Always Been You- Eli Moskowitz

Chapter 19- He's Not Sorry

"If hurting me

doesn't hurt you,

don't ever tell me

you love me."

-Anonymous

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As the rivalry between the two dojos became ever more intense, the Cobra Kai students found themselves training harder than ever. There was hardly a time after school or on the weekends that the kids did not go to the dojo.

For the last few days, Michelle had gotten more and more suspicious of Miguel and Tory. They always partnered up during training and even hung out afterwards on their own. Michelle even saw Tory give him a certain look from the mirror in the dojo.

She had a feeling what was going on. But she didn't want to believe it.

So it was while Michelle, Eli and Aisha were in the back room of the dojo practicing their kicks that Michelle finally thought to ask the question that had been bothering her.

"What's going on with Miguel and Tory?" She asked. She stepped aside so that Aisha was now in front of Eli who was holding one of he training pads on his arm.

They both stopped and looked at her in confusion.

"Well, they're together. Aren't they?" Eli said while turning to look at Aisha.

"Yeah. They've been together since we did coyote creek....Girl, i thought you of all people would know what your own brother and best friend were up to," Aisha added.

"Me too..." Michelle said quietly.

She walked over to her bag and pulled out her phone while Aisha and Eli kept training. She pulled up Miguel's Instagram account and scrolled through it. Nothing.

Michelle then searched Tory's account and went to her profile. Where were all of her highlights? Why would she delete them?

Because she didn't.

Michelle switched over to her finsta and made her way back into Tory's profile. And there they all were. All of her highlights and even a new one dedicated to her brother. Tory had blocked her form seeing her story. Michelle quickly tapped through the nauseating highlight of her brother and her best friend. Why would they keep this from her?

But the answer was clear.

Miguel wanted to keep it from her because of the whole Eli is his best friend bullshit. But what was Tory's excuse?

Michelle stood up from her spot and angrily stormed out of the back room and into the main dojo. Class had been dismissed and there were a few stragglers hanging about including her loser brother and her traitor best friend.

She stopped right in front of them with her arms crossed and a very pissed off look on her face. They both stopped their laughing and stared at her in confusion.

"Oh no, don't mind me. Carry on," Michelle spat at them.

"What's wrong?" Miguel asked cautiously while looking around. Eli and Aisha had finally made their way out of the back room and were watching the interaction.

"What's wrong? Mmm...Let me see," Michelle started to tap the side of her cheek in mock thought. "Maybe its the fact that you've been on my ass about Eli and you've been fucking MY BEST FRIEND THE WHOLE TIME!"

Michelle shoved him back causing him to fall on the ground. Eli rushed forward to stand near in case the situation escalated.

"Michelle, calm down," Tory said quietly.