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Jashomara- See, I knew that last chapter was going to suck.
Lady J- I didn't suck, it's just that some people didn't read it and most people who did read it didn't review.
Jashomara- -sighs- that gets really annoying after awhile. I'm tired of having like two thousand somethin' hits and 5 reviews! –growls and folds arms like a little baby- Lady J, do the disclaimer, I'm mad.
Lady J- -laughs- Jashomara does not own beyblade nor the number to an anger management consoler.
Tala's POVEverybody was acting weird on the way to Canary's house. Mariah kept staring at me… but I liked it. Mariam was writing something on a piece of paper, I look over and read a little of it. I think it was a note to Bryan. Kadie was looking in a magazine picking out baby clothes, I don't know what's so weird about that, it just seemed wrong. Voltaire was just a little nervous and kept fidgeting with his hands. When will he stop being so weird!? Oh, and here's the scary part; Bryan was… completely quiet that whole time. That was very, very unusual!
Kai didn't talk the whole while either. Most people think he's always quiet. Not true! Sometimes he talks so much I want to tell him to shut up! He's very talkative. But ever since Mariah came to the mansion he's been getting quieter and quieter. I don't know if it's because he doesn't like talking around all these girls or what, I just want my best friend to talk to me.
At last we pulled up to a big and white mansion. Voltaire turned completely white, man, if only I had a camera! This was going to be fun.
Getting out of the limo, we heard loud music. When we looked into the bottom window we could see lots of multi colored flashing lights.
"Cool! Party!" Kadie yelled running up to the massive doors.
The rest of us just stared into the windows at the many figures, whom we couldn't quiet make out, dancing. Forget party, this looked more like and over sized club!
They better have food because I'm starving! Just when I thought that my stomach decided to agree and growled a little louder than I would have liked. Mariam and Mariah where the closest to me, but Mariam was too busy staring intensely at that piece of paper to notice. Mariah heard though, she just giggled and hooked her left arm around my right one and began to lead me into the dinner party.
This whole boyfriend/daddy thing is becoming a lot easier! I looked down to Mariah, who's starring at the door, and think, and I'm lovin' it!
The two colossal sized doors opened to reveal two big men with black suits on. They both had on shades. They would have almost looked like twins if one didn't have his hair jelled and the other didn't have an Afro, which I found very weird. The first thought that came to my mind when I saw them was: Bouncers?
Aw, man! I'm having flashbacks of Mariah ex-boyfriend, Tron. Are they going to hurt me? The one with the Afro is looking really murderous right now. Get it together Ivanov! You're about to be a dad soon! You can't be afraid of every big black guy you see, even if they do look like they have every possible intention of killing you, stuffing your body in a small coffin and shipping you out to sea only for cannibals to find you and eat your remains.
I thought long and hard about what the voice in my head was saying before thinking. You know what 'voice in my head', you're right! I'm going to walk right past these guys, look them in the eyes and say, "I'm not afraid of you!"
"Afraid of who?" I look down to see Mariah staring up at me with a very confused look on her face. I glance around to see colorful flashing lights, people dancing and a food table. Wait! I'm inside, I walked in? When did this happen. Man, I gotta stop spacing out. O.k. from this point on there will be no more thinking to myself.
"Tala, Tala… Are you in there?" Aw man, I did it again.
"Yeah, I'm here." I answered, but I think that was a rhetorical question.
"Are you o.k.? You've been acting kind of weird ever since we got here." She cocked her head to the side.
"I'm fine." As I look around I see a lot of familiar faces. They see me too. All of a sudden, I don't feel so comfortable and free anymore. Sub-consciencely,(A/N: The computer says that's not a word.) I unhook my arm from hers. I could tell she was looking at me weirdly, but I just fixed my eyes to the pearly white tile floor.
I don't get it, when I was outside I felt fine, but when I stepped in here I got nervous all over again. It feels like everyone's watching me, I think they are. I don't exactly like to be in the spotlight. I look to a corner in the upper left of the room and see Kai doing his 'Kai pose' (Arms crossed, eyes closed, leaning against the wall.)
Mariah's POV
Tala just unhooked his arms from mine. Why? He seems to be looking over to the far-left corner of the room. I'm too short to see over all these people. I wish they would move. Instead of asking what was wrong, I just stare at Tala. I know he knows I'm looking at him, so why isn't he looking at me! What is wrong with him?
I feel my temper rising. If he doesn't look my way soon, I'm going to take my fist and knock him right in the head. I see Canary over by a fountain, cool, she has a fountain in her living room. It was a big living room. It had a pearly white tile floor, beautiful silk curtains for each window and to top it off a crystal chandelier that hung high above us. Canary was sitting at a table near by waving us over.
