Chapter Forty Five - "Clichés Are Overrated, Avery."
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Avery's P.O.V

A week has passed ever since I went to Claire's. Today is the showcase and I feel all the nerves in my body start to rise, making me feel nauseous.

That day when I went to Claire's, all we did was watch movies and play music. Since I slept over for the whole weekend, I didn't get to see Logan at all. Even though it killed me, I got passed it when he gave me a call on Sunday. We talked for about four hours and those four hours made my week come to an amazing end even though it started terribly.

"I wish you the best of luck, sunshine." Logan says into my ear as we walk into the gymnasium and I chuckle, placing a small kiss on his cheek.

"Thank you." I mumble and he walks off to his seat while I walk off backstage to get ready. I walk down the narrow hallway and walk into the room that had a piece of paper on the door reading 'cheerleaders practice'. I look around the room to see that it is actually pretty big for us to practice before it is time for us to go on so that's a pretty good advantage.

"Avery!" I hear Claire squeal as she runs up to me. I smile and hug her tightly before letting go off her.

"You ready?" Claire asks and I nod, a small smile on my lips.

"Of course."

"Okay girls, we have half an hour before we have to go on stage so use this time carefully. Remember to have fun, okay?" The coach says and we all nod. I notice Katie sitting on the metal bench with a bandage around her ankle.

"Are you dancing tonight?" I ask, walking towards her. Katie nods and I cross my arms over my chest.

"You should know that the coach loved me being head cheerleader for the past week. She said that she will even consider changing our roles." I smirk at Katie and she just grins at me, an evil glint in her eyes.

"By the end of the night, I assure you that you wouldn't even want to be here when you hear my small speech." Katie says and I roll my eyes before muttering 'whatever', walking away from Katie.

She is just trying to get in your head, my brain reminds me and I mentally nod.

Sadly for her, it isn't working.

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"Next up, we have our own cheerleading team performing for us tonight. Before they come on stage though, the coach has a few words for us." I hear the principle say the coach appears on the stage, her heals clicking against the wood as she makes her way to the podium.

"Hello students, teachers and family members. Tonight, as you've already heard, my cheerleading team is going to perform multiple dances tonight for you all. I hope you all enjoy this performance and feel free to get your phones and cameras out if you would wish to record your friends or children. First up, we have Emily, Danielle, Katherine and Laura dancing to Turn Me On by David Guetta. Enjoy!" The coach says before walking off the stage. The audience claps and the song starts to play, making the girls walk off into the spotlight.

After many dips, turns, hair flips and many more dance moves, the four girls were finally finished and making the crowd whistle, clap and shout out words that were slightly inappropriate but hilarious.

"Okay, next up we have Hillary, Allyson, May and June who are dancing to Work From Home by Fifth Harmony so please sit back and enjoy!" The coach says and as the music starts to play, the girls walk on the stage in a dominant way, making the crowd already start to go crazy.

As the girls finished their dance with different poses, the audience roars with cheers. The girls walk back and we all congratulate them on their performance.

Now it is our turn.

"God, I'm going to faint." I say, placing my hand on my head. Claire nudges me and I look at her to see her smiling.

"Just calm down." Claire says and then she brings her face closer to mine.

"Maybe the baby can bring you a little luck." Claire whispers and I chuckle, shaking me head. Claire just laughs and I look at Katie and Jennifer.

"Are you two ready?" I ask and they both nod but Katie being the person who has to add her two cents in just has to speak her mind.

"I should be asking everyone that since I am captain of this group." Katie frowns and I groan, rolling my eyes.

"Why can't you just shut up for once?" I ask and Katie just smirks at me. I turn around and watch as the coach walks back onto the stage.

"This is my teams last performance for tonight and as I have seen from the previous acts, you all seem quite impressed, yes?" With this, the crowd cheers and I couldn't help but smile when I hear a certain boy with brown hair and beautiful face yell out 'damn straight'.

Logan, you are one weird boy.

"Thats good. Well, I have one more suprise for you and I'm pretty sure you will enjoy this performance as much as the girls loved practicing it. Please welcome Katie, Jennifer, Claire and Avery to the stage." The coach says and the crowd cheers and claps. We walk out, giving the coach strange looks as to why we aren't performing our dance right now.

"I would like to thank these girls for their contribution to the team and how much work and organization they put into their dance and even for the rest of the girls dances that these girls choreographed." The crowd cheers at this and the coach looks at us and nods.

"Thank you girls." The coach says and we all nod at her. The coach smiles and turns back to the audience. "Now, please enjoy this amazing performance by these amazing girls." The coach finishes and we all get into our positions. Katie and I were in the middle while Claire was to my left and Jennifer is to Katie's right.

I notice that Logan's eyes are directly on me and I can't help but blush at this. I'm fine with the whole school looking at us but Logan looking at me? God, that just sets me on fire.

The song Who's That Chick plays through the speakers and we all moves our bodies to the best in sync, making sure not to get anything wrong because if one of us mucked it up, it was going to look terrible.

