Lectures are always fun, right? Well, maybe not yours, but Eri's are!!!

Disclaimer: I do not own Beyblade. Chi belongs to Beyblader-grl. I own Eri.

Lectures and Interferences

"So Chi, what's been on your mind lately?" Eri asked as the two friends casually walked down the hall. Eri had loosened up a lot after hanging around with Chi and people; of course, she still kept to herself a lot as well. But she was definitely improving.

"Well...." Chi sighed as they passed a certain classroom.

"Or should I ask, who has been on your mind lately?" Eri raised an eyebrow at her friend.

"Like you need to ask!" Chi groaned and lightly shoved Eri.

Eri chuckled at the brunette's distress. "Well it's not the end of the world. I mean, I already told you my brother's available so why are you holding back?" came the stone-faced reply.

"I already told you Eri." Chi said with a wave of her gloved hand. "I kinda feel, like I'm waiting for him...to come back to me...you know?" she asked with a daze.

"Chi, no." Eri said while opening her locker and shoving her books into her bag. "I told you he's a frickin' player and things will never change. He can't go back to the nice innocent kid you used to know. Even if he's still afraid all the time, you can't help him, he won't allow it." Eri had by now grabbed her bag from her locker and they made their way to Chi's locker.

"But...I really think that he'll change. That he'll come back to me. Tigress told me so. Well, she didn't really tell me...but she implied it!" Chi said with a hopeful grin on her precious features.

"And Uraiss agrees with Tigress that Kai's a stuck up prick but she thinks that you're too different to be the one." Eri said with a snort as Chi grabbed her books. "Honestly Christina, I don't understand why you're still trying this way. Just waiting never does anything."

"So you're telling me to go after him?!" Chi shouted in disbelief.

Eri stuck a finger in her ear and winced as Chi yelled. "No, I'm telling you to do something about the void in there." Eri said while poking Chi in the collarbone. "My brother would at least slightly fill the void. He may be immature but he's smart and he's got all the TLC you need." Eri said while waving a hand back at Chi because Eri had already begun to walk off.

Chi let her hand feel the spot where Eri had poked her. She could feel the pain, not just from Eri, but she could feel the void Eri was talking about. "I don't know what you're talking about." Chi lied as she ran to catch up with Eri.

"My dear Christina, when will you learn?" Eri asked with a note of sarcasm. "Lying to Erin Lativa Dumair Zelian never works. I've heard all the lies in the universe and I've learnt to read past them. You're not only waiting, you're afraid of commitment. You're afraid that if you ever get into another guy, you'll never have the room for Kai that you nee, the kind of room that he needs. I honestly believe that Kai will go back to you someday as well, but that day may not be in high school. It could be in college or something. So, make use of your time in high school, y'know? Get a little experience or something." Eri said boredly while wandering out to the parking lot. She hopped up onto the large stonewall and sat there, leaning back and waiting for Kei.

"Well, I guess I kind of understand. I mean, I guess you're right about the whole experience thing..." Chi started but Eri wasn't done talking.

"Also, if you go out with someone else, Kai might get jealous. I can see it in his eyes, whenever you hang around with other guys, Kai get a sinister look in his eyes. I think, that deep down, he believes that you are his. So, if you go out with someone else, maybe you can get him to move a little faster." Eri said with a shrug as she lay down along the hot bricks.

Chi was still trying to climb the wall. "Well, I think you might actually be right. I mean, He does seem to sound a little more pissed than usual whenever he talks to me or anybody else that's been talking to me." Chi stood on the hood of someone's car. "I mean, even Tala. He sounds like he's mad at Tala after Tala talks to me." Chi said with a glare.

"I think it's called, the Hiwatari possessiveness." Eri said with no emotion what so ever but Chi caught the humour and laughed.

"Ya, whatever."

1

Kai had heard Christina walking by, he heard Eri as well. It was true; he was in detention for snogging again. But the teacher was asleep so he dodged his way out of the classroom. It was time for a little eavesdropping. Eavesdropping or stalking whichever you wanted to call it.

Kai followed the two girls while keeping his distance all the while. He heard most of their conversation.

"I already told you Eri. I kinda feel, like I'm waiting for him...to come back to me...you know?" The Oasana girls asked with a dreamy look on her face.

Kai wondered whom Christina was talking about. He had never heard her like this; he had never seen her like this.

"Chi, no." The Zelian girl was opening her locker and shoving in her books. "I told you he's a frickin' player and things will never change. He can't go back to the nice innocent kid you used to know. Even if he's still afraid all the time, you can't help him, he won't allow it." Eri was grabbing her bag now and doing everything...somewhat slowly.

