Yes, another new fic even though Mixed Up is on HIATUS, though I'm prioritizing Meteor Garden. R&R please.
Milena groaned. How she got stuck walking the Ivanov's dog while they had a kid was beyond her. What was worse was that she was actually friends with the spoiled brat and said brat hasn't stopped teasing her about it. 'Good thing today is the last day I have to suffer through this.' The Russian girl sighed in relief as she brushed her dark blue bangs out of her bright crimson eyes. Her dark blue hair was layered complexly just above her shoulders giving her a cute look. She was of average height at 5'6 though compared to most of her friends she felt short.
"Hey, if it isn't dog walking dog." A smooth voice taunted from the doorway of an enormous mansion, if it could still be classified as a mansion, though Milena thought otherwise.
"Shut up if you want to keep that pretty little mouth of yours." Milena glared, realizing her mistake too late, though the smirking red head didn't seem to notice, that or he just didn't care. 'Probably has two thirds of the school's girl population telling him that every day.' She thought bitterly. 'Should I just follow Cathy's advice and tell him? But… what if he rejects me? After all, he has plenty of girls already chasing after him that are infinitely better than me…' she pondered to herself.
"Whatever, here's your precious dog, I'm leaving." She replied curtly handing over the majestic white husky over to the taunting turquoise eyes before getting into her red mini convertible and driving off.
At The Movies
"So? Did you tell him?" a chinese girl with red-ish brown hair that was layered past her shoulders asked Milena, she was a bit shorter than the latter at 5'5. They were leaning against a wall in the cinema waiting for Milena's older brother, Kai Hiwatari to come back with their tickets.
"What do you think?" Milena asked half-heartedly to her best friend Cathy. The Chinese girl had parted her hair slightly to the right, so that her hair partially covered a bit of the left side of her face. She wore semi-baggy jeans with a black tank top and had multiple bracelet's on each arm as well as two necklaces around her neck. Milena wore something similar except she had on a form fitting red t-shirt and a few chains adorning her fairly tight black pants.
"Haha, so you chickened out?" Cathy asked laughing.
"Hey! I'm not like you, I can't just tell anyone how I feel about them!" Milena protested pouting.
"Hey guys, come on, I got the tickets." Kai went over to his group of friends that were leaning against the wall. The group consisted of Johnny, Kai, Enrique, Tala, Cathy and Milena.
After only the first 20 min. of the movie, Cathy and Milena got bored beyond salvation. The movie was completely designed for guys, all it was was shootings, drag races and whores. Yet they didn't want to waste good money, so they stayed until the very end.
Somehow "magically" after the movie ended, only her and Tala were waiting at the meeting spot.
"Where is everyone else? They should be out by now." Tala asked boredly.
"How the hell should I know?" Milena shot back, seething inside, making a note to herself to kill Cathy the next time they met.
"Knowing them they might've left and ditched us here like fools." Tala stated, his turquoise eyes clearly amused at the turn of events..
'crap' Milena thought to herself.
"Um, Tala, can you give me a lift home? Kai drove me here." Milena asked hesitantly.
"Sure if you don't mind my bike."
Milena groaned inwardly. 'I must have really pissed off the fates in my last life or they wouldn't hate me this much.' She thought.
20 min. later
"Where here." Tala announced to the frightened Milena. Milena really hated motorcycles, they scared the shit out of her.
"Oh… um…Tala, can I talk to you?" She asked quietly, trying to get her blood flowing again, knowing she must be as pale as a ghost, considering she was fairly pale to begin with.
"What is it? I have to get home soon." He asked, sounding harsher than he meant.
"Oh, never mind then, it can wait. Bye!" She waved as he sped away.
Milena shook her head as she walked up to the massive double doors of her house. Although she always made fun of the size of Tala's house, her's was just as impressive. But hey, they lived in the same neighborhood, so that should have been a no brainer.
When she entered her bedroom, she found Johnny, Enrique and Cathy all waiting there for her, sprawled out across her room, she guessed Kai was somewhere nearby as well.
"Ok, start talking if you value your life." She growled grabbling Enrique's shirt.
