Wind and Flesh / [kaplan]

The morning air was warm and humid. I'd decided to venture into the outdoors to go for a hike and take some pictures with my camera, as I'd always had quite the passion for photography. It had warmed up outside since yesterday, so sweat coated my brow after I hadn't been out there all that long. That's summertime for you.

The photo that I had taken while I was out that I was the most proud of was of a bright red bird perched up on a high up tree branch. You could see the detail of the bird's feathers and the shimmer of the sunlight in the photograph. It really was quite a nice picture, if I did say so myself. I was going to make sure to print it when I got home so that I could frame it and hang it up in my room. Only the best of my photos got the opportunity to adorn my bedroom walls.

When I got home, I opened the door to the apartment only to be immediately greeted by Winnie.

"Let's spar," she suggests. Although, after she had her hand on my elbow, I realized it was more of an order than a suggestion. I didn't usually take orders from people, but Winnie was my best friend, so that didn't bother me nearly as much. She told me that she felt like punching something, and I suppose I was going to be that 'something'. Although, I was a 'something' that wouldn't just get hit without a fight.

She smiles and then proceeds to put on her flipflops. While she does this, I put down my camera. I don't want anything to happen to it, and I suppose printing the photo can wait. I smile back at her. I always enjoyed our sparring matches, so I was sure this would be fun.

Winnie leads us to the roof where our sparring mats are set up and tells me that the first one to fold loses while she puts her hair into a ponytail, and I follow suit, using the hair tie on my wrist- it's best to keep my hair out of the way when we do things like this.

She mentions the Games coming up and said not to go easy on her because she won't go easy on me. I nod.

"Oh, no worries there." I say this with a smirk.

She throws her first punch and I manage to block it quickly. Had I not been as swift as I was, that would've hurt.

"C'mon Winnie, you can put up more of a fight than that, can't you?" I tease with a smile on my face. Then, I swing back.