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ezra: always swing first

Alyse stood up and shouted.

"Bitch who the fuck are you calling a bitch?" She asked. I sighed immediately, I knew this wasn't gonna end well.

"Ummm, you bitch, the fuck? Like I said, speak when spoken to," Keisha replied while crossing her arms. I stood between the two of them and pushed them backwards.

"Okay, let's just take a chill pill, I feel as though we can-" I was cutoff by both of them as they simultaneously shouted.

"Shut up Ezra...don't talk to him like that!" I tried my hardest to stifle a laugh, the only time I had ever seen that happen was in books, movies, and tv-shows. At this point, with the screaming they were doing, a few people began to look over at us, I needed to diffuse this situation as fast as possible but time was running out.

"Keisha," I said, "let's just go talk, like you said." Alyse shook her head.

"Nah Ezra, fuck this bitch, don't try to save her ass now," Alyse stepped around me, getting in Keisha's face, "now say that slick shit to my face bitch!" Keisha rolled her eyes.

"This bitch must be fucking deaf, I said, speak when spoken to bi-" Keisha never got the rest of her sentence off, Alyse punched her square in the mouth. My jaw dropped, she had punched her so quickly that I almost missed it. Alyse quickly got into a southpaw stance and I almost lost my mind, she knew how to box, which meant that Keisha was about to get her ass beat.

Keisha felt at her lips and her fingers came back crimson, her mouth was bleeding.

"I'm gonna kill you bitch!" Keisha put everything she had into a wild swing at Alyse's face. Alyse casually weaved under it and came back with a jab at her midsection and a nasty left hook, both of which connected.

"Oh God." I said as Keisha stumbled. By now, the entire cafeteria took notice of what was going on and they started shouting hysterically, out the corner of my eye I noticed Martin, Marcus, and Stephen who had just walked in, they made eye contact with me and I just shrugged.

"You fucking BITCH!" Alyse shouted, she came at Keisha, pushing her into one of the tables near ours, Keisha stumbled into it then looked at the table, she grabbed one of the cups that someone was using and chucked it at Alyse, the red liquid splattered all over Alyse and the cup clocked her over the head which dazed her for a second. As Alyse gathered herself, Keisha grabbed her hair, pulling her into an uppercut that caught her square on the jaw. She went to give her another one, but Alyse folded her arms out in front of her, blocking the punch, that alone told me that she had definitely done some kind of combat sport in the past.

She threw a flurry of punches at Keisha's midsection which helped her get free of Keisha's hold on her. Keisha stumbled back gasping for air, but Alyse didn't let up. She got back into her southpaw stance and began sizing Keisha up. When she was close enough she threw two quick jabs at Keisha, one caught her cheek but the other barely missed. Keisha put up her hands as well, it must've finally become clear that she wasn't fighting a hair grabber. Despite that, Keisha's stance was wrong, she was off balance and standing flat footed. Keisha tried (and failed) to punch Alyse but she wasn't quick enough, she simply dodged it and countered with a few quick jabs of her own, one to the chest, which made Keisha double over in pain, then another to her left ear when she clutched her stomach.

"Speak when spoken to bitch? Do I look like some kind of a fucking child to you bitch?" Alyse shouted. She moved closer, but Keisha pushed her into a chair, causing her to lose her balance and fall. Keisha grabbed a slice of pizza from the table me and Alyse were sitting at then got on top of Alyse shoving it in her face.

"You dumbass bitch!" She shouted before beginning to pummel her with punches. Alyse quickly curled up, using her arms to shield her face and midsection. Alyse sat there a few moments eating punches, Keisha, who clearly didn't have much experience fighting began to slow down, most likely growing tired from all the punches she was throwing. When she slowed down enough, Alyse rocked her body to the right, pushing Keisha off of her. She quickly stood up and kicked Keisha in her stomach.

"I should have put you in your fucking place when we were 15." Keisha most likely was paying her no mind, she was too busy dry heaving from the kick, Keisha tried to crawl away and get up but Alyse stepped on one of her hands, causing her to scream. "Oh no bitch, you don't get to run." Alyse grabbed the hand she stepped on then stopped over Keisha, putting her arm between both of her legs, my eyes widened with recognition as I realized what Alyse was about to do.

"Alyse, wait!" It was too late, Alyse quickly fell to the ground and put both her legs across Keisha's arm, putting her in the most painful looking arm bar I had ever seen, Keisha shouted at the top of her lungs which made me realize this had gone far enough.

"Alyse stop! You're gonna break her fucking arm!" Alyse wasn't listening, the arm bar was locked in pretty tight, she had her left leg over Keisha's neck and the other across her chest, Keisha's right arm was caught snugly between Alyse's legs. I had been put in an arm bar before, it was downright painful, and it didn't even take much to make it hurt. Keisha was still shouting and tears began to fall down her cheeks.

"Okay okay okay! I'm sorry!" She shouted, "you win just stop!" Alyse simply just thrusted upwards, causing Keisha to let out another sharp yell, at this point Keisha was full on crying.

"Alyse!" I shouted, "just stop! You clearly won just let her go." She looked up at me.

"Are you really trying to save this bitch? She deserves this shit!" She shouted, she torqued her body more and Keisha screamed louder, which I thought was impossible. It hurt me to see her in that much pain, I didn't know what to do.

"Alyse If you don't stop I will never forgive you for this, she clearly isn't a fighter just let her go!" I shouted, she looked up at me intensely and then her body relax, she opened her legs and released Keisha's arm, as soon as she did, Keisha rolled over onto her side and clutched her arm, from being on the floor she had gotten her clothes dirty from the food that fell to the floor during their fight. Alyse got up and looked over at Veronica who was staring in shock.

"What bitch? You want some too bitch? All you cheer leading chicken head bitches can get touched, what about you? Huh bitch? I'll fuck you up like I did your friend." Alyse looked over at me.

"You my nigga? You are the biggest and most desperate simp ass nigga I ever met in my life, this bitch wouldn't spit on you if you were on fire but here you go being captain save a dumbass bitch, when she breaks your fucking heart again don't come to me, because I'm gonna say I told you so." Alyse began to walk away, but before she did she kicked Keisha in the stomach again.

"As for you you dumb fucking cunt, don't EVER In your fucking life try to play me like I'm some kinda bitch, I know Jiu jitsu bitch!." With that, she walked away, brushing past all the onlookers in the cafeteria. I sighed and walked over to Keisha getting on my knees beside her.

"Keisha...I'm sorry, I should have stepped in sooner, I didn't think that-" She cut me off.

"That I would get my ass handed to me? Yeah, me either...I've never even been in a fight before." She held her arm out, "what the hell is Jiu Jitsu? I feel like my arm was gonna be broken if you didn't stop her."

"Jiu Jitsu is a Brazilian fighting style meant for self defense, but as you can see, that shit is insane wether it's self defense or not, she legitimately could have broken all of your limbs if she wanted to...I had no clue she knew Jiu Jitsu, I just thought she was a boxer, she got into a southpaw stance." Keisha roll her eyes at the end.

"Ezra I don't even know what means." She got up still clutching her arm, "I guess that conversation is a little pointless now huh?" As she spoke I looked at her mouth, her bottom lip was busted, and a bit of blood was leaking.

"No, we can still have it, but you gotta let me fix you up...hey by the way, I think you need new friends, they just stood there and watched...I did too but...breaking up fights between women? Yeah not my thing." She shrugged.

"I'll deal with that later...hey, why didn't security break up the fight?" When she said it I kinda just stood there, that was a really great question, Heston has an anti-violence policy, not breaking up a fight was a bit weird.

"Don't think about that right now, let's just get out of here."