Like all you other..Ahem... Smarter writers, I'll use 'thought' for thoughts instead of =thought=. It looks better and its.. I dunno. Better.

Also, {"Talking"} will be used as a voice on the opposite end of the phone.

You all know the drill. I don't own beyblade.

She read the last two words over. 'Love, Theo'

Elisabeth was horrified. She was really horrified. How could he have known...?

'How could he do this?'

Her eyes filled up with tears. She dropped the letter and ran away from Tyson's house. The boys were dumbstruck. Tally was for about a second. The instant she looked at the letter she ran after Elisabeth. She had to run fast.

Elisabeth had cleared miles from the Bladebreakers before she even thought of resting. She looked up.

She saw a sign on a 12" wrought iron gate.

'Hiwitari residence?'

She stood in front of the fence surrounding what looked like 4000 square-feet of house, backed with 2000 square-feet of a yard. A swimming pool could be seen around the corner and the two-story house was monstrous. Her jaw dropped in awe.

At the same time, the Bladebreakers just stood, stupefied by the Lamborghini Diablo SV. It was black and detailed with white designs on the hood and side doors.

Kai kicked at his heels nonchalantly and secretly looked where Elisabeth tore off to the night. He sighed and walked inside.

The Bladebreakers remained in awe for a while before Amelia and Remy shuffled them all inside to explain.

The mouthed the words, "Hiwitari?" silently to herself.

She realized as she did so how heavily she was breathing. She had run a long distance in a few short minutes. She had known, without looking back that Tally had followed her. She had, after all, been there with her when her father was murdered.

She decided, instead of investigating further, she would wait for Tally. Tally, after all, had asthma and would need a few moments to whip out her puffer.

Elisabeth felt horribly. She could have caused Tally to have an asthma attack. She would feel responsible if...

"Bizzy! ...huff Wait .. up!" Tally had taken deep breaths between each word.

Elisabeth looked at her friend. Her tears returned at the name she would respond to when her father called her. It had even said it in the note. The note...

"Bizzy! I'm so sorry you had to go through that!" Her friend pulled her into an embrace of monstrous proportions.

"Tally.." She smiled sadly.

"The boys are so impressed at the car you got though! Did you see them totally drooling? I wont be surprised if the car was completely covered in slobber by the time you ... Oh Bizzy!" She remarked, noticing the tear rolling down Elisabeth's left cheek.

Elisabeth's smile was lopsided. Her jaw was slack and she was letting the tears go. Something she hadn't done since ...

"Bizzy! Please! Lets just go back to Tyson's okay?"

"Do... Do you know where we are?" She said, as calmly as she could. Her voice did not quake. It did not show a sign of slowing or shuddering. It was only calm.

"What? Bizzy, are you sure you're—"

"We're at Kai's house." She interrupted.

"What does that have to do with—"

"LOOK at the house Tally! Look at it! Now tell me, whose house we're at."

In that moment, Itallya's eyes widened in horror. "The house your father was..."

Elisabeth fainted.

"Not good...." Tally looked at her droopy friend she had just caught. "Very not good!"

"So that was what the outburst was about?"

"Yes."

"That car is from her father?"

"Yes."

"Then tell me this. How was it he died?"

Amelia got annoyed, "Why does that matter?"

Rei retaliated immediately with "It matters because we care about her! Because we're her team! Because it matters to us what she feels and also because they're lost out there when the biggest thunderstorm of the year is supposed to be going on tonight!" He fumed. He had yelled and everyone in the room but Amelia had become Chibi's recoiled against the wall.

The yelling subsided. The team returned to normal.

"Look! Just because you're worried, doesn't mean you're the only one!!" Her face was illuminated as the first streak of lightning shot out from the sky in all its thunderous glory.

A collective sharp intake of breath.

Tally and Elisabeth were still out there...

Twenty minutes later, Tally had safely gotten inside the gate to the Hiwitari pace. She walked inside, carrying Elisabeth with a little difficulty over her shoulder.

She was greeted by a butler.

"Hello M'am, can I help you?"

"You most certainly can, and I am SO not a M'am!"

He bowed apologetically. "How can I be of service?"

"Does Kai live here?"

"He most certainly does, though you wont find him here at the moment..."

"That's Okay. I'm a .. er... friend of his. Can I use a phone?"

"Most certainly, friend of Kai. And your name is...?"

"Call me Soto."

"Yes, miss Soto. The phone is this way. If you will please remove your—"

She had already walked all over the carpet with her soggy, rain soaked combats and the butler gave up. He showed her to the phone.

{"Hello?"}

"Kai? Since when do you answer Tyson's phone?"

{"He's busy. Where are you?"}

"Well don't you cut right to the chase."

{"Cut the crap. We're worried."}

"We? Wow. You must be going soft, from what I've heard. No need to worry," She commented as the thunder rolled in the not so distance, "We're at Elis..." She paused. "Your place."

{"My place!? How did you--?"}

"Elisabeth just ran. She ran out of breath here. She passed out and it's the closest residence."

{"She passed out?"

"Dude, who passed out?"

"Shut up Tyson! When did she pass out?"}

"About a half hour ago. You don't want to know. We'll come back when the storm passes."

{"No, you wont. Look, She'll want her car, right? I'll drive it over there and she can stay at my place. It'll be more private. She wont be disturbed."}

She heard a click. The conversation was clearly over. 'More disturbed than you think, Kai. More than you think.'

"We'll drive over to my place after the storm. She passed out right in front of there apparently."

"Dude!" Max started, "So we get to see your place?"

"Yeah... You could call it that."

"How do you have your own house? Don't you need adults?"

"Not when you're 16, you half-wit!"

"I'm not a half wit! I'm .... More than that!!" Tyson was... almost prepared to retaliate.

"Whatever."

Kai walked like an android to the windowsill and looked out longingly. There certainly was a lot on his mind...

Wow! A whole chapter. I've had such the writers' block recently its difficult to get down a paragraph. I guess when you're inspired...

Anyway, I'm soo sorry it's taken me so long to update! It's Wednesday and I got back on Monday. (Camping, remember?) I hope you guys review. I've been upset lately. No one is reviewing. pouts anyway, back to the good ole stuff. It's late. I'll write some more tomorrow. Maybe update. See you all then!