cruel summer

HURT

Y/n woke up. She rubbed her eyes as she recalled the events from yesterday. Her mom and siblings were off to Ohio.

She got up from her bed and brushed her teeth before heading down to the kitchen. Her dad sat down with a cup in his hand. Y/n approached him. She could smell booze on him. "Jeez, dad. How much did you drink?" Y/n said.

She made her way to the coffee machine and started it.
"You sleep late" Chozen walked into the kitchen. "I went to bed late" Daniel responded "Daniel-San, family will return." Chozen reassured, "you sure about that?" Daniel mumbled "hai. Family is most important thing to all of you. Strong bonds forged together." said Chozen.

"Strong bonds, huh?" Daniel muttered. "And all it took was Terry Silver to break them" he added. "That is why we must defeat them." Chozen walked to the table "Try selling that to Amanda" Daniel took a sip of his drink. "That son of a bitch knew what he was doing. How could she not see through him? How does everyone not see through him?"

Chozen slid a paper towards him. Y/n walked beside Daniel's chair. Looking at the paper she saw markings on it.

LIAR
808 Prospect ST.

"Where'd this come from?" Y/n asked looking at Chozen "with mail" Chozen answered, "no envelope" he added. "This is Cobra Kai Sensei" Chozen pointed to the picture of Kreese. "Was Cobra Kai sensei." Daniel corrected "Silvers partner before he was sent to prison for beating this guy half to death" Daniel informed. "Apparently Someone wants me to think there's more to the story"

"We must speak with this man," said Chozen. "And then what? We get another furniture store burned down? For all we know, this is Silver sending us on a wild goose chase so he could screw up my life even worse." Daniel said as he brought his hand up to take another drink.

"It could be," Y/n said walking away from Daniel and back to the coffee machine "or could be answer to expose Silver and get family back," Chozen added. Y/n placed the coffee in front of Daniel "Better to see for ourselves" Chozen continued. Daniel looked at Chozen and Y/n unsure of the idea. The Chozen nodded.

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Jessica, Amanda's cousin, knocked on the door. Amanda stood up from her chair and opened the door. The two gasped and squealed in excitement. "Oh, Mandy!" Jessica gasped "Jessie!" Amanda opened her arms ready to embrace her cousin in a hug. "Oh my goodness!" Jessica gushed as she hugged Amanda.

"Oh my god! Look at you two!" Jessica said pulling away from Amanda and looking at Anthony and Sam. "Hey" Sam smiled "Bring it in! Give me some sugar" she exclaimed as she engulfed the two into a tight hug.

"Oh wow!" She cooed looking at the two "Where's N/n? N/n!" She shouted up the stairs. "Oh! Where's your old man? I got ten pounds of Mac and cheese for him" Jessica added holding up a brown bag.

"Uh, dad didn't come with us" Sam replied looking at Amanda "Y/n didn't either," Anthony said looking at Sam.
"They've got a lot going on. So..." Amanda trailed off.
"Oh. I'm sure it'll keep if Aunt Jo puts it in the freezer" Jessica said handing the brown bag to Amanda's mother.

"I'll try to have them back before curfew." Said Jessica "I've heard that one before" Amanda's mother retorted. "Okay. Come on you guys let's go" Jessica walked to the door, Anthony, Sam, and Amanda followed in suit.

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Y/n drove to the address written on the newspaper. Her dad sat in the front passenger seat while Chozen sat in the back. Daniel sipped his coffee as he scrolled through his phone. "Dad just give her some time," Y/n said knowing he was scrolling through the messages he had sent Amanda. A car engine roared as it parked close to the building entrance. "That's Johnny's old car," said Daniel.  Stingray got out of his car singing a song.