Standing on the mat while we face each other feeling my hurt thumping against my chest knowing that what I say won't matter only to be surprised when she's the first to talk while her hair is covering her face "Cleo why...why out of all of us... did you push me away? Didn't we always manage to work through our problems with each other support not only did you shut me out completely, but you also yelled at me without ever coming back and talking to me about what was I did wrong."
Biting my lip with me avoiding to making eye contact with her only to hear the whistle to mark all speaking was done, that only action would display the meaning behind our feelings. Taking my stance with her taking her tai chi stance while we both covered our face for the tension that was emitting off of us to radiate with our feelings of sadness, doubt, longing, and years of us not only misunderstanding but also fear. We stand there for a while before I make the first move with me doing a superman punch into a back elbow only for her to black it.
Suzanne: "Lani...did you really believe that weak of an attack would really reach it mark..." Looking at her while her hair stills stop me from seeing her expression, but I can see her biting her lower lip before letting my hair covers mines "Cleolani! you didn't even put your heart into that attack or is it that you never intend to...truly fight me...to make up with me...or is that your feelings for me were always this weak."
With her pushing me away I felt like a dagger had been stabbed in my heart when she questioned my feeling for her making me change my stance for me to charge at her to do a switch kick before landing a flying knee to her chest with the force of both of them landing to say "HOW DARE YOU QUESTION MY FEELINGS FOR YOU! Seeing her wipe the blood from the corner of her lip to look at it before a smile appeared on her lips.
Only for her to retaliate with and cannon fist that led to a fist under elbow with both landing in my chest causing me to spit up some blood before stumbling back words clutching my chest while I lift my head to look at her to see her smirking at making me "SUZANNE!" before charging at her and try to land flying back elbow only for her to dodge a land a back fist to my jaw that us an extend finger punch to my throat having me fall to my knees and clutch my throat while my head touches the mat with tears flowing down my face.
(Sky and liza)
Skylar: "Lani is going to lose at this rate if she doesn't reign her emotions back in and focus on what she truly feels and want to say Sue otherwise this match is good and over."
Elizabeth: "That's the problem she's letting what she wants to say control her and also letting how felt when she pushed Sue bind her actions to where she can't even see that all Sue wants is for them to move forward...that she's already forgiven her."
(Back on stage)
Finally lifting my head off the mat to look up at Sue only for her hair to be hiding her face while lower my head and get up as I rub my throat, I rush at her trying to land a flying knee for her to sidestep it causing me to try and jab for her to land a perry and punch making me spit up more blood. Charging at her 'w... why...why can't I hit her...why aren't my attacks landing the way hers are. Why is it every time her lands I can feel her sadness, desperation, anger, and hope for something I can't figure out...at...at this rate...WE...WE... WON'T BE ABLE TO UNDERSTAND EACH OTHER AN I WILL LOSE THIS BOUT...'
Charging at her with flurry of mix punches that jabs and uppercuts that she keeps dodging and countering with either punches or kicks of her own while tears start to leave my eyes only for me to start using the speed granted to us hybrids in desperation to land a strike so she could understand how I felt as well. 'W-why...why can't I land a strike...I want her to understand me as well...to let her know I've changed...that I've...' Stopping when I saw her tears-soaked face halting my strike that she didn't attempt to block this time that landed a blow to my heart harder than any of her strikes from before.
Suzanne: Seeing the shock and surprised look on Lani face when she saw how devasted I was that my face was soaked from my tears "is...is this really the way you want to win Lani...is that the way you want to get you point across Cleo...by RUNNING AGAIN! BY USING FORCE! IS THAT HOW LITTLE YOU SO CALLED LOVE ME! OR US HUH! THEN GO AHEAD DO IT! STRIKE ME CLEOLANI!
Hearing the hurt in her voice, the pain, sadness, disappointment, desperation, and longing I look at my hand that was about to strike her before lowering it and looking at my hand "w-what...what am I doing...was...was I really going to...' biting the inside my check before looking to the front row to see Keke, Liza, Sky, and Lili looking at me with all kind of expression that boiled down to being one true emotion disappointment, causing me to look at Sue again for me to only bite harder on the inside of my cheek to the point of drawing blood when I saw the look in her eyes to where it was that she was searching to find the person she always knew.
Letting my hair cascade down to cover my face and hide my expression 'I-it's happening again...I'm doing it again...I'm running away again...I got so desperation to try and make her understand that I... I was about too...too really use that...that power too...maybe after all this time were I...' shaking my head and taking a deep breath, I felt my body ache, the lags in between each breath I took but yet...I didn't feel any malice or hatred lingering from any of my bouts I had with Liza, Sky nor... this entire bout with Sue causing me to widen my eyes from shock though my hair still covered my face stopping those from the outside seeing my expression.