NMN: Yo and hello. Welcome to the next chapter of Sing It Like It Is.
I hope you're all enjoying this fic. Sorry again for taking forever to update. I have school, which started 4 days ago, fan art requests, my other fic "Hanging On", and other chores in my house to do. So I'm a bit under pressure.
"talking" :thinking: (Author/Me)
ENJOY!!!
---CHAPTER 11---
"Come on, Hilary. Spill!" Mariah pestered.
"Yeah! Just tell us what happened." Emily exclaimed,
The three girls had been bugging Hilary for the past hour, trying to get her to confess what happened between her and Tyson. Hilary continuously denied any occurance. But her blush gave her away.
"I keep telling you. Nothing happened!" Hilary retorted. She pulled the covers over her head and turned her back to the girls.
"Aw, come on, Hil." Julia begged.
"Hey! Don't you ever call me Hil!" Hilary exclaimed, her face turning dour.
"But, Tyson always calls you that and you don't care when he does it." Emily stated.
Hilary's blush rose again and her face was as red as a tomato. It was true, Hilary always hated it when people called her ÐHil-. Hell, she didn't even let Leon call her that. But Tyson, he was an acceptation to the rule. Hilary adored it when he called her Hill. It was like a nickname that only he could use. He'd been using it since they first met. It felt like a crime to let any use it but him.
Mariah saw the look on Hilary's face and knew she liked the guy. Mariah had always been a good judge of character. Even when Ray had supposedly ditched the White Tigers, she never gave up her feeling for him and believed with all her heart that he had reasons for leaving. Her instincts were true. The only time Mariah misjudged someone was Emily when they first met. Emily said that the White Tigers were probably a low class team and that got Mariah angry. But after a while, the two became friends and got along great.
"Hilary, tell us!" asked Julia.
"Tell you what? There's nothing to tell!" Hilary still denied everything.
"Drop the antics, Hilary. What happened?" Emily questioned.
Hilary soon found the three girls on the bed and staring at her. There was no point in keeping it a secret anymore.
"So, spill." pressured Mariah.
"Well, we kinda,,, sorta,,, kissed." Hilary stated, pushing her index fingers together and blushing to no end.
"Oh my God! Hilary!" Julia glomped Hilary, practically choking her.
"Julia,,, can't,,, breathe!" Hilary struggled to get loose.
After several moments of prying Julia off Hilary, they asked her how she ever fell for Tyson. They used to always see them fighting and found it odd.
"I dunno. I think it was all of his annoying traits that got me into him. I mean, sure he is stubborn, pig-headed, violent, short-tempered, degrading, reckless, confusing and hopelessly arrogant. But, really, that's only the Tyson you guys must've seen." Hilary slowly closed her eyes and sighed, remembering the feel of Tyson's lips against her own and how her body tingled at the touch.
"What do you mean?" Mariah asked.
Hilary looked back at her friends, "Tyson may be annoying. But in all the years I've known him,,," Hilary paused for a minute. She was considering what she was going to say.
To say that throughout all the years she knew Tyson, there was never anyone like him would be a lie. If she admired him from the start, she wouldn't have even considered being with Leon. But then she looked back on everything Leon had meant to her and realized that he never, not even for a second, compared to Tyson.
"In all the years I've known Tyson, I have never met anyone as protective, sweet, strong, brave, caring, loyal, and not to mention handsome as him." Hilary rested her head on the wall, wrapping her arms around herself and closing her eyes again.
"Aw, that's so sweet." Julia stated.
"So, when are ya gonna tell him?" asked Emily.
"Tell who what?" Hilary asked.
"Duh! Tyson that you like him!" stated Mariah.
"How would you even know if I like him?!" Hilary exclaimed.
"You practically just admitted it, Hilary." said Emily.
"Oh, alright. It's true, I guess I do like him." Hilary said, blushing again. The three girls giggled at Hilary's face and picked out ways to tell Tyson about her feeling for him. Eventually, all the girls fell sleepy and retired to their beds.
Hilary laid awake for a bit longer than the other girls. She thought about when she heard Tyson admit his feelings for her. It wasn't to her directly, but it was a confession non-the-less.
A minute later, Hilary could hear a faint sound. It sounded like a beautiful song being played for the night and all to enjoy. It was a sound that sent Hilary silently into sleep and she would forever remember the melody, even if she didn't know who was playing it.
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"AACHOOOO!!!
"Bless you, Tyson." said Ray, " Tissue?
"No thanks.
(If you had no idea why I added a sneeze, I'll explain.
