Kim slams the door behind her and drops her backpack on the floor next to the bed. She falls backwards on the bed, letting out a large groan.
"Wow, someone seems stressed." Kim tuns to find that Mika was the one who talked in the thick accent and was sitting on her bed with Julie, both doing something on their phones. It wasn't that being the thing that caught her attention, it was the girl sitting on the bean bag chair next to them. She didn't see her at the dojo.
"You have no idea." Kim tells her, ignoring the girl.
"Well, talk!" Julie yells. Kim looks at her with a confused expression.
"I don't know the first thing about you."
"No," Mika and Julie walk over to her, leaving the unknown girl on the sack of purple fuz. "but I am your roommate and I am here to help!" She yells, "Now spill." Kim sits up on the bed with her legs crossed. Mika and Julie sit down on the edge of the bed.
"Okay. Why does Jack care so freaking much?! We just met! He doesn't know a thing about me." Now, the unknown girl's head snaps up from her phone.
"Hold up." She says, "Jack?" She chuckles, "I could use some blackmail." She says, walking over to the bed where the other girls are crowded around.
"He knows that your name is Kim Crawford and you're new here." Julie says.
"And he knows that your grandfather trained Bobby Wasabi and you." Mika adds in.
"And he knows you're a black belt in HiKi Do and a third degree in TaeKwon Do." Julie tells her. The unknown girl's eyes snap open to all this new information on the new girl. As much as she want's to speak up, she notices it might be better for the near future if she stays quiet.
"Okay!" Kim yells, getting them to stop talking. "So he does know more than a bit about me. But still! What does that have to do with anything?" She asks.
"Well," Mika starts, stretching out the 'e', as if knowing she won't like the answer. "You are the granddaughter of the man who trained martial arts movie star, Bobby Wasabi."
This caught Kim's attention.
"Are you saying, he's using me?" She asks.
"It could be." Mika says.
"No, I don't think so." The unknown girl says, "I've known Jack longer than the three of you put together,"
"Let's keep in mind I just met him four hours ago." Kim interrupts.
"Yeah, still, Jack wouldn't do that. According to everyone but me, he's a nice guy. Last time I checked, he's never had a girlfriend. If he is "just using you" then he also would have used many other girls." The unknown girl speaks up.
"I have another theory." Mika says. "In my country, when a boy cares, he likes the girl." She says with a smirk.
"Mika," Julie says, "that's in every country."
"Sure," Kim comments.
"Oh, so you don't believe me?" Julie asks her in disbelief.
"No Julie, I don't."
"And why is that?" Mika being the one who asks.
"Because... because!" Kim exclaims.
"That's not a good enough of an answer!" Julie exclaims.
"Can we just drop the subject?" Kim asks.
"No! This is important!" Julie yells. This girl is persistent to get Kimberly to accept the fact that her new friend is crushing on her.
"How is this important?!" Kim yells.
"Because Jackson Brewer has never liked a girl!" The unknown girl exclaims.
"Well-"
"Jackson Brewer has never liked a girl!" She repeats and sends Mika a death glare, stopping her in the middle of her sentence. Knowing Jack as well as she does, she knows the closest he's ever gotten to liking a girl, is... nothing. There is no evidence. That is, until now.
"How do you know this?" Kim asks her.
"I'm Grace. Grace Brewer." She says. Kim sits there with her jaw hanging open.
"You mean-"
"Yup, Jack's my twin. Oh, and Julie's roommate." Kim flops back down on the mattress of her bed.
"Well, that's new information." Kim's eyes then snap up in realization. "Wait! Why do I freakin' care if he has a twin?!" She immediately sits back up.
"Yeah... I'm not too sure." Grace tells her.
"I think I do." Grace says with a smirk. Everyone's attention turn onto her. "Kim's crushing on someone."
"No she isn't!" Kim yells.
"Yes, she is." Julie agrees.
"No!" She yells, then makes a straight face. "No!" She yells again with a 'come on!' expression.
"You replied twice, meaning you're not sure of the answer." Julie says.
"Well, maybe I'm not." Kim says. "Look, I'm trusting you guys and I'm not too sure if that's a good idea since I just met the three of you in the past hour." She stopped to see their reaction, which is just engaged faces, wanting to know more. She unwillingly goes on. "I'm not sure if I like-like him yet, and I hope I don't. I just got here and it's my first time going to a boarding school. I want to get things straight, you know, get the rhythm of stuff around here.
Mika nods. "I get that. But you've got two weeks. Then we'll start working on this."
"Working on what?" Kim asks.
"Y-"
"Nothing," Grace cuts Mika off. "It's just something they say in her country. Right Mika?" She sends Mika a threatening glare.
"Um, yes. Absolutely."
