Rather Live Another Rainy Day
Rated: Pg-13
Disclaimer: I don't own anything but April. Shanna belongs to my friend Sarah, and Lolli belongs to my friend Steph. Tala, Kai, Rei and the rest of them belong to whoever it is who own beyblade (*apologizes but she seriously doesn't know*). And I think that's it ^_^
Chapter Three: Ignore your heart
Rei sat down at the kitchen table, sipping his orange pekoe tea(I love this kind of tea! ^_^} and reading a letter that his publicity manager had sent him. Rei sighed as his eyes skimmed over all of the places he had to be over the next week. There wasn't a single day he didn't have booked solid, which meant that he wasn't going to be able to spend any time with Lolli, like he had wanted. Unless...
Rei looked at his day planner and was pleased to see that he didn't have anything planned for tonight. He knew that Lolli had an interview today but surely she'd be done before eight, probably way before that, and she hadn't mentioned anything else for today, so it was profitable to assume that she didn't have anything else to do today.
Rei took another sip o fhis tea and took out the phone book, looking for somewhere to take Lolli for their date. He thumbed through the restaurant section, loking for a good Italian restaurant (A/N:I love Italian food) . That would a good place to take Lolli for a date and then they could go to the park for a walk or something afterwards. Rei didn't really care where they ended up, as long as he could spend some time with Lolli before his schedule got too busy to do so.
Rei dailed Lolli's newspaper's headquaters and left a message with the secretary to get Lolli to call him back whenever Lolli could and then he went upstairs to get ready for his only appointment of the day. An interview {A/N: how ironic...both him and Lolli have only an interview scheduled today}
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Shanna sighed as she went through the mail for the second time this morning. There were letters from her cousins in Sakatchewan{A/N:That's in canada for those of you who don't know ^_^}, letters from her old friends back in bc {A//n: also in canada}, letters from her other cousins, a letter from her brother and even a letter from that guy that took their dog after they had to move but not a single letter from her parents. Kai had sent out the invitations two weeks ago, there was no way it would take her parents this long to answer something as important as that.
Shanna eyed the phone, and pondered phoning her parents. It couldn't hurt. Maybe her mom had just not gotten around to writing her yet, or maybe her letter was lost in the mail. Maybe, though not likely since it was sent special delivery, Kai's invitation hadn't gotten there yet. It wasn't lost, no not the invitations, otherwise no one would have gotten theirs.
What was wrong? Shanna asked herself and then shook her head. She was probably just being antsy. The letter would probably get here tomorrow, there was no reason for her to fret.
The phone rang and Shanna jumped. She laughed shakingly at herself and picked up the phone on it's fourth ring and held it to her ear. "Hello, Hiwatari Residence, this is Shanna speaking." {A/n: *sighs* I can't remember Shanna's last name...lol}
"There you are darling. I've been calling everywhere for you. April isn't home, and neither was Lolli but her nice boyfriend, what's his name, Rei? Anyways, he told me that you might be over here." Shanna's mother's voice announced from over the phone line. "So tell me, did you and Kai finally make up or are you over there getting some of your things?"
Shanna was puzzled. Did her mother really think that they would be getting married if they had broken up? That's stupid! Shows you how smart her mother was. "Of course we made up. Didn't you figure that out from the invitation?"
"What invitation dear?"
Shanna rolled her eyes. "Mother, do you try to act dumb or is it just natural?" Shanna sighed exasperily. "The wedding invitation. You'd think that you'd remember that your little girl is getting married."
"You're doing what?" Shanna's mother asked. "When? Who? Why?"
"Mom?" Shanna asked. "Did you get the invitation that Kai sent you?"
"No." Shanna's mother sighed. "You're getting married to Kai? Well I guess you two really did make-up."
"Yes you could say that." Shanna heard the door open. "Kai's home, mom. I gotta go and talk to him for a minute. I'll call you back tomorrow? Alright?" Shanna waved to Kai when he entered the living room.
"Alright then" Her mother hung up.
Shanna turned to Kai after replacing the phone on it's cradle. Shanna put her hands on her hips and stared Kai down. "Kai Hiwatari! Did you or did you not send my mother an invitation to our wedding?" The look on Kai's face said it all and Shanna glared fiercely. "KAI!"
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April sat in her office, trying to rub the much needed sleep out of her eyes. It wouldn't do to have her falling asleep, especially not with two reports more she needed to do before she left today.
And had to go back to her own apartment. That thought intruded into her mind, making her remember what Tala had said. April blinked back the tears that threatened to fall and tried to concentrate on her work in front of her. However, she coudln't stop hearting his voice and those words 'I don't think we should move in with each other anymore.'
