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Chapter 4

"Hi" I said then waved my hand slightly.

"Hey Dawn." I saw Erik's familiar face "I saved you a seat." He said. Everyone looked from me to him. Then Zoey and Stark appeared through the door.

"I see no one has the common sense to not stare. You all know what it feels like to be the new kid. Yes her mark is filled in like mine was. No, I have no clue what it means. Now have some self-respect, and go on about your own business, and not Dawns." She said then walked up to her seat, as everyone returned to their conversations.

"Thanks." I mouthed at her.

"No problem." She mouthed back with a smile.

I went and sat down at the chair that Erik had saved for me.

"Thanks." I said to him as well.

"How are you liking it so far?" Erik asked.

"Well, besides the fact that I have to start my life over, pretty good." I told him honestly.

"It gets better." He said then offered me some salad, that was being passed around the table. I took a little bit.

A sudden voice in back of me made me jump. "Hi. I'm Stevie-Rae. I've got some spaghetti, with a vegetarian sauce for you." She said with a smile.

"Thanks Stevie-Rae." I told as she left to go take her seat.

"A vegetarian? That interesting. Why are you one?" Erik asked me.

"It's more for my gymnastics then free will. Meat is fattening, and well, that can kill a gymnasts dream." I explained.

"You're a gymnast?" he asked, sounding surprised.

"Sure am." I said with a smile.

"That's so cool. You should show me some time." He said with a flirty smile. I blushed.

"Maybe." I said returning the smile. "What do you do to pass the time?" I asked him.

"Drama. Preforming Arts. It's a passion of mine." He told me.

"Like Shakespeare?" I asked

"Something like that. I was supposed to go to Hollywood, but instead, I was chosen to become a tracker, and I have to serve a four year sentence." He said bitterly.

"I'm sure Hollywood will still want you in four years." I said.

"Maybe." He said with a smile.

I started eating my pasta and only answered questions briefly.

"How soon do you want your equipment put in?" Aphrodite asked from across the table.

"Um, as soon as possible."

"Well, I'm gonna go order it, I think they could have it done within 2 hours. Is there anything else you might need?" I was thinking, and there wasn't anything else, except

"Crap. I didn't think that I'd be able to continue, but I need leo's, and sweat pants and shorts. I can pay you back." I said.

"Don't worry about it." She said then left the room.

I took another bite of my food.

"That's unusual for Aphrodite. Normally she's all I'm-better-then-every-one-else-don't-talk-to-me-or-I'll-bite-your-head-off." Erik said. I laughed softly.

"That's not very nice." I said.

"You're telling me" he said sarcastically.

"haha." I laughed.

I noticed that most of the fledglings had left, and that everyone was almost done eating. I also realized that I was full, and I had barely touched my food.

"I've got to go. I'll see you later?" Erik asked.

"Maybe." I said.

All of a sudden, I was sitting all alone. As if also noticing that, I heard Zoey say

"Dawn, why don't you come sit with us?" I saw Stevie-Rae and Stark sitting beside her, but there were also another two girls, and two more guys.

I got up and went to go sit beside the girls.

"Hi, I'm Damien, this is Shaunee" he said pointing to darker girl sitting beside me. She waved hello. "Her twin Erin" taken aback, I looked at this very white girl with blond hair. "And this is Rephaim." He said pointing to the guy sitting beside Stevie-Rae, holding her hand.

"Hi." I said shyly.

"Oh and just letting you know," Shaunee said.

"Damien's gay, so don't waste your time shaking that tree." Erin finished for her.

"Ah. Um. How can you guys be twins?" I asked Shaunee and Erin.

"Not biological. More like soul twins. We do everything together. It's like we were separated at birth." Erin said.

I saw Zoey's face flush, I figured that mine did too.

"I need to talk to you guys. Can we meet in my room in half an hour." Zoey asked her friends.

"Sure." They all said simultaneously.

"Um, do you mean me too?" I asked.

"If you want to, but you don't have to."

"I'd rather not. I kind of wanted to find the gym."

She smiled and said. "Just ask someone in the hallway to show you." Then she looked at Shaunee and Erin. "Can you guys go find Aphrodite. She need to be there."

