The sound of firework rang out *Bang! Bang!*. Followed by the sound of music and the magnificent parade that slowly marched into the stadium.
The theme of the event is nature. A group of TDD students come out with various signs and something like a throne(with 4 wooden sticks that had to be lifted by persons). Followed by a voiceover announcing the history of the sports festival and the history of the cheerleader sitting on the throne.
And that girl is the vice president of this school.
Next, It’s time for the team to reveal themself.
First team is the green team with an amazon rain forest team.
‘Green Team! Are you ready!?!?!?’
‘Yeah!!!!’ The team president has called their team members into the action. The team member then let out a battle cry.
“Damn, man.” Tar swearing.
Next is the orange team with the sahara desert theme.
‘Orange Team! Are you ready!?!?!?’
‘Yeah!!!’ Seems like the orange team is not going to back down either.
The next team is the yellow team with a sunflower theme.
‘Ok, Yellow Team! Are you ready!?!?!?’
‘Yeah!!!’ The team president has called them out. Since the president is a male, The team seems to be extra high-spirited.
“Oh, Damn, They’re nuts” Boom praised.
And the last team is the blue team, aka the team of Boom and his friend.
‘Blue team! Are you ready!?!?!?’
‘Yeah!!!’ What a great way to end this.
Comes with a blue sea theme, which if looked closely at behind the team sign, There’s Godzilla firing an atomic breath in the distance.
“Whose idea was that?” Asked Lifa.
“Me, Cool is it?” Boom answered.
“Hey, I saw I’Beam there” Tar interrupted.
After the parade is done. The school director gave a speech and lit the fireworks to announce the official start of the sports day.
Sound of applause erupted from all around and the people on the field began to disperse.
The next is a Thai boxing dance show by the TDD. Ancient Thai music plays as the background music and voices telling stories about the origin and importance of Muay Thai. When the show ended, everyone applauded and praised.
‘At 10am to 11am. Will be the time of the cheering contest. May all the team be prepare’
After an announcement. All team colors spoke to raise the morale of their members because they only had 1 hour to practice and prepare.
All the staff members quickly prepare things as they should be. Boom and Lifa also can’t avoid being called upon.
“I’Li, You sure you can do this?” Boom ask one final time. Lifa nodded and replied ‘Yeah’.
Lifa’s main duty is to go practice with the members one final time. And Boom has to give them the cheering equipment.
“Uh…tassel, check. Gloves, check. Cap, check…Hey, P’Bas. Which side of the armbands do we use?”
“Blue! blue!”
He turned to ask the staff senior nearby to make sure before going to distribute the equipment.
“Fyi, We don’t have the backup one, if one of it got ripped”
Tight budget, of course.
Ok so, After giving all the equipment. Boom walked to the back of the grandstand to go get the lyric chart to hand out.
Actually,during the actual competition, they aren’t allowed to look at the lyrics, but they can still secretly place it between the legs to look at, which helps a lot.
The rest is up to the members whether it’ll come out good or bad.
“What do we get after this?” one of the staff asked.
“Idk, Snacks, maybe?”
“Would be better if we get money”
“That’s impossible”
Lol, Boom and the other staff laughed.
As he walks to help Tar, He see the last practice before the actual competition. Lifa and Chompoo are teaching on how to use the equipment as they review the cheering moves.
“How is it, Tar?”
“Good, what about your work?”
“I don’t have a lot of work. So I came to you”
There’s 2 other stuff of the same age reading the lyrics because they’re Tomba drum player and a support. Tar himself has to memorize the lyric as well.
“The scene is ready”
The senior staff walked to them and pointed to the scene that would be used for the cheering competition.
It is just a blue carpet on the floor and a backdrop of mountains and the sun, giving the feeling of an elementary school child’s drawing.
After that, the cheerleader gradually comes out. Beam walked towards Boom first.
“Nervous?” Asked Boom.
“Of course I am, I can’t even sleep last night…”
Judging from her voice, Seems like she’s really nervous. So Boom double tapped her head.
“You’re not the only nervous one. Go get ready. We’re the second team to compete, right?”
Boom turned to ask Tar.
“Yeah” And he answered.
After that, it is time to listen to his own team and the other team practice singing until it’s time for the actual competition.
The first team to compete is the Orange team.
The committee members went to the front of the grandstand along with their assistants because the weather is quite hot at this time.
Not only that, There are also school cameramen and hosts doing live broadcasts. They are really putting real pressure on them.
‘All the leader, Are you ready!?’
And the competition has begun. The time limit is 8 minutes. Do not miss more than 1 minute. If so, The scores will be progressively reduced from the full 30 points.
Not long after, The orange team finished cheering. The committee has finished tallying the scores. But they won’t tell it right away, but they will reveal it at the end of the event.
All the events will be held in a single day. Very brutal.
“Get ready, y’all”
All the leaders are in the position. Including those who have to prepare to change the backdrop during the competition.
‘All the leader, Are you ready!?’
