Stargazer : Omg...I swear i didn't know i would have 20+ reviews in two chaps!! never happend before, man! Anyhow, I know that a lot of you liked my other story, but I gotta say its frozen! As soon as I'm done with this, I promise that I'll de-freeze I'm a WHAT?! again and start on that!
Disclaimer : I don't own beyblade.
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Rain ran into the office. Her hair was a bit out of place and she was panting, but other than that she was fine. "Whe-where's the nurse's office?!" She asked, taking deep breaths and putting a hand over her heart.
No one seemed the notice her arrival.
"HELLO!?" shouted Rain in pure annoyance. She covered her mouth at once as soon as the tone of voice that escaped her mouth.
Again, no one seemed the bother to look at her upon arrival.
The black haired girl growled irratatedly and looked furiously around at the dull magenta counter, finally dropping her gaze on a bell. She stubbornly walked over and rang it six times. Immediatly, an old lady carrying a stack of vanilla colored files stopped and glared at her.
"Once is enough, Miss!" she told Rain shrilly. Rain ignored her angered voice then asked quickly, "Where's the nurse's office?"
The worker in front of Rain jerked her head to the counter's left. With a grunt, she picked up the folders and carried on with her day.
Rain peered to her left and found the word "Nurse" engraved on a blue plaque. Without a second thought, she rushed towards the door.
The first sight she saw was a thin, one person bed and Tala right next to it. His chair stood tilted backwards with his face emotionless.
"Where's Laurie?!" paniced Rain, then mentally slapped herself. Well, duh, where else would she be other than in bed? She shook her head quickly and answered her own question, "Never mind."
Cautiously, the black haired girl tip-toed towards her unconcious friend. Lorenza's face was a mixture of serenity, yet pain at the same time. Her tanned face showed no emotion, although her eyebrows were scrunched up to show pain. Laurie's mouth was slightly open as she so oftenly let out a deep sigh. Rain turned her gaze over to the white cloth tied around Laurie's head - covering from her forehead and around. A tint of creamy white mixed with red arose on the side of her head and Rain was determined to find out where that came from. Moving more closely to her fellow student, she crouched down slightly to see a light fog of blood on Laurie's head.
Seeing this, her eyes widened and she let out a gasp. Tala glared at her, hearing it. "Don't wake her."
Rain frowned and directed her gaze to the ground. 'What happened? Why's she bleeding? Is she gunna die?!' she thought franticly. She scolded herself of thinking her friend dying. Rain quietly pulled a chair over and sat next to the sleeping form of Laurie, on the other side of Tala.
It was about fifteen minutes later before Rain decided to break the silence.
"Tala?" she whispered.
"What?"
"Um... don't mind me asking, but..."
She casted a nervous glance towards Tala, only finding him staring up into the ceiling.
"...what happend to Laurie?"
There was a brief pause before Tala finally answered Rain. It was as if he was finding the correct words.
Which he was.
"Someone hit her."
It took about ten seconds before the message got through her head. But although it did, she managed to squeak out a weak, "What?"
Tala stopped staring off into the ceiling and tilted back his chair so all four legs were on the ground. He looked directly into Rain's eyes. "You know, punch her, deck her, kick her, whack her, throw something at her, club her, jab her, K.O.-ed her -" The girl across from him giggled slightly and shook her head. As her laughs quieted down, she turned to him again. "Seriously."
Again, Tala repeated what he said earlier. "I *am* serious. Someone obviously hit her. The nurse said some bullshit about her probably being clumsy and walked into something but I'm not gunna buy that. I know when someone's hit, and that wound right there doesn't just come out by itself if she walks into a wall, especially when its the side of her head!" He lectured, raising his voice just a bit in the end.
At once, both of them broke their eye contact and focused on something else. Rain, sitting crosslegged, looked at her hands uncomfortably while Tala looked out the door. A moment later, the black haired girl could hear Lorenza moan. "Tala!" she choked, pushing away her chair and standing up. The red head immediatly mimiced her actions and did the same, they both stared contently at Lorenza.
Weakly, the lass' eyes started to open, traces of silver orbs began to look more clear as she finally got them to open fully. Although her eyes were now exposed to the light, her vision was still blurred.
"Lorenza, what does that say?" Tala asked, pointing to a sign which read 'Honor Roll Students.'
The brunette moaned in pain and slapped a hand on her forehead. "Ugh...how the hell am Ah suppose ta' know?"
Rain's heart lightened greatly at the sound of her friend's voice. "Laurie!"
Lorenza lazily turned her head to greet Rain. "Hey..." At that moment, Tala got up and casually walked out of the room. Rain helped her friend up carefully, worried that she did something wrong. "Hey, Laurie? Are you sure your alright?"
She nodded, "Yeah. It doesn't hurt that much anymore...eh...well, at least when Ah don't touch it... Hey, Rain?"
"Hm?"
"Can you get me some water?"
Almost on cue, Tala came in holding up a cup of water for Lorenza . Laurie smiled thankfully and held the cup in her hands. After drinking a couple of sips, the red head finally asked the question that was on both Rain and his mind. He watched her carefully, waiting for the right chance to talk.
"Laurie?" Rain asked, before Tala got the chance to.
"Mmm?" replied Lorenza, in the middle of gulping down water.
"What happend?"
Lorenza's eyes suddenly turned glazed, then back to its usual state. "Nothing."
"Man, don't play dumb, Lorenza. I know something happend!" Tala protested
"Nuttin' happened!" she snapped, then sighed. She glanced from Rain then to Tala. "Really."
Both of the teens she looked at gave uncertain glances towards each other, followed by a moment of silence.
Lorenza looked down at the cup of water Tala gave her, then at her shirt. She wasn't wearing the same shirt as yesterday...
"Tala..." she breathed, her voice dangerously low. "Why am I wearing a different shirt..."
The black hair girl beside Laurie flashed Tala a curious look. A sudden string of panic stretched across the boy's eyes.
"U-u-um... we-well you se-see, y-you k-k-k-kinda' b-bleeded on-on-onto y-y-y-your -"
Laurie cut Tala off.
"T-T-T-T-Today, junior!"
Rain chuckled silently as Lorenza did a some what perfect immatation of Adam Sandler, if he was a girl.
"- sh-shirt so I-I-I th-thought -"
"Just say it, already!" Laurie pleaded in vain.
"- That you needed something to change in so I thought of your gym clothes and went to your gym teacher to get it for me and she did and after that...!" yelled Tala, then paused, and resumed his stuttering stage.
"We-We-Well-Well..."
Lorenza inhaled a deep breath of September air. "Don't tell me you put this on me..." she murmmered, emphasizing each word.
"W-W-We-Well -"
"WHAT THE FUCK!??!?!?!?!?" roared Lorenza, forgetting her pain and sitting up rather strait. Her accent cleared and her silver eyes turned gray.
Rain, quite amazed by her friend's sudden burst of energy, backed away slightly. She thought quickly of a lie.
"Laurie, it's not Tala! You see, he got your clothes while I was...erm...changing...you...." lied Rain, finding the right words for the situation. Unfortuantly, none seemed right to fit their scene.
The brunette looked from Rain to Tala, in which she looked at him with slits for eyes. "You'a lyin'..." she hissed.