"About what? How sexy you are?" Enrique asked with a smirk, but a quick glare from Tala walking in the room wiped the smirk right off.
"No," Milena snorted very unlady like, "about how you guys left Talaand I back in the cinema."
"Oh, that was Cathy's idea." Johnny stated offhandedly.
Milena instantly turned her glare to Cathy.
"So, did you tell him? I gave you the perfect opportunity!" Cathy asked, oblivious of the death glare Milena gave her.
"You like Tala?" Kai asked smirking.
Milena groaned. It seemed like thanks to Cathy now everyone knew her little "secret" except Tala himself.
"No." Milena answered curtly. "But since you're so eager for him to find out, why don't you just go tell him yourself?" She asked sarcastically.
"Sure!" Cathy replied eagerly ignoring the sarcasm.
"Wait! I didn't actually mean it!" Milena protested grabbing Cathy's arm, but missed and got a chunk of her golden-red hair.
"Ow! What the hell did you do that for?" Cathy complained rubbing her head.
"Woops, sorry." Milena replied sheepishly holding up her hand that had a couple of hairs still grabbed in it.
"Hey, you guys want to go to that new skateboarding park that just opened 20 min. away from here?" Johnny asked boredly, though he realized that bit of information he just picked up could be quite useful in the future, he smirked slightly.
"Sure, I'm game." Enrique agreed getting up from his spot of a been bag.
"Are you two coming?" Kai asked leaning against the doorframe.
"Nah, we'll skip." Milena and Cathy decided.
After the guys left, Cathy began rummaging Milena's computer to see if her red haired friend downloaded any new songs she didn't inform her of.
Suddenly, the phone rang, breaking the comforting silence.
"Hello?" Milena picked up the phone on her night table.
"Hey, is Kai there?" A perky voice asked. Milena recognized it right away as one of the stuck-up blonde sluts in her biology class.
"Actually, he is, but he has a horrible head-ache and the doctor ordered him to stay away from dumb blondes so his migraine doesn't get worse." Milena answered coldly before hanging up.
"Why'd you go and ruin Kai's fun?" Cathy asked laughing, although she knew very well why.
"Just protecting my older bro like any good sister should." The navy haired girl relied with a grin.
"Although I can't but feel sort of sorry for them, even if their stuck-up bitchy ditzs." Milena laughed. "After all, they don't see any of Kai's vices, all they see is his hot exterior and half of his personality."
"Oh yeah, those are just the worst qualities a guy could have." Cathy replied sarcastically.
"Hey! Looks aren't everything." Milena protested.
"Haha, yeah, that's why all the guys you liked and went out with were some of the hottest or cutest guys in Bakuten, according to you, whether they were from private or public schools." Cathy stated, raising an eyebrow at her blushing friend.
Milena's face went as red as a tomato, but she knew better than to open her mouth and say something stupid, so she just sat their silently.
Later that night, after Cathy went home, Milena's thought's drifted to her upcoming soccer game tomorrow. It was going to be the regional finals, and by some miracle, both the girl's varsity and boy's varsity both made it to the regional finals. In fact, the coach was so pleased that they might have a change to take both regional positions that he was letting them skip classes and train the whole day before the game tomorrow night.
Next Day
That night, once they got to the stadium where they were playing, by the time the girls got there the boys were just finishing. Cathy was waiting for Yoshimi to finish changing as Tala was walking towards the guy's locker's, fully geared and very dirty, though extremely proud. "Hey Tala, congrats, you guys won regionals!" Cathy congradulated.
"Thanks. And I scored one of the two goals that won us the game too!" Tala boasted happily.
"Haha, stop bragging, anyways, I wanted to ask you something. Do you like anyone right now?" Cathy asked getting uncomfortable.
"Are you trying to hit on me?" Tala asked with a smirk.
"Argh no! Why would I hit on you? Get your head out of the gutter!" Cathy just barely yelled.
"Ok, I get it."
"K, let me rephrase that, do you like Milena?" Cathy tried again.
"Sure, she's awesome. She's like my homegirl, after all, I've known her for as long as I've known Kai, which is like, what, 16 years now? Which is a long time, considering we're only 18. So yeah, she's a really good friend." The red head finished.
