As we entered the training hall, an aroma of blood and sweat erupted at my nose. It smelled like death, but as I looked around, all I could see were people talking on the side, without a care in the world. No dead bodies. Yet
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The few people that were training were the large, muscley men; leaving me to be one of the only women in the room and the only one actually training.Unless you count Danielle, who I suspect will be yelling at me the entire time and not training herself. As soon as I had looked around, she barked at me .
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"Stretch out over there, away from all of these disgusting pigs. I can't stand them!" I gave Danielle a nervous smile before telling her the inevitable truth that is my failure at life.
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"Idontknowhowtostretch" I squeaked out.
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"Say that again?"
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"I don't know how to stretch."
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"Figures" She got on her hands and knees and walked me through her daily stretching routine, which was the hardest thing I had ever done. Seriously, the only exercise that we would do in Crazy Town was the annual Run-For-Mental-Illness run and they forced me to walk during that because of my leg.
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"Go over there." Danielle pointed towards a shelf of various weights. "And pick one of your top weight that you've ever lifted."
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I bit my lip, knowing that deep down, I've only lifted up a one pound weight max. And that was in like, first-grade. But, I think that I could lift up ten, right? It can't be that heavy. I walked over to the ten, eager to pick up my max weight. I was strong, I could handle it.
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"Hey! I'm Jonathan. Are you new?" I turned around and nodded as a boy picked up the ten pound and fell over immediately. Five pounds it is.
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"I'm Dillan. Pleasure to meet you but, I've got to go back to training." I grabbed the fives slowly before taking in their weight. They were so heavy! Are they sure that this was five pounds? I think that the people who made these weights had no idea what they were talking about. These seemed to weigh about fifty pounds
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I gradually made my way towards Danielle, who was waiting impatiently.
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"Finally, you're here!" She said sarcastically. "I've been waiting forever for you to come!" She wiggled her eyebrows and pointed at Jonathan. "So, Juliet, did you just meet Romeo? He's a new recruit, just like you! You guys will get along just fine. I hope." She grinned at me as I glared at her. "Ahh, young love!" Then her voice got all serious again. "How heavy are your weights?" She took them from me easily, as if the fifty-pounds were nothing. "Five pounds? Pathetic." She tossed them back to me. " Your mission, so to speak, is to throw them at him, and see if he can block it. Although, you'll never be able to hit him with a flimsy five pounds." She smirked and jutted her chin out at one of the body-builder like guys.
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"Um, let me think about it: No. He'll kill me. Are you out of your mind? They thought I was the crazy one..."
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Danielle grinned at me before laughing hysterically. "He's paid to be used as a training tool. Don't worry!"
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So, that's how I found myself walking over towards the wrong muscley guy, and throwing my (flimsy) weights at him.
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