The girls were laying out at Splasharama, a local water park, waiting for the guys to show up. Sam looks up from her book to see Anthony checking out her friends. "Ew, Anthony, can you not stare at my friends?" She was already annoyed that she was forced to bring him along.
"No, no… I wasn't um… staring." He stuttered out.
Lee took out a fold-up pool float from her bag and threw it at him. "Go blow this up and I'll show you how to pick up a girl."
"Will do." He ran off to get away from their gazes. Moon giggled at his nervousness.
"He's starting high school in the fall, right?" Yasmine pointed at him. Sam nods that he was. "Let's torture him. Tell him later I asked if he's been working out."
"Why, you want him to rub one out to you?" Lee snickers.
"Ew. Stop you guys, so gross. I want no part in this." Sam grimaces.
"Lee?" Yasmine looks at her partner in crime.
"On it." She winks.
"So, Sam, how's the whole Eat, Pray, Love Journey going?" Moon asks.
"Better than I expected. It's been nice to focus on myself without karate or relationship drama." She rested the book on her stomach.
"Lapras, so cool." Anthony brought back the floaties.
"Come on." She got up and walked towards the water. "What you got going for you is a great head of hair and a nice smile? So, to draw them in, you have to do this." She ran a hand through her hair and smiled sweetly at him.
Anthony's face went red. "I can see why that would have an effect." He clears his throat. "Can we not do this? I make a fool of myself in front of girls. They don't naturally like me."
"Yasmine liked what she saw. She asked if you were working out." She looks back at her friend.
"Really?" His jaw dropped.
"Yup, so come on. You got the looks, you just need the charm." She grabbed the Lapras and got into the water with it. "Anthony, get in and hold this steady so I can get on it."
He did as he was told. "So now what?" He asked after he got on too.
"They'll come. We got nostalgia on our side." She petted the larpe's neck.
As if on cue a group of girls swam to them. "Oh my god, this float is so cute." She grabbed onto the side of it.
"Thanks, I saw it online and my inner child just screamed." Lee smiles.
"It's surprisingly cute because it is designed after a plesiosaur." Anthony thought he should say something.
"A plesiosaur?" A girl questions.
"It's a dinosaur. It is the long neck of the water." He explains.
"Oh, you're smart. I'm Quinn." She smiles.
"I'm Anthony LaRusso." He ran his hand through his hair and gave a smile making her eyes widen.
Lee was proud of him for nailing it when he was so nervous. "So what's your name?" She looks to see the girl who was hanging onto the float looking up at her.
"Lee." She smiles.
"My name is Tish. I like to dish." She rhythms.
"That's cute." She laughed.
Eli and Miguel walk into the water park. While they couldn't find Lee, who invited them, they spotted her friends. "Hey, ladies." Eli greets them.
"Hey, how are you doing, Sam?" Miguel stumbled over his words.
"Hey… yeah… I mean I'm doing good. How about you?" She cringes, cursing herself for sounding like an idiot.
"I'm cool. I'm good. Is anyone?" He pointed to the spot next to her.
"Yeah… I mean no… I mean… you go ahead." She let him know he could sit there.
"Alright." He sat next to her.
"Am I alive or did I die of embarrassment and this is my hell?" Yasmine looks up at Eli.
He chuckled. "Do you know where Lee is?"
"She teaches Anthony how to pick up girls." She nods to where they were on the float surrounded by good-looking girls.
"Oh god, I hope she doesn't create a monster." Sam sighs. "I'm not trying to be an Auntie this young."
A few workers came with plates of food. "Thanks." Moon smiles at them before they walk away.
"Babe, the food's here!" Eli yelled for her.
She turns her head to smile and wave at him. She jumped off the float to swim to the exit with Anthony. "I can't believe that girl said she's going to slide in my DMs." His grin was taking up his whole face.
"I told you, you got to work that head of hair." She teased.
"Looking pretty pasty, LaPusoo." They look back to see Kenny with some members of Cobra Kai.
"This is the chode that was giving you shit at school?" Kyler laughs at this loser being a bully. "See you still like to collect losers, thick princess." He winks at her.
"Dude, you've been to my house. You dated my sister." He couldn't believe this guy didn't remember him.
"I date a lot of sisters." He laughed.
"You can't blame the guy, Ant. His brain is too small to remember all the girls that dumped him." Lee rolled her eyes.
"We have a problem here." Eli hurried over when he saw the group approach her.
"No, we're going." She nods for them to follow her.