"Okie…" Erin said.

"Dokie." Shaunee finished.

I got up, said goodbye to everyone, and went into the hallway and almost walked right into Erik.

"Just the person I was looking for." He said which made me smile.

"And why where you looking for me?" I asked.

"I don't know." He said then laughed. His laugh was so cute. It's kind of reminded me of Drew's.

Oh goddess, I completely forgot about Drew!

"Um, can you help me find my room?" I had no idea where it was.

"What do you want to do, in your room?" he asked, giving me a cocky grin. I smacked his arm. "Sorry, that was out of line." He apologised.

"Yes it was. You know I like Drew, hell you saw me realize it." I said to him.

"I did." He confirmed.

"Can we just find my room?" I asked, getting uncomfortable.

"Just follow me." he lost all the charm in his voice. Instead, there was a little bit of hurt.

"Sorry. I just don't want to do anything right now. I'm so confused, it's not even funny. I just found out that my birthmother is dead, and that I have a twin." I said, then realized that he didn't know anything about that because he sent me a questioning look.

"Twin?" he asked.

"It's a long story. The short version is that Zoey is my long lost twin. We got separated at birth." I looked over to him, and he looked like he'd just took a slap to the face, but almost as soon as I'd noticed it, he composed himself and said.

"How did you guys found out?"

"I had a vision with Nyx, and her Grandmother showed up earlier and told us." I told him.

"How do you feel about this?" he asked.

"I just really don't know." Just then, Erik stopped walking and I realized that we were at the door to my room. "Can you wait here a little bit? I want to go to the gym, but I have to change first." I explained.

"Yeah. I'll wait for you." But I wasn't sure what he was talking about.

I rushed into my room, and found a bunch of custom leotards laying across my bed. There were some of every color. There were also a bunch of comfy shorts. I made a mental note to thank Aphrodite the next time I saw her.

I changed into a simple sleeveless dark purple one, and put shorts on top. Then I grabbed my dark bench sweater and took it on top. I went into the bathroom to tie my hair into a ponytail. When I came out, I noticed that my gym bag from at home had been brought here. I smiled and picked it up and walked out of the room.

"Ready?" Erik asked, flashing a smile.

"Yep." I said then smiled back.

"Can I watch you train?" he asked as we started walking towards the gym.

"No! I get gross and sweaty!" I said too fast. I composed myself and said. "Sorry. I don't really care, but I won't look too pretty." I told him.

"You didn't come across as superficial." He teased.

"And you didn't come across as judgemental." I teased back.

"Points for you." He said.

"I know." I said then we both started laughing.

"How long have you been a gymnast?" he asked changing the subject.

"I started gymnastics when I was six, and I fell in love with it." I answered his question.

"Damn! How can you do something for 10 years?" he asked.

"It's not that hard when it gets you closer to fulfilling your dream. I used to get up at 4'o clock in the morning, to go train at 5'o clock. Then I'd go to school, and I'd go train for another 5 hours." I informed him.

"Goddess. I used to have trouble waking up for school, which started at 10'o clock. I never was a morning person. I'm still not a morning person." He told me.

"Who would've guessed" I said.

Then I realized that we were at a set of stairs. "The gym is just down these stairs." Erik told me.

I followed the stairs that led to two sets of doors. Lockers rooms.

"I'll see you on the other side." I said to him then went through the doors. I put my bag into one of the lockers that didn't have a lock, then continued through the next set of doors that led into the gym.

I first impression was that the gym was ginormous. I smiled at my excellent use of the word.

I went over to the floor mat, and started stretching. I always stretched before starting my gymnastics. I noticed Erik sitting not too far away on a bench watching me.

About twenty minutes later, I walked over to the uneven bars, and started to adjust them to my height. I chalked my hands and tested it out, making sure that it moved okay. I put on my grips, to prevent my skin for ripping. I noticed that everyone in the gym where now watching my every move.

