River
I stood there chalking my cue up as I listened to Jane talk with Tiffany, about our little problem that was taken care of. I knew Dean from school, he was older and in different classes, I was assigned to him on a survivor mission in the wilderness. So we bonded for a few days out in the middle of the woods. I didn't realize who the girl was at first it took me some time to remember her. I had hooked up with her once in the mall. It was the same day Jane had tried to seduce me, which made me smile it was cute and did work, it was just not going to happen. My smile fell as I heard a slightly deep woman's voice saying my name.
"Are you river" The women spoke as I turned around, she was hot looking, older and has been in the gym a little too much, she had a very manly physique for my liking, so I was sure I had never hooked up with her
"yeah, why" I asked suspiciously as she looked down at the clipboard in her hands
"I've been looking everywhere for you, your fight was supposed to start five min ago, you're late let's go" she said waving to follower her as I looked at her confused
"look lady you got the wrong person I never signed up for any fights" I said as Jane and Tiffany walked over closer the women
"Look your name is on the board, I just run the stupid thing and let people know when it's their turn, if you don't want to fight don't sign up, but since you're signed up you need to go down there in either fight or back out, okay" she said in an angry tone, as Jane was looking at the board intently
"River, David signed you up, he is trying to embarrass you, by making look like a sacred weak person for not fighting or he is trying to make you look bad by having his fighter beat you" Jane said as I smirked in amusement, that boy really want to die
"River don't do it" mark said from behind me and I ignored him, he knew it wasn't going to turn out very good for the other fighter
"Why not I haven't had a decent partner in the ring in a year" I said as the women rolled her eyes and turned as I followed on behind her
I was feeling an adrenaline rush flowing throw me especially once we got down to the ring area and the crowd was cheering. I hadn't been in the ring since I sent that boy to the hospital and later died. It was an actual accident, I was unaware that the kid was new and hand been trained in how to defend himself. There were 5 months before graduation and after the kid died, I was told I no longer needed to attend fighting classes because I was too dangerous for the other kids. I sucked because I actually liked fight class, but it had happened to other people before who got too good to be handled. But here there was nobody that was going to care if I actually injured anybody, I thought as I climbed up into the ropes and climb through.
"River!" I heard Jane's voice from behind me, as I slightly turned to see her holding onto the bottom rope looking scared, I smiled at her it made me feel good that she cared and was worried, but there was no need for it "please don't do this" she said as a crouched down closer to her
"There nothing to worry about Jane, I'll be fine climbed up here first" I said as she looked at me strange but tried to grab onto the middle rope, but she was too short. "Here" I said, grabbing her hands and pulled her up and rapped my arms around her to make sure she didn't fall. "Play the part, cheer for me, and give me a kiss for good luck okay" I said as she looked at me wide-eyed, then glanced down at my lips
I took the distraction the crush my lips to her, okay I was lying I didn't need the luck I was just a sick man who wanted her. Hey she started it by telling the world I was her boyfriend, so I think I deserve a little treat for having to pretend. I was sick and prayed for any opportunity to kiss her soft, plump lips that tasted like bubble gum all the time. I knew this was all I was ever going to get to have with her. Wanting to deepen it so bad show her how much I wanted her. But it always came back to the fact she wasn't mine to be kissed. I pulled away quickly as I lowered her back down Mark was there and helped her down, he gave me a small nod, I knew he would watch her during the fight.
"Looks like the little bitch finally decided to show up" the man in front of me said as I rolled my eyes, grabbing the back of my collar, pulling off my shirt and tossing it on the rope
"Okay, simple rules, no biting, no hair pulling, no hits or kicks below the belt" the women with the clipboard said as I jumped up and down in place trying to warm my body up, while shaking my arms. "We going to obey the ring rules or you're out for life" she said as we both nodded "1 min to the bell" she said walking over to an empty corner and started climbing out
I watched as the man beat on his chest and made a loud almost growling noise, it was an intimidating factor, it might have worked on someone who wasn't me. He was taller than me but not by much, he was a big lunkhead. Basically all he did was lift weight to look big and intimidating, they sometimes have power in them but realize, most of his form is for show. They tend to be not fast as their body built isn't made for it, I also didn't notice any official family tattoos on him, which meant he was just some low life looking to fight. I heard the bell ring to my right as the lunk charged at me.
Quickly I moved as I grabbed onto one of his outreach arm and yanked it back kicking him hard in the back, as he fell forward into the poll. He was able to catch himself quickly as I waited to see his attack plan, he clearly worked on surprise tactic, which I always helpful when you're fighting a week appoint. An arm came flying toward me as I bobbed and weaved as he threw more punches. One punch combination did manage to catch me off guard, His fist connected with the side of my face as I stumbled back and blood flooded into my mouth. He attempted to hit me again while he thought I was not focused.
