My Rivals Daughter

Chapter Three

Kat POV

The first day of school went by fairly quickly. Most of my classes were AP. I didn't mind being put into regular classes but my dad forced the issue. Saying that I needed to push myself past my limit that settling for something less would be laziness. I never had a problem with school. It always came easy to me. What was hard for me was living the way my father wanted. He was so strict about everything. And failure wasn't an option.

I got to the cafeteria during lunch to meet with Valerie. I saw her at a table with two other girls. I walked up and Valerie smiled at me.

"Hey girl! Was wondering when you'd show."

"Sorry. I had to stay back in each of my classes to see what work I needed to turn in."

"Lemme see your schedule." I hand my schedule over to Valerie. "Dang girl! Almost all of your classes are AP!" Valerie states with wide eyes. "Your going to burn out before you have the chance to enjoy high school."

I sat down next to her and sighed. "I know. It's my dad. It's my senior year. He always pushes me to be better."

"I know what you mean. My dad says failure isn't an option." Says one of the girls across the table. She has light brown hair, brown eyes and a round face with fair skin. I wished I looked like her. Basic, except I have an exotic look to me which seems to bring unwanted attention.

"Are you sure we aren't related??" I ask laughing.

"Maybe!" The girl laughs and smiles. "My name is Kate." Kate extends her hand and I do the same. "This is Ashley. She doesn't say much."

I wave at Ashley and smile. "It's nice to meet you. I'm Kat."

"Hi." Is all Ashley says with a small grin. She's a pretty girl with dark colored eyes and pale skin. Her hair black and long.

We sat at the table through some of lunch having small conversations then decided to walk the campus which gave Valerie the opportunity to tell me all she had learned about some of the cliques around school. Apparently there is a group of kids that moved here from Seattle that like to stick together. I look over at them and notice that most of them are males. Maybe 3 females in the bunch but that's not what got my attention. All of them are attractive looking like they workout all day and worry about their appearance.

I see one of the girls from this morning who laughed at my falling wander over to the group. She definitely didn't look like she belonged with them and I was right because whatever was going on, she had the Seattle bunch laughing at her as she walked away with an upset look on her face.

She walked in our direction and I looked past her at the group. She bumped me with her shoulder passing us by which pulled my eyes away from the group. I turned and looked at her.

"Why don't you watch where the hell your going you f*****g spaz!" The girl yelled out angrily.

"Dude, your the one who bumped into her! You need to watch were your going miss priss!" I hear Ashley spit out at her. The reaction from Ashley shocked our little group and had Valerie cracking up.

The girl looked furious and started walking up to Ashley as if she was going to rip her a new one so I stepped in front of her and cut her off. "Look she didn't mean it. Why don't you just turn around and walk back in the direction you were headed. There doesn't need to be any trouble."

"Actually I did mean it. I hate her." Ashley says with a smirk. I look at the girl who supposedly didn't say much. She surprised me but in a good way.

The girl shoves me hard and makes me bump into Kate. It pissed me off and I got my footing back. "What the hell is your deal?!"

"Look you insignificant little b***h! You must be new here so let me explain something to you..Nobody steps to me and gets away with it!"says the girl whose name I learned was Ella. Her ranting got the attention of every student around. Even the Seattle crew.

I was too pissed off to back down now. "Insignificant huh? If thats what you think I am, what are you still doing standing in front of me? Seems like your putting a lot of effort into trying to beat on some insignificant bitch." I smirked at her, arms crossed in front of my chest.

Some of the students began whispering around us. Ella looked around at everyone watching and let out a growl before she rushed at me. With quick instincts I moved to the side which caused Ella to slide across the floor. The room erupted with laughter as Ella pushed herself up off the ground. She charged at me again and threw a punch that would've landed directly at my face but I was able to block it. It wasn't long before she started throwing punch after punch making my training come in handy as I was able to push and block all of her attacks away causing Ella to pant from exhaustion. She sunk to her knees clearly out of breath.

I bend down and whispered "Next time you want to come at someone..get more info on who the f**k your dealing with."

I stood up and Ella narrowed her eyes at me and I turned to walk away. "This fight isn't over b***h!" She snarled.

"Over? Honey..it hasn't even begun. One thing about a fight is you actually have to touch the other person to land a blow. This wasn't a fight but more of a dance to me." I said with a smile.

