Kiara's pov
I quickly ate a sandwich and rushed to the ground after coming back from the school. The words spoken by headmaster were still in my head. I could not forget them. I tried to guess what happened between dad and headmaster that dad hated even the name of headmaster. What would happen if I directly tell dad about this. Oh, I don't want to imagine this. I had to ask coach K about all this.
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"Kiara Nick could not come here today, he was not feeling well. So you will practice with me." Coach Sid said.
"Uh.. Why coach? I mean what happened to nick?"
"He had a mild fever. He'll be alright after a day's rest. You go and warm up." Yes. Just my luck. Today I will get to spend some time with Coach K and then I will ask him the matter. Atharv came to the ground directly after school, so he had already warmed-up. He headed towards Coach K when I started to jog around the ground.
I was running but all my attention was towards Atharv. I wanted to see what happens to him during training, I mean I want to see how much he is screwed because when he comes home then he is very vulnerable and exhausted. He can't even lift his bag.
Coach K threw a bucketful of cold water on him and asked him to run until his clothes dry up. I was surprised, how can Coach do this to him. It's already winter and he may catch cold. Furthermore, coach warned him that he only has half an hour to do so, and if he fails then the consequences will be worse. He nodded and ran to the ground. He was near me and I wanted to speak to him but he denied me by shaking his neck and overtook me. He was running with twice my speed, or maybe thrice.
How difficult this was for him. He has to run with his full speed so that he can dry up himself in the given time. Initially, he was shivering because of the cold water but soon as he started running, his body started heating up.
"Kiara are you done with the warm-up? You can't spend the entire practice time just warming up yourself! Hurry up come here." Coach yelled and I sprinted towards him.
"Yes Coach."
"Drop and give me 50 pushups."
"Coach please, I'm tired. Please I need 5 minutes break."
"What!? We have not even started and you are saying that you are tired. Comeon, drop. You are not getting any break." I dropped and started doing pushups. Coach started his stopwatch and my heart started speeding up.
"I'm done sir." I started getting up as I finished.
"280 seconds Kiara. Really? 280 seconds for a freaking 50 pushups. And this is your condition after almost a month of training with Nick. I wonder what Nick does with you. Does he even give you some exercises or just gossips and hangs along with you?"
"Comeon, get up. Take this backpack and start running. Do not stop until I tell you to. It's only 5 kgs." I started running and I was panting like a dog after 2 rounds only. I looked towards Coach K pleading for mercy and he shot me a glare as if telling not to stop. He then took out his phone and dialled someone's number.
"What the hell, seriously? I am so much disappointed in you."
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"Don't make silly excuses."
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"I want to see you here in 10 minutes in your tracks. Crystal?"
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"No buts- Your time has started and you will be paying dearly for every extra second you take." With that he hanged the phone.
"Come on guys. Faster. Faster. Yes, keep going."
Suddenly I saw Coach Nick coming towards the ground. I mean seriously, did he was calling Nick just because I could not perform to the level he expected. Now I started to imagine how much worse it can get! He literally called him even when he knew that Nick is sick. How inhuman! But then the reality hit me. It was all because of me. Nick will suffer because of me. He is already half dead now. But I am sure that he will be fully dead when Coach Sid is done with him.
Nick's pov
"Nick you are 4 minutes late. Means 240 seconds."
"Sid I am-" But he raised his hand to silence me.
"Did I ask you for any explanation?"
I was not even giving any explanation. I was just saying that I am sorry. Anyways, I shook my head.
"Come on. Drop. 240 crunches in 120 seconds."
I knew this was coming. I knew he was going to screw me badly since he already gave me many warnings that I was going too easy on Kiara. One day he even said to me that I will pay dearly if he tests Kiara and she fails to achieve his expectations. But I hadn't imagined that all this will happen in this state. I am already half dead now. Anyways I dropped and he started the stopwatch.
I managed to finish the crunches in the specified time. My limbs were now trembling and I was sweating like hell.
"Good. Now 240 reverse crunches in 120 seconds. Start."
What!? How am I supposed to do 240 Reverse crunches in 120 seconds only, when my body is aching already because of the illness and previous set of crunches? No way I can complete this. Anyways, I knew better than to deny him as this would earn me a harsher punishment! So I started with the count.
"Time's up." He said and I felt that all my world is finished. I felt like dying at that moment.
"How many left?"
"I did 210. 30 left."
"Good. Now complete them and meet me near the track."
Then he walked where the children were practicing and gave a pretty good lecture and rude comments to them. He walked to Atharv and guided him for the next few exercises and brought Kiara near the track where I was supposed to go. I quickly finished my remaining exercise and walked to him.
"I am done Sid." Then he threw me a backpack and I caught it just in time because I was expecting it. Otherwise, it would have broken my nose. But it was way too heavy. I wondered how much weight did it had! Maybe 10-15 kg. Na. It felt like it was much much heavier than that.
"Nick it weighs 30 kgs, so stop troubling your mind." This man really has something. How can he read minds? Oh god. How will I survive today?!
"You will be running 30 rounds of the ground with this backpack since you dared not to do 30 crunches in the time specified to you." I opened my mouth to resist. He was wrong, how can I dare not to complete my exercise in the specified time? In fact, I could not complete it even after giving my 100% to it because the time given was very less. And above all, he was forgetting that I was ill. Anyways, I decided not to argue and accept my fate.
As I was fixing the backpack on my back, he said- "Kiara drop." And she instantly complied. Then he put his foot on her upper back and transferred some of his body weight to it and then asked her to push.
"She will be in this position until you finish your 30 rounds. So I suggest you to better hurry up." My eyes went wide in shock when I heard that. He was now definitely pushing her limits.
"And Kiara you, every time you fall or slow done, the weight on your back will increase."
"Yes. Sir" Kiara said gasping to breath.
A/N
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