Disclaimer: I do not own beyblade blah blah blah!

I can't stand Chinese school! Someone save me! BTW, does anyone out there go to Canterbury university Sunday Chinese school? I do! And I need someone to help me create trouble, I give my teacher hell!!!

Can anyone imagine Ray on a dance machine? That would be funny.

Chapter 3: At the mall

''I'm late! See you later mother!'' Yuna yelled as she ran out the front door. Ray had rung her an hour ago, asking if she wanted to go down town. She had said yes but knowing her clumsy self, she would be late.

Yuna sprinted down three streets, her breakfast still in her hand. She stuffed the last piece of bread in her mouth as she saw Ray. He didn't look angry that she was late, in fact, he looked pretty happy after waiting 15 minutes.

''Hey, Yuna!'' He yelled.

''Hi Ray,'' She panted as she reached him. ''Where are you going to take me then?''

''Where would you like to go?'' Ray asked.

''Wherever would do. Why don't you show me around?''

''Can do.'' And the two of them walked towards the main town centre.

''By the way, where are the others?'' Yuna asked.

''Um, they couldn't come, they had a project to finish off,'' Ray said quickly, ''Why don't we go to the mall and have a look around, there's bound to be something interesting there.''

''Okays than.''

The mall was pretty big and had four entrance/exits on each point of the compass. There were stalls outside the mall, like flowers, drinks stalls and various Japanese delicacy stalls like sushi. People were coming in and out, of all generations. There was also a dance machine right near the entrance. Ray saw it was empty and grabbed Yuna's hand. ''Look, let's have a go on that!'' He dragged her towards the machine and when they got there, there was still no one on it.

Ray inserted some coins in and beckoned Yuna to get on.

''But, where I came from, there isn't any of this. What is it?''

''It's a dance machine, your feet has to follow the patterns on the screen. When the arrow reaches the top, you have to press it. very simple really.'' He explained.

''Sounds simple. I might make a fool of myself, oh who cares! Only live once.'' So she hopped on to the machine. Ray scrolled pass most of the songs and stopped, deliberately at a certain song. Then going down to the most feet.

''Butterfly? Is that easy?'' she asked, narrowing her eyes.

''Nope, it's pretty hard but don't worry, it can be a bit confusing.'' He smiled.

The song started and in the first few seconds, Yuna was going fine, she was keeping a combo up, and Ray was pretty good too. Then it started getting faster and more confusing. Ray looked like he knew it all of by heart, without really looking at the screen. Yuna was having a bit of trouble but she still hadn't missed a step. People were gathering around to watch.

''Am I doing it right, Ray?'' Yuna quickly said halfway through. It had slowed down near the middle and she thought it had ended but then the steps all came back again.

''Wow! Is this your first time on one of these? How did you keep up the combo?'' He looked gobsmacked.

''First time, haven't heard of these before! ''

''I had to learn for ages to keep up with this, they have so much flying at ya!''

The song ended and everyone watching clapped. Yuna had only missed a few times at the end but overall, her screen spelt perfect. She had beaten the high score, which was Ray's before, she entered her name in and jumped back down from the machine.

''That was breathtaking.''

''For real, man. Good exercise though!'' he commented.

''Let's have a look around. All that dancing makes me want ice cream!'' Yuna yelled.

Ray led her to the nearest ice cream store, he brought a mint choc chip for Yuna and a cream and cookies one for himself. They sat on a bench, eating their ice cream quietly, when Ray licked his to hard and the whole thing came off the cone. It made a big splat sound on the floor.

Yuna started giggling.

''It isn't that funny you know! Stop laughing, my ice cream!!!'' Ray, couldn't help but laugh and soon the two of them were howling with laughter. Many faces stop to stare. Ray reached over and knocked Yuna's cone of ice cream of her hand, and that too, hit the ground.

''Hey!'' Yuna said, but Ray just carried on laughing.

''Let's have a look at the cloths shop!'' Yuna said. Ray agreed but shopping for cloths had never been a man thing. He sat on a chair while Yuna spent half an hour trying on cloths, she finally chose a black dress.

