☼bro alone☾

Sonny, Eli, and Demetri walked around the college fair with Moon. For as long as the trip could remember, they've wanted to go to MIT. Since they already knew where they were heading, Sonny decided to walk around with Moon and having nothing else to do, Eli and Demetri decided to tag along with them.

"Is there any region you're looking for, Moon?" Demetri asked, watching as Moon showed interest in just about every table they passed. "Wanna stay close to home? Go far?"

Moon looked to Demetri as they walked away from Northeastern's table. "I don't really mind! I can follow a communications major anywhere." Moon said before she turned to Sonny beside her and smiled bashfully. Her cheeks flushed as she reached out and grabbed Sonny's hands, squeezing them. "I'm leaning towards East Coast though so I'm not too far from this one."

Sonny smiled at Moons words, leaning towards her and hitting her shoulder with her own.

"Hey!"

The four turned their heads at the voice and they all smiled at Sam and Miguel walking towards them. "What's up?" Miguel asked and Demetri smiled cockily. "All of our trials and tribulations of nerdom have come to this. We're the Belles of the ball." He explained and Miguel chuckled.

"Is that what we are?" Miguel asked and Demetri nodded his head as if it was obvious. "Oh, yes, my friend. They are fumbling around our dresses trying to cop a feel of our tantalizing brains." Demetri explained and the whole group cringed at his choice of words.

Sam and Moon locked eyes as they laughed. At the same time, they turned to their partners and shook their heads.

"That's where I leave you. Good luck." Sam laughed out, leaning up to kiss Miguel.

"I'm gonna go find Yas." Moon said and Sonny turned to her, nodding her head. "Okay, I love you." Sonny muttered as Moon leaned in to kiss her. Moon smiled into the kiss and when she pulled away, she moved her hand to Sonny's cheek, running her thumb across her cheekbone.

"I love you." She responded before her and Sam turned away to find Yasmine. As the girls walked away, Demetri turned back to Miguel, playfully scoffing. "These vultures are wasting their time though. The binary bros have had our sights set on MIT for years." Demetri explained, pointing between him and Eli.

Sonny's face scrunched from the other side of Demetri. She applied to MIT too. Eli looked past Demetri to Sonny and nodded his head, silently saying "I've got you." He turned back k Miguel and smiled. "Sonny too." Eli said and Demetri rolled his eyes, something Sonny didn't notice.

To change the subject, Demetri looked down to Miguel's hands and his eyes widened when he saw the Stanford pamphlet in his hands. "Are you applying early decision to Stanford?" He asked and Miguel smiled glumly.

"Yeah, definitely. But I should look into some safety schools too. Stanford's pretty expensive." Miguel explained, opening his pamphlet so his friends could see the prices of the school.

"Hey, fam." A voice from one of the nearby tables interrupted. Sonny turned her head and squinted at the man behind College of the Valleys table.

"You kids looking to post up at a college a little closer to home, or what's the word?" The man, Gary, said and Sonny nervously looked away as Demetri opened and closed his mouth before he spoke. "Well, Gary, the word is we'll be taking out brodeo on the rodeo. But, um, thank you for all your bro-vertures."

Sonny side eyed Demetri, shaking her head at him. "One more bro, and you're gonna lose a bro." Sonny said, pointing to herself.

"All right, bet. But safety schools get a bad rap. They keep you closer to home, set you up for a big school later and they take that weight off Mom and Pop's wallet." Gary explained, waving a College of the Valley pamphlet in front of Miguel.

The boy let out a nervous laugh, grabbing the pamphlet from the man and looking over the prices.

...

The next day, Miguel texted Eli, Demetri, and Sonny, asking if they could come with him to tour College of the Valley.

It was hot and later in the day as they walked through the tour. Sure, Sonny was tired, but she wanted to be there to help Miguel if this was a school he was really looking into.

She watched her tour guide through squinted eyes, the man standing right in the Sun. "The chemistry lab was built in 19—" "Got it!" A voice from Sonny's right yelled.

In seconds, Sonny's tour guide was knocked down to the ground from a running college student colliding into him. Sonny yelped, jumping back in shock as Miguel held his hands out in front and behind her incase she tripped.

Sonny watched as the boy who rammed into her tour guide stood up and laughed. Her face paled when she recognized Brucks standing in front of them. Their tour group started to disperse as Kyler ran over, laughing with Brucks.

