Loyal Always

Chapter 7, Honesty

Chapter 7,

Honesty

"Alright partner up, we'll be working on Self Defense for the next couple of weeks so pick your partners well because you'll be stuck with them for a while." Coach announces after we've finished stretching, and I don't even have time to move before Ethan is at my side.

"You're my partner." He decides, then with a grin points a finger, leading my eyes in the direction of my little brother and best friend who had partnered up.

They seemed closer since Wednesday after the Chemistry lab incident which Ethan had caused. Which also happened to land us out of school for the next two days and now we were back on this boring Monday with the whole week ahead of us.

"I really need to find a way to actually hook them up, because as my mom says, I'm doing a very bad job of it." I state with a slight frown.

"She's right, you are, but I'll help you out, meet me in Mr. Rubin's class room after lunch." He smirks getting into a basic self defense stance, his broad muscles peeking out from his thin shirt.

"What are you planning, and should I be worried?" I ask him with my gaze narrowed in suspicion.

"Maybe." He simply shrugs and I just sigh and get into an attack stance, I would be the attacker and he had to defend against me.

Coach had placed soft blue mats across the gym for us to practice.

"Okay," I say, "try to flip me when I go to grab you, pretend I'm a robber or something."

He raises his eyebrows at me, but doesn't say anything, instead he just nods, gesturing with his hand for me advance.

I do.

As I go to grab him, he swings his foot under my leg, and as I go down he grabs hold of one arm, taking his other hand and pushing me as I land hard on the mat with a groan.

"Well someone's had self defense training before." I remark, accepting his hand as he pulls me up with a grin.

"Your turn."

"Are you even going to say sorry?" I ask him with a small laugh while shaking my head.

"For doing what I was supposed to?" He wonders, his brows raising in amusement.

"Fair point," I shrug, getting in a defensive stance while he gets into an attack stance.

I calculate my best moves, wondering how he's going to attack.

He smirks, charging forward, and I stop the hand that reaches for me, grabbing his arm as I flip him hard and lands on his back with a loud thud.

"Son of bitch that hurt! And that was a karate move!"

"It's still self defense." I smirk while reaching my hand down to help him up, he takes it, but before I can pull him up, he pulls me down with him and I land on top of him with a grunt.

"Well this is quite a daring position." He whistles and my face heats up as I look at us, me on top of him with my hands grabbing a fist full of his shirt, and him with his hands on my ass.

I jump up quickly, wanting to smack the bastard, he did that knowing exactly what was going to happen! Self defense be damned, shit just got real!

I glare at him, and just smirks, "you might want to turn around."