Caught In The Middle

Chapter 25

"This doesn't look very professional" I chuckled getting up off Gio.

"Hi, Callum" I smiled going up to him and stretching my hand towards him. "I'm Lexi".

"I figured that, the big guy here told me about you" Callum smiled shaking my hand. "Its nice meeting you Lexi".

"The big guy uh?" I teased looking at Gio.

"Don't"  Gio warned.

"What?" I shrugged innocently. "I didn't even do anything..... big guy".

"Cut it out" Gio said to me before turning to Callum, "She's yours now, teach her all she needs to know. I'll be over there punching those bags".

"Don't worry, I'll turn her into a pro when I'm done training her" Callum told him.

"I don't doubt it" Gio said to him before looking at me."Corporate".

"I'm always corporative" I smirked at him.

"Sure you are" Gio said sarcastically before walking off towards the punching bags.

I watched him grabbed two boxing gloves putting them on before going to punch the bag. Okay, so I think I now know what Gio was made of. I'm sure he could literally kill someone with just one of those punch.

"Alright me time now, you can admire your boyfriend later" Callum chuckled.

"He's intense" I said looking over at Gio once again.

"Yeah, he takes this very serious" Callum said to me. "So, are you ready to become intense as well?"

"I guess" I chuckled.

"We'll start off easy alright?" Callum said to me.

"Yeah okay" I nodded.

"Come on, stand here" Callum said to me.

Callum had been teaching me how to throw punches, dodge them as well as kicking and blocking hits for the past twenty minutes. He said we would be sticking with these basics since it was my first day but as time goes by our training would become more intense. I already knew how to do all these already, and even though I kept pretending to be pretty interested in learning how to throw punches and dodge them because I was supposedly an amateur or a novice, I was more interested in watching Gio punch that bag. Callum was teaching me how to dodge punches but I kept getting distracted by him each time and Callum had managed to land a few small jabs on me. Thankfully none to my face or none serious enough that they'd caused pain.

"You keep getting distracted by your boyfriend over there" Callum said to me as I told him I needed a break. "Seems he's gonna have to stay away from here for you to become a pro".

"I can't help if he's very appealing to the eyes" I defend.

"I get it" Callum chuckled. "I'll make sure he isn't here to distract you for the next training session though".

"Who says I'll be back for another session?" I asked him.

"You will" Callum said to me. "Knowing how persuasive Giovanni can be I think you'll be back".

"You're probably right" I said to him. "That's how I got here today...persuasion".

Callum laughed before replying. "So will you be ready to go again in five minutes?"

"Yeah, I guess so" I replied.

"Okay, I'll be back in five" Callum said before leaving.

I was sitting on the floor watching Gio continued punching that bag. It was amazing, I only say him stopped punching that bag for like a few seconds earlier and ever since he's been punching that bag and still have a lot of energy. After a few minutes Gio's phone started ringing and I saw him answered. I couldn't quite hear what he was saying because he was speaking lowly into the phone and was across the room from me but I could tell by the time he had hung up that whatever that call was about it was something urgent. Gio slipped the phone back in his pocket before hurrying to put back on his shirt. I immediately stood up going over to him.