Broken Down {Drevilsin}

♒ Sabrina Elle ♒

I was supposed to have an excellent day today. That's exactly what I told myself when I woke up- that my day was going to be excellent, and better than usual. Unfortunately, that's not quite how it worked out. I left the house around nine o'clock that morning, which was my first mistake. Not being far from the training center meant that I was bound to run into some careers that had just finished their morning training that ended at nine o'clock that morning. I didn't think about this until I actually did run into one, though. Usually, however, I didn't have problems with careers, as long as it wasn't one in particular.

Of course, the person I saw was exactly the one I had been hoping to avoid. It was Charm Jinx, a member of the hardcore career Jinx family. Most of them would fight you if you looked at them wrong, and Charm was no exception. I tried my best to avoid her gaze as she walked by, but she intentionally shoved me when she noticed me. The shove was hard enough that I ended up on the ground, having landed flat on my butt. When I stood up, she hadn't gone away, and was standing there, looking at me with a smirk on her face.

"So," she started, "Sabrina, did you finally decide not to be a wimp and start training?"

I glared at her with frustration.

"Ah, I figured as much. You hate careers too much to do that, don't you? Anyway, perfect timing. Listen, I made a bet with my brother, Spear. Whomever can break someone's leg first, wins. Now, since I couldn't do so in training this morning, and you're right here, I might as well make you that target. What do you think?" the cruel girl explained her plans.

I was about to turn and run when she delivered a hard punch to my ribcage. Doubling over in pain, I didn't know what to do. What had I done to possibly deserve being her punching bag? What kind of sick bet did the Jinx kids make that you had to break someone's leg to win.

The air escaped my lungs quickly, and I gasped for more to reenter. Unfortunately, I couldn't even yell for help at that point, as she swiped out my legs with her foot, causing me to crash to the pavement of the sidewalk once more. I was in so much pain, that I didn't want to move. The girl, even though she was younger than me, had a lot of force behind her due to all of her years of training.

Due to all of the force that she was able to deliver, a few stomps of her foot on my right leg caused me to let out a yell, and I could feel the bones cracking. Charm had definitely won her bet.

Lying there, I was whimpering in pain. I could hear laughter from Charm, and heard her call her brother, Spear, over to her.

"Pay up." I heard her chuckle to him. He sighed, and then the two walked off. From what I could tell, I had been left alone at the point, but I certainly wouldn't be able to return to my feet any time soon. I was in too much pain, and there wasn't a chance I could stand back up with how messed up my leg was at that point. I shifted how I was lying on the pavement to try to get any weight off of my leg, but that was when I felt an excruciatingly sharp pain in my chest. There was no doubt she had broken a rib or two of mine.

I lie on the pavement, tears running down my face. Looking weak was not something that I was concerned about in that moment. If anything, looking weak would be the only thing that would get me help in that moment.