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Atlas stood up and stretched, she had finally packed everything and was ready to go home and get away from her old memories. It was around 10:00, her flight left in 3 hours. Atlas heaved her luggage out of her room and dropped it by the door. Kai was at the table watching her struggle with her heavy luggage.
"Too heavy for you Map?" Kai asked with a smirk.
"Shut up!" Atlas snarled.
She wasn't in a very good mood this morning Kai smirked at her annoyance.
"The taxi's gonna be here in half an hour." Kai said.
"I don't care." Atlas snapped pouring herself some coffee.
She couldn't believe that she had spilled her guts to him of all people, and he didn't even seem to care.
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Riley and Johnny finished packing their stuff and we're watching Edward Scissorhands. They had popcorn and a can of coke each. They we're laughing and joking around, talking about actors, fame and all that crap.
"The taxi dude should be here by now." Riley said looking at her watch.
"Ya probably." Johnny said stretching.
"Common Johnny." Riley said picking up her duffle bag and suitcase.
Johnny got his stuff and then they walked out.
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Atlas and Kai got onto the plane silently; they hadn't talked to each other since they left the hotel.
::Mistress, are you still angry at Riley? You're going to let her back right? I mean you wouldn't want her to stay at Johnny's forever.:: Enigma said slyly.
::Yes I would.:: Atlas said stubbornly.
::But you never know what two guys would do to her.:: Enigma warned.
::I hate it when you use that against me.:: Atlas growled.
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Riley and Johnny got onto the plane, and took their seats. Riley opened up her laptop and opened their project file.
"Ok, We're actually done, I just need the cost for the taxi." Riley said typing quickly.
"The taxi was... 20 pounds." Johnny said.
"Ok." Riley said typing that in. "And now we each need to write a summary of the trip."
"Ok." Johnny said "Uh...Riley?"
"Ya?" Riley asked.
"Are you going to go to Atlas's house or mine?" Johnny asked.
"I think I'll go to Tas's." Riley answered.
"Ok, well if she kicks you out again call me." Johnny said, only a little disappointed that his newest friend wasn't going to be staying with him any more.
"Thanks." Riley smiled.
"No problem." Johnny said all sweetly.
::Master, you're so stupid.:: Salamulian said.
::Shut up.:: Johnny told his bitbeast.
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Atlas got out of the taxi that dropped her off at the end of her drive way. Two men walked by the taxi as she got out one was red headed and the other was blonde. They walked by mumbling to each other. Atlas glared at their retreating backs and walked up her long driveway unaware of being watched. She opened her door and walked in. Joseph was writing down a message when she walked in.
"Hello Mistress, was the trip good?" He asked warmly.
"It sucked Joseph to tell you the truth." Atlas said bluntly walking over to the note on the coffee table.
"It's for Miss Riley." Joseph interrupted.
"Oh well." Atlas said and read the note.
Riley: Kat called (936-7359) Beyblade tournament in Canada summer.
"There's a beyblade tournament in Canada?" Atlas asked.
"Apparently." Joseph said. "Miss Riley's friend called just now.
~Outside~
The two men that had walked by Atlas were in the bushes staring at the door.
"Doesn't that girl look familiar?" the blonde asked.
"Yes she does." The red head answered. "I remember her quite well."
"That night was fun." The blonde smirked perversely.
"Yes it was." The red head said walking through the bushes towards Atlas's large back yard. They jumped over the low fence and into the backyard.
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Riley got out of the taxi at the foot of the driveway.
"I'll see you later." Riley said to Johnny.
"Bye." He replied then the taxi took off.
Riley sighed and walked up the long driveway with her luggage. She dropped off her bags in front of the door and walked towards the back yard. She happily ran towards the far end, running past an archery range, swimming pool, hot tub, a bey dish, and a fenced area for riding.
She walked into the stables and found her black stallion Cobalt. Riley smirked petting his neck.
"I'm sorry I haven't been riding for a while Cobalt." Riley cooed to her horse.
She fed him a carrot and saddled him up. Riley led him out of the stable and mounted on his back. Cobalt galloped forward towards the fenced area. He was about to jump the fence when Riley quickly stopped him and fell off. Riley got off the ground and stared at Atlas.
"What?" She asked.
"What are you doing here?" Atlas asked coldly.
