“Ah Emma there you are, we were wondering where you’d got to.” Sara says
Josh looks round at me and gives me a sort of wave and I grin back, that makes his face crack into that cute grin of his. I slip into the seat next to him, and Sara starts to speak…
“So tomorrow you guys start mental training, meaning today is your last physical training. As our training yesterday was so rudely interrupted, we have a lot to cram in!” She says beaming at us, “To start we will continue with physical contact, James and Ana are over there to practice with, and of course the punching bags. Off you go get to work!” She shoos us off.
I decided to take on Ana and then work on what I’m doing wrong and practice it on the bag. As I approach Ana she smiles, when I get to her I start to ask her to point out my flaws, when she kicks me, hard in the side. I’m temporarily winded, but I get up and realise that she is training me in surprise attacks. I put my fists up and dodge another kick. While she is wobbly from the kick I kick her in the back of her legs and she buckles. I run towards her and punch her in the jaw and she gasps. She rolls onto her back and puts two hands in the air, the signal that she will no longer fight
ie: I won. I put down my fists and offer her my hand, she takes it gratefully. Ana can’t be more than 17 which is cool she kinda understands what it’s like, it’s also pretty cool that I can beat a 17 year old.
“Is there anything I need to work on, technique wise Ana?” I ask
“You’re doing really well seeing as you learnt most of this yesterday, but you always need to be alert I caught you out at the beginning and if I wasn’t so crappy at contact I could’ve done a lot more damage, now if u don’t mind could we get me an ice pack my jaw is aching.” She says wiggling her jaw.
“Oh yeah sure, come over here.” I reply leading her to the training centre kitchen.
I pull out an ice pack for her and find a tea towel and hand it to her, she sighs with the relief.
“So what happened to you, you’re bruised and battered and it sure wasn’t me?” She asks
“Well when the alarm went off and the lights went out, I kind of ran into a wall, Josh found me and we hid in a store cupboard for rest of the night.” I reply.
She giggles, “Is there anything going on between you?” She asks, she must see my look of guilt and embarrassment. “Ah so it’s the whole, I like you, do you like me” She asks looking for agreement. I nod weakly.
“Awwww that’s so cute I’ve never had two students, who like each other” I look at her at this, and she realises what she said, “Oh shit…”
“Are you serious?” I ask trying to keep my voice as low as possible
“Well its just something James said, he’s always looking at you, and he might’ve said something, but I say no more. Back to work!”
“Nooo, not till you tell me more!” I insist.
“Nope you have work to do, lucky for you, you get to beat me up again. I’m sure you won’t have any trouble.”
So I fight her again and win again, not doing quite so much damage, after that she tells Sara that I’m good to move on. Five minutes later James comes over and says Josh can move on so we sit down again. For a second I block out what Sara is saying and glance over at Ana. She’s talking to James and she keeps glancing towards me and Josh, this makes me nervous, if she tells James then James will tell Josh and then Josh will know that every time I look at him I want to kiss him! I tune back into Sara and she’s explaining the next lesson, its knife work. I don’t pay much attention because I’m worrying about Josh, so Ana had to practically re-teach me. When I couldn’t hold it in any longer I asked her “What did you say to James” I burst out.
She looks at the floor and mumbles out something that I don’t hear so I said “What!” angrily.
“I may have possibly told James that… you… might… like Josh” she says avoiding my eyes.
“No No NO NO, oh no” I cry out, “What if he tells Josh! Oh Ana why!”
“I’m sorry! But do you feel like throwing knives now?” She asks
“Yes!” I reply grumpily
I throw knives until I hit the target right in the centre every time then Ana tells Sara that I’m good to move on. Josh finished about 10 minutes earlier and has had plenty of time to talk to James. Josh and I sit back in our seats for what Sara says is the last time today. Josh gives a whoop at that and flashes a grin at me. Sara explains that this is by far the most dangerous form of physical and that we shouldn’t take this lightly, then she looked at us sternly and said now we are working with guns. She spends a long time explaining how it works and all the dangers of using it wrong. And just before she dismisses us to practice she tells us the gun isn’t loaded with real bullets. That makes Josh groan and cough/say boring. I on the other hand am glad, the whole idea of shooting a gun is a little intimidating and I wasn’t quite ready for that yet.
We practice and Ana helps me position myself and to aim too. The first time I shoot the rebound knocked me off guard and I fell over, nobody told me that happened. After that though I managed to stay on my feet. I didn’t hit the body target for a long time just around the edges, after about an hour I managed to hit every time, and me and Josh were finally dismissed. We got in the elevator and slid the hidden compartment and put in the code 3245. When we reach ground level Josh grabs my hand and leads me to the garden. There’s a bench and I lean back and say…
“Any particular reason that I’m here?” I ask
“Well yes actually, I need to tell you something.” He says carefully.
“Okay sure, anything?” I say as casually as I can.
Then Sara comes bursting out, I could kill her this was our moment.
“There you are I’ve been looking everywhere!” She says sternly “Molly’s back”
Authors note: Cliffhanger enjoy!