"Sick grab, boy!" Kyler told Brucks before he looked down at Sonny's tour guide and laughed. "You just got Brucksed!" He yelled, him and Brucks still laughing as they looked ahead of them and their eyes landed on Sonny, Miguel, Eli, and Demetri.

"Oh. What's up, guys?" Kyler asked and Sonny opened and closed her mouth in shock. "Holy shit." She whispered under her breath to Miguel.

Miguel let out a barely noticeable chuckle at Sonny's words before he quickly hid it. "Kyler, you go to school here?" He asked, and Kyler laughed, hitting Brucks in the chest.

"Nah, it's more like this school goes to me. You know what I mean?" Kyler asked, him and Brucks laughing while Sonny, Miguel, Demetri, and Hawk watched them with confused looks.

Sonny noticed Hawk tensed back when they first saw Brucks and looked up at him when she saw him opening his mouth to speak out of the corner of her eyes. "What's up, Brucks? You... you look good, man." Hawk said nervously. Hawk told everyone about what he had done to Brucks back when he and Kyler first tried to join Cobra Kai so Sonny watched Brucks anxiously, almost as anxious as Hawk.

"Thanks, man. All new teeth." Brucks said, moving the sode of his mouth to show off his teeth. He gave Hawk an uncomfortable smile as he shrugged. "Swallowed the old ones when you... you know."

Hawk sucked in a deep breath, wincing at the memory. "Yeah, I'm really sorry about that, dude. I... I was in a bad place then, and—" He was interrupted by Brucks, who shook his head and gave them a reassuring smile. "It's all good, buddy! Play karate games, win karate prizes, you know? It helped me get my life on track. Ad meliora. Towards better things."

Sonny was surprised, her eyebrows raised and her jaw hung a little open. Just as shocked as her, Hawk nodded his head, giving Brucks a small nod. "Sick."

Brucks looked to Kyler and held his fist out for a fist bump. "See you at the house, Ky?" He asked and Kyler nodded. "Bet."

The four watched Brucks head the way he came. Sonny turned back to Kyler, still squinting and wishing she brought sunglasses. "Wait, so you and Brucks both go here?" Sonny asked and before Kyler could respond, Demetri scoffed from the other side of Hawk.

"That makes sense." Demetri muttered as Kyler shook his head. "No, he's just visiting. He goes to MIT."

Sonny, Hawk, Demetri's jaws dropped. Sonny looked to Hawk and Demetri on her right to see if she heard him right and when she saw their faces, she knew did.

"I'm sorry. Did you say MIT?" Demetri asked and Kyler smiled, nodding his head happily.

"Yeah, and he's killing it too." Kyler said before he grabbed Demetri's shoulder and pulled him into his chest. "So what's up, guys? We hanging out or what? I can take y'all to my frat's party if you want." Kyler said before he side eyed Demetri in his arms and Sonny in front of him. "You two can invite your girlfriends too."

"Um..." Sonny muttered under her breath, looking to Eli and Miguel, silently hoping one of them could get them out of the party but Miguel smiled as he looked to Kyler, nodding his head. "We're in."

...

Neither Moon or Yasmine wanted to go to the frat party and when Sonny tried to use that as an excuse to not go, Eli practically dragged her into the frat house, saying he wasn't going to his first frat party without her, especially now that she drank.

Sonny, Demetri, and Miguel were currently watching Brucks in the center of the room, chugging a shotgunned beer while Hawk went to find drinks. Demetri watched the boy in absolute astonishment and Sonny opened and closed her mouth in shock as Hawk came back over with his, Sonny, and Miguel's drinks, Demetri not wanting anything.

"I can't believe Brucks got into MIT. And was he speaking Latin earlier?" Eli asked as Sonny hummed, taking a sip of her beer. "e-hay ertainly-cay as-way." She muttered as she brought the cup to her lips.

The three boys gave Sonny confused looks. Sonny's eyes widened, feeling her shoulders cave in in embarrassment. "I only know pig Latin."

Miguel chuckled at Sonny's words, making the girl feel a little calmer as Demetri rolled his eyes. Since he was the tallest, Demetri looked over Miguel and Sonny to lock eyes with Hawk. Sonny watched as Demetri's eyebrows raised, silently saying "see?" or "I told you so."

Sonny felt her heart dropped and her eyebrows pinched together as she looked down at her solo cup in confusion. What was that about?

Hawk's eyes bounced back and forth between Sonny and Demetri, his jaw clenched in anger towards Demetri. Hawk looked back down to Sonny beside him and smiled. He nudged her arm with his elbow, making her look up at him.

