Anna was mildly surprised when she actually managed to get Gunner on the defensive and keep him there, usually they were back and forth the whole time but apparently her focus this time had allowed her to break through his guard and keep herself there... Except then, she'd been surprised and she'd lost her focus in light of this achievement and suddenly found herself being knocked off balance. She'd been prepared to roll if she fell, to keep him from pinning her but apparently he'd read that in the shift of her stance because he was suddenly wheeling her around to the wall. Her back hit first, along with her wrist which he'd caught earlier when she'd thrown that punch and she could have gotten out of it... she really could have. It would have been a simple matter of either knocking her head into his nose or dropping to the floor and slamming a palm into his knee to take him down... but she didn't do either of those things. Instead, her heart did something funny and her breath caught and her eyes went wide... she froze up.

For a second there, while her heart was doing funny things in her chest, her eyes were snagged on the smirk on his lips and she MEANT to headbutt him.... she did... really... but instead her lips found his and she was kissing him. The moment her mind caught up with her actions she quickly jerked away as if his mouth had burned her... and maybe it had... it felt like it had. She didn't look at him as she dropped, going limp and heavy before shouldering him backwards from her and spinning out to his left. She didn't look back as she grabbed a towl and headed for the locker room. When the teacher called out after her, not having seen what had happened (it had happened to quickly probably for anyone else to have noticed) she excused herself saying that she needed air.

The teacher looked puzzled but let her go before calling a halt to the sparring warm ups and a start to stake practice. He ran through the correct form, posture, and force to use and then ordered everyone to split off out of their pairs and practice on their own. Anna, in the meantime was pacing in the locker room. It was possible that she'd just ruined everything and she hadn't even MEANT to kiss him, hadn't even realized she was GOING to kiss him. She let her back hit the wall as she groaned, she needed an excuse and she needed one fast because there was no way in hell that Gunner was going to be okay with what had just happened. If she didn't think of something quickly then... well... he'd act completely different around her and she didn't want that... ever.

She took a breath and decided to skip out on class... She headed into the hall and dodged a few Guardians on her way out to the Courtyard. "Angelina Ross, right?"

She jumped at the sound of her name, looking back over her shoulder... she'd passed the blue eyed Moroi boy without even realizing he was there. "Um... yeah... do I know you?"

He smiled sheepishly and shook his blonde head, "No... and you wouldn't. I just... I saw you fighting today and, well... you were amazing."

For some reason she blushed, he was looking at her all aglow and his face full of honest admiration... she didn't know what to do with that. So, instead she brought up something else. "Oh, uh... thanks... You playing hookie too?"

He shrugged and looked a little embarrassed, "You... could say that. I'm just not all that good at controlling my element and apparently that's the focus today so... If you want we could walk together? You look a little... disheveled."

She laughed slightly and mimicked his earlier answer, "You could say that... what's your name?"

He smiled back and for some reason she felt warm when he looked at her that way... it wasn't the same as with Gunner but it was still there... an undeniable pull. "Jason... or Jace... Szlesky. Come on... I'll show you where I go to think."

She hesitated but that smile again... she glanced back at class, no way was she going back there... "Alright... lets go."