𝐍𝐈𝐂𝐎𝐋𝐀𝐒 ✔︎

41

𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐀

"You ready?" Nicolas asked me as I continued to yawn.

I got up from the chair slowly while sighing. "It's 6 in the morning." We were still in France and little did I know Nicolas had his own gym but it was at his fathers place. They both have their own home in this country.

"You want to learn to fight don't you?" He asked making me fake whine while coming towards him. I leaned onto his bare chest wrapping my arms around him.

"I'm so tired." I sighed. I've never gotten up this early.

"Fighters don't whine." He told me making me roll my eyes. He grabbed my arm dragging me over to the treadmill.

"I work out daily Nicolas..." I trailed. He grabbed my arm again and dragged me to the pull up bar making my eyes go wide. "On that thought," I said trying to run back to the treadmill making him stop me.

"Pull up. Now." He told me turning me back around.

"Could you at least show me first?" I asked. We switched places and he jumped to get a good grip on the bar even though he was already faced to faced with it.

"Grab onto me." He said.

"Huh?"

"Wrap your arms and legs around me." He told me. I wrapped my arms around his neck and legs around his torso looking up seeing how completely sexy he looked. I kissed his cheek and he started to pull up onto the bar with me on him.

"You are such a show off." I gasped making him laugh.

He did about 10 or more before finally stopping and putting me down. "Your turn." He said drinking some of his water. I sighed mentally and took in a deep breath jumping onto the bar. The second I hung on my arms were tired. How did he make it look so easy.

"Pull up." He told me.

I gathered every pound of strength in me to pull myself up. And after all that strength I did two pull ups before I collapsed onto the ground while rubbing my arms.

"Crap that hurts." I said moving my shoulders around seeing him laugh at me making me roll my eyes.

*

After 30 minutes of working out and doing push ups, and upper and lower body workouts we were finally in gloves. I was so exhausted but knew it would all have a good outcome which is what made me push through.

"Never let them know when your about to strike." He told me making me nod. I watched closely and striked punching him in the stomach which made me suspicious making me stop.

"Stop going easy on me." I told him.

"I'm not." He told me.

"You are. If you go easy on me I'll never learn how to actually fight." I sighed.

"You can't go back on your word. You want me to treat you like a real fighter?" He asked.

"I do." I said making him nod.

"Take your gloves off." He told me.

"Huh?"

"The attackers don't wear gloves in the situations your preparing to be in." He told me. I slowly took them off fixing my ponytail.

"Walk off the ring." He told me making me confused. We walked off as he walked behind me making me even more confused.

"Nicolas what are we-" I started to say but felt myself being pushed against the wall. Nicolas had his arm pressed against my neck along with his body trapping me against the wall.

"If someone comes up to you out of nowhere and does this what do you do?" He asked me but I just tried to get out of his grip.

"Nicolas." I tried to get out but was cut off since I was basically gasping for air.

"What do you do?" He repeated.

I tried my hardest to get him off of me but I couldn't. "I can't-" I started to say but ended up trying to catch my breath again. I felt my face getting tighter and I was so close to passing out.

He sighed letting me go making me fall onto the ground coughing trying to catch my breath. "You just died." He told me making me slowly look up at him like he's lost his mind.

"I couldn't breathe." I said getting up from the ground being completely upset.

"You couldn't breathe because you didn't attack back." He told me.

"No, I couldn't breathe because your arm was pressed against my throat. What the hell was that?!" I yelled shoving him.

"You think the attacker is going to give a shit about you not being able to breathe? You want to learn how to fight act like it. You told me not to go easy on you so I'm not. When were training your not my girlfriend your my fighter." He told me.

I looked down wiping my eyes taking in a deep breath. I walked away from him hearing him call out my name. He was right. If I wanted to learn how to fight I needed to act like it.

I couldn't shed anymore tears.

"Let's go again." I told him. He looked at me for a while and nodded.  We started over and he pretended to be the attacker again shoving me against the wall with his arm against my throat.

"Their arm is at your throat and their body is against yours but don't think your trapped Thea, do not think that they have more power. You have two free hands what do you do?" He asked but I couldn't figure it out and I was out of breath.

"What's the first body part that you see open?" He asked.

I made eye contact with him seeing his neck fully open making me press on his throat with the pad of my thumb and quickly punched him. I lost control about to punch him in the face next when he fell onto the ground but Nicolas caught my hand.

"Shit." He coughed making me stop and realize that it was still Nicolas not an actual attacker.

"Are you okay?" I asked him checking his neck making him laugh.

"I didn't see that coming."

"I-I'm sorry, I lost control." I told him.

"Don't apologize, it's good I didn't see it coming. Never let them know your first move right?" He said making me smile. "Come on let's finish up." He told me getting off of the ground.

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