Authors notes: In this story, Yr 11's are 17 years of age, Yr 12's 18, because in the school system you start Yr 1 a year later then other countries.I made it up ok, I don't know if it's true? I live in Australia so the school system is different so I'm writing it how I know it to work, with a few altercations. Oh and "mean speech" while 'mean thought,'

Disclaimer: This story has word lyrics, these belong to the writers of the songs and not me, I don't own beyblades or anything tied to it, but I do own the OC's and the crazy plot.

~~Harder To Breathe~~

~*~ How dare you say that my behaviour is unacceptable,
So condescending unnecessarily critical,
I have a tendency of getting very physical,
So watch your step, Cause if I do, You'll need a miracle, ~*~

Leilah's chocolate brown eyes stared out the window at the stupid school grounds below. She pushed back one of her light brown bangs from her face. She sighed, a new school, with new jerks, new so-called friends, new backstabbers and the dreaded school rules. She sighed again.

She turned to look at her brother who was sitting in the chair beside her. He looked equally annoyed. His crystal blue eyes were closed, his short brown spiked hair was hidden under his baseball cap, and he wore his dark baggy denim jeans with his personalised chains hanging off them. The school shirt he had on was only tucked in at one side, his black skate shoes finished his rebel look.

Leilah smiled, she knew her brother would never wear the whole school uniform, even if his life depended on it.

Suddenly the door to the office swung open and a man dresses in a swayed navy blue suite walked in.

"Sorry to keep you waiting, we had a problem in a corridor," he started mumbling angrily about a Hiwatari and Valkov.

A smile appeared on his face when he sat down at his desk, he folded his arms neatly on the desk and leaned forward.

"My name's Mr. Riverstone, I'm the head here at Alma High."

Just the name of the school made Leilah want to run.

"So your Leilah Manika and Ethan Manika?"

Her brother just nodded.

"So Leilah you're going into Yr 11 right?"

Leilah nodded.

"Well your brothers in Yr 12, so this means you'll be on opposite sides of the school."

This information caused Ethan to frown, he didn't like to be to far away from his little sister.

Mr. Riverstone picked up on Ethan's frown.

"Don't worry, you can see each other at lunch time," he chirped, "now here's your timetables, you should be if form, so hurry along."

Leilah and Ethan took their stuff and quickly left the office.

They were now standing outside the door, in the corridor.

"So..."

Ethan spoke, his voice was calm, but had an edge.

"Don't get into any trouble," he said, looking down at Leilah, it sounded more like a command.

"Like I will," Leilah replied, he voice sounded fresh and sweet.

Ethan rolled his eyes, he lingered and watched Leilah fling her bag over one shoulder and start to walk away. She had the school's white polo top on, over the navy pleated school skirt. Leilah was upset with the length of the skirt so she had re-designed it so that it was three times shorter, which was really short. Her brown hair flowed down her back and ended just below her shoulder blades, the sparkle of her silver jewellery reflected off her chocolate brown eyes, making them a sight to see.

Before Leilah turned the corner, she turned and flashed her brother an innocent smile before disappearing behind the wall.

Ethan smiled lightly as he turned and walked away in the other direction towards the Yr 12 building.

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Leilah walked down the corridor that supposably her crap form was in, she had decided it was a good idea to actually show up.

She ran her fingers absentmindedly along the rows of multi-coloured lockers, until they suddenly ended. She stopped and looked up at the door, it looked like a white hospital door with the small glass window so you could look in, it had "Room 27a" stuck on the doorframe above her head. Sighing she pushed open the door and stepped in.

Suddenly she was faced with a class of about 20, 17-year-old students. Her new form teacher was sitting at the old desk up the front, trying to call out the roll over the racket that the class was producing.

"Oh you must be Leilah," the teacher smiled as she noticed her standing by the door.

The teacher adjusted her glasses before standing, she was a skinny, grey haired lady in her mid 50's, and she had a kind face and loving light grey eyes.

"Welcome to form B6, I'm Miss. Connolly," the teacher stated as she walked up and shook Leilah's hand.

Leilah couldn't help but smile, "nice to meet you."

The teacher's face seamed to light up.

"Finally a polite student," she murmured to herself as she guided Leilah to the front of the class.

"Now introduce yourself," Miss. Connolly said, moving her hand to indicate the class.

Leilah turned and stared at the noisy teens that were through things and making out in the corners, but most of all they were producing a huge amount of noise.

"Class, excuse me, hey..." the teacher tried but she was ignored.

"YO SHUT THE HELL UP!" she finally snapped.

Everyone went silent and turned to the front.

"This is Leilah, she's new so be nice to her."

Sniggers broke out through out the group.

Leilah smirked, Miss. Connolly went and sat back behind her desk and waited eagerly to hear about what Leilah had to say.

"My name is Leilah Manika, I moved here to America from Arabia. I've lived her 3 years and have already been to 10 schools just like this and if you know Arabic, you might know what my name means, any questions?"

A guy with messy blonde hair that flopped around his face and blue eyes raised his hand, he was pretty slenderly built but was well toned in the upper body and had a nice smile planted on his face. He was wearing the normal school uniform that everyone had to wear, (but Leilah's brother refused to,) which consisted of a white shirt and red tie, green pants and a green blazer trimmed with white thrown over the top.

"Yes."

"Why did you have to move schools again?" was his question.

Leilah smiled, "because I nearly killed someone, I beat them half to death."

Some guys cracked up laughing.

"What did they do?" the guy added.

"They touched my ass," Leilah replied simply.

Her answer caused most off the class to crack up into a fit of laughter, some smart alack shouted, "Watch out Tala, she gonna deck ya!"

Which in reply a red haired boy with stunning blue eyes smiled and yelled back, "If she can move fast enough."

