Chapter 7- The Gym

Riley’s POV

Beep! Beep! Time to get up. I just need 5 more minutes, never mind I won’t end up going to the gym. I sloppily got out of bed and went to my closet.

I found that my training attire was kept neatly folded in the back of my cupboard. My clothes consisted of a black t-shirt, sports bra and black tights. I had a quick shower, got changed, grabbed a granola bar and jogged to the gym. I like to train early in the morning so that no one sees me. I mean it would seem weird for a quiet girl to knock a punching bag off its chains… Scraggy had given me my own key so that I’d be able to access the gym at any time.

I pulled out the key unlocked the door, switched the lights on and went in. You could say the gym was an average size not too small and not too big. All kinds of training equipment filled the room there was a stereo in the corner which I turned on.

I walked to the punching bag, wrapped up my knuckles and got ready to throw the first punch. I felt my body loosen, the wholes week worth of stress and anger was released. I had to monitor how hard I threw my punches, Scraggy already warned me about breaking the bag of its chain. And he doesn’t want to waste any money fixing it up every 4 days.

By the time I finished training it was almost bright outside I’d have to lock up and leave. I didn’t want to risk anyone seeing me, I switched the stereo and lights off and locked the door. By now it was around something to 6.

“Hey Riley what are you doing here so early?” Crap!

“Uh hi Emmette  I-I was just you know going to the gym.”

“Ry you just came out of the gym I saw you locking the door,”

“Right yeah I was checking I-” My hands were trembling and my keys fell down. I bent down to retrieve it.

“Wait how do you have this tattoo?”

“Huh?” D-did he see my tattoo, oh lord he did

“Riley there’s only one person in this place who has this tattoo and in the same exact spot.”

Double crap!! When I bent down to pick up my key my shirt must’ve rode up and that allowed Emmette to get a glimpse of my tattoo. A tattoo is not really a big deal right?

Wrong. I have a tattoo of a sword with my street fighting name Bellatrix above it with 2 birds on the side. I got it when I won a legendary match against the champion fighter 2 years ago.

You see all street fighters have a tattoo symbolising who they are, some people like to showcase it while some including me don’t. That’s why I got mine on my lower back.

“Emmette listen to me carefully, meet me at Star café in 20 minutes don’t tell anyone about what you just saw. I will answer all your questions there and come alone” I said slowly in a hushed tone

I can’t afford to let anyone know what my true identity is, I’d be in danger and I’d endanger all those close to me.

He shook his head in approval. I’m so scared to tell him theres no point in lying because he already saw my tattoo. He’d be the 3rd person to know who I really am.

I ran home ,had a shower and changed. I heard fred talking so I jumped out of my window onto the tree branch and onto the ground. I’ll just have breakfast at the café so I got in and drove off.

I’m beyond nervous I don’t know how he’ll react and whether he’d keep it a secrete. I had a small prep talk before I went inside the café.

“Hi Emmette I know you have some unanswered questions which I will answer now… but just let me explain myself and you cannot even tell a soul about this.” I said hesitantly

“Okay, you can explain everything and I promise to not even tell my dead bird about it.” Well okay…

Here goes nothing

“I am Bellatrix the champion street fighter. I’ve been fighting for 3 years now, I do it only to release all my emotions like my anger, I don’t do it to deliberately hurt people.” I took a deep breath in before continuing

“I trust you Emmette and I hope you’d keep all of what I’ve just said to yourself. Not  even Wade should know about it. Only Jayden and the gym owner Scraggy aka my manager know about Bellatrix.”

It took him a couple of minutes to digest this new found knowledge.

“I’m friends with thee best fighter in the country! Woah…. How did I get so lucky” he kept muttering to himself. A waiter came and we placed our order, I had a doughnut and a glass of fresh orange juice while Em had pancakes.