"No - No! I'm not! Ask Tala. Laurie, c'mon. You should really go back to bed,I mean your head will probably hurt a lot after you just, well, jumped Tala. So just lay back down and leave all the jumping 'till later..." Rain soothed, flipping the blanket towards the foot of the bed so it wouldn't get tangled with her friend's foot.
With one last 'humph' of defeath, she sat back down in her bed completely unaware of the pain in her head. The sudden thought of meeting Mariah at the skating rink popped into her mind.
"Oh'm gawd! What time is it, Rain?" she asked.
"Um..." the black haired girl leaned to her left to get a good view of the office's clock. "It's gunna be two in a moment, why?" "Nothin' but Ah gotta get out of this place!"
Tala suddenly turned to her strictly and told her to stay, and take the day off to her house. Laurie's eyes widened in anger and growled. "Hey, Rain? Do you mind if me an' my brother stay at your place for awhile?" Rain gave Laurie a questioning look before replying, "No..."
"Why?" Tala and Rain asked in unison.
Lorenza sighed and crossed her arms across her chest. "Ah've got family issues, okay?"
There was a breif silenece. Rain and Tala's gaze were locked together.
"Is that why you have that big ass bruise on your head? Because a family member hit you?" asked Tala.
"NO! Didn't Ah tell you that Ah was bein' stupid and hit myself while waking up this morning?"
"You spent the night at my place and I didn't hear no crash!"
Rain stared at amazement at the two, obviously too busy arguing to notice her confused look casted between them. Did he just say 'spent the night at my palce'? This was just getting too freaky... By this time, Rain had already started making her way towards the door to close it.
"Well just ta' let you know, 'Mast'a Ivanov', Ah live in a freakin' trailer! Do you know how low the ceilings are? It's typical for me to smack my head on something while Ah was goin' to pick up my lil' brother!" shrieked Lorenza.
It was true, it could have been typical for Laurie to run into something accidentally in a trailer. Tala was only taller than her by a few inches, and he was pretty tall. Anyone who was as tall as Kai would be refeared to as a giant, in which, Tala was. Rain, being the shorter of the two in the room, glided inbetween the two bickering couples and tried to stop them from biting each others head off.
"You could've just woken me up so I could take you to your house! At least you could've gotten some sleep while you were in the car!" Tala scolded.
"You don't get it!" Lorenza dug her head into her pillow and screamed. "Just get out!"
Tala's sapphire eyes softened at the tone of voice Laurie used on him. "Look -"
"OUT!"
Admiting defeat, Tala shook his head and pushed his chair out of his way, storming out into the schools hallway and slamming shut the patient rooms door. A few protests could be heard ("Young man! Do *not* slam the door..." etc.).
Lorenza screamed in vain once more and laid her head back down on the bed. "Ah am so STUPID!" Rain smiled re-played the recent scenes in her mind. Ohhhhh yeah, they were so made for each other.
I mean, who the hell spends a night at a hot guy's house who just happens to be your employer *and* he cares for how you feel in the morning?!
"Look, Laurie, I'm here so you can always come to me when your in a mess..." Rain started.
The lass on the bed shoved the pillow out of her face and gave Rain a skeptical look.
"O-kay, that sounded really stupid. But just listen, if you wanna stay at my place, I'm sure my grandpa will be glad for you and your brother to stay at our place."
The silver eyed girl nodded her head and sighed a huge sigh of relief. "Thank you so much! Hey, do you mind um, well..." As Lorenza trailed off, Rain tilted her head in question. "Yeah?"
"...Well...my little brother needs someone to pick him up and well, Ah kinda' told Mariah to meet me at the skating park after school today, since she thinks she knows everything, and Ah just...feel like makin' her life a livin' hell!" Laurie beamed. Her friend next to her paused to just silently look at her for a moment before bursting into fits of giggles.
"Is that all?" she asked.
Lorenza nodded. "Yup."
"Oh, thats nothing! Sure, I'll do it. But can you give me the directions? I'm kind of new here, as you can see..."
"Mm hm! Yeah, and you can use my bike!"
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Mariah. The captain of the cheerleading team. An anti-skater girl.
Here.
In a skating *park.*
'This is so stupid...' she thought, looking around. Apparently, no one seemed to notice her with the disguise she had on. Her hair was down, which was never likely in school and she had on clothes from 'Hot Topic,' which seemed like the last place she'd shop at. Mariah finally lost her patience and was about to storm out of the park when Lorenza showed up.
"Where were you?!" the pink haired girl asked in a hushed, yet fierce, voice. "Somewhere obviously not here..." Laurie replied, rolling her eyes. Mariah glared at her. "Forget it." "Forgotten."
"So what do you want me to do?" asked Mariah.
"Anything. But Ah bet you can't do a thing, now can you?" mocked Laurie, looking down on Mariah's pants. The pair of slacks she wore were way too big, it was impossible for anyone to have a glance at her blades. It was that, *and* it was impossible to skate.
"Well if I can't do a thing now, how am I suppose to challenge you? Its not like your gunna rip - hey! What are you doing?" She snapped, emphasizing the word 'what.' She kicked her leg back so Lorenza wouldn't reach it. On the other hand, the brunette was already on her knees trying to get a hold of her left leg.
"Will you just hold still? Ah'm gunna tear this thing...," she replied, finally getting hold of Mariah's leg.
Mariah looked as if someone just asked her if she was a lesbian.
"What?! I spent a good fourty bucks on that! There is no way in -" she paused. "-Heck that I'm going to let you rip it!"
Lorenza stood up again and crossed her arms across her chest. "What? Is daddy's lil' princess afwaid to use a bad word?" Mariah looked infuriated. "Hell no! I can fucking swear whenever I want to!" Laurie grinned at her. "Better. Now hold still, damn it! Ah'm tryin' to do you a favor!"
Letting out one last sigh, Mariah stuck out her left foot for Lorenza to rip apart. As Lorenza bent down, a short boy about fourteen trudged by, flashing the pink haired girl a grin. "'Sup."
Mariah gave him a sarcastic look, rolling her eyes. Lorenza didn't look up to see who it was.
"Yo, I neva' saw you hea'. You new or sumtin'?" He asked. Mariah observed the boy, looking from his head to toe. He had green hair that covered one of his purple eyes while the other, traveled up and down Mariah's body.
"Shut up, Kevin, and stop tawlkin' like Mr. T! Besides, my...'cousin'...," Lorenza stopped trying to rip Mariah's pants and grinned evily. "...isn't intrested in you." Kevin gave a skeptical look at Laurie's back.
"You have a cuz'?"
"Your lookin' at her... You know, the bitchy one that Ah always talk 'bout. The one from... the U.S.! Aw, c'mon, don't tell me ya don't rememba'! Ah keep on tellin' you how much of'a whore she is and how - OW!" Laurie stopped to glare at Mariah. "What was *that* for? Ah was just tellin' him how much of'a - OW! STOP, DAMN IT!" she cried, finally ripping about a foot of her 'cousin's' pants off. "Look what you did! Ah ripped too much!"
Kevin smirked at Mariah. "So, babe, whats your name?"
Mariah narrowed her eyes into slits and shot him a death glare.
"Kevin, or whatever, *you* need to pull those pants of yours up because no one wants to see your boxers, and defenatly *not* me. Now why not you and your little K-Mart shoes go turn around and walk on out of here."
Kevin took a step towards Mariah. "They ain't from K-Mart. An' whoevea' that's related to Lorenza wouldn't know whut designers shoes look like."
