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Disclaimer: As unfortunate as it is, I don't quite have the brainpower to have made the anime beyblade. Therefore every character isn't mine except for my own characters (which will become clear as you read the story) and the plot line; which should also become clear as you read, otherwise I'm not a very good author, am I?

As silently promised by the decree of whenever Johnny and Veri come over... we got seriously drunk last night. Really, I would have been more shocked if it didn't happen, even when I woke up the next morning, stripped of all clothes bar my underwear, and hugging Johnny so tightly I was surprised he hadn't suffocated. Riiiiiight.

I groaned as I released him from my grasp, and looked straight ahead, just to make sure we were in fact still in my bedroom. We were – biggest achievement this week. I sighed with relief, until my nervous system caught up with my brain, and that dull thumping hit my head like a ton of bricks. Needless to say, I quickly dived into the comfy warmness of my goose-down pillows.

"Where's Veri?" Murmured a similarly disorientated Johnny from my other side. He, however, seemed to be in a better state than myself, and was soon able to stretch and untangle himself from my duvet, showing that he too was in only boxers. I looked up for a second to see if his skin had actually tanned in the sun. It had. It looked sexier than usual.

My head began to spin again and I shut my eyes tightly. "Somewhere, I dunno, leave me be." I hissed.

"Aspirin?" Johnny asked with a yawn.

I tried to murmur back a yes, but I'm sure all Johnny heard was 'mffrs'. He kindly took it for a yes anyway and I heard footsteps across the room, indicating he had just walked into the conjoining door in my room, which housed the bathroom, and my very own cabinet of aspirin. Never hurts to be prepared.

"Hey." I started slowly, flickering my eyes open slowly, "How did we get so drunk? My supplies were all hidden for today's outing..."

"Caramel vodka me and Veri brought home from Spain." He chucked the aspirin case at me, after taking a couple for himself. "I swear my luggage bag was so much heavier on the way back!" He chuckled to himself, before passing over a bottle of water as well, that he'd just used to swallow the tablets.

"Ah... Yes." I recalled, taking two tablets for myself and quickly swallowing them, letting the cool bliss of the water flush down my dehydrated throat. "We didn't drink it all, did we? That stuff was gooood."

"Don't worry," Johnny snatched the bottle of water back from my poised hands, and taking another gulp he collapsed next to me on the bed. "I left a couple of bottles at home, more for our heads this morning rather than saving some for later." The rough barking sounds of his laugh broke through the air again, and I found myself smiling fondly.

"I love you, you know that, right?" I asked him seriously.

"Yeah babes, I know. Forever and always, like we promised..." He broke off, his gleaming eyes boring into mine with a look of tender comfort. "Nothing or no-one will change that, okay? No matter what happens, I'm still here for you."

"Yeah," I agreed, and brought myself into his warm embrace for the first time that morning. "Thanks, I'll keep that in mind..."

It just goes to show that after a night of extreme drunkenness with Johnny, no matter what the situation was beforehand, I would come out of it happy in the end.

"Seriously though, where's my idiotic step-sister?" Johnny groaned, "If she's gone and drunk so damn much that's she's knocked herself out on some desolate street in the middle of the city... then I am so dead."

I laughed mockingly. Trust Veri, she's all about her morals, 'gossiping and teenaged-bitchiness will only come and stab you in the back later on in life'... Yeah, so, what about drinking yourself senseless? It hits you the next day!

"It's not funny!" He insisted angrily. "You know what her mother's like, I won't be allowed out the house for months, even if she's only missing for an hour!"

"I know, I know!" I grinned, "I'm sure she's just fallen asleep in the hallway or something, she's not cunning enough to run around the city whilst drunk... let's check?"

***

So we found Veri. She was downstairs, which would normally make me laugh, considering we were only drinking in my own room... but no such utterances left my mouth.

There she was, leisurely helping herself to some cereal from my cabinet, whilst laughing effortlessly with my mum about her trip to Spain. The words: 'guys' and 'hot' seemed to take regular trips through Veri's mouth.

"Oh, hi guys!" She said brightly as we walked through into my kitchen, both of our eyes clenched half-open in an annoyed glare. "I thought you'd be extra snappish if I woke you up, so I left you up there, I hope you didn't mind!"

