Boxed In

"I'm not some kind of broken sob story waiting for you to mend me, sugar. This is who I am. This fighting? This is who I am. So don't waltz in thinking you're about to fix me. You can't fix something that isn't broken."

"I hate to break it to you, but you are broken. At least, your hand is."

Will Delgado brings black eyes and bloody lips to school and waves them around like first place trophies. Teachers worry that he's having problems at home, but students know so much better. Feared across the campus from the knowledge of his fighting career, most choose to avoid him.

Dahlia Grace lives up to her name, which means "gentle" and "precious". A bit of a wallflower, she resides in silence and simply listens to the things that other people have to say. Last week, Lissa Riles had sex with her best friend, Hannah Reece's boyfriend, but that's something that Hannah wouldn't know because she never stopped to listen to what anyone had to say.

When Dahlia hears of the events of Will's most recent fight, she decides to check out what kind of underground fight club he was being involved in.

It turns out, fight clubs aren't always willing to accept teenage girls who are one-third the size of the smallest male there.

Copyright©Mora Alexander Feldgrau, All Rights Reserved, [2015]