Hawk gave her a small smile, almost a smirk. He nodded his head towards the keg and then turned back to Sonny, raising his eyebrows playfully.

Sonny was trying her hardest to hold back her smile but ultimately gave in. As soon as he saw the smile on her face, Hawk cheered. He grabbed the inside of Sonny's elbow and pulled her towards the keg.

After that, Sonny and Hawk kept drinking until all Sonny could do was laugh. She swayed as she put her solo cup on one of the spikes in Hawks mohawk.

Hawk watched Sonny with an amused smile. Just as drunk as her, Hawks eyes went up, trying to see Sonny put the cup in his hair even though it was in his head. When he felt the weight of the cup in his hair and saw Sonny look at him with a big smile, Hawk let out a loud laugh, making Sonny laugh with him.

Demetri walked towards them, grabbing both of their wrists in each of his hands and dragged them towards Brucks, who was dancing to the loud music with a beer hat.

"Uh, excuse me, Brucks!" Demetri yelled over the music. Brucks turned at the sound of his name being called and spit the straw piece of his beer hat out of his mouth.

"Oh..." Sonny cringed, taking a small step away from the boy. Demetri grimaced at the older boy before pulling himself together and taking a small step towards him. "Hey... so we hear that you go to MIT?"

Brucks drunkenly smiled, nodding his head. "Oh, yeah."

Sonny slowly nodded her head, watching the boy closely. She wasn't one to judge but there was no way this kid got into MIT. "What did you get on your SATs?" She asked and her eyes widened when Brucks leaned towards her Demetri and Eli, getting right in their faces.

"Some ketchup!"

Brucks let himself giggle at the threes shocked faces before he shook his head. "Just kidding! I don't know. I mean, like 790, 780." He said, shrugging his shoulders and walking away.

In seconds, Sonny sobered up and had to hold her jaw to stop it from falling. She looked at the boys beside her, both of them looking just as shocked as her.

"1570 SATs? I have no words." Demetri whispered under his breath as Sonny looked back to Brucks. She watched as he smashed a beer can with his head, drunkly chuckling at himself.

"Unbelievable."

...

For the rest of the night, Sonny drank and partied with Hawk and the colleges sorority girls.

Hawk, who still had Sonny's and now his solo cups in his hair, started to chug another beer in the center of the room. Everyone started to chant "Spikes" as he finished one cup and added it to another spike.

Hawk screamed over all of the cheers for him. He looked around the frat house and saw Sonny with the sorority girls. Immediately, he ran towards her with a big smile on his face.

"Dude, this party is awesome!" Hawk yelled over the music. Sonny laughed, grabbing onto Hawks shoulder when she noticed him start to stumble. "We're gonna have so much fun in MIT!" Sonny yelled, not noticing Hawks smile drop. She looked away and pursed her lips. "I don't know if MIT will do parties like this." She muttered before she looked back to Hawk and shook his shoulders excitedly. "But we'll plan the parties."

Sonny finally noticed Hawks mood drop when he refused to look in her eyes. Sonny's smile slowly fell and she watched Hawk with a worried look. She gently pulled him to the wall where it wasn't too loud.

"Hey, what's wrong?" She asked and Hawk huffed. After a couple seconds, he looked into Sonny's eyes and shrugged. "I... don't know if I want to go to MIT anymore." Hawk said.

Sonny's eyebrows raised and her lips parted in shock. She stared at Eli, waiting for any sign that would show he was joking but with how hard he was struggling to talk to her, Sonny could tell he was serious.

"What?" She asked and Eli licked his lips nervously.

"This party... it's making me realize there's a whole world out there. What if MIT isn't for me?" Eli rambled, speaking so fast, Sonny almost didn't understand him.

After a couple of seconds of letting his words sink in, Sonny shook her head. "Then it isn't for you." Sonny shrugged and Eli's eyes widened. He stared at Sonny as she gave him a small but reassuring smile. "You have to find the school that speaks to you. Where you see yourself being happiest."

Slowly, Eli started to smile at Sonny's words. He had been worrying about it all night and in seconds, Sonny fixed it. He pulled her into a hug that caught Sonny off guard but she hugged back nonetheless.

"Thank you, Sonny." Eli muttered and Sonny smiled, squeezing the boy a little tighter. As he hugged Sonny, Eli's eyes widened and he quickly pulled away from the hug, keeping his hands on Sonny's shoulders so she didn't walk away. "You can't tell Demetri though. He'd kill me."

