Heather: ha ha. I'm back again. You guys just can't get rid of me.

Tyson: too bad

Heather: Well. Somebody's in a bad mood today.

Tyson: No I'm not! I just want to be in the story.

Heather: You are in the story, Mr. Sourpants.

Tyson: Really?!

Heather: Yeah. But you gotta do the disclaimer.

Tyson: You love torturing me, don't you?

Heather: ^_^ maybe...

Tyson: I should have known. Well, Heather doesn't own Beyblade, even though she cries about it every night.

Heather: Back off, blue boy. I do own Rachel and if you don't be quiet, I'll give Kai permission to put you in another headlock.

Kai: *pops head in* go ahead and say something else.

Tyson: Let's just start the story.

Ch. 3

The Rain

Rachel was getting a little uncomfortable, and now it wasn't just the heights. She knew that Ray was trying to hit on her. 'Why does he have to do this?' she thought to herself. She started to squirm around, shaking the branch her and Ray were sitting. Suddenly, the rain started coming down.

"Looks like it's time to go" Rachel said quickly. She was so happy at the sudden change of weather.

"Alright, but let me help you down. You could really hurt yourself with the branches getting wet." Ray had a look of depression on his face. 'Why now?' he thought to himself. 'Finally when I have time with her by myself.'

After about five minutes of carefully trying to get out of the tree, Rachel hit solid ground. She let out a little sigh of relief. She didn't realize how bad she didn't like being up in that stupid tree.

"Come on, lovebirds. We gotta find me some more food."

"Ahhhh!" Rachel and Ray screamed at the same time. They turned around and saw the person that scared them almost to death.

"Shut up, dork" Rachel replied after recovering from the shock. "Kicked out of the restaurant so soon?" she said to her drenched brother, Tyson.

"Actually not this time" Max said in his usual freakishly happy voice.

"I ran out of money" Kenny said slumping over.

"Geez Tyson. How much did you cost Kenny this time" Ray said, realizing the upset look on the brown haired boy's face.

" How was I supposed to know that they charged five dollars after each trip to the buffet?" Tyson replied, trying to sound as innocent as he could.

"Tyson, I hope you know I waste all of my money paying back Kenny for your stomach." His puppy dog eyes and pouting lip weren't going to work on her this time. Rachel started to head out of the park, back to her house with Kenny and Max. The rain was dripping off all of them by now.

Tyson and Ray were still standing in the middle of the park, getting completely soaked.

"So what were YOU two doing" Tyson asked with a grin. He nudged Ray in the side with his elbow making Ray grin a little himself.

"That's exactly what I want to know." Both boys turned around to see a rather pissed Kai staring at them.

"What is that supposed to mean?" Ray was starting to get irritated by Kai. They seemed to be really good friends. That is, until Rachel came into the picture.

"You know what I mean. You need to leave Rachel alone. She's mine and you'll just have to deal with it." Kai didn't know why he had to keep going through this. After all, Ray was a pretty smart guy, so why couldn't he just catch a hint. Suddenly, the thunder roared with a loud boom.

"Oh really. What makes you think she's yours? Ya know what? It doesn't matter." Ray turned his back and started walking away. "We had a fine time walking around the park and sitting in the tree, though. BY OURSELVES!"

Kai could feel the anger boil inside of him.

"Guys, maybe we should all just chill and get inside somewhere. It's really starting to come down." Tyson was trying his best to get his friends to calm down. Although he did want to see Kai get his butt kicked. But as soon as the thought left his head, Kai charged straight for Ray. He tackled down Ray onto his stomach and shoved his face in one of the mud puddles that was forming on the ground. Ray pushed up with all his strength, flipping Kai off of his back. Ray jumped up along with Kai and took a swing.

"Guys! You gotta stop! Come on, this is getting stupid!" Tyson shouted, trying to get his friends attention.

Kai ducked, dodging Rays punch and hit him in the gut. Ray gasped for air, still trying to make contact with Kai's face. But before the boy could take another swing, Tyson threw himself in the middle of the fight only to get hit by Ray. This made both boys stop in their tracks.

"Tyson! Are you alright?" Ray asked, concerned for his blue haired buddy but still obviously upset with the other.


"Nice job, moron!" Kai remarked to him.

"Will you guys stop?!" Tyson felt like he was going insane. 'Can't they stop arguing for one second!' he thought. The thunder rang out again. It did seem to be dieing down though.

Kai snorted and headed out of the park. He had had enough of these childish games. It was clear to him that if he wanted to keep Rachel in his life, he was going to make sure that she was only interested in him. But how?

"I'm outta here!" Ray shouted. He left in the opposite direction of Kai, leaving Tyson by himself to drip dry.

"Now who's gonna buy me lunch?" The blue haired boy hunched over leaving the park with a half way empty stomach.

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Heather: Nothing like a good fight scene, huh?

Tyson: Yeah. Too bad I got thrown in the middle of it.

Heather: Aw, but you saved the day, Ty.

Tyson: Really?!

Heather: Yeah! If it weren't for you, the hero's probably would have killed each other!

Tyson: -_- I should've know you had ulterior motives.

Heather: Wow Ty. I didn't know you knew such big words

Tyson: No one realizes my genius ^_^

Kai: yeah.....whatever.

Tyson: *sticks tongue out*

Heather: -_- sure Ty. Well please r/r. I still need to know who Rachel should end up with. And if you want

to help the story go along, you can do that too. BYE!