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
Sia didn’t know how long she had slept but by the time she opened her eyes; she knew school would definitely be over. She pushed herself up the seats and discovered that the hot boy who was playing basketball from before had also disappeared. She rubbed her eyes before rising to her feet and trotting towards her class.Unlike she had thought, it was the final period before school was over. In summary, she had missed two extra periods. The class was loud and noisy by the time Sia stepped back into the class. Samantha had a grin on her face as she followed her to her seat.“Nigga, could you have done something else than saying you do not understand and basis of a baseball game and saying you are not interested in it as an excuse to leave the class?” Samantha asked as Sia sat down and furrowed her brows.“Another excuse like what?” Sia asked and Samantha laughed lightly.“After you left, no matter what Stanley tried to teach, everyone kept chorusing that they didn't know it and weren’t
“What do you mean by she’s going to use her claws to scratch my face?” Phillip asked with a frown on his face, his fingers moving even faster on the keyboard while keeping his eyes on the screen.“You sure do know that Alina has her eyes on our star boy Nate, she would do anything to get his attention” Caleb replied taking a pause and turning to glance at the boy seated a few metres away from him and shook his head.“Caleb, are you crazy?” Phillip yelled as Caleb’s fingers also resumed on the keyboard.“It was just a few seconds, I’m sure you had me covered” Caleb replied grinning.“It’s not my fault that Mr Nate here is an unfeeling human and a cold ice snowman, a good looking snowman by the way. Why would she want to claw at me?” Phillip asked and Caleb burst into laughter.“Someone made a post on the school forum, they think y’all are gay or something” Caleb replied making Phillip pause slightly before he chuckled and resumed playing the game.“I should make a reply like this, If I
Caleb and Phillip exchanged glances watching the third boy seating opposite them scroll through his phone without saying another word. Nathaniel was averse to humans,he would develop rashes on his arms and on his legs if he got close to people. It was one of the many reasons why people were forbidden into his space but the main reason was that he absolutely hated having strangers and unfamiliar people in his space.“Kelvin is throwing a party, y’all gonna show up?” Caleb asked, breaking the delicate silence.“Kelvin?” Phillip asked and Caleb nodded his head.“He wanted Nathaniel to come by the way, '' Caleb replied, turning to the third boy who turned to him and raised his eyebrow.“He said upstairs would be free for you to use. And you can use his game room too” Caleb added and Nathaniel turned back to scrolling through his phone.“So are we going or not?” Caleb asked again and Phillip shrugged.“Well, there's space for Nate to avoid every other human and there are games too. It’s fi
Like Samantha had said, by the time Sia was stepping out of her room with a towel over her head to dry her hair, Samantha was closing the door behind her and bringing the takeouts to the dining table.“You ordered this much?” Sia asked, staring at the amount of food on the table. Samnatha grinned in reply.“I’ll leave some in the fridge so that I can microwave them tomorrow morning and eat before going to school”Sia raised her eyebrow at the thought and nodded her head. She never made food at home, she slept over in her mom’s ward in the hospital and rushed home to go to school in the morning. If she remembered, she would buy a cup of coffee and that was what she would take until it was break time and Smaantha dragged her to the cafeteria.“So I ordered prawns and crabs as well. You like seafood right?” Samantha asked and Sia turned to look at her in surprise.“You rarely use your phone but the few times you’ve used it, I always see you scrolling through sea food. This is nothing com
Sia ignored the first ring and the second ring and the third and the fourth and on the fifth, she angrily got out of her seat and walked towards the ringing phone. Her brows pulled together even unpleasantly when she realized that Samantha didn't even save the number. She grabbed the phone and placed it near her ears, before she could say anything, the other person yelled into her ears.“You did sit down and watch your phone ring right? You idiot!” the latter yelled into Sia’s ears.“It’s past 11pm, where are you? Are you going to sleep out because of that little drama that took place yesterday?” the other person kept yelling, successfully pricking Sia.“It’s past 11pm, so shouldn't your neighbors come and knock on your door when you are yelling your lungs out?” Sia asked and the other person seemed to be taken aback for a moment.“Excuse me? Who’s this?” The latter shot rapid questions at Sia who chuckled.“If you call this phone one more time, I’m going to force your number to the p
By the time Samantha woke up, Sia was already awake and had warmed up the takeaway they had bought the previous day.“You wake up so early” Samantha grumbled as she walked into the kitchen.“You slept for about 12 hours” Sia shot back and Samantha snorted jumping on the tab to seat down.“How was your night?” Samantha asked, yawning.“I slept quite well” Sia replied, serving the both of them food into the plates and then dropping them on the dining table. Samantha threw a glance at Sia at her reply, she had woken up twice in the midnight and walked around the house, checked the rooms but Sia was nowhere to be found. Her phone was missing too. She nodded her head choosing to eat her food than poke nose into her business or where she had been throughout the night.__________________________Caleb ran his hands through his hair while trying to make sense of the decision the boy in front of him had taken. “Nate, nobody wakes up and decides to change classes and you aren’t moving to Arts
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