Epiphany | johnny lawrence

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Clara drives to school on the back of Bobby's bike. The two have made up and she forgave her brother. She taps his shoulder a few metres in front of the school, telling him to stop. "I go the rest by foot, I don't want to run into the others."

Bobby wants to protest, but he keeps his mouth shut and let's her off the bike. Clara watches him drive into the parking lot, sighs and walks into the school, to her locker. She passes Daniel in the Hallway greeting him qucikly, she is going to see him in first period anyways. Clara walks to her locker throws her backpack inside and gets her book. A bit further down in the courtyard stand two familiar girls talking.

"Hey, Babara, hey Susan." The two girls smile brightly at her and went to greet her too, but get disrupted by two familiar voices. "I'm going to find that idiot." Says Ali angry. "No, it's been taken care of." Daniel tries to stop her. "Until next time." Daniel looks helplessly at Clara begging her to help him with Ali, the girl sighs and shrugs not knwoing how or help him.

"No, there isn't gonna be a next time." Tries Daniel to convince the blonde girl. "There they are." Comments the blonde girl.

Clara looks at the approaching group. Johnny and her eyes meet, but break quickly when Daniel walks up to the group. Clara walks closer, so that she can jump in to help him in an emergency.

"Hey, guys, it's good to see you. Sorry about the eye, Johnny. Your shoulder okay, Tommy?" Teases Daniel the boys. Clara shakes her dissapointed. Just because they weren't allowed to hurt him now, doesn't mean he has to take advantage of that and tease them. "You guys be careful not to step in front of any more buses."

Johnny throws his books to the ground in anger, wanting to run up to Daniel as he walks away, but Bobby holds him back. "Hold it. Remember what Sensei said? You gotta wait for the tournament."

"It must be "Take a worm for a walk" week." Shouts Tommy after him angry. Clara shakes her head at Daniel's beaviour, he should know better. Clara freezes on the spot when the boys turn around and look at her. All of them have guilt in their eyes, making her heat ache, but Clara wouldn't give in just yet. She looks back up to Daniel to see that he said his goodbye's to Ali, so she walks around the Cobra Kai's, not meeting their eyes, to her friend.

"What are you smiling about, dorkface." Dnaiel laughs and shows her a paper with an address on. "Look at that. Seems like you've got a date. Good job." Daniel smiles brightly at her, making her forget her dissapointmet. They turn around to walk to their first period and are greeted with the sight of the boy's still standing on the same spot.

Thankfully Mr. Harris just walks across. "Mr. Harris, can I talk to you? LaRusso. Third period history class." The teacher let's out a small 'oh yeah' and turns to talk with Daniel right in front of the Cobra Kai. Johnny and Clara are now standing face to face, in front of them Mr. Harris and Daniel with the space to let both teens look at each other.

Johnny's eyes are apologising the whole time they are locked on her, she tries to avoid it, but can't help to look into the blue eyes that mean so much to her. "I wanted to tell you, I really got a lot out of that lecture about the Indians. And I was telling my buddies about it. Could you give us a quick review?"  Mr. Harris agrees, having a free. "Great for me." Says Daniel.

The Cobra Kai boys quickly excuse themself, not wanting any more lessons than needed. "I guess that leaves the three of us." Clara raises an eyebrow. Appreanty Daniel didn't think about them having English now. "Oh, I'm sorry Mr. Harris but I gotta go to class as well. Have fun. And I think Daniel seem to forget yhat he has too." She walks away excusing herself. Behind her she hears Daniel. "Oh, yeah, I am so sorry Mr. Harris. I was so intrigued with the topic that I totally forgot about my English class. I'm sorry, but maybe we could review it sometime else. See you in third period."

Daniel runs up to Clara. "Thanks."  The girl smirks patting his shoulder.    
"I didn't want you to suffer through one of his never ending lectures."

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The bell to end school for the day make Clara sigh in relief. She leaves the maths classroom quickly to get to her locker as fast as possible, trying to avoid the Cobra Kai boys. At much today she sat on the table farthest away from the boy's, which gave her quite a few confused glares. Barbara and Susan joined her shortly after though. She would have sat on the same table as Daniel, but he and Ali were to touchy for her.

The girl opens her locker and takes her backpack outside before closing if. She jumps a little when she is met with the sight of Johnny that is on the other side of the lockerdoor. She didn't even realise that he has come closer, probably because of the headphones on to of her head. Her face hardens when she realises that she stares at Johnny for the past few seconds. Clara pushes past him walking through the courtyard to the direction where the buses stand.  

Clara walks fast through the crowd that has already become smaller, but gets stopped by a hand halting her. Johnny looks at her, desperate to talk. Passive aggressive she takes her off and puts them around her neck. "What?!" She turns around snapping at him.

"Please, I just want to talk." Johnny's voice is unnaturally desperate. "Please let me explain." Clara gulps. Everything in her wants to talk to him, but her stubbornness won't let her. She looks at the yellow buses behind her before meeting the boy's eyes. "I have to go, the bus will leave."

"Clara! Please, I..., please." His voice sounds so small it makes Clara's heart ache. She would love to just forget everything that happened and hug him, but what he did to Daniel was too much. "I... I'm sorry, Johnny." She walks to the bus, trying not to look back and run back into his arms. Small tears are forming in her eyes that she tries to hold back.

Clara almost arrives at the bus when she is lifted into the air. She sees the back clothed with an familiar red jacket. "Let me go, Johnny." She hits him on the back but he won't let her go. "I'll let you down when you promise to talk to me."

"Johnny!" She feels Johnny sigh. "Clara, please." The girl doesn't know what to say, his voice breaks a bit at his last words. Clara looks around the parking lot seeing everyone already gone, including the buses. "Where is Bobby?" Johnny sighs. "He and the boys already left. It's just us. So can we please talk?" Clara sighs and finally gives in. "Alright."

Johnny let's her down, making Clara see the relieved smile on his face. "Thank you. But, how about we do that at that milkshake place. I pay." Clara raises an eyebrow at his suggestion, but doesn't deny it. She nods, making Johnny's smile bigger. He leads her to his bike and they drive off.