Boxing Partners

Stay Alive, Stay Alive For Me

Today was the day; Today was the fight of The Ericson's Boxing Club; the fight to win bragging rights forever. Everyone was worried about the fight with Minerva, everyone knew she fought dirty and nobody knew how much worse she had become.

Clementine was ready, she had spent every minute of everyday training for this. Violet had warned her about the gangly one, but she was still worried.

Today was the fight to end all fights.

Clementine had been tossing and turning all night, even with the comfort of her lover beside her she couldn't sleep. All the pressure was down on her, the coach only focussed on her and her skills for the past month; Her strength, power, movements and endurance.

Violet couldn't sleep either, she was worried, terrified even. Her girlfriend and her ex in the same ring, this wasn't going to end well.

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The purple sky merged into a hue of orange and pinks, they were tangled like a ball of yarn and the colours danced together as if they were doing the tango. Dew settled on the grass, the individual droplets of water reflecting the peachy sunlight, the condensation collected on the windows and diffused rays of sunlight.

Clementine opened her eyes for the billionth time that morning, she hadn't slept at all, the little sleep the brunette had managed to get was filled with nightmares of the fight that day. She looked out the window and saw the morning sky; 'time to get up' she thought to herself with a sigh.

The tan girl sat up, stretching her arms and cracking her back she placed her feet on the wooden floor below, the dark flooring splintering and cracking with the encroaching winter weather. She stood up and softly walked to the bathroom, making sure to not wake the blonde who was still snoozing in her bed.

The brunette grabbed the brass handle and pushed the door to the bathroom open, she walked inside and shut the door behind her. The scratched and scuffed mirror stood above the sink, Clementine looked into the mirror, visible dark bags under her eyes and dark red veins crept up through the corner of her amber eyes.

Sighing at the sight she splashed ice cold water onto her face. The brunette dabbed her face off with a towel that was lying beside her, Clementine opened the cabinet and grabbed a couple of painkillers and some eye drops, tilting back her head she dropped the soothing liquid into her eyes. Taking the pills in her hand she washed them down with some water from the tap.

Shuffling into the room she saw her girlfriend slowly stirring, sitting down on the bed beside her the brunette pressed her lips to the blonde's forehead, the girl's emerald eyes fluttered open.

"Mmm, Morning Clem" Violet said in a rough morning voice,

"Hey, Vi" she replied, "How did you sleep?"

"What is this sleep you speak of? I didn't get any, no, I've been awake, all night I just couldn't sleep" she croaked,

"Hey, hey come here. It doesn't start till three we've got four and a bit hours, the coach doesn't want us for another three. How about I order some buns from Cesious?"

"Yeah that sounds great"

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Violet walked back into the room, with a brown paper bag with a robotics logo on the side. She placed the bag on the desk and saw the brunette on the bed, she had finally managed to get to sleep. She laid back on her bed, careful not to wake the girl sleeping next to her and went on her phone.

Opening up her phone she saw the photo of herself and her girlfriend on the lock screen, smiling at the photo; Scrolling through her social media she saw photos and videos of the previous night's parties with the rest of the school, testosterone boys and harlequin girls.