Rejected, My Jaded Love
Episode 34

“Whenever you are ready to go there and accept his rejection, let us know, we want to go with you to keep you safe”. Tyler tells me, and I give him a hug.

“Yes, please, I will want you there for moral support. I don’t know if it will make me weak or not, so I may park my bike in the city and ride out with one of you to accept the rejection, or we can take my Jeep. I don’t know if I will be strong enough to drive off immediately afterward, and I won’t want to stick around any longer than I need to there, I know it will bring back a lot of bad memories. I just want to rip the band-aid off and get it done, and then leave”. I tell them, frowning as I remember falling to the ground in pain when Calvin cruelly rejected me.

“I may not be able to phase yet, but I am really good with weapons, so I will still be able to help protect Jade when we go,” Tate said. I hug him because I know he wants to keep me safe too.

“Hey, I can go with you guys. I am almost 20 years old, and I can help too, you know what I am capable of Tyler. We can all go together” Travis says. I give him a hug as well and I see him wiggling his eyebrows at Tyler, trying to get a rise out of him. I lightly tap him on the arm and tell him to stop messing with Tyler.

Mom takes me up to my room and I see that it is newly redone for me with freshly painted walls in a warm tan color and had been beautifully decorated throughout. A large flat-screen TV was on the wall and the bed and dresser were prominent in the room with a beautifully patterned comforter on the bed. I saw that there were two sets of PJs in the dresser, one a size 12 and one a size 10. How thoughtful was my new mom? She had obviously put a lot of thought into the room and wanted me to be comfortable. I turned towards her and grinned running to her and giving her a big hug. “Thank you for doing my room, it is beautiful. I love my new PJs thank you for getting them for me”.

“I wanted you to have some stuff here, so I was thinking that we can get you a few things tomorrow to put in your closet and dresser so you don’t have to pack so many items when you come to visit us, I know you will only be here every other weekend, but it can’t hurt to have some stuff here for you too. I want you to know you have a place here in our home too and we want you to know you belong here with us whenever you want to come. It doesn’t have to always be on your regular weekend, you could come every weekend if you wanted to”. Mom said to me.

I start crying as that is the nicest thing anyone has ever said to me. That she leaves it up to me, but that I am welcome here whenever I decide to come. That I belong in their family, that I am a valued member and have a place in our family. Mom is crying a little too, and we both wipe our eyes and head downstairs for dinner.

The men are waiting for us on the first floor, and we head into the dining room with none of the men mentioning our teary eyes. I’m able to make some clean choices from what the Chef has prepared, and I do love his salad dressing. it is light and flavorful it makes the salad pop with freshness. I will be taking the recipe home with me. My chicken breast and grilled veggies are delicious. I am glad the meal was light as I knew in an hour, I would probably be getting my butt handed to me.

I get a tour of the first 3 floors of the packhouse with the kitchen and dining area on the first floor. I notice that they have two separate areas for fridges, with canned drinks, iced coffees, fruit juices, and energy drinks, a drinking fountain with several choices of fountain drinks set up. The is also a coffee corner set up with fresh pots made every hour, as they will still be needed for the warriors doing patrols at night too. The second set of fridges has several times on the second shelf with my name written on them. There are sandwiches, salads, hard-boiled eggs, as well as cut-up veggie and fruit cups like at the gas station with lids on them and the date that they were prepared written on them.

The second floor has two living areas with enough seating for 50 people to be comfortable in each area and a large screen TV on the opposite walls to make two totally separate seating areas. They also have two movie rooms on opposite ends of the packhouse, about 1,000 feet apart from each other, with a 100” inch TV in each, a seating area for 40 adults, and bean bag chairs on the floor for the children to have additional seating. The 3rd floor was a gym with a cardio area, a weight area, and a 20’ x 20’ mat for sparring in one of the corners. I knew why they left this one for last, it was time for my training to begin.

Tyler motions me over and asks which machine or exercises I am familiar with, so I show him what machines I have been trained on and what exercises I am familiar with, I also tell him that I have upped my running from 5 to 8 miles. We do a quick warm-up with cardio. Tyler then leads me to the mat and starts to explain three different moves to me, He shows me where to place my foot, and how to turn my body to optimize each move. He is a great instructor and Travis and Tate take turns being the “assistant” aka test-dummy for him. He tells me how to adjust my moves in case they know what I am doing and try to counter the move. I felt terrible for Travis and Tate as they were both thrown down about 10 times each. I feel like I can try the three moves that he showed me now. Tyler smiles and gets across from me on the mat and waits for me to step up and start to try the move-out, I was not successful in getting him down, but I did move him, and he was proud of me as he said he had to counter to stop me. He said that I was a natural, whatever that meant because I wasn’t successful. I tried the second move with Tate and moved him too, a little, but he countered as well, and again I was not successful. I tried the third move with Travis, and he allowed me to get him down on the mat, but I know he let me as he started doing the eyebrow wiggles again as soon as I landed on him on the floor. He makes me laugh as I get up, but Tyler and Tate didn’t think it was so funny.

“Travis please don’t coddle her, she needs to learn the form and do it correctly if she gets into a fight, they won’t be just letting her beat them, she needs to know how to do it, correctly and be able to take a man down. The better she gets the less we will worry about her. She is 127 miles away from us, and we worry about her safety every day. The reason we worry about her literally followed her right up to our gates and they weren’t scared to engage with us. So please take this as seriously as we do. She has a natural ability when she is fighting, it is like she knows where they are going and is able to predict what attack they will try on her. I think it is also one of her abilities and will be speaking to dad about it.” Tyler tells Travis.

“I am sorry Tyler I knew she was getting frustrated and couldn’t resist. I will be professional in training from now on, you are correct, in a fight, she has got to know how to get out of holds, and to count on knowing her moves correctly. I will make sure I only teach her correctly you don’t have to worry about me going easy on Jade anymore. She does need to be trained right, and I am happy to help train her”. Travis said.

“Thank you, Travis, we know we can count on you, we just don’t want you going easy on her because she is a girl. That said, we don’t want you to seriously hurt her, she is our sister. You will need to find a happy medium, don’t worry, she will be here every other week, so you will have two weeks more to figure something out for her. Tomorrow we will just do our regular training classes, cardio, and Elite, and help her out as best we can. We will train outside at 6 am the next two mornings, it is dark out right now, so we brought you to the gym tonight. Hey maybe you can challenge Jade to a race in wolf form, she has only had her wolf a week and maybe you can show her how to increase her speed on a run tomorrow afternoon?”. Tate says. He then turns and winks at me and Tyler before we exit the gym together.