˓˓ʕ՚Ջ՝ूɁ॰∘☼
"I can watch a sunset on my own."
˓˓ʕ՚Ջ՝ूɁ॰∘☼
10 months ago
"Focus Marinette!," Reyom yelled.
"Find his opening!"
Sabom's student quickly launches a roundhouse kick to my head and I felt everything go foggy.
"Get up! Hurry and get up now!," I heard Sabom yell.
I regain my vision back a few seconds later only to see my instructor walking away angrily and his student holding out his hand to me. I take it and he slowly lifts me up.
"Is he angry?," I asked.
The boy shakes his head "don't worry about him he just hasn't had his morning tea," he laughed.
I frown not believing him.
He smiles at me softly before patting my head "you did better than I did when I first started Taekwondo."
"I highly doubt that but thanks for trying," I mumbled and sat down on a bench.
"Since we didn't really have that much time to introduce ourselves hello I'm Anthony Yuan born
and raised in Beijing, I'm 18," he bowed to me.
I stand up and slowly bow "hello I'm Marinette Dupain-Cheng you can call me Marinette, born and raised in Paris France, I'm 17."
"Call me Anthony."
We stayed quiet for a few minutes till he finally spoke up.
"I heard you moved here in a rush, what a criminal?," he joked.
I laughed "I didn't feel strong enough."
"I wanted to get away from trying to be a person I am not."
"Who was that person?," he asked.
"Someone that seemed fine with everything."
"Did you show your true self to someone at least?"
"I didn't even know my true self, but now I'm slowly figuring out who I am," I smiled.
"I didn't figure out my true self till I started Taekwondo," Anthony laughed.
"I guess martial arts is a good way for people to figure out who they really are."
"True, many people I've met always said the same thing we once felt," he looked up at me "not knowing who we are."
"Thank god my mom forced me to come to my lessons, I was just a trouble maker 3 years ago, always got in trouble in school and been to the police stations as couple of times for small fights I had with other class mates. My mom got tired of it and one of my teachers recommended her to bring me to his friends taekwondo class here in Shanghai. When I met Sabom he tried his best to get me on the right track in life and he did, I found myself, stopped worrying my mom, started getting good grades,and I met some really cool friends, that I didn't have much of, I can call a family."
