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She stopped fighting. Her body went limp. I felt her surrender like a dropped weight.

"Self-defense is 10% physical and 90% emotional regulation," Diane said. "You cannot teach a stepmom—or anyone—to fight inside a living room full of furniture, pets, and laughing teenagers. That’s not training. That’s a bar fight." when teaching stepmom self defense goes wrong full

Claire freezes. “What?”

Mia reaches for Claire’s right wrist. “Okay, I’m the attacker. Grab firm.” She stopped fighting

Jake, holding his nose, looked up with the fury of a thousand teenage angst-ridden suns. “You punched me in the face.” "Self-defense is 10% physical and 90% emotional regulation,"

“Because the mat moved!”

But Jake wasn’t calming down. He was a 16-year-old boy bleeding onto a photo of his deceased mother while his stepmom stood over him claiming self-defense. In his mind, this was not a training accident. This was a prophecy.