Lets' Settle This

Noel glanced down at his phone and sighed. Maybe he had jinxed himself when he told Emilia about AJ not being affected. He had barely started to drive back when he received AJ's rather cryptic message," Three rounds, three minutes each. Day after tomorrow."

"You really want to settle this with fists? Fine. The loser buys dinner. I've been training hard. But you..."

"We'll see who has the skills and who is all talk." came the reply before they went silent on each other.

Noel sighed. It seems his transgression had not gone unnoticed by AJ. Well, it was to be expected. He was pretty sure that if Amy were to know that he was thinking of her as more than a friend, she would challenge him to a few boxing matches herself.

He imagined her scowling face and grinned. Immediately, however, his smile evaporated. He had no right to be thinking about her or her scowls. It would simply mean torturing himself.

On the day of the match: