"Go."
"No."
"No?"
"No."
"Yes."
"No."
She stared at him stubbornly with her arms crossed as he looked at her with disbelief and a little confusion.
Dimitri had been a guardian for six years and never in his life met a novice as stubborn as her.
They had been training together for a little less than a week and today, Dimitri decided that it was time to run laps, an idea Rose was very opposed to.
"Rose, you have to."
"No, I don't. I don't want to, so I won't."
He sighed, why had he gotten himself into this mess?
He grabbed her arm and started running.
She started hitting him but that had the same effect as hitting a wall.
He chuckled under his breath as Rose tried to hit him with one arm while running laps, involuntarily, of course.
"Fine! Fine, Belikov! Just get your hand off of me! I'll run the damn laps!"
He smiled, knowing that he won this first fight.
But what he really brightened his day was Rose snarling insults under her breath about "evil Russians" and the way her long, dark ponytail swayed as she ran her laps.
He knew he was in for a long year.