Courtney's POV

There are no clocks in this rooms. None. I had no clue what time it was or how much longer of this boring shit we would have to endure. Double class period my ass. We had just finished going around the circle when Austin stood up. "Hey guys, so the first half of class is over, you guys have a 5 minute break while the rest of the classes transition and then we are all going to be back here. Ok break!" I stood up and grabbed Greyson's hand and tugged him along to the outside of the class room. Once we were outside in the hallway I fell to the ground with my back propped up against the wall and patted the ground next to me. He slid down beside me and wrapped his arms around my shoulders. We sat like that for a minute and slowly Casey and the other filed outside and sat down next to and across from us.

"Well this class blows." Someone finally spoke up.

"Yup." Greyson said while nodding his head up and down.

"I mean we are doing absolutely nothing at all. Nothing. Nothing." I said slowly. No one else said anything and we just sat in silence until Austin came to retrieve us.

"Alright guys stand up and head back in, we got stuff to do." He said holding the door open for all of us. Once we were all inside the studio we stood in front of us and spoke again. "Alright guys as you can see there many many punching bags over there," He said gesturing to the left. " I want you all to go stand by one." W all hurried over excited to be able to do something when Austin said the next set of instructions. "Now make sure you like this one because this is you punching bag for the rest of the semester." He paused for a minute while a few people switched to different slots. And he spoke again. "Now I want you all to wrap your hands around your bag and hug it tightly and repeat after me. 'I am sorry for all the times I will hit you.'" And we repeated. And Austin spoke again. "Now give your bag a name and repeat that same sentence but insert the name." And with that he walked over to the desk and sat and watched us hug a punching bag with a name and tell it how sorry we are. And that was all we did for the rest of the period.

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~~20 day later~~
It's been twenty days since the first Self-Defense class and all of them since then have been along the same lines as that. The second class we watched a movie on kicking, the third class we held hands and sung songs to get a sense of togetherness, and well you get the idea of it all. And now Casey and I were walking to class again because it was C-day again and we had it first. We were wearing the same thing we wore the same thing we wore the first day. outfits.
When we arrived at the classroom everyone was waiting outside. We worked our way through the crowd and stood by Luke and everyone else. "What's going on?" Casey asked above all of the voices.

"I don't know but we got here and the door was locked it was just really weird." Luke said back to us. We talked some more when a voice came over the PA system.

"Good afternoon students. I am sorry disrupt all of the classes but with regards to the first period self-defense class, the doors should be unlocked as of right now. Please enter the classroom and stand in equal rows on the main mats and begin your warm-ups. I will be down shortly I got held up in the offices." And Austin finished his small speech apologizing. We all walked in and formed our rows and began the warm ups he taught us before we would stretch and then like sit and do whatever boring thing he had planned for the day, in short it sucked ass. First you had to 20 jumping jacks, then 20 burpees, then 40 push-ups, and lastly 40 sit-ups. You did this three times and then stretched. We all started on the jumping jacks and had 5 left when the lights went out.

"Uh what?" Someone over to the left of me said.

"Guys it's just the lights." Another person said.

"Let's just all chi-" The next person was cut off.

"Nathan?!" Someone shouted to the guy who was cut off. "Are yo-" They were cut of too. The next thing I know I was being grabbed and muffled with a gag. I started thrashing and they started to grab me and pull me backwards. Suddenly the lights flicked on and Austin was standing at the door.

"Number 1 rule of self-defense. Always be aware." Unfucking believable. "You all learned what was necessary to win this fight and to fend off the attacker but you were unable to. Why? Because you had let your guard down. You thought that it was just going to be another boring old class of watching movies or stuff. Did you know that over 50% of sexual assaults happens with someone close to you. NEVER let you guard down because next thing you know you are caught off guard and attacked. Now go stand by your punching bags. I will be passing down tape for your hands. If you don't know how to properly wrap your hands wait for me I will be stopping by to assist. Go!" And we all ran to our bags and stood there waiting for our turn to get taped up.

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The next day

Outfits
Casey and I walked into breakfast and sat down. "Hey babe." Greyson said, kissing me on the cheek.

"Why are you guys so like... 'dressed up'?" Luke asked us. Casey turned to him.

"Luke hon, Thanksgiving is in 5 days... 5 instead of asking questions you should be talking to Courtney."

"Talking to me about what?"

"Just about what we should do this year. It's our turn to plan." Luke said.

"Oh right. Ok I'll meet you later today. And to answer you previous question, Casey and I are going to town with some other friends because it's Saturday and you know that means extra free time."

"Oh well have fun. What do you guys have first?" He asked.

"Well we have History first but self-defense last. But yesterday after class he said we didn't need to change so yeah. It's all good." Casey said. And we all continued to eat our breakfasts.