Feel the adrenaline
Moving under my skin
Its an addiction
Such an eruption

We all move our hips to the beat and we start moving our hands above our head and back down, still swaying our hips. the crowd whistles and screams, making me mentally smiles.

Of course they are going to love it.

Sound is my remedy
Feeling me energy
Music is all I need

We start to spin around, shaking our heads as our hair started to go crazy but we didn't mind because we were all having fun.

Baby I just want to dance
I don't really care
I just dance
I don't really care, care, care

We all drop down to the ground, raising our hand up in the air as we start to rise back up again and I can't help but smile as I feel myself and all my problems drifting away. This is why I love to dance. It makes you feel good.

She's been a crazy dita
Disco diva and you wonder

We all point to the crowd and they sing the words, well, more shout the words but who cares.

Who's that chick
Who's that chick

We place our hands on our chest as it says 'too cold for you to keep her' and then we place our hands on our head, as it says 'too hot for you to leave her'. We shake our hips to the beat and then, the music stops.

As planned.

The lights go off and the crowd gasps but we just grin as we hear the footsteps of the other cheerleaders come on the stage. The song Ain't My Fault by Zara Larsson blasts through the speakers and the lights turns back on, making the crowd scream as they see us all on the stage.

It ain't my fault you keep turning me on
It ain't my fault you got, got me so gone

We all swing our hips to the beat and place our hands on our head when it says 'got me so gone'. Some of the girls fall back, including me, into the person behind us as they catch us. They push us back up and we start to sway our heads to the beat.

It ain't my fault I'm not leaving her alone
It ain't my fault you keep turning me on

As the song continues, we all move in sync and even use some of our cheerleading routine in the dance, doing flips and many more things to make it more... impressing.

When we finish, we all stand in a group in the middle of the stage and bow, listening to the cheers, whistles, screams and I even heard one person yell out 'encore'.

Funny.

"Thank you girls for that amazing performance! Next up we have..." I daze out of the principles words and find myself running off the stage towards a person who is standing in the aisle with her arms out.

"Oh my god, you absolutely blew my mind." My mom says and I smile, hugging my mom.

"So you did come." I say, grinning at my mother and she rolls her eyes playfully.

"Of course, I didn't want to miss you dancing again." My mom says and I smile, hugging her again. A voice behind me grabs my attention and I let go of my mom and turn around, gapping when I see Emma smiling at me.

"You were amazing!" Emma says and I laugh, nodding.

"I know I know." I say and Emma chuckles. I also see Sarah and I give her a hug, listening to her compliments.

"Do I get a hug or what?" I hear a certain voice say and I smile, turning back around to see Logan grinning at me. I smile and hug him, allowing myself to be trapped into his embrace.

"Why am I watching this?" I hear a voice say and I let go of Logan to see my father frowning at me. I narrow my eyes at him and cross my arms over my chest.

"If you don't like what you see then why are you here?" I ask and my mom frowns at me. I ignore her pleading looks and walk up to my father.

"Let me talk to you privately." My father says and I follow him out of the gymnasium. He stands in front of me and I look up at my father, waiting for him to speak.

"Look, I've realised that I have been quite a terrible father to you but how do you expect me to act? It's my job to look after you and protect you because you are my daughter." My father says, his face softening. I watch as he frowns at me.

"I should respect your decisions as a parent and I shouldn't be giving your brother more attention than I give you because you are my child too. I love you so very, Avery." My father says and he looks down at me, waiting for my answer.

"What about the baby? What about Logan? Will you accept that though?" I ask my father shrugs.

"Sweetheart, you do realise that for me, it takes time for me to accept those things but I promise that one day I will accept them, even if I am sort of not happy with it, okay?" My father says and I smile at him, hugging him.

"Thank you dad. That's what I wanted to hear." I say and my father places a kiss on my head.

"By the way, you can quit the cheerleading team if you want." My father says and I pull away from him.

"Nah, I'll stay. Even though I hate the people in the team, I love to dance." I say and my father smiles.

"Good." Before I walk back into the gymnasium though, my father grabs my hand and looks at me with a serious look.

"Your Aunty is moving back to Australia this weekend and she offered if you wanted to come with her. Not permanently, just temporary." My father says and I look down at the floor in thought.

Australia.

But then I'll miss Logan, Claire, my family...

Do what it right for you, my brain says and I mentally nod.

"I'll stay here. It's better this way." I say and my father nods, hugging  me again.

"I'm glad you've made the right decision." My father says and I smile at him before walking back into the gymnasium. I walk to Logan and pull him away from everyone.

I have to tell him the first thing first before I tell him the bigger news. I just hope he feels the same...

"Look, there is something that I've been wanting to tell you for quite sometime now, Logan." I say and Logan nods, waiting for me to continue.

"Okay, ever since I met you, the first day that I met you, I promised myself that I would hate you. That I would hate you for the rest of my life. What you did to me was... I don't even know how to explain it but it hurt badly." I start off, remembering the memory from four or so years ago.

