My eyes flutter open. At last, one night of sleep without someone waking me up. I hear a knock at the door.

"Too late." I say and smirk.

My smirk turns to a smile when I see Andrew.

"Hey Andrew," I say.

"Hello, Will! Breakfast is in ten minutes. So you can do whatever you want until then." He smiles and walks away.

I close the door and walk to the bathroom to take a shower. I was done in about five minutes which was descent. When I finished, I walked to the dining room. Mira was there already and I decide to sit next to her. When I do she says, "Finally get up, sleepyhead?"

I laugh. Something I hadn't done in a long time. A very long time. The last time I had laughed was before my parents were taken. Maybe about five hours before they were taken.... I push the thought out of mind. I couldn't think about that now. Now I had to focus. It was breakfast time and I couldn't make my day worse.

"Yep, how long have you been here then? Five minutes?" I smile.

"Actually, yeah." She said laughing.

The chief walked into the room bringing eggs, bacon, and waffles. Once he set them down he said, "More food is coming."

"Okay, thanks." We said.

He comes back with a bowl of watermelon, glasses, and some drinks to pour into them. I scoop some watermelon onto my plate and get a waffle, some eggs, and of course bacon. Then I pour apple juice into my glass and start to eat. Mira got everything, too but seemed a little hesitant to eat. I bet she was thinking about the same thing I was. Our family. It seemed weird eating all this when I was on the streets before, although I was going to fight someone I didn't want to fight. So I ate until I finished everything. Mira must've been thinking the same thing because she was eating and almost finished. Maybe we would hang out again today. Maybe. I could ask her instead this time. Unless... training is today.

Suddenly a man walks into the room. He was a tall, muscular, well-built man. I could only guess one thing.... Training.

"Hello I am Nicholas," He said. "Training is right now, so if you will follow me to the training room we should be done, quicker."

I get up and follow the man, Mira behind me. He opens the door and gestures for us to enter the training room.

"Will and Mira, today we will be testing your skills and strength. So Will maybe you should go lift weights and Mira you can do that or work with weapons."

"Weights." She said quickly. Almost to quick.

We walk over to the weights and select the weight we want. I choose one that said on the top 30 lb weight. Mira selects one that says, 10 lb weight. I start to lift slowly. Not wanting to lift to much and it wasn't bad. Mira seemed to be doing fine, too. When I lifted for at least three minutes my muscles started to ache. I still didn't  stop, I had to be as strong as I could be until I can't hold it any longer. Five minutes later and I was still lifting. Beads of sweat rolled down my face and my hands were sweaty, too. Another five minutes later and my muscles ached so bad, and my breaths grew faster and faster by the second when I hear, "Will, put the weight down."

Reluctantly I do and I see Nicholas behind me.

"Don't work yourself so hard, Will. You'll hurt yourself. You two can be done for today but be sure to come back tomorrow."

"Okay," I say.

Mira and I walk out of the room and toward our rooms. My muscles still ached and I could imagine it would hurt like this for a few more days, at least. At least it was over, I would have been lifting that weight for at least another minute or so. It would've been even more painful so it's great I'm done. For the day at least. Maybe I could lift a heavier weight. Like forty pound one? I snap out of my trance when Mira taps me on the shoulder.

"Do you want to come in my room for a while?"

"Yeah, okay."

She opens the door, and I walk in. Once I'm in she shuts the door and says, "what were you thinking? You could have hurt yourself!"

"I was just liftin-"

She cuts me off. "You were what? Just lifting weights? Will, you could've hurt yourself."

"You were still lifting...." I said.

"I was lifting ten pounds! You were lifting three times that!"

"Sorry.... You're right I should've lifted forty." I say and smile.

She laughed and pulled me into a kiss. She pulled away and said, "no, you should've lifted ten or twenty. Now, c'mon lets go take a walk or something."