"Tala," I call, getting his attention. He looks my way, but doesn't look at me, "Canary wants us." I inform him.
He just nods and gestures for me to lead the way. He is really pissing me off, but I have to stay calm. I just remembered what my doctor said. I don't need any stress. We go and take our see without exchanging looks or words.
"Hello, Mariah, Tala." She greeted both of us. Tala nodded.
"Hi!" I said putting up a cheerful front. Canary looked different today. No longer did she look like the uptight businesswomen, but now she looked free and spontaneous. Her hair was down and wavy, she had on eye-catching diamond earrings, blue pants and a fancy blue shirt with lots of designs.
"You look good." I complemented.
"Yourself too." She said back, but I didn't really go all out for this party. I just had on loose blue pants and a light blue pregnant shirt with sparkling gems in different designs.
Kadie and Mariam just came to the table. Kadie had a plate full of junk food (mostly sweets) that she didn't need. Mariam looked rather nervous though, I take it she just gave Bryan the note. She was apologizing for flipping out on him a few days before. Not for slapping him, he deserved that, but for getting mad when he refused to get her pregnant. After she told me what she said to him, I repeated it to her to let her know how stupid it sounded. She got the picture after I pounded it into her head. I was only being harshly-helpful.
Canary started to ask Tala and I things about our relationship like, "How's it going?", "What do you think is going to happen in the future." And "Have you thought about getting married?"
I was the only one answering, Tala just grunted and shrugged. Most of my answers consisted of the words, "I don't know." I really didn't! Tala was starting to act differently and by differently, I mean the same. The same old Tala that followed Boris, the same old Tala that believe in world domination, the same old Tala that got me pregnant, which was not the same Tala I saw last night. Oh forget it, if he's not talking to me, then I'll completely ignore his existence as well.
More people were beginning to gather around. They were all familiar faces, Hilary, Tyson, Max, Kenny, Michael, Johnny, Enrique, Ming-Ming and more, all asking us, and by us I mean me, questions. I was beginning to get very uncomfortable, but answered the questions politely and to the best of my abilities.
I looked back to Tala to see that he had gotten up and was walking through the crowd! The nerve of him! Here I am being bombarded with questions and he doesn't even help! Oh, just wait until we get back to the mansion!
Tala's POVI know Mariah's pissed, but I don't like to be crowded. There were way too many people in my bubble. I'm walking over to Kai right now. As I get closer I can tell something's wrong. Kai and I just have that connection. I can feel what he's feeling, like a vibe and right now I am not getting a good vibe.
I walk beside him and lean on the wall. "What's up?" I asked/greeted.
"I don't know, you tell me." He said coolly. "What? You finally got tired of playing with the pink furball?"
"Yes, I mean, no, I mean… was that a rhetorical question?" Kai just smirk/smiled at my confusion, which I took as a good sign. At least he's not mad at me.
Bryan and Voltaire just walked over. "I take it, you're not going to talk to Canary." I asked the gray haired man.
"Na, me and V decided to do it G (gangsta) and let the girls come to us instead." Bryan resolved folding his arms. "Welcome back to the gangsta side Tala." Then he slapped me on the back and smiled.
I could see the crowds of people surrounding Mariah. She was use to the attention, right? She practically screamed attention when she walked into a door, she could handle it. I don't know Tala, maybe you should go back over there. I mean, the only reason she screams attention is because you got her pregnant! Who would get attention if they were 16 and had a huge stomach with life in it?
O.k. maybe the voice in my head is right. I mean, she is pregnant. "You guys, I'm going to go back over to Mariah."
"Pup-py!" Bryan said in teasing way, but what did he mean?
"Hm! You let her start calling the shots now and she'll be doing it for the rest of the relationship. Before you know it, even yo kids gone start disrespectin' you!" Bryan yelled and laughed.
"I agree." Kai said from beside me. Johnny and Enrique just walked in on the situation.
"What's crackin'?" Johnny asked greeting Bryan slapping him on the hand.
"Tala's wants to give up his manliness and roll over and play dead for Mariah. Please tell him why he can't." Bryan explained to them. The voice in my head is telling me not to listen, but Kai agrees and he is my best friend, he wouldn't steer me wrong.