A player? Well if the guy was a it be Tala? Chi liked Tala?!

"But...I really think that he'll change. That he'll come back to me. Tigress told me so. Well, she didn't really tell me...but she implied it!" Christina's face held a glimmer of hope.

They were turning around so Kai ducked into another classroom. An open classroom.

"Hey Kai what're you doing?" It was Johnny and his innocently annoying voice. It made Kai jump a foot or two.

"What the fuck! Don't do that!" Kai hissed in a low voice as he pressed his ear to the door.

"What are you doing Kai?" It was Rei. Kai finally looked at the two boys. Johnny was sitting on the desk in front of Rei and Rei was seated in on of the desks doing his homework.

"Nothing. What're you doing?" Kai asked with a slate brow raised. "Or should I ask, what were you talking about?"

"None of your business really." Rei's voice was a low growl. "But since you asked so nicely, we were talking about how close Eri and Chi have gotten." Rei said with a shrug of his relaxed shoulders.

"It seems that everyone is talking about Eri one way or another." Johnny said with a sigh. "I mean, Tala likes her, Bryan thinks she's gonna take over, Kai's trying not to get taken down by her, Rei here just talks about her and I have to dwell on her words because she always seems to be one step ahead of me." Johnny said with a glare.

"Well, they're headed to Chi's locker. And they're talking about whom Chi likes. I'm gonna find out who." Kai said as he opened the door.

"That one's easy. Everybody but you seems to know it too." Johnny said with a smirk. "C'mon Rei, I wanna see his face when he finds out who Chi likes."

"Fine." Rei said with a bored tone. Kai looked at them both then spoke angrily.

"Why don't you just tell me and save me the trouble." Kai asked with a glare.

"It's more fun this way." Johnny said with a smirk and walked out of the classroom with his casual saunter.

"I hate you." Kai said with a glare and he shoved past the red headed boy.

"I can't wait to see this." Johnny chortled like a little boy.

"You're too cruel." Rei grinned good-naturedly.

"Let's go wait in the parking lot. That's where they'll be headed." Johnny said as he caught up with Kai.

"What makes you think that?" Kai asked with a glare in Johnny's direction.

"Eri told me so."

2

"Well, what are we waiting for?" Chi asked as she finally accomplished sitting on the wall.

"We're waiting for Kei to come back and pick me up." Eri said with a glance towards the direction of her house.

"Oh. I don't understand why you made me come to your off timetable music class." Chi groaned.

"I thought you wanted to come over and talk to Kei in the private of my house." Eri said with a shrug before she lay down again.

"Well, ya...but..." Chi was stuck. It was true; she had wanted to talk to Kei about going out and stuff.

"Then you had to stay. Because I don't want you in my house with just Kei. Even if our father isn't home, Kei is more like our father then I've chosen to notice." Eri said with sadness in her eyes.

"Well, what do you want to talk about?" Chi asked avoiding the subject of Eri's father.

"Go out with my brother tonight." Eri said in her blunt voice. "I don't care where you go, just go."

"I'll go out with Kei if you go out with Johnny."

3

Inside the back of Rei's van, Johnny could feel his face getting hot.

"Hear that Johnny?" Rei asked with a chuckle.

"Shut up and listen." Johnny hissed.

Outside, Eri was pausing, as if deep in thought.

"I might." She whispered. "When all this is over. When I can relax and forget what has happened in the past. If I can forgive and forget, then yes, maybe I will go out with Johnny." The three guys heard Eri's soft voice.

Kai was still in shock. 'She can't like me. Not after all I've done to her. No, their wrong, I don't like her. I refuse to admit that I like her.' Kai was glaring at his feet.

::So you do like the Oasana girl master. You know you do. Do not make another mistake.:: The elegant, warming voice of Dranzer filled Kai's head.

'You're back! Dranzer! My friend. My only friend!' Kai yelped in his thoughts. 'What do you mean I like Chi? I hardly even think about her. I hardly even know her.' Kai growled out.

::Do not lie to yourself Master Kai. You do indeed like her.:: Dranzer said in his majestic voice.

"Shut up." Kai said out loud.

"We didn't say anything." Rei hissed to the bluenette.

"What?" Kai asked in confusion.

"You just told us to shut up." Johnny said with a glare.

"I did? But I was talking to Dranzer." Kai said looking innocent and clueless.

"Whatever." Rei rolled his eyes and went back to listening to the girl's conversation.