"River" I heard Jane screaming behind me as I spit a large mouth full of blood onto the mat below, near his feet
"Why don't you give up, and take care of that crying bitch" The link said as I snapped, I really didn't like people talking that way about Jane, I almost shot dean sister earlier for it I was not going to let David little bitch fighter do the same.
I rushed forward a couple of steps and sent a punch into his face as blood gushed from his nose as he took a step back, while I took a step forward. Send a few more punches to his face and he tried blocking his head. I brought my leg up and kicked him in the stock as he completely fell on the ground and I jumped him started wailing on him through his arm that tried to cover his head. Was finally been able to buck me off as I scrambled to my feet quickly, but was knocked off guard as he kicked me in the ribs while he tried getting up which knocked the wind out of me. I got up as fast as I could and received another punch to the face from the lunk who was now standing I rolled away quickly as his foot came down directly where my head had been. Pulled myself up to receive a punch to the gut. I saw it coming and was able to flex and stop the blow from knock the wind out of me completely as I stumble back and avoided another blow
I could hear Jane screaming in the background, I could hear the crowd roar wanting us to fight as we both side step each other in a circle. We both moved forward as I blocked his punch quickly as I sent my fist straight into his face. There was a slight sharp jilting pain the shock throw my arms, but I had to ignore the pain and kept sending punches into his face. The pain intensified with every punch as I was getting sick of standing here punching him as he tried to block and protect his head. As I sent one last hard shot to his head as his midsection was completely as I thrust my throbbing hand strength in his stomach, which caught him off guard as he gasped for air. I grabbed the back of his head while bringing my knee up smashing his face into my knee. The pain from his teen digging into my skin and bone sent caused me to stumble back a few feet. As the lunk fell to the ground.
The crowd was roaring as they woman with the clipboard came back into the ring as he lay still on the mat that's had slashes of our blood everywhere. My tongue probed the inside of my mouth to see what type of damage there was. I could feel I small cut on the inside of my cheek, as I watched the women lean down near the still man and stand up quickly writing something on the board.
"He's out, River wins" she yelled as I glanced over toward David and his little pose and smirked as they were trying to move away toward the crowd and I felt arms wrap around me
"River you won! You actually won!" I heard Jane practically screaming over the crowd as I wrapped my arms around her spinning her around.
I was still feeling the high from the adrenaline rush of the fight and the way she was smiling and her excitement only made the feeling intensify. I saw the women dump a bucket of water on the man as he jumped and started thrashing in surprise. Quickly pulling Jane toward the rope and gesture for her to get out quickly as Mark helped her down. I quickly jumped down out of the ring, I didn't want to be on the other end of the steroid filled rage. Once down I felt pats on the back and could hear a few female voices calling my name. I could see Jane glazing in their direction and smirked and more blood rushed into my mouth. I followed behind Jane quickly up the stairs, staring at her long perfect legs as she walked up the stairs. Once back up into the pool table section I could hear the women yelling more names down stairs as the cheers started up again.
"River look at your face" I hear Jane say as we walked back over to the spot we had been before
"what don't I look pretty" I said smirking as the cut in my mouth stung
"no your face is brushing, your mouth is bleeding, and look at your hand" she said grabbing my hand as it was sore and a few different colors and bleeding from the knuckles
"it's not that bad I've had worries" I said as Jane gave me look that she wasn't amused as she turned and walked away heading toward a server carrying a tray full of empty glasses
"Dante going to pissed when he finds out you been fighting" Mark said as I shrugged
"Look I was only banned from fighting at school, where not at school anymore plus I didn't really hurt the dude" I said as I took a drink of some one beer trying to get the taste of blood out of my mouth.
"I know that, but what about Dante and your dad when you get home and they see you with bruised up face and battered hands" I shrugged "yeah that what I thought" he said as I watch Jane talking something from the waiter as the rushed off down the stairs quickly
"I will deal with it when it comes up" I said as Jane came back holding her hand out to me, and in her hand was two small red pills, I glared at her
"Don't even give me that look there just Tylenol for the pain" she said as I shook my head
"thanks but no thanks, pain doesn't bother me much" she said looking irritated as the water came rushing back up the stairs holding a white box and silver bucked with a towel on their arm as Jane rushed over grabbing it setting it on the table next to wear I had sat down
"what are you doing" I asked as she opened the box and I saw band aids and gaze fly everywhere
"trying to fix you, I still have to go home, do you have any idea how much trouble I'll be in if we go back and you're all beaten up looking" she said as she started pouring rubbing alcohol over my hand, it stung the "here put this in your mouth the clean out that cut" Jane said as I started laughing
"no, I'll clean my self up Jane, don't worry about" I said trying taking the bottle away from her, put it in my mouth what was wrong with her I thought smiling at her clear lack of ability to try to care for someone
"Whatever" Jane said irritated setting the bottle on the table hard causing it to splash as she stormed off toward the back as Tiffany followed after her quickly.