"You can't ban me from seeing 'my' horse." Riley said.
"Why weren't you there." Atlas growled.
Riley winced and looked away from her friend.
"I'm so sorry Tas, I totally forgot." She said quietly.
"Doesn't matter I don't expect you know how I feel." Atlas snarled.
"I don't either." Riley growled.
"At least you have a family, most importantly a mother." Atlas said looking down.
Riley stared at Atlas for a moment before looking down too.
"I wish I didn't." Riley admitted.
"How could you say that! You don't know what it feels like to lose a mother!" Atlas snapped.
"See, you have know idea what I've gone through." Riley snapped back.
"Ya well what about you! You don't know how it feels like to have a mother that doesn't give a crap about you, it's like she's a stranger, and you dread her coming home because as soon as she does all she's gonna go is shout at you, then scream about how shitty her life is."
Atlas stared not knowing what to say, her mother had never been like that, and none of her family members had.
"Looks like we don't know each other as much as we thought." Atlas said.
"Ya." Riley replied.
"We fought over a stupid thing." Atlas said.
"Ya your right, I'm sorry." Riley said.
"Me too, and I wouldn't have admit it, it's a good thing you said it first." Atlas said.
They laughed.
"I'm going to put Cobalt away." Riley said.
"Ok, I'll take your stuff inside then we can have some hot chocolate." Atlas smiled.
"Sounds good." Riley smirked.
"Looks like that girls got a friend." The blonde said a twisted smile forming on his face.
"This'll be more exciting then I thought." The red head said.
Riley walked over to the stables and unsaddled Cobalt and put him back into his stable.
"I'm sorry Cobalt, I promise tomorrow after school we can go on a nice long trail."
Riley said to her horse.
She reluctantly left the stallion and walked towards the back door, she was getting the feeling that she was being watched, but then again she's been getting a lot of those feeling since she was 13. She quickened her pace and walked into the house closing and locking the door immediately.
"Do you think she saw us?" The red head asked.
"No Kyle she didn't see us." The blonde said.
"What's wrong?" Atlas asked walking over to Riley.
"I just got a bad feeling, I think we should lock all the doors and windows for a while." Riley suggested.
"Ok." Atlas said awkwardly.
They walked towards the living room and sat down with a mug of hot chocolate by the blazing fire. They sat in silence for a while lost in their own thoughts.
"Kai's pretty good looking don't you think Tas?" Riley teased.
"Kai? You've got to be kidding, his attitude is such a turn off." Atlas criticized.
"Whatever." Riley chuckled.
"What about Johnny? You smile at everything he says." Atlas teased back.
"I've got a boyfriend." Riley interjected.
"But how long will he last?" Atlas joked.
"Depends." Riley smirked slyly.
Atlas rolled her eyes, and then took a nice long sip of her hot chocolate. They stared into the blazing fire, enjoying the silence that welcomed them.
"So..." Riley said quickly getting bored.
"So... How was your little 'vacation'?" Atlas asked.
"Meh, it was just like hanging out with friends, we didn't really do much, and I'm so sorry for missing your Granny's funeral." Riley said with sympathy.
"So... Why exactly did you miss it?" Atlas asked calm and curiously.
"Your not going to kill me, kick me out, or hurt me in any way, shape or form are you?" Riley asked cowering.
"No I won't, I swear." Atlas sighed.
"I-I w-was out..." Riley stuttered.
"Out where?" Atlas asked with plain curiosity.
"Getting drunk at a bar." Riley squeaked.
Atlas stared at Riley not knowing what to say.
"I'm sorry." Riley said looking down.
"It's ok." Atlas said, rolling her eye's at her excuse.
"I'm sorry Tas, I really am." Riley said full of guilt.
"It's fine." Atlas said calming down, and dragging a small smile onto her face.
"Probably Johnny's fault anyways."
"It was actually." Riley said remembering that night.
"You know a friend of yours called." Atlas said. "It was about a beyblade tournament in Canada."
"Really? What was her name?" Riley asked.
"Kat." Atlas said.
"What? Do you wanna go?" Riley asked, because of the look she was receiving from Atlas.
"Sure, some training will do me good." Atlas said.
"Sounds like a plan, but..." Riley said thinking.
::But, Amber's going to kill me.:: Riley thought.
