Always Been You- Eli Moskowitz

Chapter 20- Mercy?

"No Mercy."

-Cobra Kai

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The next morning, Michelle woke up with a killer headache. Consequence of her previous nights binge drinking game, no less. But she also woke up with a large glass of water and a bottle of painkillers sitting on her nightstand. Miguel's doing most likely. That did not change how she felt about him though.

She got up and immediately chucked two painkillers into her mouth and downed the glass of water in one sitting. She felt as if she had just finished running a marathon in the fucking Sahara desert.

The night before was a blur, but she remembered James and what he did.

Michelle threw on a pair of wide leg yoga pants and a white oversized long sleeve shirt. She paired it with her black and white vans that were sitting next to her door already. It was the first day of school, after all. Not a fashion show. After her trip to the bathroom, she grabbed her bag and her phone and went over to the kitchen where her mother and Miguel were talking.

She walked past the both of them without a word and sat on the couch until they were ready to leave. That's when she realized that her phone was completely dead. She reached over to grab the charger from the side of the couch and tossed them both into her book bag.

Had her phone been on, Michelle probably may or may not have noticed the desperate texts and calls that were rolling in from Tory. And then she may or may not have had the chance to prevent the unfortunate events that were to happen in her very near future.

But her phone was not on.

She had not seen the calls.

And it was only after her mom had dropped her and her brother off at the front of the school and she had walked inside that she felt that something was off.

Something was wrong.

But she nonetheless walked to her locker, switched out some of her books and headed to her algebra class. She took a seat at the table right behind Eli and Miguel who were already deep in conversation.

"Dude, you kissed Sam?" Eli asked a very disgruntled Miguel. "Nice!"

Well shit.

"No. Not nice. I shouldn't have done that to Tory," Miguel replied.

Michelle scoffed loudly from behind them and covered it up with a cough causing Miguel to roll his eyes at her in annoyance.

"Why limit yourself to one chick? I'm planning on having a full rotation by the time we get to midterms," Eli said.

Michelle giggled loudly and hit her hand on her forehead as Eli turned to give her a proud smile.

Just then a guy that Michelle recognized from one if her classes, came up next to Eli.

"Hey man. Just wanted to say that I wet the bed until i was 13. There's nothing to be ashamed of."

Eli looked up at the boy angrily and shoved his books out of his hands.

"Get the hell outta my face!"

Michelle wasn't sure what the boy was on about but Eli seemed upset enough. So when the boy collected his things and started to walk to his seat, Michelle stuck out her foot causing him to trip and fall to the ground.

"What's that guys problem?" Miguel asked.

Eli shrugged his shoulders and mumbled a quick 'i don't know' just as the announcements came on. Michelle started to doodle on the notebook that she had on her desk and tuned out the front office lady talking on the intercom.