The girl on the bus

Chapter 9: Let's do something crazy

Zed

"You are getting distracted" coach yells while I'm throwing punches at the boxing bag. This has been a hell of a training, I already did cardio, worked on the muscles and I'm now practicing strategy. He is not satisfied with anything though and it's making me lose my focus.
"Kick higher" he instructs pulling my leg, I do as said and repeat the kick. Holding back my anger.

It's Monday and we went to the bus together this morning. Me and Tilly. She looked gorgeous. She was dressed pretty too, she was wearing oversized pants and a tight white shirt on top, my hoodie tied around her shoulders in case she gets cold. That made me weak to my knees. I liked it on her. She was happy, laughing along with me. We went our separate ways after that, I went to the gym and she walked to her school.
"Okay that is enough" coach pats my back. It's 12 o'clock and I have been here since 8 in the morning. To say that I'm exhausted is an understatement.
"Fuck, that one got me bad" I say taking down my boxing gloves.
"Yeah?" Coach smirks "well get used to it kid, we are shaping you up for championship"
I laugh stretching the pain away "okay"
"Be ready for tomorrow Armani" he uses my last name, he does that often, when he tries to be serious.
"Okay, will do" I reply picking up my things.  I drag myself towards the changing room and take a quick shower. I let the water drip down me while I inspect the bruises on my body. There is a bunch of them on my legs, due to kicking, my shoulder hurts today too. I'm not sure why, I was careful but apparently not enough, I can see a dark bruise forming on it. Shit. Hoping it won't get worse I wrap a towel around me. It's the injured shoulder too, I can't afford another medical treatment, I need to get my practice in, there is no way I'm waiting it out again. Once I'm dressed I see my phone lighting up, buzzing. Picking it up I see the called ID, it's Tilly. Worried that it might be serious I pick up immediately.
"You okay?" I ask before she can say anything
"Yes sorry for making you worried, I wanted to ask you when are you going home" she says
and relief washes over me,
"I'm actually leaving now, where are you?" I say picking up my bag and walk out of the room, to the hallway.
"I'm leaving too, I can wait for you at the bus station " she says
"Okay see you in five minutes "I say and we hang up. The dark clouds begin to form above me, while I walk towards the station.

I can already see her, waiting for me looking down at her phone. Not paying any attention to her surroundings, I sneak behind her waiting for her to realise that I'm behind her, but she doesn't.
I laugh "Tilly" I say to get her attention. She abruptly turns around, her curls slapping her face in the process.
"Shit you scared me, I didn't see you there" she giggles and steps on her tip toes, hugging me. I wrap my arms around her waist hugging her tightly. She pulls away after a while and looks at me.
"How was the training?" She asks while adjusting her clothes a bit.
"Exhausting" I admit, as the tiny rain droplets start to fall down on us.
Just as i was about to tell her about it, she brakes the silence. " it's starting to rain, do you have an umbrella?" She unties the hoodie wrapped around her shoulders and puts it on, shivering.
"Um..no" i laugh, remembering our first meet.
"I'm guessing you don't have one either" i smirk at her, waiting for her reaction and
she lightly smirks putting her arms on her waists, "No, I don't have it"she sighs,
"I don't mind though, I love walking in the rain" and just as she says that the droplets get faster and bigger.
"Fuck, Tilly you are getting drenched, and your connecting bus is in an hour" the worry fills my head, i dont want her to get sick waiting in the cold.
"It's fine don't worry, that has happened to me at least a hundred times before" he shakes her head, trying to get her now wet bangs out of her face.
Her eyes then light up "Hey do you want to do something crazy" she continues "do you want to go swimming with me"
All of my out and worried get forgotten in a second she says that "yes" I reply in a heartbeat.
"Wait where though?" I ask
"Do you want to go home with me, there is a river there, we always swim in it" she smiles
"Okay, but what about the weather?" I can't help but get concerned, I don't want her sick.
"It's summer, we will be fine" she tries to reassure me. I don't even have the time to reply when the bus stops in front of us.
"Wow, you two really did get drenched" the driver laughs looking at us.
"Yes, we forgot our umbrellas" Tilly laughs talking to the guy. I follow her down the bus, while she picks the seats. Sitting my her I can see er shaking with cold.
"Are you cold?" I ask even though the answer is quite obvious.
"No, it's fine, we will be home soon so I I manage" she exclaims. Well I can't really do anything about it too, I don't have any clean or dry clothes on me now.
"Wait try to put the hoodie down, maybe you aren't wet under it" I say pointing to her hoodie that is dripping wet. She does as I suggested, and somehow I was right. The shirt she is wearing is semi dry. She folds the hoodie and puts it on her lap.
"Is it any better?" I ask as she nods,
"Yes a bit"