The rest of the team sadly walks away, still disappointed we're near the bottom of the rankings.

"Hey! Where the hell do you think you're going?" Sensei Lawrence shouts.

"Back to the hotel to wash off this disgrace." Demetri sarcastically replies.

"You're not getting off that easy. Locker room. Now." He sternly looks at Demetri, then to the rest of the group, except me and Miguel.

Me and Miguel glance at each other, with a sense of pride in both of our eyes.

We then all walk over to the locker room and all sit, silence and awkwardness fills the air for a few minutes.

"What I saw from you just now, it wasn't karate. It was weakness." Sensei Lawrence states, slowly pacing around the room.

"You fought like little lambs waiting for slaughter." He adds, Sam glares at him.

"We keep going like this, we get eliminated tonight. Some of you will put this behind you. But some of you are gonna carry this for the rest of your lives."

"Knowing you had this chance to make something of yourselves. But instead, you crumbled under pressure."

"And you're gonna go on to live shit lives in shitty apartments with shit jobs." He shouts in frustration.

"And always have to live with this failure." I flinch at the yelling.

"So, if you wanna save some humiliation, why don't we just skip the next round and catch the next flight home?"

"What is wrong with you guys? Wheres your fight?" He adds.

"Aren't you gonna stand up for yourselves?" He shouts again.

"You keep blaming us like this isn't on you too." Sam replies, with her arms crossed, with annoyance in her voice.

"If my dad had been there, we never would've lost like that." She adds.

"Yeah, well, he didn't even bother to show up." He scoffs.

"Probably because of you." She yells, with her jaw clenched.

"You keep disrespecting him, trying to prove your way is better, when it's so clear that we should've been using Miyagi-Do."

"You shouldn't even be wearing that gi." She hisses.

"Hey! Don't talk to my sensei like that!" Devon shouts back, standing up almost immediately.

"Your sensei got you knocked off the board in ten seconds. So I would sit down if I were you. You're not helping us. I don't even know how you made this team." Sam snarls.

Devon immediately sits back down with a shocked but melancholy look on her face, clearly taken aback.

Damn, that was a bit harsh but I do wonder how she made it over Kenny.

"Well, I, for one, will he putting all of this behind me when I'm off to MI-"

"Shut the fuck up about MIT." Me and Hawk reply annoyed in unison.

"Some of us care about actually winning the tournament. Be nice if you did too." Hawk adds.

"Guys, can we cool it? This isn't helping us. We need to focus up." Robby states.

"Maybe you should listen to your own advice." Miguel mumbles.

Robby raises his eyebrows, "Got something to say?"

"I already did." He huffs, gets up and leaves the locker room. He looks over to me, basically telling me with his eyes to get up aswell.

I decide to also get up as there's not really much point in me and Miguel being here if we won, not to be cocky but it's true. I get my pink sparkly coloured sports bag with my clothes in it aswell.

"Hey, I'm not finished." Sensei Lawrence says, slightly standing in-front of both of us.

"No offence, but I'm pretty sure we've heard enough from you, Sensei." I reply and walk off with Miguel.

Me and Miguel walk off near the lobby, feeling the nice air conditioning breeze is a relief after all that built up sweat.

"Although I missed your fight, I don't need to see you fight to know you're a good fighter." I gleefully beam at him, attempting to lighten the mood.

"Thank you Kiara. You fought awesome." He replies, shining yet again another awkward smile.

Me and Miguel have never really been friends. I mean, we don't hate each other, don't get me wrong. When he was Cobra Kai and I was Miyagi Do, we never really interacted with each other then. He's really nice and he seems so cool, but we're both so awkward so I have no idea what I'd even say.

"I'm just gonna go to my room and freshen up. See you later Miguel." I state cheerfully.

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