Underestimated

Three

Maria POV

Knock knock knock

I feel hands go around my waist and hear a groan.

I go to get up but the hands tighten on my waist.

I turn around and see Zack smiling, "Let them knock, they'll go away."

Knock knock knock

"They'll go away huh?" I laugh. He pins me under him, and kissed me but they continue knocking.

"I better get that" I push him off.

I put his t-shirt on and open the door, and see Tim smiling at me "Hey I was calling you all morning. We're going to Case's earlier today." He looks behind me and smirks. "Didn't know you had company." Zack smiles mockingly.

"We'll get dressed, and meet you outside?" I asked, he nods and walk away as I close the door.

After Zack and I get dressed, I grab my phone but see thirty messages from Mike telling me what happened last night. I feel someone hug me from behind, and they have their head on my shoulder. "Are you ready beautiful?" Zack asked, not gonna lie, I am catching feelings for him but he doesn't settle down and I just don't have the time to be in a relationship.

I nod and grab my jacket and we leave.

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The three of us were laughing having a good time, but we see a police car and two officers talking to Case. Both officers gave me a weird feeling and they confirmed that by being a little racist towards him.

Tim saw this and said "Morning sensei." He gets the cops attention, three of us continue walking until one officer who was talking says something.

"Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah" he puts his hand up, we stop walking. He looks at Case and back at us,"So what the hell's been going on here?" Oldie says.

"Nothing." Tim answered, oldie looked back at Case.

"I don't want to see you around here again." Oldie says, he looks at Case then back at us "that goes for you too." Both cops walk towards the police car we standing in front of. Oldies partner walk around us but oldie walks straight.
As he gets closer both Tim and Zack move over. He looks down at me, I just stare up at him. Because it won't hurt his his hip or his knee to go around me.

"Maria." someone calls, but I don't move.
"Maria, come here." But I stand still.

"él puede ir a mi alrededor." I say with my arms crossed.

"What did you just say?" Oldie says, getting his magic fairy wand.

"oh, me vas a pegar con tu varita de hada? ese es un movimiento barato justo ahí." I say pouting,  to avoid trouble I walk around him, making sure to hit his shoulder. I walk towards Zack, once I'm close enough he brings me into his chest as his hands go around my waist.

Oldie glares at me but leaves anyway.

"What's that about?" Zack asked still holding me.

Case didn't answer. He just turned around and walked away, as he's walking away Mike shows up.

"What's up?" Mike asked. He looks at us before looking at Case who is walking away.

"What's up bitches." Justin says walking up to us. Woah he's bald, now.

"Wow, dude you're bald." Zack says smiling.

"Guys I'm gonna do it." Justin said. "I'm gonna join the beatdown dude." He takes a pause then continues, "Banana ink, you made a believer." Justin said, holding up his fist to show his tattoo thats says 'BEATDOWN'.

"Dude you spelt beat wrong." Zack joked, putting his head in the crook of my neck. Justin didn't know he was joking so he put his hands down with an embarrassed face.

"Let's cut the bullshit guys-" Tim said before I cut him off.

"Let's train." I said happily, Zack laughed but nodded anyway.

"Woah, woah, woah.." Mike said quickly, "What's the matter with Case?" He asked.

"Man the cops hassled him." Zack answered.

"They said none of us could train here anymore." I said, but who listens to cops these days.

"Fuck the cops, right? I mean they can't make us leave." Mike said.

"Nah, no, no, no. Case is on probation, he so much as J walks they're gonna send him back to prison." Tim replied.

"Yeah but what does Mike give a shit about Case." Justin said looking at Mike. "Obviously he don't."

"Doesn't." I corrected him. He glares but stop once he saw the look Zack gave him.

"Waaaait, wh-wha-what are you talking about, that's not true." Mike asked stuttering, but is genuinely confused.

"Really? Is that why you put him in a position to suffer his only loss?" Justin asked, Mike looked thoughtful but still confused. "Yeah that's right asshole, because he spared breaking your arm, he's now been defeated."Justin told him.

"Nah that was just a bullshit match at the strip club man." Mike said, defending himself.

"No, not to him. To him it was an out." Justin told him. He looked over to Daisy when he said, "I mean what does he got? Daisy? What the hell'd you guys do?" He said looking at Zack and Tim. "You guys cheered? Really? He should of ripped your ass." Justin said gesturing with his hand. He walked away bumping into Mike.

Mike looked a little guilty, Zack and Tim looked at each other while I stared into space.

Wandering how I could help with the whole situation, but get nothing.

Mike, Tim, Zack and I walked over to Daisy. When we got there Mike walked to the door. Tim was standing to his left Zack and I on his right.

He knocked on the door.

"What?" Case asked from inside.

"Hey Case, it's Mike. Can I please talk to you?" Mike asked.

"You heard the cops, we've been shut down. Just leave me alone." Case said.

Mike turned around to look at all of us. "We've got to find a place to train." He said.

"Yeah not some shitty vacant lot either." Zack said. "We need a proper dojo man." He continued.

"With the right equipment." I told them.

Tim looks up "Oh shit guys, I think I know a place." He said smiling.
"Follow me." He added.

We all follow him, I stop and look over to see Justin sitting by the training place. "Hey Justin you coming?" I asked.

He got up, I turned around and saw Zack waiting for me. He smiles when I get closer and he puts his arm over my shoulder and pulls me into him and starts kissing my cheek going into my neck. I giggle all the way towards his bike.

We follow Tim and everyone else for about five minutes.

As we all get to the place Tim showed us, Zack smiled and pecked my lips before helping me off his bike.

As we're walking to the entrance Tim explains, "Uh for years we've been delivering people new furniture, and hauling all the old stuff away for free... originally we were gonna fix it up, try to resell it, as you can see that never happened; I talked to Ted, and he said if we clean the place out, we can make it our own dojo.. just have to utilities, no rent. What do you guys think?" Tim asked.

"I think we got a lot of work to do." Mike said, Justin looked around approvingly. I smiled and looked up at Zack knowing exactly what was going through his head as he looked around.

Zack hit a dresser in front of him, gaining all of our attention. "It's fucking perfect." He said grinning from ear to ear.