Trouble Makers

I'm sorry

I'm the only one left in Cobra Kai and I can't help but keep looking around and rereading the sign. "Strike first, Strike hard, No mercy." Someone behind me says.

I turn around and see Eli. I groan and face the sign again. "I can read myself."

"Y/n-"

I interrupt him. "I have nothing to say to you... Hawk."

His face drops. "I'm so sorry about everything I said." I shrug. "Please listen." He's pleading. "I felt so horrible after, I ran to your house to see you. But you was with Demetri and you were..." His breathing is shaky. "You were crying. I don't remember the last time I saw you cry. And it broke me. I felt like such a dickhead. What I said was so out of order and I didn't mean any of it. Y/n it's not your fault your mum left. I just. You are so perfect, and you have no flaws so when I was in that position I made myself counter argument. And you were right. I was being a bully and I was the little boy. And you were always the one holding me. And I'm so fucking sorry Y/n."

I look at him. "Hawk. I don't think you know how much you hurt me. I told you things in confidence about my dad that now the whole school knows. And if anyone says anything it could ruin his whole career. It's going to take me a long time to forgive you." And just like that he's like a light bulb gone out. Run out of hope. "But I will forgive you, eventually." He nods slowly.

"I just. I've changed so much. I'm Hawk now. But you." He steps forward closer to me. "You make me Eli again."

I scoff. "I thought you hated Eli. And that you 'Killed him.'" I use air quotations.

"I'm still Hawk, but Eli comes out only when I'm with you."

"So I make you weak? Have we got a little Jekyll and Hyde situation going on here?" He chuckles a little.

"No I mean its hard to explain. Hawk is who I am now and no one can't change that. But you bring out the best parts of Eli and put them into Hawk when your around." He can tell I don't know what to say. "I'm just sorry for everything." I smile works it way into the corner of my lips and I start going to walk out the dojo.

"Hey y/n?" Hawk calls to me.

"Yeah." I say turning around.

"Let me give you a ride home."

"You know for borrowing your mums car, you sure of have it often." I laugh.

He smiles and maybe, just maybe. Things can be okay with us again.

"So are you going to let me drive you home?" He asks.

I think for a minute. "Okay. But we're getting ice cream." He laughs at me and we both walk out the dojo into the car park. We climb into his mums car and put on our seatbelts.

The drive is only five minutes to the nearest Ice cream place and we get there quickly. The ride is over. We don't talk the entirety of the ride and I look out my window the entire time. We jump out the car and walk over to the ice cream stool. "Hi, can I get a normal cone please?" I ask politely.

The old man behind the stool smiles brightly. "Anything for you sir?"

Hawk shakes his head. "I'm okay thanks." He says paying for my ice cream, I usually would object but I'm mad at him.

"Here ma'am. Have a lovely day." The man says passing me my ice cream cone.

We start walking back to the car until I see the drive in over the road. I grab his arm and he spins around to face me. "What's wrong?" He asks concerned.

"Lets sneak into the drive in."

"What?"

"The hill. We can get a good view for free." I see his hesitation and decide to push him. "I mean if your too much of a pussy then that's fine you can go and I'll stay here."