Fighting Liliana

Chapter Seventeen

"I'll drive since I know where she lives.", Parker says. "No, she knows your car.", I say. "So he can drive mine. The windows are tinted too.", Vinny says walking to a Blue Dodge Ram. "You're sketchy as hell, you know that?", I ask Vin.

He smiles and throws Parker the keys and we all hop in. We drive for about 20 minutes until we pull up to a white house with a fence around it. "Parker, call and see where she is.", I tell him. He dials her number and waits for her to pick up. "Hey, Mya. Are we training tonight or no?", he asked rudely.

"Well, where are you then? I was just at the gym." "Okay, meet you in 30.", he says and hangs up. "She's at the salad bar place near Ora's.", he says looking at us. "Great", I say and jump down from the back seat. We run into her backyard and I start trying to get the door open with the crowbar.

"Vin, Nate be on the lookout, Parker, you come with me.", I say and bust the door open. They all look at me shocked. "Impressive, Liliana.", Nate says. "Thanks.", I say and walk into her house. "The safe is in her room.", we walk over to her bedroom and swing it open. "Oh my gosh", I gasp and jump back.

Two pit bulls come out of her room and start chasing us.

I run into her room and close the door and leave Parker to distract the dogs. I see the safe under her desk and I use a bobby pin to open it. Once I get the memory card out, I call out to Parker. "Babe where are you?", I yell.

"I'm in her bathroom. The dogs are outside of it.", he yells back. "I'm gonna let them in her room, close the door, and go out her window. You go through the front door.", I tell him. I stand on the bed and swing the door open. Once they come in, I jump off the bed, open the window, jump out of it, and close it back.

I peek up to see that the dogs are in the room, just like they were before. I run around the front to find Parker, Vin, and Nate. Parker hugs me and we all high five. I see headlights pulling into her driveway, so I push all of them down and one by one we run across the street to Vin's car.

Parker starts driving back to my place and we all burst out in laughter at the same time. "That was amazing.", I yell. "I heard dogs barking, were you guys chased?", Vinny asks. "Yes, dude! Pittbulls", Parker laughs. "Wait, Parker don't you have to go train with her?", Nate asked him.

"Oh yeah", he says looking over at me. I roll my eyes and look out of the window. "We have the SD card now, so why are you still training her?", I ask. "So it isn't too obvious Liliana.", he responds. "Okay, well drop us off back at my place. I want pizza.", I laugh.

"No pizza, your first fight is tomorrow.", Vin says. We pull up to my place and Vin, and Nate goes upstairs. I walk Parker to his car, and he gives me a hug. "Does this crime we just committed, mean we're back together?", he asked laughing.

"Couples who commit crimes together, stay together.", I laugh with him.

"Be safe, with that weirdo.", I tell him and go upstairs to my apartment. I walk in to see Nate and Vin playing with my ping pong table. "Let's go to Subway.", I say. They drop the paddles and run outside. "Children", I say and laugh walking out.

We all get into my car and I drive to Subway. "Thanks for hanging out with me guys. I'm still annoyed that Parker is with her.", I say. "It'll be over soon.", Nate says. We pull up to Subway and walk in. I order our subs and go to pay for them, but Vinny stops me. "I'll pay for them", he says and hands the lady his card.

"Thanks, Vin", I smile. "Thanks, man.", Nate says. We grab our subs and walk back out to the car and I see the girl Jackie from my class. "Hey, Jackie!", I wave. "Liliana!", she walks over and gives me a hug. She catches me off guard since I don't really know her, but I hug her back anyway.

I pull back from the hug and I look at her face to see that it's bruised up. "What happened?", I ask her. "My boyfriend just got mad at me that's all. I deserved it though.", she says sadly. "There's nothing you could've have done to deserve getting hit like that.", I say. "He loves me, he doesn't mean any harm.", she says quickly.

"I really think you should talk to someone and get some help.", I tell her. "What would you know?", she yells and walks away. "More than you think.", I whisper and get in my car. "Who's that?", Nate asked. "A girl from my class. Her boyfriend hits her and she's blaming herself for it.", I respond sadly.

"If some guy were to hit a girl in front of me I'd kill them.", Vinny says. "Yeah, me too.", I say and drive back to my apartment. We get home and start eating in the living room and going over moves for tomorrow.

"Remember, this isn't like boxing Lil. There are no refs to stop it if it gets too bad, it's all about who's the last man standing. We'll be there to make sure it didn't go too far, but we'll only intervene if it's life or death. Once someone breaks up a fight in the underground fighting, the person is taken as a joke.", Vinny says.

"Okay, I have to remember all of this stuff.", I say seriously. "You will. Just get some rest and we'll get you ready for that fight tomorrow night." I haven't fought since that fight with Mya and I couldn't be happier that I'm not boxing anymore because if Parker would've thrown the towel in again, I might've slugged him.

I was kind of nervous for my fight tomorrow because the last time I was introduced to my opponent, it was that psycho bitch Mya. I don't know who I'm fighting tomorrow until I challenge whoever is there. I've grown so much since I've been training with Vinny and I'm so thankful he pushes me so hard.

Unlike Parker, he'll actually hit me and show me how it really is fighting. I'm not mad at Parker for taking it easy on me because I know he just cares about me. I wish Charlie and Scott were still here. Having their support for my last fight was amazing.

I wish I was speaking to Cierra and Gigi too. I try to keep telling myself that everything will get better between all of us, but I hope it actually does soon. I love all of my friends so much and I'm always going to need their support.