Sorry about that, just been in a meeting, the boss's PA was there but that's for later, but it really is shaping up well.
Sarah and I had one altercation on the programme a couple of weeks before the fight. We were away in the Lake District doing an outdoor leadership programme (rock climbing and stuff like that) and on one team exercise, which she was leading, we messed up. We started blaming each other and there was abit of pushing and shoving which the others obviously noted
That night in the cabin we were all staying in we were up late drinking and playing a game called truth and dare. The guy I had been talking to about fighting Sarah asked everyone to describe a fight they had been in. Everyone had been in one at some point including all the 4 girls. I told about one from just a couple of months earlier when Steve and I drove the west coast of America and I had a fight with a motel receptionist out the back of the motel in front of her colleagues. Then it came to Sarah's turn and she told about a fight at University (she was at Bath Uni) with a girl she didn't get on with and they had decided to settle it with a proper fight. She kept looking at me while telling it, a fact the others noticed also. She won by the way. Later that evening we were alone in the kitchen and we had this brief conversation where I told her maybe me and her should be doing the same if she had the guts. He gave me this look and said 'maybe' but nothing mroe happened
From that day all I wanted to do was to fight her, I chatted about it to Steve who got me to describe what it would be like.
We were due to finsih the programme in the middle of October and on the last night we all went out togehter clubbing in Leeds. It was a good night, lots of dancing, although I was still thinking about a fight with Sarah. I had this idea thta it needed to be before we finished the programme cos we had to work together
We were all dressed up, I was in a very short black dress and she was in an equally short green dress.
We all got back to the private lounge we had at the hotel and carried on drinking. I got talking to the same guy as before and he asked me about Sarah. I told him how I felt and our conversation in the Lake District. He asked me if I wanted to fight her that night and I said yes. Anyway next thing he has talked to her and the others and then she comes up to me and challenges me to fight her. Just like that. The conversation, in front of the others, went something like this
Her: 'we need to sort this once and for all'
Me 'what do you mean'
Her 'we need to sort this between us'
Me 'what are you suggesting'
Her 'fight me, here tonight, one on one, then its over'
Me 'are you serious'
Her 'yes, fight me to a submission, it'll be a fair fight with all them here'
Me 'okay, but in half an hour meet me here'
The excitement from everyone was amazing, including the other two girls, they allknew this had been building up. I disappeared up to my room my heart pounding, I was so excited. I rang Steve and told him what was going to happen. He wanted to come over to the hotel but I told him no, this was something within the group.
When I went back into the lounge it all went quiet and then everyone was encouraging us both to fight. A space had been cleared in the middle and everyone had formed a circle. I was still wearing my short black dress, then Sarah came in, still in her short green one. People let us move to the centre of the circle. The guy who had been encouraging it came forward and aske dif we were both willing to do this. We both said yes. He said it was a fight to a submission, as soon as one of us submitted it was over.
Then we both got ready, my heart was pounding and adrenalin pumping. It always does before a fight. We took off our shoes and she tied up her hair. We both had our eyes fixed on the other one. The tension in the room was amazing. Then the guy shouted fight and everyone cheered and it was on. Thinking about it now I can see some of it in slow motion and some of it is blurred, that happens with my fights. At the start we circled and both put up our fists and it started as a fist fight, both trying to hit the other. I am quite good with my fists and can defend as well and I caught Sarah twice with punches to her stomach, then we just grabbed arms and were puling each other around and everyone was cheering and shouting our names and then our feet were interlinked and we went to the floor. I remember lots of rolling over and over and our dresses being up really high so the whole of our legs were bare, I also remember Sarah being on top to start with three times or so pinning me down and me struggling to ge ther off. I was surprised how strong she was cos I am a little bigger and have had a lot of fights. At one point she pinned me and I was wondering if I would ge ther off. I was kicking me legs and arching them and pushing at her and eventually pushed her off me. The fight was a combination of wrestling and cat but it turned into mainly wrestling, we were both detemined to prove we were stronger. I was calling her a posh bitch, and she was calling me a northern cow or something like that. It was quite intense at times and at others one of us would pin the other for what seemed to be ages
