She's A Fighter

6. The Blackstorm

I saw Alex waved at me as a sign it's him inside the car. I got into the car and still struggled with the seat belt when he asked me,

“So have Michael explained to you exactly what happened two years ago?” Alex asked and helped me with the seat belt.

“He did.” I answered with a sigh. “I was wrong about him. All he did was to protect me from his anger” I continued my word.

  “Do you want to go to the Blackstorm?” Alex tried to cheer me up.

My mood suddenly change when I heard the word Blackstorm. I knew all he could saw in my eyes at that time were only excitement. He know how much I love Blackstorm. I know that place from him. Blackstorm is a place where you can fight with random people to make money. But I come there just to have fun. If you won, you can take all your opponent's money that they has stake at. Funny fact is, I am the only girl going there to fight. Even so, until today, no one has ever beat me.

“Let's go.” I replied. 

As soon as we arrived, we walked to the counter to register. 
“Hey Derryl, what's up". Alex greeted his friend who is working at the counter.

“Hey Alex, Charlotte. Come to win another round huh?” Derryl smirked.

“Unfortunately, you're right”. I said sarcastically. After a moment, Derryl said, “All done. Now all you have to do is wait.”

After waiting for about thirty minutes, Alex was called to fight with some guy called Jay. I watched him fight and I spotted that Jay had made a mistake from the moment he tried to punch Alex. He has no defense on his feet because his only attention was to punch Alex on the chest. That was the biggest mistake he had done. He allowed Alex to step his leg, and he's down. Game over!

  “We have a winner, Alex!!” everyone congrats him.

“Do you want to go on the next round or  do you stop here? “ The judges asked him.

“I'm not going to the next round. I came here just to have fun” he responded and walked to me.

“It's your turn. Good luck!” a sincere smile appeared on his face and I nodded. I never knew why Alex never want to go to the next round every time he had won. Is it because of me? He knew after he had won, he has to fight with other people. By other people, I mean me. Is that because he don't want to fight with me?

A few minutes later, my name was called. My opponent was called “Fire”. What a weird name. I thought to myself.

This guy was wearing a long black pants and a white sleeveless shirt that reveal his tattoos along both his arm.

“Hey, what is this? You let me fight with a girl?” he said loudly unsatisfied.

“Don't be fooled by her looks. Her nickname is The Queen of Blackstorm because no one has ever win when they fight with her.” The judges proclaimed.

“In 3...2...1. Let the battle begin!”

Without his knowing, I'm at the top of him and was ready to hit.  When I did that, he suddenly surrendered. “Stop, stop. I quit. I can't break my bond anymore”

“Looks like we got another winner! Do you want to go on the next round or do you want to stop here?” the judges asked and I looked at Alex noded his head.

“To the next round!” I responded. I keep on winning until I finally became the Queen of the Day.

It's already two in the morning when Alex sent me home. I'm not worried about my homework because I did it at school today. So after I bath, I go straight to bed because I was so tired.

I switched on my phone to checked for notification and was confused when I got a message from an unknown number.

It said, “Hey beautiful, get a nice sleep tonight because you will face with something incredible tomorrow.
Forever yours,
Luke Aaron

How did he get my number? Wait, I remember now, he's a gang leader.  He have many sources. I smiled at myself and charged my phone before I slept.

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