"Writing Contest" by Magenkop ... #1 Romance/Humour ... ( 100-1000 words) ... Due Feb 25th

Prompt: Build a story around this quote ... "Oh! So you think I'm cute when I'm angry? Well, get ready because I'm about to be goddamned GORGEOUS!"

"Woah! There she goes again," Kenny whispered to me as he elbowed me in the ribs to get my attention.

I looked up from my phone annoyed and rubbed the spot where he'd dug his bony elbow into my side.

"Look, look," he half whispered and half laughed as he tried to discreetly point in Kora's direction.

I looked because I always looked whenever Kora was mentioned.

She was standing on the other side of the abandoned parking lot behind Akiro's Gym Club. Kenny and I were currently sitting on the back steps of the Gym after our training session. We always waited here for Kora.

I saw what Kenny was talking about. He was right. There was likely going to be a fight. Kora had her hands on her hips, her legs were slightly parted, her chin angled upward and her eyes were burning like an inferno. This was her typical, I'm-going-to-rip-a-strip-off-of-you-and-shove-it-right-down-your-throat stance. I smirked. Those guys in front of her, whoever they were, didn't stand a chance even if they were a foot taller than her and had 100 pounds on her.

Kenny grabbed my arm and started pulling me from the steps. He wanted to get closer to the action. I rolled my eyes and sighed loudly but I got up all the same and followed him.

"She's going to blow for sure!" He said with a delighted laugh. His face was seriously animated. You couldn't miss the sheer glee written all over it. He loved seeing his sister lose it. The truth was, he was probably just glad she wasn't losing it on him for once.

I looked back at Kora. The three guys standing in front of her, with their backs to Kenny and I, were not locals. Chances were they didn't know Kora meant business, which meant there was a chance one of them would push her too far. No one around here who knew her ever pushed her.

She wasn't called "Man-eater" at Akiro's Gym Club for nothing, I thought with an inward laugh. She might not have won any Welterweight titles yet but she sure had won a number of matches, official and otherwise, in and out of the ring. The local guys all knew by now to steer clear of her.

Of course, pushing her buttons was just what Kenny was hoping for as far as I could tell from the look on his face. He loved to watch her dish out a beating just as much as she liked to serve them up. I had to laugh, they were a terrifying pair of siblings.

Kenny and I looked at each other and we both knew there was going to be a fight the moment we heard Kora give a short laugh and say, "Oh! So you think I'm cute when I'm angry? Well, get ready because I'm about to be freakin' GORGEOUS!"

What those idiots didn't know was that Kora hated three things: (1) she hated being talked down to, (2) she hated being sexually harassed; and (3), Kora hated to be called "cute". Those three managed to tick all of her no-you-didn't boxes.

We reached her end of the abandoned parking lot the moment the first guy hit the ground. He'd gone down fast and hard. Looked like he was a bleeder too cause his nose was gushing.

A crowd, the same group of teenagers and unemployed 20-something-year-olds that hung around the gym day in and day out, quickly formed a small circle around Kora and the three strangers. Kenny let out a squeal of delight when he saw the bleeder. I rolled my eyes. Kora was on probation and this was definitely in breach of her probation!

Everyone in the circle, save Kenny and I, had out their cells and were trying to record the unscheduled smackdown. Before people could even hit the video icon on their phones the second guy was down on the ground cursing and cradling his crotch. And, just as the crowd was getting excited, the third guy was sailing into the onlookers. She'd given him an uppercut and it had knocked him right out. The guy must have had a glass jaw.

A couple young  teens in this little crowd of spectators caught the last one and laid him down gently. By the time everyone straightened up the fight was over and Kora was walking over to Kenny and I, pulling out her phone, and checking for missed text messages.

She stopped in front of us just as the crowd of guys were mumbling their disappointment and walking away. She never spared them, or the guys on the ground, a thought or a look. Instead, she threw her arms around my neck and gave me a huge smile.

"Well, did you miss me?" She asked with a big beautiful heart-tugging grin.

Since she was on probation, which involved a very early curfew every night, I really only got to see her on Saturdays when I was off work. Today was our day and I was happier to see her than she knew. But, I didn't let on. Instead, I kept a very sober face and said, "No, not much." I knew that would shock her and rile her up. Call me crazy, but, those three still lying on the ground weren't wrong. She really was cute when she was mad. Honestly, how could I resist!

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