you're the best around - (daniel larusso x oc)

ch.2 (young times at the beach)

--playing The Ride by The Matches--

[The two teens made their way down the small hill, down to the beach- where the many cliques were separated as normal. Freddy and his guy friends were all gathered to the left, some playing soccer and others were starting a bonfire. And to the right: the popular rich girls, or Ali Mills and her friends, were sitting on beach towels and gossiping. Daniel and Freddy spotted and waved to each other-] "Hey Daniel!" [Freddy greets to his new neighbor, but not to Scarlette whom his friends gave a small dirty look to. To this she was certainly unsurprised,  however also displeased. Things were going so well for her with Daniel just now she had almost forgotten her true position in society- a loner, a ruffian, the valley's queen karate, a Cobra Kai. She was treated differently than her fellow Cobra Kais, as the only girl of the group she came off as less radical and worthy of praise, more freakish and feared. End of it all, the girl had anyways seemed to care less about most things, especially what people thought about her; she was mostly socially unbothered]

"Hey, Freddy!" [Daniel greets back, with his friendly grin, as he walks over to Freddy's group of friends; simultaneously as Scarlette separates and begins to walk off to the group of girls to the right. Freddy introduces Daniel to the other guys, they all shake hands and become more familiar- but after a couple moments of this the new kid from New Jersey senses as if the girl that was recently just beside him had walked off, so he turns around to see if she is still by his side. His senses were correct: Daniel Larusso in confusion to this because..] "I really thought we might've been hitting it off already." [He thought] "Somethings off-" [He thought once more before speaking aloud, hollering over to Scar] "Hey, where're you going?" [Daniel asks, interrupting his conversation with his new friends.  Scarlette doesn't give him acknowledgement, she just continues her way over to the group of popular girls. She did in fact notice his words and attention, however she had figured to herself that Daniel was perhaps better off without her, at least for right now while he's socializing with his future classmates and possibly close school friends. She simply did not want to so soon torment with his reputation. Daniel's shoulders drop slightly, but he's more confused than upset. Daniel turns back around slowly with a less lively expression and resumes his conversation with Freddy's friends. But Daniel's mind had remained on Scarlette, he wondered if maybe that group of girls she'd gone off to were the friends that she'd talked about earlier..however the innocent looking girls just didn't seem to fit the very vague- yet just slightly intimidating -description Scarlette had given him. He continuously looked back at Scarlette, curiously. He saw as Scarlette waved over to and joined the conversation of the popular girls]

"I don't need to explain it to him, why I left. We've only just met." [She thought to herself, as she glanced over to Daniel, not listening to the girls around her conversing. Daniel was also not paying attention to his group and quickly enough the two make eye contact- Scarlette stubbornly looks away, then Daniel does the same. Scarlette tries to distract her mind even just the smallest bit.. So, she removes her red- Cobra Kai emblemed -leather jacket and sandals and focused her attention back onto the popular girls she stood beside; because although Scarlette wasn't necessarily actual friends with the popular girl group, she knew them better and spent more time with them than Freddy's group. It was obvious to "queen karate" that that group of boys did not respect her and she didn't respect them either; she believed Freddy to be a coward for being such a 'yes-man' to his friends. She shook her head to herself just thinking about it all, because she knew damn well she'd rather be hanging out with Daniel than either cliques. Speaking of; Daniel looked over at Scarlette again, the girl was turned around and had her hands on her athletic hips as she wore her black one-piece swimsuit. Her dark and reddish brown hair flowed in the slight breeze and so did the tie in the back of her black headband. The teenage boy from New Jersey-  the new resident of the valley -felt that change in his heart again, a feeling that hadn't stopped since he'd met her earlier this afternoon but it ..felt ..a bit.. stronger. Of course Daniel continued to hide the fluttering he felt in his stomach as he looked over at the unnoticed Scarlette, but he would eventually be caught in the act.]