I took off my sweater, and of course, got it full of chalk. Then I went to stand in front of the high bar, and tested that one out as well. After making sure that they were both stable and after applying chalk to both of the bars, I went to my starting point, in front of the lower bar, and raised my arms, ready to start my routine. I figured I might as well do a simple routine, so I don't fall and make an idiot out of myself.

So I took off, leaping on to the lower bar. I got momentum, and did a transition to the higher bar. I did 3 rotations, then once I back at the top, I did a full turn, flowed by another one after a rotation. After doing a couple more rotations, I did a perfect release, turning myself around.

I built my momentum back up and transitioned over back to the lower bar, where I did 3 rotations and did yet another transition over to the higher bar. Now I needed more speed to be able to do my dismount, so I did 4 fast rotations, then did my one and a half twist dismount.

The only problem with the dismount was that I took a big step forward, making some of my observers gasp. I raised my arms to show that I finished, and was drowned by the sound of applause. Erik rushed over to me and said.

"That was amazing!"

"Not really, I barely had my ankles together, and my dismount was extremely sloppy. That won't win me nationals." I said breathless. Erik handed me a water bottle. "Thanks." I said then took a big gulp then went to go redo my routine.

After doing the routine about 10 times, I decided to go do a different apparatus, the balance beam. Erik followed me. I wanted to try some new stuff.

"Hey Erik, can I ask you a favour?" I asked him.

"Sure" he replied.

"I'm going to try something new, and I need you to make sure that I don't fall over on the other side." I explained

"Are you sure?" he asked me.

"Yes I'm sure. I'm going to do a handstand mount. I start by pushing myself up so that I'm parallel to the ground. I wait a few seconds, then I push my body so that it's on a 90 degree angle to the ground. That why I need you. I need you to make sure I don't go too far, and that I can turn afterwards and not fall and break my neck." I said then added a smile.

"Can you go get that springboard? I want to practice the motion first." He went and brought me the springboard. "thanks." I said to him.

I jumped on the springboard, trying it out. Then I placed my hands on the beam, where I was going to start. I practiced going the momentum to bring my body parallel to the ground. After trying it a few times, I looked at Erik and said.

"Ready?"

"I think so." He said.

Without giving myself the time to back out, I placed my hands on the beam, and leaped off the board. I held myself in the position for a few seconds, then began to lift my body higher. It took everything not to fall back down. I was almost in the right angle, when I moved to fast and started going backwards, but Erik caught me, before I hit the ground.

"Thanks." I said looking into his eyes. He had really nice blue eyes.

"Are you sure you want to keep doing this?" he asked me.

"Yes, not can you put me down?" he said with a little laugh.

"Right." He said putting me down.

I went to the other side of the beam, ready to try again. I pushed of the board, and found it just as hard to get my body up, if not harder. This time I managed to stay up, with Erik's hands making sure that I wouldn't topple over. I turned my body and let my legs find the beam, and I pushed myself up, so that I was standing. I smiled hugely, and jumped of the beam.

"You did it!" Erik said happily

"With the springboard and your help. It's going to be hell without the springboard to help me up." I explained.

"Can't you do the routine with the springboard?" he asked.

"I don't like that. I feel like I'm cheating." I told him.

"Interesting." He said then passed me my water bottle once again. Then he said.

"You know what I'm dying to see, you doing a vault." My face went blank. I didn't really like the vault. I always freak and stop right in front of it.

"I'd rather not." I said.

"Why not?" he asked.

"I don't have the best history with the vault. But if you really want, I can try." I said then started making my way towards the vault. I adjusted the board to my length and jumped on it a few times. I went to the end of the carpet and centred myself. I was going to do the vault that I've done for years, a Yurchenko, 1½ twist.

I broke into a run and within second, leaped from the springboard, but I moved to quickly, and hit the table too close to the edge, and fell on my butt. I smacked my hands on the floor "Damn It!" I exclaimed.

I went back to the start, determined to secede, and started running again, only this time, I started earlier, and landed it only with a big step.

I kept trying until I got it perfect, which took a while, and Erik stayed with me the entire time. I was breathing heavy when Erik came and handed me another water bottle.

"Thanks." I told him again.

"No problem. Are you ready to leave?" he asked.

