On a lighter note, Someone pointed out a mistake in the last chapter that I'm sure you all noticed and were just being nice by not telling. That's not nice. Please, if you do notice something, tell me. I love to be aware of my idiocy. I also noticed that I didn't put the phrase "A girl like…" in the last chapter. I went back and corrected it. So now there is an extra line at the very end. I like the line, thinks it fits really well.
I hope you like the chapter how ever short it may be. And, just as I liked the last chapter, that's how much I hate the writing in this chapter. There always seems to be something wrong with it, like it's lagging or something.
Disclaimer: I don't own beyblade.
And, before you start reading, I am completely sorry for the crappy dialog. Everyone is out of their character in this chapter. Well, there are some funky feelings being thrown around.
Hilary hated it when she didn't sleep well at night. She hated it even more when she didn't sleep at all! Could her parents really blame her for being snippy with them? Her night didn't go exactly as planned. She didn't get to kiss the guy she wanted, but his best friend who she looked at as more of a brother. Then, when she does get home hoping to relax, her parents are waiting for her.
These are the kind of things that make her think that her life is nothing but a fiction horror story!
"I just can't believe you ran all the way to Russia!" Her father went on, " I mean, do you know how worried we were about you? You just suddenly disappeared, I didn't know what to think. You're mother didn't get out of bed for a month!"
Hilary looked over her mother who was looking as guilty as her sister. "Sorry, Mom," she whispered.
"It's fine, darling," her mother smiled at her, "Just as long as you're okay."
"And I am," Hilary insisted. "Look, I'm sorry for making you guys worry, but I had something very important to do. Russia was the only way I could do that."
Her father looked at her sternly. "You should have told someone, Hilary."
Hilary scoffed. She said sorry. What else did they want? "Okay, Dad, you're right." She gave him a hard look. Not a glare, but a serious gaze. "I COULD have told somebody. Not 'should have'. I'm nineteen years old. I don't have to tell you anything anymore. If I want to move to Russia I don't need you permission to do so."
The man didn't say anything.
"Besides, I told Jenna in case something happened to me, so it wasn't like I was running away. Like I said, I just had something to do."
"What was it?" Her mother asked.
Hilary shifted her brown eyes to her mother. "What?" she asked.
"What was so important that you had to move?"
Hilary took a deep breath. She never really wanted to tell her parents this. "A friend said that I wasn't good enough to do something. I came here to ask another friend to train me, so that I can prove that I am."
"And are you?" Her father finally spoke up.
Hilary paused for a minute. If she went home, would she be able to battle Tyson? "Yes," she answered. "Yes, I am."
"Then you will come home with us." The finality in her father's voice shocked her.
"What?"
"You're done here, so you'll come home."
But this is my home, Hilary thought. "You can't decided that, Father," Hilary told him instead. "We've been over this, if I want to stay here, I am old enough to make that decision on my own."
"But…we're your family." Her father whispered. Hilary gasped. He wasn't treating her like a little girl because he thought she was, but because he wanted her around. Even though he didn't act like it, he needed his family around.
Hilary looked over at Jenna. Jenna always said that she wanted to get out of Japan, but she never did. Now Hilary knew why. Jenna may not like her parents all that much but she still cared for them.
"Dad," she said, "I didn't mean it like that. Of course I want…" Hilary broke off. She didn't know what she wanted anymore. One minute she doesn't have any feelings for Kai except those of friendship. The next she's cursing herself for blowing her big chance with him.
"Please, Hilary, come home," her father pleaded. "Please come back with me; with us."
Kai, Hilary thought, what's going to happen with Kai if I leave now? There's only one way to find out.
"I have to check with someone first." Hilary told her parents.
Her father sighed and handed her a card. "Fine. We are staying at this hotel. The room number is on the back."
"Thanks, Dad."
One the way out Jenna stopped Hilary. "Where's that café that you worked at?" She asked.
"Oh," Hilary's eyes widened. "Work!"
"Don't worry, I'll take care of it," her sister assured her. "But where is the place?"
Hilary gave her sister a confused look. "Why?"
"I want to meet this Asya girl," Jenna shrugged.
The younger sister rolled her eyes and wrote down the address on her sisters hand. "It's that way," she pointed in the direction. "You can't miss it."
Jenna smiled, "Thanks,"
Hilary sighed as she watched her sister take off. It was so great to see her again. The phone conversations were getting to be not enough for their relationship.
Hilary walked slowly to the house that she spent most of the last year in. She had no idea what she was going to say to them. She hadn't expected this at all. What was she supposed to say?
Hey, we had fun and all. I mean, time flies when you're having fun, right? Well, anyway, I'm just going to go back to Japan now. See ya.
"How could I possibly even think of doing that to them? After all they've did for me," She muttered to herself.
