Lost in Hollywood

Almighty Powers

Sky couldn't take her eyes off the black laptop on her dresser. Sitting there in the middle of her things - her eye-shadow palettes, a pile of pink scrunchies, a unicorn-shaped hairbrush that really needed cleaning - it was like a black hole in the middle of a sunny sky, impossible to ignore. As she laid her palm over the cold, smooth surface and let her fingers trace the Cobra Kai logo on top, a shudder went through her spine. She had to fight the growing urge to flip the lid open and try to get in—

She pulled her hand back and let out a tense breath.

No. I have to wait for the girls. We agreed to do this together.

Besides, she didn't know the password. Devon did. She had managed to get it from her cousin Calvin, who had helped Kyler with some computer issues a couple of weeks ago, which was fucking brilliant because without the password the laptop would be useless.

The tension growing in her veins, Sky glanced at the clock on the wall. The girls should be here soon, but the wait was unbearable— Every second they wasted, increased the chance of failure. She could only hope that Kyler had been stupid enough to keep the evidence of his crimes on the computer's hardware instead of storing them in the cloud.

The thought of Kyler searching for his backpack, and finding all his stuff scattered on the street, was satisfying as fuck. But it was also a problem. Sky knew that as soon as that asshole realized his laptop was gone, it was only a matter of time that he deleted everything he had stored online, so the hardware was their only hope.

But Sky wasn't that nervous, not really. Something told her, the laptop would be the jackpot. Maybe it was delusional, but she had the feeling that things were going exactly as they were supposed to go, like this was all part of a bigger plan, that she was just following the steps someone else had laid out in front of her. Maybe it was the angel on her shoulder, she thought, glancing at Kat's photo she kept attached to the mirror. She could almost feel Kat in the room, standing next to her, her scent of cinnamon and coffee in the air. Kat would have been Hell of a proud of her, and that thought made Sky's chest swell. With Kat on her side, she felt victorious, ruthless like a badass queen who was riding to battle with God's grace shining on her blade. She could do no wrong. She was an archangel, and Kyler was the dragon she would slay, with her almighty powers. Kyler's doom was within that laptop, and the only thing she had to do, was to dig it out.

"You're getting what's coming for you, asshole," Sky snarled, turning her eyes back to the laptop. Her words were sharp like daggers on her tongue. "I'm gonna fucking see you burn—"

That sentence was cut in half by a sharp knock on the door. Sky's heart jumped to her throat as she swirled around.

"Sky, are you there?" Came Dad's concerned voice through the door. Sky saw the handle turning as he tried it, but thank fuck she had locked the door— She didn't even want to think about what would have happened if Dad had seen the laptop.

"Yeah—" Sky cleared her throat. "Just a second."

"Open the door. Why is it even locked?"

Quickly Sky shoved the laptop into the drawer of her dresser and hid it under some panties and bras. She knew she had to come up with a better hiding place for it, but that would have to wait. Of course, she could give it to Sam later, or Yasmine, for safekeeping, but that thought felt wrong. Sky was clinging to the laptop as if it was the One Ring and she was a hobbit on an adventure. It was hers now. All hers. And she didn't want to give it up.

"Sorry, I was going to change," Sky replied smoothly, as she opened the door. She was wearing a pair of comfortable leggings and an oversized black hoodie - one of Kat's - and it was true she had intended to change into something a bit more presentable before the girls got here. Not that that was the reason for the locked door, but still - it was always good to plant a truth inside a lie to make it more believable.