“So that’s why you were at the gym you were busy training. Damn now I can get a personal autograph. Oh and don’t worry I won’t tell anyone,” He said and smirked. I just laughed

Thank you god. “Yeah that’s why you saw me closing the gym, I have a spare key.”

“So whens your next match the gu-” His eyes widened

“Dude you’re Wade’s favourite fighter. Holy guacamole!”

Me? Oh my god. Is it a good thing that I’m happy about that?

“Oh I –uh could give him an autograph at one of my fights?” I nervously laughed

“Soo all this time when you was *in air quotes* sick and had to go home you actually had a fight to go to. Well at least now I can cover up for you when you have to leave during school time.” he said

I hugged  and thanked him.

“But what were you doing by the gym so early?”

“I was driving past to go to Lukes house but I slowed down when I saw someone fidgeting with the door then I saw it was actually you. I stopped and jumped off, honestly I thought you broke into the gym.” He said while scratching the back of his neck and chuckling

“Stalker” I muttered

“I heard that” we both laughed

We had a few minutes left so I left for school and Em went to Lukes house. Somehow Em reached school before me.

“Hey Jay. Hi Gray.” I said

“Heyy” they chorused

“What up girl best friend,” Luke says while lifting me up and spinning me around. I just laughed.

“Hey Lukey boo”

“She called me Lukey boo,” he cried out

‘Sup Ry” Emmette winked

“Hii Riley we were waiting for you”  Wade said

“Aww so sweet.”

“Uh guys can I steal Jayden away for a few minutes.”  There were a mixture of replies like yeah, alright and sure

I pulled Jay aside and whispered “I told Emmette about Bellatrix.” He stared at me with his eyes and mouth wide open.

“Wha- what? I mean you can trust him but why did you tell him.” He whispered

“He saw me coming out of the gym and approached me, when my keys fell down I bent to pick it up and he saw my tattoo.” I explained

“Oh my but you need not to repeat this mistake. No matter what you do remember Fred can’t find out,” he told me

We walked back to the guys and were engulfed by small talk. The buzzer rang and we split up to go to our different classes. I had Business Studies with Wade and Luke.

We seated ourselves at the back of the class and mentally prepared for the lesson ahead. Don’t get me wrong I like the subject just not the teacher.

“Psst”

“Psst, Riley”

“Huh, yeah what’s wrong?”

“Do you have a spare pencil?” Wade asked

“Yeah” I reached for my bag, got out a pencil and gave it to him

“Thanks” Wade took it and scribbled something onto a small piece of paper it was quite funny because he had stuck his tongue out and tilted his head. He looked like a puppy. Weird… he then passed the paper to Luke

I was actually paying attention to the lesson until someone decided to jab something into my side. Wade apparently got bored of the lesson so he decided to poke me with the pencil I leant him. He found it quite amusing because he found a ticklish spot so I squirmed each time.

If this idiot pokes me one more time I wi-

“Goddammit can you bladdy stop doing that!” I exclaimed

Oh god.

Everyone turned back and looked at me

“Is something wrong miss Mathews?” asked the teacher

“I-uh no nothing is wrong.” I said and shrunk further into my chair and buried my face into my hands

Luke and Wade couldn’t handle it so they burst out laughing. I lifted my head and gave them an annoyed/pissed off look which shut them up instantly. These idiots were seriously giggling. I think I should slap some sense into them.

When the bell rang I was the first person to leave the class. I went for my second class which as maths. Yayy *cue eye roll*

I sat at my usual place and got out a pen and notebook. Oh great Twiddle Dee and Twiddle Dumb is here. They spotted me and walked over. Wade sat behind me while Luke in front.

Throughout the lesson they tried getting me to talk. I wasn’t going to forgive them so easily. I devised a plan in my mind to get them back. I’d need a little help though. If this plan were to be successful  I’d have to speak sweetly to these two idiots so I won’t look suspicious.

I smirked

Time For Revenge

***Authors note***

I know I said that I won't be updating a new chapter but I had to put this last one before my exams start😂❤

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