'Hey! What's taking you so long?'

'Um… Nothing… I was just getting my stuff ready.'

'Did you eat breakfast?' Austin asked as he sat down on the bed, watching every move I make.

'Yeah… It was delicious.' I replied smiling weakly.

I continued putting on my sneakers and wore my hair in a ponytail, when from the mirror opposite to Austin, I could see that he was staring at me.

'What?' I asked him.

'Nothing… You look a bit different…' He replied making sure to have eye contact.

'Well, yeah, I'm more toned for the round off Arabian.' I answered as I grabbed my duffle bag. 'I'm ready.'

I was on the beam where I was showing Sasha my routine. It had a lot going on in it, with a DOD of 4.5. I continued normally while he looked.

'Now do a switch leap… Good… Triple twist dismount.'

I took a little run and did a round-off while dismounted with a triple twist. I managed to stick the landing. I was feeling light headed, and a bit weak. I walked to where I had my water bottle and took few sips, trying to gain myself into full consciousness… Sasha kept looking at me with a concerned look until he moved forward.

'Martina, you look shaky and weak. I'm afraid that you may still be losing weight.'

'Don't worry Sasha, I'm not losing any more weight, now if I please have your permission, I'd like to get back to my training.' I replied while he stared at me with a questioning look, until finally he answered.

'Go on…'

'What's up with Sasha today?' Payson asked.

'I don't know… maybe the coming meet?' Kaylie replied. 'You have few more seconds Tina and you can go down.'

I was feeling funny… all the lights were blurry and it wasn't long… till all I was seeing was black.

'Tina Tina, wake up!' Kaylie and Payson shouted as they rushed beside me, along with Sasha and Austin.

'Give her some space…' Sasha ordered. 'Everybody get back to work! There's nothing to see here.'

'Martina, can you hear me?' Sasha asked.

Few seconds later I came back to myself. I saw both Austin and Sasha staring at me. At first I didn't realise what happened, but then I noticed.

'How are you feeling Martina?' Sasha asked while Austin brought me some water.

'Good, I stayed too long on the handstand. I felt that my head was going to explode…' I replied

'How long was it?'

'Um… we girls were trying to put a 5 minute…'

'A 5 minute handstand? Are you nuts?' Austin replied.

'Austin calm down…' Sasha said. 'Can you walk Martina?'

'Yes...'

'Good, go to the locker room, and lie down for a minute. Ok?'

'No no, I'm fine, I can get back to training.' I said as I quickly stood up, while I stumbled on my foot. 'I stumbled on my foot… It's nothing… Really!'

'Ok… but light conditioning…'

'Thanks Sasha.' I replied as I was to move. 'Austin I can walk.'

He left me immediately, and I walked towards my friends, where they were all looking at me a bit different. We ended up doing some light routines on bars.

'Austin, can you tell your parents that I'd like to talk to them tonight?'

'Yeah sure Sasha.' He replied.

'Don't tell Martina I'm coming.'

The drive to home was quite short, yet full of talk both Austin and I used to have back when he was living with us. I miss him at home. He used to make everything feel right. I quickly went to my room, and took a small nap. But it wasn't long till I had to wake up…

I went to the basement gym where I started some cardio, however it wasn't long till the gym was filled with 3 more people.

'Sasha, what are you doing here?'

'Sasha, is worried about your weight.' Dad stated.

'I don't mean to ambush you Martina, I just thought that your parents should be included in this discussion…'

'…and we can end this discussion right now!' Dad continued. 'Will you, get on the scale Martina?'

I couldn't get out of it… My only choice was to oblige, and went onto the weighing balance.

'90 pounds… right in her target range for a 4'6'

'I'm sorry if it seems like I'm intruding, but my job is to make sure that my gymnasts are not only fit, but healthy.'

'And as you can see, Martina is both.'

'Yeah, it would appear that way.' Sasha continued.

'We're just making sure… sweety…' Mum added.

'I'll see you at the gym tomorrow.'

'Right… I'll see you tomorrow.'

As all of them exited, I took a sigh of relief. It was so close. I took off my thigh weights, each weighing 6 pounds. I felt guilty that I did that… But I had to get them off my back… After all, I was doing it for them.