"Why did you even make a list? You are never organized. So why are you now?" Tadashi asked.
"Well you know, I haven't gone on a date in a long time and I want it to be perfect!!" Allison cried as she held onto her bag tightly, opening the zipper as...
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"Oh," He sighed, looking across the room at the bloodied and bandaged girl. "You're still alive."
"And what did you expect? I wasn't going to lose to that fool. He may be stupid but at least he can put up a good fight."
"That was really dumb of you." He said and sat down at the table with her. "You could've gotten into trouble."
"I wish I had. Would've made a better story."
"And that's all that matters?"
"Yeah... pretty much."
Kenma pulled AJ close and said, "But what about being happy and safe?"
"Aw safety is for people who are too scared to prove they're right. And I'm happy enough." She pushed his arm off of her and got up from her chair. She grabbed measuring cups from a cupboard and avoided his eyes.
He groaned and ran a hand through his long hair. "I can't AJ... You have got to stop. Just because someone-"
"No, you stop Kenma. Don't tell me what I can and can't do. Because I won't listen. I've had it up to here-" She raised her hand to her ears and swiped dramatically. "With that kid and I don't think that-"
"AJ. You should not have done that. Admit you're wrong and we can move on."
She scoffed and sat the measuring cups down a little too forcefully on the counter. "You know that I- Well... I can't. And you know what? I think you're stepping a little too far-"
"Hey." Kenma said softly, trying to turn the conversation away from an explosion. "Ok! Whatever. You've made that choice- a rather not so smart one- but that was a choice you made. Maybe we can focus on what we have to do after this? To fix it? I don't even know who you've beat up this time! Because honestly, AJ, you could've done so many other things but look at you! You've got blood on your shirt and cut above your eye and I don't even want to know how you got those bruises on your knuckles, probably because I can guess and what I think you've done is scaring me."
She laughed and walked into the pantry, calling out from over her shoulder, "I'm not that crazy. I just- you know- showed him that girls can fight for their men too."
"I thought you said that you fought him because you were proving yourself right and because he was stupid." Kenma replied.
"I was proving myself right because he was..." She reappeared with a huge bag of chocolate chips, shoving a few in her mouth before saying, "and he was saying you were a loser, layabout gamer, who does nothing but sit around with his unknown, probably fake girlfriend and lose volleyball matches. Apparently you casually mentioned me in a stream and now everyone's been talking about it."
Kenma stood up suddenly. He blinked hard and crossed his arms. "Shilo said that? Wow..."
Nodding and grabbing a spatula, AJ continued, "Yeah he said that alright. And I said of course he would think that, seeing as how he does nothing good for the basketball team himself and can't get a girlfriend to save his life. I was just calling him out on his hypocrisy."
