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OPHELIA WAS YET AGAIN KICKED OUT of her own apartment. it was barely past dark, so she was going down to mister miyagi's shack to see if she could spend the night at his house yet again.
but her walk was shortly interrupted by a loud cry of frustration, followed by a crash. she ran over to the source of the sounds, only to see an overly angry daniel being lectured by his mother, lucille.
lucille larusso was a very kind, caring woman. ophelia had recently caught herself in a long conversation about her and daniel's previous life in new jersey. lucille had a kind heart, and you could tell that's where daniel got it from.
"what's going on here?" ophelia gasped, instantly noticing daniel's bruise on his red forehead, and his glassy eyes. "oh my god, daniel! what the hell happened!?" she asked.
daniel glared at ophelia, feeling embarrassed that she's seeing him like this; vulnerable. broken. mad. "nothing, nothing happened. go away, ophelia." he demanded, avoiding eye contact with the extremely concerned girl, who ignored his pleas.
"ophelia, did you know that daniel was having trouble at school?" lucille asked ophelia frantically, who only shrugged. she didn't want lucille to think that she was just a bystander for daniel and for lucille to hate her.
"i absolutely hate it here, ma!" daniel yelled out, kicking the dumpster as more angry tears slipped from his eyes, but he immediately wiped them away, in fear of ophelia seeing him as weak. it seemed as if she were his only somewhat friend he had in this total shithole.
daniel ran his hands through his soft dark hair, slapping his hand against the outside wall. "i just wanna go back home! why can't we go home?" he cried out in distress. lucille gently turned him around to face her as she looked into his eyes.
"listen to me, daniel."
"what?"
"i cannot help you unless you tell me what is wrong," lucille pleaded to a miserable daniel.
"i need to take karate," daniel stated as confidently as he could, as his eyes shortly flickering to a shocked looking ophelia who stood a distance away from behind lucille, by the dumpster as she observed.
lucille's eyebrows furrowed with pure confusion. "you took karate!" she said, but daniel shook her head, but before lucille could respond, ophelia stepped in for her.
"danny, fighting is not the solution for anything." she explained calmly, hoping to calm down the boy as well.
daniel scoffed harshly at the girl, throwing his arms up sarcastically at her. "like you're one to talk, you're the one who almost killed that kid at the beach!" he exclaimed, exploding at her.