"She was just trying to help" Mark said who was sitting beside me
"she wanted to rise my mouth with rubbing alcohol" I said as he rolled his eyes
"I know, you could have just done it, she just wanted to take care of you, it's not always a bad thing to let people care about you" Mark said, he was really getting on my nerves tonight
"it's not her job or responsibility to take care of me Mark, I'm to protect her and make sure she is taken care of" I said getting up walking away, Mark was really starting to get on my nerves with his little comments about Jane.
I went down the stairs to get away from everyone to clear my head, I was in a good mood until that conversation. I got what Mark was saying and understood Jane was being nice and all, but it doesn't change the fact she doesn't need to take care of me. My job was to care for her, and not have her cleaning my mess up. I walked over to the bar needing a drink to celebrate my victory in the ring, I was thrilled to fight again, it been almost a year since I was in a ring fighting. True, it still haunted me, but I guess everyone's first time taking a life stay with them for a bit, it was truly an accident and I didn't mean to injure him that much that he suffered serious injuries and ended up passing away from complications. The other people who had lost their lives from my hands didn't bother me as much and I didn't think twice about it, but the other student who was a first year stock with me and always made me feel bad for his family, I didn't even know his name, which made it worse. I accidentally bumped into someone as I leaned on the bar waiting for the bartender to make it down
"Sorry" I said not really looking at the person as I was consumed with thoughts in my head
"Oh it's okay, you look pretty gloomy for someone who just won a match against the undefeated champ." I heard a female voice say next to me as I glanced at the now smiling girl, she was pretty close to my height, but was in the heel so might be shorter, she had brown hair with blond streaks everywhere, she had green eyes and a small noise that was similar to Jane, but not as perfect and adorable. She wore tight black leather pants and a tan top that showed off her pushed up boobies to make them look bigger than they are.
"Its complicated, not really supposed to be fighting, going to get my ear chewed off, about the browse and stuff" I said giving her a small smile as I tasted blood again.
"That sucks, I think you should fight more you're so good, plus now everyone going to want to challenge you after beating the champ" she said, batting her fake eyelashes and touching my arm lightly with her hand, as I nodded in agreement
"I'm river by the way" I said, smiling a little more
"Missy, it's so awesome to meeting the new champ at the warehouse" she said flashing an even bigger smile as the bartender came near and I asked for two beers.
"On the house man, awesome fight" he said, walking away as I hand the other beer to Missy, which sounded fake personally but I didn't care. As she took the beer I glanced over her body that was nice and attractive enough, trying a little hard but not bad, she also didn't have any tattoo signaling which family she was aligned with meaning her family was high-ranking or she was a suck up and wanted in some way. Hopefully she was a suck up because I don't need to piss off any high-ranking people from messing with their daughters. True I mess with a few at school, but they were not important ones as I could tell.
"So Missy, what brings you here?" I asked probing into who she was
"Oh, well I had a friend who has a brother who I dated for a while that used to fight a lot, we broke up" she added quickly, but my friend is dating a fighter now and I tag along sometimes, the people are cool drinks cheap and they don't card, plus I have a major thing for bad boys like you" she said touching my arm again batting her eyes, I smiled because that mean I could play with her for a bit
"Bad boy thing huh, want to have a little private fun with a bad boy like then" I asked as she licked her lips
"I love private bad boy fun, we can have a little bad fun in" she said as I nodded watching her slid off the stole slowly grabbing my hand.
I sighed and let her pull me as I looked up quickly to make sure Jane wasn't seeing what I was about to do. I knew she would be pissed and upset about this, but I didn't want her to know because I didn't want her to be more upset with me. Mark, Tiffany and Nikita were looking at me with the same look of unhappiness, but Nikita looked angry at well and I felt shamed by her judging eyes. I didn't intentionally try to hurt Jane, but I have needed and being around Jane doesn't help in any way, especially from this afternoon when she was trying to mark he in front of the preacher's daughter. It made me want her more than I wanted anybody. But I can't ever have Jane so I have to find another that I can fill the need, but lately it's been hard to get in the mood unless I'm thinking about Jane. Before I started protecting Jane, this girl would be my types and I would already be hard and trying to screw her, but now all I can think about is how she not Jane, not as pretty, their body not as perfect.
