The prompt that inspired this short scribble can be found here.
Eyes closed, EJ set to detangling her braided bun. The adrenaline kick and disappointment of the match still lingered in each pluck of her fingers. Somehow, her head felt heavier as the hair dropped to her mid-back like a dumbbell. The knot that formed above her sweaty neck just compounded the feeling. EJ wanted to sleep on it. Instead, she rummaged through the beat-up duffel bag she had kicked under the bench with her heels as she sat.
Her upper back ached from being slammed onto the mat by her opponent. When she lifted her brush and set to attacking the blue and violet strands she had to slow down when the ache spiked. The bruise, she knew, was already darkening across the length of her freckled back but it was EJ’s ego that took the greatest hit.
Her competition, Sophie Adley, seemed so nervous before their fight. Quiet. When they bumped into each other before the match, she offered a stilted nod of acknowledgement to EJ’s greeting before pivoting a full 90 degrees to book it down the hallway like a startled cat.
Frankly, Adley barely made it into the bantamweight category at 95.1. The rumor was that she bulked up to get placed in a heavier weight class. When EJ heard, she assumed it was plain arrogance. Compared to EJ’s stocky 104 Ibs… Well, there hadn’t been a doubt in her mind that she would be the one walking away with her coach’s screams of joy careening over the crowd’s cheers.
It was only on the mat that EJ registered the ferocious, single-minded focus that drove her opponent.
The Scribbe’s End.
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Happy scribbling,
Christal
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