Chalk It Up Page #5

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a public facility

and that might be inappropriate,

- 'cause it's...

- On the bars, dimwit.

Oh, right, uh, absolutely.

Bars.

Love the bars.

- Um, which, uh, ones are the bars?

- Oh, my gosh.

You guys have

a hundred bars in here.

rise up

rise up

rise up, tell 'em

that you won't stop

rise up

rise up

rise up, tell 'em

that you won't stop

rise up

rise up

rise up, tell 'em

that you won't stop

rise up

rise up

rise up, tell 'em

that you won't stop

wow!

- Nice, huh?

- That was amazing.

That's really good.

I mean, right? That was,

that was really good, right?

I mean, I know nothing,

but that looked amazing.

Yes, yes,

that was a little bit good.

Man, how did you, like,

how'd you learn to do that?

So I did gymnastics

for ten years.

I was level ten

by the time I was 12,

a lead at 13,

and then my parents work hours

started to interfering

with practice.

I knew they were

sending me to Greene

where there is no gymnastics.

Blah, blah, blah.

And I quit.

I guess that's why I care.

When the girls told me

they wanted to be good,

they reminded me

of what it felt like

to want to be great

at something.

You surprise me, apple.

See, at first,

you seemed so girly

and sparkly and flighty.

Then you go and you get

everything right in econ,

and then you go and do

something like that.

It's...

Not many people surprise me.

Yo, Chet!

- Oh, god.

- Oh, okay?

- Oh.

- Oh!

Ah.

Are you okay?

Yep, I'm okay.

Hey, Jeremy.

Hey.

So...

I hear Todd's coming back.

You must be excited.

Yep, Todd. Todd, Todd, Todd.

My boyfriend.

My go-to guy.

My other half.

Yep, so, I'm so excited.

So...

Uh, we have our first

sanctioned practice back, man.

This gymnastics team

has been approved.

Are you kidding me?

That's, that's...

- So good.

- Ah!

Ooh! Yes!

All right, Angelina.

- Ugh. -Make sure your

hands hit first.

Okay.

- Hey.

- You're late.

I was grading papers.

We need to talk.

- I so confused about Todd.

- 500 leg lifts.

100 for every minute

you were late.

- 500?

- Is that a lot?

Yeah, to divide

between 40 people.

Good.

Then I made my point.

Don't ever be late

to my practice again.

- Good job, Angelina.

- Thanks. I was on time.

Yes, you were.

Again.

Okay.

Better?

What did you do?

I walked in eating a bag

of caramel corn.

I thought corn was a vegetable.

Yeah.

- Point your toes.

- They are pointed.

Mm. Mm.

Dude, get out of here.

Hey, come on, man.

I'm actually serious here.

- Oh! Whoa!

- Oh.

Ah, uh...

- You two all right?

- Yeah, yeah, yeah, um.

- I'll meet up with you at the library

afterwards. -Yeah, of course.

Okay, the library.

- I'm okay.

- Ah, you're okay.

Are you guys really going

to the library?

Because it's that way.

Ah, no, there's a,

there's a new restaurant

that opened up

called the library, downtown.

Oh, right.

Cali doesn't really

let us eat out anymore.

- So...

- Right.

I haven't been

downtown in a while.

Uh, I mean, you could

come with us if you want.

You might have to change

and put some shoes on.

- But...

- Oh.

I can't.

I have to go

to the real library.

- Okay.

- I'm pretty sure

Cali has inserted surveillance

devices into our towels.

Becky stayed up

past curfew last night

watching

"lovely little lawyers,"

and Cali woke her up

at 5:
00 A.M.

- For a discipline run.

- Ooh.

- It sound pretty serious.

- Yeah, I've created a monster.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah, well, you guys are

probably getting a lot better,

- though, so...

- Yeah, we're actually decent.

The first competition

is tomorrow.

- Really?

- Yeah, it's more

of a local scrimmage

with some club teams.

- It's not a big deal.

- I'll totally be there.

- About what happened...

- Apple, um, don't.

It's, it's fine.

It's totally fine.

Look, I know

Todd's your boyfriend.

You've been saying it since the

first time you ran into me.

Um, it's okay. I just, honestly,

though, I didn't really,

didn't really think

it was that serious.

But you're on the team with him.

Yeah.

Friends?

Friends.

Okay.

Uh, I should probably get going.

- So...

- Right. Right.

- Have a good night.

- Okay.

Uh, hey, apple.

Good luck tomorrow.

Thanks.

Oh, my gosh. He's here.

- Oh, apple.

- Apple!

I'm sorry.

Sorry.

What is wrong?

What happened?

Let's focus.

Focus.

I g c, woo!

All right, hands in, guys.

All right, our first

event is bars.

Okay.

- You ready?

- Yes.

Let's get

ready to tumble!

Move, please.

It's a 30 second touch.

- Touch? What?

- What're we touching?

The equipment.

I coulda sworn

the said "rumble."

Yeah, it sounded super similar.

- I know, right?

- Okay, guys.

I need you to change

into your competition Leos,

and I'll meet you at the bars.

- Okay.

- Wait, I mean, the vault.

- Ah, I hate vaults.

- Yes, come on, let's go.

Yeah, uh, yeah, yeah.

Okay.

Yeah!

Is that good?

Man!

Are you sure these other girls

are just club teams?

- Mm-hmm.

- Uh! Man!

Though, it's not a total wash.

Our average all around

was a 32.75.

No one looks at averages.

Our team score

was 183.5.

That's enough.

So, it was our first meet.

We can't surrender

to mediocrity.

Yes, we can.

We're terrible,

and now we're only

fractionally terrible.

That's a huge leap.

Were they complacent?

- Cali.

- Really?

I am trying to watch

competition footage.

- I need to focus.

- Fine.

I should probably watch it, too.

That's not

our competition.

I know. It's the pro

gymnastics challenge.

These girls are amazing.

- It's a skill for skill...

- Face off.

- And only the strongest..

- Will survive.

Did you know that there's life

- after college gymnastics?

- Whoa.

- Oh, my...

- I know.

So did you get

any of our competition?

Oh, of course.

Ellie, square your

hips on your layout.

- Layout, okay?

- Cali.

You taped the coaching?

This is my first

undercover assignment.

I need to make sure

that I'm believable.

Ugh.

- Oh, hi.

- Hey.

Is this a bad time, girls?

No, we're just

rehashing the meet.

Hi. Well, you girls

were incredible.

- Uh, really, really good.

- For a bunch of four-year-olds.

Although I do wish that you came

into the stands afterwards,

because I wanted

to give you these.

- Um...

- You know,

just for the next time

you run into me on campus.

Or just like, generally for

your life, so you have shoes.

Ow.

Leg lifts.

Okay, it looks like everything's

coming along pretty good over here.

No, this is old.

Oh, my gosh.

It's archaic.

This silly board.

Oh, my gosh.

I don't even know how that thing

- was still up there.

- Yeah, it's a pretty big board.

- I don't know.

- Okay.

Ellie, square your

hips on your layout, layout.

Come on, Courtney. Square your

hips on your layout, layout.

- Walk me to the library?

- Love to.

- Right on cue.

- Don't you want to...

- Put on some...

- Right.

- Yeah.

- Shirt and shoes.

- Yeah.

- In a moment.

Well, you are going to be

the best dressed person

in the library, hands down.

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