"Oh, your right, they're not from K-Mart. Sorry, I ment to say Payless."
This time, the purple eyed boy pushed Mariah backwards with both his hands. Lorenza just sat, crossed legged on the ground, and observed the two.
"Their NOT from Payless, either!" he roared.
"Salvation Army, Payless, they're all the same!" shot back Mariah, shoving Kevin about three feet away from her. The boy grunted and murmmered something that sounded like, "Bitch," under his breath and cracked his knuckles. Laurie sighed and shook her head.
"Kevin, just go away."
"NO!"
"YES! Now shut up and get the hell outta' hea! Ah don't wanna your ugly face right now..." she frowned. Kevin didn't back down, instead he advanced on Mariah and Lorenza, glaring daggers at both of them.
"Ya know what? Stop your 'Ah'm such a bad-ass that everyone will back off' kinda personality because everyone can kick your ass! Now go the hell away before *Ah* kick *your* ass!" Lorenza hissed at him. Kevin didn't stop.
"You know, very well, that Ah would - and could - beat you up, so go away!"
With one last threat thrown to him, Kevin growled and turned around, muttering several curses at the girls. Laurie rolled her eyes and got up from the ground.
"Is he, like, always like that?" Mariah asked, not moving. "No." Lorenza said, sarcasticly.
The brunette started skating away towards the rail's placed everywhere when she noticed her cheerleader 'cousin' wasn't moving.
"Can't you move?"
"No."
Laurie slightly twitched the end of her right eye in annoyance and glided towards her. "It's not like your gunna die if you fall, ya know."
Mariah made a very irratable whinning noise. "But I just got my nails done...professionally, too!"
About this time, Lorenza couldn't hold back her anger. "You know, what, princess? Theres more to life than guys, make-up, clothes, and you'a nails." Her voice was slightly sandy.
Mariah crossed her arms over her chest and turned her eyes into white and gold slits. "Ugh, as if you and your friends know what's important in life. You obviously need a change clothes, because last time I checked, Monteiro, you wore that same outfit yesterday."
Laurie, in return, did the same thing and glared at the girl in front of her. "You obviously don't know how hard it is to survive out in the world. You an' you'a friends think your everything, because of what? Because of money. Ah bet if you parents died, you wouldn't know what the hell you would do with yourself since you wouldn't have 'daddy' to pay for everything. Hell, for all Ah know, you would probably be so desperate you'll sell your body!"
"You fucking whore, don't you *EVER* talk about my family like that! Do you have any idea how stressful it is to live up to your reputation when your father's the C.E.O. of one of the most biggest company's in Japan? You and your friends defenatly, WOULD NOT!" Mariah raised her hand to slap Lorenza but the brunette blocked it with a simple action of her arm. People at the park stopped to watch the fight, hoping that there would be some action between the two girls. It wasn't often two hot girls got into cat-fights...
"Maybe Ah wouldn't, but; one thing for sure, you should stop pulling my friends into this!" Lorenza lowered her voice into a deadly tone. "Because you know why? Your here. In a skating park. With skaters. And last time Ah checked, didn't you and you'a friends say that the day that one of you guys stepped foot in this place is the day where that somebody would be automaticly kicked off the cheerleading squad, stop the 'friendship connection,' and be banned from the jock and cheerleaders 'inner circle'? And you know what? You should seriously consider to stop pissing me off anytime soon, because Ah have a big mouth and Ah'm not afraid to use it."
Although Laurie's voice was barely above a whisper, Mariah consumed every word of it and widened her eyes. She forgot about her and her friend's oath.
With one last tormenting smirk that was aimed at the cheerleader, Lorenza turned around and skated away, much to the crowd's dismise. Mariah stared off into space, taking in what Laurie just said to her and her stupid, stupid mistake. Without knowing it, she grabbed onto the nearby wall and started to skate towards the exit of the park slowly. Her usually glossy, creamy, lemon colored eyes were glazed all over. When she neared the stairs, she failed to notice a raven haired guy about her age skating towards her.
Rei was skating around on his skateboard, apparently very bored since his friends were no where to be found. He abandoned his hopes of hanging out with his friends during that time and skate home to help with his uncle with his restaurant. Just when he was going to exit the park through the ramp that lead to the main entrance/exit, the boy widened his eyes when he saw a girl that was going the same way.
"Watch out!" Rei yelled.
Mariah snapped out of her trance and looked at Rei with a monotone expression. Her face turned into a mixture of surprise and horror, but as she looked into his face, she felt blood rushing towards her face.
Immediately, she let go of the wall and cupped both her hands over her mouth. Mariah froze in her place while looking strait in the eye - him doing the same. In an instant, they crashed together.
The dame shrieked as she was pushed against her will off the pavement and rolled down the cement staircase. Rei, on the other hand, landed next to his skateboard about two feet away from the collision. The boy left his skateboard lieing there on the ground and rushed to Mariah.
"Are you okay?" he asked worriedly. Mariah held onto her right leg - the bottom portion - and looked at it. The wound covered about from the beginning of her ankle to half way down from her knee-cap. She saw that the scrap was pretty bad - looking at the peache skin peeled off from her tanned skin. Tiny pools of red could be seen, about the size of a well-sharpened pencil tip, but they then formed a small trail of blood.
Mariah looked up to catch Rei's eyes - who looked up in that instant from observing her leg. For a moment, they both locked gazes while silently running their eyes on each other's faces. The pink haired cheerleader laid her leg gently on the ground but regreated it greatly. She sucked in a deep breath of air and held her leg again - breaking the gaze between her and the boy in front of her.
"I don't know..." she trailed off, looking back into Rei's eyes again. Rei looked down at his lap and inhaled a deep breath of air.
"Look, I don't know if there's any first aid here or anything but if you want, I'll carry you to my uncle's restaurant so we can wash that scrape up." he said.
Although it was only a few minutes that they met, Mariah began to develop a small crush on him. The way he looked - how his ebony hair stuck up in random directions with his poney tail in the back - and especially his voice was driving her crazy.
"Uh...sure..." she replied, then slapped herself for sounding like a love-sick school girl.
"I mean - sure!"
Mariah tried to get up by pushing her weight on one foot while her left hand grabbed onto the wall for support. When she tried to walk on her wounded right foot, though; she winced in pain.
Rei watched as the pink haired girl struggled with walking. He looked worriedly at her and walked up to her calmly. "Are you sure your okay?" Mariah forced a smile, then replied, "Yeah." Rei frowned. "No your not." He walked over towards her and crouched down, his back facing Mariah.
"Huh?" she asked, quite shyly if I say so myself. Mariah wasn't use to this. She was never shy with anyone. Ever. And now she's being shy around a guy she must met for five minutes!
"Get on me. I'll carry you to my uncle's restaurant. Oh um...my names Rei Kon." He said, waiting for her to get on his back.
Mariah thought for a moment about his name. About a moment later she broke her reverie and started to encircle her arms around his neck.
"Um...m-my names...," A sudden jolt in her mind caused her to tighten up. What was her name?! "My names Mary Monteiro."
As Rei bent down to pick up his skateboard and grinned. "Are you related to Lorenza Monteiro?"
"Yeah...she's my cousin." lied Mariah.
"Cool...she's on the school beyblading team, like me. All we need now is another girl..."
~*~
"Hey, Lorenza!" called Rain, waving at her friend. Laurie turned around to see her little brother running towards her, abandoning Rain on the road.