Why not? April asked herself stubbornly. Why couldn't they move in with each other? Why did he have to turn her away? Why? Just because she had gotten mad because he wouldn't let her go to work? That wasn't a good reason. Not at all, especially since they'd been planning this forever. It just wasn't fair.
April looked at the note her secretary had left her before going off to her house and boyfriend. It read; April, Tala's phoning her almost nonstop. Please phone him back. April shook her head. Why? What would she say to him? What would he say to her? There wasn't anything to say anymore and there was no reason to just use up the phone line.
April took up her computer again, and attempted to type up her report and block all thoughts of Tala out of her mind. Unfortunately, it wasn't working for her as April found that she was calling "Tara Winderspoon" the head of a certain company, "Tala". April groaned and went back and corrected it all. She finally finished her reports, after having to correct the same mistake a million times, when the phone went out.
April picked it up without even thinking about it and held it up to her ear. "Hello, Hiatari's office. April Young speaking." {A/N: Is that what I said her last name was? I can't remember...*sighs* I really think that I'm bad at the whole 'last name' thing today}.
"Thank god I found you. Now don't hang up. It's Tala. I just want you to know that I was stupid and I-" April hung up the phone, not wanting to hear what he had to say. Then she stared at the phone, wishing she had not hung up the phone merely so that she could hear Tala's reassuring voice for a while.
April didn't know what to do. After all, what do you do about a boyfriend that called you but said you couldn't be with him anymore?
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Lolli stood outside of the girl's house, pausing infront of the door, poised to knock but not quite. Lolli sighed, what was she so nervous about? It was just another interview with just another girl. That was all. Trying to keep that in mind, Lolli knocked on the door and stepped back, waiting for it to open. Her news crew stood behind her, the photographer, the second writer, and the recording guy. You didn't really need that many people for this kind of thing. Lolli hoped.
The door opened, and Loli found herself gasping. When you go on a story like this one, you kinda think you'd find this girl with long shaggy hair, mud all over and old clothes. That was just a stereo-type that Lolli had pictured, one she had always given to stalkers, even as a little girl. Usually she was pretty good with guessing these sort of things, but not this time.
This girl had long red hair, that cascaded into bouncy curls around her waist. Bright green eyes flashed merely at Lolli, as though Lolli was an old friend that had finally gotten in touch with her again. She was taller than Lolli, by at least a good half a foot. She was about five foot eleven inches and maybe six feet. She wore a white t-shirt that had a picture of Rei on the front and black pants that had a picture of Driger on the right leg and another picture of Rei on the left. On her neck was a necklace that Lolli was almost positive she had seen Rei wear before. Had this girl hotten that close to Rei or was Lolli just imagining things?
The girl slipped a lock of her hair behind her ears and smiled down at Lolli, almost as if she thought she was better than Lolli was. "Hello, I'm Crystal Cunning. You must be Lolli. Come on in, I've been waiting for you." Crystal turned around, leading Lolli and her crew into her house.
Lolli looked around the house as they walked through it, her mouth wide open as her eyes moved frome one wall to another, frightened but what she was seeing. There were pictures of Rei everywhere, pictures of him laughing, pictures of him crying, pictures of him at various stadiums, pictures of him at home sleeping. How had she gotten some of these?
"I sese you're admiring my collection of pictures of Rei. Lovely, isn't it. I personally took most of these pictures. They were hard to get, I admit, but there were all worth it." Crystal said. "Now, what do you want to ask me first?"
'I want to tell you to get away from my Rei' Lolli thought to herself but out loud she said; "Lets start with basics and work our way up. How old are you? How many siblings? Your parents, were they married, divorced, separated, one of them maybe died?"
Crystal nodded. "Well, I'm seventeen years old. I have two older brothers and a younger sister. My parents divorced when I was seven and then both of them were remarried before I was ten."
Lolli took quick notes of this. "so, why exactly do you stalk Rei?"
Crystal smiled. "Why that's easy."
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"I can't believe you Kai Hiwatari! You remembered everyone but my parents. They're the most important people I wanted you to invited." Shanna exclaimed. "How could you forget them?"
Kai shrugged, not getting too worked up about this. "You didn't put them on the list."
"I didn't put them on the list? I didn't put them on the-" Shanna took a deep breath, trying to keep herself from strangling Kai with her own bare hands. "I shouldn't have to put my parents on the list. They should have been the first people that you made one for."
Kai shrugged again. "How was I supposed to know? I've never done this before, Shanna. I told you to make a list of everyone you wanted me to invite."
"It's common sense!" Shanna said. "You always invite the parents so I didn't think that I would have to put that on there." Shanna sighed, her hands going limp at her sides. "You know what. Just forget it. I'm going to bed, I'll deal with it later."
Kai watched as Shanna climbed the stairs to their room and his eyebrows creased in confusion. What had that been about?