::Don't worry mistress I'll protect you.:: Shadow said soothing his Mistress.
"But what?" Atlas asked.
"Well, down town isn't the safest of places for myself." Riley said awkwardly.
"What do you mean you've lived there your whole life." Atlas said confused.
"Exactly, I have a tendency to, well, make enemies quite quickly." Riley said biting her bottom lips.
"The better reason to go." Atlas said.
"Fine." Riley said. "Oh and another thing."
"What?" Atlas asked sounding a little impatient.
"I hope you don't mind, I sorta invited Matt to come join us at the cabin in winter." Riley said hoping she would let him come.
"That's fine." Atlas said she didn't really mind Matt.
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Johnny, Kai, Tala, and Bryan we're in Kai's living room talking, and playing on their new Xbox.
"So Johnny did you have fun with Riley?" Kai teased.
"Is Riley that chick with the sweet car?" Tala asked mildly curious.
"Ya, I'd say she's pretty good looking compared to the chicks at school." Kai smirked in amusement as Johnny began blushing a shade of red to match his hair (aw... That's just too cute).
"So are you gonna ask her out?" Bryan smirked teasingly.
"Hey Kai, what about you and Atlas?" Johnny asked getting revenge and ignoring Bryan's question.
"Who's she?" Tala asked.
"The girl with the nice bike." Johnny said.
"She's one cool chick, I think she'd get along well with Kai, I mean they're both pretty anti-social." Bryan said inching away from Kai, in case he'd try to kill him.
"Why don't you guys go on a double date, or we can all go out together." Tala suggested.
"I don't think they're interested." Johnny said.
"That's because you don't think you have a chance with her." Bryan smirked daring him to make a move on her.
"Shut up." Johnny snapped.
"Aw... You got poor widdle Johnny mad." Tala mocked laughing at him.
"Common you guys shut up and let's just play." Kai growled getting bored of talking about Atlas and Riley.
"Fine." Bryan said picking his character for the game Halo.
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Riley turned on her stereo and listened to Meteora by Linkin Park. It was on quite loud, which drowned her voice as she sang along. She changed her clothes into her red tank top and pick hot pants, for pj's.
"Who's room is this?" Kyle asked peeking through the window.
"It's the brunette chick, she's looking good." Joe said.
"What's the plan? Break the window?" Kyle asked.
"I say we get them when they go out for a jog or something." Joe planned.
"Cool with me." Said the red headed, 23 year old.
Riley walked over to the window and closed the curtains unaware of the two men spying on her. She lowered the volume of her stereo timing it to turn off at the end of the cd. She slipped into her bed and slowly fell asleep.
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Atlas stepped out of her washroom with a towel wrapped around her slim body. She quickly changed into her pj's. She tiredly pulled the covers over her head and quickly fell asleep.
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Her Grandmother had always advised her to go the long way home through the bustling city, just to be on the safe side, but Atlas was tired and she wanted to get to bed, she decided to cut through a narrow passage of alleyways and take the faster option home.
The young girl walked briskly, ignoring the odd bundle of rags, skin and bone that was some poor homeless person. It was really quite foul along these alleys, you never really thought about it until you were in them.
She sped up her pace, keeping her head down as she passed a couple of 18 year old drunks.
"Hey honey!" One called out. She cast a snide glance at them before carrying on.
"Come back baby!" Yelled the other, as they started to follow her.
Atlas sped up more, so did they. Finally she panicked and broke into a headlong run.
Her breath caught in her lungs as she sobbed fear, she could hear their ragged breathing, and odd exited chuckles, they were catching her.
She felt a hand grab her by her hair; she screamed as they spun her around, one was holding her from behind, and the one in front of her leered horribly.
"You hold her for me mate, and I'll hold her for you." He said.
She screamed again as a massive pain tore through her abdomen.
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Atlas shot up straight glancing around her darkened room, the moonlight shining through a crack between the curtains. She began sobbing, the thoughts drifting to her Grandmother.
Riley was woken by the sound of a scream from out of her room. She cautiously got out of her bed and walked into the deserted hall. She heard a muffled sob from Atlas's room, and quietly crept in. Atlas was sitting on her bed with her face in her hands sobbing miserably; Riley felt a pang of guilt standing their watching her friend. She walked over to her bed and jumped onto one end of the bed.