"Hey! Thanks for gettin' my brother there! You just wait there for a moment, Ah gotta get my backpack!" Lorenza yelled back. After a brief hug she receieved from her little brother, Rain smiled at the moment between the two siblings.
Just when the brunette turned around to venture through the park to get her backpack, a sharp scream filled the air causing Laurie to swing back.
"Move it, Granger!" yelled Kai, sprinting towards Rain as she just froze there - watching as the jet-black car raced towards her. Kai tackled Rain making both of them fall on the pavement just across the street from the park. Lorenza turned around wide eyed and caught a glimpse of the van zoom away. Her brother, next to her, clutched her hand and looked fearfully at the car, then at Kai and Rain.
When the car was finally out of sight, Rain sighed and looked up at Kai who was right above her, glaring at the car that just sped by. She blushed at their awkward position. She heard Kai grunt and push himself off her while dusting himself off.
"Th-thanks...," she thanked shyly. The boy beside her stared down at her. "Whatever." sneered Kai. With a simple, "Hn," he turned around swiftly and walked away. Rain stared after him, watching his figure becoming more and more smaller as he walked.
"Whot happend?!" cried Lorenza.
Rain was still watching Kai leave. A light breeze arose and flew by them, Matt still clutching his sister's arm.
The black haired teen stared at the ground and tucked a strand of hair behind her ear. She slowly slid her left hand up her right arm and covered the 'I' mark with her palm.
"I don't know..."
~*~
"Hey, Sarah!" greeted Mariah happily. She opened the door and stepped through the threshold of her victorian styled house. Mariah closed the door lightly behind her and leaned on it, her yellow eyes was glazed over with a dream-like state.
A maid, in the mid-fourties, hustled by with a duster in hand and smiled at her mistress.
"Hello, Mistress Mariah," Sarah bowed. The pink haired girl bounced towards her personal maid, very hyped up, and hugged her.
"Oh, Sarah, stop calling me 'mistress'! I just *got* to tell you what happend! Anyways, today I made this bet with a girl in my school of going to this skating park, and I did! Well, there, I kind of got into a fight and then I started to walk away when this totally hot guy just crashed into me! You would think thats horrible, but it wasn't! I swear to god, he was the most gorgeous guy I have ever met - and he even said that he was in my school! And to think, all that time I couldn't see him! And to think that he knew the girl I got in a fight with!'
The elderly women, quite surprised by the young girls recent outburst, chuckled and patted her head in a grandmotherly fashion.
"Get your hands off my daughter!" A shrill, yet in the same time strict, voice accused.
Sarah shot open her eyes and released her embrace with Mariah and bowed very lowly. "I'm sorry, Madam. I shall be going now."
A women in her early thirties sneered down at Sarah's fragile form and looked, displeased to the least, over at Mariah.
"I'm sorry, Mom." apologised the teen. She bowed her head down and looked strait down towards the floor. Mariah still felt her mom's cold eyes on her back. "Ma'am."
Mariah's mom shifted her gaze towards the door and nodded silently. "Your father's out again tonight. Tomorrow we'll be hosting a party. Make sure you don't forget to come." she droned, emphasizing the word 'forget'. Mariah rolled her eyes when her mother wasn't looking at her. "It's not like I've ever missed one in my life." she murmmered.
"What was that?" snapped Mrs. Zhang. "Nothing." Mariah replied.
"We'll be having dinner in ten minutes. Go wash up and put on some..." Mrs. Zang eyed Mariah's choice of clothing. "...Suitable clothes. What are these rags you are wearing?!"
Mariah looked down at herself. "Um...I'll go change."
Her mom eyed her one last time as Mariah climbed up the stairs, her nose twitching in the utmost disgust. "Oh, and Ma'am?"
Mrs. Zang slightly tilted her head giving Mariah a cue to go on. "I don't think I want dinner. You go enjoy the meal without me."
"Are you sure?"
"Yeah."
"Very well."
With that, Mariah's mom headed towards the east side of the house, while Mariah to the left.
"Sarah!" hissed Mariah excitedly. Sarah, who was currently dusting off a shelf crammed full of ancient chinese scrolls, looked around the hall and finally noticed Mariah's head peeking out from her door. "Mariah! We can't talk now, what if your mom catches us?"
Mariah squinted the end of her right eye in annoyance and pulled the women gently towards her room. With a 'click' the door was lock.
"Now, we won't have anyone to bother us! Anyways, I just have to tell what happend today! The boy I met, well his name is Rei, and he is the most dreamiest guys ever! He even has the most wonderful personality and he is such a gentlemen! Did you know his uncle owns a restaurant? And god they make the most delicous food EVER, after you, of course. Oh yeah, and he also told me he was on the school beyblading team! Isn't that so cool? I bet he works out a LOT...." babbled Mariah. Sarah widened her eyes softely. "Oh? His name is Rei?" Mariah giggled quite girlishly. "Yeah!"
Sarah chuckled at the young women in front of her. She thought of how she bought her up, from her obessions with pink poneys, and now to boys. She shook her head with a grin on her face and sighed.
"You've grown a lot, m'dear. Did you know that?"
Mariah snorted. "Yeah, yeah!" she hurried, then hugged Sarah. "Your like the closest thing I got!"
Sarah smiled and then asked, "Did you say he beybladed?"
The pink haired girl nodded quickly. "Yeah!" Sarah thought for a moment. "I believe your mother beybladed when she was about your age."
"Really?"
"Yes." nodded Sarah. Mariah suddenly blushed. "Um...if you don't mind me asking...whats beyblade?"
Sarah sighed, yet again, and took off her glasses. There was a small pause as she cleaned off her lenses and re-covered them over her eyes.
"Well, my husband use to teach beyblade as a job, and then he taught it to my son which taught it to his. I don't recall the very specific details on everything but...,"
Mariah listened intently to every word that came out of Sarah's mouth and made mental notes to herself about it. When fifteen minutes passed, the phone across the room rang suddenly, making Sarah halt and Mariah tense up. They both exhaled slowly as a result of their happiness it was not Mrs. Zhang.
"I'll get it, dear, just wait where you are." assured Sarah. Mariah nodded as she re-stated all the facts Sarah had just informed her of in this 'beyblading' sport.
"Mariah, its for you. It's Lee." Sarah declared.
The teen slightly frowned at the sound of his name, but none the less smiled and stood up. Sarah handed the ivory, victorian style phone to Mariah and started to walk back to her bed, where they were sitting.
"Hey." greeted Mariah, sitting in a near by stool and lifting her wounded leg up.
"Hey. I just wanted to call 'cuz I have this football game on Saturday. I dunno if your busy or not, but I'm just calling to see if you can come." 'Lee' said.
Mariah nodded absent mindedly and examined the cloth that tied up her ingury. It was from the very material Rei's shirt were mad of, since he ripped his own clothing to help her pain reside.
She traced the black cloth around her leg with her index finger, a silly smile spread across her face. "Uh huh...no problem, I think I don't have anything planned for Saturday...," answered Mariah.
Throughout the conversation, she basicly repeated the words "Uh huh," and "Mm hm," while playing around with the loose knot from the bow.
All Mariah was thinking of was a raven haired beyblader...
...And that raven haired beyblader was Rei.