He was well built and toned, he was lightly tanned and had a beautiful face shape, he was damb hot. Leilah smiled, 'one good thing around here in this crap school.'

When everyone had died down, a guy with black shaggy hair and light brown eyes put his hand up, he looked skinny and weak, his voice sounded shaky.

He closed his cell phone, "My Mum is Arabic and she says your name means darkness or night."

"You ran you Mum," a guy cracked up laughing followed by a few others.

"Mr. Haniko, there is to be no cell phone usage in my class," Miss. Connolly snapped.

"Yes my name dose mean darkness, but I would prefer if you called me Lil, ok" Leilah continued.

When no one put his or her hand up the teacher indicated to a spare seat besides the guy with blonde hair that asked a question earlier.

Lil slide into the seat next to him.

"Hey, the names Max," he said cheerfully.

Lil smiled in replied as she pulled out her diary form her bag.

"What do you have first?" he asked.

Lil looked down at her timetable and groaned, "sport."

Max smiled, "so do I, I can show you around if you like."

"That would be nice, thank you."

The bell went and Lil stood up and followed Max out into the corridor, they were about to leave when they were approached by a group of 9.

"Hey Max, who's ya new friend," a guy with blonde hair and light grey eyes asked.

"Oh Leilah, this is Enrique."

"Lil," Leilah said as she shock hands with Enrique.

Someone coughed from behind Enrique.

"Hey Lil, this is Oliver," he said pointing to the green haired, light purple eyed, girl looking guy.

"Hello."

"This is Mariah and Ray," Max motioned to the couple behind Oliver.

Mariah was a pink haired neko-jin, with amber cat-like eyes, she was pulled close to a tall, raven black haired neko-jin, his hair was wrapped at the back and ran all the way down past his waist. He had bronze cat-like eyes and was well toned and lightly built like a cat, her first thought was that he was hot.

"Hey," they both said.

"Ozuma," Max said pointing to a guy around the same hight as Ray, he had short spiked black hair with a streak of red running down the middle. The red highlighted his already amazing emerald green eyes, which were staring coldly at her, her was solid built and great looking.

"Hi," he mumbled.

"Hilary, Salima and Emily," Max pointed to a group of three girls standing together.

Hilary was a brown haired, brown-eyed girl; she looked similar to Lil, but shorter and ugly.

Then there was Salima, a red haired, navy-blue eyed girl, she was pretty tall, but wasn't extremely skinny but had a slim build.

The last was an orange haired and light blue-eyed girl, called Emily.

"And finally Kane," Max said indicating to a tall, handsome looking guy with messy navy-blue/green hair and light grey eyes.

He smiled sweetly. He was so cute. Lil smiled back.

"So where are you off to?" Emily asked.

"Sport," Lil replied, as she sighed.

"Cool."

"Hey I got to go, I have Science, it was nice to meet you, see you around," Salima waved as she walked off, followed by 5 others who had science.

The 4 left was Ray, Mariah, Kane and Hilary. They also had sport.

"Let's go," Max announced.

They were about to go when they were rudely pushed through by a group of 4 guys.

Lil recognised the red head it was Tala. But now there were 3 other hot guys with him. There was a tall, strong, cold looking, two-toned blue haired guy, he had piercing mahogany eyes and a fantastic build, and he was edible.

Then there was a guy with short spiked jet-black hair and bronze cat-like eyes, like Ray that walked next to Tala, he was a little taller than Ray and was defiantly built more around the arms. He was just plain cute.

Finally there was a red haired, cold pale purple/blue eyed hottie, he was well toned and built, he was gorgeous but he seemed cold like the blue haired teen.

"That's Tala, Kai, Lee and Johnny, they're the 4 bullies of the school, plus their players so stay away from them," Kane warned, he sounded angry.

"Oh," Lil sighed.

She turned and went with the group out onto the oval.

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There were loads of people on the oval. Kai, Tala, Johnny and Lee were standing in a group away from the rest. Lil was now changed and in the schools gay track gear of white runners, navy-blue shorts and a white sports top that was tight around the chest.

Lil was talking to Kane when a skinny, blonde haired, pale green-eyed girl ran past crying.

"What the?"

"That's Paddie, she WAS Tala's girl."

"Was?" Lil asked confused, she looked over to Tala who was laughing with his friends.

"Well isn't it obvious, she got ditched."

"Oh."

"She just arrived 2 weeks ago, she dated Tala for what two days," Kane growled, Lil could tell Kane didn't like Tala.

Tala was facing Lil, so she took the opportunity to look at him closer, she noticed he was wearing a silver chain with a silver wolf that had turquoise gems as it's eyes around his neck. She looked over his face, his lips were thin but prefect for kissing, she slowly moved up to his eyes, they were an unnatural sky blue; they seamed to go on forever.

She snapped out of her trance when Kane pinched her.

"Hey stop day dreaming, anyways look who's noticed."

Lil looked back at Tala to see he was staring at her.

'Oh shit,' she mentally swore, 'he noticed.'

Lil started to blush.

A second bell went to signal that all students should be in class by now. Lil noticed that Johnny and Kai were walking off in the direction of the Yr 12 buildings.

"Why are they going?" Lil asked, turning to Kane, it seemed Kane knew everything.

"Oh Kai and Johnny are in Yr 12."

"Hmmm...they might get to meet my brother," she smiled.

"Is that good?"

"Maybe," Lil replied simply, before tuning around to listen to the phys ED teacher.

"I hope it ain't" Kane muttered.

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Author: So what do you think of the first chapter? The next chapter will be up soon so wait. Well review and tell me what you think please. In the mean time check to process of Feline Fun my other story!!! And I would like to thank the people who helped me with the cars....you'll see later on readers well until next update! " The-Red-Pheonix