Rated: Pg-13
Disclaimer: I don't own anything but April. Shanna belongs to my friend Sarah, and Lolli belongs to my friend Steph. Tala, Kai, Rei and the rest of them belong to whoever it is who own beyblade (*apologizes but she seriously doesn't know*). And I think that's it ^_^
Chapter Three: Ignore your heart
Rei sat down at the kitchen table, sipping his orange pekoe tea(I love this kind of tea! ^_^} and reading a letter that his publicity manager had sent him. Rei sighed as his eyes skimmed over all of the places he had to be over the next week. There wasn't a single day he didn't have booked solid, which meant that he wasn't going to be able to spend any time with Lolli, like he had wanted. Unless...
Rei looked at his day planner and was pleased to see that he didn't have anything planned for tonight. He knew that Lolli had an interview today but surely she'd be done before eight, probably way before that, and she hadn't mentioned anything else for today, so it was profitable to assume that she didn't have anything else to do today.
Rei took another sip o fhis tea and took out the phone book, looking for somewhere to take Lolli for their date. He thumbed through the restaurant section, loking for a good Italian restaurant (A/N:I love Italian food) . That would a good place to take Lolli for a date and then they could go to the park for a walk or something afterwards. Rei didn't really care where they ended up, as long as he could spend some time with Lolli before his schedule got too busy to do so.
Rei dailed Lolli's newspaper's headquaters and left a message with the secretary to get Lolli to call him back whenever Lolli could and then he went upstairs to get ready for his only appointment of the day. An interview {A/N: how ironic...both him and Lolli have only an interview scheduled today}
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Shanna sighed as she went through the mail for the second time this morning. There were letters from her cousins in Sakatchewan{A/N:That's in canada for those of you who don't know ^_^}, letters from her old friends back in bc {A//n: also in canada}, letters from her other cousins, a letter from her brother and even a letter from that guy that took their dog after they had to move but not a single letter from her parents. Kai had sent out the invitations two weeks ago, there was no way it would take her parents this long to answer something as important as that.
Shanna eyed the phone, and pondered phoning her parents. It couldn't hurt. Maybe her mom had just not gotten around to writing her yet, or maybe her letter was lost in the mail. Maybe, though not likely since it was sent special delivery, Kai's invitation hadn't gotten there yet. It wasn't lost, no not the invitations, otherwise no one would have gotten theirs.
What was wrong? Shanna asked herself and then shook her head. She was probably just being antsy. The letter would probably get here tomorrow, there was no reason for her to fret.
The phone rang and Shanna jumped. She laughed shakingly at herself and picked up the phone on it's fourth ring and held it to her ear. "Hello, Hiwatari Residence, this is Shanna speaking." {A/n: *sighs* I can't remember Shanna's last name...lol}
"There you are darling. I've been calling everywhere for you. April isn't home, and neither was Lolli but her nice boyfriend, what's his name, Rei? Anyways, he told me that you might be over here." Shanna's mother's voice announced from over the phone line. "So tell me, did you and Kai finally make up or are you over there getting some of your things?"
Shanna was puzzled. Did her mother really think that they would be getting married if they had broken up? That's stupid! Shows you how smart her mother was. "Of course we made up. Didn't you figure that out from the invitation?"
"What invitation dear?"
Shanna rolled her eyes. "Mother, do you try to act dumb or is it just natural?" Shanna sighed exasperily. "The wedding invitation. You'd think that you'd remember that your little girl is getting married."
"You're doing what?" Shanna's mother asked. "When? Who? Why?"
"Mom?" Shanna asked. "Did you get the invitation that Kai sent you?"
"No." Shanna's mother sighed. "You're getting married to Kai? Well I guess you two really did make-up."
"Yes you could say that." Shanna heard the door open. "Kai's home, mom. I gotta go and talk to him for a minute. I'll call you back tomorrow? Alright?" Shanna waved to Kai when he entered the living room.
"Alright then" Her mother hung up.
Shanna turned to Kai after replacing the phone on it's cradle. Shanna put her hands on her hips and stared Kai down. "Kai Hiwatari! Did you or did you not send my mother an invitation to our wedding?" The look on Kai's face said it all and Shanna glared fiercely. "KAI!"
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April sat in her office, trying to rub the much needed sleep out of her eyes. It wouldn't do to have her falling asleep, especially not with two reports more she needed to do before she left today.
And had to go back to her own apartment. That thought intruded into her mind, making her remember what Tala had said. April blinked back the tears that threatened to fall and tried to concentrate on her work in front of her. However, she coudln't stop hearting his voice and those words 'I don't think we should move in with each other anymore.'