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Stargazer : Omg, finally! I'm sorry that I haven't been updating, its because of school! I won't be updating that quick (not that I did before ^^), but I'll try my best. The next chapter will be a little fast paced, so...yeah. Anyways, PLEASE don't forget to review!
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Disclaimer : I don't own beyblade.
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Rain ran into the office. Her hair was a bit out of place and she was panting, but other than that she was fine. "Whe-where's the nurse's office?!" She asked, taking deep breaths and putting a hand over her heart.
No one seemed the notice her arrival.
"HELLO!?" shouted Rain in pure annoyance. She covered her mouth at once as soon as the tone of voice that escaped her mouth.
Again, no one seemed the bother to look at her upon arrival.
The black haired girl growled irratatedly and looked furiously around at the dull magenta counter, finally dropping her gaze on a bell. She stubbornly walked over and rang it six times. Immediatly, an old lady carrying a stack of vanilla colored files stopped and glared at her.
"Once is enough, Miss!" she told Rain shrilly. Rain ignored her angered voice then asked quickly, "Where's the nurse's office?"
The worker in front of Rain jerked her head to the counter's left. With a grunt, she picked up the folders and carried on with her day.
Rain peered to her left and found the word "Nurse" engraved on a blue plaque. Without a second thought, she rushed towards the door.
The first sight she saw was a thin, one person bed and Tala right next to it. His chair stood tilted backwards with his face emotionless.
"Where's Laurie?!" paniced Rain, then mentally slapped herself. Well, duh, where else would she be other than in bed? She shook her head quickly and answered her own question, "Never mind."
Cautiously, the black haired girl tip-toed towards her unconcious friend. Lorenza's face was a mixture of serenity, yet pain at the same time. Her tanned face showed no emotion, although her eyebrows were scrunched up to show pain. Laurie's mouth was slightly open as she so oftenly let out a deep sigh. Rain turned her gaze over to the white cloth tied around Laurie's head - covering from her forehead and around. A tint of creamy white mixed with red arose on the side of her head and Rain was determined to find out where that came from. Moving more closely to her fellow student, she crouched down slightly to see a light fog of blood on Laurie's head.
Seeing this, her eyes widened and she let out a gasp. Tala glared at her, hearing it. "Don't wake her."
Rain frowned and directed her gaze to the ground. 'What happened? Why's she bleeding? Is she gunna die?!' she thought franticly. She scolded herself of thinking her friend dying. Rain quietly pulled a chair over and sat next to the sleeping form of Laurie, on the other side of Tala.
It was about fifteen minutes later before Rain decided to break the silence.
"Tala?" she whispered.
"What?"
"Um... don't mind me asking, but..."
She casted a nervous glance towards Tala, only finding him staring up into the ceiling.
"...what happend to Laurie?"
There was a brief pause before Tala finally answered Rain. It was as if he was finding the correct words.
Which he was.
"Someone hit her."
It took about ten seconds before the message got through her head. But although it did, she managed to squeak out a weak, "What?"
Tala stopped staring off into the ceiling and tilted back his chair so all four legs were on the ground. He looked directly into Rain's eyes. "You know, punch her, deck her, kick her, whack her, throw something at her, club her, jab her, K.O.-ed her -" The girl across from him giggled slightly and shook her head. As her laughs quieted down, she turned to him again. "Seriously."
Again, Tala repeated what he said earlier. "I *am* serious. Someone obviously hit her. The nurse said some bullshit about her probably being clumsy and walked into something but I'm not gunna buy that. I know when someone's hit, and that wound right there doesn't just come out by itself if she walks into a wall, especially when its the side of her head!" He lectured, raising his voice just a bit in the end.
At once, both of them broke their eye contact and focused on something else. Rain, sitting crosslegged, looked at her hands uncomfortably while Tala looked out the door. A moment later, the black haired girl could hear Lorenza moan. "Tala!" she choked, pushing away her chair and standing up. The red head immediatly mimiced her actions and did the same, they both stared contently at Lorenza.
Weakly, the lass' eyes started to open, traces of silver orbs began to look more clear as she finally got them to open fully. Although her eyes were now exposed to the light, her vision was still blurred.
"Lorenza, what does that say?" Tala asked, pointing to a sign which read 'Honor Roll Students.'
The brunette moaned in pain and slapped a hand on her forehead. "Ugh...how the hell am Ah suppose ta' know?"
Rain's heart lightened greatly at the sound of her friend's voice. "Laurie!"
Lorenza lazily turned her head to greet Rain. "Hey..." At that moment, Tala got up and casually walked out of the room. Rain helped her friend up carefully, worried that she did something wrong. "Hey, Laurie? Are you sure your alright?"
She nodded, "Yeah. It doesn't hurt that much anymore...eh...well, at least when Ah don't touch it... Hey, Rain?"
"Hm?"
"Can you get me some water?"
Almost on cue, Tala came in holding up a cup of water for Lorenza . Laurie smiled thankfully and held the cup in her hands. After drinking a couple of sips, the red head finally asked the question that was on both Rain and his mind. He watched her carefully, waiting for the right chance to talk.
"Laurie?" Rain asked, before Tala got the chance to.
"Mmm?" replied Lorenza, in the middle of gulping down water.
"What happend?"
Lorenza's eyes suddenly turned glazed, then back to its usual state. "Nothing."
"Man, don't play dumb, Lorenza. I know something happend!" Tala protested
"Nuttin' happened!" she snapped, then sighed. She glanced from Rain then to Tala. "Really."
Both of the teens she looked at gave uncertain glances towards each other, followed by a moment of silence.
Lorenza looked down at the cup of water Tala gave her, then at her shirt. She wasn't wearing the same shirt as yesterday...
"Tala..." she breathed, her voice dangerously low. "Why am I wearing a different shirt..."
The black hair girl beside Laurie flashed Tala a curious look. A sudden string of panic stretched across the boy's eyes.
"U-u-um... we-well you se-see, y-you k-k-k-kinda' b-bleeded on-on-onto y-y-y-your -"
Laurie cut Tala off.
"T-T-T-T-Today, junior!"
Rain chuckled silently as Lorenza did a some what perfect immatation of Adam Sandler, if he was a girl.
"- sh-shirt so I-I-I th-thought -"
"Just say it, already!" Laurie pleaded in vain.
"- That you needed something to change in so I thought of your gym clothes and went to your gym teacher to get it for me and she did and after that...!" yelled Tala, then paused, and resumed his stuttering stage.
"We-We-Well-Well..."
Lorenza inhaled a deep breath of September air. "Don't tell me you put this on me..." she murmmered, emphasizing each word.
"W-W-We-Well -"
"WHAT THE FUCK!??!?!?!?!?" roared Lorenza, forgetting her pain and sitting up rather strait. Her accent cleared and her silver eyes turned gray.
Rain, quite amazed by her friend's sudden burst of energy, backed away slightly. She thought quickly of a lie.
"Laurie, it's not Tala! You see, he got your clothes while I was...erm...changing...you...." lied Rain, finding the right words for the situation. Unfortuantly, none seemed right to fit their scene.
The brunette looked from Rain to Tala, in which she looked at him with slits for eyes. "You'a lyin'..." she hissed.
"No - No! I'm not! Ask Tala. Laurie, c'mon. You should really go back to bed,I mean your head will probably hurt a lot after you just, well, jumped Tala. So just lay back down and leave all the jumping 'till later..." Rain soothed, flipping the blanket towards the foot of the bed so it wouldn't get tangled with her friend's foot.
