Hot For Sensei

Chapter Thirty

The ended up going to the same restaurant where they had their victory nachos. Ivy was sitting at a table with Tory, Aisha and Moon who were gossiping about Yasmine. Apparently, she had fled to Paris after the whole front wedgie incident. Eli was off pestering Mitch and Chris, who were actually trying to eat, and Miguel was at a table alone again working on his laptop. Tory threw an ice cube at him to get his attention, obviously bored with their conversation. He gave her a goofy smirk, but other than that he ignored her, too engrossed in whatever he was working on.

Ivy picked at her food as she eyed up Eli, trying to ignore Moon's high-pitched laugh next to her. She was still stewing about the tattoo he had gotten, not able to understand how they had gotten so serious so quickly. She doubted that they even had one meaningful conversation this entire time, and yet Moon was the object of his affections instead of Ivy. Surely looks weren't all that mattered to him? With an eyeroll, she dropped the fries she was playing with back onto her plate and stood.

"I'm going for a smoke." She groaned and left the restaurant to head outside.

On the way out, she saw Sam, Robby and Dimitri sitting in the food court enjoying a lunch of their own. They waved to her with smiles, and she returned the gesture, leaving at that as she kept walking. She wasn't really in the mood to talk, and she didn't want her fellow cobras to see her interacting with them.

Ivy chuffed down a cigarette next to her truck, wondering if she would ever get a break. There was always some sort of drama going on around here and just when she thought she had fixed one problem, ten more would come out of the woodwork. It was exhausting and certainly not doing her mental health any good. She was just so damn angry all of the time.

When she went back into the mall, she saw that the Miyagi-Do kids were gone, which stuck her as a little odd. Before she could give it any thought, she heard a loud shout, and when she found the source, she gasped. Dimitri was up on the second story running from a red and black blur that she quickly realized was Eli. Not far behind was a group of more cobras, and Ivy panicked.

"Fuck! Fuck! Fuck! Fuck!" she cursed as she broke out into a sprint to try and find the quickest way up to Dimitri.

She made it upstairs, but Dimitri was no where in sight, causing her heart to pound harder. No matter what was going on, she couldn't let Eli hurt Dimitri.

"Ivy, over here!"

She whipped around to see that Chris and Mitch were making their way towards her, panting as they caught up.

"What the hell is going on?" she snapped.

"Dimitri wrote a bad review about Cobra Kai. Hawk told him to take it down, but Dimitri wanted to fight instead. So now Hawk's chasing him." Mitch explained between breaths.

"We tried to stop him, but he won't listen." Chris huffed, "He told us to shut up and go after him, or he'd fight us next."

"God damn it!" she shouted, moving past them to start running again.

She made her way back to the food court, hoping Robby and Sam would be there and that Dimitri would have the good sense to run to them. To her relief, that's where she found him, but unfortunately, he was there alone, and Eli and the other cobras were closing in on him. Right before she reached Dimitri, one of the cobras grabbed him to hold him for Eli, and she threw herself at the kid to knock them away, falling with them in the process. She forced herself back up to stand in between Dimitri and Eli, though her lungs were burning.

"You don't need to do this, Hawk." She tried reasoning with him, "We can fix this another way."

"Get out of the way, Ivy. This isn't your fight." Eli spat, his eyes never leaving Dimitri.