''Sorry, that was probably very boring for you,''

''No. but lets go to the music store, I wanted to look at some CDs,'' Ray said.

They went into a big music store. There were various sections, like a corner for pop, a corner for rap etc. the store was pretty much crowded to. Most people won't in here to buy, they came to listen to music. The two of them went round the shop, listening to weird music and cool tunes.

''I like Eminem, So Solid Crew and 50 Cent,'' Yuna told him, ''But I didn't get to listen to music often.''

''I like most music but I can't stand stuff like classics,''

''Eeurgh! I know what you mean!''

Ray didn't buy anything, he was here just to listen to music. Later, they came back out of the store.

''Some of the music was really rubbish!'' Yuna said cheerfully.

''Yep, most of us hang out in there, we don't really pay for anything,'' he explained.

''I know what music is but we don't have any shops with that in the village,'' Yuna fell silent. She missed her home town but here, she had friends. ''Hey, I'm hungry, all that wandering about gives you a very empty stomach!'' she said loudly.

''There's a nice café down the mall. They have the best hot chocolate ever!'' Ray exclaimed.

They entered a pretty posh looking café and took a seat. A little while later, a women about 20 came to take their order.

''Hi, Ray! Long time no see! Oh! Who's that young lady you've got with you?'' The women had red hair, tied up in a neat bun. Her eyes were big and blue.

''Hi Ileya, how's mum doing? This is the new girl, Yuna.'' Ray answered.

''Mum's doing fine! She's at the back cooking if you want to see her. Hi Yuna, enjoying life here?''

''Yes, it is a pleasant place. I do miss my home town but it's much better here!'' Yuna answered.

''We would like two cups of hot chocolate. Tell mum that she is a superb cook!''

''Will do,'' Ileya skated away.

''Who is Ileya?'' Yuna asked.

''Ileya is the waitress here, she is a bit like a sister to me. My family is well known for its cooking. We used to have a proper restaurant but mum sold it, she wanted one nearer the mall. Turns out this one were in the mall! It wasn't big enough to turn into a proper restaurant so we left it as a café.'' He explained.

''Ah, I get it!''

Just then Ileya returned.

''Here is your choccie! Enjoy!'' she said cheerfully.

''This is nice!''

''Yes'' Ray answered.

Yuna took another sip and looked outside the window. A boy was staring straight back.

''Tyson!'' Ray got up, he wasn't expecting him to be here, with Kenny. The pair walked in.

''What ya doing buddy? Got any free food?'' Tyson said loudly. A couple of customers gave him rude looks.

''Hi Tyson, wanna hang out with me and Ray? Hi there Kenny!'' Yuna smiled to both of them, more people equals twice as much fun.

Ray turned round and started crying (anime style), huge tears running down his face. The others didn't notice him talking to himself, ''It's not fair! Damn those two for ruining my plans!'' he cursed.

''Come on Ray, we're going shopping again!'' Yuna said happily.

''Okay'' he quickly recovered and followed them out.

*

Yuna got home, it was a fun day but Ray had seemed a bit off when Tyson and Kenny showed up. She thought nothing more of it. The family had dinner at the table and after that, Yuna went up to sleep, she needed the early night, after all the fun. As she walked up the stairs, she overheard her parents from their room.

''When do we tell her? We can't keep it hidden forever. She is bound to ask why we are so different,'' she heard her mother say.

''We cannot let her know! She is too young and why? You brought her up to believe this life, why take it away now?'' her dad answered back fiercely.

The couple came out of the room, their faces widened in shock when they saw Yuna standing there.

''Mother, Father, what do you want to tell me?'' she asked, looking at them directly.

''Nothing, nothing at all, silly,'' her father's face broke into a smile. He gave his daughter's shoulder a reassuring squeeze.

''We weren't saying anything about you, you must be sleepy, go and get some rest, you are not going out tomorrow, looks like you've worked yourself a fever!'' her mum said, before going down.

Yuna went inside her room and onto the bed, was she hearing things or were they really talking?

That's it for now, next chapter should be up in a week's time providing my teachers don't throw tonnes of homework on me! Chinese school on Sundays!!!! Oh no!!!!