Why not? April asked herself stubbornly. Why couldn't they move in with each other? Why did he have to turn her away? Why? Just because she had gotten mad because he wouldn't let her go to work? That wasn't a good reason. Not at all, especially since they'd been planning this forever. It just wasn't fair.
April looked at the note her secretary had left her before going off to her house and boyfriend. It read; April, Tala's phoning her almost nonstop. Please phone him back. April shook her head. Why? What would she say to him? What would he say to her? There wasn't anything to say anymore and there was no reason to just use up the phone line.
April took up her computer again, and attempted to type up her report and block all thoughts of Tala out of her mind. Unfortunately, it wasn't working for her as April found that she was calling "Tara Winderspoon" the head of a certain company, "Tala". April groaned and went back and corrected it all. She finally finished her reports, after having to correct the same mistake a million times, when the phone went out.
April picked it up without even thinking about it and held it up to her ear. "Hello, Hiatari's office. April Young speaking." {A/N: Is that what I said her last name was? I can't remember...*sighs* I really think that I'm bad at the whole 'last name' thing today}.
"Thank god I found you. Now don't hang up. It's Tala. I just want you to know that I was stupid and I-" April hung up the phone, not wanting to hear what he had to say. Then she stared at the phone, wishing she had not hung up the phone merely so that she could hear Tala's reassuring voice for a while.
April didn't know what to do. After all, what do you do about a boyfriend that called you but said you couldn't be with him anymore?
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Lolli stood outside of the girl's house, pausing infront of the door, poised to knock but not quite. Lolli sighed, what was she so nervous about? It was just another interview with just another girl. That was all. Trying to keep that in mind, Lolli knocked on the door and stepped back, waiting for it to open. Her news crew stood behind her, the photographer, the second writer, and the recording guy. You didn't really need that many people for this kind of thing. Lolli hoped.
The door opened, and Loli found herself gasping. When you go on a story like this one, you kinda think you'd find this girl with long shaggy hair, mud all over and old clothes. That was just a stereo-type that Lolli had pictured, one she had always given to stalkers, even as a little girl. Usually she was pretty good with guessing these sort of things, but not this time.
This girl had long red hair, that cascaded into bouncy curls around her waist. Bright green eyes flashed merely at Lolli, as though Lolli was an old friend that had finally gotten in touch with her again. She was taller than Lolli, by at least a good half a foot. She was about five foot eleven inches and maybe six feet. She wore a white t-shirt that had a picture of Rei on the front and black pants that had a picture of Driger on the right leg and another picture of Rei on the left. On her neck was a necklace that Lolli was almost positive she had seen Rei wear before. Had this girl hotten that close to Rei or was Lolli just imagining things?
The girl slipped a lock of her hair behind her ears and smiled down at Lolli, almost as if she thought she was better than Lolli was. "Hello, I'm Crystal Cunning. You must be Lolli. Come on in, I've been waiting for you." Crystal turned around, leading Lolli and her crew into her house.
Lolli looked around the house as they walked through it, her mouth wide open as her eyes moved frome one wall to another, frightened but what she was seeing. There were pictures of Rei everywhere, pictures of him laughing, pictures of him crying, pictures of him at various stadiums, pictures of him at home sleeping. How had she gotten some of these?
"I sese you're admiring my collection of pictures of Rei. Lovely, isn't it. I personally took most of these pictures. They were hard to get, I admit, but there were all worth it." Crystal said. "Now, what do you want to ask me first?"
'I want to tell you to get away from my Rei' Lolli thought to herself but out loud she said; "Lets start with basics and work our way up. How old are you? How many siblings? Your parents, were they married, divorced, separated, one of them maybe died?"
Crystal nodded. "Well, I'm seventeen years old. I have two older brothers and a younger sister. My parents divorced when I was seven and then both of them were remarried before I was ten."
Lolli took quick notes of this. "so, why exactly do you stalk Rei?"
Crystal smiled. "Why that's easy."
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"I can't believe you Kai Hiwatari! You remembered everyone but my parents. They're the most important people I wanted you to invited." Shanna exclaimed. "How could you forget them?"
Kai shrugged, not getting too worked up about this. "You didn't put them on the list."
"I didn't put them on the list? I didn't put them on the-" Shanna took a deep breath, trying to keep herself from strangling Kai with her own bare hands. "I shouldn't have to put my parents on the list. They should have been the first people that you made one for."
Kai shrugged again. "How was I supposed to know? I've never done this before, Shanna. I told you to make a list of everyone you wanted me to invite."
"It's common sense!" Shanna said. "You always invite the parents so I didn't think that I would have to put that on there." Shanna sighed, her hands going limp at her sides. "You know what. Just forget it. I'm going to bed, I'll deal with it later."
Kai watched as Shanna climbed the stairs to their room and his eyebrows creased in confusion. What had that been about?