So, I wrote a lot of thingsas A/Ns here and there but ff went and did not save them. I decided to update anyway! Thanks a ton to the most wonderful people in the world! Rangerapprentice, StarryKnightX2, Kiray HimawariX2, Fiora-Mieko! Love you all sooo much...


Chapter 29

"It's difficult to believe that four of us have been married in a matter of days. Kind of creepy," Tyson giggled. "You, Mariah, Max and Mariam."

Ray looked up from his laptop and sighed. There was nobody in the house apart from Tyson and himself. Max and Mariam had gone for their on-the-spur-of-the-moment-decided honeymoon to Nice, France. Pretty place, he had been told. That reminded him of his and Mariah's constantly postponed honeymoon but nothing could be done about it. He was busy. She was busy. Life is, after all, not a fairytale. Kenny was back in States, probably enjoying himself with Emily. Hilary was on a month long managerial job with reputed company-Clarke's and Blade's. Mariah was at her studio working on her new collection. Kai had disappeared as usual. Diana was at the University busy completing her Myth report. In short, Ray was alone with Tyson and Tyson was being his usual over energetic self. He had been continuously having a one-sided conversation on varying topics for the last two hours and Ray was close to jumping out of the french windows which Kai had so strategically built near Ray's place of ironical reverie.

Suddenly, Ray's laptop beeped. He looked at the notification and smiled. It was Mariah, video-calling. He answered," Yeah, honey?"

"Hi, sweetheart. Diana at home?"

"No."

"Thank God. Kai at home?"

"No."

"Wow, someone up there is happy with me today."

Tyson, of course, had to butt in, "Yo, fatty."

"Tyson! You wait till I get home. Anyway, I don't have time for fights right now."

Both Tyson's and Ray's mouths dropped to the floor. Did Mariah just turn down a fight?"

Ray asked in a concerned voice, "Are you okay, Mariah?"

"Yes, Ray. I am fine. Just a little overworked. Anyway, don't distract me. I have a plan," Mariah stated triumphantly.

Tyson, who was so bored that the thought poking fun at Mariah which meant a future murder seemed safe to him, retorted gleefully, "Wow. Achievement."

Mariah's eyes narrowed, "You're dead. Where was I? Yeah, the plan. Its about Kai and Diana. We just have to do something about them. Their love-story has reached a full stop. They are a total flop."

Ray nodded sympathetically whereas Tyson, after a moment's thought, agreed, "More or less."

"So, what's the plan?" Ray asked.

Mariah grinned, "The plan is-I dress up Diana in my own Wong collection. Put lots of my best make-up. Make her strut around Kai. He is bound to feel something."

The silence which followed was so tense that you could have thrown a virtual cricket ball at it and it would have broken into a million pieces, all the time obeying the soundproof property of tension.

Even Ray face-palmed. "Mariah, don't you think-that-it would be a little over the top?"

Tyson just stared and muttered, "That was your plan?"

Mariah swallowed, "Oh well, Einstein failed a hundred times before inventing the bulb."

Tyson nodded intelligently. Ray smiled, "Edison."

Both his friends ignored the interruption.

"Still," Mariah said defensively, "do you guys have a better idea?"

Ray began, "Why don't we talk to the two of them (they other two gave him a are-you-serious look). Fine, talk to just Diana and ask her to tell Kai that she likes him and when she will do so, Kai will do too."

Tyson clapped at his friend's brainwave but Mariah frowned, "There's a problem there too. See, we don't know if Diana likes Kai that way. I mean, we do know but she herself doesn't know if she loves him."

"How dumb is that!" exclaimed Tyson with an eye-roll.

"I know," Mariah gave a quick smile, "but that's how it is. She will never believe such a thing spontaneously. She doesn't believe in love. Want an example? At the internship, where we first met, everybody was preparing for Valentines Day on 14th of Feb and you know what she was doing? She was parading the campus saying things like 'Love is a Lie', 'I hate love', 'Who believes in love?'."

"Gosh, she was creepy,"Ray groaned. "So, if Diana doesn't believe in love and Kai is never going to tell her, what's gonna happen?"

"I have an idea," broke in Tyson quietly.

"What are we to-wait a minute-You have a what!" Mariah turned at Tyson with a look of mock shock. "Ok, I am fainting."

"Hahaha, very funny but I do have an idea. How about we phone Kai and tell him Diana is leaving today? He, who at least knows he is in love, will then phone Diana and say-well, he will say something and then Diana, who has no idea about what's going on will think Kai is telling her to pack off. She is bound to feel hurt and then, well, I don't know what will happen 'then' but its good for a start and if it doesn't work it can pass off as a misunderstanding." He looked at the other two expectantly.

His friends were speechless. At last Ray managed, "Where had you hidden that devilish brain till now? That, Tyson, is a well thought-out plan."

"Really?" Tyson asked, a little suspiciously.

"Yeah," Mariah. "This will go down in history as the day Mariah said Tyson, you are awesome."

"Thanks," Tyson was still star/thunder struck at the amount of approval he was getting. "Fine, you call him, Ray." He tossed Ray the phone.

"Why me?" Ray asked looking at the phone as if it might explode.

"Because if you say it Kai will believe you," Tyson coaxed Ray.

Ray nodded and dialled Kai's number. "Hello, Kai?"

Mariah and Tyson gestured to him to put the phone on loudspeaker. He did so and proceeded to complete his mission like a true soldier, "Well, I was just thinking that shouldn't you say goodbye to Diana at least? I mean, she's going today-"

"What?" came Kai's voice and the three listeners stiffled their giggles.

Ray deep breathed, "You don't know? I am sorry, I thought that's why you disappeared today for some 'loner-time'. I thought you had a fight with her or something because she took her bags away about fifteen minutes ago. She loked happy enough but-but it was Tyson who made me think you knew-"

There was a click.

Ray smirked triumphantly, "He hung-up."

Tyson high-fived Ray.

"And now we wait. Gotta go, guys. Mannequinn needs me. Ciao."

Kai looked at that particular name on his contact list. Why had Diana left? The sane part of his brain answered, Because she has a life. She can't just go on staying at your house. But Kai's other half was determined to fight back. She can do that very well. Is this I who am saying this? Ya, and the English is wrong. She can't go. She has to stay. I need her to stay. He breathed deeply waiting for a response from his saner half but his saner half, in true Kai fashion, seemed to have lost the ability to speak. He sighed. Nothing wrong could happen in a phone call. He called her.

"Hello, Diana?" he asked in his usual cold voice.

"Hi, Kai?"

"Ya. I was wondering, are you leaving-"


Going to work on Kai/Diana and Tyson/Hil from now on. Yay!

New Beyblade story called A 100 Problems In One posted! Its a little diffrent from my usuals and is 100 word challenge. Please take some time out to check it out!

Reviews are as welcome as marks on a report card! REVIEW PLEASE or I'll get an inferiority complex XD

-Z-A-K