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Julien hoped it would be enough to make her never show up there again.
    Julien took the copy of her driver's license home with him. He unsuccessfully analyzed it for a few minutes before he shoved it into a drawer, hoping to forget about it.
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    Two days later, Julien came in to coach a MMA class that was scheduled to start at 5PM. Christian had just finished coaching a class, and was standing in the office when Julien went through there to put his stuff in the coaches' room.
    "I had your girl Nadine at kickboxing yesterday," Christian said. Julien looked at John David to see if Christian was telling the truth, and John David nodded, confirming his story.
    Julien looked at both of them, a little confused.
    "I asked her how she was liking the gym and she said she'd only had one coach, and she was doing her best to avoid his classes from now on because she thought he might be a little too hard core for her."
    "Talking about me ?" Julien asked in disbelief.
    Christian laughed. "I guess you were a little too hardcore even for your biggest fan."
    Julien was totally confused. "Is she planning on continuing ?" 
    "Yeah," John David chimed in, " she signed a contract after Christian's class."
    Julien gave them both a disgusted shake of the head. "Did her information check out?"
    " Well you saw the same driver's license I saw, and it's not like we run background checks, so yeah, as far as we know she is who she says she is," John David said.
    "I seriously can't believe you guys are gonna let her join," Julien said.
    "What are we supposed to do? Tell her she can't come here because her name's Nadine?"
    "Her name's not Nadine," Julien said.
    "What if it is ?" Christian asked. He was raising his eyebrows as if the idea should intrigue Julien.
    "Shut-up," Julien said.
    Without another word, he went to the back room to put his bag down. He had no idea what that girl was trying to do. He was glad he'd managed to scare her away from taking his class, but he never dreamed she'd continue to come to the gym just to be around him. He wasn't scared of her, but it was annoying, and he wished she would just leave him alone.

 
    Chapter 6
     
     
    Nadine LaBelle had been going to a gym where fighters train for the last three weeks, and she absolutely loved it. The first class she took was with this fighter guy named Julien who she didn't like very much. She had two bad experiences in his classes, and thought she'd probably try to avoid him in the future. He wasn't very friendly from the start, and for some reason, acted like he didn't really want her to be there.
    She couldn't come to her second class for over a week, because she gave herself whiplash by rolling wrong during the first class. The second class she went to was a kickboxing class that was coached by that same guy, and she triple-dog- hated it. He was a complete asshole, and she wondered why they hired him in the first place.
    Nadine almost let those first two experiences discourage her from continuing, but she decided to give it another shot since the guys at the front desk and the other students in class were all really nice. The third class she went to was with another coach named Christian, and his class was a world away from the first two she'd been to. Christian was a patient coach whose approach to new students made her wonder how in the world he and the first guy could work at the same place.
    After Christian's class, Nadine signed a one-year contract. They gave her a schedule of classes that conveniently had the name of the coach who taught each one. This would make it easy for her to avoid that guy Julien, which was exactly what she wanted to do.
    "What cha thinking about?" her friend Lindsay asked as she sat down next to her on the couch at Starbucks.
    "The gym." Nadine said.
    Lindsay rolled her eyes. "I can't believe you're going to that place. You need to come with me to spinning class if you want to get in shape."
    "I'm not just going there to get in shape, " Nadine