As she approached the door, Hilary felt the tears start to build up. She sniffled as she knocked on the door, looking to the sky, not wanting to let the drops slide down her cheeks. Not in front of them. The door opened and Bryan instantly knew something was wrong. Hilary cursed her emotion full face. She never really could keep a strong emotion hidden.
She stepped into the house very slowly, ignoring Bryan's questions of what was wrong. Hilary waited for everyone to show up in the living room after Bryan called for them. Even Kai showed up.
"Well," Hilary started with a deep breath, "Last night when I got home, I found my parents waiting for me. It seems, now that we have finished here, they want me to return with them. Something about family…"
Hilary held her breath and waited for one of them to reply.
"It was always expected. You were never going to stay, right? You were just using them to teach you, to prepare you for Tyson, and now that that's done, you get to go back to him."
"Kai," Tala sneered at him, clearly not liking what he was insinuating.
"It's not like that, Kai." Hilary insisted, "I mean, it started out like that. But now, after the year I've spent here--"
"You've fallen in love with him." Kai finished, mocking smirk spreading across his face. "Well, isn't that what you said yesterday?"
"Kai, you're taking my words and twisting them all around! That's not what I meant at all!" Hilary cried, holding a hand to her chest. "Besides, I don't even like Tala!"
"Excuse ME!" The redhead yelled. Confusion seemed to be his thing lately.
"No, no, Tala," Hilary rubbed her face with her hands. "I didn't mean that either. I mean, I like you, but in big brother sort of way. Not the way that Kai thinks!"
"Well, yeah," Tala shrugged, not completely understanding what she was saying about Kai. "I don't feel that way about you. That kiss meant absolutely nothing to me."
"Kiss?" Spencer and Bryan gasped. What was going on here?
"I accidentally kissed Tala yesterday when he dropped me off," Hilary explained to the two.
"Oh, but I'm sure it wasn't an accident." Kai chimed in.
"What?" Tala asked him in an unbelieving voice. "Why would she kiss me on purpose?"
"Because she's madly in love with you!" Kai told him. "You should have heard her last night. Going on and on about how great you are."
For a second, everything was silent.
"Hilary," Tala broke the silence. "What's Kai talking about?"
Hilary sighed. There was no way out of this one. She'd have to tell the truth, even if it meant over all embarrassment.
"Last night, when Kai asked me why I was at the party, I told him it was because I wanted to make someone jealous." Hilary looked at her feet, "Then he asked who it was, and panicked. I said it was Tala, because that was the first name that I thought off." She lifted her head to look at Kai. "I didn't mean it. I just didn't want to tell him that I liked him." The whole thing was barely a whisper, but the group got the gist of it, picking out main words from her mumblings.
"See," Tala said in a fake cheery-voice, "Everything was just a misunderstanding. Hilary can be with Kai; Kai can be with Hilary, and we can ship Vera off to Mexico." Everyone but Kai chuckled slightly at Tala's joke. But only slightly.
"What'd do you say, Kai?" Tala looked at him, his blue eyes begging him to make the right decision. "Are you going to forgive the girl, or what?"
Kai looked from Tala to Hilary. "No," he shrugged. "She's lied to me."
"A lot of people lie for unknown reasons," Tala growled. "Some of them deserved to be forgiven." Why was the idiot doing this to himself? Did he like the pain?
"I don't forgive people when they lie to me and I didn't trust them to begin with." Kai stared at Hilary, watching the tears silently glided down the sides of her face. "I'm definitely not going to with those that I do trust. Or did." Kai started back upstairs when he was finished.
"Kai," Tala yelled after him, determined not to let his friend ruin his life.
"Tala," Hilary interrupted. "Just don't. It's okay, I deserve it. I lied to him. I should have just told him the truth from the beginning, but I was shy and stupid. I waited to long to accept my feelings."
"And Kai should understand that," Tala argued, preparing to follow the stubborn boy upstairs.
"Tala!" Hilary shouted. "Respected my wishes, please. Kai doesn't want this, I don't want to push Kai. I don't even know if I want this. Please, just don't to push it!"
Tala looked at her. Was he to only one who saw that the two were perfect for each other? He couldn't be.
"Fine." He agreed nonetheless. It killed him inside to do so, but he did.
"Good," Hilary nodded. "Now, I came by to stay good-bye and that I love you all. I'm leaving tonight."
"So soon?" Bryan asked.
"Afraid so," Hilary smiled and hugged him, not at all surprised when he embraced her back.
"Spencer," She moved to the tall blonde. She had to stand on her tip-toes while he had to bend down just to get into a semi-hug, but it was worth it. "I'm really going to miss you," She cried into his shoulder.
"Me, too, Hil," He whispered, his voice cracking in some places. "Me, too."
Hilary turned to the last one. "Tala," she whispered. He was the first one she really came in contacted with. The first one she really got to know. She was closer to him out of all three. He was her family now no matter what anyone else said. She just didn't know how to tell him that.
