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【 reseda, 2018 】
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━━ Aisha Robinson has heard multiple rumors about Stevie Novak. She has believed almost every single one. She believed she bashed Titan's face in, and caused short-term memory loss in his best friend, Royce. She was convinced she dislocated Brucks' wrist. She remembers watching Stevie rip a chunk of hair out of Yasmine's head after Princess Plastic tried to bitch slap her for sassing her.
Aisha believed, without a shadow of a doubt, that Stevie was batshit crazy.
She also believed that Miguel was stupid for liking her so much. The girl who threatened to embarrass him in front of the entire school if he even breathed in her direction. The girl who had kicked his chair out from beneath him before he could sit with her, and watched with nothing more than apathy when he fell on his ass ... four times.
He still looked at her like she hung the freaking moon in the freaking sky.
She had Miguel in half of her classes, and he seemed really sweet. He would always sit with those two computer science nerds at lunch, but he always made a point of saying hi to her whenever he saw her. They were even partners on an English literature assignment.
It was actually when they met up in the library to do some research for their shared English project when she learned about Cobra Kai for the first time. Before the school was going into midterms mode, she had seen him updating the dojo website while waiting for her.
He mentioned he was doing karate over there since he wanted to learn about self-defense, and said nothing more.
Aisha had tried her hardest to act casually about it, but Cobra Kai would not escape her thoughts, especially as the cyberbullying grew to be more intense. It became less about the video from Halloween, and more about how fat and ugly and disgusting she was. It was less about her being a wallflower by the snack table, and more about how she was a waste of space on the planet.
She had a lot of emotional sessions with her therapist, but they came to the same conclusion that maybe, just maybe, Cobra Kai could be a good thing. In growing physically stronger and able to defend herself, she might be able to feel more emotionally secure.
So there Aisha was near the end of winter break, standing outside the dojo, looking past those yellow eyes on the sign outside the door. Through the glass door, she saw Miguel ( someone she totally expected ) sparring with the last person she expected to see in a place like this.
Miguel was on the floor with a hand on his chest, hiding his eyes beneath his arm with Stevie standing over him. A flash of white was present on his face and his body shook while Stevie leaned over him, back facing her.
