Misunderstood

Chapter 12

The library was busy, she walked around but could not find either Sally or Zackery so she went upstairs even though it was the private sector, she never really went up there before, she immediately saw Zackery there, which was no surprise but Sally was nowhere to be seen so she went back down to wait for Sally. She does not want to be spending any time alone with him nor does she want to spread fire to the opened wound that he opened up recently, not when she's in a good mood anyway. She grabbed a magazine which happened to be about weddings and her wondering mind went straight to the time she and Crystal designed their wedding gowns, it was such a long time ago, it would be three years this December and it makes it so unrealistic that Crystal, my cousin who gushed about having a double wedding and was so excited about our boyfriends who she imagined were our fiancés before he broke her heart and dreams, is no more now... Andrea remembered how happy they were and the fit of giggles they dissolved into when her father came in and asked what they were doing and the look on his face when they dragged him in and wearing their make belief dresses, made him walk them down the aisle together. They made it so believable that they were engaged and were getting married as soon as they turn eighteen; that for a whole week he went along with it and tried to get them out of their decision, saying that it was a mistake to marry so soon and even went so far as to ask my mother, who we brought into the scheme. Sadly, he went behind our backs and met up with Anthony's parents and they were shocked, to say the least, and told him that they had no idea what he was talking about and called us and we had to fess up, he was so embarrassed and angry but after that day, it was a great laugh.

Andrea didn't know that she was looking in front at nothing and smiling until Sally waved in front of her and told her, she blushed in embarrassment and hoped no one she knows saw her like that. She and Sally went up with Sally telling her about her newest embarrassment to cushion hers. Zackery looked up from the book he was reading and saw his classmates so he went to put the book out and brought his exam-pad and pencils to the desk to start, it was already three and he had to be at the fight at five, luckily, he brought his clothes to change. Sally apologized for being late as she had transport problems and had to take the bus, Andrea didn't mind although she was hoping to finish fast so she could go hang out with Aneliya and Aleksandur sooner. "ok so anyone has an idea of an influential person? It should be an out of the box person" meaning, no one common like mom, dad, president etc. Andrea must admit that she never thought of anyone and the one person who she thought would be, turned out to be a flake. "I hope it's not the library messing with me but what about an author? They can be very influential" Sally thought out loud "what's so influential about an author? They just write books" stated Zackery and that produced a lightbulb in me "Sally is right and it goes with your suggestion of it being outside of the norm, it's not about their best sellers or books but their journeys on how they got there and how they never gave up" Sally nodded in agreement and we both looked to Zackery "ok but I'm just going to do the PowerPoint presentation, you both decide on which author and what research to do" Zackery found that since he had nothing else to do, he left so it was just Sally and I and after a while we picked an author and we each have different research homework that would then be given to Zackery to put into the PowerPoint presentation.

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She ordered coffee and was surprised by the amount, gosh she could probably have three mugs! She looked up from scrutinizing the coffee pot when she heard the chairs of the table and immediately pulled the pot more towards her side upon looking at Aleksandar's big roguish eyes zoom onto her coffee "seriously guys! It's just coffee and Aleksandur you can order one if you want" I gave her a sweet smile "I doubt he will be able to finish it all, they give three mugs for the price of one..." she rolled her eyes while sitting down "I'll have one mug, he better have the other I'm not a coffee person, I'm a tea person" Andrea shook her head in sympathy, poor Aneliya "how can you say that? Exotic teas I understand but the plain bland ones? So boring; rather have a refreshing mug of delicious coffee which just the aroma is enough to calm you down" she had no choice but open the pot lid and smell the aroma. "you are so dramatic!" it was Aleksandur's turn to roll his eyes "don't bother, I tried to make her see light but... it was mission impossible" I had to laugh with that being said, and soon they joined me and after a long and heated argument, I split my coffee with them and even Aneliya had and she wished she never tried to bring Aneliya in. Andrea stubbornly drank her coffee without looking or speaking to either one of them, Aneliya just rolled her eyes and played on her phone while Aleksandur drank in content while she steamed in anger, she was so excited and happy that she got three mugs of coffee but the price of one, but it's all spoilt now.

They had finished training before they came to meet up with me so they took me to watch the fights "I am fighting him next week so I just want to check his moves" Andrea understood his reasoning and also, she wanted to watch the fights so she decided to tag along with them "just asking... do you ever have second thoughts about fighting underground? I mean it's just that I have been taught to use my fighting only when needed for the law and from what you both told me, I thought it would be the same for you" they looked at each other for a moment "we told you our story of how we were trained but it's more complicated than that, maybe you should stay over and we will go into it more in detail and you can share your story as well" Aneliya proposed and she saw no harm so far so she nodded "I'll have to get some things from home" they nodded and grinned. The fight was in a different place but Andrea knew about it as they messaged her as well as state her next fight on Tuesday. Watching the fight and violence of it, the struggle to achieve the win, all the power, and feelings behind it, the training and issues behind it all, the ugliness of the fight but at the same time, the beauty of how they dance and let it all out, battling each other's anger and how refreshing it looks when it is all over and their expressions say it all when it is gone. When she and Aneliya went to sit on the rubble, Aleksandra went to meet up with his friends "a part of me is asking, where is the popcorn?" Andrea said to no one in particular and Aneliya gave out a little laugh "I think there is a little make belief tuckshop out back, although popcorn is a stretch, I think you can find some other snack" Andrea rolled her eyes "why does that not surprise me? If there is a way to make extra money, you will find it" Aneliya bumped her shoulder "you should see what they have when they have tournaments" this was the first she heard about any tournaments "what tournaments?" Aneliya looked at her to see if she was serious "if I was drinking something, I can just imagine spitting it out on you! How can you not have heard of the tournaments? That is where the biggest fights are and the big bucks and there is also an international club that you can get into" wow that sounds incredible "you know, if I have never trained through the FBI, this probably would have been heaven" Aneliya frowned at me "what do you mean?" Andrea sighed "well... this is all great but it's also not the training and qualification and experience you would get as an agent in training plus you can train anywhere they have their facilities or camps" she nodded in agreement "yeah I see where you are coming from, our training is the same" she smiled at me. The fight was almost over, the fighter on the right received a mean left hook and kicked in the knee with a soft cap on the shoulder that brought him down, he managed to trip his opponent by punching him behind his knee but he was blindsided and was trapped and ended losing the fight "so which one does Aleksandur fight?" she gave me a laughing glance "the loser" they both giggled and although Andrea has never seen Aleksandur fight, she knew he would win because he was trained in military while this fighter was an amateur.