"Asher wake up honey. You have an hour and a half until school." Dad shakes my shoulder and my eyes open, the gunk of old eyeliner making my eyes sting and feel nasty." You look like a clown right now. As does my pillow."

I groan and stretch out my arms and raise out of bed." Where's the shower? And what am I going to wear?"

"You're mother dropped of some clothes for you to wear. They're inside the bathroom, and it's the first door to the left when you walk out of here. I'll be downstairs if you need me." He pats me in the back before exiting his room and quietly shutting the door behind him.

I get off the bed and stretch out my limbs again and decide to just do some squats, push ups, and sit ups today. Who cares about my schedule right now. I do twenty five squats making sure to make each one slow and long so the burn will start faster. I do twenty push ups, lifting myself as high as I can go and how low I can make it. I roll over into my back and begin to raise up, doing these fast and doing forty of them. I count inside my head with each one, and going back a few numbers sometimes to have to do more." You work out in the mornings?"

I jump slightly and glance up back at dad who has two steaming cups in his hands." Jesus you gave me a heart attack. And yes I do. I usually have a schedule but I decided to just go random this morning."

"What do you usually do?" He hands me a cup and I look down at the light vanilla coffee.

"Sit ups, crunches, lunges, push ups, pull ups, squats, and I sometimes go and practice with the punching bag a couple of times."

"Then that's why you've been way better at my exercises.... Start doing some stretches to get more flexible. That's something you need to get better on. Opens up a lot of possibilities with fighting as well." He drinks his hot coffee, not even flinching when the steaming liquid touches him and takes a big gulp of it.

"I'm going to go take a shower and don't touch my coffee. I'm going to let it cool down then drink it." He rolls his eyes and I get up off the floor and sit it on the nightstand beside the table." I'll start doing that by the way." I tell him before walking out and going into the left room where the shower is. I really feel like doing nothing. It's just so peaceful here and it makes me want to read a book at a window as I look out to the forest that surrounds dad house. I feel like I'm in one of those honeymoon places you see in romance movies. Minus the romance and movie part.

I turn the knobs of the shower, experimenting with them to get just the right temperature and strip down before getting into the shower. School, I'm not ready to face you but I'm coming anyways.

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