Sonny laughed, shaking her head. "I wasn't planning on it."

"Where's my vacuum?" Zenker yelled, pulling Sonny and Eli out of their conversation. Zenker ended up seeing Kyler with Miguel and walked towards them. "Yo, vacuum. Clean this up."

Kyler looked down at the ground covered in popcorn and licorice. He looked back up at Zenker and shook his head. "Nah, man, I'm good."

"Hey!" Zenker yelled, making every head in the room turn to him. Demetri slowly started to walk towards Sonny and Eli, standing on the other side of Eli.

Zenker took another step closer to Kyler, growing angry. "Listen, Shitbreath. You want in, get on the ground, and be the vacuum." He threatened.

Miguel furrowed his brows at Zenker, taking a step to stand closer to him and Kyler. "Is he getting in?" Miguel asked and Zenker turned to Miguel, his lips starting to curl in anger. "How about you stay out of this?"

Sonny looked to Eli and Demetri beside her. She watched as Demetri gulped and Eli ate popcorn from the table that was beside them, his eyes glued on the three in front of him as if they were on a movie screen.

"Gimme some of that." Sonny muttered, grabbing a handful of Eli's popcorn to eat while she watched as Kyler got onto the floor and Zenker came up behind him, grabbing his legs and raising them in the air. "Suction mode, on." He yelled and Kyler lowered himself further to the ground, eating the popcorn and licorice off the floor.

Sonny cringed as the room started to fill with laughter. Kyler ate probably about five pieces of candy before Miguel shoved Zenker, making him drop Kyler. "Enough!" Miguel yelled and Zenker glared at him

"Why don't you tell him the truth?" Miguel said as Kyler got off the floor and spat the food out. He looked at Miguel with a confused look. "Truth about what, man?"

Instead of Miguel answering, Zenker did, taking a step closer to the boy with a big smirk. "Well, we had a good run. The truth is that you are never, and I mean never, getting into this frat."

Sonny watched as Kyler's face fell. He nodded his head glumly and turned around, taking a cup out of a random girls hand and turning back to Zenker. "Your loss."

Kyler raised his hand and poured the alcohol onto Zenker. Since the boy was wearing a hat, the drink only went onto his hat and seeped into his shirt. The room gasped at Kyler, who bit his inner cheek in anger.

Zenker was practically shaking in anger. He let out a yell and went to throw a punch at Kyler.

Kyler rose his arm and twisted Zenkers hand behind his back. "Bitch, don't you know I know karate?" Kyler asked before he punched Zenker in the face.

The punch sent Zenker sprawling to the ground, and in seconds, a handful of frat boys came running towards him and Miguel.

Before Sonny knew it, seven frat boys started to crowd around her, Demetri, and Hawk since they came with Miguel and Kyler.

Hawk made the first move, raising his leg and kicking one of the boys backwards. He looked back at Sonny and Demetri, silently asking if they'd be okay, and Sonny nodded her head. Hawk nodded back and turned back to the frat boy he kicked and another one.

As he ran at them to fight, Demetri ran in the opposite direction, three of the boys following him. Sonny looked ahead of her nervously and saw two boys standing in front of her. She swallowed her nerves and tilted her head. "You two are really gonna fight a girl?"

The two boys looked to each other before they turned back to Sonny. She barely had time to react before one of the boys lunged at her. Sonny sidestepped away from the first punch, and raised her leg, letting him stumble right into her kick. While he leaned down to clutch his stomach, Sonny grabbed his shoulder and threw him back into the second guy.

Sonny looked around the room and noticed Miguel fighting two boys. She ran at them and when she got close enough, she got in the ground and kicked her leg out, sweeping one of the guys feet. The boy fell face first to the ground, his chin hitting the floor hard.

Sonny got back up and saw another boy run at her, his right arm raised to punch her. Sonny grabbed his fist with her left hand and ducked under his arm so she was behind him.

With her free hand, Sonny grabbed a handful of the boys hair and pushed his head down as she raised her knee. the boy fell to the floor after getting kneed and Sonny sighed, running a hand through her hair.

When someone screamed her name, Sonny spun around and saw Hawk struggling with three boys. When the two locked eyes, Sonny nodded her head.