With one last 'humph' of defeath, she sat back down in her bed completely unaware of the pain in her head. The sudden thought of meeting Mariah at the skating rink popped into her mind.
"Oh'm gawd! What time is it, Rain?" she asked.
"Um..." the black haired girl leaned to her left to get a good view of the office's clock. "It's gunna be two in a moment, why?" "Nothin' but Ah gotta get out of this place!"
Tala suddenly turned to her strictly and told her to stay, and take the day off to her house. Laurie's eyes widened in anger and growled. "Hey, Rain? Do you mind if me an' my brother stay at your place for awhile?" Rain gave Laurie a questioning look before replying, "No..."
"Why?" Tala and Rain asked in unison.
Lorenza sighed and crossed her arms across her chest. "Ah've got family issues, okay?"
There was a breif silenece. Rain and Tala's gaze were locked together.
"Is that why you have that big ass bruise on your head? Because a family member hit you?" asked Tala.
"NO! Didn't Ah tell you that Ah was bein' stupid and hit myself while waking up this morning?"
"You spent the night at my place and I didn't hear no crash!"
Rain stared at amazement at the two, obviously too busy arguing to notice her confused look casted between them. Did he just say 'spent the night at my palce'? This was just getting too freaky... By this time, Rain had already started making her way towards the door to close it.
"Well just ta' let you know, 'Mast'a Ivanov', Ah live in a freakin' trailer! Do you know how low the ceilings are? It's typical for me to smack my head on something while Ah was goin' to pick up my lil' brother!" shrieked Lorenza.
It was true, it could have been typical for Laurie to run into something accidentally in a trailer. Tala was only taller than her by a few inches, and he was pretty tall. Anyone who was as tall as Kai would be refeared to as a giant, in which, Tala was. Rain, being the shorter of the two in the room, glided inbetween the two bickering couples and tried to stop them from biting each others head off.
"You could've just woken me up so I could take you to your house! At least you could've gotten some sleep while you were in the car!" Tala scolded.
"You don't get it!" Lorenza dug her head into her pillow and screamed. "Just get out!"
Tala's sapphire eyes softened at the tone of voice Laurie used on him. "Look -"
"OUT!"
Admiting defeat, Tala shook his head and pushed his chair out of his way, storming out into the schools hallway and slamming shut the patient rooms door. A few protests could be heard ("Young man! Do *not* slam the door..." etc.).
Lorenza screamed in vain once more and laid her head back down on the bed. "Ah am so STUPID!" Rain smiled re-played the recent scenes in her mind. Ohhhhh yeah, they were so made for each other.
I mean, who the hell spends a night at a hot guy's house who just happens to be your employer *and* he cares for how you feel in the morning?!
"Look, Laurie, I'm here so you can always come to me when your in a mess..." Rain started.
The lass on the bed shoved the pillow out of her face and gave Rain a skeptical look.
"O-kay, that sounded really stupid. But just listen, if you wanna stay at my place, I'm sure my grandpa will be glad for you and your brother to stay at our place."
The silver eyed girl nodded her head and sighed a huge sigh of relief. "Thank you so much! Hey, do you mind um, well..." As Lorenza trailed off, Rain tilted her head in question. "Yeah?"
"...Well...my little brother needs someone to pick him up and well, Ah kinda' told Mariah to meet me at the skating park after school today, since she thinks she knows everything, and Ah just...feel like makin' her life a livin' hell!" Laurie beamed. Her friend next to her paused to just silently look at her for a moment before bursting into fits of giggles.
"Is that all?" she asked.
Lorenza nodded. "Yup."
"Oh, thats nothing! Sure, I'll do it. But can you give me the directions? I'm kind of new here, as you can see..."
"Mm hm! Yeah, and you can use my bike!"
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Mariah. The captain of the cheerleading team. An anti-skater girl.
Here.
In a skating *park.*
'This is so stupid...' she thought, looking around. Apparently, no one seemed to notice her with the disguise she had on. Her hair was down, which was never likely in school and she had on clothes from 'Hot Topic,' which seemed like the last place she'd shop at. Mariah finally lost her patience and was about to storm out of the park when Lorenza showed up.
"Where were you?!" the pink haired girl asked in a hushed, yet fierce, voice. "Somewhere obviously not here..." Laurie replied, rolling her eyes. Mariah glared at her. "Forget it." "Forgotten."
"So what do you want me to do?" asked Mariah.
"Anything. But Ah bet you can't do a thing, now can you?" mocked Laurie, looking down on Mariah's pants. The pair of slacks she wore were way too big, it was impossible for anyone to have a glance at her blades. It was that, *and* it was impossible to skate.
"Well if I can't do a thing now, how am I suppose to challenge you? Its not like your gunna rip - hey! What are you doing?" She snapped, emphasizing the word 'what.' She kicked her leg back so Lorenza wouldn't reach it. On the other hand, the brunette was already on her knees trying to get a hold of her left leg.
"Will you just hold still? Ah'm gunna tear this thing...," she replied, finally getting hold of Mariah's leg.
Mariah looked as if someone just asked her if she was a lesbian.
"What?! I spent a good fourty bucks on that! There is no way in -" she paused. "-Heck that I'm going to let you rip it!"
Lorenza stood up again and crossed her arms across her chest. "What? Is daddy's lil' princess afwaid to use a bad word?" Mariah looked infuriated. "Hell no! I can fucking swear whenever I want to!" Laurie grinned at her. "Better. Now hold still, damn it! Ah'm tryin' to do you a favor!"
Letting out one last sigh, Mariah stuck out her left foot for Lorenza to rip apart. As Lorenza bent down, a short boy about fourteen trudged by, flashing the pink haired girl a grin. "'Sup."
Mariah gave him a sarcastic look, rolling her eyes. Lorenza didn't look up to see who it was.
"Yo, I neva' saw you hea'. You new or sumtin'?" He asked. Mariah observed the boy, looking from his head to toe. He had green hair that covered one of his purple eyes while the other, traveled up and down Mariah's body.
"Shut up, Kevin, and stop tawlkin' like Mr. T! Besides, my...'cousin'...," Lorenza stopped trying to rip Mariah's pants and grinned evily. "...isn't intrested in you." Kevin gave a skeptical look at Laurie's back.
"You have a cuz'?"
"Your lookin' at her... You know, the bitchy one that Ah always talk 'bout. The one from... the U.S.! Aw, c'mon, don't tell me ya don't rememba'! Ah keep on tellin' you how much of'a whore she is and how - OW!" Laurie stopped to glare at Mariah. "What was *that* for? Ah was just tellin' him how much of'a - OW! STOP, DAMN IT!" she cried, finally ripping about a foot of her 'cousin's' pants off. "Look what you did! Ah ripped too much!"
Kevin smirked at Mariah. "So, babe, whats your name?"
Mariah narrowed her eyes into slits and shot him a death glare.
"Kevin, or whatever, *you* need to pull those pants of yours up because no one wants to see your boxers, and defenatly *not* me. Now why not you and your little K-Mart shoes go turn around and walk on out of here."
Kevin took a step towards Mariah. "They ain't from K-Mart. An' whoevea' that's related to Lorenza wouldn't know whut designers shoes look like."
"Oh, your right, they're not from K-Mart. Sorry, I ment to say Payless."
