New Assistance 7

A foot.

A foot saved my nose, I followed the foot down to a leg, a body and finally, Sammijo. And all I could say was,

"How can you kick so high?"

"What?" She said, chuckling.

"I mean, thanks for saving my nose."

"No problem. I think I'll turn it off. I told you to be ready." She said as she clicked the switch to turn off the obstacles.

"Yes, I was not expecting glass flying out of the floor."

"Expect the unexpected."

I laughed, I had not heard that one in a while! Definitely not from a child.

"What?" She asked.

"Nothing, nothing. Just the last time I heard that was from my mentor. When he was teaching me to fight!"

She laughed as well.

"Well, he didn't teach you that well did he? If you couldn't even stop a tiny piece of glass!" She said teasingly.

"Oh please, I could beat you in a fight anytime!"

She raised her eyebrows in disbelief.

"Yeah right, come on then. Fight me!"

"I am not going to fight a girl." I could tell that I had said something wrong because her face went from friendly to serious very fast.

"I didn't think you were like that. I thought that maybe you hadn't closed off your mind to the fact that a girl could do anything well. But I guess not." She said, sounding more than a little annoyed.

"I am sorry, I shouldn't have assumed anything.

She nodded.

"So, do you want to fight?" I asked and she smiled.

We got into a fighting stance, and circled each other for a while. She wasn't like Darren she didn't pretend to make a move. I made the first move I punched towards her shoulder, but she ducked and elbowed me in the ribs and that caused me to wince in pain. I went to push her to the floor from her crouch but I wasn't quick enough, she kicked out and spun, wiping out my legs and making me fall to the floor. She put her foot on my chest to stop me from getting up.

She stuck out her hand for me, I took it and she hauled me up.

"Come on next room!"

We went to the next floor and looked into a room, it was smaller than the rest and it was just a bathroom. All it had in it was a shower, toilet, sink and a cupboard.

"Just a bathroom." Jo Jo told me.

We moved to the next room, it was large and kind of cold. In both ends were basketball hoops, on the floor were marks and lines that were foreign to me. On the far side, the wall was covered in balls, but not all of them were basketballs some were footballs some were tennis balls and so on. On that same wall were hockey sticks, rackets, and bats and so on.

"Sports room, I practice every night."

We went to the next room which was small but not smaller than the bathroom, it had a bed and lots of art stuff. There were 4 wardrobes and 3 drawers there was also a guitar case in the corner. The case its self was dark grey and a dull colour on it.

"I want to show you, my favourite guitar in the world."

She picked up the case and laid it on her bed, she picked a key out of her pocket and open 3 locks and I was presented with a guitar. It looked classical and old, but new at the same time.

"This is an ES150 Gibson. The first one made." She looked incredibly proud.

"It is very nice, how did you get it?"

"Desmond."

She said his name like he was a normal person.

"How can you trust him?"

"What do you mean? He is a nice guy."

"No, he is not. He eats children did you know?"

"No, he doesn't he is insecure about himself and he likes to be in control, all of the time. He is not actually a bad man."

"I am not sure I believe you."

"Why would you? We only met today."

She brought me to the living room once she had put her guitar back in its case.

"I have some questions."

"I thought you would. Go on then ask me."

"I want to start with your parents."

"Okay, I had a very large family and at Christmas everyone and I mean everyone got together. My father would get my friends to come, my friend's family, friends of my friends family basically anyone I have known. We were all eating when the door was beaten down and more than 50 vampaneze burst through. They slaughtered everyone, but me. Desmond came in just as one called Glada gave me this scar. He killed all the vampaneze but Glada got away. Then Des helped me clean up and we knocked out the dining room. The bodies were burned and thrown into the sea. No one knows about this, so I'm trusting you not to say anything to any human."

All I could do was nod.

"But I don't dwell on the past, so get up I wanna show you something."

I followed her into the garden, it was a big garden but at the end it wasn't fenced off it went into a forest. We went into the forest and she motioned for me to stand back.

"MIKAAA!" She shouted.