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Chapter 9

Rose's POV

This will be fun. I squared off with Luke after he'd gone to get a fake stake. I bent my knees and stood ready.

This is my fight deal out your bad cards and hit him with all you've got when he doesn't see it coming.

I closed my eyes and focused on the familiar feel of my stake in hand. Then opened them. He was standing there looking casual but you could tell by the way his feet were apart and his knees slightly bent that he was ready for an attack.

A plan formulated in my mind. I readjusted my stance and my hold on my stake. Begining part 1

Make myself look more like a child playing an adults game.

See the way my hand holds the stake at and odd angle, see my feet that are too close together, see how easy it would be to push me over, she how my knees are too bent I'd have to unbend my knees before attacking you. I willed these thoughts to him. And by the look in his eyes he was seeing every problem in my stances. I could see him plan.

Yes, go for my right hand that's holding the stake get it out of the way. Do your mom's trick to make me fall to the ground.

Sure enough he lunged for my hand. Hitting my wrist I dropped my stake.

Begin part 2 get beat up.

He whirled his leg towards my feet and I dropped. I rolled before he could pin me and jumped up throwing a weak punch into his arm that couldn't even have made a bruise. He grabbed my arm and yanked me to the ground right beside my stake that I'd dropped. Rolling to the right I stuffed it in my back pocket.

More of the same happened except I collected a large amount of bruises. You could see the excitement dance through his eyes as he thought he'd win against the famous Rose Hathaway.

As if.

I glanced over at Jane who smiled at me, she was seeing that I could take advice, at least I was getting a good rep with her.

Begin part 3.

Look really tired so that he doesn't keep his guard up.

I started to huff and that made my face all red, dropping my shoulders and moving slowly. His eyes glowed with the anticipation of winning as he threw a punch, I winced as his fist hit my shoulder. I fell to the ground and feigned trying to get up before dropping. He lunged for me eyes dancing.

Begin part 4.

Win the fight.

As soon as he lunged I rolled got up pulled my stake out of my pocket. He fell right were I had been mere moments before.

I pined him face first to the floor and placed my stake on his back right over where the his heart was.

I bent down and whispered in his ear,

''I win''

Damn it! I shouldn't have fell for that! Would the great Rose Hathaway fall just because I hit her in the shoulder? Of course not! Would the great Rose Hathaway ever have a crappy ass stance like that? NO!

I realized she was still leaning on me. I drw in a ragged breath of air and said

''You wont win next time Hathaway.'' She laughed unevenly and got up. I turned around to see her standing there offering me a hand.

''I doubt that, but you can try all you like.'' I took her hand and stood.

''Nice act there Rose!'' My mother called out

''Thanks'' she called back I turned reluctantly to face my mother who was glaring up at me.

''You young man should have seen through her act. I taught that to you the day I thought you where old enough to fight'' I nodded ashamed. She sighed before saying

''50 pushups get moving'' I sighed and dropped down and started my pushups.

I rolled my shoulder wincing, that mother f*****r could throw a punch. I stretched feeling my body for cuts and bruises and found many.

I looked up as Jane came over she sighed at my beaten form and said

''That was a nice win there but I wouldn't use that technique on the same person twice. And maybe you could try to dodge most of the harder hits so as not to injure yourself so much.'' I nodded but said

''I was pretty sure that if I dodged those hits your son wouldn't have fallen for it.'' She nodded and said

''with my son yes he would have seen through it if you had but for other opponents they wont notice.'' I nodded and went to go sit down. To cover my eyes.

Her complements and suggestions reminded me of His.

Yup fighting helped.

Nope I wasn't over him.

After I'd 'staked' Luke I'd been reminded of when I been in Luke's position after I'd attacked Dimitri.

I felt a tear escape when I'd thought His name. I had been pinned to the floor with Dimitri hovering over me. When Luke spoke he'd bought me out of it.

I quickly wiped my tear away from my face and grabbed my water bottle. I gulped the water down desperate for a way of changing my thought patterns I wasn't about to let one instructor ruin my reputation to my new one. I would be tough and I could cry once I got back to my room.

So this is chapter 10! Celebration time!

I think what I will do is that once I write 10 chapters I will write a little stupid thing about Rose and others like a spin the bottle night or something that has nothing to do with the plot I'll call them fillers.

They wont have anything do with the story and you wont need to read them to understand the story!

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Crazy4Reading