Sink Your Teeth Into Forever

Ivy’s POV
Dinner ended long before I wanted it to end, I was prolonging the inevitable fact that CC was going to try and teach me how to fight. I didn’t want to learn to fight, much less from CC. Even though I knew that Andy was probably right and I probably did need to know how to defend myself in case we were ever in danger again. As long as I wanted to draw it out before long CC was dragging me out the back door by my arm while I was avidly protesting.
“No CC, I don’t wanna,” I moaned as he pulled me towards the door.
“Why?” He asked pausing to look at me, but still gripping my wrist tightly.
“You’re too strong, you’re gonna rip me to pieces,” I said leaning back against his insistent tugging at my wrist.
“No I’m not, you silly goose. I promise I’m going to go really easy on you, when we’re done your face will not be rearranged, and all of your arms and legs will be accounted for,” He said smiling at me. If that was supposed to make me feel better it really didn’t, I continued to resist him.
“What if the neighbors see us, they’ll think that it’s really weird,” I moaned. I looked for someone to help me but everyone who wasn’t busy cleaning up dinner was enjoying watching my struggle. Andy was standing a foot or two away his arms crossed a small smile playing at his lips.
“Don’t worry about my neighbors, one house is on vacation for the next week and a half, the other doesn’t have anyone living in it,” Andy said sounding amused at my struggle. With that I guess that CC considered that his seal of approval that he had nothing to worry about. He gave up on trying to pull me out the door and instead threw me over his shoulder and began to walk us both outside. Jake, Ella, Lauren, and Andy trailed along behind us, chuckling. I realized that they were going to watch this entire ordeal and probably get some entertainment out of it. I felt the warm California night air wash around me as we made our way out into the grass of the back yard. CC set me on my feet and I backed away from him a few steps. Suddenly without warning he took off his shirt and threw it to Lauren. My first thought was shock at how someone could be as skinny as he was and still be alive. My second thought was that we were going to be mighty close to one another while his shirt was off, I would have liked it better if it was Ashley. CC jarred me out of my thoughts.
“Hit me,” He said, standing about a foot away with his hands down at his sides.
“What?” I said, unsure if I’d heard him correctly.
“Hit me!” He repeated with more emphasis on the word hit. I looked up to his face, he was serious. So I drew back my fist and hit him in the middle of the chest. My fist bounced of his sternum with a nonthreatening thwap. I shook my hand in pain that his bone had caused on my knuckles. He snorted with laughter.
“What?” I demanded blushing.
“Was that it? I was expecting more than a fly bumping into me,” He said with a fit of giggles. I looked at the ground and blushed deep red, once again wanting to be swallowed by the earth.
“I’m sorry hun, I didn’t mean to embarrass you, I was just thinking I’d get a bit more than that,” He said sympathetically, “ Here let me show you where to hit,” At first I thought that he was going to show me by hitting me where you were supposed to hit. Then he gently took my wrist and placed my fist in the middle of the bottom of his ribs.
“You feel that soft squishy spot right there?” He asked, and I nodded, “If you hit someone right there, even if it isn’t very hard, it will make them think twice about going at you again,” he explained.
“That makes sense, because of all the important internal organs that are right there,” I said. He nodded.
“Now hit me there, and don’t worry about hurting me at any time during this, I’m a whole lot stronger than you,” He said. So once again I brought back my fist, and tried as hard as I could to hit him right where he had directed. This time I felt him crumple slightly under my attack.
“Nicely done,” He said with approval, I felt like I’d done something right for the first time since I’d met Ash.
“Now you’re clearly not very strong so I want to try something that will help you to fight even the people that are a lot bigger than you. You should know some pressure holds and pressure points, places where you can barely touch people and it will hurt a whole lot,” CC said, I nodded, that sounded interesting. He took my hand once again and turned my palm upwards, and then he grabbed hold of my hand and with his thumb on the back of my hand and his middle fingers on the soft side of my wrist and bent my wrist back towards my arm.
“You feel that? You get someone in this position and you can force them to the ground, either that or break their wrist,” He explained, without waiting for me to respond he began to push me backwards and sure enough I was forced onto one knee. He helped me back up and we switched roles, I tried the same move on him and was able to take him down as well. He taught me a few more moves like that and sure enough just as he had promised I was able to pull him down every time. Although I was using almost all of my muscle and he was going easy on me. Then he taught me pressure points. From one on the bottom of your neck that would knock you unconscious if you hit it hard enough, to one on your kneecap that felt really horrible when someone did it to you. He also taught me a move that would shove a person’s nose directly into their brain killing them instantly. Also he reminded me that in a life and death situation it was okay for me to bite, pull hair, claw at people’s eyes, and kick a man down where most guys would never want to be kicked.
“Now I want you to come at me with all you’ve got. Please don’t claw my eyes out or shove my nose into my brain or anything like that, but other than those things, attack me, I want to see what you can do,” He said.
“Are you going to fight back?”
“Of course, but I took an oath when I was younger never to hit a girl, so you got me there,” He said grinning.
“CC that better be true, because if you hurt that girl you will wake up very dazed and confused in a ditch somewhere in Texas,” Ella intervened from the side lines. CC looked up at her for a moment like he was going to say something, so I took that as him being distracted from his fight. I took a running start and leapt up at him, clinging to him like a koala with such forced that I sent him bowling over into the grass. We wrestled around for a while; I threw hits wherever I could think to land one. Every time he tried to pin me down I did my best to wriggle out of his grasp, but eventually he won, and got me pinned down to the grass. I struggled but he was using his super human strength against me and I had no chance.
“That was not nice,” He said, I realized that he wasn’t even out of breath; he’d been letting me fight for as long as I did. I lay under him panting hard and covered in dirt and sweat. After a moment of me catching my breath he let me up.
“How’d I do?” I asked.
“Not bad kiddo, but you still need to be stronger. You and I will work on that tomorrow,” he said. I looked to the sky and realized that the sun had completely gone down and all of the stars where out. He helped me up and we made our way back inside. I laid down on the couch just to rest and suddenly the emotional and physical stress of my day caught up to me. I started to slip away into sleep when I sensed someone approaching. I was too tired to open my eyes. I felt a blanket get pulled down on top of me.
“Goodnight kiddo,” A familiar deep voice said. Just as I was slipping away I felt a happiness that I hadn’t felt in a long time. Like I had finally found a family, or at least a group of friends that I’d never had before. I fell asleep with a warmth inside that I hadn't had since my mother left.

Notes

Hope you guys enjoy this chapter, unfortunately I just entered the most busy time of my life, the marching band season. So these chapters are probably about to get a bit shorter for the next month or three. Anyway all of the moves that I talked about in this chapter actually work, I know because I am nearly a black belt. Leave a comment on what you thought, I didn't get any comments on the last chapter and that was a sad thing for me. So please tell me what you think it means the world to me. As always remember that if you think that no one loves you I do.