𝐇𝐈𝐑𝐀𝐄𝐓𝐇 | ❝ it's cute that you're afraid of me. ❞ in which jules monroe thinks that there is more to the new kid in west valley then meets the eye. 𝐌𝐈𝐆𝐔𝐄𝐋 𝐃𝐈𝐀𝐙 𝐗 𝐅𝐄𝐌! 𝐎𝐂
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╔ ——————————————— ╗ CHAPTER FIVE "kicking boards and other shit" ╚ ——————————————— ╝ (esqueleto pt. 2)
THE ANNOYING THING ABOUT karate was that Jules actually kind of liked it.
She wasn't sure what triggered Johnny to have a change of heart about accepting girls into his dojo, but Jules felt like she was keeping up. She was actually really impressed whenever she watched Miguel train. The boy was good, definitely a step ahead of her.
"Okay, so how hard can you kick?" Johnny asked, standing in front of her and holding up a wooden board. Jules shrugged.
"It depends."
"On what?"
"On how mad I am."
Miguel laughed from his spot stretching in the corner of the room, and Jules threw him a look over her shoulder. "I'm serious!"
"Okay then-" Johnny held the board in front of him, at stomach height. "Picture something that makes you really mad. Use that aggression, and kick the shit out of this board."
Jules nodded, curling her hands into fists as she adjusted her stance. She frowned. It was funny, now that she was supposed to get mad, she didn't know what to think about.
"Come on, don't be a pussy, kick the board."
Okay, well there was that.
Jules kicked the board, although her annoyance at Johnny didn't seem to give her the power he wanted to see. "Come on!" The man persisted, "Is that the best you can do?"
Jules scowled, kicking the board again.
"My grandma can kick harder than that! And she's dead!"
"Shut up," The girl grumbled, hitting the board a couple more times. She knew what Johnny was doing, she wasn't an idiot. And it was working. She hated being taunted, it was like the person was just asking to get a cup of hot coffee thrown at them. Here, Jules didn't have coffee... but she did have her goddamn feet.
She didn't even realize how high the board was getting until her thighs started to burn. She didn't really know that her leg could physically go up that high, since the girl has never really been flexible. Still, she kicked the damn board again.
"Come on!" Johnny urged, as Jules grunted, her breathing picking up. "You kick like a girl!"
If there was one thing that pissed her off - it was that. Anger flared in Jules's chest, triggering a scowl to form on her lips as she gritted her teeth, "I am a girl, asshole!"
She kicked him again, and whether it was from her anger, or just the insane need to kick this man in the face, Johnny took a small step backward at the force, a wide grin spreading across his face as Jules shook out her legs, cracking her knuckles. "Nice! You're not half bad, Monroe!"
