(Author's Note: This is a bit of a different take on the three second string type cheerleaders in this branch, and we're seeing Sarah, Tiffany, Amber, and Melissa from the perspective of the cheerleaders who are always part of their activities.)
Allison Wright, Erika Weber, and Jessica Davis weren't like the other cheerleaders in their clique. Not that they couldn't be shallow and mean in their own way, but there was a definite difference.
Allison Wright, for one, was the only black cheerleader, and one of a small minority of not only African American, but a small minority of students who weren't Caucasian. That put something of a strain on her. She had earned her place as a cheerleader, but she felt like Sarah included her so she could tell people she had a black friend.
That feeling of being an outsider on the inside made her different than the others. While she certainly thought the Goth students were weird, she just wanted distance from them, she wasn't looking to drive them out of school. Sarah was always looking for a way to make the school the way she wanted it to be. For Allison, that idea reeked of driving out anything different...like the one black cheerleader for one.
So she tended to fall back with Erika Weber. Erika had her own issues. Her Dad had remarried, and she wasn't exactly a fan of her stepmother. Allison had met her a few times and she didn't seem half as bad as Erika described, but Erika, like Allison, was a lot less...intense than the others.
Sarah was controlling, Tiffany was a slut, Melissa was practically the fashion gestapo, and Amber...well, none of the others were quite sure what Amber was, as she had her head so far up Sarah's ass that it was hard to tell what her actual opinion was.
Allison and Erika both wondered why they let Sarah boss everyone around, but the alternative was to quit the squad. And Sarah could be...fun at times, when she wasn't on the warpath.
That left Jessica. Jessica had bought completely into the cheerleader life, leaving behind her old friends in search of popularity. There were times when she regretted it, especially when she saw what that had cost her.