She ran towards Hawk, the boys hands outstretched for her to grab. As soon as her hands were in his, Hawk spun Sonny and lifted her off the ground. Sonny set her eyes on two of the boys Hawk was fighting and raised her legs, kicking them in the face and knocking them to the ground.

When Hawk put Sonny back in the ground, they turned to each other, nodded, and then look at the last boy. At the same time, Hawk and Sonny did spinning kicks, both of their feet landing in the boys chest.

Sonny and Hawk watched the boy hit the wall and then the ground, and after a couple of seconds, they both looked around the room and noticed Demetri, Kyler, and Miguel had all finished their fights too.

"Let's go!" Hawk screamed, throwing his hands in the air and running towards the group and pulling Sonny and Demetri into a tight hug.

When they pulled away from their hug, Sonny's eyebrows furrowed when she didn't see Brucks with them. "Wait! Where's Brucks?" Sonny asked, looking around the room.

They all turned their heads at the sound of someone screaming and saw Brucks on the other end of the room, lifting a boy off the ground and throwing him onto the foldable table in front of him.

Sonny yelped, jumping back and accidentally ramming herself into Demetri's chest. Demetri grabbed her shoulders to stabilize her as Brucks looked down at the boy he had just thrown into the table. "Get brucksed!" He yelled and after a couple seconds, everyone else cheered, throwing their arms in the air in victory.

Hawk looked around and noticed the frat boys starting to get up. He immediately started hitting Sonny and Demetri, who were next to him. "Let's go! Let's go!" He yelled and they all ran out of the frat house.

...

After the fight, Kyler took everyone to the campus dining hall. While Miguel and Kyler got the groups food and table, Sonny, Eli, Demetri followed Brucks to the Pac-Man machine in the corner of the room.

When he lost, Brucks cursed under his breath and shook his head at the screen. "Damn! Man, why are the ghosts so fast?" He asked, making Eli and Sonny laugh.

Brucks side stepped so Sonny could play the game. The girl muttered a small thank you and slipped her quarter into the game.

"Lose. Lose. Lose. Lose." Eli muttered under his breath as Sonny started to play. Sonny scoffed, ramming her shoulder into his while keeping her eyes on the game. Eli groaned and Brucks laughed, annoying Demetri.

"All right, enough!" Demetri yelled, making Eli and Brucks look away from the game and to him. Sonny looked up for a couple seconds but looked back to the game so she wouldn't lose.

"You gotta tell us what is going on with MIT. I mean, did you cheat on the SATs or what?" Demetri asked Brucks and the older boy sighed.

"Fine. I lied." Brucks started and Eli's eyes widened. Keeping his eyes on Brucks, Wli stuck his hand out and messed with the joystick of Sonny's game, making her lose.

Sonny glared at Eli, who wouldn't look back at her. "You owe me a game." Sonny grumbled under her breath. Eli elbowed her again, motioning for her to look at Brucks.

"I didn't get a 790. I got a 750." Brucks said sadly and Sonny's jaw dropped. A 1540 is still amazing.

"I just wanted to impress you guys cause you're smart and stuff. Five hundred of it was in English though." Brucks said and Sonny shook her head, now confused.

"Wait, you got 750 total?" Sonny asked and Brucks turned to her, not noticing her and Eli's confused faces. "Yeah. Why are you guys so worried about this anyway?" He asked and Demetri opened and closed his mouth, desperate to come up with something to say.

"Because we want to go to MIT!"

Brucks's eyebrows furrowed and he gave the boy a weird look. lYou wanna fix washing machines? It's not that hard." He explained. He turned to Eli and Sonny on the other side of him and shook his head. "I mean... I could see you two doing that but not Sonny."

Sonny looked up at Eli beside her, both of them having no clue what Brucks was talking about anymore. They watched as the boy pulled his phone out of his pocket and type in a few things before he handed Demetri his phone.

Demetri's eyes widened as he looked at the screen. "Midwest Industrial Training. Ad meliora." He read and slowly, Sonny and Eli's eyes widened, realizing where all the confusion was.

As Demetri handed Brucks his phone back, Sonny smiled up at him. "That's incredible, Brucks." Sonny said and his smile brightened. "I'm stocked! So, uh...  you guys want to make a call or something?" He asked, looking between the three.

Demetri shook his head crazily at Sonny and Eli, who Brucks was looking at. Sonny let out a nervous laugh and shook her head. "I think we'll just try out our own luck. Thanks though."

—i need part two out now i'm so excited

this episode is so funny and it's so fun to write i just love it so much