Sam's POV:

Seven weeks later.

I am arriving at the jail, where my mom was being held, I mean it could've been less time if she hadn't tried to run away with Jade's wallet. Trying to regain some of the money that she basically stole from us, bad part? Jade didn't have cash, only her cards, other bad part? My mom hit her multiple times to take her wallet, that made that she was sentenced to 4 months in jail, for assaulting a minor and trying to mug her, also, we needed to pay a fine of 700 dollars to Jade. 

Yeah, everything went horribly wrong, at least she is free now, with probation. We decided, to not try to make that Jade look guilty of the scam, as half of the proofs led to my dad, and he could be in prison from a year to more. Terry would be there too, but it would be stupid, so we made a deal, after all, our credibility went downhill thanks to Bonnie and Clyde.

Guess what happened? Looks like, the fact that my mother tried to beat up and mug Jade, wasn't good-looking in their eyes, and they sent the letter, with a cute postscript of a photo Derek took after what my mom did, and it wasn't cute at all, and as she is a famous girl it was worse. 

Last I heard about Mr. And Mrs. Smith, is that they are in Milan, also in New York, Monaco, Paris. I don't know if it's real, as they see a couple with sunglasses, and caps and instantly say that they are Derek and Jade. Yeah, they are obsessed with them, and that's coming from the girl that drugged Jade into liking her.

They came out as a couple the day after "The Great Karate Scam", as we decided to name it, and honestly, Tory took the worst part. Jade said that it wasn't a meaningful relationship, as it was used with other motives and feelings, but love, yep, Tory cried, we became frenemies, and I kind of helped her out.

Returning to the criminals, Jade's gonna receive a prize of 'the hottest female teenager of the year', along with 2000 bucks, and Derek's gonna receive a prize for being 'the hottest male teenager of the year' with another 2000 bucks, and if it wasn't enough, they are gonna receive the award for "favorite couple" with 3500 bucks. I hate them. But everyone else in the world loves them, they literally swept the floor with the other candidates.

I see how my mom is pushed towards the entrance, cuffs in hands, but in her normal clothes, she signed some papers, and I saw how they truly pushed her to the exit, falling in her face, I immediately went to her, I was shocked with her appearance, she was skinny and had several bruises.

"Mom! What happened to you?" I asked, she glared at me, and got up.

"Prison, Sam" she answered, with a bored and wearied tone.

"Who did this to you?" I asked, a little offended.

"The Silver Medal prisoners" she sighed, the Silver Medals was the name that Jade's fans were referred like, "Along with some Archers" Derek's fans, of course, "And the Silver Archers too" fans of both of them and their romance, I shouldn't have asked.

"Come on, let's get you home" I said, entering the car as she did the same.

"What happened while I was gone?" She asked, plugging her seatbelt.

"We made a truce with Cobra Kai, as our reputations are both in hell" I answered, mirroring her action.

"I hate that girl" she sighed deeply, while rubbing her temple.

"She is worse than her father" I started the engine, we were meeting in Miyagi-Do.

It was a nice car ride, everyone was in there. I must say that Bonnie and Clyde, somehow, brought peace to the dojo fight we were having. 

Everyone greeted my mom, and congratulated her, for being so brave and that stuff.

"Hey, look at this" Demetri said, giving to me his new phone, courtesy of Jade, we needed to purchase new ones, as our old ones never turned on.

It was a photo of Jade and Derek with 30 bags from Gucci, Louis Vuitton, Dior, Valentino, Versace, Chanel, Rolex and any other expensive brand you can think about.

"They just love spending money" I scoffed, I scroll down the comments, until I found one, saying that the picture was out of context, and what really happened, is that Jade and Derek, bought those things for multiple fans that had terminal diseases, and at that moment, I found myself falling over heels again for her, and a little for him.

"Sam?" Demetri's voice led me out of my fantasy.

"What?" I said with a tone of love.

"Are you falling over heels for her again?" he emphasized the again part.

"Can you blame me, Demetri?" I scoffed.

"Well, maybe you'll like to watch her live" he said, pressing Jade's profile picture, I entered, and there were like 7 million people connected, and it had started like two seconds ago.

"Hey, guys, 'sup?" Jade greeted with her charmingly beautiful smile.

A bunch, of comments appeared, she chuckled.

"Watcha doing, my love?" Derek's voice sounded, and I rolled my eyes involuntarily.

"A live, wanna join, babe?" she asked him, the comments were full of hearts.

"No, thanks, princess, I'm gonna go work out" he said blowing a kiss at her.

The comments started to claim to see him working out.

"I'm not gonna show you how he works out, that's off limits, people" Jade answered with a smirk.

"She's saying that because I work out shirtless!" Derek yelled, with the sound of the door that was closed.

Jade chuckled.

"He's not lying, though" the comments exploded, "damn, calm down" she smiled softly.

She started to read some things that the people said, while humming.

"We were watching a movie" she answered mumbling, "hey, there is something good here, I'm gonna read it 'Jade, are you gonna participate in the All-Valley tournament that's in California?' I don't know, should I?"

My eyes almost pop out.

"Guys!" I called everyone, they gathered around me.

"Why are you watching the transmission of the bitch?" Hawk asked.

"She talked about the All-Valley!" Demetri answered.

"What?" they said in unison.

"Do you want me to participate in that thing?" she had a confused expression, "I'm gonna turn eighteen before that day, I won't be able to participate" she read another comment, "Let's see, 'Daniel LaRusso participated, and he was older, also, he isn't the only exception' . Yeah, I know that, but I'm not a former champion or anything, you know what? Let's forget the topic".

