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Sia pressed her back against the wall rewrapping the boxing bandages around her hands. They were already coming apart and she immediately made a mental note to get new ones if she didn’t want scars running around her knuckles. The screams and the shouts of the underground boxing ring had never been louder. Many a times she wondered if these people generally had a good lung capacity or their lungs were forced to expand its capacity.Sia chose to believe the latter though; none of them looked healthy enough to have good lungs; nobody in their right sense of mind would come to an underground boxing ring every day to watch people fight, kill themselves and then yell on top of their voices.Anyone who wanted to be healthy would do that.She didn’t see the skinny woman walking towards her and blowing wisps of smoke into her face. A frown immediately crawled up Sia’s face as she turned to the woman with displeasure written all over her face.“How many times will I tell you not to smoke into
The taxi had already driven into the highway before Sia slowly pulled the hoodie slightly away from her forehead. The lights in the streets shone brightly providing enough illumination for the cars and pedestrians to go about their daily business as though it was past mid-day.As for the people who went about their usual business; she had nothing to do with them, she as well was about to go about her normal business. She pressed her head against the window of the taxi, the cars fleeting and lights blinding her a few times. Her head remained pressed to the window until the taxi rolled to a stop in front of an hospital.She dug her hands into her hoodie pocket and paid the taxi driver before getting down from the car and walking towards the sliding doors. A girl with a shrouded hoodie walking suspiciously into the hospital at minutes past 11 definitely wasn’t an everyday occurrence and so Sia had a few heads turning as she walked further into the hospital.She pulled down the hoodie fro
Under her mother’s instructions; Sia had to leave the hospital around 1am and make way towards their house. It was dead in the midnight and the roads were void of taxis, cars and human beings but Sia had no problem walking for almost ten kilometres on foot and without any fear.Instead she had treated the walk like her early morning jog. Jogging to the apartment complex without losing her breath. She stopped at the apartment complex, her breadth coming out with slow wisps of air. The building was desolated with the lights in almost every room was evidence that people lived there. Not that Sia expected anyone to be roaming about the complex at few minutes past 2am in the morning.She proceeded to walk into the apartment complex walking into the elevator and pressing down for the fourth floor. She relaxed folding her arms as the elevator moved and soon it made a ‘ding’ sound notifying her that he had arrived at its destination.The doors slid open and she walked out walking towards one
The second girl’s veins throbbed wildly against her forehead at Sia’s insult. Sia glanced at the security guards who were watching them with apprehension. The students had burst into laughter when Sia had called her dumb and it was funnier because she was always ranked in the last 50 students in their set. The thought annoyed but Sia was not bothered.“I have no business with you so stay out of my lane” Sia finished before turning and walking towards the school gates.No one knew what had gotten into the second girl as she rushed towards Sia grabbing her bag and turning her around to give her a slap but it seemed as if Sia had seen it coming because by the time the girl turned Sia around to slap her, she was the one who got a fist to her face. She staggered backwards screaming on top of her voice while holding her bloody probably broken nose. Her friends seeing the scene also rushed towards Sia who now had a huge frown on her face. She was quick to grab the first girl who rushed towar
Sia had no idea of how much she slept or how many hours of school time had passed by when someone roughly pushed her desk. Aroused from sleep; irritation seeped into her bones as her eyelids fluttered open glaring at the person who had shaken her table. The boy who was seated in front of her withdrew his hand immediately terrified of Sia’s glare.She sat up and realized that half of the class was boring holes into her head and another much older man with glasses managed to bore a hole through his glasses.“It’s your first day and you are already sleeping in my class” he said through his nose and Sia sat up fully meeting the older man’s eyes.“What is it that you were teaching or talking about?” Sia asked, her question instantly producing green lines on the teacher’s face.“Insolence!” he yelled banging the table. Sia looked around the class a small chuckle on her lips. Even though virtually everyone in the class was now staring at her, she was still able to depict the fact that none o
Samantha indeed gave her a tour of the whole school. from the cafeteria to the indoor courts ranging from the basketball court, to the table tennis court to the lawn tennis court to the volleyball courts. As much as Sia didn’t want to admit , she realised that there was a hall or court for almost every sport that was played in the school. Her old school had to share a basketball court with another school in the area. Samantha went on to show her the library, the clinic, the musical room and so many other places. She wasn’t even bothered that they had missed about two classes while giving her a tour of the school. She complained about having a patchy throat and Samnath led them back to the cafeteria and Sia was puzzled when Samantha brought out a card instead of money.“You don’t have your meal card yet?” Samantha asked and Sia shrugged her shoulders.“I didn’t know meal cards were a thing in private schools” Sia replied, earning a grin from Samantha.“It is here. I mean with your meal
