He saved me

Chapter 8

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Nevaeh's POV

The week flew by pretty quickly and it's now Friday. My back is a lot better and  there's now only a dull ache left behind with a slight red tint to my back but it's not that noticeable. My ribs and face are also healed. Thank god! No more make up!

My uncle hasn't been home since Tuesday. The heating got knocked off and the house was pretty cold, due to my uncle being unemployed and not paying the bills. I would go to bed in sweatpants and jumpers as my blanket was too thin, to keep me warm.

I was currently sitting in class with sienna beside me, and a sleeping chase behind. We still haven't talked about our little moment the other day. He just acted like nothing happened, so I'm doing the same. Technically nothing did happen since we didn't kiss, but we were about to!

The bell rung and this was the last class of the day. Me and sienna got up to leave, I turned around and saw chase still sleeping with his head down, on his desk. " chase! Wakey, wakey. Schools overrr." I sang in a slightly higher tone than my normal voice. He didn't budge. Sienna came over and whacked him over the head with a book. "Wake the fuck up, I wanna go home" she said impatiently.

He jerked up rubbing his head. "What the fuck?!" He shouted. Everyone had already left the class by now. "Uh oh" was all sienna said before she sprinted out of the classroom with chase running after her. I laughed at their antics. Ahh, sibling love at its finest. I looked down to see chase had forgotten his school bag, so I picked it up and swung it over my shoulder and carried my own bag in my hands, since his bag was heavier than mine.

When I walked out I saw Asher trying to restrain chase, which might I add was a hilarious view. Asher clung himself around chases leg so that chase couldn't go anywhere. Sienna saw me and ran over hiding behind me. "Save me" she whispered. I rolled my eyes and walked over to chase "Here you forgot your bag" I said while handing it to him. "Thanks" was all he said before slicking Asher off of him. I went over to my car with sienna following behind me.

" Hey vaya?" She said. "Yeah?" I turned my attention to her. "Do you wanna come stay at mine tomorrow? The boys are coming over too! We're having a movie night" she claimed. "Yeah I'd love to!" I said happily. This was going to be my very first sleep over!

"Cool! I'll pick you up at five from your house?" she said.

"Okay sounds good, here's my address" I say writing my address on a piece of paper handing me it. It should be okay with her picking me up since my uncle hasn't come home yet.

"Cool! See you tomorrow vaya." She says as she waves at me.

"Byeee" I wave back at her and walk towards my car.
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When I got home, I went upstairs and started on my homework so I wouldn't have to do it on the weekend. My uncle still wasn't back, not that I'm complaining or anything, it's been nice without him.

A few hours later, I finish my homework and got ready to go to the gym. Every weekend I go to the gym because I don't work at the café on the weekends, and I need to train for the underground. Since all my bruises were pretty much healed, I didn't have to wear clothes that would cover up my body, which was a relief because it gets pretty warm.

I wore a sports bra and some shorts for the gym. I put on some sweats and a top over them for walking down the street. The gym was only a 20 minute walk from my house and I usually ran there as a warm up before I start training. The gym stuck out like a sore thumb as it was a very modern building, that's was located on the rough side of town.

Soon I arrived at the gym and walked in. "Vaya, I've missed you!" Said Darius. He was the owner of this gym and he taught me how to fight. He was an ex-UFC fighter. He retired after he injured himself really bad and decided to open up the gym. I first met him when I was 12, five years ago, he was out for a run, he spotted me outside his gym and saw how badly beaten up I was after I had run away from home after my uncle beat me pretty badly. I told him about how I needed an escape. Something to take my mind off of my home situation and he took me in. He was the only one who knew about what my uncle does to me. He wanted to call the police, but I convinced him not to, as they would put me in foster care, as I was not of legal age to live by myself. He was angry about it, but understood. As he trained me on how to defend myself over the years, we've become pretty close. He's like a big brother to me and I look up to him.

" Hey What's up?" I said hugging him. He was much taller than me. I was just up to his shoulders. Chase is taller than him though. I just up to his chest! Wait why am I comparing him to chase? "It's just not the same with you gone all week. I live for the weekends when I see you." he said pouting. Anyone who didn't know Darius would see some big, scary, Intimidating man, while all I see is a big teddy bear. "Oh ya, I won't be here tomorrow. I'm staying with some friends at their house" I said while going to my gym locker and him following behind. "Oh yeah, you go to school now" he said in disbelief. He was always confused as to why  I would choose going to school when clearly I didn't have to, well couldn't, but we move, we move. I always told him my reasoning as to why I wanted to go to school but he always just looked at me like I had two heads.

"Well you better come next weekend, ya hear?" He said. " sir yes sir!" I say saluting. He scoffed and rolled his eyes in amusement . He began to leave and before he walked through the door he turned and said "be ready in 5 at the treadmills, you're doing a 5k to warm up."

"But I just ran 20 minutes here already!" I said and stomped my foot. Yes, I know I'm 17 years old. What about it?

"Poor baby" He antagonisingly said then left. "Meanie" I huffed and changed into my workout clothes and went outside.

This was going to be a long day.

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Chases POV

I'm on my way to this gym that I heard about on the south side of town named Fuse. My personal gym was under renovation so I had no choice but to go here.

When I arrived I was surprised to see it actually looked like a proper gym and didn't look run down, considering it was on the rough side of where everything is run down.

I stepped inside and went to the front desk. I signed up for a membership as my gym wouldn't be ready for quite some time. As the person behind the desk was sorting out the details, I looked around to assess everything, and then something, or rather someone, caught my eye. It was Nevaeh. And damn did she look hot. She had perfectly toned abs, a very nice ass and her arms were muscly too but only a bit. Although she was still on the skinny side. She was at the punching bag with what looked like her trainer holding the bag in place. She had a pretty mean swing, I mean, she was pushing him backwards every now and from hitting the bag, which was impressive considering he's probably 3x her weight.

I was getting a hard on just watching her. The Nevaeh I'm seeing now, is very, differnt to the Nevaeh at school. This Nevaeh had a cold look on her face that could scare any grown man, while the Nevaeh from school was shy, innocent and bubbly.

The guy at the desk told me I was good to go and that I could leave my gear in the lockers that were in the locker room. So I did just that and went to exercise. It was getting hard not to get distracted by the beautiful blonde. She looked like a professional, sparring against that guy. When I finished exercising I went over to watch with the rest of the people surrounding them. She looked to be winning. And she did just that. Everyone cheered and complimented her on her moves. When she looked up her eyes widened in surprise seeing me.

"Uhh hey chase, I didn't know you worked out here." She said while wiping her sweat of with a towel. I watched her movements as she wiped the top of her cleavage, that slightly glistened with sweat. Hot damn. I snapped out of it and said "just joined" she nodded her head letting me know she heard me.

"Okay well I'm going to go shower, see you tomorrow" she said. Tomorrow? What's tomorrow?
She must have noticed my confused expression and said "oh sienna invited me over for the movie night. I hope you don't mind?" She asks sounding unsure.

"Nope." I replied, which she rewarded me with a blinding smile in return. Damn, there goes my heart doing god knows what again. Every time I'm around her I get this weird feeling in my stomach. It's a good feeling though. My heart always beats faster when she's around too. "Okay see you then" she said, walking off in the other direction. I couldn't help but sneak a glance at her ass.

Fuck. Im going to need a cold shower after this.