THORN

chapter two

Alexandria Green
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Safe to say yesterday was the longest day of my fucking life. Niall and I spent about 30 minutes preparing yesterday's lessons because Harry and his little sidekick Louis wanted to act like teenage boys instead of normal adults.

Yes I finally learned his name. 

Of course he didn't have the manners to ever introduce himself so after our session ended I looked over the list of new trainees for this year. His picture along with "Harry Styles" was at the bottom row along with his little friend "Louis Tomlinson" right fucking next to him. Two dickhead names for two dickheads. Perfect.

If you couldn't tell by now I'm pissed. Niall and I are assigned specific tasks to give the trainees each class. Each task is extremely important to their status and they can't become an official Associate without getting through all of them. And it's up to me who makes it or not.

Since yesterday was our first session the first task was fairly simple, just some warmups preparing them for tomorrow's session which will be harder. But instead of doing some simple basic training, Harry and Louis decided to get up and leave. Just headed straight out the door for no apparent reason.

Even though we're all around the same age, I'm still basically responsible for all these trainees and their progress in this class. Niall tried to find them once they left but strangely enough there was no sign of them. This building is huge but beats me where they ended up.

Thankfully the other two people left in the gym actually had enough of general respect and did what was assigned to them. Also the girl who's name was unknown actually introduced herself when she saw me getting stressed out over the failure of our first session.

Her full name is Aurora Elks but she has a nickname, going by "Rori". Her and Zayn are actually the nicest people I've ever met in a training class before and I'm beyond thankful for their positive attitudes compared to the other negative ones in the class.

We focused more on physical training yesterday so we can slowly make our way to working with actual weapons. When I suggested everyone to take 3 laps around the room Harry responded with a "Fuck off"
as he made his way to the exit with Louis trailing behind him.

Isn't he a pleasure to work with.

After we did finished the warm up training, Niall and I cleaned up the gym and put the equipment away. Zayn and Rori are really easy to work with and they both have strong motivation towards working their way up to Associates. Niall walked with me back to our Apartments and we even saw Rori on our way home.

Niall and I are the only official mafia "members" who live on this floor, meaning that all the new freshman will be our neighbors. We used to live with all the other Associates on floor three but things took a turn a long time ago.

Niall's apartment has been directly next to mine for the past 6 years no matter what floor we're on. We have new trainees switch in and out of the rooms around us each year unless they stay under the Sinclair name and move up to floor three. Thankfully this floor is very spread out and there's at least twenty feet between each door.

Rori's room is right off the hallway, meaning she is on the right side of my room while Niall's on my left. She seems like she'll be a completely fine to have as a neighbor and I'm excited to see her around more.

I surprisingly took a nap after the session which never helps with my unfixable sleeping schedule. I'm an insomniac to say the least, feels like I've been one my whole life. I can't remember the last time I actually had a good 9 hour rest. I always end up waking up around 3-4 AM or just not sleeping at all. I'm not sure why this happens but none of the medication I've been prescribing for it seemed to help.