Anastasia

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"I'll look into it. Make sure you're home and don't leave for any reason." Alex started the lecture Annya's heard all her life, so she finished the rest for him. "Make sure all the bolts are locked, don't answer for anytone and if I do, make sure I have both a gun and knife with me behind the door. Thank you, Alex" She hung up, not waiting for a response. She made her way home going the speed limit, constantly looking in her rear view mirrors, checking to see if she was being followed. She stored her car into the garage, and made sure all the entrances were bolted shut and all her weapons were within reaching distance of each one. Once she knew everything was secure, she put on the movie and studied every aspect of it to see if there was a message in there that would aid in the search.

Although she enjoyed the movie, there was nothing that led her to who was looking for her, aside from those two songs and the fact that the main character was being hunted down.

Annya didn't know how to feel by the end of it. She was relieved that it wasn't a warning, but she was upset that they were still clueless. With a sigh, Annya got up to stretch her legs when there was a light knock at the door. She silently walked towards it, with both a gun and a knife like she was told, looking through the peephole seeing that it was only Sean with a bag of takeout. She opened it slightly, with the gun still aiming for him on the other side of the door and her knife behind her back.

"What are you doing here?" she demanded in suspicion.

"Comfort food" was all he responded with, holding up the paper bag with a Chinese restaurant label printed on it.

"How do you know I was here?" her voice did not change, and neither did her position,

"I may have been following you little by little for the past couple months. Okay, NOW BEFORE YOU KILL ME, i promise i don't mean any harm. I was just curious because you seemed really shady since we started training together and you kicked down my door. I wanted to make sure I wasn't surrounding myself with anything dangerous" Annya held in a scoff. He definitely got in university by scholarship

"I am shady. Go away" as she tried to close the door, he held out his hand to stop it.

"I know. And dangerous, but I'm smart enough to know that if someone shady and dangerous is paranoid, that means they're worried about something serious. I just wanted to make sure you were safe. If it makes you feel any better i'll take the first bite out of the food to show you it's not poisoned." The boy rambled when he was nervus. He wasn't a threat. She rolled her eyes, opening the door, placing the gun and knife back in the drawer by the door. His eyes widened, seeing what she was putting away, but didn't seem surprised.

She led him to the living room, letting him set up the food on the coffee table as she went to pull her hair back in two braids. Since she can't have her long hair out in front of the boy, the best precautionary hairstyle she could do was two french braids that couldn't get in the way or pulled in a fight. When she walked back into the room, she saw a big smug smile on Sean's face, his dimples sinking into his cheeks deeper than she's seen before. She didn't want to admit it, but his innocent light attitude was very attractive,

"What?" she snapped, making herself sound annoyed, trying not to get affected.

"You watched the movie" he said triumphantly

Annya rolled her eyes, trying not to smile again "Yah, and?"

"How'd you like it?"

"What do you want to drink? Nothing alcoholic, I Don't want you staying more than you have to" to which his face contorted into an over exaggerated hurt expression and his hand flew to his heart.