The Leaders will be the Death of Me

Chapter Ten "No Excuses"

I walk into the training room and all eyes are on me. Eric scowls. "Is there a reason your twenty minutes late initiate?"
With no energy to argue, I just simply say, "No excuse."
"We'll talk about your punishment later on." The room starts to spin. The urge to vomit is coming quickly, and inevitably. I run out of the room and to the bathrooms, ignoring Eric's screams to "Get back in the room!" I hear someone running after me but I ignore them, and run straight into the room, and when the door slams open and I'm slammed against the wall, I have no question as to who it is. He gets in my face. "You really need to learn to not run from authority."
"You really need to learn to not slam people against walls."
"Are you that dumb to get drunk the night before you fight Peter in the morning?"
"Guess so." He gets closer to my face, and I can feel his breath on my neck. "Let me remind you... This is the ladies room... The mens room is down the hall."
He tightens his grip. "Don't be a smart ass. I'm aware of my surroundings. Unlike you."
"I'm actually well aware of where I am."
He smirks. "You are?"
I stand up straighter. "Yes. I am."
He just stares. "Be in the training room in two minutes. Ready to fight." He walked out and I quickly locked myself in a stall gathering myself together and then walked back into the training room exactly on time. All eyes on me, I walked straight to the "arena" where Peter was waiting, pacing around the mats where we were fighting.
"Ash. Been waiting for this moment." A smirk plays on his lips.
"I'm sure you have."
"Get on with it." Eric states getting annoyed.
Peter ran at me and faked a punch then kicked me. I grunted and took my elbow and came in contact with his neck, catching him off guard. He became angry and charged at me, picking me off the ground and dropping me, the wind getting knocked out of me. I cough, trying to breathe. While I was on the ground Peter took his chance and kicked me. All I felt was a soreness on my neck and everything went black.
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When I came to, I looked around. I realized I was in the infirmary, and two people were looking down on me.
"W-Who are you?" A rush of memories came flooding back into my mind.

-FLASHBACK-
"Mommy!" A little blond girl ran at her mother and wrapped her in an embrace. Two boys sat in the doorway watching silently.
"Time to catch the train sweet heart!" The older woman leaned over and kissed the child's forehead.
"We'll be home very soon Zeke and Uriah. Dad will be watching you till we get back."
They just nodded and went to their rooms silently. The younger boy ran back out and hugged the young girl.
"Bye Uri!" The young girl squealed. The mother pushed the girl out the door scared they were going to miss the train.
-END OF FLASHBACK-
My eyes met again with the two boys who looked matured versions of the boys in my dream. I just stared blankly at them. The one on my right, Uriah shifted uncomfortably. I recognized him vaguely. The one on my left just stood there silently.
"So how much do you remember? Because honestly I can never tell anything from you by your facial expressions. You're almost unreadable."
"Must be my superpower." I reply with a hint of sarcasm.
"Whats your problem?" I look angrily at Uriah.
"My problem, Uriah, is that I don't understand why YOU two are here."
"Because we're you're brothers. And we care about you. So can you please stop acting like a brat?" Out of the corner of my eye I see Zeke glaring daggers at Uriah, but he continues anyways. "But you knew that didn't you? When did your memory come back?"
"When Peter kicked me. It must have triggered it. When I saw you guys it triggered a flashback. Or whatever you wanna call it." Uriah nods silently and Zeke just watches me not saying a word. I look at Zeke.
"Will you please say something?!"
"What do you want me to say?"
"I don't know! Anything?!" He just shrugs and leaves the room. Uriah looks at me sympathetically.
"Don't mind Zeke. He's just trying to process it all."
"Yeah? Well so am I."
"I'll let you get some rest." Uriah kisses my forehead, bringing back an old feeling of love and comfort that I haven't felt in so long. Uriah gave me a small reassuring smile and left. He left me wondering, am I more in danger with them knowing?