"Wait, we're not done." Kenny wasn't going to let him leave without humiliating him.
"Kyler, this kid just charms all the hot babes here." She pointed to the girls that were lounging on the float. "Picking on him is not going to be a good look."
"Forget it, focus on the babies, not these losers." Kyler was ready to back down when Tory came over.
"Unless you guys want to get your ass kicked, I stay on your side of the park… away from us." She got in Eli's face.
"First thing first, get the hell out of his face." She pushed Tory and stepped between them. "Second, they came to us not the other way around. Third, don't tell me what to do. I happen to be family friends with the owner of this place. One call and you'll be banned for life, so unless you want that to happen none of you are going to look or speak to us no matter where we go."
"You love flashing your daddy's cash." Tory grits her teeth.
"It's a powerful thing. You know that now with Silver's cash. It's enough to buy a trophy." She smiles.
Tory's face fell letting her know that her suspicions were right. "I don't know what you're talking about."
"Sure, you don't. Remember the rules, boys." She waves to them before walking away.
"What did that mean?" Eli asks.
"You didn't think it was funny that she had the same referee for all her matches. He would make unfair calls in her favor." She was surprised he didn't notice, but he was busy preparing for his fights.
"I didn't notice. We should tell Sam. Everyone, this could take Silver down." He didn't see how she was being casual about this.
"No, we will not." She stopped to look at both of them. "Sam, going through a lot right now. She is trying to find herself without karate, so this would be a setback."
"I agree. Without proof, it sounds like jealousy." Anthony nods.
"Fine, we enjoy today and circle back to this." Eli joins the group. The rest of their dojos showed up.
"Did you see Cobra Kai is here?" Devon glares at their enemies.
"Here is how today is going to work, we will not look or talk to them. We ignore them. They agreed to do the same." Eli as their champ spoke for them.
"Okay." Bert was tired of drama anyways.
"So, how did girl hunting go?" Moon asks Anthony.
"A girl is going to slide in my DMs." He cheers. Yasmine hummed while lowering her glasses to look at him. He had to look away, not brave enough to make eye contact.
"Mitch, stop eating all my wings." She took the basket from him to sit on the lounge chair between Eli's legs. She leaned back against his chest, getting comfortable before eating.
"We're going to go on some rides." Devon led the underclassmen away.
"This is good." Eli ates a wing.
"Hey, Champ!" A kid yelled. After seeing he had Eli's attention he turned to do the motion that Eli did to make his tattoo fly.
"Aw, baby." Lee felt her heart melt. "Get up and do it for him." She got up so he could.
"Alright." He got up to make it fly, making his fan and a few other kids cheer.
They heard arguing to see their younger friends arguing with Cobra Kai. Tory and Robby were trying to break it up. "This bullshit again…I thought Robby wasn't a part of Cobra Kai." He looks at Lee, who kept insisting he had a change of heart.
"Tory is still his girlfriend." She reminds him.
"Let the lifeguard handle it." Yasmine laid back. "There is no reason we have to get kicked out with them."
"We need some solution." Miguel walks over with Eli. Lee sighs in defeat while following them. "We can't coexist in peace, so let's find a solution."
"If we can't fight… what are we supposed to do?" Mitch asks.
"You guys fought a thousand times, so that doesn't seem to be resolving anything." She rolled her eyes.
"We can go." Robby looked at Tory.
"No." She had spent money on her ticket.
"We could. We can have a pool party at my house and come back here another day." Lee offers.
"We could have booze there." Miguel was needing a drink.
"Or we could race?" Bert pointed to the tallest slide.
"I'll go." Eli nods.
"So, will I." Tory challenges.
"Champ vs champ." Kyler hollers.
"Whoever wins gets the park!" Tory yelled.
"Deal, but you won't win." He smirks. The dojos walk away to get ready, leaving Robby and Lee.
"From now on we should text each other what they're doing so this doesn't happen." She was as defeated as he was.
"Seems like we are the only mature ones." He sighs. "Tory and Kenny are deep under the spell. How did you get Hawk out of it?"
"I didn't do it. He had to completely sink to the bottom. A part of that was giving him the ultimatum of me or Cobra Kai." She walks over to her boyfriend. "Are you really doing this?" She watches him jump up and down as he does before a fight.
"What, you don't think I can win?" He asks.
"I know physics, so I know you'll win. You're heavier than her." She crosses her arms.
"Come on, let's go, Lip!" Kyler yelled.
Eli kissed her before going to race Tory. "This is stupid." She laid down on the lounge chair.
