Epiphany | johnny lawrence

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The tryouts start and Clara starts to feel uneasy. She knows Johnny and she knows that he is planning somthing. And like she expects, something does happen. To others it may look like Bobby was just trying to get the ball, but Clara knows that he put it there so Daniel would fall over his legs.

As expected, Daniel falls. But instead of walking it off he jumps on top of Bobby and starts to hit him. Clara gets up alsmost immediatly and runs to Daniel and her twin. "Shit. Daniel let him go." Clara trys to get him off of her brother but he just swings his arm back, hitting Clara in the face. She fells backwards and Johnny helps her up quickly.

"You good?" He looks at her with concern in his eyes. The girl nods and holds her hand on her nose. Johnny seems to realise that, grabs her hand and pulls it away from her nose. Hi eyes fill with worry as he touches the skin between her nose and lip. He pulls his hand away with blood on it. "Shit." Mutters Clara.

The pair look back at the fight and watch Daniel getting pulled off by the coach. Bobby looks at his siter quckly and sees the blood. His eyes fill with rage and he gets up quickly.

"Nobody hits me or my sister. I'm gonna kill him." Other boys are holding both Daniel and Bobby in place while the coach screams at them. "None of this kind of crap on this team!" 

"He hooked me." The coach points at Daniel. "I said out!" After a few steps Daniel turns back around. "This school sucks! It sucks." He then walks away not meeting anybody's glance. Johnny next to Clara laughts which causes Clara to hit his shoulder lightly. "Shut up." She watches Daniel as he leaves the field.

Johnny turns to her taking her face in his hands while looking at her nose. "Ah, that looks like it will leave bruise. We should put some ice on it." The blonde boy leaves the field igoring the coaches screams for him to come back, and walks with Clara to the nurses office to get some ice.

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After their Karate practice, Clara meets up with the boys. Tagging along with them are Susan and Barbara, two girl that were sitting with them at the lunch table. Clara likes the two girls, and it's good for her to have some female friends as well. The amount of testosterone around her would drive her mad otherwise.

She meets with Susan and Barbara at the front entrace of Golf n' stuff. "Hey." Greets Clara the two girls in front of her. Both of them smiling widely and greet her back with a hug and an small hello.

"What happened to your nose? Does it hurt?" Asks Barbara concered while looking at the purple nose. Clara touches it slightly and winces. "It was an accident, but it's alright." The girls nod not really convinced.

They start talking about other things and soon enough a group of loud boys on motorbikes appear. Clara watches them arrive and starts smiling. She walks to them, followed by Barbara and Susan.

"Ladies." Greets Tommy the girls. "Princess." Greets Clara him playfully. Bhind him Johnny starts laughing at Tommy's dumbfounded expression. Jimmy walks up to Tommy and puts and arm around his shoulder.

"Don't worry we all know that you are not a Princess." He smiles at him and Dutch joins in to Jimmy's game. "Cause you are a Queen." Bobby starts laughing.

"Hail oh great Queen Tommy." Continues Bobby the game. Soon enough the whole group was laughing while Tommy was grumling something about why he is hanging out such mean people. 

Johnny slings his arm over Clara's shoulder and leads the group into the arcade laughing. "Ah stop sulking Tommy." Laughts Bobby from behind Johnny and Clara.

Loud noices hit the group like a wall when they enter. "So what do you guys wanna do first?" Johnny turns around to face the group, his war was still put over Clara's shoulder.  "Go Kart." Jimmy doesn't even wait for an answer and instead runs to the Go Kart station.           

"I guess we are going to drive Go Kart." The rest of the group walk after Jimmy who is already waiting in line.

The rest of the evening was similar to the beginning, it was drowned in laughter. At around 10pm they make their seperated ways home. Clara who walked drove with her bicycle to Golf n' Stuff has to drive it back now, while Bobby tries to drive slower so she wouldn't have to drive home alone.

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The next morning Bobby takes Clara to school as usual. They meet the other boys before class and then makes her to the english classroom. She sits down at her seat and looks to her left where usually Daniel sits. The bell hasn't rung yet, but he was usually there before her. Clara furrows her brows, but before she can thing about it anymore, the boy enters the room. Daniel trys not to meet anybodys glance and looks at the ground, he takes his seat next to the brunette. "Daniel? Are you alright?"

The boy grunts and looks at her. Clara's eyes widen at the sight of him. There was a big red, bad looking, wound on his forehead. "What happened?" She looks at him in worry. "I fell of my bike." He lies and Clara knows. She raises and eyebrow. "And now the truth please." Daniel sighs and looks at her. "It were those friends of yours. They pushed me down a hill. And now my head hurts and my bike is trash."

Clara's eyes widen and rage start too fill them. "Johnny, Bobby and the other did this. I can't believe it. I can't believe them." Daniel puts a hand on her arm. "Please don't do anything. It's just going to get worse." He looks at her with pleading eyes. Clara isn't sure if she really wants to pretend like nothing happened.

"Please." Daniel asks once again after seeing her expression. Reluctantly she agrees and nods finally. "Alright. But try to stay away from them."

"Your nose. Was that me?" He looks concerend at the bruised nose. "It's alright, you didn't hit me on purpose. It doesn't really hurt either." She resures him. Daniel throws her a last painful smile before the class starts.

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Clara leave the history classroom, her last class of the day and walks down the way. From far away she sees three familiar people walking. She runs up to them and taps Susan's shoulder. "Hey guys." She greets them. "Oh hey, Clara." Greets Susan her when she walks next to her. "Hi." Greet Daniel and Ali her.

"So what kind of bike do you have, Daniel?" Asks Susan the boy. "A Honda? Suzuki? What?" Clara laughts quietly when Daniel answeres. "Ah, no it's like a Miyagi Turbo actually." Susan seems to doubt his answere, and answers him with an sarcastic 'oh really'. Ali who knows that he drives just a normal bicycle, but still answere with an dreamingly yeah. While Clara doesn't really have anything to do with Ali besides sitting next to her in chemistry, she doesn't have anything against the girl. "We're going to the arcade. Want to come?" Ali looks at Daniel. "Yeah sure sounds great to me." She laughts giggels. "They've got this new game I wanna show you."

They stop walking and Daniel stares in fear at a familia group of boys that is talking at their bikes. Daniel quickly excuses himself, obviously trying to avoid the confrontation with the Cobra Kai's. "Daniel, you don't have to run away." Tells Ali him when he starts walking back into the direction the came from. "I'm not running away from anything."

"We've got to deal with these." Insits Ali. "You deal with these your way, I deal with them my way." Tells Daniel and walks away after throwing them a "Catch you later." "Daniel-" He interruptes her. "Get off my case!" Daniel then walks away and Ali tuns back around where Susan gestures her that she told her so. "That went well." Says Clara sarcatically and looks at Ali and Susan. "Well I got to go. See ya." Ali and Susan say their goodbyes and Clara walks to the boy standing by the bikes.