"Yeah, I just gotta go get my jacket and grips-" I started saying but then Erik held them up. I smiled at him. "Thanks. Again." I said and we both started laughing. I reached for them, but Erik pulled it away, teasing me.

"You don't want to do that!" I warned him as I reached for my things again.

"I already am" he said then turned and started running away from me. I chased after him, trying to get my stuff. I noticed that we were the only two people left in the gym, and yet, that didn't stop him from running around with my stuff.

Finally, he made the mistake to stop dead in his tracks, and I ran smack into him, knocking us both down.

"Ouch" he said teasingly. Somehow, he ended up on top of me, and was pinning me down. I wrestled with him, and because of my super-gymnast strength, I was now pinning him.

"I'll bet that you never thought that you would be in this situation." I said mocking the fact that I beat him.

"I guess not." He said. I let my guard down, which was a mistake, because almost as quickly, Erik had pinned me back down. I tried to wrestle him, but I was too tired.

"And you thought I would just let you win?" he asked, mocking what I did earlier.

"I guess not." I said then looked into his beautiful blue eyes. He was kneeling over me, but he relaxed his grip. I still wouldn't be able to wrestle myself out if I tried. He let go of one of my hands and used his free arm to move a strand of hair from my face. He got up and help me up, but to my surprise, I almost fell over, and I would've if he wouldn't of caught me.

"You okay?" he asked me

"I'm just tired I guess." I realized that he was still holding me around my waist, I didn't mind the feeling. He made me feel safe.

"Dawn?" he asked.

"Uh-huh?" I asked.

"Tell me you don't feel something." He said. I couldn't because I'd be lying if I said that. He made me feel different, special, accepted, safe. Something I've never felt before.

"I can't" I whispered looking into his eyes again. Then I tilted my head up, and felt his lips meet mine. It was a sweet kiss, different than the ones I had with Drew.

Ohmygoddess! I completely forgot about Drew again, but there was something about Erik. He made me feel good. But I knew that this was wrong. I tried to pull myself away, but I felt very weak kneed.

"What?" Erik asked.

"I'm with Drew." I said. I couldn't look at him anymore.

"Drew can be your consort, I can be your mate." He said.

"Erik, I feel wrong doing this to Drew." I said truthfully.

"So it's not me?" Erik asked.

"No." I said. With that he kissed me again. And as horrible of a person that I was, I kissed him back.

After the kiss I said "What do I do?" I asked him.

"You can break up with him, besides, fledglings are supposed to see humans, in case of imprints."

"I don't know if I can." I told him. Part of me loved Drew, but another part of me felt something for Erik.

"We'll figure something out." He said then changed the subject. "We should get you to your room, you look like your about to pass out." He said with concern.

"I'm fine, just need energy." I said then realized how stupid that sounded.

"Further proof that you need to go to bed. Come on, I'll carry you." He said.

"Other fledglings will notice." I said.

"No they won't. Most of them are sleeping, if not they're in their rooms." He explained.

"Okay" I said as he lifted me into his arms.

I don't really remember much of the trip up to my room.

Once we got to the door I heard someone say

"Erik, what in the hell are you doing" I recognised Zoey's voice.

"She hasn't stopped training and she's almost passed out." He said.

"Why didn't you stop her! You know it's not good for fledglings to damage their body's!" she exclaimed.

"I'm fine. Erik's just being a perfect gentleman." I said, standing up for myself.

"Uh-huh." She said. "I guess I'll talk to you in the morning then." She said then walked away with, I'm guessing Stark. I hadn't really noticed. After Erik got closed the door behind him, he put me down on my bed. I was half-asleep.

"Why don't you hate me?" I asked him.

"What are you talking about?" he said.

"I'm kinda saying no to dumping Drew, and you still like me. Doesn't make any sense." I said.

"I won't ever hate you." He said then kissed my forehead after tucking me in. he started to leave but I grabbed his hand.

"Can you stay here please?" I asked him.

"Alright" he said, than lay down on the covers beside me. I went into his arms, and it didn't take very long for me to fall asleep, in the comfort of his arms.