Animals

Chapter 14

My eyes flutter open, after a minute or two of adjusting I realize I'm not in my room. When I take a glance around the room, I notice it doesn't look like any room at home. When I try to get up some sort of heavy force keeps me down. When I see what is holding my down my eyes go wide.

Elija was using me as a pillow. I start shaking him. "Hmm..." I pinch his arm to see if that works. "Ouch!" Indeed it worked. "What was that for-" he cuts off mid sentence. "Haha, cupcake this isn't what it looks like." Elija defends himself sensing my anger. "Then what is it?" I hiss. "You passed out on my bed." He explains. "See, you so tired to the point you confused my bed for your's." I have done that before, so it's believable.

"I'll go make you some breakfast." Elija offer as he gets up. I decide to go to the bathroom to wash my face. Once I got a glance in the mirror I was surprised. I must of had a crazy dream. I thought to myself. My hair was everywhere. I could hear the sizzling sound of eggs on a greased pan.

As I'm washing my face I notice something odd. There was a light scratch on my neck, almost unnoticeable. As I make my way to the kitchen my legs wobble a little. He must of cut off the blood to my legs when he slept on me.

A plate of eggs and bacon laid on the dinning table. "That's for you." Elija says. I pick up a fork and start eating. "Wow, didn't know you were starving." Elija comments. "I didn't return home last night, I could of worried everyone." I state. Ms. Eagle isn't going to give me mercy on this.

Once done I clean my plate. "Thanks for the fun time Elija." I thank him. A smile appears on his lips at my thanks. I quickly leave, in hopes my punishment won't be too bad.

When I make it back I'm surprised I'm not being scolded. Jake comes up out of nowhere. "Jake, I thought Ms. Eagle would freak out?" Jake laughs. "She did, but she kept telling herself you were an adult." Jake tries to contain his laughter. I guess her freak out was amusing. "But if I were you I would go to her office." Jake insists.

Taking him up on his idea I head to Ms. Eagle's office. I knock. "Come in." With the invitation I enter. She runs from her desk, then embraces me in a loving hug. "I'm sorry." She must of worried. "You better be! You nearly gave me a heart attack young lady!" I return her hug by hugging tighter.

"But you're an adult now, I can't be worrying about you all the time." The thought of her seeing me as a adult is a heartwarming fact. She scolds me before letting me leave her office. I go on to my room. I put on a sports bra, and gym shorts. Today I'm going to get in some training.

I go into my bathroom to brush my teeth and hair. I realize there's another light scratch on my stomach, but not as faint as the other. Did I scratch myself in my sleep? Even though the scratches are strange I don't worry, and put my focus on my training. Before I start training I put up my hair in a pony tail.

I head out to the training room. "Yo! Sina!" Jake hollers. "Wanna train?" I nod. We both get a few feet away from each other, then Jake charges towards me. I dodge his tackle then elbow him in the back. "Getting a little rusty there." I tease. "We haven't trained like this in a while." Jake tries to defend himself.

He starts throwing punches, and I dodge them. I land six punches to his chest. Jake calls time out. He bends over putting his hands on his thighs. "I guess training with that guy really improved ya." Jake points out my improvements. "I learned to think and hit faster." I tell him. "That's good." Jake compliments. His eyes trail down to my stomach region.

"What's that?" He asks. I lift up my eye brow not knowing what he was talking about. "There's a scratch on you're stomach." He points out. "Oh that, I think I scratched myself in my sleep." I explain. Jake gives me a hmm. "Where did you stay last night?" He asks. "At Elija's." I answer. His eyes go from light green to a darker shade.

"He didn't do anything, Jake." I say already knowing what was going through his head. "Better not." Jake mumbles as he heads to get some water.

All day me and Jake trained. I'm pretty worn out. I took a shower to relax my sore muscles from all the training. As I lay under my covers I start to question. Did Elija try something while I was asleep? I kept shaking that question from my mind, but I couldn't help but let it haunt me.

Maybe I'm letting Jake influence me a little too much. I tell myself. But I couldn't quite understand why I couldn't remember some of last night. I decide to put those thoughts aside so sleep could sink in.