ELAPID ✪ COBRA KAI

VII. Karma

"Thank you for being a friend
Traveled down a road and back again
Your heart is true, you're a pal and a confidant"

Thank You For Being A Friend by Andrew Gold

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Andi gave a big sigh as she switched her sleeping position for the third time in the last 30 minutes, trying to find a more comfortable position to lure sleep towards her. 

She had kissed Eli around a week ago... and she could think of nothing else since. 

It wasn't awkward between them in any sense of the word. 

Well- except for when Demetri would bring it up, trying to plan his kiss with Andi whenever the jocks would come up to him and taunt him next. 

With Miguel's help- Andi was able to convince 'Mitri that if she kissed him too, especially with Kyler in front of them, He would just use it as ammunition against Andi- calling her a slut or something of the likes. 

The whole group would assume the group was in a sort of weird polyamorous relationship, which would be terrible since Miguel was in said group. 

"We don't live in the south 'Mitri," Andi had explained, "That shit doesn't fly here."

Lucky for them, Demetri understood.

 In fact, he actually said he was glad Andi felt this way- since he didn't want Yasmine to think he was "unavailable." 

Yeah right. Andi had thought Like that's going to happen. 

Though things were fine between the group- Andi hadn't talked to Eli one on one since it happened. 

They usually texted every day, sometimes even wasting away the hours of the night together over their phone screens- but that hadn't happened. 

Andi was terrified that she'd scared him away. 

It was obvious he didn't share the same feelings for her that she had for him, but Andi didn't care. She just wished she could take back the kiss, so she still had her best friend. 

During her sleepless night, though, she thought about the kiss more and more. 

The way his thin lips had brought light to her whole body, the way they were dry from the incoming cold weather- but still managed to feel soft, the way his body had eased into it after a moment, even pressing closer to hers- though, that last part Andi may have imagined. 

She didn't regret it, she concluded. She wished things weren't the way they were now- but she didn't regret it. Because she was glad, her first kiss was as special as the person she'd kissed. 

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The next day at school, Andi made her way to her usual lunch table. Eli and Demetri were already seated next to a new addition to their group. A girl named Aisha Robinson. 

She had recently joined Miguel at Cobra Kia after many bullies at the Halloween dance had taken videos of her at the snack bar and posted them mockingly all over social media. 

Andi had never seen the video, though, seeing as she was pretty 'anti-social media.' 

It was a dick thing to do, and Andi realized that she wouldn't know how to act if it had happened to her- let alone come back into the cafeteria room. 

She admired Aisha for doing something about it. Joining Cobra Kai meant she was taking her power back- and Andi felt a ping in her stomach, wishing she could do the same.