On Sunday morning, Willis was in his room with Arnold, thinking about Dorisha while listening to Michael Jackson's duet with Paul McCartney, The Girl is Mine. Perfect song. On the second verse, he started to sing along.
"The doggone girl is mine!"
But Arnold wasn't impressed. "Man, quit singing! You ain't Michael Jackson, and Dorisha is no longer yours."
"Please! Dorisha still belongs to me!"
"No she's not!"
"Yes, she is!"
"No, she's not!"
This kept on going back and forth until a knock on their door finally ended their quarreling. Willis went to open the door and saw Kimberly.
"Hey Willis, I got some news for you."
"Is it about Dorisha?"
"Yep. It's from Dorisha herself. She told me that she was going to Central Park to see somebody." Kim informed Willis.
"Who?"
"A breakdancer named Mik-O Rok-A. He's part of the Breakmasters Crew."
"Oh really?"
"Yep. They're having a b-boy battle there with the Rock Steady Crew. I contacted him as well."
"Really?" Arnold asked.
"Yep. I bet it's going to be good." Kimberly said.
"Of course, it is. Those are the two best crews in all of NYC!" Arnold elated.
Without giving a second thought, Willis grabbed his coat and said, "Well, let's head there!"
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They finally arrived at Central Park, coming from the south side, only to find out that the battle was nearly at the midpoint of the park. Undeterred, they walked all the way there. When they got there, the battle just got started, with one BreakMasters crew battling out with a Rock Steady crew. There they saw Mik-O Rok-A. with the other crew members.
"Look, there's Mik-O Rok-A." Kimberly pointed him out. Willis and Arnold saw him and were surprised how short he was.
"Him? He's so short!" Willis dismissed.
"I've heard all about him, but I never knew he was that short, and that's coming from me." Arnold stated. He then asked, "How do you know Mik-O Rok-A, Kim?"
"Oh, a friend of mine from ballerina class knows him. That's how I met him."
While they were there, they were enjoying the battle between those two. Since Mik-O is their best b-boy, he will come last.
About twenty minutes later, it was finally Mik-O's turn, as the MC of the battle announced him.
"Now it's time for the big guns to come out! We're going to start off with a Breakmaster's great. Let's hear it from the great Mik-O Rok-A!"
A big round of applause came as Mik-O came to the "stage", which was basically a flattened cardboard box. He started with a backward flip that got the crowd in a frenzy. Then he followed it with some poppin' move, followed by a headspin. Everybody went nuts.
"Now I see why everybody talks about him." Arnold said.
Kimberly just smiled. "You ain't seen nothing yet."
About a minute or so later, Mik-O was able to spin his entire body on his left index finger! Everybody was stunned. He then followed that up with a spinaroonie that was going so fast, he spinned three feet off the air!
"How in the world can he do that?" Willis asked in amazement. Kimberly simply shrugged, she didn't know herself.
The break-dancer wasn't done yet, as the breaker performed his signature move, the Fish Flop. It's like the Worm, but inverted, meaning you get on your back and flop up and down.
"Wow, that's amazing!" Kim said to Willis.
"Yell, tell me about it. I gotta step up my game."
"You and me both!"
While watching her performance, Willis noticed something odd about Mik-O Rok-A. He seemed familiar to him. However, he would have to wait until the battle was over just to approach him.
When the group's performance ended, the trio immediately went to pay Mik-O a visit. Willis wanted to find out more about Mik-O.
"Hey Mik-O", Kim said to the breaker.
"Oh hey Kim, didn't think you would come." Mik-O said, followed with a hug.
"And miss this? Of course I would! Anyhow, let me introduce you to my brothers, Willis and Arnold."
There was a nervous look on Mik-O's face when he saw Willis and Arnold. "Hi, nice to meet you." Willis immediately noticed the nervousness, knowing he got something to hide. "Let's step away a bit and talk."
