His Rose [18]

Testing Him

In life there will always be people who will come and test your patience integrity, will, faith and strength. make sure to always pass the test.

~unknown

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"It's been two weeks since the so called "lesson" and in those weeks I've avoided him at all costs. Mainly to clear my head and focus on my studies which I had seriously neglected. Hunter dropped by yesterday to drop the remainder of the things I left in my locker and left in a hurry because he had a life. My mother had been busy too but that's nothing new, she's a doctor after all.

Being cooped up in the house really made me feel depressed and lonely. Everyone was so busy with their lives that no one had the time to ask if I was okay or even spend five minutes with me to tell me how their day was, the point is that all I wanted was some damn company. My day consisted of me showering, eating, watching Netflix, reading books, doing school work or talking to myself in the mirror. Of course, not in that order, my activities changed according to my mood.

I finally decided to get dressed and made my way to Xavier's office.I entered the room without knocking and locked eyes with a Xavier who looked like he hadn't slept for days, this was evident as there were bags under his eyes and his hair was not in it's usual neat bun.

"I need to go out, I can't stand being in this house any longer." I stated sitting down across him.

"Get out of my office. " he said without lifting his head from his paperwork.

"Why?" I asked plastering a confused look on my face knowing full well that I should have knocked.

"You don't seem to have manners, i never heard you knock."

I stayed put finding it funny how easily annoyed he got.

"Back to my request, am I cleared to leave?" I asked as he's stormy grey eyes glared at me and he's jaw ticked.

"No."

"Okay" I replied as I got up and left. Of course, I knew he would say no but it's time I showed him that I can handle myself. I made my way to his garage and picked my favourite car of his in there so far, the 2009 Dodge Challenger SRT- 8. The garage door opened automatically when I was near to it and I drove down the long driveway. The guards didn't open the gate but as always, I was prepared. "Miss we weren't told that you'd be going out today." one guard with red hair said.

"Please just open for me this one time, I promise I'll be back in an hour." I replied and smiled up at him innocently thinking it would work.

"I'm sorry I won't be able to do that mam." he replied

"Guess we'll do this the hard way then." I said while getting out of the car. They stood in fighting stances and advanced to me slowly. I grabbed the red head and gave him a punch under the jaw, watching his body fall. I made sure not to give the other guy too much time to think by sending my foot flying to his face knocking him out too. I moved their bodies quickly without being noticed, pressed the gate's button and drove off. Once I was far enough, I dialled the only person who could lighten up my mood.

"Elaina, are you busy?"I asked as soon as she picked up.

"Where have you been! I've called and texted a million times!" she shouted into the phone.

"I know I'm sorry, I'll come pick you up and we could hangout for the rest of the day." I replied.

"Okay, I'll get ready then."

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Before arriving at Elana's house, I took out the tracker on the car and threw it on the side of the road and drove off. Can't wait to see his reaction.

It didn't take me long to get to Elena's house and as usual I walked in and found her in the kitchen snacking on carrots.

"You should really try snacking on things such as Oreos." I said getting her attention. This resulted in her attacking me with a bear hug.

"I've missed you so MUCH! Is there any chance you're going to come back to school?" my heart melted at this. She truly meant a lot to me no questions asked.

"I've missed you too, I'll be back soon enough. So now that you know my real identity, would you like to know what I do for fun? Besides reading and homework?" I asked. Elaina's face light up like a child's face on Christmas morning who is ready to open her presents.

"Uhm duh!" she replied running to Xavier's car

"Whose car is this?" she asked eyeing it suspiciously.

"It belongs to Xavier."

"The guy that's supposed to be protecting you?"

"Yeah."

"How did you even get out? I thought that you were on some sort of house arrest because of your dad." She asked as I pulled out of the drive way.

"I was starting to feel claustrophobic and he wouldn't let me leave so I stole his car and knocked out the guards at the gate.

"Wow so the real you defies orders, knocks people out and steals cars? I like it, what happens when he finds you?"

"I just don't like being controlled by men and I don't care if he finds me, I just want to see how long it will take him. "I replied

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We arrived at the underground boxing ring that I haven't visited in a whole month, the stench of sweat and liquor welcomed us as the place started filling up with people who were willing to bet on boxers. The smell and the noise didn't seem to bother Elaina as she looked around the place with interest. When we reached Mike's office I knocked and entered when I heard a 'come in'.

"Cruz, is that you?" Mike asked putting his glasses on to me sure.

"In the flesh, old man. Any fighting slots available? I feel a bit rusty." I asked sitting before hm, he let out a little laugh and turned to look at Elaina.

"It's been a long time  since you've step foot in here and I see you brought a friend. Are you going to introduce us?" he asked walking towards Elaina, slowly as to not scare her. His big built would have scared anyone really.

"I'm Elaina, Ana-uh Cruz's best friend "she replied before I could.

"Lovely to meet you, Elaina. Im Mike. " he said before turning to me.

"Yes, there is a slot available for you, I'll put you on the list. People always get excited when you choose to show up." He replied giving me the key to my locker. We left his office and made it straight to the locker room

"You should have showed me sooner that this is the real you, this is amazing. it's like those things you see in the movies "she said jumping up and down like a little kid.

"You do realize that some movies are based on real events, right? I didn't know I could trust you yet, my father made sure that I'm made aware that good people were hard to come by. "I explained turning around and taking off my shirt to change. I heard Elaina's sharp gasp followed by a whimper so I turned around to see her face filled with sadness, tears threatened to escape as she noticed the marks all over my back and stomach.

"How have I never seen your scars Ana?" her voice dripped in sadness.

"I've been very good at hiding them Elaina, don't be sad." I said as I finished changing not wanting to talk about it further. She sighed but chose to let it go as she took a seat on the bench.

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