Trouble

33

"You need to stop letting Will do that shit" I tell Robby.

"What am I supposed to do? The boy has military training and hates my guts." Robby says and stands in front of me.

"He hates a lot of people. He hates me, but he fought you because you hurt me. It makes so sense" I say.

"How did Will know?" Robby asks. "He couldn't even see you from behind"

"I did something dumb" I tell him. " I told Mason after it happened, I don't know who he told"

"Why were you with Mason?" Robby asks.

I take a deep breath, "I'm going to be honest with you. I went to miagi do to talk to Miguel, but me and Mason ended up being the last ones there. I told him what happened because he noticed, and we kissed"

"You kissed Mason?" Robby says with anger in his voice.

"It was a dumb in the moment thing. I regretted it ever since I did it."

"How do I know you won't do it again?"

"Because I'd be with him right now if I wanted to" I tell him. "I'm sorry, but now we can call all this shit off and say we're even, deal?"

Robby hesitates, but shakes my hand. "Deal."

I start to lift Robbys shirt up but he pushes my hand away.

"What are you doing?" He asks smiling.

"I want to see if Will broke any of your ribs." I say and lift his shirt up, revealing his chest. I start to run my hand gently over where there were marks. "Tell me when it hurts"

"Izzy it hurts all over" Robby whines.

"Where?"

"All over my damn side!" He yells. "I'll be fine"

I run my thumb over one of his bruises and he flinches.

"If you keep messing with my brother you won't"

Suddenly we hear a big bang. Robby opens the door and we both run out.

"Get out!" Dad yells at Will. "You're a grown ass adult!"

Will slams something on the floor and it shatters before he storms upstairs. I grab Robbys hand and walk over to the front door.

"Izzy, Robby, come over here" My dad demands.

Me and Robby walk over there and sit down in front of him.

"I'm sorry, and I'm saying that for Will." My dad says.

"Is he going back to Chicago?" I ask.

"Anywhere but here" he says. After a weird silence, me and Robby walk outside to my car.

"How are you doing?" Robby asks me. "You know, with Will Leaving again?"

"I'm fine. Honestly I couldn't care less." I say and climb into the back seat.

"What are you doing?"

"Sleeping, ever heard of it?" I say and rest my head against the window.

Robby climbs in back too, and sits on the other side. I Scooch over so I can lay my head down on his chest, and he starts to rub my back.

"So you're not going back to the dojo tonight?" I ask him.

"Nope, I'm good right here"

I wake up the next morning to my phone alarm going off.

"What time is it?" Robby asks.

"6, let's get going" I say and crawl back to the drivers seat to unlock the car. We both get out and go back inside.

"Where are you going?" Robby asks.

"We're going to school. I need to catch up on work"

"I'm not going"

"Fine, but I am. Don't get into any trouble when I'm gone" I say and walk up to my room. After I get ready, I go back downstairs and see Robby gone.

After school, I go straight to the dojo.

"Izzy, what are you doing here so early?" Kreese asks as I walk in.

"I had nothing better to do; is Robby here?" I ask.

"In the back"

I walk to the back room with my bag and walk into the room.  "Miss me?" I ask.

"Yeah, how was school?" Robby asks. He was sitting on the floor in his gi, stretching.

"Slow, boring." I say and sit down in front of him. "What are we doing today?"

"Miagi do" he says and stands up. "We're teaching the others miagi do techniques"

"We?" I ask as he helps me up.

"Yeah, go get dressed."

*after training Bc why not*

Me and Robby are laying on the couch watching old 90s movie reruns.

"I'm bored" I tell him. "What do you want to do?"

"Train?" He suggests.

"No, we just did that for two hours" I complain. "How about we just walk and talk?"

He agrees and we both race each other outside.

"So nothing happened at school?" Robby asks.

"Not really. I mean, Sam gave me a few dirty looks but that's about it."

"You and Sam-" Robby starts but the sound of kids yelling stops him. I look over to the sound of it and see a bunch of kids messing with someone.

"Hey!" I yell and run over there with Robby on my tail. "What the hells going on?"

All the boys start taking off chasing the other boy but I grab one by the collar of his shirt.

"The hell do you think you're doing?" I ask him.

"Izzy, just let me go-" he starts.

"How do you know my name?" I ask him and cross my arms.

"You and Sam hung out before" he says.

"Antony fucking LaRusso?" I ask with wide eyes. "What the hell happen-, wait, why are you being a dick and beating up that kid? Do you have a reason?"

"No, but-"

"No buts, it was a yes or no question." I step closer to him. "Don't be dumb and start getting into fights kid. Look at me and Robby, fighting fucked up our lives. Do you understand?"

He nods, and I turn around and grab Robbys hand. We start to walk home, and neither of us look back.