Pick Back Up Again

Thrown In

Alex was quickly thrown into training with the boy who brought her here. She was dressed in a black v-neck tank top that was tucked into a black skirt that stopped a little before her knees. Her mother said she would have to go undercover a lot so she needed to practice fighting in the clothes she was going to be disguised in.

Alex slowly walked into the big training room and glanced at her surroundings. She was an overthinker, analyzing everything around her. She noticed from the doorway that there was a small patch that was different of all the others probably leading to a secret room. If anything were to happen she would jump on it once and hope that it wasn't dangerous under there.

"Can I at least know your name," she asked her instructor. Now that it was lighter she could see that he was dressed as a normal teen; tight black skinny jeans and a tank top that resembled hers and a gray beanie covering his short brown hair.

"My name? You can call me Ty, though my name is Tyler," he replied with a small smirk.

"Okay, Ty, how's about we get started," she asks him, bouncing on her heels. Alex has never been one for violence but right now she hasn't even started and she still feels the adrenaline rush from knowing that she would soon be able to protect her family and go back to her normal life.

"Okay, the first move we're gonna learn is a move if somebody is trying to grab you from the front," he tells her stopping so close to her face she can feel his breath, "Now I'm going to try and wrap my arms around you, slowly at first, and you're gonna duck, okay?" he asks and tells her, breaths on her lips. Alex shivers and hopes he doesn't notice.

"Yeah, okay," she responds shakily.

Tyler starts to move his arms and she almost wants to stay there and see how it feels to have them around her but she continues with her move and ducks under.

"Good now that you've ducked the next move you want to do is to use your head to headbutt me in the chin. That is a very sensitive area so in this I'll just turn my head to the side, okay? From the top," he explains as they start over. This time Alex isn't as graceful on her feet as before and when she leans foward to mock headbutt him, she trips over his feet crashing them both to the ground.

"Oh my gosh, I'm so sorry," Alex squeals, vaugely aware that she's laying on his chest. He hasn't made any move to get up yet, only watching her lips as she stumbles and stutters over her words.

"It was a complete accident! Are you okay? Are you hurt? Oh my gosh why aren't you talking? I broke my instructor! What am I gonna tell mom? How much did you cost? Wait you're not talking, oh my gosh," she continues rambling, talking to the air and not him.

Tyler falls onto his back laughing so hard that even Alex shakes from where she's perched on top of him.

"What, so you're not hurt?" she asks timidly.

"Far from it actually," he winks at her making her blush and him laugh harder.

"Hardy-har-har," she says sarcastically, "Now that you've had your fun, can we get back to work?"

"Okay, okay," he says, wiping at his eyes, "Now after you've successfully headbutted me, you will knee me in the balls and, when I curl in on myself because that shit hurts, you elbow me in between the shoulder blades," he tells her, walking around her and touching the parts he described on her.

Alex nods and goes through the play in her head before he nods at her and tries to grab her. Alex jumps back then forward again, leaning forward and thrusting her head upwards and past his face. Tyler stumbles back and tries for her again for her before she knees him near the balls but not quite. He doubles over and she pats in between his shoulder blades and he stops there.

"Now I want you to grab my head firmly between your hands and bring your knee up. Unless you are in a serious situation, don't aim near my nose, it could kill me," he tells her, watching her breathe heavily and nod.

She does as instructed and he falls to the floor dramatically.

"These are the last two steps before you run away and find help or continue to where you were originally heading. I want you to bring your foot up, as high as it can go and bring it down on my ribs. It will knock the breath out of me and I won't be able to pursue you anymore," he tells her.

She steps back and brings her foot up and down softly on his side. She couldn't hurt him even if this was real.

"Good job Alex, you're a really fast learner," he compliments her in his deep voice, hand still in hers from her pulling him up. Neither of them is letting go.

"I feel like we'd be the best fighting partners, but you have a weapons lesson next so I'll see you around," he hugs her and kisses her cheek goodbye, "You came extra close to my balls there so I felt like we've moved forward to more polite gestures," he tells her cheekily before winking and strutting out of the room, fixing his tank top a bit. Alex blinks once and he's gone.

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943 words! Ah! That's like a 700 word difference compared to my first two chapters. I'm trying super duper extra hard to make longer, more detailed chapters so here's my first attempt. Share this story around and another chapter shall be added on 12/22/13.