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Disclaimer: I do not own Beyblade or any of it's characters. I do not own Toni, she belongs to Bed 'N' Breakfast.  

Chapter One: Boarding the BBA's Beyblading School

Laynie removed her black sunglasses and gazed upon the gigantic ship that would be her home for the upcoming eleven months. She read the name "S.S Atlantica" on the ship's front.

Laynie had mixed feelings about this. Meeting her team and all of her friends again was going to be so fun but someone, or more exactly, someone bothered her. A certain Russian had been in her mind during the whole summer…

Laynie knew she was supposed to hate him. Dammit, she had promised herself that she felt nothing for him any longer.

But it was hard. Even though she convinced herself over and over again, she couldn't hate him. The only thing she could feel was sorrow. Sorrow and pain.

How was she supposed to act? Pretend that nothing had happened? That she didn't care?

Of course she could do that. But Laynie highly doubted that she had actor talent enough for such a thing as that. She knew that her eyes always betrayed her.

All of her strong feelings shone out of her eyes.

"How can you see into my eyes like open doors?"

The lyrics from the song "Bring me to life" by Evanescence suddenly came into her mind and she smirked. That explained exactly how good her acting talents actually were. Crap.

[Hell with that!] Laynie thought. [I'm not gonna change because of him! If he thinks I'm being annoying, then he can avoid me. Cause I'm NOT GONNA CHANGE]

Laynie placed her shoulder bag over her left shoulder and grabbed her big bag with all of her clothes and stuff. Josephine had more than enough, made sure that Laynie had clothes so it was gonna last for three years…

Even though Laynie had changed during the summer, her dislike for shopping still was as strong as ever. But Josephine had bought clothes and forced Laynie to wear them.

And, even Laynie had to admit it, Josephine DID have a good taste in clothes. Laynie smirked.

-  "Hey, why are you smiling?" A voice said and Laynie immediately turned her head towards the speaker. Which happened to be the person with good taste in clothes herself. Josephine. Toni had gone together with Tyson to the ship already and left Josephine and Laynie on the dock.

-  "Nothing." Laynie replied and shook her head so the black bangs whirled around her head. 

-  "Sure…" Josephine said teasingly and nudged her sister. "I believe it's the hot guy over there who's the source to your sudden happiness!"

Laynie cocked one eyebrow. What was Josephine talking about?

She turned her head again, in the direction Josephine had nodded, and met a pair of brown eyes. She hurried to remove her gaze and snapped her head to Josephine again.

-  "If you're gonna be like this all this year, I'll think of any way to get rid of you!" She said threatening and glared at Josephine.

Josephine laughed. When Mr. Dickenson had asked her if she was interested in work as an English teacher during this year, she had been very excited but had asked Laynie if it was okay first. So, she knew that Laynie didn't have anything against it.

[We've grown pretty close lately I think. But still, there's rooms in her I can't enter yet. But we're moving along great!] Josephine thought and watched Laynie sit down on her bag.

Josephine had tried to make Laynie tell what was bothering her but she hadn't success. After Laynie's trip to China, Laynie had been a little happier and not that closed any longer. But Josephine still wondered what really had happened during Laynie's last weeks with the Bladebreakers. It was obvious that something serious had happened, but she couldn't place a finger on what.

(A/N: Hm, I don't know how it is with that finger thing in your countries but we say that in Sweden though!)

-  "So, Laynie. What do you say? Shall we board now or make them wait for us huh?" She said and smiled brightly.

Laynie gave her a half of a smile back and got onto her feet again. She had seen Mariah, Ray, Tyson and, of course, Toni during summer but it would be great to see Max again. Ok, she could find his happiness and hyperness a bit annoying sometimes (read: often) but she liked him anyway. Kenny, "The Chief" wasn't gonna be there with them this year. Being the genius he was, he had been accepted to the number one data-school in the world. Therefore, he couldn't come along with his team but he had sent them his most sincere apologizes.

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-  "Laynie!"

Laynie heard a high-pitched voice scream her name before someone glomped her with such force she almost fell off her feet. She could a glimpse of pink and realized that the human bomb was no one more then Mariah.

-  "Mariah!" She exclaimed and smiled. She gave Mariah a quick hug before taking a step backwards to take a look at her friend.

Mariah wore white jeans and a white top with pink roses on, and her hair was in a messy ponytail.

-  "Hey, what about us then?" Max grinned and Laynie smiled at him.

-  "Of course I've missed you. I've missed all of you…"

But when Laynie said the last part her voice trailed off in a whisper as she carefully turned her head to Kai, so little that it was almost impossible to see. But Kai noticed and gazed back.

Laynie swallowed once and started to bit her bottom-lip. She gave him a hurt look before turning away, giving Tyson another smile. But Kai could see how she really had to force herself to that smile. And he didn't feel good about it at all.

The look she had given him was pure sorrow and it had ached in his heart so badly he could have lay down and died in the same minute. He hated himself for being the one who had made her feel like she did.

[I'm sorry…] He thought and wondered why it was so damn hard to get those two words over his lips.

Damn pride.

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Laynie sank down onto one of the many chairs, waiting for Mr. Dickenson to begin his speech. She had Mariah on her left side and Max on her right. Kai sat two seats away, next to Ray who sat next to Mariah.