"Looks like she isn't interested" Miguel shrugged.

"Actually, it would be a good idea if she participates" Terry said.

"So she can put your last name on top again?" My dad asked, with sarcasm in his voice.

"No, so she can bring her name down" he answered.

"What do you mean?" Johnny asked.

"Jade is an excellent fighter, but quite violent, she is a Cobra after all" he smirked, "we can hire someone to tease her, and she will completely, ruin her performance".

"A little bit of playback, huh, Sensei?" Mitch said, smiling, and elbowing Johnny, and he nodded.

"I'm so in, let's bring her down" my mom said.

"Get prepared Silver, we are tearing your world apart" Hawk said with mischief in his eyes.

"Kid, don't enter this war" Johnny sighed, "I tried to warn you, but you insisted".

Jade's POV:

I finished the live, Derek went to the gym and I had nothing to do, I was thinking about what that fan said, the All-Valley thing, it could be a good idea to finish that cycle of my life, I don't care if I win or lose, Daniel LaRusso participated, and he was 18, so it should exist an exception or something, I'll write an email to them, maybe Derek would like to participate too.

I open my Mac and enter the password, instantly an email pops up, like they've read my mind, it's from the All-Valley Tournament Committee, offering me to participate in the upcoming tournament, as a 'boss in-between' they need to confront me and try their best to be accepted in the next round, and if for some strange reason they beat me, they will go directly to semifinals.

They are offering Derek to participate as a 'celebrity judge'. Of course our participation will make that their sales increase, I'm not an idiot, I know how these things work.

My phone starts to buzz, it's an unknown number. I answer.

"Who are you and why you have my number?" I ask.

"Jade, hear me out" she says breathless, I feel how my fists clench.

"What part of don't re-enter my life you didn't understand?" I ask through gritted teeth, "Can't you did to me that fucking favor?".

"Stop whining, I'm trying to save your ass" I scoffed loudly.

"Save my ass, don't act like you care about me" I claimed to her.

"If I didn't care about you, I wouldn't be calling to warn you about the plans that they have in here" she said stressed.

"You have twenty seconds before I hung up" I said, trying my best to don't fly to California and smash her phone from her hand to the nearest wall.

"Sam entered your Instagram live and heard about the All-Valley thing, they want to sabotage you" I saw this coming.

"Tory, I'm not an idiot, I know that probably they will hire someone to tease me, so I explode and try to kill everybody" I sighed heavily.

"So, you knew that they were capable of that?" she asked.

"They're a bunch of backstabbers, liars and assholes, of course I knew it" I heard a sound of disappointment on the other line, but I don't care.

"Do you think I'm like that, don't you?" she sounded sad, weird thing on her.

"Leave me alone, or I'm changing my number, again" I said, and hung up.

I took a heavy breath, controlling my anger.

I don't need her shitty feelings right now, I'm gonna go and work out with Derek and kick or punch something, as my shrink told me.

I walk to the room we are sharing, and then I make a beeline to the closet, grabbing some work out clothes, I move my new leather jacket when something fells of it, a pack of cigarettes. Where the fuck is Derek when I need him? He left me alone, and now I'm tempted, I can't.

I look at it, I'm sure my eyes reflect desire, I'm almost taking one, when I look at what I'm doing, I can't do it, but I want it so bad, It's starting to hurt again, should I? I put one of those painkillers in my lips, I'm deciding if I should light it up or if I should just keep it in there, like a metaphor.

I'm halfway on my dilemma when Derek enters the room, he looks at me, then smiles sadly, I'm sure I disappointed him. The cigarette fells from my lips, into the floor, doing an extremely loud sound in my ears, but I'm sure it wasn't that loud.

"Hey, baby" he says, kissing my cheek.

"Derek, I can explain" I say, trying to fix my mistake.

"Jade, you don't have to explain anything to me" he says, caressing the cheek he previously kissed.

"But I almost fell again in that trap" I say, with my voice trembling, I'm close to the start of the tears flooding freely like a fucking river by my face.

"But you didn't, and I'm proud of you" he hugs me, kissing my forehead, then he gives me a package of blueberry bubblegum, "it's my fault, I didn't notice they were in there".

"Can we throw them out, together?" I ask him, he always did it alone, so I didn't freak out. I took the cigarette from the floor and place it in the package, and I give it to him. He saves it in his pocket.

"Come on, lover" he says, offering me his other hand, I accept it gladly. We head out of the room, and he gives me a new bottle of water. We take some caps and sunglasses.

We walk out of the apartment we were renting, and head to the street, in there he offers me the package.

"Come on, princess, you can do it" he says, reassuring me.

I take it from his cold hand, and throw it in the trash can beside the apartment complex.

He grins like a child in Christmas.

"That deserves a date in the cinema" he gives me a peck, "let me change, and we head out, what do you say?" he asks with that flawless smile of him.

"I'll love to" I answer, if it's even possible, he smiles more, before kissing me full-hearted.

All the anger and pain I felt, suddenly... just disappeared.

Postscript:

Songs: Treat You Better by Shawn Mendes and Die For You by The Weeknd.

The nickname "The Great Karate Scam" it's an altered version of Victorious's episode "The Great Ping-Pong Scam".

Jade mentions if she should keep the cigarette between her lips, that's a reference to Augustus Waters's phrase in "The Fault in Our Stars" it was written by John Green, and it goes like this "It's a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don't give it the power to do its killing".