Ain't no other way

[Andie Simone]

Andie walked into the cheer studio and nodded as she looked around. She didn't have much to cheer about from her time here as a student, though the food in the cafeteria and this studio had to have been two of her biggest accomplishment here... Ok, the food in the cafeteria really didn't have a lot to do with her, but she did threaten to take a stand if better food wasn't offered - and as a cheerleader, she wouldn't make it a quiet stand either.

She had been working with the captain to find good music for the next routine and she was pretty happy with what they had found and she couldn't wait to see what Cortney had been working on to go with the music.

While waiting for the girls to arrive, she placed a CD into the stereo and set the sound so that the music would literally pump the room while the girls warmed up. After the day she'd had, she decided to be nice to the squad and warm-up was going to be completely free-style that day, meaning the girls were free to warm-up their muscles how they saw fit while the music was playing.

"You can start by warming up." She said as the first girls started arriving, and turned the stereo on so that Miley Cyrus' Party in the USA was playing. She repeated her instructions as each girl or group of girls arrived. She would use today to observe the way the girl's warmed up and would decide on whether to keep the freestyle idea, or to construct a more formal warm-up

[Cortney Smit]

After equestrian classes, and after Olé was comfortably put away in her stall, Cortney hurried to her dorm and used the few minutes she had to shower and change into her cheer uniform, brushing her hair back and up into a high ponytail that sat on the top of her head, held into place with a white and red scrunchy with a thick band of black separating the colours. She then pushed her feet into her cheer shoes, grabbed her bag and raced out of the room. Before she got to the stairs though, she giggled and raced back to grab her ipod, which had the music her and Andie had found for the routine she had been working on. Attaching the device to her arm, she put the ear-buds in and pushed play as she danced her way out of the room, this time cartwheeling her way to the stairs before jogging down and then heading her way over to the gym.

"Hey Andie!" She greeted the coach as she pulled one ear-bud out and laughed at the music the woman had chosen for the warm-up. She shrugged as she put her ear-bud back in and continued listening to the music on her ipod and working through the dance sequence for the cheer routine. Once it was time to get started, she could just attach her device to the stereo and viola, they would be able to hear it too.

[Adonya van Rutherford]

After she had finished her reining class, Blythe handed Kodak off to the most recent freshman she'd found to take care of him... Well, more pressed into service, but whatever. She wasn't one to make distinctions like that. As long as they did what the stupid barnhands didn't, it wasn't her worry.

She stopped by her dorm and grabbed her uniform, although she didn't change yet, instead taking it with her to the gym, where she used the locker rooms to shower and change, since their shower had been occupied. Once she'd pulled her hair back into a high ponytail, she applied her makeup, then made sure that she looked good. When that had been taken care of, she made her way towards the cheer studio, smiling as she spotted Cortney and Andie already, "Hey!"

The song playing might not have been her first choice, but she knew better than to mouth off to Andie... This was the one place she might even hold her tongue sometimes. After she'd stretched out a little bit, Blythe began going through various warmup exercises, ending with a cartwheel, before she moved back to stretching to watch the other girls that had arrived later.