Broken

Chapter 29: Foolishness (Jagger)

Focus, I kept telling myself. You can do this Jagger. Using all of my inner strength, my shaky arms pushed upward until I had finally reached the targeted number of bench presses. Letting out a heavy sigh of exhaustion, beads of sweat rolled down my forehead. I managed to put the heavy weight back in its place and sat up on the bench. Hearing feminine bickering, I glanced over to where Raine was training KL. Raine had KL using much lighter weights than I was. From the look of the weights they had to be anywhere from ten to twenty five pounds.

I heard Kratos cough to get my attention. " Ahem."

Looking back at him, I sheepishly smiled. "Sorry, just wondering what they were getting so worked up about."

Shooting me a quick glare, he devilishly smirked. "Yeah, sure," he said sarcastically, insinuating that I was just trying to check them out. Averting his attention back to the workout, he continued speaking. " You did well. Much better than I expected, actually. One-hundred bench presses aren't easy to do, especially when you haven't worked out for a little while."

" Told you I was strong," I mumbled, though deep down I knew that it was definitely too difficult a task. How I had managed to pull this off, I have no clue. Internally, I was a bit irritated because I knew if the situation were the other way around, I definitely wouldn't have pushed him so hard. Tomorrow my body was going to be terribly achy.

" Shadow told me to prepare you, so that's exactly what I'm doing," He responded matter-of-factly.

Shooting him a smile, I replied, "Oh yeah, I know. Just think it was a bit much for the first day, but it's all good." Rolling my shoulder, my arm made a loud popping noise. "Oww," I whined.

Kratos crossed his arms over his chest, his biceps bulging out. "Well I guess we'll have to stick to the same routine for a while until your body gets used to it."

" Mmmhmm..." I said as I ignored what he was saying. My anxiety level was beginning to rise all of a sudden as a very bad feeling washed over me. My body began to feel uncomfortably uneasy but I just couldn't pinpoint the reason why. Looking around the room, I checked my scenery to see if anything looked or felt off.

"Jagger," Kratos said in an annoyed tone, trying to get my attention. As I glanced over at the girls again, they were just going along with their workout while Raine was shouting at KL. Everything in my surroundings seemed to be completely normal and yet I felt as though something was horribly wrong.

"Jagger," Kratos said again, this time a little more irritated and commanding than the first time. Looking over at him, I noticed how his face tensed up in anger. "What's up with you man? You aren't paying attention. Something on your mind?"

" Something's off," I bluntly responded.

" The only thing off right now is your attention span. You see those weights on the floor over there?" He asked nodding his head in the direction of the weights. " Get them and show me what your usual routine is. Then we'll modify it if we have to."

" Alright," I said. I walked over and picked up the weights and then walked back over to Kratos.

" So what's the routine that you have most difficulty with?"

" Uh...," I said, unsure of how to answer. This feeling was becoming overly nagging, to the point where you could almost call it overwhelming. Trying to ignore it, I tried to push it aside but for some reason I felt that something dangerous was approaching. Without telling my body to do so, the grip that my hands had on the weights loosened and I heard a loud, metal banging echo through the room as the weights fell to the floor. Led by intuition, my body automatically darted out of the room. I continued to run outside, where the moonlight shone down upon me. My body dashed to the trees, to which I ran through until I stopped by something that I saw on the floor.