"What's going on over here?" Alaska spoke up, walking up behind Eli, Robby already beating her to it on the other side of the boy.

"Look who it is." Hawk greeted Robby, eyeing him as Kenny backed up behind Robby. Wyatt looked back toward the car for Demetri, finding he hadn't been there.

"You betrayed Miyagi-Do." Nathan eyed Robby. "Traitor!"

"Oh, there's a traitor here for sure." Tory spoke up, Kyler and a few other boys walking up behind her. Wyatt glared at the boy in blue, grasping Alaskas arm to pull her closer toward him. "And he's gonna get what he deserves."

"And what does he deserve?" Alaska spoke up with a raise of her eyebrows, leaving Wyatt's side to stand next to Eli.

"About as much as you do." Tory eyed her in judgement.

"I don't think so." Sam came up beside Alaska, Miguel falling in after her. "Not if I have anything to say about it, Princess."

"Hey, guys." Demetris voice rung, walking forward to look between the pair of dojos. "Can you believe they have Mr.Pibb and Dr.Pepper?"

Wyatt cleared his throat, grasping the pale boy arm and pulling him into line, not letting it go.

"Carful, LaRusso. Your mommy isn't here to play peacemaker." Tory eyed Sam, standing taller with her best look of intimidation.

"What? Sorta like your sensei does?" Alaska rose her eyebrows in Tory's direction. "Oh, that's right. He doesn't play peacekeeper, he's too busy turning all of you into a bunch of assholes that only cause any damage when they fight unfair. Can't believe I forgot about that."

"What would you know about it?" Robby mocked her in the slightest with a minor glare. "You turned your back on everyone."

"I did?" Alaska asked, throwing her hands up as she motioned around the group. "Then explain to me what i'm doing here."

"Guys, stop!" Miguel cut in quickly before it had the chance to get even uglier. "We can't do this. We'll beat 'em on the mat."

"Again." the Lee girl gave a smile in Tory's direction.

"Oh really?" Robby spoke in Miguel direction. "You do remember what happened last time we fought, right?"

The talk about Miguel's accident clearly didn't sit well with anyone there. Miguel nodded with a tight jaw. "Okay. Meet us at the baseball diamond in thirty minutes. And no weapons."

"Yeah, we won't need em." Tory glared at him in return.

"That's a first." Alaska mocked her again, Sam latching onto her arm to pull her back with the rest of the group.

"I see em." Alaska spoke, looking through the binoculars the kept in her trunk. She laughed. "Robby looks so pissed."

"One sec." Miguel spoke, the lights on the baseball diamond shutting off as the sprinklers began to spray.

Hawk laughed first, looking at Miguel. "Dude. Genius move. We didn't have to throw a punch."

"My favorite kind of victory!" Demetri patted him on the shoulder.

"Maybe that'll cool their egos off a bit." Alaska said, sat between Sam and Demetri.

"Yeah, or get all that horrible gel out of Kylers hair." Wyatt gave a snort from under Demetri, who was seated on his lap from the lack of space, as Hawk started up Alaska car, pulling out of the the baseball parking lot and onto the street.

Alaska was sat with Cedric, her glasses on, hair up, in a pair of warm and green pajamas, a cup of tea by her side, flipping through the pages of Someone's In Your House. The front door opening made her look over, the dim light from the single lamp lighting up the living room enough to see Robby walk in, soaking wet. She rose her eyebrows in his direction. "Didn't know it rained tonight."

"Save it." he spoke in annoyance, walking into the laundry room.

"What was your plan, anyways? Beat us up on the baseball field?" she simply couldn't help it, standing up, leaving her book on the couch, Cedric smart enough to already go up the stairs and toward his and Alaskas room. "You wanna know what I think?"

"Not really." Robby said back, yanking the wet shirt over his head as she came into the laundry room with him. "Nice boundaries you've got."

"I think that you, and Tory, and all your little Cobra Kai buddies really need to learn that the world isn't against all of you." Alaska spoke honestly, standing in the doorway as he stared back at her. "I'm not saying what Sam was right, at all actually, but for it to go on this long? I mean, when is enough just gonna be enough? You do realize that all of this shit isn't gonna matter in a few years?"

"That's your problem, Alaska. It's not gonna matter to you, because you'll have something else to focus on." Robby gave a stern, angered point in her direction. "In a few years, you'll be off at medical school that your parents paid for, your teachers all gave you letters of recommendation, you'll come home to a happy family on holidays and weekends, be financial stable in a descent apartment that your parents pay for, living the life that was handed to you."

She didn't argue, because she knew she was a lot more privileged then others.

"This, this is it for people like me and Tory. We don't get the luxury of just forgetting things and moving on with our perfect lives." he went on, and this time, it struck her to look at him in faint hurt. "The only hard thing you've ever had to do is your sobriety. And I know that's hard on you, but that's all you've ever had to face in this world. You've never had to watch your dad abandon you, watch your mom work all day and all night, have your lights cut off because the bill wasn't paid on time, wonder if you'll have enough to eat tonight."

