Heartstrings | Miguel Diaz

𝟬𝟴. take a right

CHAPTER EIGHT
i think i've lost my mind

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     𝐖hen she said she was going to tell her father that she was one of the Cobras, she didn't mean this way. Raegan was utterly perplexed when Daniel LaRusso suddenly barged inside the dojo with a furious expression on his face. She didn't know why. No one ever told her anything anymore, and not all of them were home most of the time.

     "The hell do you think you're doing?" Johnny demanded. 

     Raegan couldn't help but scoot closer behind Miguel's shoulder, who sent her a worried glance. The other kids inside the dojo stood up as well, watching the scene before them with different looks on their faces.

     "Like you don't know," Daniel retorted. 

     "Take your shoes off the mat," Johnny said as he walked towards him. "You're disrespecting my dojo."

     "You're seriously gonna talk to me about disrespecting dojos after what you just did to mine?" Daniel raised his voice as he walked inside the mat with his shoes on, disregarding his words.

     "I don't know what the hell you're talking about," Johnny scoffed. "I didn't do anything to your dojo."

     "Just like you didn't slug one of my employees, huh?" Daniel said promptly. Then he yelled. "You know, part of me actually felt bad for you at one point, but you make it so easy to remember who the bad guy is in all of this. You call yourself a Sensei? You don't even know what a Sensei is. A Sensei mentors. A Sensei elevates. He doesn't teach destruction and disrespect."

    "I already said I don't know what you're talking about, LaRusso," Johnny spat, stepping closer towards him, which made Raegan take one step, but Miguel grabbed her hand. "And you don't know what you're talking about either."

     "Yeah, well, I know you don't," Daniel said, his voice almost cracking in the middle of his sentence, and it broke her heart. "you don't earn a Medal of Honor by stealing it."

     "What?" Raegan almost gasped, but her voice came out smaller than she expected.

     Daniel briefly glanced at her, then at the other students in the dojo. Beside her, Miguel was constantly squeezing her hand. It was the only thing he could do at the moment to make her feel even a little better. Her father said a long sentence about Cobra Kai, and at the end, he basically just told everyone if they wanted to move into his dojo━feel free. He was successful with that one as some of them left the dojo.

     Once her father left, she quickly marched inside the storage room and struck her fist on the first thing she saw. Hard. The punching bag bounced off from the harsh contact, and she heaved out a deep breath, feeling the ache in her knuckles. She didn't hear Miguel sigh heavily and ran after her, ignoring the looks from what was left of the Cobra Kai students.

     "Rae," Miguel called, but the girl didn't look at him. She just kept punching the sandbag, and he was worried she would break her hands. "Raegan."

     "What?" She snapped, whipping around to face him. 

      However, as soon as she realized who it was, Raegan faltered and she felt her knees give up as a broken sob escaped her lips. Miguel quickly caught her and placed his arms around her body, one hand behind her head and running his fingers through her hair. He slowly lowered themselves to the floor.

     "It's okay." He murmured, hugging her close like he was afraid she'd disappear. "It's okay..."

     "No, it's not," Raegan cried silently. "I've ruined everything. My dad probably hates me now."