The first few days were exhausting, but I did not let it discourage me. We would do this until the sun told us it was close to midday. Once we finishe...d eating our midday meal back at the house, we would move on to the practice swords.They would take me through movements that would help me to develop my reflexes. I would do this for an hour or more, before we would move on to sparring. For the first few days, I was purely on the defensive, the exhaustion from the previous exercises dulling my. The three of us raided the fridge and had another beer and decided to keep going the next day.Northwestern, in Chicago, was a whole different story. If the trip had consisted of houses like the one in Cleveland, we could have turned around and had more fun in Troy. There were almost a dozen guys staying over the summer at the house at Northwestern, and they greeted us warmly! We spent the first night drinking and smoking, and then stayed on for another three days. We ended up swimming in Lake. Eden wanted to be bad, but wasn't really sure she knew how. She brought her bottle coyly to her lips. Playfully almost nibbling the rim, she fluttered her eyes up at his and giggled at words she could only half hear, hoping they were jokes. 'Shall we dance?' he smiled, at last breaking her awkward flirtation.They moved towards the swelling centre of the room. The beat fell into a deeper groove, somehow even lower than before. Eden began to sway, the fabric of Edmund's jacket brushing her skin. Using your left hand, you feel your right wrist and discover it has a metal band with a ring on it bolted round your wrist with a chain attached to the ring, you feel down the chain which is about a foot long and is secured to a ring set in the concrete floor. Crying as you feel your restraints, you discover they are all bolted in place with no chance of you removing them.You scream as loud as you can until you are hoarse but no one comes. Eventually you sob yourself to sleep on the hard.