We went into the men's room and she pulled me into the only stall that was large and ruffle pushed me against the wall. It was a turn on, as she started kissing down my neck, but nothing was happening or at least not fast enough really. I closed my eyes, sighing as she ran her hand up and down my abuse. I started imagining the night in the back of mark's car, when Jane was out of her mind. The feeling of her lips against my neck, those soft lips that sent a burning sensation down to my pants instantly. The bar chick was undoing my pants as I glanced down at her encouraging her to continue by grabbing onto the back of her head. As I closed my eyes again losing the feeling and remembered how she grinding against me and how I wanted to take her right there in the back seat. Lay her down and make her my own personal little slave that was mine and mine alone.
There was bang as I quickly opened my eyes and could see a very angry Jane standing in the doorway to the stall, with the rest of the girls. Nikita and Tiffany looked angry as Gina and Courtney were laughing. I pushed Missy off me quickly and adjusted myself as quickly as possible
"Really River, I asked you for one thing and you couldn't even keep it in your pants, especially when David is here" she screamed at me as she turned quickly and ran out of the door as I ran after her quickly, leaving the girls and Missy still in the bathroom
"Jane stop" I shouted after her after exiting the bathroom but the wear house was loud and roaring again as another fight was going on, flowing after her wasn't essay as she moved through the crowded quickly but she I stayed with her pretty close behind. "Jane stop" I said again as she opened the door and walked out quickly without even glances back
I ran quickly after her once breaking out of the crowed, it was slightly raining still not as heavy as before. I glanced to left, then to the right where I saw her quickly turn the corner. Running to catch up with her as fast as I could. This really wasn't the best area to be wandering around in alone at night.danta and the other head might do a lot of business here but so do others. One I caught up with her I grabbed onto her arm, making her stop and turned her around. She wouldn't look up at me and I could see she was crying and I instantly hated myself for making her cry again.
"Jane." I said, releasing my grip on her, but she shoved me
"no" she shouted angry "I'm so sick and tired of hearing your apologizes, I don't want to hear them anymore, I want you to leave me the hell alone" she screamed and turned and took off running again. My stomach felt like I had eaten a few rocks as to follow after her and grabbed her arm again, pulling her to a stop again as she struggled to get out of my grasp. "Let me go River" she screamed, but I couldn't and I didn't want to, I gently pushed her against the wall slightly in a small alley we were standing at the entrance to. At least it was darker and counseled us more from anyone that might be around
"Jane, do you have any idea how difficult all of this is for me, what it's like daily having to pretend to be with you" I said in a lower voice than before
"well I'm sorry it's such chore to pretend to be with me" Jane shouted, trying to push me my hands off of her
"no" it wasn't what I had meant, and I could see the hurt look in her eyes as she tried to break free
I grabbed both sides of her face forcing her to look at me, as I pressed my hard hungry lips to her soft lips. She reacted to me quickly, which made me want her more than I pressed my entire body to her, want to feel of inch of her against me. I wanted her so bad, but it doesn't change the fact I don't want her she can't want me. I pulled away from her quickly, not far I still wanted to feed the want I had for her by holding her. Pressing my forehead to hers, I took a deep breath as I listened to her heavy breathing and indulging how it felt to have her hands pressed against me.
"River, please to don't push me away again" my heart melted into a puddle and I leaned into kiss her again I just wanted one more soft sweet kiss from her, but I stopped myself and pulled away from her
"I have to" I said as she started to shake her head as a door down in the alley slammed open, instantly I pulled Jane off the wall and pulled her behind me
"look what we have here Mason" one man said as he came out smirking and my grip tightened around Jane
"why look who it is" the other man said in sarcastic surprise "its River and Jane in the flesh, you look just like your photo" the man mason said hitting the unknown man arm
"Mason maybe we can get their autograph" he said jumping around in a spastic way as I forced a step back moving Jane with me more toward the entrance of the ally
"Oh yeah that sounds fun one written in blood" he said as I turned quickly seeing the spastic one move toward us quickly
"Jane, get Mark" as I shoved her and she took of running back toward the warehouse
Turning back toward the man very close to me I was hit in the head with a large heavy piece of glass. My head spun as I was hit in the face a second later. My vision was failing as I hit the ground hard. I thought I shouldn't have turned my back on them to tell Jane to run. Trying to get back up as my head swirled and I was hit in the stomach and heard high-pitched laughter near my head. I was about to pass out, but I need to fight I could go down this simply. Pushing myself up I was hit in the face and kicked into the stack causing me to fall onto my back
"Should I go catch his little girlfriend" the jumpy one said as he sat on my chest, making it difficult to breathe, as he smacked my face a few times laughing
"no she not really important, let just take him" The man known as mason said as the jump man got up and punched me one last time and I lost all consciousness.
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I'm sorry
I have just been so busy with school and my internships, by the time I get home i'm exhausted, plus do all the homework and lesson planning for the next i need to do, my hands are in so much pain from carpel tunnel.
I'm going to work on both book over the summer and try and finish them before I go back to school in August for the last semester.
Jackie