"Hilary," He chuckled. Hilary laughed at him. He was trying so hard not to cry like she was, but everyone saw his eyes glossed over with tears.
Hilary went to him, pulling him into a tight hug. He wasted no time in wrapping his arms around her, squeezing her to him.
"I'm going to miss you so much, Tala," She cried harder. Tala was practically her best friend here, if not including Asya. "You have no idea how much."
"Yeah," Tala gave her a bitter smile. "Yeah, I do."
"I don't want to leave you," Hilary told them.
"Then don't," Bryan offered, completely serious. "Stay here."
Hilary shook her head. "I can't. I've got to go." Bryan nodded in understanding.
"Tell us what happens with Tyson," Tala demanded while he walked her to the door.
"You'll be the first people I tell." Hilary agreed, "I'll use Tyson's phone, make him pay for this one."
"Oh, of course. That's a great idea." Tala laughed. Hilary laughed with him, waving good bye as she walked out of the house for what was going to be the last time.
"I think this is the one thing I can actually like Tyson for," Bryan said to the two with him. "If it was for the dip, she would have never come."
Spencer chuckled, dragging Bryan towards the kitchen. Tala watched the two go. He looked up in the direction of Kai's room.
"Maybe it would have been better that way," Tala said to no body. He knew that he was speaking more from his own pain than anything else, though.
Outside, Hilary looked toward Kai's window, and, as if called, Kai moved the dark curtain, looking out at her. He looked emotionless as all ways, Hilary took notice.
Except for last night, she reminded herself. Last night he looked happy.
Hilary gave a wave to him. She frowned when he closed the blinds. It was understandable, Hilary tried to convince herself. She would have done the same.
Hilary stopped by the café to pick up her sister and give a long goodbye hug to Asya. The two seemed to have gotten along well, just as Hilary assumed they would. Jenna and her parents helped her pack up her apartment. Some of it they were mailing home. What was left was going to be given to a charity of some sort. Hilary had to hold back another round of tears as she looked around the now empty apartment. It looked like when she first got there, and everything was new to her. Her sister hugged her as she failed to hold back more tears.
It was all so hard to leave. Hilary felt like she had nothing back it Japan now. She's lived a year here, in Russia. This was were her life was now. She had friends and family. Every thing she'd ever need to be happy.
But she had to go home. Or, at least back to Japan. That actually sounded better to her. Better than saying 'going home.'
The first part of the flight was silent. They departed at 7:20 pm, and were scheduled to arrive in Tokyo at 10:00 am.
9 hours and 40 minutes to think about what she's doing and what she wants to do, Hilary figured. That was until her parents fell and sleep and Jenna started bugging her about everything. What'd the guys said, what they did. Everything. The one thing she kept pushing was any topic about Kai. A topic Hilary wasn't really interested in talking about at the moment. She was having trouble getting that across to Jenna.
In the end, Hilary had to pretend to be asleep. Jenna didn't believe her, but gave up anyway. Eventually, Hilary did fall asleep though. Hilary dreamt about Kai. It was a bitter-sweet dream that she's not planning on telling someone.
The girl's mother woke Hilary up when the plain landed. Hilary stayed quiet during the ride home, only thanking people when they opened doors for her. She headed up to her old room, lugging her bags behind her. Opening her door, she found that nothing had changed. The room hadn't been touched.
"Great," Hilary muttered sarcastically. "I get to dust and do the laundry."
"Hilary, honey," Her mother slightly knocked on the door. Hilary turned around to face her mother, hoping that her distaste for being here wasn't showing too much. "Dinner will be ready in a bit."
"You know, Mom, I'm not really hungry." Hilary sighed. "I think I'm just going to take a shower and go to bed."
Hilary didn't miss the disappointed look her mother gave her. "Well, all right," She said and slammed the door shut. Hilary snorted. She had been trying to ignore her mothers judgmental looks for the past ten hours and the woman was up set when she didn't come down to dinner? That was her mother, always a pleasure.
Hilary took another look around the room. It was filled with all her stuff from before. Pictures of friends posted around the room, stuffed animals on the bed, frilly pink sheets that her mother never let her get rid of. None of it seemed like her anymore.
She decided that her apartment was more suited for a girl like her anyway.
I know, it wasn't the best it could have been. But hey. Have any of the chapters been at their very best? I think not. Well, I'm excluding the last chapter. I still really like that one. Thanks for reading this one though. Sorry for all the mistakes. And sorry for making Hilary leave. And really sorry for making her leave on bad terms with Kai. But trust me, he comes to his senses. THEY ALL DO! Well, in this case he will. And it will all in GOOD! I'll make sure of it...
Anyway, the voting is still going in case you just…I don't know. The way that it's going has really surprised me.
Untitled: 6 votes
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My family: 2 votes
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