We Found Love

ACT 5

ACT 5

Huffing, Akali crossed her arms and just sat there beside the treadmill Evelynn was using, her eyes narrowed and her lips slightly pouted. It's only seven o'clock in the morning yet Akali was fully awake and was trying her best to glare at the person using the exercise equipment.

After exactly two of her workout songs had passed with Akali not moving from her place at the left side of the treadmill, Evelynn removed one of her Bluetooth earbuds, specifically her left, from her ear before speaking to her glaring company.

"Staring at me won't get you anywhere, Rogue."

"I'll stop once you give me my ramyuns back."

At the right handrail of the treadmill, the bag of spicy ramyun can be found dangling, looking as if it was tempting Akali to defy Evelynn and just try to snatch it away. Ever since Ahri and Kai'Sa brought up how spoiled she was with Evelynn, the latter decided to tighten the reins on her.

The video games she owned was now locked somewhere in Evelynn's walk-in closet, preventing her from even seeing the consoles. To make things much worse, the vocalist also confiscated Akali's ramyun to show the others that she wasn't spoiling her, which now explains why Akali was 'ramyun-less'.

"Akali, aren't you supposed to be exercising?"

Akali's posture became rigid for a moment before she looked over her shoulder, where she found Ahri and Kai'Sa walking through the entrance of their personal gym room.

"We need to keep ourselves fit." Kai'Sa said, momentarily striking a pose that put fair amount of attention on her toned stomach. "It'd be much harder losing weight, trust me."

"And you need to burn all the calories you ate for the past couple of days." Ahri pointed out as she started doing her stretches at one side of the room.

"I have fast metabolism."

"That still doesn't excuse you from exercising." Evelynn countered her reasoning with ease, putting the earbud she was holding back into her ear before the rapper could even think of a retort of her own.

As much as she would want to show defiance towards the older artists she calls her friends, doing so wouldn't really help her case. In fact, the more she probably stuck to her childish side, the more she'll receive these kinds of 'punishments'.

Rather reluctantly, Akali pushed herself off the floor and walked towards the hanging punching bag at the other end of the room. While she did a few stretches from her exercise space, she gave a few glances at her bandmates, who each had their own routines.

Ahri was using the exercise bike beside the treadmill, the latter just vacated by its previous user. Kai'Sa thanked Evelynn before she got onto the treadmill and started the equipment back up for her own exercise.

Her blue eyes followed Evelynn, who took the bag of ramyun and placed it on one of the benches near the side of the room where an entire wall is covered with a wide full-body mirror. Through the mirror, Akali saw Evelynn smirk and wink at her before she clasped her hands together in front of her and began performing sumo squats.

For a long moment, Akali managed to focus her attention on the punching bag she was using. Her bandage-wrapped hands were clenched into tight fists as she punched the hanging bag with all her strength. The audible impacts of her fists onto the leather surface of the bag echoed throughout the room, its noise mixing with the treadmill's almost inaudible whirring and the soft breaths of the other three artists.

The more she punched, the more she forgot about why she was bugging Evelynn in the first place. The matter was pushed back in the farthest part of her mind, her brain focusing on remembering all the martial arts she learned from her family's dojo.