Lee was sitting in Oliver Garden with Robby. "Oh, I'm stuck between the tiramisu and chocolate lasagna." She hummed.

"We didn't even get drinks yet." He laughed. His smile dropped when he saw Miguel enter the restaurant.

"Let me guess your dad invited you?" Miguel put his hands on the back of an empty chair.

"Yup." He pops out.

"He didn't tell you I was coming." He figured they were in the same situation.

"Nope." Robby went to stand up but Lee grabbed his sleeve.

"Wait." She waves for Miguel to stop. "I don't understand what happened… We got along great in Mexico."

"He was the one that said he wanted to turn a new leaf and then run back to Cobra Kai." Miguel thought he was the one to break the peace. "He pushed Hawk into the pool then tried to start a fight with me."

"You see yourself as a noble knight, don't you?" He scoffs.

"Stop it!" She put up her hand to stop Miguel from saying anything back to that. "You guys mean a lot to Johnny. You both want to keep up a relationship with him, right?" They grudgingly nodded their nods. "Then, can we sit down and have a meal? If things keep going the way they are, you guys will probably be spending the holidays together." She reminds them that their parents are dating.

They groaned at the thought but sat down. "Good, you got them to stay." Johnny came back from the bathroom and sat at the head of the table. They were refusing to look at each other. "Yes, I lied to get you here because after what I saw at the water park I know you wouldn't come willingly. I know you're in a bitchy mood because you guys broke up with your girlfriends." They glance at each other when hearing that news. "Since the Mexico thing felt like a step in the right direction. I figure it might help if we went on another trip."

"A trip to a mall in Chatsworth?" Robby didn't see how this was a trip.

The waiter came over. "Your body might be in a mall my friend but your taste buds are about to go on a tour of the old country. This guy knows what I'm talking about." He points at Johnny.

"Yes, I do." He nods.

"It doesn't matter where we go, the birthplace of culinary delight awaits. You want an alfredo… boom, we're in Rome. Ravioli? Tuscany it is?" He points at an unimpressed Miguel.

"Where do I go for a chocolate lasagna?" Lee asks.

"That young lady is when we come back here because that's like baseball and Big Gulps only in America." He smiles. "I'll get breadsticks fresh out of the oven. I'll be right back." He went to the kitchen.

"Come on guys, he gives that kind of effort and you sit there looking pissed." Johnny wasn't okay with them treating the waiter like that.

"It's not his effort I'm pissed at." Miguel glares at Johnny.

"Breadsticks aren't going to fix this," Robby told his dad.

"Spoken like a man who never had the Garden's breadsticks." Johnny teases.

"Okay, so then why don't we talk about the problem… You're similar taste in women." She got to their first problem.

"Jeez Lee." Miguel sighs.

"It's the truth. You feel like he stole Sam from you. The fact that he was with Tory annoyed the shit out of you." She pointed at Miguel then turned to Robby. "You feel some type of way that he and Sam got back together while you were juvie."

"We are way past girls." Miguel shook his head as he stood up to walk out. Robby got up to walk out too.

"I'll give you a minute." The waiter came back with the breadstick.

"I'm going to try and get them back." Johnny got up to follow them.

"I'm not getting any pasta today." She sighs, getting up from the table to try and find one of the guys.

She went in the opposite direction than Johnny. She almost missed him but she spotted him in Zumiez. She stood next to him looking through the clothing rack. He let out a big sigh. "Well, if you don't want to be found then don't be so stereotypical." She shrugged.

"I'm not going back there." Robby wishes he brought his headphones.

"I get it. I kind of have the same thing going with Piper." She got why it was hard to forgive someone who made you the villain in their story.

"I don't think it's the same." He scoffs.

"Isn't it? Piper blames me for her relationship being ruined. I played a part, but that doesn't give her a right to take her anger out on me for everything that goes wrong in her life." She looks at the Tokyo Revenger shirt.

Robby paused before nodding. "Okay, maybe you get it."

"I mean, it wasn't my job to set boundaries. I had no idea what Moon was feeling." She argues her innocence.

"Exactly and for the record Sam and I didn't act on any feelings until after she broke up with Miguel. Not that we waited that long. I was foolish to think she was over him." He was bitter about being made the jackass when Sam was the one that played them both.

