Mika's POV

"You are a smart and talented student, Mika. I don't want you to ruin your life because you aren't using your head. Just…make smarter choices next time, okay? But most importantly, if you do get drunk, call me okay? Don't rely on Katya anymore. You don't know how much it's hurting her to see you that way. I'll take care of you, okay?" He smiled, and patted me on the back.

"Thanks, D." I said to him. He laughed at my new nickname.

"I love you, Mika. You can come back after five more laps," he said, running back in. I guess I was only doing ten now. I knew he wasn't all that bad.

I finished the next five laps in about ten minutes, which wasn't my worst time ever. I cooled off a little by stretching before I went inside to see Katya and Rose sparring with Dimitri barking orders to each of them.

"Watch your feet, Rose," he told her. He nodded at me when I walked inside, acknowledging that he saw me so that I wouldn't interrupt him. Katya pulled off a senior move that involved getting low for a kick.

"Good, but watch out Katya, if you get stuck down there you will loose," he told her.

Eventually, Rose ended up winning the battle. She was very careful with Katya and didn't make any stupid cocky moves that Mason made. Katya couldn't avoid her like she could with Mason and wait until she got tired. Rose was too skilled for that.

"Nice job, Rose!" I cheered for her, earning a glare from Katya. I smiled back at her, and she rolled her eyes grabbing a towel and drying some of the sweat off of her.

"You next, Mika?" Rose asked me, walking over and giving me a high-five.

"I don't know, it's up to Dimka," I shrugged. It was his stage right now.

"Mika isn't doing any sparring, today. She's going to do conditioning, just like you two were doing while she was running. If she finishes then maybe she can spar with me." Damn.

"Tough break, sis," I heard Katya yell from the bleachers.

"Peanut gallery comments not appreciated!" I yelled back to her.

"The list is over in the corner. If you cheat, I will know, and you will make up for it. Get started," he told me.

KATYA'S POV

"Does she know that there's only five more minutes of training left?" I asked Rose and Dimitri as I walked back over to them.

"Nope, and she doesn't need to. If she knows there's only five more minutes then she'll put them off until next time. I want her working hard till the end. Why don't you two run a few laps and cool off?" Dimitri suggested.

"You got it, Comrade!" Rose yelled and then looked to me, "How about we make this interesting?"

"Roza…" Dimitri warned.

"Na, not like that," she said, "let's race. The person who can complete the most laps before class is over wins."

"You're on," I said, I knew I was faster than Rose.

"Dimitri, you in?" She asked my brother.

"You two think you can beat me?" He asked us.

"We won't know until we try," I said, taking Rose's side. She wouldn't have asked him if she didn't have something planned. I could tell this was going to be funny.

"Alright, then, let's go. Mika!" he yelled to my sister.

"What?" She yelled back, panting.

"Move it outside!" he yelled to her, and followed Rose and me outside. We could only faintly hear her response, but the tone of her voice and Dimitri's eye-roll told me I didn't want to.

"She's worse than you sometimes, Rose," he said. Rose just laughed.

We jogged up to the track and lined up, each in a separate lane. We all looked at each other to make sure that we were ready, and then Dimitri started counting down.

"Ready…Set…Go!" he yelled and we all took off running at full speed. I ran about two laps before I could feel myself getting tired. Not terribly tired, but I was there. Then, out of nowhere, I heard Dimitri yell and Rose say:

"You've got to be prepared for anything, Comrade!" and she attacked him right then and there.

Dimitri had no choice but to fight her back, because clearly, she wasn't backing down. It looked like Dimitri was actually loosing, so I jumped in to save him.

"What? That isn't fair!" Rose yelled when I started attacking her too.

"Be prepared for anything, Rose!" I used her line against her. We were fighting, then, out of nowhere someone jumped on my back and pulled me down into the grassy part of the track.

"What was that, sis?" Mika asked me. Rose followed her lead and pushed Dimitri into the ground, and before we knew it, we were all piled on top of each other, and we had an audience. People started cheering for Rose, and I was pretty sure people were taking bets on who would win. Eventually, Dimitri saw what was going on and stopped the fight.

"Alright, uh…trainings over," he said, trying to sound professional when it was obvious he was having just as much fun as we were. He got up and pulled Rose up as well.

"Okay, comrade," Rose said, rolling her eyes and pulling Mika and I up too.

We went back into the gym where people were sitting on the bleachers and clapping, and Rose, naturally, bowed to her audience. We cleaned up our stuff before heading outside and into our next classes. Dimitri broke off and headed back to the guardian's station, but Rose, Mika, and I all stayed together, and we couldn't stop laughing.