The incessant rain fell for several days and the villages of Saint Shields seemed to be bleak , indeed no citizen dared to leave their own house .
Mariam was sitting on a small couch by the window and watched her with an absorbed drops coming down quickly .
The girl was very sad , also because the atmosphere reminded her all workouts done with her team .
In her mind the memories continued to haunt her thoughts .
She could not forget the past and she could not help but think of the Ozuma's eyes , so like her eyes but also so different .
Those of the boy were much colder, almost as if they had not had a soul.
The two boys had grown up together, and with them also Dunga and then Jessie .
She could not remember exactly when they became friends ; they met a little for chance and a little for luck, because Mariam hated the company of the girls, because she preferred to play whit males .
And this feature she had allowed the child to be noticed by Ozuma .
The two children had met when they were five years.
" Hello" said Ozuma smiling at the little girl, who was arguing with some girls .
Mariam looked at the boy coldly and shortly after she appeared on the face of a sweet smile and she cheerfully replied :
" Hello ! Want you to play with me ? " .
Mariam smiled to remember that ancient carefully guarded in her heart .
The girl would not have imagined that things would change each other in that way .
She regarded Ozuma as a confidant, and she was always ready to help him . But Ozuma had told that she was a bitch rebel , and Mariam could not accept this .
She was thinking that if her grandfather had not given that role to her , she probably would not have discovered the truth .
How had she to believe in the false friendship ?.
Yet Mariam felt the lack of Ozuma but she had no intention to apologize.
She could't .
Suddenly the door to the room was open , revealing the presence of Jessie .
The girl smiled at the boy , and she immediately asked :
" What are you doing here ? "
The boy took a few steps towards his sister and he took a seat beside her .
" I wanted to know if you was all right and I wanted to ask you if you wanted to come with me . I need to show you something ."
" It is raining and if you are you going to let me meet Ozuma , I get angry a lot ," said Mariam coldly .
" Am I so predictable ? Mariam , you miss a lot to the team, especially you miss him ."
" Yes, you are , but it is also for this because I love you" said Mariam embracing her brother " But I did't want to meet Ozuma " she whispered .
The boy looked at her with a skeptical expression , and he immediately replied : " We are a team and we need you and Ozuma . Come on, you are the most strongest of the village and as far as I hate to admit this is the truth ."
" It's too late to apologize " she said sadly .
"Do it for the team," Jessie replied with a harsh tone.
He did not want his team to be dissolved for a fight because they had spent too many things together, and together they learned to be strong and above all to be friends and not just teammates.
"Jessie ... it's hard, you know. I have been hurt by someone I thought was my best friend," said Mariam.
"But we need you and you need us."
"All right, shut up. I'll do it, but only for the team."
"Ok, get up and come with me. We will do a workout in the rain like the old days and take with you your Beyblade".
The rain seemed endless and the wind was blowing made it hard to breathe but they did not care.
Dunga and Ozuma were sitting on some rocks close vicinity of the river and the water was flowing impetuous. It was not clear or clean, in fact, looked like a mud puddle dirty and dark as the leaden sky and dark.
"Do you think she will?" Dunga asked with a skeptical tone.
"I do not know. Knowing her, I think it will not but sincerely hope they will come".
"You love her?" He asked the blonde smiling slightly friend.
"She's just a friend" lied Ozuma.
The head of the Sacred Shields had no intention of revealing his feelings, partly because he still thought that Mariam was in love with Max.
He still could not accept those feelings, partly because he had no intention of ruining the friendship that bound them for many years.
It had been easy for him to forget those emotions but to live for months in a miserable hideout with Mariam, she had allowed him to better understand what he felt.
The boy had several times tried to forget everything but he understood that it was finally time to make it clear to her that she was not going to give up his friend, because he understood that speak of love was something too difficult to say .
The two boys saw the distant figures of the two brothers and immediately started calling loudly the two friends.
As soon as the four met each other immediately fell a tense atmosphere and full of unspoken words.
The thunder and lightning were not comparable to the looks flaming provedivano by Mariam.
The blue-haired girl crossed her arms over her chest and in a voice devoid of emotion, exclaimed:
"I'm here"
When she saw the Ozuma's eyes a thousand chills began to invade her soul and she did not know what to say.
All the emotions that she had tried seemed to have emerged with arrogance, it was too late to repair the mistakes of the past.
Ozuma tried to stammer something, but the only thing he managed to say was a faint "I'm sorry".
Mariam wanted to run away but she knew he could not do, because she also had to solve the situation for herself.
On her mind seemed to be in conflict between reason and feelings but she had no intention of showing weak again.
"I have no use of your apology but I love this team, our team. I grew up in here with all of you," she added a moment later with tears in his eyes.
She knew that this was the right choice, but she was afraid of what could happen.
Despite everything she still loved that boy and still felt much friendship for him.
"Ozuma" she said shortly after watching the captain.
"Tell me," said the blader shortly after with a hopeful tone.
She looked at him with a cold look and hiding her pain, he said:
"It 's too late to apologize"
"I know, but I hope everything returns as before because I miss being your best friend."
Mariam gave a faint smile, impressed by the boy's words.
She really hoped it was not lying, but was not certain.
Basically those were only words of a captain desperate for his team, or at least that was what he was thinking Mariam, hoping to convince herself that most of her friends.
The love that she had tried was really deep but she was afraid to admit the truth.
Ozuma held out his hand to the girl and a hint of a smile said:
"I want you to direct the team with me. You're a good blader and I've always given good advice."
Despite the words of Mariam they had hurt him even more, he could not deny the reality. She was too important to him.
Mariam shook the boy's hand and a hint of a smile, said:
"I accept"
Immediately Ozuma moved his hand and with one click wrapped the body of the young in a sweet embrace.
As soon as their bodies are in contact, and Mariam Ozuma shuddered.
"I missed you. I need you," he whispered softly.
Mariam gave her a little kiss on the boy's cheek in thanks and with an enthusiastic tone, said:
"It 's time to train."
She wanted to tell him so many things, but knew it was not yet time.
She was not ready to restore relations but knew that that was a good start.
"Anyway, I'm not a bitch rebel"
"Just a little," Jessie said, laughing.
"Yeah, just a little," she replied, starting to laugh.
And together they shared a sincere smile, sure that it was definitely a new start.
Space author:
Hello everyone, thanks to those who read my little long and especially to my friend Lonee this is for you