If I could, mon amie, I'd kill you right here and now. Where has your cheery smile and happy vibe come from? Normally hangovers don't treat you so kindly.

"Well aren't you two rays of sunshine this morning?" My mum laughed, looking at the pair of us, a smile matching the one I could rip off Veri's face right now. "I hear you had a lovely holiday though, Johnny? Veri's been telling me what you've been... getting up to."

My mum is such a kid, seriously. She'll sit here with us now for hours, and talk about all the kind of teenage stuff that parent's normally don't want to hear. Johnny and Veri love her; I've started to scare myself into thinking they like her more than me... but really, is that possible? If it is... oh, if it is...

"N'aw, I'm sure she was exaggerating most of the time, I wasn't that bad, really!" Johnny defended himself, seeming to forget his previous anger as he sat down at my round island unit, situated in the centre of the kitchen. "It was good though, those Spanish know how to live, seriously. And you know what else? I could get served just about everywhere! None of this ID bullshit, just hand over the money, and it's yours." He grinned eagerly. "I plan on taking regular visits."

Veri scoffed. "Probably because you were flirting with every single bar girl in sight; I can't believe they actually called you charming."

"Encantar, actually." He winked at my mum. I hit him. "-Whoa, chill Kay, I didn't mean anything by it, I was just being encantar. See, linking things together like-"

"Yeah, yeah, just do it again and you're dead." I tapped his head lightly in warning as I took the last available seat at the unit. "So mum, where's dad?"

"Supermarket." She sighed, "He was out getting supplies for your party later, but he's been out way over an hour, with your father that's normally the time to start getting worried..."

"Oh..."

Fuck. Party. Massive hang-over. Traumatic situations. Shit. Shit. Shit... Bollocks? Does drama even exist when you can't be bothered to pay attention to anything but your head!?

Mother dearest raised her eyebrow at me. "You forgot, didn't you?"

I squirmed in my seat. "No... Well, if you'd asked me yesterday..."

She scowled. "What time did you invite everyone over for? The more time you have, the easier it'll be to sort out that little head of yours."

I stared blankly back. I hate mind-blanks; I also hate drunken memory-loss. Seriously, what happened last night?

"You told Mariah and Holly to drop by around three-ish. You also forgot to invite me and Johnny." Veri pointed out, coldly.

"I just assumed you'd be around here anyway, like you idiots need an invite." I shrugged, "But seriously, how long does that leave me until people come over to permanently damage my head?"

"Four hours."

... Ah. Right.

"Bollocks."

"Kayla Angelina Inglis, what have I told you about swearing!?"

"Sorry mother."

"That's quite alright. Unfortunately, you might have to deal with the headache all day. But that was your own fault, hopefully you'll learn a lesson from this-"

"Yeap, lesson definitely learnt-"

"And really, now I'm not too sure if you should be drinking again today, a 3pm start is never good for anyone, let alone someone who's already hung-over-"

"Well, you know what they say; nothing cures a hangover like-"

"Just go sort yourself out dear, decorations need to be put up, the pool needs to be cleaned, and time isn't getting any slower."

"I'm on it."

Rushing up the stairs, dragging Johnny with mild protests behind me, I realised throwing a party so early on, just to see how many people can get violently ill was never a good idea. I also loved my mum, even though she was bound to join in with the celebrations later.

"Erm, Kay..."

I slammed my bedroom door shut, and sighed with annoyance.

"Seriously, Kay..."

"What?!" I snapped. Turning around I looked up at a nervous Johnny, who was holding up my phone, a message clearly left open on the screen.

"I know something we may have done last night."

I walked over to him and took a closer look at the message.

I'm not surprised you want me at your party; I am the main attraction, after all. I'll turn up, but if you've already invited Claire, there's going to be trouble,

Kai.

"Double bollocks."

***

"Seriously, what am I supposed to do!?"

"Look, calm down K.A.I, it's not going to be that bad, honestly."

"You're not helping, Tala!"