In Japanese mythology, when a person sneezes, it symbolizes that someone is talking about you behind your back. This myth has been used in numerous animes. To name some: InuYasha and CardCaptors)
"So, you didn't tell her?" Lee asked.
"No. She looked pretty shocked as it was. So I didn't think it was a good time to tell her." explained Tyson.
"Tyson, are you that clueless?" questioned Kai.
"Huh? What do you mean, Kai?" asked Michael.
"Think about. If Hilary broke up with Leon last year, then there had to be someone she wrote the song today about.
"Well, it said that you had to write about you experiences. Maybe Hilary was writing it about when she still liked the guy." Tyson suggested.
"Get a brain, deadhead! If she hated him, why would she make that song to be about his good sides? She likes someone else now." Raul stated bluntly.
Tyson was lost in his head. What the guys said made sense. Hilary hated Leon. She wouldn't write that song to be about how good he was. She did like someone else.
Tyson was so confused. He stood up and left the training room.
"Tyson? Where ya going?" Eddy yelled to him, but he didn't answer.
"Leave him." Kai warned. He knew that Tyson had to think some things over. And when any of his teammates needed space, he'd give it to them. Like when Driger was taken from Ray. Kai gave him time to think to himself, but eventually brought him back when he felt Ray had enough alone time. Kai knew better than anyone that being alone is the easiest way to clear your head.
Tyson strolled down the hallway that lead right by his room. As he passed by it, he could hear the giggles from inside.
:What the hell are they talking about?: thought Tyson.
"I dunno. I think it was all of his annoying traits that got me into him. I mean, sure he is stubborn, pig-headed, violent, short-tempered, degrading, reckless, confusing and hopelessly arrogant. But, really,,, that's only the Tyson you guys have seen." Tyson knew in an instant that it was Hilary who was talking. And he was shocked.
Tyson's eyes widened not from the slightly insulting comments Hilary made, but from what she said at the end. Only the Tyson they had seen. Was there a slight chance that she thought more of him than she let on? He questioned that thought for only a moment before he heard someone else talk.
"What do you mean?" Mariah asked. Tyson waited for Hilary's answer.
"Tyson may be annoying. But in all the years I've known him,,," He heard Hilary pause. She was thinking about it herself.
Tyson may as well had given up on her. All he would ever be to her was a friend she found mostly annoying. How Tyson ever thought he could mean more to her than that he never knew. Tyson was about to walk away when he heard Hilary again.
"In all the years I've known Tyson, I have never met anyone as protective, sweet, strong, brave, caring, loyal, and not to mention handsome as him.
Tyson's jaw dropped. He would've collapsed if hadn't been leaning on the wall next to the door. He may as well had gone into cardiac arrest. The guy didn't move. Tyson remembered that Hilary paused before she answered. He knew that she and Leon were once together, but for her to say that even with Leon, Tyson meant more to her than anyone could. It brought a smile to Tyson's face. He thought back to when he and Hilary were slow dancing at the club. He'd seen the look of pure happiness on her face. If made him warm knowing he was the cause of her happiness. Nothing could've made Tyson happier.
"Aw, that's so sweet." Julia stated.
"So, when are ya gonna tell him?" asked Emily.
"Tell who what?" Hilary asked.
"Duh! Tyson that you like him!" stated Mariah.
"How would you even know if I like him?!" Hilary exclaimed.
"You practically just admitted it, Hilary." said Emily.
"Oh, alright. It's true, I guess I do like him." Hilary said. The three girls giggled at and Tyson could hear them picking out ways to tell him about her feelings for him. Eventually, all the girls fell sleepy and retired to their beds. He decided nothing else was going to happen, so he headed near the pond in the garden.
Tyson wondered over to a large patch of bushes covered in various flowers and plants around it. He reached behind them and pulled out an old reliable. It was an acoustic mahogany finished guitar. Tyson had had it since he was around 5 years old. His father had taught him to play before he got the job as an archeologist. Tyson loved those days when he and his dad would just sit outside and play. It was those days that took him away from reality. The fact that his mother had died only months before and his elder brother, Hiro, had already abandoned the family. Tyson, his father and grandfather were the only other people he could count on. But then his father was offered the opportunity to work on projects for big companies and he was running short. Grandpa wasn't making much from the kendo school and his father's clients were running dry. And with a job offer that could sustain the family for years, he couldn't reject it. It was days after his father left and Tyson played his father's guitar everyday. It was about 4 months later that he met Hilary and became one of the four most important things to Tyson: beyblading, his hat that Hiro gave him, the guitar his father left him and her. Back then, Tyson had very few people to look to. He was lucky have met Hilary and thanked God that he met her.