3…4! Start by greeting the committee. Followed by Tar quickly playing the drums and chanting various praises before getting into the actual song.
The competition proceeded smoothly. Everything looks normal. The drummer, cheerleader, cheerer, even the people changing the scene did a great job.
Boom decided to walk up to the grandstand to escape the sun. Try observing the situation along with 2-3 other staff members.
(Someone really lip syncing huh?)
Well, It’s normal for people who don’t really care about singing in the first place.
Continuing to observe, he accidently caught sight of Lifa who looked unusually absent-minded and her expression didn’t look good at all.
“I’Li”
“Hm?”
He secretly whispered closer to avoid attracting attention.
“Are you really ok? You sound like you’re about to faint”
“Uh, I’m ok. I’ll take a break after this”
Lifa answered with a smile. But even that she couldn’t hide her tired face and voice and her black eyes.
When he looked at Chompoo on the other side. She also had a worried expression on her face.
He then handed her a bottle of water and walked away without saying a thing.
It’s been over 5 minutes now. If Boom remembers correctly, there should be 2 more songs left.
Only a couple more minutes until this nightmare is finally over.
‘We, The cheerleader and cheerer of the Blue team. We would like to say Thank you, Thank you, Thank you very much!!!’
Finally, his team has finished competing.
“Everyone, give yourself praise!”
The team president said as she applauded for the competition. The staff and the team members also applauded.
The cheerleader moved to take a break behind the grandstand. So Boom decided to go help others clean up the scene.
All the committee members took notes quickly before moving to the green team.
After some time, Both green and yellow teams are finally done with cheering competition.
“Woo~ It’s over”
Tar stretched his body, the 2 other staff members next to him followed suit.
“Had fun over there?”
Chompoo walked over and spoke a little sarcastically. Tar then gently tapped her head with a drumstick.
Meanwhile, Lifa, who just finished collecting all the cheering equipment, went to help the others clean up the scene.
Tar and Chompoo see Lifa’s expression and feel worried. Because what they hear from Boom earlier. Lifa’s body seems to hit a limit. If she goes any further than this, she’ll definitely faint.
“I’Li, take this”
When they are in the storage area. Boom handed her lunch box and water. To which Lifa thanked him before turning around.
“Where are you going?” Boom asked.
“Hm? Well…I’ll go give it the other”
“You, sit”
Boom grabbed her and sat her in a chair before she could say anything. And it made Lifa confused.
“You should take a break. The other said the same thing that you were overdoing yourself. And you didn’t even eat breakfast”
“Oh…Ah, Well”
“Right?” Boom turned and asked the other staff at the back.
Everyone answered with the same ‘Yeah’. Lifa was overexerting herself and barely rested, causing others to worry.
“I’ll take it from here. You stay here for an hour”
Boom walked away after speaking. Lifa saw this but smiled brightly and immediately started eating the lunch box.
After finishing distributing the lunch box, Boom went to sit and eat his lunch box with Tar and Chompoo downstairs.
“We have a sports competition this afternoon, right?” Boom asked.
“Yeah, Do you have bad memories or something?” And got scolded by Tar.
The afternoon sports competition will be the final round after several days of smaller competition. The winner will receive a gold medal as a reward to go cuddle at home.
When the lunch break is over. The 3 of them took out the trash. But accidentally ran into Beam and Lifa who were talking together. So they decided to join in the conversation.
“Bro, What’s the list of the sports again?”
“Uh…athletics, football, basketball, etc” Tar answered as he scrolled down on his phone.
“I hope we’ll get a lot of gold medals this year. Because I heard we only got silver and bronze in the past year…” Lifa muttered.
Although, The blue team has some gold medals,, but it’s only about 4-5 of them.
“Why so greedy? 1 gold medal is enough” Said Boom.
Since they can’t do anything about it. So the 5 of them decided to come out to the front of the grandstand to watch the football match that is about to start soon.
‘Oh shoot’
‘What do we do?’
‘Why it has to be this damn moment…’
There were murmurs from the teacher on the grandstand, which certainly didn’t sound like a good thing.
“What’s the matter, teacher? Is something happening?” Lifa turned to ask.
“Our runner guy...He accidentally fell down the stairs and broke his ankle. He had just gone to the hospital. We’re now busy looking for a replacement”
Hearing that answer, The 4 of them immediately turned their eyes to look at Boom.
This…..is happening again.
Boom looked down as he tried to control his trembling. Try his best to not think about his past.
He leaned against the wall. Beam immediately told him to sit down first.
(No…No…Not this shit again…)
Inside Boom’s head right now, Are a lot of messing things. No matter how much he chasedit, it wouldn’t go away.
He prayed that no one would say that word to him again. He always thinks like that. Tar and the others thought the same as well. So they take Boom to the back and rest.
But luck is not always on his side.
“Hey, I’Boom. You used to be a runner right? Can you be a replacement?”
“.....Huh?” Boom muttered.
Oh, fuck…Tar thought.
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