I saw the monitors coming through the crowd so Valerie, Kate, Ashley and I started to move out of the circle before they could catch us. Before leaving I glanced back at Ella who looked pissed and my eyes wandered to the people standing up front. Every single person from the Seattle group were staring at me, smiling like they knew a secret I wasn't privy to. It sent a shiver down my spine.

School ended and I was glad to be home until I realized, I had training with dad. I groaned and headed for my room to change into my workout outfit. I put my hair up and ran downstairs and into the basement. As I walked through the door I scensed something from the corner of my eye and ducked as my fathers leg made contact with the door frame.

"Good! Sharp instinct. A second slower and you would've been thrown out of the basement. Ready?" And at his last word I got into my fighting stance ready to take on my trainer and mentor.

"GO!" My dad stepped forward and began swinging on me and I blocked his moves til I saw an opening for an attack. He swung his fist to hit the side of my head so I blocked using my forearm and threw a punch at his chest. With the blow he flew across the room and landed hard on his back. With surprise in my eyes I ran over to my dad to see if he was okay and as soon as he started to move I got to my feet and stared down at him. His eyes shot open and he pushed himself off the ground and grabbed me and flung me across the room. As I rolled I jumped up and went at my dad. We sparred and I got some moves in that took my father down. But he caught me off guard on the last move that had me pinned to the mat.

"Get out of it. Come on you can do it!"

" I can't!" I tell him bucking my hips and kicking my legs, feeling my pulse run hot and fast.

"Yes, you can! You have it in you now push!"

Furious with how much he pushes me I yelled "I can't God dammit!" And with that frustration and fury, I lifted my arms and threw my father off of me and into the table. I didn't know what just happened but I felt a rush. I sat up and looked over at my dad.

He was getting up from the broken table rubbing his back. Then he looked at me. "See! I told you. You can do anything if you put your mind to it." He said with a grin.

Honestly, it kinda scared the s**t out of me. "Come on, let's go again."

"No." I said as I stood up and walked for the door.

"What did you say?"

"I SAID NO DAD! Can't you see that I'm tired?! I don't want to do this anymore! I don't want to hurt anyone! I almost beat the crap out of some girl today at school!"

"You what?!"

"Yeah! She was bullying me and some of my friends and she tried to attack me! I could've hurt her dad. I felt it. I don't know what it is with the training but any time I feel attacked my blood starts to boil in my veins. And you pushing me isn't helping! I mean, I threw you at a table for crying out loud!" I yelled at my dad.

"You got into a fight on your first day?"

"Is that all you heard?! Seriously dad. You don't think something might be wrong with me? No of course not..because all you care about is your DAMN TRAINING! I don't know what happened to you, or when you turned out like this. Maybe when mom died, but I have never known you to show me the love and support when I need it."

His eyes flashed dark at the mention of my mother. He stood there quiet for a beat. "You can take the rest of the day. But you will keep training. If you were able to take me it means you are getting stronger."

I sign, "Stronger for what dad?"

As per usual, my dad avoids any questions I have."I'll see you for dinner." My dad says.

"You know what? No, I just lost my appetite and I have homework." I turn and walk out of our training area. I head upstairs and slam my door. I strip down my sweaty workout clothes and head for a very much needed bath.

I sigh as I lower myself into a steaming hot bathtub. "What a day. What a f*****g day." I sink lower and close my eyes to let my day wash off of me.

My first day and I've already got an enemy. Great! What's gotten into me? I'm so irritated I don't even get to enjoy the fact that I used my training for the first time ever. If this is what it feels like, no thank you. I guess the only thing good that came out of my day was the cute boy I bumped into but even that was a disaster.

Flashes of his face went through my mind. His eyes so blue they keep you captivated, almost as if in a trance. His lips..man any girl would be lucky to kiss them. I touched my lips thinking of him then I remembered the look on his face when our hands touched. As he held my hand, the feeling of electricity coursing through us and his words, 'my mate'. What did he mean by that? Ugh this will drive me insane. I don't even know anything about him except for his name. What if I never see him again? Maybe its for the best. That whole interaction was odd anyways. And yet, I dozed in the bath just thinking about the boy who knocked me on my ass.