"I'm so glad not to be a part of it." Sam agrees.
She sat up when Tory came out first. The winner threw her hands up and cheered. Eli came out in a rage. "You guys cheated, you put a hole in my tube." He held up the deflated tube. The crowd chanted cheaters. Tory climbed out of the pool in shame.
"You dipshit. I know this was you." Hawk got out and threw the deflated tube by Kenny's feet.
"What are you going to do about it?" He was itching for a fight.
"Eli, he's just a hot-headed kid." She yelled from her seat.
He nods. "I'm not striking first if that's what you're thinking. You don't have the balls to. You can only win by playing dirty."
Not realizing he was proving his point, Kenny made it like he was going to walk away to throw a punch that Eli dodge. They started to fight, and right when Eli was going to hit him with a hard kick Robby pushed him into the water. Miguel pulled Robby back. "What the hell, man? It was a one-on-one fight."
"We can go, you have a problem." It seems like their peace stayed in Mexico.
The lifeguard got in between them. "Everyone get out and leave the park." He was shutting the whole thing down since he didn't know who was with them.
"Even when I'm not a part of it, karate ruins my day." Sam got up in frustration.
Lee was walking with Eli to his car with Miguel. Yasmine and Moon were walking ahead of them. "Hey, do you guys know where Sam went?" Miguel asked.
"She split on her own. She didn't want anything to do with this drama." Moon told him.
"Neither did I." Miguel sighs.
"None of us did." She looks at Eli unimpressed.
"I'm a part of this us. I didn't want it either. What am I supposed to do? I can't let them keep fucking with us." He wasn't going back to taking shit from bullies.
"You guys go ahead, I'll catch up." Miguel ran off.
"What is he going to do, look for her car?" She watched him walk away.
"I hope not, she wants her space." Yasmine hated when a guy couldn't catch a hint.
"He has the Uber app and knows where you live." Eli was ready to relax with his friends.
"I'm going to have to disinfect the pool." She fake gags at Demetri and Yasmine making out. She shrieked and looked away when she saw Yasmine slip her hands into his trunks.
Eli laughed. "That's what chlorine is for?" He grabs her thighs to adjust her on his lap. "Besides, we fucked in that pool multiple times."
"It's my pool. I can have sex in it. That's like saying that I should be okay with someone fucking in my bed." She rolled her eyes.
"You have to expect sex when you invite a bunch of horny teens to your house. Look at Anthony." He pointed to him. He was making out with the girl he met at the waterpark on a lounge chair. "You're a good sensei."
"That I am." She sips from his beer bottle.
"So, what advice did you give him?" He asks.
"The hair and smile." She turned sideways to run a hand through her hair and shot him a smile.
"You stole that from Boy Meets World." He laughed.
"If it works for Shawn Hunter, it can work for me and Anthony." She put her head on his shoulder.
"My cute Topanga." He kissed. Her phone vibrated on the table. He looks to see Robby texted her. He opened it with her face to read it. "Sorry, we can't do your plan. You were right, I broke up with Tory… What the fuck does that mean?"
"Does it have to be a fight every time Robby comes up?" She was exhausted all of a sudden.
"Tell me what was the plan you had with him and why did you break them up?" He was reading all their texts.
She got up to take the seat next to him. "It was a plan to tell each other where the dojos would be so today doesn't have to happen again."
"You can't tell him shit. He is a spy for them and a bad one at that." He sneers.
"Then why did he break up with Tory now? If he was a spy for them. It would have appeared to be a clean break and he would stay glued to our side." She didn't think that made sense.
"Okay, he's not a spy. But, he's trying to get with you. Complaining about his relationship problems to you, so you'll feel bad and comfort him." He believed Robby had ulterior motives.
"He sees a parallel to the problem we had and they're having. He wanted to know how I changed your mind about Cobra Kai because he wants to save Tory and Kenny from them. But, you know that because you're reading the texts." She resented that he needed proof instead of just taking her word.
"I'm sorry." He put the phone down. "I trust you… it's just this guy… he hit on you before. Am I supposed to believe that his attraction went away, that he wouldn't want you."
"Eli." She grabbed his face. "I love you. If your Cobra Kai phase couldn't change that then nothing and no one can."
"I love you too, promise me that you'll cut ties if he crosses the line." He needs that reassurance.
"Of course." She stands up. "Come on, let's do a cannonball over the love birds."
"Oh yeah." Eli ran to do a cannonball one inch away from them making Demetri scream louder than Yasmine.
