ℙ𝕖𝕟 𝕒𝕟𝕕 ℙ𝕒𝕡𝕖𝕣 || Twilight

I

The sun seemingly stared down at the wondrous land where wolves roamed around in sight of something, something far more dangerous than they had ever met before, and as soon as they got a sniff of gasoline—they immediately went rushing towards the red headed vampire that had been hunting in their land.

Although, back at the Swan household, nobody knew of anything happening.

"Mom! I told you, he isn't interested in me like that!" Riley groaned down the phone, where her mother had finally found her charger for her phone, meaning she wasn't using the house one this time.

There was a chuckle on the other end as the mother shook her head at her youngest's innocence to what was right in front of her. "Riley, he let you paint his nails. He's definitely smitten with you"

Riley shook her head immediately in denial, Paul only saw her as a friend and she knew it—he had made no advance on her whatsoever, and even if he was, it couldn't happen because he'd end up imprinting on another girl.

She didn't want to end up like Leah.

"Whatever mom" Riley stared with an eye roll, before she heard her mom mumble something to Phil, only for Phil to let out an outrageous laugh.

"See? Friends my arse..." Her mom mumbled as she turned back to the phone, where Riley scoffed lightly.

"Okay mom, I've got to go, promised Leah that I'd go to the gym with her" Riley smiled fondly as she spoke about one of her best friends, Jasper tying in the top spot with her. "And she hates when I'm late"

"Okay honey, call me soon, okay?" Her mom spoke back eagerly.

"Yes! Okay! Now call Bella before it's too late" Riley laughed lightly, before she moved the phone away from her ear and ended the call with a smile on her lips, she was happy that she had a chance to speak with her mom, the last few months had been extremely stressful—it was nice to have an scape for a while.

"What exactly is the point of this?" Leah questioned as they stood in the gym, her nose crinkled slightly when she smelt a vampire nearby, her body instantly tensing up before Riley revealed Jasper awkwardly.

"He's a great fighter, he's fought in a war, against newborns and such—we won't go into that" Riley stated awkwardly as Jasper stood beside her with his hands together. "Anyway, I thought that he could teach me to fight and you can burn off some steam"

Leah eyes up the pair before she let out a sharp nod, it was better than hanging around with her ex-fiancé and her cousin, or any of the pack boys anyway. "Sounds good, you owe me a marathon though"

"Great" Riley winged slightly, it meant that Leah was going to make her watch the walking dead or something gruesome. "You start ahead, Jasper is going to teach me some warm ups and stuff"

Leah crossed her arms before she set off towards the boxing area that was set up in the corner, a couple of punching bags screwed into the ceiling so that it was already prepared to be hit.

Riley turned to Jasper with a small cringe, "so, what's first?"

"I'm going to teach you the best way to throw a punch" Jasper concluded, grabbing her elbow lightly so he could take her over to a clear area with some mats layers out. "We'll start with some warm ups"

Riley let out huge pants as she layers on the flier with flushed cheeks, her body sore as she attempted to return her breathing back to how it originally was. "That was your warm up?!"

Jasper let out a chuckle as he looked down at her form, to be fair, she did do better than most people that he had trained—which were usually training to be vampires or soldiers. "You're doing good, now, let's start off with some basic structures for when you go for a punch"

"Do I get to punch you?" Riley quizzed as her chest heaves up and down, and she let out a groan as she forced her limbs to stand up on the Matt, where she had basically peeled herself from.

Jasper let out a small laugh, "we'll work our way up, I don't think your ready for that yet"

Riley just launched her fist at him as she twisted her body slightly, her fist knocking into his jaw and making him stumble back slightly in shock—and in trying to seem human. "Huh, maybe it runs in the family"

"Yeah, Athena has a thing for hitting people" Jasper states as he moves his finger alongside his jaw, feeling where she had actually punched him, that seemed to set Riley off.

"Oh gosh, are you okay? I really just wanted to prove that I could punch—are you hurt?" She spurts out as her hands take ahold of his chin, her eyes scanning over everywhere.

"I'm fine" Jasper smiled, he seemed to be humerus with her worry, causing her to push him away, barely moving him at all.

"You're a real jerk, Jas. I thought I hurt you" Riley frowned, before her lips broke out into a smile that she attempted to hide from him, only making him chuckle out loud.

"Okay, I think this session is over, you're supposed to go to Emily's for lunch"