About a week after coming back to Jersey, things had fallen back into the normalcy I had grown so accustomed to. Chris, Nick, Angie, and much to my dismay, Carrissa, visited the house frequently. Kade and I had seemed to bounce back from our intense argument in Massachusetts, as well. Kade came forward a few days after returning home with a proposal. He would try to stop treating me like I couldn't defend myself, if he could show me how to do it properly. I was going to protest, insisting that I could defend myself without lessons, but I agreed to for the simple fact that Kade was trying really hard to make amends with me. So, for the past few days, Kade and I had been practicing various different self-defense techniques. Today, Kade had organized some sort of training that he was mark

