Xander tried helping her up, but Aisha threw his good sportsmanship in his face. "Eat shit, asshole!"

Sensei Lawrence and the Cobras offered words of encouragement to placate her from her loss, but Aisha wasn't in the mood for them, either. She stormed out of the gymnasium and into the hallway to go and sulk on a bench alone.

She wanted so badly to win. Not just because she was the only girl there, although that was part of it. But if she'd won, if would've been the final punch to the face of her peers who'd given her grief.