The woman pushes Nick towards a guy around his age "spar with him" she pats him on the back and walks off leaving the two, the man stretches out his arm and Nick awkwardly taps it. Nick walks out of the gym with blood soaked paper stuffed in his nose followed along side by the woman, "how did you enjoy it?" she looks at him with a warm smiles, Nicks heart started to drum harder then when he was fighting, "yeah it was fun" he pauses for a while building up the courage to ask her a question, as he opens his mouth she asks "what's your name?" they walk side by side down the now dark and empty street, "Nick" he smiles looking back up at her, "I'm Ava" she says as they step into the beam of a street light illuminating her tanned skin and beautiful black leather hair, they walk for a few minutes making small talk before parting ways.
Nick wakes up the next day, his muscles in agony as he pulls himself out of bed and into the shower, he pulls up his shirt and finds countless giant purple marks across his ribs. As he walks into school he spots Ava towering over the rest of the crowd, he shouts her name as he gets closer and she turns giving him a warm smile and greeting him, "I didn't realise you went to school here Nick" her heartwarming smile makes Nick feel at ease before going to class, whilst sat listening to the teacher drone on he sits thinking about her. The wind blows through his hair once more as blood splatters across his face as the back of his head collides with the wall, the three boys from before surrounding him with grins on their faces, a group of girls join them and watch as Nick is beaten by the tallest boy, "who said you could talk to Ava huh?" he grabs nick by his hair bringing him to eye level, Nick's hands steady and his breathing slows as he throws a punch connecting with the boy's face only to be followed with laughter as he stands up kicking Nick back down "you hit like a girl". Nick once again stumbles through the street, blood dripping onto his clothes as he goes, whilst clutching his stomach he recognises the street and turns to see the dishevelled old gym, a feeling from deep in Nicks gut starts to bubble up as he inches closer and closer to the gym, he walks in and the coach at the front desk turns to him "you look like shit" he yawns, Nick looks through his long sickly hair and up to the giant of a man and croaks out "I want to train", the coach laughs through his beard at the request before putting down his coffee and walking over to Nick, "lets get you started then shall we boy" the coach pats Nick on the back and takes him into the empty gym. Hours later Nick staggers out of the gym covered in bruises, his legs shake as he flounders down the steps to leave the gym.
Nick walks shakingly to school, as he enters the threshold of the gates Ava pats him on the shoulder sending a shock of pain through him "How are you feeling" her hand glides off of his shoulder grazing his backĀ Sending a shiver down his spine, "hurting" he winces. The school day drags on and Nick finds himself struggling to listen to the lectures from his teachers. The school day ends and Nick once again finds himself at the gyms doors, Ava's beautiful voice comes from behind him "it's Jujitsu today, are you ready" Nick awkwardly nods and follows Ava inside and joins her on the mat. Ava lays on her back and beckons Nick towards her, he sits inbetween her legs attempting not to meet her eyes, they roll around on the floor and eventually Nick finds himself being choked as Ava slips her well tonnes arms through his neck and wraps her legs around his own, slowly she brings her shoulders back causing Nick to frantically tap out.
As the group of regulars at the gym leave, Nick sits on one of the benches and waits for Ava to finish talking to the coach, she walks towards him with a smile making his heart beat faster then it had during the sparring session. Nick swallows and stands up and stutters out a few noises before coughing and fixing his posture, "would you like to go out with me" both Nick and Ava's face turn bright red. The coach watches them both whilst cleaning the mat, chuckling to himself.