"You ok Tas?" Riley asked inching towards her best friend. "What's wrong?"
"It's nothing, it was just a nightmare." Atlas said quietly.
"First of all, you're not the type to sob after a bad nightmare, second of all you've been acting weird lately, and third of all you're taking your granny's death too tragically." Riley said bluntly.
"And just when I thought you couldn't get any blunter." Atlas said sarcastically.
"So you gonna tell me what's wrong?" Riley asked crawling over to her friend and putting her arm around her shoulder.
"No." Atlas said.
"Yes you are, NOW!" Riley ordered.
Atlas stared taken aback, but Riley's sudden outburst. Riley just smiled innocently.
"Er... Well... It's just my Grandmother, that's all." Atlas said looking down.
"Oh and forth of all, you're a horrible liar." Riley added.
"I swear it's because of my Gran." Atlas argued not telling the whole truth.
"Ok, then what was the nightmare about?" Riley asked.
"I-It w-was a-about... IT'S NONE OF YOUR BUISNESS!" Atlas snapped.
This time Riley was taken aback but less fazed since she was so used to this.
"Fine, be that way, but you'll feel better once you tell someone especially me." Riley said seriously.
"How many boyfriends have you had?" Atlas asked.
"Boyfriends?" Riley asked wondering how this topic had come up.
"Ya." Atlas said.
"Um... Two if you include Matt." Riley said.
"Really?" Atlas asked, "I thought you would have had a lot."
"Me? What did you think I was some kind of whore?" Riley asked somewhat offended.
"No, just you flirt a lot." Atlas said.
"I realize that." Riley replied pouting slightly.
"So I guess that means you don't like Johnny." Atlas teased.
"No, but I know you like Kai." Riley smirked.
Atlas angrily threw a pillow at Riley's head.
"Hey!" Riley snapped.
She grabbed the pillow and began to smack Atlas with it. Atlas of course retaliated with another pillow. Their hair was messy, and goose down was flying everywhere, the blanket discarded on the floor. After about an hour the two teenage girls collapsed on the bed and fell asleep tiredly.
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Atlas stood up and stretched, she had finally packed everything and was ready to go home and get away from her old memories. It was around 10:00, her flight left in 3 hours. Atlas heaved her luggage out of her room and dropped it by the door. Kai was at the table watching her struggle with her heavy luggage.
"Too heavy for you Map?" Kai asked with a smirk.
"Shut up!" Atlas snarled.
She wasn't in a very good mood this morning Kai smirked at her annoyance.
"The taxi's gonna be here in half an hour." Kai said.
"I don't care." Atlas snapped pouring herself some coffee.
She couldn't believe that she had spilled her guts to him of all people, and he didn't even seem to care.
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Riley and Johnny finished packing their stuff and we're watching Edward Scissorhands. They had popcorn and a can of coke each. They we're laughing and joking around, talking about actors, fame and all that crap.
"The taxi dude should be here by now." Riley said looking at her watch.
"Ya probably." Johnny said stretching.
"Common Johnny." Riley said picking up her duffle bag and suitcase.
Johnny got his stuff and then they walked out.
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Atlas and Kai got onto the plane silently; they hadn't talked to each other since they left the hotel.
::Mistress, are you still angry at Riley? You're going to let her back right? I mean you wouldn't want her to stay at Johnny's forever.:: Enigma said slyly.
::Yes I would.:: Atlas said stubbornly.
::But you never know what two guys would do to her.:: Enigma warned.
::I hate it when you use that against me.:: Atlas growled.
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Riley and Johnny got onto the plane, and took their seats. Riley opened up her laptop and opened their project file.
"Ok, We're actually done, I just need the cost for the taxi." Riley said typing quickly.
"The taxi was... 20 pounds." Johnny said.
"Ok." Riley said typing that in. "And now we each need to write a summary of the trip."
"Ok." Johnny said "Uh...Riley?"
"Ya?" Riley asked.
"Are you going to go to Atlas's house or mine?" Johnny asked.
"I think I'll go to Tas's." Riley answered.
"Ok, well if she kicks you out again call me." Johnny said, only a little disappointed that his newest friend wasn't going to be staying with him any more.
"Thanks." Riley smiled.
"No problem." Johnny said all sweetly.
