Warning! This fic deals with dark issues and problems. I will not go too into detail because no doubt some kiddie will stumble on to this and report it if they get scared. Anyway:
Rating: PG-13 (for now)
Summary: Five girls, Mariah, Julia, Emily, Matilda and MingMing, brought together by five different dark secrets, try to help the other overcome their past, forming an inseparable bond.
Now given the okay to no longer attend the 'freak house' as they named it, they try to live their lives, but life has its own way of throwing it back in their faces. Dark fic natured fic. Deals with issues of Anorexia, OCD, Bullying, Epilepsy, Abuse and Depression, and I know what I am talking about, I have suffered from one and met people who have suffered the others, so do not question me. I do not know if beyblade actually exists I may bring in the spinning tops, lol but we will see.
Pairings: Ray x Mariah, Max x Emily, Kai x Julia, Miguel x MingMing but of course there are some triangles. See my bio for more.
Disclaimer: I do not own BeyBlades, just the plot. And yeah the title is from the Leanne Rimes song
Life Goes On
By Kaz
The chamber was rather large and wide she concluded, as her honey brown eyes scrutinized the room she sat in. Baby blue paint covered the walls, slightly chipping at the top, trying rather vainly to make the room appear light and bright.
'Light and bright,' she thought to herself, 'Because all nutcases want a happy cheerful room, don't they?' With a shake of her blue green hair, she ran a hand though the bottom part, which was not tied up and stopped studying the room and glanced at each of the occupants, which also inhabited the room.
Just to her left, sat a pretty orange haired girl. Her bangs were spiky and covered the front part of her face, hiding her jaded green eyes. Her hair was beautiful and also the longest out of all of them, it flew past down her back, ending just below her thighs. Julia was born in Spain and despite moving from there when she was five; she stuck to her roots and preferred to wear what she called traditional clothing. Though to most people her dress sense was rather, well odd, the people who knew Julia, realised that she felt comfortable dressed in the white pants and red blazer with golden metal shoulder pads on the outside. Different, but very Julia. She had been introduced, when her brother, her twin brother, died in an accident and she was unable to cope. Sadly, that was an understatement, she refused to accept that he was gone and claimed and acted like was he alive. She assured everyone that he was on holiday and wrote letters to him, even claming that he spoke to her at night.
It was only through the close bond that they all shared that she slowly started to accept he was gone, but it wasn't easy, depression and fights followed along as well, but she finally accepted it, well, they hoped she accepted it. Even though deep inside Julia was a scared girl, outside she was one to be feared. She had a temper, heck they all had one, but get on her wrong side and you would know fear.
'Julia,' she thought, 'The fiery one.'
On the other side of her, to her right, sat another orange haired girl, though her hair was much shorter and only fell to her shoulders. Her bangs were in three parts, two fell to the side of her face, and swept away to keep from getting in her way, while her shorter fringe lay on her forehead just stopping before her round glasses. While Julia's clothing was rather different, Emily wore sporty, normal outfits. However, even though she rocked at tennis, her mind rocked even more. She was smart…. very smart… It was also the reason why she was bullied and taunted for her school life. A prime easy target and an outcast due to her brilliant mind, the group apparently bullied her for over years; however, it was not until the school heartthrob, Jason something played her and spread a rumour that they had done it that it really got worse. If the bullying and taunting about her mind wasn't enough, the fact that she was now labelled a whore caused her to snap and have a break down. Even to this day, she had a hard time trusting people, but she put her trust with the five girls in the room and was now beginning to see that she should not be ashamed of her brilliant mind.
'Emily, the smart one, the clever one, the intellectual one.'
Sat next to Emily was the one girl who could make every single person in the room smile no matter what. Matilda was the youngest, 15, while the other girls were 16, 17, and 18 respectively and she was the shyest out of the lot. She was never one to speak up and often remained silent fearful that someone may start a fight with her. People and crowds were two things Matilda avoided no matter what, every time a large group of people gathered around her, she would begin to hyperventilate and go into panic attacks, something resulting in epileptic fits. It was a scary thing, plus with Matilda you had to be careful how you worded your sentences, just the smallest things could set her off. No one really knew why it happened; it was hard to find out, though the whole reason of being alone may have had something to do with it. Matilda's family often left her alone; even when she was a baby they would just leave her and go out. This had carried on until she was 12 until one of her friends said something to her parents, resulting in a huge fight and Matilda ending in hospital.
The blue haired girl vowed that if she ever found Matilda's parents she would make them suffer. She was the baby of the group, the little sister, the one that they would protect until forever.
'Matilda, the innocent one.'
Mariah or Riah, as they called her sat next to Matilda. From her pink hair which flowed past her shoulders, to her short bags which swept to the side or her face, even from her honey golden orbs or cat like teeth it was understandable why every guy wanted her… she was beautiful… not to mention she had a caring but slightly fiery personality to match. Not that you would have known that if, you had first met her. The brown eyes girl closed her eyes as she remembered her first meeting with the girl. She wore a Chinese top, pink and white with pink and white pants and while sneakers, but she was subdued and meek.
