TORI POV
"Focus Marx" Juan snaps at me, I'm too exhausted to tell him that I am focusing. I had been back at training for two weeks now and school seemed to have waited until I was back to training to start giving crazy amounts of homework and assignments. To make everything even worse I had barely even seen Jade outside of classes as she was directing a new play and working on it after school, as well as spending time with her Mother. Suddenly one of Juan's hits knock me to the floor and I can't manage to push myself up staying on the floor and groaning. "Marx, your next fight is in two weeks you need to be getting ready not spending so much time with your girlfriend all night until you are too exhausted to train"
"She's not" I hear a voice snap from somewhere behind me, as they stomp closer I realize that it's Jade. "What did you do to her?" she demands to help me sit up, I slump against her shoulder closing my eyes.
"She's exhausted" another new voice interrupts it sounds familiar but I can't seem to place it. "This hardly seems to be productive to her training" Jade moves to stand but I let out a whimper grabbing on to her, not wanting to fall back over if she moves away. Instead, she wraps her arm around me pulling me closer, I feel her give me a kiss on the forehead before she gets back into the argument that's happening above my head.
"Come on Vega up you get" I hear Jade say, I don't know how long we have been sitting here before she helps me to stand up. The annoying voices are gone and when I open my eyes we are the only two in the room. "You have another bruise remind me to stab Juan with my scissors next time we see him," she says, inspecting my check.
"S'not his fault should have been paying attention" I mumble. She leads me into the locker room helping me into a hoodie and grabbing my gym bag.
"Come on let's get you home," she tells me as she pulls me out of the front door of the gym and towards a white car that's parked at the front door. I stare at it confused this isn't her car, she opens the back door letting me slide in first, before following me in. Seeing that is is her Mother that's driving almost makes me run out of the opposite door, as though she is reading my mind I hear the doors lock and I can't seem to concentrate enough to work out how to get them unlocked.
"Are your parents home?" Dr. West asks turning around in her seat to look at me. I shake my head, Mum was away on business and Dad was in the middle of a new case. Even Trina was away visiting Grandma. She nods turning back to face the front, I pull on my seatbelt leaning against Jade who was sitting in the middle next to me.
"How is you play coming along?" I ask her quietly, grabbing her hand as she rests her head on top of mine.
"Fantastic," she mutters dryly "the tech crew is awful, and barely show up on time. They are the only people willing to do it though apparently everyone else is scared of me for some reason. Can't think why" she tells me, I let out a laugh.
"As long as none of them kill any puppets I'm sure it will be fine," I tell her and it's her turn to laugh.
"So Vega is there a reason you are overworking yourself," she asks.
"I need to get ready for my next fight" I feel her stiffen.
"You have another fight coming up?" I pull back from her looking at her confused.
"I told you about it," I say, pulling out my phone from my bag. "I even sent you an email about it" I see before yawning, she takes the phone from me muttering about not getting an email.
"Vega, all you did was save this to your drafts" she sighs before sending to the email to herself and reading it. "You would miss my play" she mutters.
"Only one night, I'm sorry I tried moving it. It was supposed to be on opening night but I managed to get it changed so I should only miss the second night unless….." I trail off, as she flinches.
"So you would be able to come to the third night as long as you're not in a hospital bed, great" she snaps, leaning back she sighs. "Sorry, I just worry about you, thank you for coming on opening night at least" I lean back placing my head on her shoulder.
"I'll be careful, I don't want to miss more than what I have to" she nods before pulling me closer again. We sit in silence as I close my eyes again starting to doze off again.
"We are here," Dr. West says, from the front of the car I sort of forgot she was there. I look out the window to see that we were outside of Jade's house. I follow Jade out of the car stumbling as my head spins. "Let's get you inside and checked out" Jade leads me in straight to the breakfast bar in the kitchen pushing me onto the chair before telling me she's going to grab something to drink. Dr. West appears in front of me and is shining a stupid little light in my eyes, the only thing keeping me still and letting her do it is the fact that she terrifies me.
"You're fine nothing some sleep won't help, lucky you didn't hit your head when you feel at the gym" she grabs the glass that Jade was holding out pushing it into my hands. "Drink this then Jade will help you up to bed" I open my mouth to argue that I don't need help but I did almost fall getting out the car so climbing stairs might be an issue right now. I finished my water and Jade helps me up to her room, I quickly change before climbing into her bed.
"I'm just going to go down and talk to my Mum for a few minutes. I'll be back up soon" Jade tells me as she pulls the blankets up around me, giving me a quick kiss on the forehead she turns to leave the room. I'm asleep before she closes the door.