Chapter 24. (re-upload. p.s. sorry my wattpad app is being silly)

We all stand around the blackboard to see who we are fighting today for the last time. Four stands in front of the board ready to talk to us, though he has his eyes fixed thoroughly on my neck. I don't know why he has bothered, he hasn't looked at the scars Marcus has given me for the past three years why start now? He eventually plucks up the courage to speak. "Ok initiates, today is the last set of fights before ranking tomorrow. Although stage one is nearly over stage two is yet to arrive." He drags on. I just want him to shut up and let me see who I am fighting. 'Please let it be Jessica, please.' I beg to whoever is listening. Four moves out of the way and I frantically scan for my name. 

3. Ruby vs Jessica. Perfect. I smile in excitement. But I have to wait through two fights before I can wrap  my hands around her neck like a noose. I sigh in frustration. The first two fights are Connor against Lewis and Olivia against Oliver. The fights eventually go underway Connor beats the crap out of Lewis for what he did to me last night. Oliver gets knocked out by a single elbow from Olivia. Then it is me against Jessica. Without a prompt I walk to the white mat and patiently  wait and watch as Jessica makes her way towards me. Her hair is tied up and her bruised face is exposed. My target. Like her I am going to expose and exploit any weakness possible and use it to my advantage. I just want to leap on her and punch her face repeatedly but that would be Un-callus of me. She smiles and shrugs her shoulders. "Ya know stiff I will let you go if you just beg on your knees and cry a little." She begins to laugh but behind her iron voice there is a weak support beam; her friends. She has just watched her two only friends get beaten up. "Unlike your father I don't mercilessly beat people up. " She continues. 

I buckle off her comments and continue to wait patiently, but on the inside my body is an un-controllable mess. Impatient, vicious  and eager to hurt her. Come on Four begin the fight.

"Begin." Four says somberly. I watch as Eric walks into the room with Uriah. All of a sudden Jessica charges at me with a punch; immediately I block it and knee her abdomen and a punch to the sternum. She gasps and stumbles; a clean person would wait for their opponent to regain their composure but I am not playing clean now I am playing dirty. I follow it up with a sharp kick to her thigh once, twice, three times. Then I slam my elbow into her bruised cheek so hard even my elbow throbs. In the dim blue light I see tears form in her eyes but that isn't enough for me to stop. I grab her greasy hair and drag her face to my knee. Blood blast all of her face like the paint pellets from capture the flag. Jessica falls to the floor hard and I get on top her and just punch where my knuckles can reach. The world around me has stopped and silenced. By now her pale face is concealed by a maroonish mask. Blood. It goes everywhere. My hands, trousers, t-shirt, the white mat.

"Didn't you hear me?! I said stop!" Four shouts at the top of his lungs like a scream. I ignore his orders and continue to punch until Jessica's eyes have closed. I feel arms wrap around my body and drag me off her body and down  the hallway. Jessica hasn't moved at all but I need to carry on hitting her. I beg for the men to let me go. I eventually see that there is four of them including Tobias. Uriah, Eric and Connor all needed to get a teenage girl off a lifeless body. An angry teenage girl that is. Connor puts me against a smooth wall and I try to resist his grip. The other three eventually leave. 

"Ruby! Please." Connor shouts. His eyes are all over me but unlike usual I am not under his trance my Divergence must be kicking in. I eventually calm after I realize what I have done. 'What have I just done? I could have killed her.' I ask myself. Jessica and her friends have doen some terrible things to me but that doesn't justify what I have just done. "You ok?" Connor asks he loosens his grip and sits next to me. I look away in embarrassment at myself. Jessica is right I am an embarrassment no wonder Marcus beat me. "And you told me not to do anything stupid." Connor says trying to make this situation light hearted. Despite his perfection his attempts are in vain. I rest my head on his shoulder and cry silently. 

"What have I done Connor?" I ask through teared eyes. He clears his throat. 

"You did what any other person would do. They pushed you beyond the limits, a rubber band can only go so far before it snaps or springs back. It is human nature." He explains. Sometimes I forget how wise Connor truly is. Despite his reassurance I am still sick with my actions. "Listen it is getting pretty stuffy in here. Why don't we get you cleaned up and go for a walk?" He says with a bright smile that could light up the whole city and the world beyond ours. I nod my head and force a fake smile. 

Today's actions has left me with one sentence that makes me nauseous...Like father, Like daughter I suppose.