"Hey y'all, I'd like to introduce y'all to my sister Jasper," Amethyst says as she approaches her lunch table with her sister behind her.
"Sister? Why didn't you say anything little cuz?" A thick girl with wild purple hair and a pair of dark shades on calls out.
"We recently found out we were sisters, Suge," Amethyst explains.
"So, what brings you here to our school Jasper, if you don't mind me asking," a girl with long pale hair asks as she sits next to the one Amethyst called Suge.
"My father recently died and the court sent me to live with my mother," Jasper responds not really looking at those at the table. Instead, her attention was set on a girl with a huge Afro and dark shades sitting by herself.
"Oh, I'm sorry about your father," the pale haired girl responds.
"Yeah. Hey Ame, who's that?" Jasper asks inquiring about the girl with the Afro.
"Who, Garnet?" Amethyst asks and Jasper just raises an eyebrow at her sister, waiting for her to continue. "She's cool. She's very quiet and sticks to herself, but she's really cool once you get her to talk to you."
"I can introduce you to her if you want. Her godsister is my best friend," Suge offers and Jasper turns away from Garnet to look at her.
Jasper grits her teeth. "Nah, I just wanted to know who she is. Look, Ame, I'm not hungry. I think I'm just gone try and find the gym or something," Jasper says.
"Aight. Catch you later," Amethyst offers as she watches Jasper walk away.
...
Jasper manages to find her way to the gym and after wrapping her hands up, proceeds to throw a couple jabs at the punching bag.
She doesn't know how long she's been at when she hears a deep, stoic voice behind her.
"If you want to add more force behind your punches, you need to square off you feet and shoulders," the voice says.
"Thanks, but I'm fine," Jasper huffs out.
It's quiet for a minute but a small hum breaks her focus.
"I'm sorry, I forgot to introduce myself. I'm Garnet."
At the sound of her name, Jasper turns around to face the voice, only to see that it is indeed the girl with the big Afro and dark shades she saw sitting by herself earlier.
Looking down, Jasper notices she has her hand outstretched.
"Jasper," Jasper responds and reaches out to shake Garnet's hand.
"You're new here, Amethyst's sister, right?" Garnet questions as she and Jasper release each other's hand.
"Yeah, how'd you know?"
"It's not hard to see the resemblance. I'll leave you alone now." Garnet turns to walk away but a hand on her wrist stops her.
Garnet pauses and looks down at Jasper's hand on her wrist before looking back up at Jasper.
"I'm sorry." Jasper releases Garnet's wrist, though reluctantly. "You seem to know a lot about boxing.." Jasper trails off.
"I've been boxing since I was little," Garnet replies.
"You wouldn't mind teaching me a couple of tricks, would you?"
Garnet looks at Jasper for a little while before nodding her head.
"You pretty much got everything. Like I said, you just need to square your feet and shoulders," Garnet pauses as she moves to the correct stance next to Jasper, "like this."
Jasper runs her eyes over Garnet's figure, making sure not to stare too long and make things awkward.
"Like this?" Jasper tries to imitate Garnet's stance.
Garnet shakes her head and turns toward Jasper. "Are you left or right handed?" Garnet questions.
"Right," Jasper responds.
Garnet nods her head. "Widen your feet a little, but place your left foot farther in front of your right foot."
Jasper does as told and Garnet moves in front of Jasper to look at her stance.
"You don't mind it I touch you, do you?" Garnet questions.
Jasper fights the blush trying to creep up her neck. "No."
Garnet nods her head and moves behind Jasper. Running her eyes over Jasper's form, Garnet places her hands on Jasper's shoulders before sliding them the crooks of her elbows.
"Now place your arms like this so that your left hand is in front of your right one."
Garnet steps back and looks at Jasper's stance. Walking back around to Jasper's side, Garnet nods her head. "Try now."
Jasper nods her head and throws a couple jabs at the punching bag and marvels at how much more power she felt behind them.
"That's better. Just keep that stance and each of your shots should have a lot of power behind them," Garnet tells Jasper.
Jasper drops her arms and turns to look at Garnet. "Thank you."
Garnet nods her head and turns to walk away.
"Wait," Jasper calls out. "Who taught you?"
"My mother. If you would like lessons, she has a gym just down the street from here. Amethyst knows where it is, my mom also teaches her wrestling. We're open until 8pm everyday." With that, Garnet makes her way out of the gym.
Jasper turns back to the punching bag, fixes her stance, just how Garnet taught her and begins throwing more jabs at the bag. 'I just might drop by.'