Chapter 5: Homecoming

Analina Looped her arm through Jonathan's as they walk back towards the house. “Mom and Dad would like to speak with you before leaving.” “Ok.” He leads her into his office where their  parents were waiting on them. “Analina, it's so good to have you back with us, you don't know how long your mother and I waited for this day to come. We decided to let you stay here for the night, and we will pick you up later tomorrow, say around six tomorrow night.” “Ok, but I'm scared about going to a public school again with Draven and his men out there. They must know that I have escaped by now.”

         “Don't worry, we're thinking along the lines of online schooling. What do you think?” “Good, I'd like that.” “We still need to enroll you with the nearby high school and have you take an exam, just to find out what grade you're at.” “Ok, sounds good dad.” “Your mother and I will be leaving now, but before we go there is someone we would like you to meet. This is your godfather Stavros Karno, also one of my best friends.” Stavros walks up to her pulling her from her seat and picking her up, twirling her around in happiness, while Analina found herself laughing for the first time.

         He puts her down and they leave saying that they will see her tomorrow night. She walks them to the door in which they are a companied by a fourth guy, they introduced her to him as another guard named Rodrick. As she was walking through the entry way she was stopped by Andre. “Hey baby girl, you don't have any regrets of what happened in the garden?” “No, why?” He then gives her a quick kiss on the lips after making sure no one was around to see.

“I was wondering if you would be interested in a foursome?” He asked a bit nervous. “With whom?” She asked frighted about what he could have in mind, then she dismisses it and saying to herself (This is Andre for goodness sake, he won't do anything to harm me). “With myself, Zanders and Pablo.” He said with worry. She thought about it. Since she really does trust the three of them she nodded her head. “Ok baby girl, we'll see you later tonight.” He then walks away in search for the other two men, since they have planning to do.

Analina walks Off in the other direction looking for her brother and his wife. She knocks on the office door and hears him say to come in. She shyly walks up to his desk decided if she should stay standing or sit in one of the leather chairs in front of the desk. Meanwhile Jonathan looks up and notices his shy baby sister debating on what to do, so he said. “How about I take you to the gym and teach you some basic defense techniques?” She answers proudly and with confidence. “I took Asian martial arts since I was three, but I could be rusty since I haven't trained for the past ten years.” He was surprised to hear this and proud of his baby sister ( I wonder what she can do?) He thought to himself. “What belt do you have in each form of arts?” “I have a black belt in every form.” She stated happily."

“Ok, let's see what you've got. Go change into training gear, you'll find a few outfits in your closet, then meet us outside of the office when you’re ready.” He told her. “She opened the closet door and found the section where all of the training outfits are, choosing a black sports bra with thick forest green stripes on the sides with a zipper in the front, I then chose black spandex with the same thick forest green stripes in between the stripes were a black crisscross pattern that show the side of my legs between the holes. I put on the pants and sports bra, then picked out a pair of black high-tops. I  left My hair in the French braid and made my way down the stairs to the front of Jonathan's office.

When I got there Jonathan, Mariann, Rocco and Maverick were waiting. I followed them to the side of the office to a small hallway, at the end of the hallway was a door. Jonathan opened the door flipped on the light switch and descended down a flight of stairs. At the bottom of the stairs was a gym with a boxing ring, punching bags, treadmills, weight pressing bench and dumbbells. I was in awe of it all. Jonathan gave me a pair of boxing gloves and told me and Maverick to get into the ring. “I want to see what you're capable of.” He said to me with pride on his face and in his eyes.

I confidently got into the ring and took the left side of the ring while Maverick took the right. We both took are stance and waited for the whistle to blow. Rocco blows the whistle and the fight began. Maverick didn't seem like he wanted to be in the ring with a girl, so I made the first move with a side kick to his stomach, he landed right on his ass. He looked pissed. He came at me swinging which I blocked all of his attacks, when I found an opening I took it, a right hook to the side of his head and then a karate chop to the back of his neck, he was out for the count. Jonathan looked shocked, disbelief and starstruck all showing on his face spontaneously one after another.

Rocco went into the ring to help his friend up while Jonathan came over to me. “Let's see how good you are with a gun.” That got me nervous. But I let him lead me to the firing range. He grabbed us safety gear and guns, one each, and made his way over to me. He had safety glasses and headsets, and after putting on our safety gear, he showed me where the safety was on the gun. He took the spot next to me and showed me how to stand, and aim the gun at the target at the end of the row.

He fires and then pushes a button to have the target come to him, he shot the paper figure of a person right in the head. “You want to hit your target in two places, either the head or the left side of the chest. So basically, right through the heart. Ok, Analina?” I nodded and took the stance that he showed me and held the gun up with my left hand covering my right, I aimed my gun and took two shots, one right after another. Jonathan, making sure that I'm done, pushes the button and the target slides over to us showing two bullet holes one in the head and another in the left side of the chest. Jonathan made a whistling sound and called it a day.

I then cleaned up, had dinner with everyone then made it back to my room for the night. Answering the knock on my door in comes three men.