"Tali, baby!" Ew! Enrique just called me baby. I'm going to be having nightmares. "You can't just do what ever your woman tells you. You're about to have kids and sure you're going to help, but do you want her pushing both of them on you while she goes out and parties, living her life? No! You are the man! Don't come whenever she calls, it only shows weakness. Trust me." He finished. Strangely, I actually understand and agree. Tyson, Max and Michael had now joined in.
"Yeah, you're right! I'm the man!"
"Yeah!" the rest of the boys agreed.
"I call the shots!"
"Yeah!"
"I will not roll over and play dead!"
"Yeah… we mean… no?" they got kind of confused on that on, but we all get the picture. The voice in my head started screaming really loudly, so I turned him off. I feel really good right now. All the guys in the place are surrounding me and strangely I'm just fine with that.
"So Tala, tell us how you put the moves on Mariah." Tyson insisted getting a couple of 'yeahs' from the rest of the guys.
"Well, it really wasn't all that. I was kind of dr-"
"Drinking a little bit of wine to cool off because Mariah was making him hot. She was all looking at him and he was looked at her and she was all lookin' at him and then, after lookin' at each other, Tala decided he wanted to get straight down to business. He motioned for her to come up to the room with him and she followed." Bryan exaggerated just a little. "Right Tala, isn't that what happened." He wants me to lie about what happened?! Man, the guys do seem interested and a little embellishment would hurt, right?
"What happened next, Tala?" Tyson shouted excitedly.
"Well, she came inside of the room after me and pushed me on the bed…"
Mariah's POV"The nerve of that Bryan! I spend most of the day trying to write down my feelings for him and apologize and he doesn't even write back!" All the girls stood on one side of the room and the guys were on the other side cheering for some reason. Most of the girls just shook their heads, looking at their sorry excuse for a boyfriend.
Salima was standing beside me. Before, I hated her with a passion, but now I feel as though we could be best friends. "They are such jack asses." She shook her head.
"I agree." I said to her. She looked at me with a surprised expression.
"Are you still mad at me… for taking Ray?" she asked, a little scared of what my answer was going to be.
"No, I'm not mad at you." I answered, breaking the tension between us. "I am mad at my sorry ass boyfriend over there. Here I am, pregnant with his twins-"
"Twins!?" Hilary butted into the conversation, but I didn't mind.
"Yeah, and he won't even come over here and stand by me or anything!" I yelled angrily, getting madder every time I spoke.
"Yeah, I got all dressed up for Voltaire today and he didn't even come over to say 'hi'." Canary burst out.
"You have a crush on Voltaire?" Mariam asked suspiciously. "I thought you were married."
"Well… um…o.k. so I lied, but still, he could at least notice my attar of roses. I spent so much money on my perfume." The lady folded her arms. I was rather discussed by the situation. Even if it was love, it was old people love. Ew…
Suddenly, all the boys started to get louder and were talking all at once. My intuition was already pushing me over there, but when I heard my name that was reason enough. I started quietly walking over, the rest of the girls silently followed. The guys back were turned so they didn't see us.
Finally, I got close enough to here. "… then after she finished stripping for me I couldn't help but grab at her. I snatched off my belt and-"
"And what Tala?" I spoke up over him. Suddenly the cheering stopped. All the guys moved out of the way making a walkway for me that led right to Tala. "What happened after that, Tala?" That was the last straw, all Hell was about to break loose up in herre! (Yes, I meant to spell it that way. Pronounced: her.)
"Mariah, I-" I could see Tala looking to Bryan for help, but the lavender haired boy just back away.
"He can't help you! I can't believe you Tala! First you start acting weird, then you ditch me when I need you and now your lying about how we had sex!" I yelled. There were a lot of gasps around. I could tell Tala didn't know what to say. I wasn't just mad I was pissed. I walked up to him and slapped him so hard, there was a hand print on his faced. He didn't look at me.
"Is this how it's going to be every time we get around people!? Last night, when we kissed, you didn't care about everybody else, you didn't care about what they thought. Now when we get around people, you want to pretend like it never even happened!?" my temper meter had just blew up. "Tala-" I was about to say something else, but started to feel a little light headed and dizzy. Then… nothing.
Tala's POV
What just happened? The people in my head are working over time trying to process this. O.k. I lied to the guys about what happened the night my children were conceived. O.k. I got that. I also got busted by Mariah, she went off on me and slapped me. Got it. Then she fainted in my arms. What! She fainted! I look down, but I don't see her. Looking up I see that Mariam and Kadie are fanning her and yelling something.
A lady just came in the door with a man, three police men and… Tron! What the hell is happening!?
Yay! I'm done. Hope you liked it! I guess I had to be a little upset to do this chapter.
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