The New Girl

The New Girl: Chapter 13

8 years ago...

It was a few months after Cody had began taking martial arts classes. He and Sasha were still meeting every Saturday morning before her dance class started to teach each other what they knew. That morning he smiling in at her through the window as he was about to leave. Just when she smiled back at him with Carmella and Renee standing beside her, Cody heard shouting from around the corner.

"Yeah, teach him a lesson." One guy could be heard shouting.

Cody rushed around the corner to finding a group of older guys beating up a younger boy. The boy looked at Cody with helpless baby blue eyes as the guys kicked him over and over again. Before thinking it through, Cody rushed in to help.

"Hey, leave him alone!" Cody shouted as he ran to the boys aid.

One of the older guys tried to go after Cody but he punched him in the face, knocking him out. Everyone else took off running, leaving the boy there on the ground, wounded.

"Are you okay?" Cody asked.

The boy wiped his mouth  as Cody offered out his hand.

"Yeah, I'm all good." The boy told him. "There was only a few today."

"Does that happen a lot?" Cody asked.

"Sometimes." The boy said.

Cody looked at him in confusion.

"Why?" Cody asked.

"Because they're afraid." The boy told him.

Cody furrowed his eyes in confusion.

"You're saying they beat you up because hey're afraid of you? I don't think that's how it really works." Cody tried to understand.

"I meant they're afraid of who I am. It scares them."  Kenny said.

"And who are you?" Cody asked.

"I'm Kenny... Kenny Omega."  He said.

Cody scratched his head for a moment.

"No offense or anything.. but Kenny still doesn't sound that scary." Cody said cautiously.

Kenny let out a small laugh.

"I'm gay. That's what scares them." Kenny finally told him.

Cody looked Kenny up and down with curiosity.

"How do you know?" Cody asked.

"That I'm gay?" Kenny asked.

Cody nodded in approval.

"Oh, they send you a gay membership car in the mail on your eleventh birthday. It's kind of like a Harry Potter, chosen one, kind of thing." Kenny joked with him.

Cody didn't get the joke and tried to think it over.

"I'm just messing with you. I've always known." Kenny told him.

Cody laughed at himself for a moment.

"You ever try martial arts?" Cody asked.

Present day...

"Are you sure your okay?" Renee asked as she held and ice pack to Seth's lip outside the nurses office.

"I'm fine." Seth told her.