tw: mentions of sexual assault
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Me and Kwon are lying on our leather jackets on the sand, still damp from when we stepped foot in the ocean. My head is resting on his chest, meaning I can hear his heartbeat. His arms are protectively and instinctively locked around my waist. My arms are also firmly wrapped around him. The sun is slowly starting to rise over the ocean, creating an ethereal view that I could stare at forever. I rub my eyes and immediately dart up, startling Kwon and waking him up.

"Shit. What's the time? Did we sleep in?" I shake him worriedly.

He proceeds to check his phone, "7:43am." He yawns, closing his eyes and hugging his jacket.

"Kwon." I proceed to shake him again. "We need to get back to the hotel. Now."

I then use my phone camera to check my face, my hair is wavy and full of sand. I attempt to get sand out of my hair but very little grains come out.

"Wake up!" I shriek, which very much startles him.

"We shouldn't off stayed up til 3am." I sink my head into my hands.

"It was worth it." Kwon arrogantly grins.

"Shut up!" I aggressively but playfully hit his arm.

"We need to book an uber." I add and he nods in response.

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I'm sitting in the back right seat of the uber, admiring Barcelona once again through the car window. I don't think I'll ever get over the true beauty of this city. The city sings to me like my favourite song and glistens like my favourite sight.

Kwon is sitting in the back left seat, his hand intertwined with mine, his thumb softly stroking my palm.

We then hastily arrive to the hotel; as there was a lack of traffic with it being so early in the morning.

I then walk into the hotel, quickly kissing Kwon before he parts off into a different direction. I then spot Sensei Toguchi, staring at me with his jaw dropped and a mix of confusion and surprise.

He then walks over to me, "Kwon?" He inquires with surprise.

I then carefully look at him, noticing grains of sand in his hair, "You spent the night at the beach?"

"You knew I was with Sensei Kim?" His expression widened, making him look dumbfounded.

"You were with Sensei Kim?"

Now I'm the puzzled one. Out of all the possible possibilities, Sensei Chozen and Kim? That is definitely an unexpected couple.

"You do not tell Daniel-San or anyone else about me and her, I will not tell anyone about you and him." He proposes, squinting at me.

"Deal."

"Anyway, she is waiting for me, we have mission to accomplish." He rapidly speed walks off, not giving me time to respond and I'm left pondering and confused about this unexpected couple, who weirdly seem to go well together based off the things Kwon have told me and the stories I've heard.

I go up to my hotel room, Sam's arms crossed while sat on her bed, all freshened up, along with Devon sat next to her, fidgeting with her hands.

"You never responded to any of our texts or calls all night and never came back to the hotel room." Sam fiercely states.

Devon glances up at the state of me, smudged lipstick, messy clothing, sand in my hair. "Did you spend your night with someone at the beach?"

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Sam then put the pieces together, realising when she had earlier went to the gym to do a bit of training, then when she was leaving the gym she had bumped into Kwon and had an abrupt encounter with him and he had also looked untidy and his hair scruffy with sand grains in his hair.

She also saw two figures yesterday on the beach while Axel had tried to kiss her, but couldn't identity them. It had all made sense. But she chose not to say anything, knowing Kiara would rather Devon not know who.

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"Yeah, I did. That was irresponsible of me and I'm sorry. It won't happen again, I promise."

"I mean, it is the first time this has happened but you're lucky that Sensei Lawrence, Larusso and Chozen are busy off somewhere. Otherwise you'd be in shit." Devon smiles, her eyes glistening.

"Robby was also worried, you're gonna need to explain to him what happened. It just better not happen again." Sam replies, a hint of teasing but also sternness, her arms remaining crossed, she lets out a slight smile.

"It won't. Trust me. Anyway, I'm gonna take a shower."

"Get the sand out of my hair." I awkwardly smile, gesturing towards the sand in my waves.

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I then get out of the shower with a black t-shirt on and some sweatpants, a towel wrapped around me to prevent my wet hair from dripping.

