Inextricable//A Cobra Kai Story

The End Of Inseparable

"Aubrey, did you hear what I said?" Eli repeated himself in a low voice.

AJ nodded a little as she finally lifted her head up from the spot she was staring at on the table, "Yeah, I heard you." she whispered.

"Do you agree?" He asked trying to keep a brave face on.

AJ fully looked at him an expression of shock and hatred on her face. She began to wonder where the hell it all went wrong.

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It hadn't even been five minutes into their after tournament date when Eli decided to finally let out the secret that he had been keeping inside for so long.

The girl in front of him was in the middle of a sentence when he cut her off.

"I think we should break up." He blurted out stopping her completely.

Her eyebrows slowly scrunched together in confusion as she turned to look at him, her eyes wide.

The expression on her face made him feel awful. For the first time in her life AJ Mills looked anything but confident.

"I'm sorry?" She managed to choke out.

"I think we should break up Aubrey." He sighed taking in a deep breath, "It's clear we are no longer working out. I've noticed it a lot more. We can go days without speaking really and it honestly doesn't seem like either of us care about it. We don't talk as much as we used to before. We're distant. It feels like we are no longer in a relationship already and I want to be in one I do but I just don't think that we can be in a relationship together."

He stopped his long explanation to look at the girl who seemed to have found more interest in the restaurant table than in the conversation at hand.

"Aubrey, did you hear what I said?" He spoke again.

She looked at him and he felt his heartbreaking all over again just like it did when he prepared the speech. He knew he had to prepare something. There was no way to think of it on the spot. Not when he knew he had to hide a part of why he wanted to break up with her.

"Yeah, I heard you." She whispered to him.

"Do you agree?" He asked her.

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"Do I agree?" AJ glared at him, "You really think that I agree with breaking up? Eli are you kidding me!"

Eli huffed and glanced to the side before back at her, "You are really going to sit there and tell me like you still feel like you are in a relationship with me, or do you just feel like we are friends who occasionally kiss? Because for the past couple of days after prom that is literally all we have been."

AJ stopped for a moment to think about what he had said. She had noticed that ever since prom they had barely spoken. Even before prom it was kind of like that.

The distance really began when he switched to Miyagi-Do. Their schedules conflicted so much that they barely got any time with each other.

Another factor was the internal struggle that she was going through. The anger that it brought her, the frustration that it created inside of her. And it was partially all because of the boy sitting across from her as painful as it was.

"You know what, maybe I-" She hesitated trying to force herself to say the next part, "Maybe I do agree!"

Eli stared at her in shock, "You do?" he honestly didn't expect that.

AJ nodded furiously now on a roll, "Yeah," She sighed forcing back the tears that were slowly forming, "I think I agree because honestly I-I don't even know who I am around you."

As much as she wanted to stop from spilling out all of her hidden thoughts about her struggles she just couldn't stop. It was time to be honest with both herself and him.

"When I joined Cobra Kai, I completely changed myself for you. I became AJ, a person who thought that it was okay to senselessly beat up people who I thought deserved it!" She spat out her first sentence in disgust as she thought about what it was like to be at Cobra Kai. "I followed along with everything that you wanted to do! I literally was your little puppy dog."

Now that one hurt to admit. But it was true, AJ did almost everything that he did with no hesitation. She acted like him and acted like everyone else in the group. Her ego and fake confidence got worse when she was around them.

"And it happened a second time at Eagle Fang! But this time it was different, this time you were growing into the person that you were always meant to be but here I was trying to cling to who I was at Cobra Kai. I was frozen in time there." AJ continued to rant to him, "But the final time, the time where I was left stuck, was when you got your hair cut. You turned into the person that you were trying to find all along and I am still so happy for you, but I am still so lost."

She sighed softly as a few tears fell, "I'm stuck trying to figure out who the hell I am!" AJ's breath was getting shakier by the moment, "So, yeah, maybe I do agree that we need to break up because I need to find myself without you. I have told myself so many times that I want to re-meet Aubrey. Not AJ, not Aubrey-Jane! And while you think that you may know her and know me, I can guarantee that you do not! In fact I don't think you ever did."

The two stared at each other both with tears rolling down their faces.

"I hope that we can be civil enough about this and remain friends so that you get the chance to meet her but other than that time I cannot be around you. I need to do this on my own." She hesitated, "Thank you for breaking up with me, seriously, I appreciate it!"

Eli's sadness was now turned into anger with her last sentence, "Do you want a your welcome?" He asked shaking his head, "Do you want a your welcome for breaking my own heart and breaking-" he stopped himself, "Breaking what I thought would be yours? So, you can find yourself?"

"You think this isn't breaking my heart?" AJ responded feeling her mascara run with her tears, "It kills me knowing that I can't be myself when I'm around you!" she tried to keep her voice down but it was slowly getting raised, "The one person who I thought actually made me feel comfortable to be myself is the reason I am not myself! It's confusing, it's conflicting and it is heartbreaking Eli!"

The girl was full on sobbing in front of him while he managed to compose his anger. But that still didn't stop new tears from forming in his eyes.

"My heart is broken," AJ said through her tears, "But I know that I need this, I know I do."

Eli nodded and felt a tear roll down his cheek, "I know I do to."

They sat in silence for a moment reflecting on all that was said between them. It was a haunting sort of silence. The kind that you know will never bring forth a happy ending.

"We had a good run Eli." The girl with two different colored eyes broke the silence with a whisper, "But it's ending now. Us being inseparable, its the end."

"The end." The boy with the scar whispered back.

There was a mutual understanding now between them. That things that were once Inseparable can always become Separable.

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