Under the helmet

Show time

''As you can see, we have some visitors here, they from your highschool, freshman year mostly. And I need your help with the training and demonstrations.''

I look around the room and see how many people are here for this and I start freaking out. Yea, I won competitions, I'm a good fighter, but I always hated the attention. In the ring, all I can focus is my opponent, but here.. I have to be flawless if I want to prove that Rafael is as good as it is said.

''Oh, no. No,no,no.. Whyyy meee? Why don't you ask some of the boys!?'' I almost yelled at him

''Calm your ass, Jo, You got this. Besides, none of those boys want to watch me and other boys fight. You're a girl, they'll pay attention to you and you'll give hope to those girls, but I think that they'll want to watch this beauty working out.''He says and point at himself.

''I.HATE.YOU.''

''Oh, come on, we both know that no one can hate this face''I roll my eyes, earning a law laugh from Raf

''Are you done with your narcissistic comments?''

''Right.'' - he turns his attention to the students-'' ALRIGHT, EVERYBODY. I am Rafael and she is my assistant today, Johanna and-'' All of a sudden, the room is filled with whispers. That's weird. I look at Raf and I see the irritation on his face. He hates being ignored, but suddenly his face lit up. I think I just saw how an idea was formed inside Rafael's head. He starts walking to the gong ( yea, we have a gong for those who want to give up) and I cover my ears, knowing what's going to happen. Rafael hit the gong hard and the room fell quite again.

''Now that I have your attention, I want all girls to stand in front of me and the boys in front of her.''His tone changed to serious and deadly in just a second.

''You came here to see what discipline means, to see what we're doing around here and maybe learn some basic self-defence tehniques. We'll start with the warm up, then I'll show you how to punch and in the end, me and Johanna we'll give you a little demonstration.'' All I did during this was to sit in front of them, with a serious face, with my arms behind my straight back. Our Hanshi told us to use this position to show that we can control our mind and our body, no emotions on our faces and absolutely no movement.

*After an hour*

For some reason, everytime I approached them to correct their moves, they were looking at me with an amused face, or the girls were shooting knifes in my direction with their eyes, but I chose to ignore it. It's time for the demonstration and I am back in the locker room to change into my MMA shirt and shorts and wrap my hands with some bandages before putting  my gloves on . Before I went back, I heard my name and I stopped  in my place, willing to hear what they have to say about me.

''Come on,dude, you saw that photo too, she's not even that good, she fooled him to stand up for her at school and to choose her as his assistant'' The voice is coming from the boys' locker room and I start feeling my blood boiling. What photo? AND who the fuck is that motherfucker!?

''JO, YOU'RE READY?''

''COMING, SENSEI!'' Yeah, I can't adress him on his actual name when they are here , because it would be disrespectful.

I follow him and he leads us to the ring. I step up inside and he does the same thing. So this is the demonstration.

''Now you'll see what you'll be able to do if you train hard enough.'' With that said, his attention is on me and nods at me, as a signal to give my best. We touch our fists and back up.