This time, the purple eyed boy pushed Mariah backwards with both his hands. Lorenza just sat, crossed legged on the ground, and observed the two.
"Their NOT from Payless, either!" he roared.
"Salvation Army, Payless, they're all the same!" shot back Mariah, shoving Kevin about three feet away from her. The boy grunted and murmmered something that sounded like, "Bitch," under his breath and cracked his knuckles. Laurie sighed and shook her head.
"Kevin, just go away."
"NO!"
"YES! Now shut up and get the hell outta' hea! Ah don't wanna your ugly face right now..." she frowned. Kevin didn't back down, instead he advanced on Mariah and Lorenza, glaring daggers at both of them.
"Ya know what? Stop your 'Ah'm such a bad-ass that everyone will back off' kinda personality because everyone can kick your ass! Now go the hell away before *Ah* kick *your* ass!" Lorenza hissed at him. Kevin didn't stop.
"You know, very well, that Ah would - and could - beat you up, so go away!"
With one last threat thrown to him, Kevin growled and turned around, muttering several curses at the girls. Laurie rolled her eyes and got up from the ground.
"Is he, like, always like that?" Mariah asked, not moving. "No." Lorenza said, sarcasticly.
The brunette started skating away towards the rail's placed everywhere when she noticed her cheerleader 'cousin' wasn't moving.
"Can't you move?"
"No."
Laurie slightly twitched the end of her right eye in annoyance and glided towards her. "It's not like your gunna die if you fall, ya know."
Mariah made a very irratable whinning noise. "But I just got my nails done...professionally, too!"
About this time, Lorenza couldn't hold back her anger. "You know, what, princess? Theres more to life than guys, make-up, clothes, and you'a nails." Her voice was slightly sandy.
Mariah crossed her arms over her chest and turned her eyes into white and gold slits. "Ugh, as if you and your friends know what's important in life. You obviously need a change clothes, because last time I checked, Monteiro, you wore that same outfit yesterday."
Laurie, in return, did the same thing and glared at the girl in front of her. "You obviously don't know how hard it is to survive out in the world. You an' you'a friends think your everything, because of what? Because of money. Ah bet if you parents died, you wouldn't know what the hell you would do with yourself since you wouldn't have 'daddy' to pay for everything. Hell, for all Ah know, you would probably be so desperate you'll sell your body!"
"You fucking whore, don't you *EVER* talk about my family like that! Do you have any idea how stressful it is to live up to your reputation when your father's the C.E.O. of one of the most biggest company's in Japan? You and your friends defenatly, WOULD NOT!" Mariah raised her hand to slap Lorenza but the brunette blocked it with a simple action of her arm. People at the park stopped to watch the fight, hoping that there would be some action between the two girls. It wasn't often two hot girls got into cat-fights...
"Maybe Ah wouldn't, but; one thing for sure, you should stop pulling my friends into this!" Lorenza lowered her voice into a deadly tone. "Because you know why? Your here. In a skating park. With skaters. And last time Ah checked, didn't you and you'a friends say that the day that one of you guys stepped foot in this place is the day where that somebody would be automaticly kicked off the cheerleading squad, stop the 'friendship connection,' and be banned from the jock and cheerleaders 'inner circle'? And you know what? You should seriously consider to stop pissing me off anytime soon, because Ah have a big mouth and Ah'm not afraid to use it."
Although Laurie's voice was barely above a whisper, Mariah consumed every word of it and widened her eyes. She forgot about her and her friend's oath.
With one last tormenting smirk that was aimed at the cheerleader, Lorenza turned around and skated away, much to the crowd's dismise. Mariah stared off into space, taking in what Laurie just said to her and her stupid, stupid mistake. Without knowing it, she grabbed onto the nearby wall and started to skate towards the exit of the park slowly. Her usually glossy, creamy, lemon colored eyes were glazed all over. When she neared the stairs, she failed to notice a raven haired guy about her age skating towards her.
Rei was skating around on his skateboard, apparently very bored since his friends were no where to be found. He abandoned his hopes of hanging out with his friends during that time and skate home to help with his uncle with his restaurant. Just when he was going to exit the park through the ramp that lead to the main entrance/exit, the boy widened his eyes when he saw a girl that was going the same way.
"Watch out!" Rei yelled.
Mariah snapped out of her trance and looked at Rei with a monotone expression. Her face turned into a mixture of surprise and horror, but as she looked into his face, she felt blood rushing towards her face.
Immediately, she let go of the wall and cupped both her hands over her mouth. Mariah froze in her place while looking strait in the eye - him doing the same. In an instant, they crashed together.
The dame shrieked as she was pushed against her will off the pavement and rolled down the cement staircase. Rei, on the other hand, landed next to his skateboard about two feet away from the collision. The boy left his skateboard lieing there on the ground and rushed to Mariah.
"Are you okay?" he asked worriedly. Mariah held onto her right leg - the bottom portion - and looked at it. The wound covered about from the beginning of her ankle to half way down from her knee-cap. She saw that the scrap was pretty bad - looking at the peache skin peeled off from her tanned skin. Tiny pools of red could be seen, about the size of a well-sharpened pencil tip, but they then formed a small trail of blood.
Mariah looked up to catch Rei's eyes - who looked up in that instant from observing her leg. For a moment, they both locked gazes while silently running their eyes on each other's faces. The pink haired cheerleader laid her leg gently on the ground but regreated it greatly. She sucked in a deep breath of air and held her leg again - breaking the gaze between her and the boy in front of her.
"I don't know..." she trailed off, looking back into Rei's eyes again. Rei looked down at his lap and inhaled a deep breath of air.
"Look, I don't know if there's any first aid here or anything but if you want, I'll carry you to my uncle's restaurant so we can wash that scrape up." he said.
Although it was only a few minutes that they met, Mariah began to develop a small crush on him. The way he looked - how his ebony hair stuck up in random directions with his poney tail in the back - and especially his voice was driving her crazy.
"Uh...sure..." she replied, then slapped herself for sounding like a love-sick school girl.
"I mean - sure!"
Mariah tried to get up by pushing her weight on one foot while her left hand grabbed onto the wall for support. When she tried to walk on her wounded right foot, though; she winced in pain.
Rei watched as the pink haired girl struggled with walking. He looked worriedly at her and walked up to her calmly. "Are you sure your okay?" Mariah forced a smile, then replied, "Yeah." Rei frowned. "No your not." He walked over towards her and crouched down, his back facing Mariah.
"Huh?" she asked, quite shyly if I say so myself. Mariah wasn't use to this. She was never shy with anyone. Ever. And now she's being shy around a guy she must met for five minutes!
"Get on me. I'll carry you to my uncle's restaurant. Oh um...my names Rei Kon." He said, waiting for her to get on his back.
Mariah thought for a moment about his name. About a moment later she broke her reverie and started to encircle her arms around his neck.
"Um...m-my names...," A sudden jolt in her mind caused her to tighten up. What was her name?! "My names Mary Monteiro."
As Rei bent down to pick up his skateboard and grinned. "Are you related to Lorenza Monteiro?"
"Yeah...she's my cousin." lied Mariah.
"Cool...she's on the school beyblading team, like me. All we need now is another girl..."
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"Hey, Lorenza!" called Rain, waving at her friend. Laurie turned around to see her little brother running towards her, abandoning Rain on the road.