Alaska looked away for half a second before meeting his eye. "I'm not trying to compare our situation, at all. But it's all getting so out of hand and I hate what's going on between all of us. I don't even recognize you and Tory anymore and I hate that because I care and love both of you."

"No, you just like to feel good about yourself for taking pity on the rest of us." Robby stormed past her, bumping her shoulder. Alaska turned on her heels, following him toward the stairs.

"I wish you'd stop saying that. Just because I made it a point to care about both of you doesn't mean i'm trying to make myself feel good." the Lee girl spoke in disbelief as he stopped to look back at her again. "You and I weren't always friends, if I have to remind you. Do you honestly think i'd choose to forget everything if I just wanted to pity you to make myself feel good about myself?"

Robby laughed in disbelief. "And then you throw that in my face."

"I'm not throwing it in your face." She defended herself with wide eyes. "I talked to you, forgave you, chose to forget what happened because I liked you. I saw that you weren't like Trey, that you were a sweet guy and deserved better then the friends you had. I didn't do that out of pity, I did that because I just actually liked being around you and talking to you."

"Oh yeah? And when'd you figure that out? When you came to Miyagi Do, let me teach you a few things, lead me on, and then just turn around and tell your sensei what the plan was for Valley Feast?" he spoke in annoyance and anger in her direction, face reddening. "You don't even realize how shitty of a person you can be!"

"I never said what I did was okay!" she rose her hands in surrender as her voice rose in his direction. "This is exact what I'm talking about. We both did shitty things but we moved on from that, we became friends, we freaking lived together."

"I did move on, I let that go." he stated in her direction, pointing at her face. "And then you did it again!"

There it was again, why he was so mad, why all the emotions from the past were coming up again. "That was my fault, I know. When I...I just wasn't thinking, and that was selfish of me to do. B-"

"You knew exactly what you were doing." Robby stopped her with one final glare across his face. "Because that's what you do. You use people for your own benefit and i'm tired of falling for it every time."

He began to storm up the stairs, her eyes following him. "Robby!"

He ignored her. Alaska felt her eyes burn. "Robby!"

But he ignored her, the door slamming.

"I can't believe it's snowing!" Alaska yelled, running out of the front door into the cold last December.

"This is rain." Robby corrected her, feeling the rain drops. "You need your eyes checked."

Alaska spun in the drive way, the rain falling down onto her. The pair just got the Christmas tree up, Gina and Zane ordering extra Christmas presents for Trey, who would be spending it with them. Robby found it was better to follow Alaska out into the front yard rather then holding himself back from telling her parents all Trey had done.

"Robby! Come feel the snow!" she yelled from the driveway, throwing a fake fishing rod his way, realing him over. "Did you take the bait?"

He couldn't hold back a laugh. "Every time I think you're normal, you do something like that."

She took his hand, the pair spinning in the rain. "I usually love the rain."

"You don't love it now?" he looked at her oddly.

Alaskas dark eyes stared at him as the rain dropped from her eyelashes. "Reminds me of my ex boyfriend."

Robby knew she'd been having a hard time being broken up with Hawk, spending enough time with her now to see how much it was hurting her. She went on. "Every time it would rain he'd always come over and stay because his lights went out. I keep expecting him to show up or something."

Robby tilted his head down at her. "He's such an asshole."

"Yeah, I know." she agreed. "Sorry for always dumping all this on you. I know I should just get over it."

Robby blinked. "You can tell me whatever you want. I'll just remind you what horrible taste you have."

Alaska laughed with a knowing look. "I use to have phenomenal taste, you'd be a lot more proud of me back in the day."

"Well, we all grow in weird ways." he nodded with a half tilt of his head. "I mean, look at us. How weird is it for us to be living together?"

"It's not so weird." she she in return, staring back at him. "Maybe I don't quite know what to say but i'm glad we aren't how we use to be."

His eyes flickered around her face. "No we're nowhere near how we use to be. I have a lot of regrets about that. But, this is me trying."

Alaska shook her head, maybe in a way of telling her not to do what she did next. Don't get caught up in the moment, don't act on your sad emotions, don't try and fill a void because the boy infront of you reminded you so much of the boy you lost. Don't do it. Don't do it again. But, she was never one to listen to her head over her heart. He leaned in to her, her doing the same. Before Robby could feel her lips on his, she yanked away.

He blinked at her. Alaska looked guilty in his eyes, shaking her head. "I'm sorry. I just- I shouldn't have."

"It's cool." he stopped her, shaking his head. "I know you're , like, going through a bad breakup."

"I shouldn't have done- i'm sorry." she apologized again, and this time, not sticking around, instead hurrying toward the house where she never bring it up again, feeling guilty for leading him to think she wanted to kiss him, yanking back last minute because her brain and heart was still clouded with another boy.

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kylie speaks

honestly, not that i'm saying
what she did was okay, but i
see both sides. i can see why robby is angry at her, because he feels lead on but at the end of the day, she stopped herself before the damage was done, she knew that she would have used him, and she chose to stop herself, they both knew she wasn't over hawk.