Ch6
Once Bella and Luke landed in Paris and checked into the hotel, it was time to start tracking the delivery truck the elixir was in. They set up a mini head courters in the living room space, setting out files and laptops and printers. Nick from the base was able to connect them to the truck’s GPS. They were able to see a red dot traveling through two dimensional streets. The estimated time of arrival was midnight.
“Great,” Bella groaned. “another long, sleepless night.”
“You didn’t get any sleep last night?”
“Not a wink.”
“Why didn’t you sleep on the plane?”
“Because some pig was snoring in my ear.” She said, cutting him a glance that made him purse his lips.
“That’s not funny, you know I’m very sensitive about my snoring.”
“Which makes it funny.” She smirked and looked up at the clock. “Alright, so we have eight hours until it arrives, what do you wanna do?”
“We could go get some training in. I’m feeling a bit stiff from the flight.”
“Sounds good. You wanna go to the gym or move the furniture?”
“Well we wouldn’t want to cause a scene in the gym.”
“Wouldn’t want to break anything in here.” She stated.
Luke pursed his lips, in thought. Then, in unison, “…gym”
Bella spun around and elbowed Luke directly in his chest. As he grunted in pain he pushed her away. Hopping around on her feet with her arms up, she never took her eyes off of him.
“Gosh Bella, you trying to kill me?”
“Sorry, I’ll try to be a little more gentle.” She said, taunting him with a smirk.
“Yeah, you do that.” He came back at her, swinging his leg up to kick her in the side. Bringing her arm down, she caught his leg, deflecting the blow and kicking his other leg out from underneath him, taking him to the ground. Leaning over him with her hand on his chest for support, he let out heavy breath.
“Too much for you Princess Leia?” She taunted.
“No, no. Just a little slow to get started.” He swiftly grabbed at her arm, pushing her over his head with his foot and slamming her to the ground. She jumped up with him with a grunt, her arms up and ready to fight. “But I think I’m starting to find my rhythm now.” He threw another kick at her, but she dodged it with a side step.
“Remember when we were younger,” he started as she threw a punch at him, deflecting it with his hands. “whenever Nick and I used to torture you, or got a little rough you would always scream ‘ow’?”
“That was when I was younger,” she began, throwing a punch then a high kick to his head which was deflected again. “now look who’s screaming ‘ow’.”
He let out a chuckle. “Just you Bella.” As she went to throw a punch he grabbed her arm, spun around with her arm in his hands then twisted her around and slammed her to the ground. A loud groan escaping her mouth as her body jarred against the mats.
“Ah, Luke you suck!”
“Ready to give up” He asked, standing above her.
She let out a laugh. “Not quite.” She said as she thrusted her body forward, grabbing him around his abdomen and taking him to the ground. As he laid underneath her, she threw punches at his face, but each time it was deflected by one of his hands.
Luke, fed up with her petty jabs, rolled on top of her and stood up. “Come on Bella, you can do better than that. That was just pathetic.”
“Really, because I learned that from you.”
“Ou, ouch.” He smirked and threw a punch. Bella grabbed his arm, this time it was her turn to spin around then twist and slam him to the ground, but she wasn’t expecting Luke to kick her feet out from underneath her. They both let out loud grunts of pain as they landed on the mats.
Standing up together, breathing shallow, Luke leaned over. “I don’t know how much longer I can keep this up.”
She put her arms back up. “You know, I hear it helps to think about baseball!” She threw a punch at his face which was deflected then a jab at his stomach which hit.
“Oof!” He sucked in a tight breath and shook his head. “You wanna tell me why you’re trying to kill me?”
“Just a drive.”
“And what is that drive exactly? What did I do?”
“Drop it!” She demanded punching at his arms, chest, stomach, each one hitting even though he tried to deflect them, ending it with a kick to his stomach.
“OH!! Oh jeeze, that hurt.” He whined as he lied on the ground. Without warning he swung his legs around, knocking her down with a scream.
“What about you?” She said, sucking in deep breaths.
“Am I mad about something? No, I’m just trying not to get beaten by a girl.” He teased as he stood back up. As she slowly got up to her hands and knees, he took a running start. Grabbing her around her neck and shoulder and in between her legs, he tumbled with her and landed on top of her, holding her leg at her face as he clasps his hands together. Their faces inches apart. “Now come on Bella, tell me what’s on your mind.”
“AH!” She shouted in his face, bringing her leg farther up with a lot of force, hitting him in the head and rolling over on top of him with her momentum. She pins him on the ground on his stomach and holds his arm.
“Ah! Okay, ow!”
“You forgot my birthday! That’s what’s on my mind!” She shouted and he went quiet, the only sound audible was their heavy breathing. “You forgot my birthday, and proposed to your girlfriend on the same day.” Letting his arm go and standing up, she walked over to her water bottle and took a long gulp.
He sat on his bottom, elbows on his knees and his head in his hands. “Bella,” he started but she stopped him.
“No, don’t say you’re sorry. Don’t apologize and then give me a lame excuse that comes along with a puppy pout because you know I’ll forgive you. And right now, I can’t. I don’t want to. I deserve to be mad.”
“I just don’t know how I could’ve forgotten.” He said quietly to himself.
“Yeah well me neither…I’m going to get something eat, I’ll see you later.” She said, throwing her towel over her shoulder. “While you’re sitting there moping, try thinking of ways to make things up to me, because it’s gonna take a lot of sucking up for me to forgive you.”