It had been less than two weeks since Sia resumed to Orleans and saying that she had been adjusting well would be Sia trying to sound like she was okay when clearly she wasn’t. Not even in the least. Like Samantha had said, somehow she no longer felt out of place like she thought she would be feeling like for a long while but rather, she had slowly adjusted into her class and her classmates although stayed away from her didn't treat her like someone who was still new.Sia could barely make sense of the class she was in. Most of the teachers made it to class and spoke as though they were trying to curry favour with the students and rarely taught anything. Instead of listening to a 40-year old woman talk about how much she loved lilac flowers when her face screamed the opposite; Sia would rather put her head on the table and sleep and no one dared to wake her up.Someone had y mistake kicked Sia’s chair while she sleeping one day and Sia awoke with a glare that burned the girl to her fe
Grumbling as she walked into the class, Sia didn’t waste time placing her head on her table and sending herself into the arms of sleep. She was baffled at the girls who had kicked Samantha’s chair. She doubted if she had seen them around her or even around them and no matter how much she thought; not even one of those scenes crossed her mind. She came to a conclusion.Someone had sent them; she had seen too many scenes and incidents like that at her former school. Her school was one scary place and you had to be scarier to be able to keep your head.Sia was the scariest so of course her head was safe. As for who had sent the girls, Sia had no idea.Even in the class, she was no push over so there was no way someone in the class must have sent the girls. The fact that someone from the other classes might have sent them made Sia chuckle. She had somehow not come in contact with any of the students from the other two classes.According to Smantha, the school placed their classes far away
The silence in the car was almost deafening. Sia couldn’t even stop the thoughts running in her head. Since when had he found out that she was his daughter? Why didn’t he say anything? Why did he teach her boxing? She had thousands of questions but she couldn’t bring herself to ask, she couldn’t even bring herself to hate him.Tyler had been stupefied when he saw Sia with a strange-looking man, he was stunned when he saw the resemblance. He didn’t say anything and told Sally to excuse them. Sia walked into her mother’s ward sighing softly.“Mom, there’s someone you should meet” she muttered and she watched as her mother stared at the man behind her in shock.“Jon.. Jonathan…. Jonathan… Jonathan….” she called repeated and Bone Crusher stood in front of her trying to smile.‘I’m so sorry Maya. For leaving you that year. I had no choice, they were going to kill you if I didn’t comply, they were also responsible for the death of your brother. They had planned the accident, so I was terrifi
It had been a tough fight but Sia had won in the quarter-final shocking a lot of people, nobody would have thought that a small girl like Sia would have lasted till the quarter-finals, but she was in the semi-finals and was close to the finals. The semi-finals and finals were always fought closely together and the shouts in the underground ring were deafening Sia won the semi-final. There was a bruise on her lip as she stared panting at the man lying below her.She was even more eager to find her Bone Crusher and then her father. Tyler had sent word that her mom doing a bit better but missed her, she had to rush whatever she was doing and Sia understood. Mother and daughter had come such a long way and they both unconsciously relied on each other.“It’s the finals okay?” Penny said and Sia nodded her head.“Let’s get this” she whispered and Sia walked into the ring.Even when she had been adamant and told Penny that her goal was to find Bone Crusher and win the championship, there wer
By the third day of the tournament, Sia’s name was slowly getting popular, she was getting more fans with huge amounts of money used as bets on her head. She had won every single battle from the first day without breaking a sweat. She soon realized why Bone Crusher always wanted her to be on her toes. It made her swifter, made her faster, and made her able to dodge punches easily and if she was hit, she could easily bounce it off. Penny had been stunned and had almost fallen after seeing her first fight. She almost couldn’t believe that Sia had gone through exponential growth. It was crazy. The people who had usually watched Sia fight were also likewise surprised.They soon concluded that one of the ghost trainers must have found her and even if that were to be true, that was the higher-up management of the underground ring acknowledging that a girl had potential. It drove people to her and soon her name was slowly becoming a household name.Had lovers and haters at the same time but
