He saved me

Chapter 6

Azaleas POV

When I arrived home earlier my uncles car wasn't there which I was relieved to see. Now I'm on the way to the café, to work for an hour or two.

When I arrived, miss Evans greeted me with a hug and a kiss on the forehead. "Nevaeh my dear, how are you today?"

"I'm great! I started my first day of school today" I said jumping up and down on the spot. "How are you?" I asked her. "Honey that's amazing, and I'm okay thank you." She said giving me another hug in congratulations.

As I got to work, miss Evans asked me a ton of questions like, have I made any friends, what classes I had, boys. I said no there was no boys I was interested in , even tho there was one that caught my attention cough* chase* cough. It's not that I like him it's just a mere attraction, plus I wasn't going tell her about that.

Miss Evans and I turned towards the door as the bell rung out. And you wouldn't believe who it was. Chase and Matthew.

"VAYYAAAAA" Matthew ran towards me with his arms wide open for a hug. I ran around the counter to meet him, and bent down to his height so he could reach me. He ran and practically jumped on me which ended up with me sitting on my butt and matthew sitting on my lap, squishing me in a tight hug. "Hey Matty, what's up" I say, slightly backing away from the hug to see his face. "Vaya, I missed you so much, oh oh oh, chasey bwought me to get some ice cweam and I wemembered seeing you here, so I dwagged him in." He said with a proud look on his face. "Okay but one question tho. What flavour of ice cream did you get? It better be a good one." I said with a serious look, and I was serious. What's the point in eating ice cream if it's not even a good flavour. " I got an Oweo one and they added some strawbewies" he said with a look of love and longing. He looked back at me with a confused expression "what's wrong vaya?" He said holding my face in his hands. I put my hands over his and said " I am literally so jealous right now. Oreo ice cream AND STRAWBERRIES?!!" Matthew was just about to reply when we hear someone clearing their throat.
We looked up to see chase staring at us with a blank look, although I could see a hint of amusement in his eyes.

"Oh hey, forgot you were here" I said lifting Matthew off of me and getting up. He just looked at me with a glare. "Sorry" I said smiling sheepishly. "Would you guys like anything" I said. "To leave" I heard chase say under his breath. "Well in that case, Matty, would you like anything?"

"Uhm, a hot coco please." "

Sure, do you want cream and marshmellows?"

"Uh huh" he said nodding his head up and down. "Okay it will be ready in a few minutes, you can go sit down and I'll bring it over when it's ready." I looked to chase "do you want anything?" He shook his head "No" then walked off to a table with Matthew.

I made Matthews hot chocolate and gave it to him. Soon after they left, and it was time for me to go back.

"Here dear" miss Evans said giving me 5 dollars. " oh no it's okay miss Evans, I'm paying for that little boys hot coco out of it so you keep it" I said and gave her a hug bye.

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When I got home my uncle was passed out drunk on the couch. I stealthily made my way upstairs to my room and flopped down Onto my bed. I look over at my Calendar and today's date reads 'The Rock'. That's is my code name for fight night.

Picking up boxing was something I did to clear my head when I was 12, although I never thought that I would actually become good at it. I'll admit I didn't like the idea of hitting other people, so I kept it strictly to hitting the punching bags the gym provided. But as time went on, the coach Said he saw some real potential in me and convinced me to fight another person. After beating all of the girls and women in the gym with flying colours, I moved on to fighting against boys and men, although I will admit that was a whole other level I wasn't prepared for, but soon came to conquer.

Illegal fighting also came with a lot of illegal money. I wasn't lying when I said I was poor though. Every cent I earn from those fights goes into my savings to move out of this house when I turn 18.

I know it's pathetic that I can't even stand up for myself against my uncle, but as much as I want to, he's the only family I have and the thought of hurting him like he does me, breaks my heart.

I put my shorts, sports bra and black hoodie on. I finish it off with black face paint across my eyes.

I put my long hair in a french braid that went down my back. I hopped out my window and carefully walked to my car, in case he heard me from the sitting room window.

I started my car and made my way to the arena.

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As I walked closer to the venue I put my hood up so no one would recognise me if anyone I knew was here. Surprisingly, the hood stays up and it covers my eyes enough that I can see everything, but no one can see me under the hood. The arena is underground under a night club in the city.

I walked up to the security guard and he let me in through a door that takes me down to the arena. As I walked down the stairs, I could here the screams and shouts of the fans that go to watch the matches. I opened the door and slipped pass the drunken people and made my way into my locker room. I locked in and started concentrating on the steps I need to take for winning my match. I wrapped my hands and started warming up for the fight. I did fifty push ups, one hundred sit ups and punched the punching bag I had in my locker room for a while. Chase has nothing on my muscles.

I stood up and walked out as I heard my name called to the ring. I was fighting a new guy tonight they call him the night howler. Bit weird.

"AND FIGHTING TONIGHT IS OUR UNDEFEATED CHAMPION, AURORA!! AND FIGHTING AGAINST HER IS NEW COMER, NIGHT HOWLER!!"

My stage name is Aurora. I didn't pick it though. Everyone started calling me Aurora, since every match I would knock my opponent out cold. You know since Aurora was put into a 100 years sleeping curse, which my name doesn't really make sense since Maleficent was the one who put her under the curse, but Aurora sounds better anyway.

I looked at my opponent and was shocked to see Carter. He was going around howling like a wolf to the crowd to get them hyped up. I rolled my eyes at him. Idiot. Oh god, what if he recognises me. I take my time to assess him. He's well built and practically all muscle, but I see he has a bruise on his ribs. Hey, twinsies. I know know how I'm going to approach him and win.

He turned towards me and starts taking " hey gorgeous, just keep away from the face yeah? That's the money maker" he said while pointing towards his face. I didn't answer him in fear of him recognising my voice and stood there ready in position. The bell rung to indicate the fight had started."How about we get a few drinks after here huh? My treat" he said while dropping his defence, which gave me the perfect opportunity to hit him. I quickly punch him in the ribs, and he bent down in pain. Before he could recover. I uppercut him and he fell back with a thud on the ground. The whole arena went silent as the ref went over to check on him. Next of all he shouts "AND OUR CHAMPION STAYS UNDEFEATED" the whole crowd broke out Into cheers.

I looked back at Carter to see ash and chase beside Carter. Oh no. Chase looked at me and I quickly left to my locker room to shower and get ready before he noticed me.