Rising Champions

Chapter 5

I go into my room to tell my mom I am back. She is already asleep on her bed.  I decided to go over to Kali’s room. I walk across the hall and knock on her door. Her mom answers it.

“Hi, honey, how are you?” she says.

“I am good, how about you Ms. Jones?”

“I am wonderful. Are you looking for Kali, because she is down by the pool with a boy and his friend.”

“Okay, thanks!” I reply, and walk back to my room.

I go put my bathing suit on and head to the pool. I really hope that the boys are Erik and Colton. I get butterflies in my stomach as I near the pool. But then some guy steps in front of me and starts talking.

“Hey beautiful. Where are you going?”

I just wanna walk around him, I can see Kali, Colton, and Erik. The guy won’t let me though. “Please get out of my way.” I say.

“Oh come on, don’t you wanna hang out?” This guy was starting to make me nervous. He was a lot older than me.

“Excuse me,” I say. I try to brush past him but he grabs my wrist.

“Don’t just walk away from me!” He says. I start to pull away but he is still gripping my wrist. I start to panic. 

“Let GO!” I yell!

Then I notice that Colton has seen this and is heading my way. Relief floods through my body. He is almost near us and I make one last attempt to get away, but fail. He is really starting to hurt my wrist. By that time Colton has gotten their.

“What the heck do you think your doing?!” he says.

He is at least 4 inches taller than the guy and the expression on his face is that of anger. 

“Hey, dude, I just wanna hang out with the girl and she won’t let me.” the man holding my wrist responds.

“Let go of her right now!” he snarls. Then he grabs the guys arm and does some move that looks like it could break a wrist. It is almost like a karate chop. Whatever it was, it worked. The guy howled in pain and let go of my wrist. I rushed to Colton’s side and the guy walked away.

“Are you okay? Did he hurt you?” he asks me.

“I’m fine but I don’t know what I would have done if you hadn’t showed up. Thank you!” I say. Without thinking about it I throw my arms around his neck. I feel his arms wrap around my waist and he whispers,”There is no need to thank me. Are you sure your okay?”

“Yeah, I’m fine. My wrist is a little sore but no permanent damage.” I reply.

We are still hugging and he pulls away. He gently takes my wrist in his hand at looks at it. 

“Doesn’t loom too serious” he says. I smile and laugh. He grabs my hand and we head towards the pool.

Kali looks up from her conversation with Erik and says, “Hey, what happened? That guy was like all over you.”

“I don’t know, he wanted to ‘hang out’ with me. Luckily, Colton stopped him.” I say and smile up at him. He smiles back. Then leans down kisses my cheek again.