Lia leads me down the hall. She expects me to train with her? Pfft. That is the most absurd idea ever! 

"Have you ever held a dagger before?" Lia says suddenly, bring me back from my trance. 

"Yes?" I say more as a question gulping. 

She just nods briefly and lifts the hem of her tank top slightly revealing two glinting daggers side by side. The handles to them have carvings of runes. Runes I have never seen before. She unlatches one from the dagger's pouch, she hands it over to me. 

"This is Gabriel. You ruin my dagger, I ruin you." She looks at me harshly before smirking. 

I reach out for the glowing dagger from her hand, realizing my hands are shaking. I try to calm myself down, but it just makes me seem stupid. I quickly snatch the dagger away, quickly regretting for moving so fast. I feel a scorching hot sting shoot up the outside part of my hand. I yelp once I see the glistening  blood running down my fingers. 

Lia mutters a variety of colorful words, only to lead me to repeating some of them. 

"Aaron? Look at me and nod three times if you can hear me." I try to do what Lia tells me, but it just leads to me feeling lightheaded. I quickly sit down grasping my hand. 

I hear the pitter-patter of Lia's combat boots down the hall. Their sound becomes further away, only when the noise returns. I shut my eyes tightly, trying to save myself from looking awkwardly in front of Lia. As I do so, I feel a warmth tightness surround my hand. It tightens until I am pretty sure my hand might be purple. 

"Aaron? Are you okay?" I hesitatenly open my eyes. I see Lia clearly looming over me with concern in her eyes. 

"I think so", I say slowly. 

All the sudden, I nearly fall over. I would have if my elbows did not catch me. Lia hugs me tightly as if I was her lifeline. 

"Lia? Are you okay?" 

Lia quickly lets go of me. 

"S-sorry." Lia looks away, but not too quickly to see her blush. I grin in approval. 

"It's ok. Why the hug though?" 

"You would not understand how much trouble I would be in. Gabriel will kill anything in its way." She stands up and scrunches her face up as if she was thinking. Her eyes all of the sudden glisten with something I can't place my finger on. "You could have fucking killed yourself, idiot!" 

I looked up at her confused. I notice that her normal smirk is wiped off her face. Her face is long but one thing shocks me the most. Lia Flatter is smiling. A genuine smile. 

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A/N: 

So this is such a short chapter... Ik. It was more like a filler. I wrote this chapter to show a bit of Lia's soft side (IKR! IT'S SHOCKING, lol) I just wanted to remind you guys to hang on. This is just the beginning of Lia Flatter and Aaron Matchester's story. Only 5 chapters... I promise to write more. 

Thanks all for sticking around. I also want to dearly thank @storylover888 for the great conversations we have and fangirling over characters and actors. Thanks so much! You are the best!