"Ready?" Nick asked.

"Not really," I grumbled.

"Come on!" He whined, "All you have to do is go to her and apologise. It's not going to be that hard,"

"I ignored her for DAYS, said mean things to her, pretended- tried to pretend like she didn't exist, undervalued her, disrespected her, and I-" I sighed, "I tried to make myself think that I didn't love her. Apologising is going to be anything but 'easy'. " I said.

"Okay, but that was Antonio. It wasn't you,"

"I have a shield! And I still let that happen," I snapped.

"How could I?" My voice broke as I cradled my head in my palms.

"It was not your fault,"

"I could have stopped it,"

"No, you couldn't. You were brainwashed! Now get your ass off that bed, or I'll transform into an octopus and ink your face!"

"Okay!" I hurried out of our dorm.

"How will I get that rat away from her?" I said, hinting at that annoying thing called Sean.

"Hey! Don't insult rats!"

"You got it," I chuckled, "So how do I do it?"

"I'll take care of that. Sean is a nice guy. He won't refuse to help an old librarian in trouble, would he?" Nick smirked, "But really though, he is amazing! He taught me a few moves to make my combat better, and I-"

He shut his big mouth upon being met by my hardened glare.

"Oh no, go ahead, praise the mother fucker who can possibly steal my girl from me. Don't let a hopeless romantic like myself stop you," I deadpanned.

"Well, he's not really stealing. More like winning Argenta from right in front o-"

"You just can't stop, can you?"

"I wish I could, but I don't want to," He smirked.

The idiot loved teasing me.

As we walked towards the training ground, my brain calculated a million possibilities of how things would go down. If Cupcake would even listen to my apology; if she would slap me in the face and never talk to me; if she would break my nose and kick me in the shin; if she would f-

It's better not to share; my brain could come up with some horrifying things.

A few minutes after we reached the training ground, the mentors started drills.

"We gave you time to practice your technique," Mr Robert said, "Today, we want to see you use them,"

"Our first fight will be between Lorcan and Nina," Ms Stacy announced, "And Argenta and Sean,"

So they're going to fight as partners. They're going to be a fucking team!

Do the mentors want me to break his face?

The four of us stepped onto the clay platform in the very middle of the ground.

"Shouldn't this be Armada versus Octane?" Nick shouted, "That would be more entertaining to watch,"

"No-" Ms Lily tried to say but was interrupted by Mr Robert.

"I guess it could. You all weaklings will see just how strong and better my squad is as compared to yours,"

I am pretty sure Ms Lily made a 'bitch what?' face.

So she doesn't like Mr Robert too. That's good.

"Stronger?" Argenta scoffed.

"Hey, Cupcake, just because you're stronger than all of them combined, don't make fun of them." I fake reprimanded her, and she chuckled a little but realised what she was doing way too soon for me to even look at her smiling and hardened her face again.

"Let's do this, you weak wimp," Nina said, squinting at Argenta, making her signature resting bitch face.

"Oh, I'll sho-

"Kids, calm down," Mr Daniel interjected before Cupcake said or did something that could really hurt Nina.

"Let her speak, brother," Ms Lily said, clearly amused, with a sadistic smile on her face.

Oh damn, she really hates them.

"Lily," Mr Daniel warned, earning an eye roll from her.

"Fine," She sighed, "Sean, Nina, you both are one team, and Argenta and Lorcan, you're the other,"

Sean was smirking like a dumbass and winked in Argenta's direction when he stood in front of us.

Breathe, Lory, breathe.

"You'll get three minutes to touch your opponents back to the ground for ten seconds," Mr Daniel said.

"Sean, Nina, go easy on them; they're cubs," Mr Robert smirked menacingly.

At his words, Cupcake and I looked at each other and smirked, well aware of what the other one was thinking.

No one gets to insult our squad's skills and our friends.

We may not be talking these days, but that does not take away our teamwork, Robert.

Your fools are about to go down!

Literally ;)

"Ready, pretty face?" Argenta asked as we took our stances.

"Always, Cupcake," I smirked at Shawn Preschool.

"3..2.." Ms Stacy's voice echoed.

As soon as she said one, Cupcake and I sprang into action.

Sean leapt at me with a smirk. I dodged and blocked his right arm with my left, giving me access to his back. I threw a hard punch to his kidney.

"Grah," He groaned but turned to side punch me in the stomach.

