One Eye Filled

I slip on my mask, look in the mirror that covers one of the locker room walls and chant to myself "I AM A LUCHADOR." With each shout I crouch further and further towards the mirror "I AM A LUCHDOR" "I AM A LUCHA-" the door opens but I can't stop yet. "-OOORRR." The room goes dead silent, meanwhile I'm posed like a crab burly keeping my balance, but I don't move. "Y-your on next DarumaMacho." the employee-lass says before quietly closing the door as if she walked into something she shouldn't have. My balance finally fails and I fall forward landing on my head and yet, even still, I keep the same pose. That's skill I tell ya.

The employee-lass meets me outside, obviously still shaken by my pre-match ritual. She just doesn't understand. She then leads me to the match ring. "A-are you prepared for your first match" she ask. "I wouldn't be here if I wasn't" I say. I'm so pumped and ready, my first match is gonna be awesome. With no warning I begin to fist pump towards the ceiling. One fist pump, two fist pump, three fist pump, four f-. "Yeowch" I hit a pipe that was lower than the rest of the wall. My hand begins to redden and I can feel the blood pumping through it. "Hahaha, guess I'm just too pumped." I smirk looking towards the employee-lass. I can tell she want's to ask if I'm okay but I interject before she can begin. "Don't worry, I'm all good" I give her a thumbs up with the hand I hit. She looks distraught. Ops, maybe I shouldn't have used that hand. "Hey it's like my hands like a real daruma, wait darumas don't have hands." I was smiling before I realized it didn't make sense. "What's a Daruma anyway" Ooo, she asked my favorite question. "In Japanese mythology a daruma is a little figure that you ask for help to accomplish something. You fill one of it's blank eyes before starting the thing you want help with and the other eye once it's complete. You're giving the Daruma sight for helping you." "Is that why you only have one eye hole." "Oh yeah I do don't I?, I always forget since the other side is actually see through from the inside."

 I hold on hoping she ask my second favorite question "Why a daruma theme?" I doesn't come up but it's not like it matters now I'm at the end of the hall. Pumped up once more I lift both arms. "Aggha" The walls here are also shorter. I tear up a little but shake it off, and dash towards the area. "I AM A LUCHADOR" I shout forgetting I wasn't set to enter yet.