::Master, you're so stupid.:: Salamulian said.
::Shut up.:: Johnny told his bitbeast.
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Atlas got out of the taxi that dropped her off at the end of her drive way. Two men walked by the taxi as she got out one was red headed and the other was blonde. They walked by mumbling to each other. Atlas glared at their retreating backs and walked up her long driveway unaware of being watched. She opened her door and walked in. Joseph was writing down a message when she walked in.
"Hello Mistress, was the trip good?" He asked warmly.
"It sucked Joseph to tell you the truth." Atlas said bluntly walking over to the note on the coffee table.
"It's for Miss Riley." Joseph interrupted.
"Oh well." Atlas said and read the note.
Riley: Kat called (936-7359) Beyblade tournament in Canada summer.
"There's a beyblade tournament in Canada?" Atlas asked.
"Apparently." Joseph said. "Miss Riley's friend called just now.
~Outside~
The two men that had walked by Atlas were in the bushes staring at the door.
"Doesn't that girl look familiar?" the blonde asked.
"Yes she does." The red head answered. "I remember her quite well."
"That night was fun." The blonde smirked perversely.
"Yes it was." The red head said walking through the bushes towards Atlas's large back yard. They jumped over the low fence and into the backyard.
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Riley got out of the taxi at the foot of the driveway.
"I'll see you later." Riley said to Johnny.
"Bye." He replied then the taxi took off.
Riley sighed and walked up the long driveway with her luggage. She dropped off her bags in front of the door and walked towards the back yard. She happily ran towards the far end, running past an archery range, swimming pool, hot tub, a bey dish, and a fenced area for riding.
She walked into the stables and found her black stallion Cobalt. Riley smirked petting his neck.
"I'm sorry I haven't been riding for a while Cobalt." Riley cooed to her horse.
She fed him a carrot and saddled him up. Riley led him out of the stable and mounted on his back. Cobalt galloped forward towards the fenced area. He was about to jump the fence when Riley quickly stopped him and fell off. Riley got off the ground and stared at Atlas.
"What?" She asked.
"What are you doing here?" Atlas asked coldly.
"You can't ban me from seeing 'my' horse." Riley said.
"Why weren't you there." Atlas growled.
Riley winced and looked away from her friend.
"I'm so sorry Tas, I totally forgot." She said quietly.
"Doesn't matter I don't expect you know how I feel." Atlas snarled.
"I don't either." Riley growled.
"At least you have a family, most importantly a mother." Atlas said looking down.
Riley stared at Atlas for a moment before looking down too.
"I wish I didn't." Riley admitted.
"How could you say that! You don't know what it feels like to lose a mother!" Atlas snapped.
"See, you have know idea what I've gone through." Riley snapped back.
"Ya well what about you! You don't know how it feels like to have a mother that doesn't give a crap about you, it's like she's a stranger, and you dread her coming home because as soon as she does all she's gonna go is shout at you, then scream about how shitty her life is."
Atlas stared not knowing what to say, her mother had never been like that, and none of her family members had.
"Looks like we don't know each other as much as we thought." Atlas said.
"Ya." Riley replied.
"We fought over a stupid thing." Atlas said.
"Ya your right, I'm sorry." Riley said.
"Me too, and I wouldn't have admit it, it's a good thing you said it first." Atlas said.
They laughed.
"I'm going to put Cobalt away." Riley said.
"Ok, I'll take your stuff inside then we can have some hot chocolate." Atlas smiled.
"Sounds good." Riley smirked.
"Looks like that girls got a friend." The blonde said a twisted smile forming on his face.
"This'll be more exciting then I thought." The red head said.
Riley walked over to the stables and unsaddled Cobalt and put him back into his stable.
"I'm sorry Cobalt, I promise tomorrow after school we can go on a nice long trail."
Riley said to her horse.
She reluctantly left the stallion and walked towards the back door, she was getting the feeling that she was being watched, but then again she's been getting a lot of those feeling since she was 13. She quickened her pace and walked into the house closing and locking the door immediately.
"Do you think she saw us?" The red head asked.
"No Kyle she didn't see us." The blonde said.
"What's wrong?" Atlas asked walking over to Riley.
"I just got a bad feeling, I think we should lock all the doors and windows for a while." Riley suggested.
"Ok." Atlas said awkwardly.