"Hey, sunshine." Logan says, walking up to me. I watch as he smiles at me but the overall look on his face said something different than the friendly smile on his face, like he was drunk.

"Hi?" I say, looking at the boy. Logan immediately grabs my face and instantly, I smell alcohol on him. But of course, my brain had to distract me from realising that this drunken boy in front of me was kissing me.

I pull away from him and punch him square in the nose. "What the hell?" I ask as Logan hits the floor. I bite my lip when I see an evil glint in his eyes. I turn to run away but Logan's friends that were behind me the whole time grab onto me, making sure I don't escape from whatever is coming my way.

Logan stands up, blood dripping down his nose as he walks towards me. "You bitch!" Logan spits and I immediately fall down to the ground when I feel Logan's fist connect with my face, making me go unconscious.

"I'm sorry, Avery-"

"Let me finish. But when I tripped you over that day, I never thought of it as revenge." I say and Logan just watches me as I let out a small sigh.

"After the two months or so we have spent together, I never thought that I would be standing here, about to confess about something so... life changing." I say and Logan nods, anticipation clear on his face.

Time to do this, Avery.

"Logan, I'm in love with you." I say and Logan looks at me for a few seconds before a small smile appears on his face.

"So my plan worked." Logan smirks and I frown at him.

"What is that suppose to mean?" I ask and Logan smiles at me.

"Do you remember when you tripped me over and I said 'your not going to get away with this and since your a girl, I won't beat you up or anything, I will simply do what I do best'?" Logan asks and I nod.

"What I meant by that was that I will make you fall for me because all along Avery, believe it or not, I have had feelings for you ever since you punched me that night that I was drunk. I don't know why but something about you made me want to know more." Logan says and I roll my eyes playfully.

"And I thought this was going to be cliché." I say and Logan chuckles.

"Clichés are overrated, Avery." Logan says and I nod in agreement. Suddenly, Logan places a small kiss on my nose to catch my attention and I look up at him. I wrap my arms around Logan's neck and kiss him without thinking.

"I love you too, sunshine." Logan mumbles and I smile. When I pull away Logan grabs my hand and we walk back to where everyone is standing. I stand beside Claire who is looking at the stage with a frown. "What are you looking at?" I ask Claire and she points to the podium. I look and frown when I see Katie making her way towards the podium, a small smirk on her face.

Oh what a way to ruin such a great moment, my brain says and I mentally chuckle.

"Hello everyone! As some of you may know, my name is Katie Holmes and tonight, I have a wonderful announcement to make." Katie says and I grin.

That you have AIDS? That you have herpies? Ha, I would die from laughter if she actually says that.

"A few weeks ago, I found out that I am pregnant..." A few cheers and claps are heard and Claire and I share a look which said 'who is the father'.

"Who's the father?" A person shouted, asking the question that all of us are wondering. Katie looks around until her eyes land on me, her smirk still on her face.

"Logan Maddox." Katie says and I feel myself becoming dizzy. My parents eyes look at me with worry but I can't say or do anything. Claire looks at me with shock and grabs my face.

"She's lying, Avery. She's lying." Claire says, her face turning to concern and Claire looks up at Logan.

"She's lying, right?" Claire asks Logan and with the little strength I have, I look up at Logan.

"Is she?" I ask and Logan looks at Katie before looking at me. He grabs my face and crouches down to my height.

"She spiked my drink and took advantage of me, Avery but this doesn't change anything! I love you and only you!" Logan says, tears in his eyes but I push him away.

"You fucking piece of shit!" Claire screams, hitting his chest and I step back from everyone, leaning against the wall to hold myself up.

Katie is carrying Logan's child... and so am I.

"She spiked my drink and took advantage of me."

"Logan Maddox." Katie says.

"I love you and only you!" Logan says, tears in his eyes but I push him away.

"By the end of the night, I assure you that you wouldn't even want to be here when you hear my small speech." Katie says and I roll my eyes before muttering 'whatever', walking away from Katie.

After a few seconds of thinking, I finally figure out what I am going to do. I'm going to go with my Aunty to Australia, raise this baby on my own and...

Push Logan away.

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AND THIS IS THE END! I'm sorry that it had to end this way but I have a plan with the next book so yes, there will be a sequel but please DON'T HATE ME!

What do you think of the ending though? It is a little shocking, yes? I know some people wanting to have Logan and Avery together at the end but as I said when Avery and Logan got together, not everything has to be special... happy endings don't always happen and thats what I am trying to prove here.

Okay, this is the first book that I have finished and I don't know how I finished my second book before my first book but yeah, I guess it just happened. I hope you all understand why I have made this book come to an end like this. Like I said before, PLEASE DON'T HATE ME!

I thank everyone who had stuck by me since day one! You all are my favorite people because without you all, I don't think this book would be here at all. So thank you everyone!

Lofd - "Oh you can't hear me cry. See my dreams all die. From where your standing on your own. It's so quiet here and I feel so cold. This house no longer feels like home."

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