Tori POV

"I poured coffee over the head of the youngest CFC fighter ever," Jade says as she collapses down on my bench set.

"At least it was cold coffee," I say and she looks up at me and gulps before standing up again pacing back and forth.

"I don't understand how do you do this you would need to train like ten hours a day and you still go to school and up until recently you still did things after school with us"

"I drink a lot of coffee," I say attempting to joke, she turns to glare at me but stops quickly looking away. "It's hard work but I manage it's easier in the offseason that's when I spend more time doing plays and cut back on my training" if you can call what Juan does cutting back.

"You've been lying to us from the start, you're a completely different person," she says sitting back down.

"I'm still me, Jade this is just another part of me" I step closer trying to convince her.

"There is a picture of you breaking someone's nose, that's not exactly something Sweet Sally Peaches would do" she snaps I open my mouth but have no response. "Can you just take me home?" I just nod working hard to not let any emotion show on my face even though all I want to do is curl up in a ball and cry.

"I'm not mad Vega," Jade says as she climbs off my bike and grabs her bag handing me back her helmet. "Just give me some time to get used to it"

"Okay, do you still want a ride on Monday?" I ask hopefully.

"As long as I get that coffee, I'll see you later" I wait until she is inside before I turn speeding off wanting to punch something, mainly Juan since this was all his idea.

By the time Juan leaves to go home I have no idea, what time it is and am in no way ready to go home yet. So I decide to stay and work with the bag and blast music that caused complaints with some of the other gym members.

"What the bag ever do to you?" Someone asks me, I spin around to behind me causing the punch I was about to divert stopping about an inch from Jade's face. She only looks at it with a smirk. "Don't think what black eye would wash off" it takes a second to realize what she is talking about before I remember our stage fight where she faked having a black eye putting me in detention.

"No, you couldn't just wash it off. Why did you sneak out behind me I could have hit you" I yell at her not wanting to think of hurting her.

"Maybe if you turned this down you would have heard me. Are you trying to make yourself deaf?" She says walking over to the speaker and turning it off before sitting on the bench next to it.

"What are you doing here?"

"I told you I needed time to think and I thought about it"

"Well, what did you think of do you hate me or not"

"I could never hate you Ve…." She trails of not saying my name. "But I would like to get to know Shelby Marx better, so go change or whatever and then you are taking me out to dinner" I stare at her a few minutes before she claps her hands a few time indicating that she wants me to hurry up. It's not until I'm halfway through drying my hair before I realize that this is far too much like a date. I slightly panic, before I realize I really don't have time to worry and can't keep her waiting any longer. Grabbing my jacket I stuff my gym bag into my locker to pick up tomorrow and run out to find Jade where I left her.

"Ready to go"

"I've been ready to the last ten minutes" She grabs my hand dragging me out of the gym and towards my bike. "So Marx where you taking me," she asks with a smirk, grabbing what has become her helmet in the last few days. I roll my eyes at her choice of name.

"Is it really necessary to call me Marx?"

"Yes, tonight is all about getting to know Shelby Marx. Now where we going?"

"You'll just have to wait and see," I say before making sure she is holding on and turning into the street. "Hey, how did you get to the gym?"

"I'd rather not talk about it," she says and I guess that she called Trina. I feel her hold on tighter as I speed up as we start heading out of the city. It's another twenty minutes before we get there and I pull off into a dinner that we usually go to when we are coming home from the airport after a fight. "Okay, I'm surprised," she says looking around at the mainly empty parking lot.

"Come on," I say grabbing her hand and pulling her inside, I drag her past the empty booths and through a door into the back, giving a wave to Max in the kitchen.

"Hey, Shelby I wasn't expecting to see you for another few weeks"

"Hey, Molly, How you doing? We were in the mood for some good food"

"I'm great, business is doing great. I'll get you your usual, what about you dear, what can I get you?" she asks Jade and I can almost see pain as she holds back a hurtful comment.

"I'll have what Shelby is having" as soon as Molly is around the corner she says "Please, tell me your usual is not something disgusting"

"Nope, you're good" I laugh "My usual is a cheeseburger, fries and a chocolate milkshake, but if Juan is here it is a salad with extra chicken and water," I said leading her past the pool table and dartboard to a booth in the corner.

"Juan that's the personal trainer right,"

"I prefer to call him personal nightmare but yes that's him"

"I thought I was your personal nightmare" she sighs seeming disappointed as she looks around the room. "So what is this place?"

"This" I wave my hands gesturing around "is the hidden room of the Highway Diner. Also known as the I haven't eaten all day and just got off a three-hour flight while having bruised ribs and need food to take my pain meds" I explain.

"Sounds like a fun time," she says looking a bit concerned before throwing out her next question. "Do you know all the owners of the places you frequent?"

"No, just a few. Molly is a fan actually and recognized me as soon as I walked in and dragged us back here so we could have some privacy since we are usually a mess when we come" I finish just as Molly comes in with food we thank her and she leaves after a few minutes of chatting. As we eat Jade throws question after question at me even answering a few of my own although not many. She asks a lot of questions about my fights since she had looked some up when she was home and was horrified to find out that I was suffering some from a fractured rib around the time she pushed me over the edge for the stunt that Beck did for me. I eventually convinced her that I was pretty much back to normal at that point and that she didn't actually cause any damage. Jade was also planning on talking to her Dad about letting her come to my next fight which was in Seattle the following weekend. By the time we had finished eating and had a game of pool it was around eight thirty and we started to head home, stopping at Jade's so she could pick up more clothes as she admitted she didn't like staying alone when her Dad was gone for business.

"We should do this again?" Jade says as we pull into my garage hanging our helmets up.

"Only if I get to ask the questions next time"

"I guess that's fair" she smirks "I'll even pick the place next time"

"Sounds good, now let's go watch the scissoring again," I say putting emphasis on the last words and running inside.