Always Been You- Eli Moskowitz

Chapter 16-Guilty

"Monsters are real, 

And ghosts are real too. 

They live inside us, and 

sometimes, 

they win."

-Stephen King 

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"This all could be over in an instant. The decision's yours! Who trashed the Miyagi-Dojo?" Johnny yelled. 

From the moment Daniel LaRusso walked out of the Cobra Kai dojo, Johnny had them doing burpees. He was hoping that one of them would crack and they could move on to their individual punishment. However, the dojo trashing group was not about to give themselves up. And Michelle knew that they could get away with it. 

So long as the sensei's didn't see the guilty ass look on Eli's dumb face.

"Y'all know I'm no fan of the LaRusso's, but that sort of bullshit we don't teach here," Johnny looked over at Kreese and gave him a look. "At least not anymore. So I'm gonna ask you again. Who trashed Miyagi-Do?"

Michelle was between Tory and Miguel. She kept glancing at Eli to see if she could catch his eye to tell him to fix his face or they would get caught, but he kept his eyes on the ground in front of him.

"It was not me, Sensei. I would never disrespect another mans dojo--" Said an out of breath Chubs who but was quickly cut off by Johnny. 

"Shut your cake hole chubs! I'm not looking for excuses. I'm looking for answers!" 

"Sensei, we really don't know who did it," Miguel said as he came up from his millionth burpee. 

"Someone knows something. Question is... who's gonna break," Kreese said. 

Michelle chanced another look at Eli. She found him in a guilty stare down with none other than Kreese himself. But Kreese had a knowing look on his face that confused her. Did he know?

Johnny's phone rang from his office. 

"Keep going. We can do this all day," Johnny said as he walked away to the office. 

The students kept doing their burpees sloppily. They were all exhausted but they had to keep going. Michelle's only thought was that they couldn't keep them there forever. 

"Sensei, we need a water break," A brave assface said to Kreese. He thought for a second before yelling out to the class. 

"2-minute break!"

They all sighed loudly in relief as they went to their bags for their water. But Michelle's eyes were on Eli again as he went straight over to Kreese. She would have been able to hear them had it not been for her teammates panting dramatically all around her. Nonetheless, she couldn't shake the feeling that he knew something. 

After his conversation with Kreese, Eli walked over to where Michelle was standing silently observing and sipping her water. He grabbed his own water and tried his best to avoid her eye contact.