Cheerleading

I'm in a cheerleading contest with a group of cheerleaders. We're doing our warm up before our turn to be graded. We always do our routines impromptu, and go through a warm up, watching the leader, and trying to imitate him.

As we start our warm up, I notice the judge is looking at us, and timing us. Then he comes over and says "times up", and the leader says "what the hell is going on", and the judge says "that was your routine, and your times up". We try and convince them that that was only our warm up, not our routine.

Then we make a decision, we go ahead and start doing the routine anyway, even though the head judge is trying to usher us off the stage. I tell him that it won't hurt anything to let us perform, and if he wants to judge us on our warm up instead of our routine, that's his choice.

We start our routine, and I'm following the leader, and we're all going through these weird movements and gyrations. I and the other cheerleaders on our squad are like one step behind the leader all the time, as he does odd stretchy things. I get the feeling that the crowd is cheering for us.