Tyson and Toni was already in some kinda discussion with Kevin from The White Tigers and was talking very loud. Unfortunately, the three of them were very deep into the problem so neither of them noticed that the crowd around them had become silent, waiting for the teenagers to stop. Which they didn't though…

[I don't know them. I don't know them. I DO NOT know them!] Laynie tried to persuade herself, but failed. With a sigh, she rose from her chair, quickly walking over and smacking a hand into Tyson's head.

-  "Shut up!" She snarled and glared at him.

-  "Ouch, that hurt!" Tyson whined and Laynie continued her glaring.

-  "Serves you right. Now shut up and listen cause I don't wanna have to baby-sit you this year too!" She hissed before walking back to her place.

Laughing and giggles could be heard but Laynie ignored them. All she wanted was to get out of this crowd and get some privacy. She still hated being in the middle of big groups.

-  "Ahem." Mr. Dickenson cleared his throat, waited for all of them to settle down and be quiet. When it was as quite as possible, he continued. "I would like to welcome all of you to BBA's Beyblading School."

A spontaneous applause was launched and yet again, he waited for them to quite down.

-  "I will not waste your time with any of my boring speeches, but before the card-keys to your rooms will be handed out, I would like to present the teachers who will guide you through all of the lessons you'll have."

Tyson groaned as he heard the word "lessons" and received some amused gigglings.

-  "So, if all of the teachers would like to say their name and which subject or they are gonna have." Mr. Dickenson stepped aside and a woman with blonde hair came out on the little stage, which was built in front of the rows of chairs.

The woman seemed to be in the middle age, and she had a sincere face and she showed two perfect lines of white teeth as she gave them a broad smile.

-  "I'm Miss. Joanna McKenzie and I'll be one of the teachers teaching mathematics."

Laynie winced as she heard the word maths. She hated maths. For the first, she was awfully bad at it, and for the second she just didn't like it. Her strongest sides were P.E and Art. Maybe English too, if Josephine wasn't gonna make it hard for her…

Next teacher was a tall man and he immediately gave an impression of discipline.

-  "My name is Mr. Jonathan Edwards and I'll be teaching Physical Education."

Next person out was no on less than Josephine. She gave them an even broader smile than Miss. McKenzie and someone shouted:

-  "Wow, is she a teacher? Man, she's hot!"

Josephine looked stunned for a moment, before she started laughing.

-  "Well, I am a teacher. My name is Josephine Potter and I'll be teaching English."

-  "Looks like someone's gotta have English as his favorite subject." Mariah whispered to Laynie and giggled. Laynie smirked as an answer before turning her head to the stage again. She was kinda surprised when she saw who it was standing there.

-  "Max, what's your mum doing here?" She whispered to the blonde boy next to her.

-  "Teaching." Max replied and shrugged. Laynie sighed.

[Like that wasn't obvious?]

After Judy Tate, four unfamiliar faces was presented before someone at least Tyson knew very well came out…

-  "Dad!?" What are you doing here?" He shouted and got up onto his feet.

-  "Tyson! I told you I was gonna be teaching both History of our own time and History of Beyblading!" Tyson's dad sighed.

(A/N: HELP! I don't know Tyson's dad's name! Please, if you know, TELL ME!)

-  "No, you haven't!" Tyson shouted again.

-  "Hi Mr. Kinomiya!" Toni chirped and Tyson's dad sweatdropped.

-  "Sit down both of you or will I have to place both of you in detention right away?" He said and made Tyson and Toni sit down again.

He took a deep breath. "Well, as I said, I'm  ------- Kinomiya and I'll be teaching History of both Beyblading and our own time."

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-  "I'm glad it turned out to be the three of us sharing a room!" Mariah said happily and flopped onto her soft bed.

-  "Yeah, I don't know what I've had done if I'd been paired with Jennifer in my team." Emily sighed and seemed to thank God for not being placed with her team's fifth member.

Laynie smiled as she watched the orange-haired girl unpack her things and folding them in neat piles before placing them in the wardrobe. Mariah had just tossed all of her clothes in her wardrobe without even looking where they had landed. Laynie herself had followed Emily's example with folding them at least.

-  "I think I'm going off to see Ray… Anyone coming along?" Mariah chirped and tilted her head to one side.

Laynie shrugged. It wasn't like she had anything more important to do…   

-  "Sure. I'm coming." She replied. "What about you, Em?"

-  "Nah, I've to set up my laptop and everything. But I'll see you later. Leave your cell phones on!" Emily said and Laynie and Mariah nodded as a sigh that they would do that.

Laynie and Mariah started walking down the long corridor, but just as they reached around the corner, Laynie remembered that she had one of Ray's CD's she had borrowed and he probably wanted back by now.

-  "Hm, Mariah, please wait here one second while I'm running back to get Ray's Linkin Park CD?" She said before turning on her heels, walking around the corner.

Or, more exactly, crashing into someone… With a frown, Laynie lifted her head to see who it was she had ran in to.

And stared into turquoise eyes, deep as the ocean.   

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Yup, chapter one done then. Please review and tell me what you think of it! And, don't forget to tell me if you know what Tyson's dad's name is!

By the way, if you feel for it, go and read the fic I'm co-writing with Bed 'N' Breakfast; Edge of Heaven! Next chapter will be written by Beddy!  

See ya later,

Hugs, Emma