When Willis and Kim were able to talk to Mik-O in a private area, Willis examined him more. Then he noticed a scar on his neck.
"Wait a minute, I know that scar." He thought to himself.
While he was showing Kim one of her poppin' moves, he accidentally knocked off his glasses. It further reveals that he was really a she!
"You're Miko Wakamatsu, Jo's friend!" Willis shouted.
"Oh no. Please don't tell anybody else!" Miko pleaded.
Seeing an opportunity, Willis took full advantage of it. "Sure, if you are willing to answer a few questions, and don't lie."
Miko simply nodded her head, knowing that Willis had total leverage on her.
"Why are you dressed up like a boy, and does your crew know?" Willis asked.
"Very much so. They were the ones who told me to pretend to be a boy, because if the other crews found out that I'm a girl, we would get dissed everwhere. Nobody wouldn't want to compete against us."
"Dissed? What does that mean?" Kimberly questioned.
"It's short for 'disrespected'." Arnold informed her. "That's what we say in the streets." Something that Park Avenue Kimberly Drummond wouldn't know.
Willis continued on with the conversation. "That's a lot to go through, why not just join another group, or start your own?"
"This is the #1 group in all of New York, why not? Besides, we just did a movie."
"What? You gotta be kiddin' me!"
"No, it's true. A few months ago, two guys watched us perform and asked us to be in a movie. We thought they were just lying to us, until they showed us a picture of them and Al Pacino together."
"Al Pacino!?" Arnold asked in starstruck amazement.
"Yep. So, we appear in a few scenes of the movie. I don't remember the title, but it was about some stripper who was trying to get into a ballerina school."
Willis looked at her like she was crazy, "What?"
"Are you sure people would want to watch that?" Arnold doubted.
"I hope so."
"Did you disguise yourself as a boy in the movie?" Willis asked.
"Of course, I had to. Like I said earlier, it's a male-dominant scene. I thought you understood the b-boy culture a bit."
"I do, but why was Dorisha talking to you? Does she know that you're a girl? Also, was she here earlier?" Kim didn't say a word and neither did Arnold.
"She was here earlier, just to see us battle and to tell me how she was doing. That's the reason why she was talking to me, she was getting advice on some popping and locking moves, along with how to start a breaking crew."
"You mean that she too is into b-boying?"
Kim then finally spoke up. "If you actually took the time to know her, instead of treating her like a side-piece, you would know all these things."
"You knew already?" Willis questioned.
"No, but I'm just saying that women like her are more than just sex objects!"
"Look, I don't think this is the time to be arguing." Miko said as she nervously saw her members looking at them from a distance. "We're kind of making a scene here."
Willis noticed a lot of staring eyes were upon them, so he apologized.
"I'm sorry for getting a bit too loud."
"No problem. Anyhow, I wanted to talk to Kimberly privately over lunch, but since I see that Willis and Arnold came, I guess I have to plan for another time."
"Is this about Jo and Blair?" Kimberly asked.
"Yeah."
"I know this taco place in West Village we can go to. Their bean tacos are excellent. Are you up to it?" Kim suggested.
Miko smiled. "Sure."
"Hey, can I come?" Arnold asked. "I love Mexican food!"
"No, Arnold. It's just between us two." Miko said.
A disappointed look was on Arnold's face. "But…"
"Come on Arnold, we got to head back home. We'll take the train back." Willis said. "Take care, you two."
"You too, Willis." Kimbery said. Miko simply waved back at Willis and Arnold.
"Be careful, Kim will try to make you pay!" Arnold joked. Miko giggled while Kim looked at him.
Before they were about to leave, Kimberly stopped him. "Oh, by the way, here's a letter for you. Dorisha wrote it. She told me to give it to you the next day, but I totally forgot."
"You forgot?" Willis said angrily.
"I'm sorry."
Just before Willis was about to explode on Kim more, Arnold pulled him away.
"Come on Willis, let's get going. We don't wanna make another scene here."
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