"Miguel, like Piper, still had feelings for their ex, so they couldn't be angry at them or see how they were to blame for their relationship falling apart so we had to be the bad guys." She nods in sympathy.

"That is just the start of my problems with Miguel. The guy doesn't see anything he did wrong. I'm willing to take responsibility but I'm not going to if he won't." He held up a graphic shirt. "That fight at the school, I can't erase that. I can't describe the guilt I feel about it. I paid my time for that crime. I'm not saying that means he has to forgive me because I don't know if I have forgiven myself but does he have to treat me like I'm a psychopath?"

"He was going to try but then you defended Kenny, so he thinks you're with Cobra Kai." She explained why he was holding onto the anger.

"Unlike him, my feelings for the people I made connections with within Cobra Kai don't disappear. Kenny's brother sent him to me so I could look out for him. I didn't do a good job of that." He felt like he let everyone down.

"We're going to try and take down Cobra Kai if you want in." She offers.

"Oh, I want in." He didn't want anyone else to get used by them.

"Then you'll have to learn to get along with Miguel." She shrugged.

"I can tolerate him for that." He rolled his eyes.

"You know, you guys are like a new-age Johnny and Daniel with Sam as your Ali." She watches his face to see his reaction.

"Ali?" He raised an eyebrow.

"You don't know about Ali?" Her jaw dropped.

"I don't care for the backstory. I cared that my dad hated him." He didn't need the details.

"Oh my god, come on. I'll tell you everything." She pulled him to a nearby cafe. After getting two lattes and a macaroon in every flavor. She took a bite of one before holding it out to him. "You want to try?"

"You took a bite of it." He stares at the half-eaten treat.

"So, I'm not sick. You won't catch anything." She waves it around.

"Wouldn't that be weird like indirect kissing?" He didn't want to cross a line.

"What are you twelve?" She scoffs.

He took it from her to take a bite. "Macha. Not half bad… Aren't you going to tell me a story?"

"Right…. So Johnny had a girlfriend named Ali that he was in love with. But, she broke up with him because Johnny pregame too hard and didn't make it to her birthday party. He thought they would get back together like they always did but Daniel came and got together with her." She went into the battles that happened between them.

"Wait… His friends jumped him because Daniel sprayed him with water." He stopped the story.

"Didn't you jump Eli because Miguel set you up to get hit with sprinklers?" She tilts her head.

"Okay…. Go on." He saw that he had no leg to stand on.

"This is better with pictures. Maybe we should go back to the apartment." She wanted to see teen Johnny in the tight skeleton costume.

"I don't have a weird crush on my dad, so I don't need pictures." He shook his head.

"I do not have a crush." She let out a nervous laugh.

It made him laugh loudly. "Just go on." She pouted for a bit before going on.


"I'm telling you this place has the best macaroons." Lee was taking Eli to the cafe she went to with Robby.

After ordering, they sat down. "So, how did you find this place?" He asks.

"Remember how Johnny said he needed help with something yesterday." She was putting off having to say the R-word.

"Yeah." He nods.

"Well, he wanted my help to try to get his sons to get along. They ran off. We had to separate to try and get them back but it didn't work." She told him.

"So, you went here with Miguel?" He was hoping.

"Not exactly?" She paused.

The waitress came with their order, and after putting it down she turned to Lee. "Not to be too forward but I noticed you were holding hands with him so the blonde guy yesterday wasn't your…."

"No, he's just a friend and he's recently single. His name is Robby Keene if you want to find him on Instagram." She smiles.

"Thanks." She let out a breath of relief that she didn't blow up Lee's spot. "Have a nice treat." She walks away.

"So…" Lee hummed. She didn't want to get into another argument.

"Looks, it's cool. I trust you." He was bothered but he wasn't going to ruin another date because of his jealousy.

"I told him about Ali. He saw the parallels and was a little grossed out." She remembers him being horrified that he was turning into his dad.


Eli and Lee were walking around the mall. "I thought we should go paintballing." She brought up a group activity.

"You know just because you're good at the shooting game at Golf N Stuff doesn't mean you'll be good at paintball guns?" He knew she was obsessed with the Jurassic Park game.

"I'm going to make sure you're on the opposite team than me." She looks him up and down.

"Oh, I'm so scared." He pretends to shutter.