Everyone goes silent and stares at me, Chozen, Johnny, Daniel, Kenny, Miguel, Robby, Demetri and Hawk.

Sam is miserably sat on the table, Robby fidgeting with his hands and Hawk mirroring him. Daniel is gazing outside of the window and Chozen is just standing.

"What?" I enquire, "Why are you all so miserable?"

"But nice to see you back Miguel and Sensei Lawrence." I turn to the duo and flash a short smile.

"Nice to see you Kenny, maybe we won't be getting demolished anymore, with you and Miguel we actually have a chance." I exclaimed excitedly.

Then Sam proceeds to explain to me how Silver is back and how he's apart of the Iron Dragons and he hired Sensei Wolf and vice versa.

"Seriously? He's back? How many times has this happened?" I scoff, amused but annoyed.

"Isn't he supposed to be in jail?" I add, now considering all the possibilities, but coming to the conclusion he probably bribed them out of his cell, like he did with Tory's win at the All-Valley.

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"Hey." Devon walks over to Kenny, with an awkward smile, causing him to look up curiously.

"Um, look, I don't how you'll ever forgive me, but, Kenny, I am truly sorry. I have regretted what I did to you every single day that I've been here." Devon adds, causing Kenny to sigh.

"Look, I had a lot of time to think on the plane. And I've always liked you." That causes me and Devon to both dart up.

Liked you? Get together already. Please.

"You were always cool with me when we trained with Silver, so, honestly, you targeting me is kind of flattering. You just saw me as the biggest threat." He chuckles and softly smiles, causing Devon to chuckle as-well.

Adorable.

I then get interrupted by Demetri asking me and Sam, "If Miguel's back, why is Kenny here?"

Hawk then walks over to us, "Oh, 'cause he's taking Devon's spot."

"He should be taking Demetri's spot. He only cares about MIT." I scoff, to which Demetri flips me off.

Demetri furrows his brows and appears lost.

"What, so he just forgave her all of a sudden?" He queries.

"After what she did?" He adds, still appearing perplexed and bewildered.

"He forgave her because he likes her, it's pretty obvious." I explained but also kept my voice to a bare whisper, that only Hawk, Demetri and Sam could hear.

"I don't buy it." He stands up and turns to Sam. "Sam, as our only captain without a soft spot for Kenny, I feel obligated to inform you that we may have a potential traitor in our midst."

Sam then turns around to Devon and Kenny; who are enthusiastically talking.

"We shouldn't be jumping to conclusions." Sam sternly states.

"I'm not saying it's happened yet. All I'm saying is we know that Silver's gonna cheat. The only question is, how?" He proclaims, glaring at Kenny.

"Like Sam said, don't jump to conclusions. You don't even have a proper reason to be judging him."

"Where were you yesterday?" Robby interrupts, taking me away from the group and they continue to carry on their Kenny debate.

"I irresponsibly spent the night with someone at the beach. It won't happen again-"

"You? Out of all people irresponsible? Honestly, I can't be mad. But let me guess, Kwon?"

I silently nod at his statement, not wanting to admit it out loud incase someone like Demetri hears.

"All night on an isolated beach huh?" He nudges me, looking at me with a raised eyebrow.

"Oh shut up! You're being immature."

"Tell me the details, please. I'm begging to know."

"Well, we just play fought and talked and then well yeah."

"Well yeah what?" He replies, giving me the same raised eyebrow look he did before as I'm being vague.

"None of your business."

"Right." He chuckles, letting out a grin.

"I kissed Zara." He gulps, suddenly breaking away from my gaze.

"What the hell? What about Tory?" I criticised.

"I was drunk and vulnerable and she came over and I was disoriented and it just happened."

My face shifts when I realise what had truly happened; it had happened without his consent.

"Are you alright? I'm always here for you. Want me to beat her up for you?"

"Yeah, I'm fine now, but no need to beat her up."

"Hm, okay. I'm happy you're okay now. But are you sure you don't want me to beat her up? The offer still stands."

"Yes, I'm sure Kiara." He lets out a soft smile.

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