Everything seemed so incredible and so suffocating at the same time, her father and Johnny having their constant fights, half of her classmates were unfocused, lost, conflicted, and as captain she felt the obligation to do something, to get the team afloat, but as she could do it, she also had her own problems, one of the main ones, the anxiety of thinking about the future.

—"Hey, sorry, I didn't mean to...were you asleep?"

She asks with a hint of worry in her voice when she sees you open the door with your hair up and your clothes loose, she sees some bruises on your exposed skin from the morning tournament, on the one hand she wants to let you rest, let you sleep, her problems are not yours, but on the other hand she just wants to join in the shelter of your arms, feel your weight next to hers and let her body slowly relax, she looks into your eyes taking a few steps forward, undecided but when she is inside your room she feels safe, as if she a kind of impenetrable bunker, turn on its axis and take your hand.

—"I can sleep here tonight...with you?"

Her question takes her a few seconds to let it out, it's just a whisper, a simple and low prayer that makes her heart flutter, it's not that she hasn't shared a bed with you before, although undoubtedly the others were more dangerous having the constant fear of being caught, this time it's different...she feels different, she never thought that her first world tournament away from home could be her last, she would go to the university, she would have to leave karate for a while and more importantly, she would have to stop seeing you for a while, no more training together, you two would take separate and distant paths, she didn't expect to stop seeing you but she was still dealing with all this, and the only thing that came to her mind was to take refuge in your arms once more.