"Well, would you like her as more than a friend? Because she's been crushing on you ever since end of sophomore year, and we're already seniors, hell, we're graduating in 2 months."
Tala didn't reply, looking into the distance with a bored look on his face.
"Sure sure, anyways, I have to go shower, I'll talk to you later." Tala answered quickly before entering the guy's changing room.
"Hey Cathy…"Milena's voice greeted from behind Cathy, dangerously sweet and calm.
"Hey Milena! Um… Just how much did you hear?" Cathy asked hesitantly.
"All of it." Milena said coolly.
"Well, he didn't say anything, so you still have a chance.
A whistle blew in the distance, signaling the end of intermission, and the girls were up.
"Well, we have to get on the field and prove we're just as good as the guys!" Cathy urged before jogging into the stadium.
Later
It was during the last 2 min. of the game, and the score was tied at 2:2, Milena was dribbling the ball to her opponent's goal, hoping to score the winning goal so they wouldn't have to go into overtime, as she was starting to tire out already, after vigorous training that afternoon and now the neck-to-neck game. As she dodged a defencegirl, and was about to pass the ball to one of her teammates waiting for her near the goal, she caught site of two pointed red hair on the other team's benches, flirting with one of the opponents back up players. Everything seemed to stop around Milena. All she could see was Tala laughing and flirting with the opponents backup player.
"You ok Milena?" Cathy's voice broke Milena's daze. It was then that she realized the didn't have the ball anymore, and the game was over. The defencegirl she dodged had come around and took the ball and the other team scored. And won regionals. Cathy slowly led Milena off the field.
"Hey, it's ok, nobody will blame you." Kai's soft voice reassured, as he jogged up from the benches. Milena realized she was crying, as the warm, salty liquid flowed down her face. Milena couldn't believe it, even if Tala was screwing the girl, she shouldn't have let that distract her. She was sure they could have won if only, if only Milena had passed that ball on. If only…Milena wiped away her tears, determined not to cry and be weak like that, after all, she herself hated that kind of girls, who cried at every disappointment, she wanted to be strong, and go against the stereotype society had set for those Barbie doll girls, though she was probably one of those, she let her love life control her too much.
"So what happened out there?" Cathy asked once they were in the changing room.
"He got a new slut." Milena replied quietly, her voice oddly detached.
"Oh." Was all the got as Cathy got up and went outside.
'how could you Tala?' Milena thought bitterly. 'this is so embarrassing, especially after Cathy told him all that. But at least this answers whether he sees me as something other than Kai's little sister.' Milena thought.
At Hiwatari residence
Milena made up her mind. She was going to accept the invitation to go to the University of Toronto. She slowly packed her bags, knowing that Toronto's climate was fairly different from Vancouver's, so she decided to pack a little of everything, just in case. After a short phone call to her father explaining the change of events, and a little beggin, she decided she'd better write a letter to Cathy explaining what she was doing.
Yo Cathy,
You might be wondering where I am this time tomorrow. The truth is that I'm most likely on a plane to Toronto. No, I'm not going on some secret vacation I never told you about. I've actually decided to finish the last two months of high school there and go to the University of Toronto. Please don't tell anyone where I am, not Kai, and especially not Tala. But if there's something urgent, you can reach me at 248-1632. Please don't leave this letter lying around. I'll really miss you, and I hope you have fun at University of Vancouver come fall. You probably already know the reason I'm leaving, so I won't say anymore, but please don't tell Tala anything more about me ok? I'll miss you a lot.
3 Milena H.
A few hours later and Milena was on a small plane headed to Ontario. Her dad had promised to transfer everything and set up a new school for her to go to before graduation.
She sighed as she remembered all the great times with all her friends. 'No!' she thought. 'the reason I'm leaving is to forget my past. I want a new beginning, one where I can throw away my weaknesses.'
'New life, here I come!' She thought excitedly as she stepped off the plane onto Toronto.
Wahaha? How do you like? I know it may be a bit rash for Milena to leave her hometown just because of rejection, but she's a really rash person
R&R and we'll see how Milena fair's out in Toronto and who she'll meet.