𝘼𝙉𝙂𝙀𝙇 - 𝙀𝙇𝙄 𝙈𝙊𝙎𝙆𝙊𝙒𝙄𝙏𝙕

miyagi-do

hawk and his friends ran through the arcade, stealing tickets and messing with people.

you were at the counter to trade in some of your tickets when hawk and the cobras barged in, making noise.

"i left you guys alone for five minutes and you're already causing trouble." you scolded the boys.

hawk only wrapped his arms around your shoulders, chuckling, and slammed his tickets on the counter.

"what do you guys want?" chris asked the boys. "to spend their hard earned tickets of course." you spoke like it was the most obvious thing ever. chris only let out a sigh of defeat.

"why don't you be a good girl and grab us one of those bobble heads." hawk told chris. your cheeks heated up at the nickname causing hawk to smirk down at you.

when chris turned his back, hawk climbed over the counter and grabbed as many stuffed animals as he could. he specifically took the small stuffed hawk from the rack and tossed it to you with a small smile before grabbing your hand and leading you to the door.

"thanks, chris! tell your mom i miss her." mitch yelled to the boy.

"yeah, and tell her to stop calling me." hawk finished.

you gave chris a small wink and a salute before running after your friends.

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you sat on one of the boxes in the old laser tag place while hawk kicked one of the stuffed animals next to you. doug and the other cobras congratulated the boy making him smirk with pride.

"brew time, man." mitch spoke, unzipping his backpack and pulling out the beers. you quickly hopped off the box and made your way to mitch.

"who's for a warm one?" mitch asked, smiling at the fact that he was the one who brought beers. you all looked at him in disgust before you spoke up.

"who the fuck wants a warm beer?" you asked boy, annoyed that the beers weren't cold. you made your way back to the box you were sitting on, scoffing at mitch's dumb mistake.

"you didn't bring an ice pack?" hawk asked, matching your annoyed tone. mitch shoved the warm beer back inside his backpack, silently shaming himself for not bringing an ice pack.

suddenly, the lights in the laser tag place shut off, leaving a blue tint to the room.

"what the hell?" you muttered to yourself, confused on how the lights came off.

suddenly your question was answered when sam and the miyagi-do's walked into the place.

hawk let out a scoff and you rolled your eyes, hopping off the box and walking toward sam and hawk.

"what do you want?" hawk asked the girl. she only looked him in the eyes and held her head up high, "payback." she responded shortly, making you smirk.

your phone dinged with an alert, signaling tory was here. you were all supposed to meet up at golf  'n' stuff to hang out, but this would be way more fun.

you left everyone to go get tory, not telling anyone where you went. you met her at the entrance and gave her a small smirk. she looked at you questioningly before asking you what you were smirking for.

"sam's here, and she wants payback." you told the girl. tory's face immediately matched yours and you led her to the old laser tag place.

"sam larusso. where are you, bitch?" you yelled out to the girl with tory and two other cobras behind you. "i have someone who wants to see you." you told the girl, venom lacing in your voice.

"show yourself, larusso!" tory yelled. "let's finish this. once and for all!" tory yelled out again.

sam immediately cowered and ran away, leaving her nowhere to be found. "pussy." you muttered to yourself, upset that sam wouldn't fight.

you and tory made your way to where everyone was and you saw hawk on top of demetri, holding his arm in place. you pushed through the small crowd to get a better look.

hawk held the boy in place as his friends yelled at him to break demetri's arm.

"eli." you called out to the boy, but only he heard you. hawk turned to face you, his face showing he was conflicted. he looked up at you, looking for an answer on what to do, but you didn't know either.

hawk quickly turned away from you, memories flooding to the night of the party when demetri shared embarrassing secrets and told everyone at the party that you didn't love him. that night was the worst night of his life, but not because of the embarrassing secrets demetri spilled out, but because that was the night he almost lost you forever.

hawk snapped out of his own thoughts and smashed his arm down causing demetri's arm to break. the loud snap echoed through the laser tag place and it felt like the world had gone silent.

although everyone else was screaming, you and hawk stood next to each other looking down at your old best friend, who was on the ground and screaming in pain.

you and hawk both felt the same regret, not knowing the other felt the same. you turned to look at hawk and he looked at you. hawk's old self appeared for a split second as he avoided your eye contact, but eli disappeared as quick as he came and hawk was quickly back.

you turned your head and saw sam in the corner, where you had previously saw her go when you first called out for her.

when you had first met her eyes in the corner, she almost broke into tears, afraid that you'd tell tory where she was. you only looked at the girl before turning around and leaving her there. sam let out a sigh of relief, thankful you didn't rat her out to tory.

you looked back at the girl for the second time that night and she looked scared. you quickly turned away and turned back to hawk, who had his head down as he walked out of the laser tag place.

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it had been hours since the laser tag incident and you hadn't spoken to hawk since. he sent you a text asking if he could come over and you told him yes.

hawk waited outside your apartment for you to answer and when you did he immediately bursted in, distraught. he wrapped his arms around you, silently crying. you quickly hugged back as he sobbed in your arms. you didn't say anything, you just led him to your bedroom and laid down on the bed with him in your arms. you two didn't talk for a good thirty minutes, you just rubbed his back and hair gently, waiting for him to calm down.

"i didn't want to do it." he told you, just above a whisper. "i didn't want to break his arm." he spoke a little louder.

"i know, eli." you told him softly, rubbing his back.

you weren't sure what else to say to the distraught boy, you just wanted to be there for him.

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this story reminds me that love exists