She is a badass

*** Rylee’s POV *** * “Faster..” dad instructed and the next second he is on the ground, groaning in pain because I kicked him on his right side what he didn’t expect at all. “Was that enough fast to you?” I ask him teasingly with a smirk on my face and he looks at me with a tired smile. I try to catch my breath and dad is breathing even heavier than me. We are training all afternoon and I am getting tired already. “Not bad.” He manages to say and stands up with a grimace while he is holding his side. “Sorry about that.” I say and and he walks towards me and wraps his arm around my shoulders. “Don’t worry. I am glad to see that you are better day by day.” He says and smiles at me lovingly. We are training two times a week since I was four and now I am really good at fighting. We used to train together with my cousins and my uncles, but they are out of town for vacation already three weeks now. They supposed to come back today but apparently they stuck on that island since their flight was cancelled because of a storm. I miss them already, I hope they can come back soon. “Or maybe you are getting slower day by day...” I tease him and he looks at me playfully. “Just wait till I tell your mom what you just said.” He says and wriggles his eyebrows with a smirk. “You wouldn’t do that.” I say confidently and then suddenly the painful expression return to his face and he starts groaning in pain. I look at him in confusion for a moment because he was fine just a few seconds ago. “Ryan?” I hear mom calls out to him from the terrace door worriedly when she saw him in that state so she hurries towards us. “What happened?” She asks dad and he looks at me with an evil smirk while mom is busy checking his side for any injuries. Now I know what he is up to. “It’s nothing, we are just training, angel. Do you know what she just said to me?” Dad asks mom with a fake sad look on his face while he wraps his arm around her waist, she looks at me and then back at dad. “What?” She asks him and he looks at me briefly. “She said I am getting slower. You see? I am old already.” He whines to her and pouts his lips like a kid. ‘Seriously dad?’ “Awww darling, I told you you are not old, you are just 39.” She says to him kindly and throws me a disapproving look. I open my mouth to say something but she cuts me off. “There is a long life ahead of us still, don’t worry about that and even when we will be old, I will still love you the same.” She said and kisses him while my expression changed for a disgusted one. Here is my clue to leave them alone. Don’t get me wrong, I am happy because they are still deeply in love with each other but I don’t want to see them kissing or doing anything with each other for that matter. “That’s the point, I will be 40 in a year.” I hear him saying while I walk into the house. Dad is worrying about his age too much and I don’t help it either because I always bring it up when I want to tease him or just change the subject when he interrogates me about something I don’t want to talk about. I walk towards the kitchen and take out a bottle of water afterward I head upstairs to take a shower. I love our training sessions, they are always fun. When me and my cousins were just six years old, our parents signed us up to learn kickboxing and they joined us too, even mom and my aunties, later my little brother too. They were teaching us how to fight even before, but we started officially when we reached six. We stopped going to the dojo a few years ago because we thought that we can practice easily at home. We set up a training field in the garden and a gym in the basement in case the weather isn’t favourable. I opened the door of my room, it’s a simple room with white walls and a bed in the middle with black covers and a black table is placed under the window. I have mostly black and white stuff, including clothes, shoes and everything else. I never liked to be flashy with colourful things around me. I always liked to blend into the crowd instead of bringing too much attention to myself. Even though I tried to be invisible, the problems always found me somehow and since I was never the one who ran away from them, I always got into trouble in high school. I walk into the bathroom and open the faucet, I take my clothes off, let my light brown hair fall down on my back as it was in a ponytail before and I stand under the water. When I finis I wear my black sweet pants and black tank top with slippers. My phone starts to ring at the moment I walk out of the bathroom. ‘Good timing.’ I thought and walk towards the nightstand to answer it after checking the caller ID. “What?” I snap right after I hit the green button. “Don’t tell me you are still mad at me?” I hear his annoying voice on the other end of the line and I roll my eyes automatically. “For what would I be mad? For telling everyone that you are my boyfriend just to keep everybody away from me, just to annoy me?” I ask sarcastically and he let out a laugh. “So you are still mad.” He laughs and I sighed. “Don’t tell me you liked that scum bag, Ry.” He says while I look at myself in the mirror. I got my dad’s blue eyes and mom’s pretty nose so I am satisfied with my looks. “No, I didn’t, but you must stop interfering in my business and let me handle it, since I am quite capable of to do so.” I say strictly and he let out a sigh. “Okay, I promise to keep my mouth shut next time, happy?” He says and I smile. “Very, so tell me what are you doing, Grey?” I ask Grayson, my best friend, who is annoying as hell most of the time. We grew up together along with my cousins since our parents are old friends. All of our parents went to the same college with his dad, Jake and they are best friends since then, just like we are. He is one year younger than me and my cousins, but he looks older than his age since he has a muscular body and he is tall. “Nothing special, I just called about Monday, will you be there?” He asks and I know what he means right away. “I wouldn’t miss it, you know me.” I say with a smirk, even though he can’t see me. “After school...” I add bitterly. “Right, I almost forgot.” He says with a laugh. “See you at the front of the school?” He asks. He will start in the same college as me and my cousins luckily and it’s the same college where our parents were students as well ,long time ago. It’s one hour drive from here and we don’t need to move into dorm rooms because we can just drive there every day. I am happy about that because we are really close to our family and we would miss them a lot if we need to go to a college far away from them. “Ryleeeee...” my ‘little’ brother, Matt bursts into my room, without knocking again. He is just 16 but he is 6 feet tall already just like dad. Everybody thinks that he is the older one. “I will be there, but I need to hang up now, I need to kill my brother.” I say to Grayson in the phone who just chuckles when I hung up and I glare at Matt who just gulps with a terrified look on his face. “Do you want to repeat what happened the last time when you came in without knocking?” I ask him and he shakes his head with wide eyes. He came into my room while I was changing a few days ago and he saw me naked. I caught him afterwards and beat the sh*t out of him. You would think that was a good lesson for him to remember to knock next time, but apparently it wasn’t. “Sorry, I will knock next time.” He says while he rolls his eyes. “Why didn’t you come home in time for our training? I needed to fight with dad, you know I don’t like to hit him and he always go easy on me too.” I say and look at him questioningly. “Yeah... about that..” he starts and scratches the back of his neck nervously. “I had detention.” He says and I look at him with a blank face. He is still in high school and for them the school started a week ago and this is his second detention on this week. “On Saturday?” I ask him in disbelief. “Yeah, I needed to clean the whole f**king math classroom, that women hates me.” He says with a sigh and I chuckle. “By the way, I came to tell you the dinner is ready.” He says and left the room without waiting for my reply. I am starving so I head downstairs to have dinner with my family.