"But-"
"Well!" Julie stops Kim from asking any questions. "You still have to unpack so why don't we help you?" With that, the three girls rush to grab Kim's bags, leaving Kim confused on the bed.
"What was that?" Milton asks Jack. Jack turns around to face him.
"You saw that?" Jack asks, pointing over his shoulder to where Kim ran off.
"Every second of it." He says. "And if I know Rudy and Jerry as well as I think I do, then they where—and still are—probably watching from behind the shades of Rudy's office." Jack and Milton both look over to the windows of Rudy's office and see the shades ruffle. Jack lets out a sigh and walks over to the bench, resting his elbows on his knees.
"I really thought I had her." Jack says.
"What do you mean?" Milton asks him.
"I really thought we were going to be friends. Good friends. But, I'm not so sure anymore."
"Well, why not?" Milton asks, walking over to the bench.
"'Cause, she ran out on me."
"Well, based on what just happened before that, she probably just wanted to avoid the awkward tension." Milton tells him.
"Yeah, I guess," Jack says, looking up, deep in thought.
"You have nothing to worry about, Jack. Calm down, you'll probably end up friends. Maybe even better." Jack looks up at him with a confused expression.
"What do you mean?"
"Oh, come on Jack." Jerry says, walking out of Rudy's office. "We can all see how you two look at each other. It's obvious you two like each other."
"See? Even Jerry notices. Jerry!" Milton yells, motioning to Jerry.
"Yeah, well. I don't think so." Jack says. "She probably hates me now."
"We just went over this!" Milton yells. "She doesn't hate you!"
"Whatever. But 'us'," He makes quotation marks with his fingers. "isn't happening."
"But you want it to, don't you?" Milton asks. Jack looks at the ground and blushes.
"He's blushing! He does want it to happen!" Jerry yells.
"Oooh!" Milton accuses. "Jack is crushing!"
"Shut up." He mutters before grabbing his bag and walking out of the dojo.
"Well, that was interesting." Jerry says.
"You bet it was." Milton agrees. "And I'm gonna make something from it."
"Jerry!" Mika yells, catching Jack, Milton, and Jerry to look over at the table in the cafeteria with the small group of the four girls. The guys make their way over to the girls with the trays with their dinner.
"What's new?" Jack asks, looking at Kim, who's doing her best to avoid his gaze.
"Not much you know, we were-"
"Well, looks like the group of karate geeks got bigger." They all hear, cutting Julie off.
"We should go." Mika says, getting up from the table and taking her stuff with her. Grace and Julie follow in her footsteps.
"What are you doing here, Kai?" Jack asks, disgust clear in his voice.
"Just checking up on the geeks," Kai says, "not that we care on how you're doing."
"Well, we're fine. You and you're little 'posse' and just go back to your declared table in the cafeteria. Jack tells him.
"Hold on, I'm not done here." Kai says, taking a seat next to Kim. "I don't recognize you. What's a blonde doing with these geeks." Kim tenses up, hearing someone mention her hair. "Oh, I'm making you nervous, am I?" He says, elbowing Kim.
"You can leave now, Kai." Jack stands up to say, bending over to table, spitting out Kai's name.
"What makes you think I want to?" He asks. "I'm sure blondie here wouldn't mind me staying." The group of guys behind Kai, 'ooh'. Kim squeezes her eyes shut and faces down and away from Kai.
"You leave her alone!" Jack yells, his hands turning into fists.
"Why should I? Not that she'll do anything about it." Kai smirks at his comeback. Jack slightly relaxes. He waits for Kim to deal with him, knowing she can better then he himself. "Well that shut Jackie up."
"I can." Kim hurriedly responds. Still not moving her head. "I can and will." The crowd behind Kai 'ooh's again.
Kai, being oh so confident that she has no strength on her, responds, "Is that so." being more of a statement than a question.
"Yes," Kim says, standing up, so she has the height advantage. "it is."
"Well then," Kai replies, standing up. "it seems to me that you're part of the karate geeks."
"I'm part of the dojo." Purposely not answering his question. Karate? No. She's never taken a class in her life.
"Would you look at that?" Kai says, looking at the group of guys behind him. "Blondie knows the proper name for where the karate geeks do what they call karate."
"You have no right to call me blondie." Kim spits at him.
"Well then, blondie," He says, causing Kim to flinch. "if you take karate with the geeks, then you wouldn't mind sparring out on the football field tomorrow morning." The guys 'ooh' again.
"I never said I take karate," She tells him. "but I accept your challenge." This shut's his posse up.
"Okay then, maybe I could teach you a little something. Football field at nine. Don't be late," He says walking away with his group following. "blondie."
Kim sit's back down and takes a bite of her apple, as if everything that the cafeteria witnessed, didn't happen.