"Hey, Lee." She turned when she heard her name.

She saw Natashia with a few of her friends. "Hey, Tasha. This is Eli, my boyfriend. Eli, this is my friend Tasha. I met her doing yoga." She introduced them.

"This is my friends Monica and Holly." She points to one and then the other.

"The incredible Lee. It's an honor to meet you." Monica shook her hand. "So, do you two still do a threesome?"

"Monica." Tasha was horrified.

"What? I'm interested." She winks at Eli.

"I'm so sorry." Tasha pulled her away.

"So sorry." Holly ran after them.

"So, that was the girl?" He knew she had a fling.

"Yeah… one of them." She was mortified.

"One?" He raised his eyebrows. "How many?"

"Same amount as you. There are a lot of curious girls. So…" She didn't see the harm if both parties were down for harmless fun.

"You said I was wrong for being a heartbreaker." He gasps.

"You were taking them on dates and pretending to want more when you only wanted one thing. I on the other hand was…" She was going to explain the differences.

Eli cut her off. "Was sleeping around. Didn't even have the decency to get to know them."

"Stop it." She smacked his shoulders which were shaking with laughter.

"The incredible Lee." He laughs. "I get it, that tongue is magical." He licks her lips.

"We're in public." She shoved him away with a red face.

"I got to say I love you in red. Whether it be those cheeks or these." He smacks her ass. "Soon, I'll be painting you red." He pretended to shoot her.

"I haven't decided what color I'm going to paint you." She glares.


Lee knocks on the apartment door. Miguel texted her to come over to have dinner. "Come in!" He yelled.

She was surprised when she saw Robby and Miguel sitting together at the dinner table. Oliver Garden was on the table. "We got the chicken tortellini alfredo you wanted." Johnny pointed at her seat.

"How?" She sat down. She looks between teens. "What's up with the bruises? Did you guys bond over fighting someone?"

"Yeah, each other." Miguel nods.

"What?" She gasps.

"It got us to talk." Robby was surprised it worked.

"Classic Johnny." He put a pack of breadsticks on the table. "Now, dig in."

They each took a breadstick. "You weren't kidding about this breadstick, Dad." Robby took another bite.

"I wouldn't lie to you. Three times in the same week." He took a stick of bread.

Ms. Diaz came through the door. "Hi, Mom." Miguel smiles.

"Hi. Ms. Diaz." Robby and Lee wave.

"Hi." She stared at the males sitting at the table together.

"I hope it's cool I'm having dinner here." Robby thought they should have asked her first.

"It's very cool." She smiled. "You're welcome here anytime, Robby." She put a hand on his shoulder. She closed the door and kissed Miguel's forehead. "Hola Amore."

"Hola." He greeted.

"Lee, it's always good to see you." She pats her head before moving to talk to Johnny in the kitchen.

"I'll let you taste the lasagne for a tortelloni." Miguel was curious about what it tasted like.

"Yes, please." Lee and Miguel took a piece of each other's food. She looks at Robby.

"We're not that close." He shook his head.

"It's easier to let her take the bite." He advises.

"Okay, give me your fork." She hands it to him. He put some shrimp and pasta on the fork before giving it back to her.

"Thank you." She chews while giving him a bite of her food.

"I'm happy you guys are getting along because we have something to tell you." Carmen sat at the table with them.

"Yes." Miguel couldn't stop the dopey smile from coming across his face.

"I'm pregnant." Her smile matches Miguel in its brightest.

"Congratulations" Lee got up to hug her. "This is so exciting. I've never been around a baby before. I can't wait to spoil them." She sat down after hugging Johnny too.

"Congrats. I can't wait for their arrival either." Robby wanted a sibling growing up. It would have made it less lonely.

"We can throw you a baby shower at my house. What should the theme be?" She looks between the teens.

"Karate." Miguel thought of the thing that brought them together.

"No. But a baby in a gi would be adorable." Lee gushes at the thought.

"We should go general like safari for a boy and princess for a girl," Robby thought that was best so people could get gifts easier.

"Girls can go on a safari." She likes animals.

"Okay, then safari it is," Miguel nods. The adults watch on as the teens make plans.


They decided to celebrate Robby being on their side by going paintballing. Lee and Eli were picking teams. "I got Miguel." Eli picked his buddy.

