Violet Pov

"I've gotta –gott- gotaa go ,"I stammered and turned to run to my dorm . No one saw me cry , not even Amy . I was stronger than that . But why would someone do this to Kayte? What did I do to deserve this ? Were the strigoi that kidnapped me trying to get back at me from escaping? Surely Kayte wouldn't have turned herself, she was always a little bit off but she couldn't have loved Damon that much . She cheated on him five times god damn it! She wouldn't do this to herself! Not when we all needed her , not ever! It's all the strigoiis fault! They turned her! No, its Ricky's fault we are all in this mess ! I don't know what he did to his brothers but he needs to fix it fast , because I will not have another one of my friends die! Especially not for a guy that kisses me and then treats me like crap .

I needed to work out this anger and sitting on the bed wouldn't help anything . I would train , train until I cried . That way when they came after another one of my friends they would have to go through me first ! Stomping to the gym I was lucky that I left my gym bag in the locker room the day I found Amy and Leah kissing .

I slammed my locker open and grabbed the white sports bra and black pajama shorts but no shoes , I needed to get used to pain and kicking a two ton punching bag with bare feet should do the trick .

After shoving on the clothes I went straight to the dummy in the corner . Left kick . Right punch , Duck and swing! Right kick . Two right punches . Left blow to the jaw. One thrust to the gut , wait for any opening and distracted with a swipe to the knees bringing him to the ground . Then , Steak to the heart !

I know that everything wouldn't go as planned when fighting a strigoi so I needed t practice evry combination possible . Most people don't understand why I would learn to fight while I could just light them on fire but as I learned recently if I depended on fire then it could get me in some deep shit .

I could feel the seat trickle down my face as I beat the shit out of the stuffed dummy . He had multiplr punctures where I had stabbed a steak in him and the pain in my ankles and feet had numbed after a couple dozen kicks . My knouckles were starting to calas and my haior had fallen out of my bun to frame my face in little tendrils of waves .

I was broken out of my tances when I heard the voice of Mr. Hell himself . " Good kick but if you move your left foot up a little and turn your hips more towards your target then you will put more power behind the strike ."

I turned and saw Ricky leaning against the wall with a petite blonde on his arm . Putting my hands on my hips I sneered "What are you doing here?"

"if you haven't noticed sweetheart, this is a public gym ." He smirked .

That didn't even deserve a response so I turned and walked towards the bench . Just as I had positioned myself perfectly I saw a flash of blonde hair and heard a sqeaky voice .

" Hurry , before he gets back from changing. Which one do you think he would like more ? The silver sparkly sports bra or the plain white tank with no bra?" She said . I think I had seen her around before , oh ya she was the one that dated jesses zeklos little brother .

I guess she was pretty in a "I think makeup is the new black " kind of way . With white blonde hair and green eyes with shimmering blue eye shadow and brown mascara . I think her name was Micheala . As I sat up I gave her a fake smile and pretended to ponder the decision . "Eenie meanie , Miney Moe ," I pointed my finger from both outfits before landing on her . " You aint nothing but a hoe . Now shoo. I need to talk to lover boy ."

"I am so telling him you said that ." She said crossing her arms .

" I am so going to kick your ass if you don't get your scrawny butch ass out of here ." I smirked , mocking her .

Fear crossed her face but she quickly recovered and said " Fine , but only because I didn't want to be here anyway ."

"Suree." I laughed as she swung her non existent hips all the way out the door .

"Just had to have me all to yourself didn't you ." I heard Ricky say . Shit .

"No , she just was getting on my nerves ."

"Suree." He laughed , just as I had earlier .

"Watever." I said and went back to the bench .

Then I saw his bare muscular chest over me as he held my hands and guided the bar up and down . "I don't need your help ." I sneered but didn't make any move to move my hands out of his grasp . My arms shaked as I pushed up but still I pushed up , not going to say I need him .

"Fine, Fine . I wont help ." He said and put is arms up in surrender . As soon as his hands left the bar it came crashing down on my chest . A gasp filled my chest as I groped for air . Of course he just chuckled and lifted the bar back onto the rack .

" You have to remember your just a moroi." He said sternly . "Just a moroi huh? Well would a normal moroi have the strength to do this ?" I lashed out and slammed a punch to his jaw , feeling a satisfying smack as his head turned . Ricky smirked and I felt his foot knock my ;egs out from under me and I was on the the floor with him on top of me . "Trust me , nothing about you is normal ."

I smiled and leaned in until I was just a centimeter away from his lips and then brought my knee up as hard as I could , solidly connecting with his nuts . "You shouldn't get so distacted " I said and pushed his groaning form off me before sauntering into the girls locker room to get a drink .

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Just as I was about to come out I heard a unmistakeable voice coming from the gym .

"Times up , brother ."

I would never forget the voice, Christian.