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Chapter I… Flashback

Flashback…

"Hey, how come you don't do this for a living?" Tyson asked. "I mean, I do it."

Lily smiled her fierce, sharp-toothed smile and replied, "'Cause I have to sing, that's how come. I earn my own living through being an artist." She watched her own little beyblade swiftly slice through the bowl, attacking Tyson's own. The small heap of rubble of what was a perfectly good beyblade now hobbled around like a limp dog. Lily attacked it once more and it lost its power. No more spin. Just laying there right next to Lily's powerful beyblade made it look like a broken toy, which to most it probably was.

"You could seriously kill out there." Tyson told her. "I mean… you've got to meet Kai."

Lily's eyes lit up at the name. "Kai?" She asked intently, crystal eyes sparkling. "Kai who?"

"Kai Hiwatari."

Deep sapphire eyes lost their present luster and dulled as they faced the floor. "Well, I would, but my schedule's pretty tight." She replied, almost regretfully. "I think I won't be able to meet anyone personal for quite a while." She bent over and retrieved her still-energetic beyblade. It's sharp edges did not cut into her skin as it stopped, which would've painfully cut into anyone else.

Tyson picked up his shattered pieces of beyblade and smiled at them sullenly. It had put up a good fight for all it went through.

"Well, call me if you ever get the chance and want to meet him." Tyson said as he looked up from his broken beyblade.

Lily could not meet his gaze and kept her eyes down, looking into the face of her bit beast. Zodiac, a pure white cat with twelve tails glared at her with jade eyes. Each of its twelve tails had a mask tied to it that represented each of the Chinese zodiac animals, starting with the rat and ending with the boar. With a silent sigh, she replied, "I will."

She knew that this was a lie, but what could she do? She definitely did not want to meet Kai, again…

"See you later." She said, finally looking up. With that, she turned and left. Both went their separate ways and never saw each other…

…End Flashback

That was two years ago. Now, Lily Conway was up on the top ten list of music artists with her latest hit song, "Flashback"

-Tagging up the old floor we know

We'll get caught for this

So who cares about law during

Ecstasy and wine, kiss me

If we howled, the moon would shine on us

If we screamed, the sky would have clouded

Only that love made us be there

Only that love made us separate-

The song was obviously on the subject of love, but to Lily, it was love on a deeper level. She doesn't tell anyone, not even her closest friends, what it means. But on February 3, that flashback becomes reality.