They had found out that she suffered from anorexia. Mariah was one of the popular girls at school, not stuck up or anything, no way cheerleader-ish but a tomboy with a lovely personality. She was the daughter of the famous singer Frankie Wong and the well-known actor, Brandon Wong. From the age she could crawl, they stuck her beauty competitions and commercials always underline how appearances where everything. The kept her on well balanced diets and so on as her nutritionists recommended.
Beautiful, caring and popular, which person wouldn't want her? However, one guy swept her of her feet, Ray Kon, or something. They had a lovely romance she told them, he was sweet, charming, a true gentleman. He was also one of the popular guys. Two popular people, in love, equalled a fantasy, dream romance, and all her friends began to tell her how good-looking Ray was. With everyone constantly telling her, how good she looked and how Ray was hot, she began to think she was not good enough for him and forced herself not to eat for months. It wasn't hard to hide it from her parents, they were never there to notice, but Ray began to see how thin she looked and how exhausted she was. He confronted her and she told him everything. She told him how she thought that if she put on weight he would leave her, and how she had to be perfect in looks for him.
She had told them that he was a good boyfriend and she was right, he made her attend the meetings and made her realise her problems. Sadly, the strain was too much and they ended it. She never blamed him, though when she found out he was seeing someone else, Salima or something it had set her back a bit, causing her to fall into her old ways, but the girls pulled her out. It was a shame that they weren't together, but maybe it was for the best, Mariah needed to change and it was hard when one of the reasons your problems formed was always with you. But Mariah was never one to complain, she was lovely and often troubled herself in other people's problems than her own.
'Mariah, the voice of reason.'
And finally there was herself, MingMing, the cold one, the ice queen, the one who didn't care about anyone but her best friends, her sisters. Her past was something she hated to talk about, her father was a well-known scientist, in the eyes of the people he was amazing, never could do anything wrong, though when something did go wrong he would take it out on her. He forced her to grow up earlier than she had to. He made her live in fear, made her feel like she wasn't worth anything. The bastard beat the crap out her… She hated to talk about it even today… but there was no way she would ever allow him to have that hold on her, hell no, she was different, she was stronger, she was,
'Ming, the leader.'
"MingMing?"
The brown-eyed girl snapped out of her thoughts as her attention drew on the person sat in front of them.
"Yes Doctor Tate?"
"Where did you go off to? Did you hear what I said just then?"
Doctor Tate, Judy Tate had been in charge of them ever since they came to the 'freak house', she was the only one in the whole place the girls trusted other than themselves. She had helped to save them; they owed her their lives.
"Um, yes?"
The blonde lady smiled, while the other girls laughed, "Typical Mingie," Mariah said, earning a scowl from the blue haired girl.
"I hate that name Riah."
"And?"
MingMing laughed with the others. Laughter was scarce in a place like this. The reason why they were all so happy though, was a joyous event. Finally, after spending a year and a half at Mizuhara's home for the disturbed, they were finally being let out. Judy had spoken to the board council and doctors and they had agreed that they were all allowed to leave. Though they had to report for meetings just in case but best of all, they were all starting a new life together. Rather than go back home they had decided to move in together, being stronger together than be apart.
"It's going to be so great," gushed Julia as they said their good byes to Judy and walked back to their rooms.
"I know," agreed Mariah, "Just think, today is our last day here."
"Yep, no more rules or curfews, no more gunk for food or lights out at 10. We can actually live like normal 17 years olds and we are finally going to be freeeeeee!"
"Oh please, just because we are going to be living in a house together doesn't mean you can do anything you want."
"Eh, trust Miss, I have to obey everything single rule, Emily to spoil my fun," Julia laughed, as she stuck her tongue out, making Emily laugh and turn her head the other way, snubbing her.
"Oh stop it you two! It's our last day, let's not fight." Mariah sighed, shaking her head from side to side.
"Yes mother!" Both girls chorused, earning a whack to the head.
MingMing laughed at them, when she felt a hand grab hers. Smiling down, she asked, "Everything okay Mattie?"
"I am going to miss Doctor Tate, the smaller girl whispered, while looking down at the floor.
"Ah so I am, we all are. But you know what, that's why we got to make damn sure that we make her proud. So that she can say look, those are my girls and now look at them."
"You really think that we can make her proud?"
"Sweetie, I think we already have done, now come on we should do and pack, because we all know Miss I am too lazy Julia, will just throw everything into her case."
"Yeah, she is lazy," the younger one smiled, before running to her two orange haired friends.
"Hey I heard that!" A voice cried from the distance, making both girls laugh.
"Well said."
"Ah it was nothing Riah; truth is I am really scared, this is the first time we are leaving the freak house, and can we do it?"
"I dunno Ming, we both know it's going to be hard but if we don't try then we will never know. It's so easy to just stay here, where it's safe but we have to go out there and prove that we have beaten it… that we won."
"You think the worlds ready for us?"
"Probably not," Mariah laughed, "But it better get ready," she finished off, as she grabbed Ming's hand and ran to the others.
'That's right world, watch out. The five freak sisters are coming and bound to shake you up!' Ming thought with a laugh, 'Get ready, 'cos we are coming.'
TBC
