YAy! I updated! I know i said i would but i really didn't believe myself hahaha. I'm back from the beach and I totally skipped school today so i had time to finish this. I kno, I kno its short, but I need to work on hmwk and stuff. I'm going to start writing the next chapter now, though, I promise. The party should be good!

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Brysdon stepped through the crowd and into the ring, standing only a few feet a way from me.

"Excellent!" Jona called. "You can start when you're ready." I changed into my wolf form and walked over to my side of the ring. I crouched down and got in my fighting stance, while Brysdon did the same thing.

I tried not to think about who my component was. Just focus Rose, you can do this.

We just stood there for a few minutes, waiting to see who was going to make the first move. Then all of a sudden, Brysdon lunged at my so quickly I would have missed it if I blinked. Right before he was about to make contact with me I dodged out of the way. He landed in back of me with a growl. I knew that was just a test, he wanted to see how quick I was. Before he could turn around I ran at him, hoping to take his feet down, but he grabbed the fur on my back and threw me a couple of yards. Okay, that pissed me off.

I let out a ferocious growl, and waited for his next move. I kept to my usually strategy, ducking and weaving as he kept coming at me, hoping that he would give up. But I found out that vampires didn't get tired as easily as werewolves do. Usually a match would only take five minutes, but I could feel the minutes going by as we kept moving at each other, trying to push the other out of the ring.

On one attack Brysdon almost had me out, he had most of his weight pushing against me, trying to move my body out of the ring. All of a sudden, I ducked to the ground and his body flew right over mine, almost out of the ring. I tried to push him out, but he grabbed my legs and I landed on the ground with him. I suddenly got up, took his leg in my mouth, and threw him across the ring. I stood there crouching, waiting for him to get up and attack again. But he didn't get up. He just lay there on the ground face down. I looked around to see Emily staring at him with the same confused expression as I had, and I also noticed we had formed quite an audience.

I very carefully walked over to him, making sure I was ready for his attack. I nudged his hand with my muzzle, and nothing happened. I patted him on the shoulder with my paw, and nothing happened. I wondered if I had knocked him out, but then I didn't think vampires could get knocked out. Could they?

In a fraction of a second, Brysdon got up at grabbed my torso, picking me up and hauling me out of the ring. How could I fall for that? I was a fraction of a second a way of being out of the ring, and Brysdon was coming at me quickly. I knew it was over, I knew he had me. So I did the only thing I could and braced my self for the force that I no doubt knew was going to come. Only when we came in contact, I ended up pushing him out of the ring, not the other way around.

His whole body landed out of the ring, and our audience started to applause. I changed into my human form and Jona came up to me to raise my hand, "Rose is the winner!" he said.

I couldn't help but stare as Brysdon got up off the ground and looked at me. I was shocked into silence.

He let me win.

I couldn't believe it, he freaking let me win. How dare he? Did he not think I couldn't take losing, that I was weak? We both knew I was going to lose, but now everyone thought I had miraculously beat this older, stronger vampire in the ring. And it wasn't true.

I just stared at him, and he gave me a slight smile and disappeared through the crowd. The rest of the training session went by quickly, as our group moved through the different stations and practicing our fighting. At the end, Daniel dismissed us all and reminded us that tonight we were having a cook out on the lake. Emily, Damien, and I were disappointed to hear that they hadn't said anything about the new vampire coven, but Emily said she would talk to her dad about it.

It was about five thirty when I left the field, and it had started pouring rain. I was going to turn into my wolf form because it would take so much faster to get back to my house, but I decided to just walk. I thought better when I was in my human form, and I wanted to just enjoy the rain. It was only about 5 miles from my house, and I had done it before.

I was about a mile away from the house when I heard a twig snap behind me. I turned around quickly, but saw something flash to my side. I turned in that direction but saw nothing there either. Someone's following me, I thought. I heard another footstep behind me again, so I turned around and lunged at who ever it was, hitting them and knocking us both to the ground.

I found Brysdon staring up at me, and my face was only a few centimeters from his. My hair was soaked from the rain, and raindrops from my hair were dropping onto his face. I had landed on top of him, and his hands were now rested on my waist.

"Oh!" I said as I realized it was him. "You were following me!" I accused him, still aware of how close our faces were.

He chuckled. "I just wanted to accompany you home," he said in a light voice, "These woods are dangerous you know." I got off of him and we both sat up. It was quiet for about a minute except for the sound of pouring rain.

"You cheated," I said all of a sudden, becoming a little bit annoyed.

"Excuse me?" He asked, clearly confused at what I had said.

"Today, in the ring. You cheated."

"Rose, you won the match. Why would you acc-" I cut him off.

"You let me win," I said, making sure that the annoyance showed in my tone. He started at me for the longest time, taking in my expression and tone.

"I didn't think you would notice," he said quietly, "Why does it bother you?"

"I can take care of myself you know," I said sharply. "I've been in the ring a hundred times before and most of those times I've won!" I was breathing really hard at the end due to my yelling. All the anger that I had inside about people treating me like a little kid came out. I immediately realized how much of a bitch I was being, and started to apologize.

"I'm sorry," I said in a rush. "I didn't mean that, really, I didn't. I'm just sick of people not taking me seriously."

"I take you seriously," he said softly.

"If you took me seriously, you wouldn't have let me win," I pointed out. I started to turn around and walk to my house but he caught my arm and spun me around.

"Look," he said, "I was just trying to help. I'm sorry."

Ok, now I felt bad. I was being bratty and he was just trying to help. Geez, what's wrong with me?

"It's okay," I tried to laugh, but it came out more of a breathless sigh, "Are you coming back to the house?"

"I'm actually going to go hunt before the party," he said looking off into the forest, "Unless you want me to walk you back?" I tried not to snap at him again about treating me like a five year old.

"No, I'm fine. Thanks though. Have...uh...," I was going to say 'have fun', but I wasn't quite sure how 'fun' it could be. He started to laugh at my loss of words, and the sound was a deep and bubbly.

"I'll see you at the party tonight," he said, turning around, "You will be there, right?"

"Ya, I'll be there."

"Good," he said, and then sprinted off into the forest.

Good? What the hell is that suppose to mean? Good that I'll be there? Good that he wants to see me? Good that the conversation was finally over? Good that I want to rip your clothes off? Good... Ugh.

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