4

"What do you mean, when this is all over?" Chi asked while sitting bolt upright.

"When I can calm down my father, when I can run from the street tournament. When I get away from all this death that reeks around me. All the blood, all the pain. When I get away from all that, when I can clean myself, I'll open up." Eri said blankly while looking at her hands. "I'm covered in blood and the stench of death. I'm a bad person Chi, a very bad person." Eri shook her head and dropped her hands.

"What are you talking about Eri?" Chi asked in a soft voice. "You can tell me." Chi said her voice bringing comfort and solace.

"No Chi, things don't work that way. I can't tell you until I've stopped it all. Until I'm sure none of it will come back. There are people out there that want my head. And I can't let them have it...yet." Eri said with a sickening grin.

"They won't ever touch you Eri. You're amazing." Chi said with a smile.

"There are people more amazing and dangerous than I am Chi. Many people that are more dangerous than I am." Eri said with a sigh.

"You're afraid." Said a new voice. The male voice of a certain bluenette.

"And I have every reason to be Kai." Eri said with another sigh. She didn't look at him she just laid there looking at the clouds with Chi sitting above her with her legs crossed and her hands holding her ankles. "So how long did it take you Johnny and Rei to get out of that classroom? And how long have you been cramped up in the back of Rei's van?" Eri asked with a grin.

Chi on the other hand looked horrified.

"Oh he was going to have to find out sometime Chi. It wasn't like it was your biggest secret." Eri said with a straight face and Chi immediately silenced.

"Sorry Chi, couldn't resist seeing the look on his face." Rei's voice said as he emerged from the van. But Chi wasn't paying attention.

Chi was staring endlessly at the ground, but really she was seeing flashes of her parents and all the times she had lied to her aunt and uncle and to everyone else she avoided. Eri's comment had really hit her this time. She slowly looked at Eri lying there with all the calm in the world. Chi grinned Eri's life was probably a hell of a lot worse than hers. There were people out there that wanted to kill Eri and here Chi was worried because people would find out about her parents.

"Chi?" It was Johnny.

"Oh what? Sorry." Chi said sheepishly.

"Uh...are you keeping something from us?" Johnny asked looking sincere.

"We're keeping a lot of things from you Johnny. The world is keeping things from you, but you don't need to know what they are. Not now and not ever. Maybe when we think you're ready for life's secrets, we'll let you in on one or two. Right Chi?" Eri asked as she began to sit up.

"Ya...maybe." Chi said with another smile.

"Dranzer's back. I told you I didn't take him, but would you believe me? No. So now who's stupid Hiwatari?" Eri asked with a grin. She hopped off the wall and shoved her hands in her pockets. "C'mon Chi." She said without looking back.

"I can't get down." Chi sweat-dropped.

"Jump." Said a new voice. Chi just nodded and jumped. Someone had run over and caught her. "Now that wasn't so bad now was it?" It was Kei Zelian. He smiled innocently at her.

"Kei, you're going out to a movie tonight with Chi. Got it?" Eri asked as she hopped into the car.

"Ok." Kei said while still carrying Chi bridal style. "It should be fun. What movie do you want to see?" Kei asked completely ignoring the boys behind him.

"Anything you want." Chi said in a slightly breathless voice. Kei was dressed in a tight black T-shirt that let the older boys muscles show through and tight jeans with brown boots. One of his shirtsleeves was ripped off and his jeans had holes in the knees. There was a golden chain necklace around his neck and a thick silver cuff around his upper left ear. Chi thought he looked extremely hot and the growing blush on her cheeks was highly visible.

Kei grinned childishly again. "Ok, we'll decide in the car." He slipped Chi into the back seat and jumped over the door and hopped into the driver's seat. "See you tomorrow fellow classmates!" Kei waved at the three boys who just stared at him. Or glared in Kai's case.

The three drove off while listening to Linkin Park.

'She's mine, not his. He has no right to go out with her!' Kai shouted at Dranzer angrily.

::I told you, you liked her master, but you just did not listen to me.:: Dranzer sighed.

"Kai, there's smoke coming out your ears." Johnny said while waving his hand in front of the two-toned bluenette.

"Oh...he's so jealous." Rei said with a smirk. Johnny smirked as well.

"SHUT UP!!! I AM NOT JEALOUS!!!" Kai shouted with rage.

"Yeah. He's jealous." Johnny said before running away and hopping onto his bike.

Rei just laughed and walked away. Even if everyone was acting all relaxed, they were really pondering over Eri's words that day. Those words would haunt them forever.