CHAPTER 12 - "Fighting rules"
The next day, Cindy taught Jimmy how to fight.
"Remember that your position is very important because it shows how threatening you will be over your oponent. Your arms and legs are your defense. If you want, your face can show menacing expressions, to threat and scare your oponnent more. If you let yourbody to be hit, that will mean your defense iswrong" Cindy explained, as she did the position, same as when they were using the punching ball.
"Like this?" Jimmy said, imitanting her moves.
"Good. Always look at your opponent..." she suggested, looking straight to his eyes.
"Ok".
"Put your defense hard" she suggested, as she examined Jimmy's position. "That's it".
She then examined Jimmy's legs.
"Remember to put your legs in a 90 degrees angle. Good. Now watch me" she said, posing like before. She started to jump. "Jump. Jump. Jump and relax. Breath. Inhale. Exhale. And concentrate. Look at me" she said. Jimmy watched Cindy and did the same. "Don't forget your position. Stay like this for a couple of minutes".
They jumped for a while, until Jimmy got the requiredrhytm.
"Now what?" he asked.
"Throw me a punch. To my face" she replied.
"What? Are you crazy? What if I hurt you?" he said, concerned.
"No, I'm serious. Throw me a punch. Like when you were practicing with the punching ball" she said.
Jimmy sighed. "Ok".
"Don't be sorry. Imagine that I'm Butch. You're going to punch me in the face" she told him.
Jimmy threw the punch. Cindy covered with her hands.
"See?" she said. She paused. "Oh, I forgot!".
"What happened?" he asked.
"Purple Flurp! I was going to show you what was it for!" she said.
"You're right! Wait!" he said, as he looked around. "Where's Goddard? We were supposed to use him to eat the empty Purple Flurp cans" he asked.
"My mom's taking care of him" she replied.
Jimmy got surprised at this. "Really?".
"Yeah, she told me she needed a metal grinder... or something like that" Cindy said.
"Haha, that's great!" Jimmy laughed.
"Now that we cleared up our questions, I suggest that we continue your training, ok?" Cindy said.
"Ok".
"Good!" she said, as she returned to her position. "Now, throw me a kick. To the stomach".
Jimmy also returned to his position. He threw a kick, that Cindy covered.
Meanwhile, Sheen, Carl and Libby were in front of Cindy's house door to visit them. They couldn't wait until Monday and they were very curious. Libby first pushed the doorbell.
"Hey, Carl, this is the first time we meet Cindy's house, isn't that awesome?" Sheen told Carl.
"Don't get use to it" Libby warned. "We're only here to see how Cindy and Jimmy are doing".
"I hope there's a llama in her bedroom" Carl said.
"And I hope there's an UltraLord action figure" Sheen said.
Libby rolled her eyes. "Shut up!".
Mrs. Vortex opened the door. She spotted Libby and she looked at her with a smile.
"Why, hello, Libby!" she greeted. Then, she looked at Sheen and Carl, with a face of disgust. "Are those two coming with you?".
"Yeah, sorta... We are here to see Cindy and Jimmy, can we come in?" Libby asked.
"Sure! Come on in!" Mrs. Vortex said.
"Thanks, Mrs. V!" Sheen and Carl thanked in unison.
Meanwhile, Jimmy and Cindy were taking a break.
"You know... I can't figure it out how to return you this favour" Jimmy said, breathing.
"Something... will pop out of my head later" Cindy said, also breathing.
"You're such a good teacher... at this" Jimmy commented.
"You know, you're not so bad. I thought it would be hard to train you. And... I'm sorta... kinda... liking you a lot this way" Cindy said. She blushed furiously.
"I... sorta... think the same. I like you a lot..." he said. He blushed, too.
They looked straight to their eyes. They smiled, then, they leaned forward until their lips met. Just in time, Libby opened the door. "Hello-", she couldn't finish. She petrified looking at the scene. Sheen and Carl, followed her behind and looked at the scene also.
Libby took a breath before speak. "Ok... what's going on here?" she asked.
Jimmy and Cindy both startled. They pulled away too late, because Libby found out.
"Errr... nothing!" they said in unison, blushing uncontrolably.
"Yeah, right!" Libby said, as she rolled her eyes.