As he left the training room, Jake took his phone out of his pocket and sent a message to Cat.
Jake: Are you still in school?
Waiting for some minutes while walking with Kevin and Smith, Jake got a reply from Cat.
Cat: Yes, are you guys done with your training?
Jake: Yeah, where are you?
Cat: I'm close to the school exit, Nikki and I were about leaving.
Jake: Hold on, I'm coming to meet you.
While walking towards the school exit with Smith and Jake, Kevin asked Jake "What do you think your punishment's going to be?"
"I don't know Kevin." Jake answered. "How about you stick around and find out? While you're at it you'll help me out with the punishments."
"Sorry bro, hard pass." Kevin said. "I like spending time with Miss Anna but not while I'm receiving punishment for something I didn't do. Don't worry, you'll tell me about everything tomorrow?"
"If you don't stay to find out, then you'll never know what happened." Jake said. "And she might wear something you'll like."
"You mean she could change her outfit to something better?" Kevin asked with glee.
"Yeah, will you stay?"
After thinking about what Jake just said and weighing his options, Kevin sighed dramatically. "As tempting as that sounds, and trust me it sounds very tempting, I can't stay. I need to practice so that this guy here doesn't get stronger than me." he said, gesturing at Smith. "And I also want to go somewhere tonight."
"Where are you going? Will you have time to practice and go where you want to go?" Jake asked.
"Yes, because I won't say long where I'm going." Kevin replied.
"Your loss. How about you Smith? Want to stay back?"
"No, I need as much time as I can get to practice what we've been taught." Smith replied.
"Guess it's just me. Hey Cat." Jake said as they got to the school exit where Cat was standing with Nikki. "Where's Sasha?"
"She had to leave, her parents make her go and return from school with a driver. I thought I wouldn't be able to see you again today." Cat replied and welcomed Jake with a kiss on his lips.
"Yeah I thought so too, but I begged Miss Anna and she gave me a few minutes to leave the training room.
"Me too Cat." Kevin said and puckered his lips.
"You too what?" Jake asked. "Go get your own girlfriend."
Walking over, Cat gave Kevin a peck on his cheek. "How about you Nikki? Anything for me?" Kevin asked.
"Keep dreaming Kevin." Nikki scoffed as she gave Jake a hug.
"Seriously?" Kevin asked. "Jake gets a hug and I get nothing?"
"I guess that's what happens when you ask a girl out on a date and don't show up. Twice." Jake said with his hand on Nikki's shoulder. "I mean seriously, how evil could you be?"
"Can you drop that topic dude? I already said I was sorry. What else do you want me to do?"
"How about you apologize properly by taking off your clothes and streaking round this street while shouting 'I'm sorry Nikki'." Nikki said to Kevin.
"I think that's kind of a stretch Nikki." Jake said, now moving from Nikki's side to Cat's and putting his hand on her waist while Cat put her hand around his back.
"You THINK Jake?" Kevin asked. "You THINK?"
"I was even trying to help you." Jake said. "Anyway that's between you and Nikki, I have to get back to the training room."
"Already?" Cat asked.
"Yeah, I think I've spent more time than I should have. Bye." Jake said then turned to face Cat and kissed her.
"We'll talk later?" Cat asked.
"Maybe. See you tomorrow Nikki. You sure you don't want to stay back Kevin?" Jake asked.
"I'm good." Kevin replied.
"Okay, see you tomorrow then. Bye Smith." Jake waved and headed back to the training room.
"Let's go home in a Glist." Kevin said. "I'm not in the mood to walk today, and I don't want to get into a Seetle."
"Sure." Cat said.
"I don't... have enough credits for a Glist." Smith said awkwardly.
"It's cool dude, I got you." Kevin said as he began booking a Glist. "But you ladies will have to pay for yourselves."
"What a gentleman." Nikki said.
"I was only joking. And it's not like you guys can't pay for a Glist yourselves."
"But we're all going in different directions." Smith said. "How will we get into one Glist?"
"That's not a problem, the driver will drop us off at our houses one after the other." Cat explained. "The person will first of all go to the closest house, then the next, and so on."
"Okay." Smith said.
"We just have to wait for a couple of minutes, the Glist will be here soon." Nikki said. "That's if he didn't put in a location."
"How would I have put in a wrong location?" Kevin asked. "It's a very straightforward process to book a Glist, and we're at school. The location comes up on my phone after I enter a few letters."
"Whatever." Nikki replied.
Shaking his head, Kevin kept quiet and waited silently for the Glist to arrive.
Going into the training room, Jake saw Miss Anna lying on a mat with her eyes closed.
"Welcome back." Anna said then opened her eyes. "I don't think it's up to eight minutes yet." she said sarcastically.
Understanding the drift of Anna's statement, Jake replied "I didn't pay attention to the time."
"I know you didn't." Anna said. "That's why I'm going to add to your punishment."
"Seriously? How are we going to get any training done if you pile punishments on me?" Jake asked.
"That's a very good question, the answer is you start your punishment immediately and quit talking."
"What is the punishment?"
"Now we're on the same page. Get over here and lie down with me." Anna said.
"Is that part of the punishment?" Jake asked as he moved to join Anna.
"Lie down first, you'll find out." Anna replied.
"Now I'm scared." Jake said as he laid down next to Anna.