So there I was, lying on my bed, completely freaking out; Tala on my one side, Marie on my other. Once Tala and Marie had turned up, Johnny and Veri seemed to take a back-row position during my nervous break-down. Veri, deciding she'd rather not be around whilst Marie was, had decided to help my mum set up downstairs – I didn't blame her, really. If she was around we'd probably end up falling out, or worse, her and Marie would have a spat; they don't get on. Reason two why Veri doesn't hang around with me at college...

Johnny, on the other hand, was sitting on the sofa by my bathroom, having what he liked to call a 'breather'. Apparently I was hard to deal with when I was stressed out. Psh, as if.

"Listen babe; chin u. If it gets nasty, we chuck one of them out. Probably Claire, she's less likely to try and kill someone." Marie assured me, "Anyway, at least whatever they do would be entertaining! Could you imagine it Kay, you'd be a part of splitting up their half, it'd be perfect."

Tala hissed. "No, Kai isn't really part of their half, most of his friends sided with Kayla, remember?" He sighed, closing his eyes shut before muttering, "And it really wouldn't be perfect if Kayla and her parents have to clear up the mess a full-blown argument could make Really, Marie, think."

Marie huffed, "At least I'm trying to make things positive, Tala – stop being so-"

"Realistic?" I offered, "Oh, I am so dead!"

"Guys, I thought you were supposed to be good at dealing with her in this state?" Johnny groaned from across the room, "Jeez, you're both awful friends!"

"Oh, and I suppose trying to start an argument with both of us is going to help, huh?" Marie retaliated through gritted teeth, "Listen here Johnny, you make think you're all high-and-mighty for coming into Kayla's world two years ago, completely missing the biggest drama she has ever been through... and still managing to be her best friend; but it's times like these where you need to recognise that her and those two have history, alright?"

"High and mighty my ass, you're the two who aren't even bothering to inform me on how to deal with her history! C'mon, tell me what happened then, I'd love to see how that would help!"

"No!"

I turned to the sharp voice from the right-side of my bed. Tala's look was fierce and menacing. "We don't talk about that; it's between those three, okay?"

I smiled brightly up at my defender. Oh Tala, how I'm so glad I still have you!

"Thanks." I told him, earnestly.

"Don't mention it," He told me firmly. "Now snap out of it so we can all do something productive to sort out the party, before that turns into a crisis as well."

I nodded at him, speechless. It's so strange to think that Tala hadn't be there, there when it happened. Me, him, Claire and Kai had been so close, that it was rare something would have happened that he hadn't been a part of. Of course after it had happened, I didn't know what to do. I can remember... running. Running to his father's beautiful house by the beach. Tears were running down my face as I asked his butler, James, if I could see him.

He was busy studying, of course he was – that's why he wasn't with us in the first place, exams were lingering on his doorstep, and failing was not an option. But James let me see him, because Tala always gave me special treatment, like the brother I had never had he looked after me. I cried on his lap for four hours that night, I didn't tell him much, but he knew enough to guess, and he cared enough to let me stay over, because I daren't be alone. It was the first night I'd ever slept in the same bed as a boy, and truth be told, I'd never felt more safe.

"Are you okay?" Marie asked me, snapping me out of my thoughts. "I mean, I know you're not okay okay, but you'll be able to get through today, right?"

Perfect Marie, never once getting mad at me for not telling her what happened that night. She understood, she knew it was something too bad for me to ever tell the whole story to anyone. Part of me wishes I could tell her, but the other tells me it would be the biggest mistake of my life. I nodded at her again, determinedly.

"Hey, I'm sorry Kay, I know you don't like talk about it, it's just, sometimes I... I wonder, y'know? It's just... a big part of your life, is all." Johnny grimaced, but his face had never looked so sincere.

It hurt me, not being able to tell him. But he needed to understand, it wasn't that I didn't want to tell him, it was just that I couldn't. "Don't worry about it, I understand." I told him firmly. "Now, show me you love me by helping sort out my current disaster – people are turning up in two hours!"

Everyone laughed and agreed solemnly. "We'll sort everything out when it happens, okay babe?" Marie asked me.

"Okay, at the end of the day, I'm sure I could just about do with some more drama." I giggled, linking arms with my female best friend before rushing towards my staircase, where I could hear my dad cursing from the other side of the house.

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