Sarah's shoulders hunched up as the heel of Aya's clenched fist bopped her crown. It stung. 

"Ow!" Sarah exclaimed, rubbing the top of her head, "what the fucking..."

That was when Aya pointed out John had struck the final blow.

"Come on! You saw that cast," she declared, straightening and turning to face the diminutive Japanese girl, "throwing into a hurricane, that was sheer dope! I put her on the ropes."

Admittedly, there was probably as much luck as there was skill to that thow but there was no way she would admit that without a great deal of reluctance and especially not to the small Asian girl who was the same size as she was.