"We're training you!" Dylan announced, dropping his bag onto the couch and flopping down next to it.

I was sitting down watching television on Monday afternoon when I heard cars pull up onto the driveway,

Noah, Mia, Liam and Kyle came trailing in after Dylan.

"How are you guys?" I asked them as they dropped their luggage next to the door and sitting on the couch,

"Great, thanks for the reply" Dylan grumbled,

"We'll live" Kyle joked and I gave him a small smile.

When he sat down I could see a hint of a bandage wrapped around his waist and he moved slowly trying not to twist his body too much.

"As I was saying, we're training you" Dylan interrupted,

"Training me?" I asked,

"You need to be able to look after yourself" Noah said and I nodded.

Five hours later we all plopped down on the couch with popcorn in one hand and drinks in the other.

"It's ready!" Dylan yelled rushing into the living room and connecting his laptop via airplay as he look a seat next to Chase and Mia who had joined us later.

"Was this really necessary?" I snorted, 

"Yes" Dylan playfully glared back.

The video started playing and a video montage of everyone training me while 'Eye of the Tiger' played in the background.

The first scene was Liam and Chase trying to teach me to punch, apparently my technique was pretty good but my stance was off and a bunch of other random shit that sounded too technical for me to remember.

Suddenly Liam brought his elbow back and accidentally hit Chase in the face, which started a fist fight between them; Liam obviously won.

We burst out into laughter,

"Ow" Chase commented while rubbing his nose with a frown,

"Oh grow up, it was an accident" Liam rolled his eyes,

"Was not!"

"Was too!"

"Was not!"

"Was too!"

"Was not!"

"Was not!"

"Was too!" Chase said and groaned when he realized he fell for one of the oldest tricks in the book.

"You're so stupid" Liam muttered and Mia threw a popcorn at him,

"Shhh! This is my part!" she yelled at him as Mia and Megan's scene played, they were putting makeup on my face and dressing me up in outfits.

"Why was this necessary?" I asked them,

"You can still look hot while kicking ass!" Mia defended and Megan chuckled.

The next scene was Kyle snoring on the couch and Dylan drawing on his face with black marker, we looked over at Kyle who had faded black ink all over his face and Dylan who laughed hysterically while we joined in.

Kyle crossed his arms over his chest and frowned, "Piss off Dylan" he muttered and Dylan just laughed harder.

The video stopped playing just as Noah slammed the front door and walked up to his room, he had left before they started training me hence why he wasn't in the video, but he went for a drive.

He seemed very stressed out.

"I'll go check on him" I told them following Noah upstairs.

I knocked on his door before walking in; he sat on the edge of his bed with his hands in his head while staring at the wall in front of him.

"What's on your mind?" I asked him and he just shook his head dismissing my question,

"I'm sorry for making you feel guilty about what happened when you guys went to that carnival, it was a dick move on my part, it wasn't your fault", I felt like I was punched in the gut just thinking about that weekend, the events that happened during the carnival and how bad I felt during the aftermath.

"What's brought this on, Noah?" I asked sitting beside him and he sighed,

"It's just- I feel like it's my fault that all of this happened, l-like I could've prevented it but I didn't and it's eating away at me Alex, every second of the day",

I took in all of what he said.

"So let me get this straight- when something happens and I feel like I'm to blame it's not my fault but when you're involved it's all your fault right? Is that it?"

He nodded hesitantly,

"Don't be stupid you idiot, we all agreed to come on that damn trip Noah, it's not your fault okay? Stop making all our problems about you and man up" he looked taken back,

"You're being a hypocrite" he told me, "You did that not too long ago",

"That's totally different"

"It really isn't"

"Let's just agree to disagree"

"Huh?"

"Shut up and hug me, dick",

Noah nodded standing up and embracing me in a tight hug,

"God, your motivational speeches are fucking scary",

"But you love me" I said and we both stood up,

"I do" he kissed my forehead gently.

I hummed in response,

When we pulled apart I was about to walk out the door, rubbing the spot on my forehead where he kissed to wipe off the germs or whatever.

"I saw that!" he called form behind me, chuckling.

***

"God, Monique is driving me nuts!" Mia complained as we walked to the parking lot after cheerleading practice on Tuesday afternoon.

Monique made us work so much harder today, we stayed pretty late that the football team and the rest of the cheerleaders left. Monique and Mia were having an argument about whether they should be training more.

To everyone else that was a huge no, but Monique was very persistent.

"I'm going to rip those fake extensions right out of her scalp!"

"Do you hear that?"

"You not listening to a word I just said? Yeah totally",

I rolled my eyes.

"Listen harder," I told her and she did,

I could hear yells getting closer as we got to the parking lot.

"Yeah" Mia said worriedly,

Immediately we took off down towards the parking lot and we saw a group of three guys surrounding a shorter girl who looked scared out of her wits.

"Classic high school bullying" Mia grumbled,

"Nothing we can't handle right?" I said and she nodded.

We headed towards the group and stood right behind the little circle they created to corner the raven haired girl who looked beyond terrified.

"Pick on someone your own size" Mia said sternly,

"Original" I commented and she rolled her eyes at my sarcasm, 

"I don't have time for this shit, move or I'll move you myself," one of them said,

"Is that a threat?" I narrowed my eyes at them,

"It is if you don't get your pretty little asses out of the way" They replied while cracking their knuckles which didn't make me feel intimated in the slightest,

"No"

Suddenly the guy in the middle's arm went up to punch but I guess Mia saw it coming since she easily dodged,

He then threw another punch but Mia easily caught it in her palm,

Then Mia punched him in the face.

"Leave" I told them sternly, the guy Mia punched held his hands to his nose and I could see the blood seeping through it,

"You bitch" Another guy says as he towers over me, he moves his arm to punch but in one swift motion I elbowed him in the stomach and kneed him in the groin as he crumpled to the floor, groaning.

I think that training really paid off.

"Is it worth it?" Mia smirked at them,

The third guy looked like he was about to shit his pants as he shook his head fervently and rushed off, the rest following after him all bloody and bruised.

That was much easier than I thought it was going to be.

"Thanks for that" the girl who I had never seen before around school said to us,

"No worries, are you okay?" I replied,

"Yeah, I'm fine. I'm Annabeth but people call me Anna",

"I've never seen you around here before, are you new?" Mia raised an eyebrow at her,

"Yeah" she replied, "I started last week, junior year"

"Hey- us too! Well welcome to Grove Hill, I'm Mia and this is Alex, it was nice meeting you," Mia added,

We were about to walk off but Anna stopped us again,

"I'll see you around school then?" she said,

"Yeah I guess" Mia shrugged and we waved Anna off before heading off to Mia's car.

***

Don't you just love random characters who appear out of nowhere-

I'm a god damn magician 

I'm kidding lmao but Annabeth is cast as Kaya Scodelario (in the gif)

Question; what do you guys want to do when you're older/ what do you do now?

Because I have no idea what I want to do as a career rip ;-;

Anyways,

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Sincerely, Sia x