The championship week started and Samantha was still super nervous even after attending one of Sia’s training seasons. She knew nothing about boxing but watching her fight and train; she knew she had greatly improved.Sia had improved so much that it felt her surprised. Penny and Lewis had always told her she had a talent for boxing and that she was why she could easily grow in the boxing world. Some other people took years to get a hang of it while she grew through her fights. There was no explanation and Penny had even joked that maybe her father was aboxer and that was why he was related to Bone Crusher.Her intense training with Bone Crusher had also proved that again. Bone Crusher’s training seemed to be tailored for her and she knew that getting through the early stages of the championship would be easy for her. “Samantha said you got so much better” Penny commented helping Sia tie her white bandages around her hand and Sia chuckled.“She’s no professional, yet she noticed that
By the time Sia was out of the hospital, she knew the next thing for her was to train like her life depended on it. Penny had told her that a lot of people had been shocked she ended up qualifying for the championship and while she had successfully earned her spot and also gained the approval of a lot of people. There was a forum for underground boxing but Sia had never bothered herself to look at it. She certainly didn’t want to see videos of her plumeeting someone else or someone else doing that someone else.In summary, she was racking in supporters and her enemies or haters? They seemed to be taking a break after their gross defeat in the ring. Sia had started classes with Bone Crusher and this man was so mysterious because his training style was so different from the usual. Her training was hellish and he seemed not to care that she was a girl or boy.“I will not consider whether you are a girl or boy during this training, there’s only one thing I’ll look at. You are a fighter, a
CHAPTER FORTY18+ CONTENT AHEAD There was silence in the room for over ten minutes, each left with their thoughts and their speculations but there was a mutual understanding between them. Vivian excused herself after a while and Sia turned to Nate who gave her a comforting look.“You’ll find him, don’t worry too much,” Nate said in the hopes of making Sia feel better. And Sia nodded her head.“I know I will” she replied watching as Nate stood up from his seat and walked towards Sia sitting beside her on the bed.“You okay?” he asked with care in both his tone and voice making Sia feel sweet all over.“Hmmm. I’ll feel better very soon” Sia whispered reaching out her arms to hug Nate. She would be lying to say she didn’t miss him. She missed him, his blank face, him running his fingers in her hair, she hugging him, she missed it a lot.Unfortunately, her arms were brought down as Nate closed onto her, eliminating any distance between them. Without allowing her to think, he arched his h
Sia found Samantha huddled on a staircase she didn’t think she had seen before. The latter shoulders were shaking and she sobbed quietly. Her hair had fallen all over her shoulder and Sia couldn’t imagine how she felt at that moment.“Hey,” Sia called out and Samantha froze. The tears and shaking of her shoulders seemed to come to a sudden stop and Samantha slowly raised her head.“Anna?” she asked as if unsure of who was in her front.Sia tried to smile but her lips constricted painfully and she nodded her head.“You ran out before you could see me win” Sia replied and Samantha jumped on her bursting into fresh tears hugging Sia and wailing like a baby. Sia could feel pain all over her body as Samantha hugged but she made no sound.“I…. I …. I…. was so terrified” Samantha hicupped quietly while sobbing.“I was so scared that I would lose you”“I was so scared” Samantha choked out again still sobbing while Sia just rubbed the back of her head quietly. She knew that Samantha had been t
Like Penny had said, Sia knew that she aroused the anger and hatred of some people and there was nothing she could do about it. She needed to find him and so she had to enter the championship, the championship was held every three years and that was the reason why in the first place, she had fought for almost three years. Now it was here, she would not allow anybody to take the opportunity away from her, she didn’t care who the person was. She was not just going to get into the championship, she was going to win it. By all means possible.With Samntha’s grandfather’s help, she was finally able to take a prolonged break from school. It was to help her train well without arousing attention from others. Nate didn’t ask her why she taking a prolonged break but she knew that he didn’t like the fact that he hadn’t told him. They had gotten so close to each other, indulging each other and showing each other side of themselves that no one else knew.Caleb would complain every time that she ha
Sia didn’t know how long Nate and her mother spoke, all she knew was that her mom was beaming with smiles by the time Sally was tucked into sleep.“Your mom is much more talkative than you are” Nate muttered and Sia smiled.“Hmmm,” she replied.“Will she be alright?” Nate asked and Sia stared at her mom through the door glass and turned to Nate with a small smile on her face.“She will be” They both walked into the elevator and Nate pressed the button for the lowest floor. “What did you talk to my mom about?” Sia asked turning to stare at Nate again.“Why don’t you ask her?” Nate replied a sleezy smile on his lips. The elevator came to a stop and Sia watched as Nate walked towards the Admins section. She had an inkling of what he wanted to do and quickly stopped him.“I can pay for my mother’s medical bills. You don’t need to do so” Sia said firmly meeting Nate's eyes.“Who said I was going to pay for her medical bills?” Nate replied by passing Sia and walking towards the office. He