Bonsai Or Cobra |Cobra Kai|

|XII|

Scout grabbed her headphones on the way up the stairs and she put them on over her ears, as she switched to the Bluetooth function and Bon Jovi blared through her ears, as she walked into her room and she shut the door behind her.

Scout went into her closet again and moved her clothes all to one side, as she spotted the small freezer in her closet and she smirked. She opened the freezer lid and grabbed a big bucket of ice cream from the medium-sized freezer and she shut the lid. Scout grabbed a spoon from her box of spoons and she pried open the lid.

She sat on her bed and she opened her laptop, as she started to scroll through Netflix while starting to eat big spoonful's of Rocky Road ice cream. Scout heard a knock on her door and she immediately panicked, shoving the ice cream under her bed and putting the spoon in her pocket, as she opened the door and Hawk stood there, waiting at the door. "Rocky Road ice cream?" He asked and she raised here eyebrows, before she looked down and saw that the spoon was sticking out of her pocket. "The spoon gave it away."

"Fuck." Scout muttered and she took the spoon and flipped it into the air, as she walked over and she crouched to grab the ice cream bucket out from under the bed. "Is everyone else gone then?" She asked as he walked into the room and shut the door. Scout turned off her headphones and they landed on the beanbag chair in her room, when she threw them.

"Miguel, his abuela and his mom are gone. Sensei Lawrence just left after them. You gonna be okay, working with Sensei Lawrence with his interesting methods?" He asked as he sat down on the bed next to her, watching as she scrolled through Netflix and he stole bites of rocky road as she did.

"I've got an extra three feet in fire and sass, remember?" Scout asked and he chuckled, as she tossed a spoon over to him. "Dig in. I can't eat this entire thing myself." She pointed out and he rolled his eyes at her.

"Bullshit. You ate that entire cake at your twelve birthday party and you can still eat a full and complete, four helpings of Thanksgiving dinner." Scout sighed at his memory of events, as Hawk dug into the ice cream.

"Harry Potter? For old times sake?" She asked and Hawk shrugged, as she pressed play. "Gimme the bucket. Don't eat it all." She complained and they were still arguing about it throughout their Harry Potter movie marathon, but they were laughing as well.

"Malfoy the Bouncing Ferret!" Hawk quoted in the voice of Ron Weasley and Scout started to laugh hysterically at that, as she shook her head and she stole the ice cream bucket away, and she shoveled more ice cream in.

"My father and I have a little wager, Potter. I don't think that you're going to last ten minutes in this tournament. He disagrees. He doesn't think you're going to last five." Scout's impression of Draco Malfoy's voice was on point and Hawk was laughing, as she was shaking her head slightly at the stress it took on her voice. Scout took a sip of the ginger ale that Hawk had managed to get out of the fridge before coming up here and he burped. "Oh, come on man. That stinks!" She complained at the smell, as she turned back to the laptop. "Ooh, second challenge." She noted.

The empty ice cream bucket was on the bedside table and Scout's eyes were half open, as she yawned and it felt like her jaw was breaking in half. Hawk was blinking to keep his eyes open, as the credits rolled for The Goblet of Fire.

Scout yawned as she was hitting the button to shut off her computer, when she saw a message casually pop up on her screen and Scout nudged Hawk as he looked at the screen.

"You thought that you could get away with making us look like fools in front of our superiors? Meet us at the beach, before we make you regret it."

The number didn't have a name on it... but there was a bunch of snake & serpent emojis on the message after it, so it didn't take very long for them to figure it out.

"You have one hour."

Scout looked at Hawk, who was suddenly wide awake at the sight and he sighed. "You want me to stay here... don't you?" He asked as Scout nodded a bit sheepishly at him and Scout was getting up, all sleep gone from her eyes. "Scout, you might need backup for this. They have weapons most likely." He started and Scout looked at him, as she threw on her Serpent jacket and she buckled up a belt on around her waist.

"So do I, El- I mean... what do I call you?" She asked and he shrugged a little. "You are officially, a new Eli in my mind then." She said with a smile and he chuckled, as she walked over to the window.

"Hey. Hey, hold up." Eli got up and Scout looked over at him, as Scout was sliding the window up so that she could climb out of it. "Just be careful, all right?" He asked and she looked at him.

"How many tattoos, do you have now?" Scout asked and he chuckled a little.

"I have got the big hawk tattoo and then I have a smaller grim reaper up here." He pointed at where the grim reaper was located and she looked at him.

"Grim reaper?" She repeated and he nodded, as she shrugged. "All right, it is not exactly the weirdest thing that I have heard from you. Why a reaper?"

"To cover up another tattoo." He said as he showed her a picture of the old one, which was the small moon.

"Makes sense." Scout said and she dropped onto the bed again, as she yawned. "I still have an hour." She pointed out, as Eli dropped down next to her and they stared up at the room ceiling, which hadn't been changed since before her stint in Juvie.

"Still like the mythology." Eli pointed out as there was a pack of wolves and their leader, the massive wolf Fenris that looked like, he was about to eat Odin whole.

"Yeah. That part of my personality choices didn't change." Scout admitted and he looked over at her. "What are you looking at?" She questioned and he shrugged.

"My best friend, obviously, who definitely sounds upset." Eli said and she shook her head a little bit.

"Not really upset, so much as confused." Scout murmured and now, he was looking confused.

"You mean because Asher showed up out of nowhere again?" Eli questioned and she scoffed, as she nodded. "You can kick his ass later. But for now you should get some sleep." He pointed out as she shifted her head to his arm and she shut her eyes, as she tried to go to sleep.