Amya woke up and looked around her room in confusion. The events from the night before started to come back to her but she only scarcely remembered Jack carrying her to her room. So he hadn't punished her? Why? she looked at the clock which read 5:25 a.m.

"Shit!" She hopped out of bed and quickly got dressed. She couldn't bare the thought of not seeing Carson before school and also of waiting to find out what happened later. She scrambled to find her shoes, one under the bed, and one in the closet; typical. She rushed to the kitchen where Rudy and Jack were finishing breakfast.

"What you weren't even going to wake me up?" Amya asked snarkily.

"Watch it, it is way too early in the morning for you to be giving me attitude," Jack warned.

Amya rolled her eyes, "Um about that..." She couldn't help it. She had to know if Jack was still angry. Was he going to punish her or not? The wait was killing her.

"Let's go," Jack ordered.

"Got all your school stuff honey?" Rudy asked shutting off the light before heading out the door.

"Um yeah I didn't bring anything home," Amya answered.

"And why is that? Don't you have a test today?" Jack asked getting up from the table.

"How do you even know that?" She asked taking a step back so she was sure she was out of reach.

"Because Milton is a walking database on all things school related," Jack said folding his arms.

Amya sighed and rolled her eyes, "Of course he is. Well maybe I had a hunch that I wouldn't get to do any of it anyways."

"Well look at that, he also made you this study guide which you can work on while we are waiting for this meeting to end," Jack smirked handing her the packet.

"Aw come on Jackie it's too early to study," Amya whined stomping her foot as she pouted.

Jack advanced on her taking her wrist before she could escape. He leaned down and muttered the next words in her ear, "If you'd rather we could discuss everything we didn't get to finish yesterday?"

"N-no thanks, Sir," Amya answered quickly.

"Now see there's the Amya I'm used to," Jack said winking as he followed Rudy out the door, "Welcome back."

Amya sighed but followed without another word. She glared at the study guide before shutting the door with half a mind to leave it behind but she feared the alternative to studying. They got there ten minutes early and Rudy unlocked the door as Carson came walking up behind them.

Amya went to him and wrapped her arms around his waist as they walked. He stroked her hair lovingly, "So how did you sleep?"

"Amya smiled, "Very well actually, how about you?"

He shook his head, "Not too well."

"Let's go Amya," Jack called. Amya whimpered. She took one last look at Carson who's eyes told her to do as she was told, then she followed Jack.

"Good morning," Rudy greeted Carson stiffly.

Carson bowed then stood straight, "Morning Sir."

"Follow me to my office," Rudy said.

"I love the new look by the way Rudy, and the smoothie bar, this place looks great," Carson said. Rudy tried to bite back a smile.

"Jack lets make smoothies!" Amya tried when they were alone.

"Homework Amya now," Jack ordered.

"But it's not even homework, its Milton work," Amya tried.

Jack raised his eyebrow and she quickly sat at the counter beside him, "Yes Jackie."

She looked at the packet and sighed before drumming her fingers on the counter. She looked at Jack and smirked. He looked at her with a silent warning saying he was clearly not impressed.

"I have an idea," She whispered, "Let's go listen."

"Amya Brewer!" Jack scolded her.

She cringed, "What? Come on you know you want to be in there just as much as I do."

Just at that moment the door opened, "Jack can you come here please?"

"Yes Rudy! You are very lucky little girl," Jack said heading to the office. Amya stood and tried to follow.

"Sit down now," Jack pointed back at the bar stools.

"That's not fair!" Amya whined.

Jack looked like he was going to come after her but Rudy spoke first, "Listen to your brother Amya." She rolled her eyes and made a big deal out of sitting back down, kicking the bar purposefully after she sat.

"I saw that. Now my belt is going to come off," Jack said, "Homework now unless you want to make it worse."

Amya looked at him regretfully, He hadn't used his belt on her yet and she hoped he meant the soft black belt he wore with his gi but she was pretty positive that she wasn't going to get off that easy. Jack closed the door behind him. Amya waited a second pondering just how bad it would be if she got caught. She was already promised the belt, how much worse could it get? Plus she had gotten pretty good at being stealthy since coming here, okay better than she was. Fuck it.

She quietly stepped from the stool and crept up the steps. She listened for a moment.

"I understand Jack you earned it. As a sensei I promise to listen to you," Carson promised.

"Then I guess it's fine by me," Jack said.

"Welcome back Carson," Rudy announced.

"Thank you Sir, I won't let you down again," Carson answered.

Amya felt an unexpected tap on her shoulder and she jumped and squealed.

"What it do Amya?" Jerry asked winking.

"What the hell are you doing here? Nevermind let's go!" Amya whispered frantically but it was too late. The door swung open and Carson smirked at his girl's shocked and guilty expression.

"Jerry?" Carson asked.

"Yo Carson sup man? I left my ipod here last night. Congrats by the way Bro we just heard everything," Jerry laughed.

Amya punched him in the arm and he let out a very Jerry like shriek, "Ah! Hey watch the guns girl I need them." He kissed his bicep and she rolled her eyes.

She looked back to Carson and saw Jack right behind him glaring at her, "W-Well we should get going. Don't want to be late for homeroom. Come on Carson walk me there?" She wrapped her arm around his and quickly pulled him down the steps after her, "Bye Rudy see you later!" She was happily surprised when no one tried to stop her.

"I think you're in trouble," Carson said when they exited the dojo.

"When am I not in trouble?" Amya asked with a gleam in her eyes. She had her arms wrapped around him as they walked. Carson patted her head and smirked.

"At least I got you back, and now it's not a secret. we can train together every day!" Amya said.

"Amya I'm on probation. No tournaments no drama, and I agreed to do listen to your brother," Carson said.

"Yeah I know I heard, and?" Amya answered.

"And so I don't think we should try to piss him off, at least during class we should lay low," Carson said.

"What do you mean?" Amya asked clearly confused.

He smirked, "Nevermind you will see." Carson walked her to her locker and pulled her in close before giving her a long kiss goodbye and heading to his own.

"Did you get my study guide?" Milton asked.

"Yeah Krupnik thanks a lot," Amya answered sarcastically.

"Any time Pal I hope it helped, oh you're being sarcastic..." He trailed off seeing her annoyed face.

"Dude man Jack looks pissed. Check it," Jerry said after she closed her locker. She turned to see Jack glaring at her for a moment before turning on Kim. I walked over to see how they were.

"Jack I'm sorry are you still angry?" Kim asked.

"No you're forgiven now," Jack said smiling warmly at her.

"See look at that no blood no foul right?" Amya asked nervously.

"More like no pain no gain," Milton answered.

"Huh?" Amaya asked.

"Well it's clear by the way that Kim is acting here, see her demeanor is modest, she's slightly fidgety, and those velvety sweatpants instead of jeans, well there is really no excuse for those seriously woman those have to go. Trash them as soon as you get home, what were you thinking?" Milton asked. Kim balled up her fist and fake lunged at him making him shriek and run.

"Ohhh... so you didn't wake me up last night because you went to Kim's instead?" Amya asked, "Kim I'm so sorry I drug you into this I didn't mean to!"

"Forget it it's over," Kim said ignoring her as she put her books in her locker.

"Jack I..." Amya started.

"Save it for tonight. I won't be letting you fall asleep again," Jack warned.