"What?" Everyone ignores Demetri's whining.

"Robby." She high-fives him when he comes to stand by her.

"Anthony." Eli picked him just to annoy Lee.

She glares at him before taking her turn. "Bert."

"Nathaniel." He names.

"Oh, come on." Demetri threw his hands in the air.

"Chris." She pointed at him.

"Dirk." He adds to his team.

"Now, you guys are just messing with me." He crossed his arms.

"Mitch." She nods.

"Demetri." He put him out of his misery.

"Really?" Aisha was the only one left. "I came for this."

"Hey, when you leave you lose some of the bond." She teased.

"So funny." She walks with her team to grab the guns.

"How are you liking your new school?" Bert asks.

"It's good. Peaceful, but I miss you guys. It is a unique bonding that karate creates that I don't have with my new friends." She misses seeing them every day

"We can do more things like this." Lee thought they could do activities that allow them to meet in the middle.

"So, what color do you want?" Robby asked since the worker was waiting.

"Let's do pink." She smiles.

"I'm down," Chris said. Everyone echoed in agreement.


"Is that blush or…." Lee looks at Eli who was covered in pink.

"Okay, the arcade gun helped you. I'm going to practice and we're coming back here." He wasn't going to take this loss lying down.

"I think next time I'll paint you purple." She smirks.

"I got a bruise." Anthony lifts his shirt to show a bruise on his ribs.

"Next time put your armor on correctly?" Demetri did advise him to strap it tighter.

"Or be on the winning team." Lee hooked her arm with him.

"I was trying to be. I went to the Golf n Stuff with you." He didn't want to be on Eli's team.

"Wait?" Eli grabs him by the back of his shirt to pull him backward making Lee get yanked with him. "Did you pre-pick your team and take them to practice?"

"How would I know who you would pick?" She scoffs.

"I wouldn't pick Bert because he would be a double spy for you." Bert gave an unapologetic shrug at that. "You know I wouldn't pick Robby or Mitch." Eli listed.

"Hey!" Mitch glares.

"You have no stealth skill. You got heavy feet." He pointed at his sneakers.

"You are a natural stomper." Chris gave his friend the bad news.

"You're being crazy. We didn't go to practice. No one cares that much about this." Mitch thought the couple was going overboard.

"I know someone who cares a lot… too much to be considered healthy." He looks at his girlfriend who wouldn't meet his eye. "Lee, look at me."

"You don't have to listen to him," Bert whispers.

"Strategizing is not cheating." She defends herself.

"Wait… why wasn't I invited?" Mitch wonders.

"Because you stomp. I thought when I picked Chris that Eli would choose you because he wouldn't want childhood friends on my team." She was annoyed with him ruining her team when he chose Anthony.

"If you thought childhood friendship is a great advantage then why didn't you choose me?" Demetri put a hand on his chest

"Because you use your grandma's weight to do curls. It's two pounds." She put up two fingers. "I knew your arms would get weak in five minutes."

"I want to argue but I can't lift them." He would be putting his hands on his hips if he could.

"Well, my team is going to practice and we're going to cream you." Eli put his finger in her face.

"Oh, like my team is going to slack off. We're going to keep practicing, which means we're going to get better since we're already better than you, you can't catch up." She shook her head in fake sympathy.

"Are they always like this?" Robby asked Miguel.

"When they compete … yeah." He nods.

"It's better than when they're getting along. Then we have to deal with flirting and innuendo." Demetri could get sick from their sweet talk. "I'm just saying pillow talk is meant for the bedroom."

"Like you're better with Yasmine." Miguel rolled his eyes.

"I can't help it if my ass is spankable." He wasn't the handsy one.

"Yasmine!" Aisha yelled.

"What ass?" Bert looks at his flat backside.

"We have a lot of catching up to do," Demetri told Aisha.

"It ends up the same anyways." It was as if Mitch cued them. Eli pulled Lee into a rough kiss when the tense adrenaline hit its limit. "Them trying to devour each other."

Lee jumps to wrap her legs around Eli and he carries her so they could have fun in the back of her car. "Let's go eat." Miguel led them to the restaurant across the street.

"Next time, they can't be team captains." Demetri moved with the group.

"Agreed." Aisha made the mistake of glancing at the car when they walked by it.