They walked towards the living room and sat down with a mug of hot chocolate by the blazing fire. They sat in silence for a while lost in their own thoughts.
"Kai's pretty good looking don't you think Tas?" Riley teased.
"Kai? You've got to be kidding, his attitude is such a turn off." Atlas criticized.
"Whatever." Riley chuckled.
"What about Johnny? You smile at everything he says." Atlas teased back.
"I've got a boyfriend." Riley interjected.
"But how long will he last?" Atlas joked.
"Depends." Riley smirked slyly.
Atlas rolled her eyes, and then took a nice long sip of her hot chocolate. They stared into the blazing fire, enjoying the silence that welcomed them.
"So..." Riley said quickly getting bored.
"So... How was your little 'vacation'?" Atlas asked.
"Meh, it was just like hanging out with friends, we didn't really do much, and I'm so sorry for missing your Granny's funeral." Riley said with sympathy.
"So... Why exactly did you miss it?" Atlas asked calm and curiously.
"Your not going to kill me, kick me out, or hurt me in any way, shape or form are you?" Riley asked cowering.
"No I won't, I swear." Atlas sighed.
"I-I w-was out..." Riley stuttered.
"Out where?" Atlas asked with plain curiosity.
"Getting drunk at a bar." Riley squeaked.
Atlas stared at Riley not knowing what to say.
"I'm sorry." Riley said looking down.
"It's ok." Atlas said, rolling her eye's at her excuse.
"I'm sorry Tas, I really am." Riley said full of guilt.
"It's fine." Atlas said calming down, and dragging a small smile onto her face.
"Probably Johnny's fault anyways."
"It was actually." Riley said remembering that night.
"You know a friend of yours called." Atlas said. "It was about a beyblade tournament in Canada."
"Really? What was her name?" Riley asked.
"Kat." Atlas said.
"What? Do you wanna go?" Riley asked, because of the look she was receiving from Atlas.
"Sure, some training will do me good." Atlas said.
"Sounds like a plan, but..." Riley said thinking.
::But, Amber's going to kill me.:: Riley thought.
::Don't worry mistress I'll protect you.:: Shadow said soothing his Mistress.
"But what?" Atlas asked.
"Well, down town isn't the safest of places for myself." Riley said awkwardly.
"What do you mean you've lived there your whole life." Atlas said confused.
"Exactly, I have a tendency to, well, make enemies quite quickly." Riley said biting her bottom lips.
"The better reason to go." Atlas said.
"Fine." Riley said. "Oh and another thing."
"What?" Atlas asked sounding a little impatient.
"I hope you don't mind, I sorta invited Matt to come join us at the cabin in winter." Riley said hoping she would let him come.
"That's fine." Atlas said she didn't really mind Matt.
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Johnny, Kai, Tala, and Bryan we're in Kai's living room talking, and playing on their new Xbox.
"So Johnny did you have fun with Riley?" Kai teased.
"Is Riley that chick with the sweet car?" Tala asked mildly curious.
"Ya, I'd say she's pretty good looking compared to the chicks at school." Kai smirked in amusement as Johnny began blushing a shade of red to match his hair (aw... That's just too cute).
"So are you gonna ask her out?" Bryan smirked teasingly.
"Hey Kai, what about you and Atlas?" Johnny asked getting revenge and ignoring Bryan's question.
"Who's she?" Tala asked.
"The girl with the nice bike." Johnny said.
"She's one cool chick, I think she'd get along well with Kai, I mean they're both pretty anti-social." Bryan said inching away from Kai, in case he'd try to kill him.
"Why don't you guys go on a double date, or we can all go out together." Tala suggested.
"I don't think they're interested." Johnny said.
"That's because you don't think you have a chance with her." Bryan smirked daring him to make a move on her.
"Shut up." Johnny snapped.
"Aw... You got poor widdle Johnny mad." Tala mocked laughing at him.
"Common you guys shut up and let's just play." Kai growled getting bored of talking about Atlas and Riley.
"Fine." Bryan said picking his character for the game Halo.
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Riley turned on her stereo and listened to Meteora by Linkin Park. It was on quite loud, which drowned her voice as she sang along. She changed her clothes into her red tank top and pick hot pants, for pj's.
"Who's room is this?" Kyle asked peeking through the window.