"Kim! Do you know what you just did?!" Milton exclaims.
"Yup." She simply replies.
"That was Kai. He has a third degree black belt in karate!" Jerry yells at her.
"So am I." She says to them. She puts her apple down on her tray and gives them an intense look. "I'm pretty dang sure I can beat that dainty little thing. Let's keep in mind I have a black belt in two categories in martial arts. And what about my grandfather? Forgot about him? He wouldn't like that."
"Kim, Kai is really good. Really good. No one's ever lost to him not even me! Me!" Jack exclaims to her from across the table!"
"Jack, I beat you too." She reminds him. "Plus, there's a first time for everything."
"Exactly, it could be you living up to that expression!"
Kim sends him a glare. "Really Jack? You think I've never lost? That's low. There's a first time for everything. Everything. I've been defeated more than once." She clarifies.
"I'm just gonna go out there and ask the obvious follow up question. By who?" Milton asks.
"My grandfather. Come on Milton! Keep up! We all know I'm no where near bad. I'm good. If I'm gonna lose to someone, it's gonna be someone good."
"Alright! Okay! I got it."
"So what's with Kai?" Kim asks Jack. The two are making their way back to the dorms after everyone fled from the cafeteria.
"What do you mean?"
"I mean, why is he on the football team if you and the others say he's so good at karate?" Jack hesitates to answer.
"Well, he's my cousin." Jack tells her. Kim stops walking to face him.
"Your cousin?" Jack nods. "How are you related to... To that jerk?!"
"Well, my mom has a-"
"No! Not that!" She stops him from going on. "I mean, you two are nothing alike! You're all nice and amazing and he's all... Blah!" Jack laughs at her description of his cousin But soon stops after realizing what her description of him was.
"You think I'm amazing?" Kim looks at him with wide eyes and her mouth slightly open from astonishment.
Realizing she can't take it back, she answers, "Yeah, I guess I do." They both stay, staring at each other, getting a few strange looks from other students, who are also heading back to their dorms. Kim looks away from the eyes that keep her hypnotized, being the first to brake the gaze.
"So, Kai." She keeps walking, stuffing her hands into her pockets, purposely avoiding his gaze.
"Right," He says, coming back to reality and catching up with Kim. "Grace told you I'm her brother, right?"
"She do that a lot?"
"Yup. Well, Grace, Kai, and I all started taking karate when we were four. During Freshmen year, we all joined the dojo. To Grace and I, it was all about discipline and respect. To Kai, it was all about having an advantage over others during a fight. Before the school year started, Kai wanted to force Grace and me to quit the dojo and join the football team. Grace said no, she wanted to join the dance group. Kai was upset and wanted me to help him force Grace. He thought I would because we used to do everything when we were little. I told him that if Grace wants to join the dance group, she should, and that I wanted to stay at the dojo. After that, Kai stopped talking to Grace, and when he talked to me, it was never for anything good. Since Kai is the captain of the football team, and I'm the best in the dojo,"
"Was the best in the dojo." Kim corrects him.
"Fine, was the best in the dojo, the football team hated everyone in the dojo, and everyone in the dojo did and still does their best to avoid the football team."
"Well that's not right," Kim says.
Jack turns to Kim. "What do you mean?"
"I mean, that you're family. It was just a little disagreement. Sure, Kai can be pretty mean, but it's your job to fix that."
"Kai is unfixable."
"That word is not in my vocabulary."
"Kai? Don't worry it's not in mine either."
"No, not Kai, unfixable." Kim tells him. "I'll make sure you two make up."
"And how are you planning on doing that? I'm pretty sure we're not going to be family anytime soon." Jack asks her, confident that he and Kai aren't becoming family.
"Not sure yet. Plus, it doesn't have to be soon. I have till graduation. Trust me, I have my ways."
"You do realize we just met a few hours ago. I don't know you too well."
"Trust me, or don't. I don't care. I'm not letting a family feud just go by."
"Whatever you say."
Jack is confident that there is no way that Kim is going to make them family again. Their argument showed Kai's true colors, there's no turning back. Kai is the person he is, and if Kim thinks she can change that, let her.
Okay, sorry for the late update. I just realized that I might be moving closer to my family. And I'm not just talking a few blocks down, I'm talking a few continents down. So I might move to the other side of the world. I'm taking it pretty hard and so are my friends. I may not have many, but I do have some. Sorry if updates are short or slow. I'm going to try updating every Saturday. I'm going to be taking this very seriously.
On another note, OMFG! Guys! That was amazing! You guys are so awesome! I may lose all my friends, but you guys are definitely a family I can never move away from. Literally, cause if I do move then I'll still update. And don't worry! It'll still be in english. I'd better not forget English. It's my first language!
Okay well, thanks so much!
~Pirulina