"You're good," He smirked as he punched my nose, "but I'm better,"

With that, he delivered a quick punch to my mouth.

My nose had started bleeding, and so had my lower lip. I could taste the metallic taste of my blood, and the smell of sweat mixed with blood reached my hurting nose.

He attempted a front kick that I blocked with my hands and bent a little. I then gave a hard leopard punch to his diaphragm, making him cough.

Before he could recover, I roundhoused him in the face, and he lost his balance.

Ha! Take that!

I leapt forward and got behind him, holding him in nelson lock.

What I wasn't expecting was him thrusting his elbows down to his sides and breaking my grip. Then, he took his right foot behind me and bent down to cup my knees. With a swift move, he pulled my knees forward, making me fall on my back.

Shit!

He kept a leg on both of mine and punched my jaw with the back of his fist.

I kept squirming under him, but his grip was too tight.

"Whatcha gonna do no-" He said but was interrupted by a foot landing on his cerebellum.

He groaned and removed his hand from my chest to hold the back of his head.

"Get up, pretty face," Argenta's voice reached me.

I kipped up and stood back to back with my Cupcake while Sean and Nina regained themselves.

I ignored all of my screaming and aching body parts and focussed on winning the round.

"Let's end this," I said, receiving a nod from Cupcake.

Simultaneously we jumped, just like we had practised a million times. We held the ankles of our right legs with our right hands and landed on our opponents' shoulders. Next, we made an elbow strike to the base of their skulls. Then we locked their heads with our feet that were on their shoulders and twisted, making them fall to the ground; on their backs.

We ended the move with a chokehold while our whole team counted to ten at the top of their lungs.

"SEVEN... EIGHT... NINE... TEN!"

And that was it, we won.

With triumphant grins, Cupcake and I jumped up and high fived.

I took my time to look at her while she grinned with her eyes closed. She looked beautiful with the sunlight dancing on her skin, her long eyelashes slightly touching her cheeks and the corners of her eyes crinkling. My grin grew even wider(if that was even possible) when she opened her eyes and made eye contact with me.

"I missed this," I smiled at her.

"I didn't," Cupcake said and turned to face our mentors, all emotions leaving her face as I felt my heart shatter into 736 pieces.

"Armada won this round," Mr Robert grunted out through his clenched teeth.

"I have to say I'm impressed," Ms Stacy added.

Okay, I was not expecting that.

"Good job, kiddos," Ms Lily said, and we stepped down to join our friends who high fived us and slapped our backs playfully.

The mentors called the successive two pairs, and I found that as the perfect time to apologise to my Cupcake.

"Cupcake!" I said as I pushed past all the others who were busy watching the fight.

She didn't acknowledge my presence, but I kept going.

"Listen, I'm soooo sorry for how I treated you, but if you would just listen to m-"

"Oh, so I suddenly exist?" She fake scoffed, "No, but, go ahead, explain why you didn't want to do anything with me and why you disrespected me, why you thought I was a quote unquote 'nobody that you didn't want to waste your time speaking to' because it would ultimately 'ruin your mood and kill your will for living' "

Okay, so maybe I was a little too harsh and rude.

This is going to be rough.

"I can explain, Cup-"

"Don't call me that," She said through gritted teeth, "My friend used to call me that. The friend that I l- admired,"

"Ladmired?"

"Admired. Tongue slip,"

"Cupcake, please just let me explai-"

"Argenta!" The one and only Sean Dorker walked up and interrupted me.

UGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!

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If looks could kill, this guy would've been dead 3667328494717383291273643278281 times.

Not kidding.

Okay, yes, I am.

Of course, I wouldn't kill him 3667328494717383291273643278281 times.

It would be 907467322173827148972386864734721478284812481264782364 times.

"Ms Fransisco, the librarian, needs some help back there. You wanna lend a hand?"

"Of course!" She said, "Where is she?"

"Right by that building," Sean replied, "Oh, Lorcan, you wanna join us?"

"No, I'm good." I muttered, furious.

Darn you, Nick!

That plan failed worse than my uncle trying to backflip into a pool.

A/N:

Hiiiii! What's up?

So, he wants to apologise. That's good, right?

What would you do if you were Argenta?

k, that was it for this week. See you next time Invernians!

Have a stupendofantabulouslyfantasmogolically magical week!

Byeee!<3