"It's the brunette chick, she's looking good." Joe said.
"What's the plan? Break the window?" Kyle asked.
"I say we get them when they go out for a jog or something." Joe planned.
"Cool with me." Said the red headed, 23 year old.
Riley walked over to the window and closed the curtains unaware of the two men spying on her. She lowered the volume of her stereo timing it to turn off at the end of the cd. She slipped into her bed and slowly fell asleep.
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Atlas stepped out of her washroom with a towel wrapped around her slim body. She quickly changed into her pj's. She tiredly pulled the covers over her head and quickly fell asleep.
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Her Grandmother had always advised her to go the long way home through the bustling city, just to be on the safe side, but Atlas was tired and she wanted to get to bed, she decided to cut through a narrow passage of alleyways and take the faster option home.
The young girl walked briskly, ignoring the odd bundle of rags, skin and bone that was some poor homeless person. It was really quite foul along these alleys, you never really thought about it until you were in them.
She sped up her pace, keeping her head down as she passed a couple of 18 year old drunks.
"Hey honey!" One called out. She cast a snide glance at them before carrying on.
"Come back baby!" Yelled the other, as they started to follow her.
Atlas sped up more, so did they. Finally she panicked and broke into a headlong run.
Her breath caught in her lungs as she sobbed fear, she could hear their ragged breathing, and odd exited chuckles, they were catching her.
She felt a hand grab her by her hair; she screamed as they spun her around, one was holding her from behind, and the one in front of her leered horribly.
"You hold her for me mate, and I'll hold her for you." He said.
She screamed again as a massive pain tore through her abdomen.
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Atlas shot up straight glancing around her darkened room, the moonlight shining through a crack between the curtains. She began sobbing, the thoughts drifting to her Grandmother.
Riley was woken by the sound of a scream from out of her room. She cautiously got out of her bed and walked into the deserted hall. She heard a muffled sob from Atlas's room, and quietly crept in. Atlas was sitting on her bed with her face in her hands sobbing miserably; Riley felt a pang of guilt standing their watching her friend. She walked over to her bed and jumped onto one end of the bed.
"You ok Tas?" Riley asked inching towards her best friend. "What's wrong?"
"It's nothing, it was just a nightmare." Atlas said quietly.
"First of all, you're not the type to sob after a bad nightmare, second of all you've been acting weird lately, and third of all you're taking your granny's death too tragically." Riley said bluntly.
"And just when I thought you couldn't get any blunter." Atlas said sarcastically.
"So you gonna tell me what's wrong?" Riley asked crawling over to her friend and putting her arm around her shoulder.
"No." Atlas said.
"Yes you are, NOW!" Riley ordered.
Atlas stared taken aback, but Riley's sudden outburst. Riley just smiled innocently.
"Er... Well... It's just my Grandmother, that's all." Atlas said looking down.
"Oh and forth of all, you're a horrible liar." Riley added.
"I swear it's because of my Gran." Atlas argued not telling the whole truth.
"Ok, then what was the nightmare about?" Riley asked.
"I-It w-was a-about... IT'S NONE OF YOUR BUISNESS!" Atlas snapped.
This time Riley was taken aback but less fazed since she was so used to this.
"Fine, be that way, but you'll feel better once you tell someone especially me." Riley said seriously.
"How many boyfriends have you had?" Atlas asked.
"Boyfriends?" Riley asked wondering how this topic had come up.
"Ya." Atlas said.
"Um... Two if you include Matt." Riley said.
"Really?" Atlas asked, "I thought you would have had a lot."
"Me? What did you think I was some kind of whore?" Riley asked somewhat offended.
"No, just you flirt a lot." Atlas said.
"I realize that." Riley replied pouting slightly.
"So I guess that means you don't like Johnny." Atlas teased.
"No, but I know you like Kai." Riley smirked.
Atlas angrily threw a pillow at Riley's head.
"Hey!" Riley snapped.
She grabbed the pillow and began to smack Atlas with it. Atlas of course retaliated with another pillow. Their hair was messy, and goose down was flying everywhere, the blanket discarded on the floor. After about an hour the two teenage girls collapsed on the bed and fell asleep tiredly.
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Christina: I hope you liked this chapter, Roze hope u finish the next chappie quickly.
Don't forget to review people thanx ^^
