared status as members of traditional families in Sunset Haven. The Lakefields, in Tristan’s case. It was sort of the same dynamic between him and Nico Ferrara, his best friend in his year.

“What brings you here, Tristan?” Victoria was the one who asked. She had welcomed him into the paper the previous year and had had a few conversations with the younger boy over the course of it.

“Oh, I’m here for Eden, a friend of mine from my year,” he explained, pulling out his phone. “The cheerleaders are gonna integrate the newbies to the squad today and she wants me to film her first practice.”

Logan raised an eyebrow at it. “But they already pulled in Madison and Amber when the year started.”

“The underclassmen, Logan,” Victoria explained to her old friend. “Heather mentioned that any new juniors, sophomores, and freshmen who’ll be joining the squad this year will have their first practice today.”

“Oh,” the older Ravers cousin nodded in acknowledgement, turning to Tristan. “So Eden is one of the new cheerleaders?”

“Yeah,” the blond sophomore responded before rolling his eyes and chuckling at the same time. “She’s just started a social media thing and decided that joining the cheer squad is somehow gonna help with that.”

“I think Heather said something about a sophomore and two freshmen joining,” Victoria piped in. “I’m just not sure if she’s going to let you film them, Tristan. Knowing Heather like I do…,” she trailed.

Tristan lightly shrugged his shoulders. “Well, Eden says she got her okay, so…”

“Or…,” Logan laughed. “She’s gonna love the attention and sequester the idea for her own.”

“Oh, I can definitely see that,” Sebastian commented. “Huh, I wonder who the newbies are besides Raddler.”

At that moment, as if answering his question, the sound of several loud footsteps coming from the corridor that led to the locker rooms was heard, along with Heather’s bossy shouts toward her fellow cheerleaders.

“C’mon, everyone, look alive!” The brunette captain clapped her hands amidst a few groans. “We’ve got just a little more than a month for the Homecoming game and I expect all of you to have perfected this routine by then!”

Ignoring all the seniors, juniors, and sophomores, Josh’s eyes widened comically as he saw just who had walked into the court with a guarded smile on her face and wearing a cheerleader uniform that looked incredibly weird on her, especially for someone who knew her.

“No way,” he whispered, pure shock written all over his face. “Lilith?”

“Who?” Logan inquired.

“Lilith, my friend,” his cousin pointed at the group of cheerleaders Heather was talking to.

“Scarlett’s little sister, dude,” Sebastian clarified with a chuckle. “Damn, I didn’t know she looked cute like that. Must be all those baggy jeans and leather she normally wears.”

“Imagine my surprise,” Josh said. Looking over, Lilith Soren, fifteen like him, wore her dark-blonde hair in a ponytail, and her slim frame rocked the skirt and crop top, in navy-blue colors with white trim, that made the cheer uniform. She was certainly avoiding glancing at him, as Josh thought he had never seen her so tense in the three years he knew the Soren girl. “I had no idea she wanted to be a cheerleader, she never told me.”

“Scarlett never mentioned anything either,” Logan commented. He wondered if showing her off to Josh factored into Heather’s insistence for their younger cousin to attend the practice.

Next to her, a slender, perky ginger sophomore was happily waving at Tristan, who had already pulled up the phone to film his smiling friend. That was Eden Raddler, who hoped to be the next big social media influencer in their school. Completing the trio of newbies was a freshman that Logan actually knew in passing, due to her older sister already being part of the squad.

“That’s Leona Graham, she’s Fiona’s little sister,” he pointed out.

“Oh, yeah, I can see the resemblance,” Sebastian nodded, his gaze shifting over to where Fiona, a junior, was already warming up with the other girls.

“I think she’s still fourteen, though, will only have her birthday towards December,” Logan added, throwing a quick look toward the petite, slim blonde with bright blue eyes before he shrugged. “She must be one hell of a dancer if Heather accepted her so young.”

“She mentioned something about not wanting the dance team to poach her the next couple years,” Victoria told them.

“Heather’s not even gonna be here after this year,” Sebastian piped in, an eyebrow raised.

Josh chuckled. “Well, she always says that being a cheerleader is forever.”

Heather brought the newbies toward the other girls, a pleased smirk on her beautiful face, no doubt very satisfied by the fact that so many people were watching the practice. She saw Ashley (still acting strange), Sharon (still pointedly ignoring Logan for whatever reason), Tanya (looking extra cheerful), Madison (already showing signs of exhaustion), Juniper Bronwen, and Amber Evans, the seniors in the squad.

Amber was a quite cute girl with dirty-blonde hair, brown eyes, and a toned, fit body, her medium-sized breasts and round, firm ass looking really good under the navy-blue uniform. She blushed as her gaze caught Logan watching from the sidelines. As for Juniper, she also seemed to be quite pleased at the big audience for that practice. She looked like a femme fatale with her sharp looks, sandy-blonde hair tied in a ponytail, bluish-gray eyes, and a perfectly toned body on her. The way she enjoyed sleeping around would probably confirm that fact, but for those who actually knew the girl, that couldn’t be farther from the truth, as she was usually quite friendly with everyone. For some reason, her and Logan never happened at all, but Sebastian normally didn’t shut up whenever he hooked up with the sexy blonde.

There was a trio of juniors; Fiona Graham, Timber Thornton, and Natalia Mendez. Fiona was a pretty, slender blonde who was the heir apparent of the cheerleading squad. Heather never hid the fact that she wanted Fiona to be the next captain after she graduated, but if Logan could be honest, he never saw many leadership qualities in the blonde, despite how energetic and passionate she was about cheering. Timber was the younger sister of Trent, the wide receiver of the football team, and she was actually the one people bet to be the next captain. With a curvy figure, long black hair, chocolate skin, and exceptional flexibility, the only thing that was between her and captaincy next year was her loyalty to Fiona’s friendship. Nat was a spicy, shapely black-haired Latina who had started basking in male attention since sometime around the previous year, and the way she grinned at the fact that there were boys watching the practice told both Logan and Sebastian that she wouldn’t have minded adding them to her rumored conquest list. That kind of made the Ravers boy a little uncomfortable, as he was already dealing with a fiery Latina and it was probably enough without adding age worries into the mix.

The returning sophomores included Isabella, who cheerfully waved at her big brother and softly blushed at the sight of Sebastian. The latter couldn’t help but notice, guiltily, that the crop top hugged the younger girl’s bust quite well. The other one was Pamela Bailey, a slim, somewhat tall, girl with long, light-brown hair and blue eyes. Logan always thought she was kind of cute and could grow up to be really beautiful once she reached senior year. He remembered Heather complaining about how overwhelmed and reserved Pamela acted during practice last year, which slowly turned into praise for her passionate school spirit.

“Alright, everyone, it’s showtime,” Heather smirked as she clapped her hands. “Let’s entertain our dear guests, shall we?”