"Hey! Thanks for gettin' my brother there! You just wait there for a moment, Ah gotta get my backpack!" Lorenza yelled back. After a brief hug she receieved from her little brother, Rain smiled at the moment between the two siblings.
Just when the brunette turned around to venture through the park to get her backpack, a sharp scream filled the air causing Laurie to swing back.
"Move it, Granger!" yelled Kai, sprinting towards Rain as she just froze there - watching as the jet-black car raced towards her. Kai tackled Rain making both of them fall on the pavement just across the street from the park. Lorenza turned around wide eyed and caught a glimpse of the van zoom away. Her brother, next to her, clutched her hand and looked fearfully at the car, then at Kai and Rain.
When the car was finally out of sight, Rain sighed and looked up at Kai who was right above her, glaring at the car that just sped by. She blushed at their awkward position. She heard Kai grunt and push himself off her while dusting himself off.
"Th-thanks...," she thanked shyly. The boy beside her stared down at her. "Whatever." sneered Kai. With a simple, "Hn," he turned around swiftly and walked away. Rain stared after him, watching his figure becoming more and more smaller as he walked.
"Whot happend?!" cried Lorenza.
Rain was still watching Kai leave. A light breeze arose and flew by them, Matt still clutching his sister's arm.
The black haired teen stared at the ground and tucked a strand of hair behind her ear. She slowly slid her left hand up her right arm and covered the 'I' mark with her palm.
"I don't know..."
~*~
"Hey, Sarah!" greeted Mariah happily. She opened the door and stepped through the threshold of her victorian styled house. Mariah closed the door lightly behind her and leaned on it, her yellow eyes was glazed over with a dream-like state.
A maid, in the mid-fourties, hustled by with a duster in hand and smiled at her mistress.
"Hello, Mistress Mariah," Sarah bowed. The pink haired girl bounced towards her personal maid, very hyped up, and hugged her.
"Oh, Sarah, stop calling me 'mistress'! I just *got* to tell you what happend! Anyways, today I made this bet with a girl in my school of going to this skating park, and I did! Well, there, I kind of got into a fight and then I started to walk away when this totally hot guy just crashed into me! You would think thats horrible, but it wasn't! I swear to god, he was the most gorgeous guy I have ever met - and he even said that he was in my school! And to think, all that time I couldn't see him! And to think that he knew the girl I got in a fight with!'
The elderly women, quite surprised by the young girls recent outburst, chuckled and patted her head in a grandmotherly fashion.
"Get your hands off my daughter!" A shrill, yet in the same time strict, voice accused.
Sarah shot open her eyes and released her embrace with Mariah and bowed very lowly. "I'm sorry, Madam. I shall be going now."
A women in her early thirties sneered down at Sarah's fragile form and looked, displeased to the least, over at Mariah.
"I'm sorry, Mom." apologised the teen. She bowed her head down and looked strait down towards the floor. Mariah still felt her mom's cold eyes on her back. "Ma'am."
Mariah's mom shifted her gaze towards the door and nodded silently. "Your father's out again tonight. Tomorrow we'll be hosting a party. Make sure you don't forget to come." she droned, emphasizing the word 'forget'. Mariah rolled her eyes when her mother wasn't looking at her. "It's not like I've ever missed one in my life." she murmmered.
"What was that?" snapped Mrs. Zhang. "Nothing." Mariah replied.
"We'll be having dinner in ten minutes. Go wash up and put on some..." Mrs. Zang eyed Mariah's choice of clothing. "...Suitable clothes. What are these rags you are wearing?!"
Mariah looked down at herself. "Um...I'll go change."
Her mom eyed her one last time as Mariah climbed up the stairs, her nose twitching in the utmost disgust. "Oh, and Ma'am?"
Mrs. Zang slightly tilted her head giving Mariah a cue to go on. "I don't think I want dinner. You go enjoy the meal without me."
"Are you sure?"
"Yeah."
"Very well."
With that, Mariah's mom headed towards the east side of the house, while Mariah to the left.
"Sarah!" hissed Mariah excitedly. Sarah, who was currently dusting off a shelf crammed full of ancient chinese scrolls, looked around the hall and finally noticed Mariah's head peeking out from her door. "Mariah! We can't talk now, what if your mom catches us?"
Mariah squinted the end of her right eye in annoyance and pulled the women gently towards her room. With a 'click' the door was lock.
"Now, we won't have anyone to bother us! Anyways, I just have to tell what happend today! The boy I met, well his name is Rei, and he is the most dreamiest guys ever! He even has the most wonderful personality and he is such a gentlemen! Did you know his uncle owns a restaurant? And god they make the most delicous food EVER, after you, of course. Oh yeah, and he also told me he was on the school beyblading team! Isn't that so cool? I bet he works out a LOT...." babbled Mariah. Sarah widened her eyes softely. "Oh? His name is Rei?" Mariah giggled quite girlishly. "Yeah!"
Sarah chuckled at the young women in front of her. She thought of how she bought her up, from her obessions with pink poneys, and now to boys. She shook her head with a grin on her face and sighed.
"You've grown a lot, m'dear. Did you know that?"
Mariah snorted. "Yeah, yeah!" she hurried, then hugged Sarah. "Your like the closest thing I got!"
Sarah smiled and then asked, "Did you say he beybladed?"
The pink haired girl nodded quickly. "Yeah!" Sarah thought for a moment. "I believe your mother beybladed when she was about your age."
"Really?"
"Yes." nodded Sarah. Mariah suddenly blushed. "Um...if you don't mind me asking...whats beyblade?"
Sarah sighed, yet again, and took off her glasses. There was a small pause as she cleaned off her lenses and re-covered them over her eyes.
"Well, my husband use to teach beyblade as a job, and then he taught it to my son which taught it to his. I don't recall the very specific details on everything but...,"
Mariah listened intently to every word that came out of Sarah's mouth and made mental notes to herself about it. When fifteen minutes passed, the phone across the room rang suddenly, making Sarah halt and Mariah tense up. They both exhaled slowly as a result of their happiness it was not Mrs. Zhang.
"I'll get it, dear, just wait where you are." assured Sarah. Mariah nodded as she re-stated all the facts Sarah had just informed her of in this 'beyblading' sport.
"Mariah, its for you. It's Lee." Sarah declared.
The teen slightly frowned at the sound of his name, but none the less smiled and stood up. Sarah handed the ivory, victorian style phone to Mariah and started to walk back to her bed, where they were sitting.
"Hey." greeted Mariah, sitting in a near by stool and lifting her wounded leg up.
"Hey. I just wanted to call 'cuz I have this football game on Saturday. I dunno if your busy or not, but I'm just calling to see if you can come." 'Lee' said.
Mariah nodded absent mindedly and examined the cloth that tied up her ingury. It was from the very material Rei's shirt were mad of, since he ripped his own clothing to help her pain reside.
She traced the black cloth around her leg with her index finger, a silly smile spread across her face. "Uh huh...no problem, I think I don't have anything planned for Saturday...," answered Mariah.
Throughout the conversation, she basicly repeated the words "Uh huh," and "Mm hm," while playing around with the loose knot from the bow.
All Mariah was thinking of was a raven haired beyblader...
...And that raven haired beyblader was Rei.
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Stargazer : Omg, finally! I'm sorry that I haven't been updating, its because of school! I won't be updating that quick (not that I did before ^^), but I'll try my best. The next chapter will be a little fast paced, so...yeah. Anyways, PLEASE don't forget to review!
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