Bullies Sla-pped New Girl Cheerleader — Unaware Her Father Is A Hell Angels
Chapter 16
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"Herb," she said, "did Dale Greer come talk to you this morning?"Silence."I saw his truck in the side lot," she said."Coach Reeves, I'm not in a position to discuss...""I'll be at the hearing," she said. "But I want you to know that I will be there as an advocate for my student, not as a participant in whatever this is."She hung up before he could answer.She sat in her office in gym B and looked at the trophies on the shelf. 30 years of them: regional championships, invitational placings. Photos of teams going back to the 1990s, girls now in their 40s who still sent her Christmas cards.She thought about all the time she had stayed quiet because the situation was complicated. Because the Greer name carried weight in this town, and she was a woman on a contract, and she had learned the hard way what happened to people who pushed back too hard against certain things. She thought about the way Cass Malone had walked into that gym at the tryout. No email, no warning. Just watched the routine once and stepped in like she belonged there. She thought about what it cost a girl to walk into a room like that.Then she opened her desk drawer and took out a legal pad. She started writing down everything she had witnessed in the past 2 weeks: dates, times, what she'd seen, what she'd heard. She wrote for 45 minutes without stopping.Cass found out on Wednesday afternoon. She was coming out of her introduction to business class when Amber fell into step beside her. Amber had a look on her face that she recognized—the look of someone carrying something they don't know how to put down."I need to tell you something," Amber said.They walked to the far end of the parking lot where Cass's Honda Shadow sat by itself near the edge of the lot. Nobody around, nobody to hear.Amber told her she'd heard it from a girl in the administration office: the hearing was real. It was on the books: Friday at 5:00. If Cass missed it or failed it, her disciplinary record would flag her scholarship for review, which was the college's mechanism for putting her on academic probation, which was the mechanism for removing her from the squad, which was the mechanism for her losing the financial aid that was the entire reason she'd come here. All of that for a complaint that didn't come from anyone inside the school.Cass stood by her motorcycle and listened to all of this without interrupting. When Amber finished, there was a silence."60 hours," Cass said."What?"