Tyson seated himself on one of the rocks on the edge of the pond and began to play a melody that was familiar to his family. He remembered it from his childhood. His father would play the guitar while his mother, rest her soul, sang the lullaby that always seemed to put Tyson to a sleeping trance. He didn't know the words, but he remembered the voice of his mother almost carrying over the guitar.
Tyson played the lullaby throughout the evening. The song ended and Tyson rested the guitar on the ground. Looking away for a moment, he saw someone standing on the platformed hallway. It was his father, Mr. Granger.
"Still playing it?" he asked.
"Yeah. Reminds me of mom." Tyson answered, thinking of his long-lost mother.
"Me too. But I don't think she's the only woman you think about." His father retorted. Tyson looked up at him oddly, wondering what he meant.
"Huh?
"That friend of yours, Hilary." said Mr. Granger. Tyson looked away, embarrassed that even his father knew, "Go for it.
"Huh, Dad?" Tyson looked back at him.
"Maybe if you two stayed together long enough, you'd end up married." He joked.
"Hey! You're my dad. You're supposed to be like, I won't let you off gallivanting with some girl." Tyson threw his voice so sound deeper, and laughing at the same time.
"Hehehe. Yeah, but you two have, what you guys would call, good physics?
"Good chemistry, dad. But thanks for the encouragement." Tyson said, looking to his father with respect.
Mr. Granger silently nodded and wandered back to his room, leaving Tyson to his thought once again.
Tyson viewed up at the moon and the stars that glittered all around it. He could imagine Hilary and himself dancing again under their light, the motions that capped him earlier on that evening. He wished to hold her like that again. To just feel her in his embrace once was enough to make his insides melt. Tyson would always want to make her feel loved.
Tyson knew that the next round of the competition was to be a fast-pace song. But he had an idea for a later song he could use, if he advanced that is. Tyson began playing a few chords, finding a good combo of notes. He found a melody and had the rough of lyrics all in his head. Over the years Tyson had been playing and writing songs, he'd never come up with a better song in his right of thought.
After playing for a while longer and getting the chords down, Tyson returned the instrument to it's hiding place until he would need it again. He gently folded some brushes and branches to cover it and retreated to the training room. When he got there, only Kai, Ray, Raul and Lee were awake. Tyson sighed and didn't say a word, silently crawling into his bed and eventually dosing off into sleep, thought of Hilary and the song fresh in his memory.
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NMN: Okay, I know that was a bit short, but like I said, school started and I don't have much time for fics. Sorry again.
Okay, G-Revolution has begun here in Canada and I LOVE IT!!! Tyson is A LOT more mature and cuter. But he's paired with Hilary. Must remember that.
But actually, Tyson and Hilary DON'T FIGHT!!! I haven't seen them fight once so far. I saw Hilary and Kenny fighting today (episode 7), but that's it! I DECLARE Ty/Hil an official couple!!!
Oh! At my school, we're starting THE FIRST ANIME CLUB IN MY SCHOOL!!! And I'm one of the head people! YAY! Congrats to the school for finally getting an Anime Club!
Alright, time for the Quote of the Chapter.
---BeyBlade: G-Revolution---
Tyson: Hiro!
Hiro/Jin of the Gale: When Mr. Dickenson first asked me to coach the team, I wasn't sure if it was the right thing to do. That's why I hid my identity. But there's no question in my mind that this isn't right.
Mr. Dickenson: Well I guess no introductions are needed, eh, Tyson?
Hiro/Jin of the Gale: -removes mask- It's been a long time, hasn't it?
Tyson: I-I can't believe it's you! You show up now?! Here?! I missed you!
Hiro/Jin of the Gale: Tyson!
Tyson: Hiro! -runs and hugs Hiro- I missed you!
Hiro: I missed you too. And look how much you've grown! You've become quite the little man, Tyson!
Tyson: This is the best surprise. So am I strong enough?
Hiro: Yeah, you're strong enough. And I'm glad that you remembered my advice on concentrating. I'm proud of you Tyson.
Tyson: Hiro!!!
Kenny: -thought- It had to be the most emotional thing I'd ever seen. There was Tyson, seeing his brother for the first time in years.
Hilary: -wipes tears from eyes and smiles-
Hiro: Come on, Tyson. Buck up, would ya?! A blader must never show his weaknesses in public. Ya got that? I said ya got that?!
Tyson: Yeah, I got that! -thought- My brother's back! And a new adventure begins!
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NMN: -cries- When I saw that, it made me cry, for real. Ðsniff- Okay, until next time,,,
