Thanks guys for the reviews, but please keep reviewing it is how I know if I should continue or not.

Anyway, I have decided t I am not going to tell you what the couples all are but feel free to leave suggestions. Feel free to email me some OC's though I may not be able to put them all in. Remember this fic is an AU

Ohh ages! Ming and Julia: 18

Mariah and Emily: 17

Matilda: 15

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Disclaimer: Do not own BeyBlades, own the plot of this fic.

Life Goes On

Chapter 2

By Kaz

Even though the room contained hardly any furniture, it was still absolutely crowed. Cardboard scrapings lay forgotten on the carpet floor, while paper and un-packed toiletries were thrown on the dressers and the rumpled up bed. The room was crowed with a mess and it was making a certain individual go crazy.

"Julia! MingMing! Will you people please clear this mess up and hurry up! The van has already gone and we are meant to arrive before them, it is still a 3-hour drive from here. Had you have been more organised like me you would have been ready to leave by now."

The orange haired girl looked up from her slightly bent over position of hovering over the bed and rolled her eyes, while muttering, "There she goes again!"

The pink haired girl, who was standing in the doorway, arms folded and a stern look upon her face, merely hissed, bared her unusual fangs and stated, "Well it's true, I mean you and Mingie still have to finish packing and Emily is driving me crazy! She has decided to take ALL her books with her now! Honestly, you three are a nightmare! I told you to pack last night so we could leave early, but did any of you guys listen to me? NO!" The girl threw her hands in the air and continued to mutter under her breathe, while the two occupants of the room, glanced at each other and smirked.

"Ria calm down, I am packed now and Julia is just about done. Why don't you go and help Emily or something?" The blue haired girl suggested, while also adding "And get out of our hair," under her breath.

Shooting the girl a glance, which would strip paint, she huffed and confessed, "She told me to come and help you, Emily said I was driving her crazy."

Julia snorted and said, "Well that I can agree with."

"Oh shut it you!"

"Now now girls, back to your cages please!"

Laughing at Ming's statement, Mariah sat down on the bed, while Julia threw in the last of her stuff and announced she was done.

"About time as well!" Mariah said, while re-gathering her hair into a ponytail.

Before Julia could reply to the comment, Matilda appeared in the doorway and said, "Doctor Tate wants to have a word before we leave."

"Okay then," Ming said, grabbing her bag, Julia following her actions, "Is Emily done?"

"Yep she is!"

"Right then," Julia cried, nearly running out of the room, Laughing Mariah followed, only to turn around and ask, "Ming?"

The other girl had stopped just outside the doorway and was glancing around the room, almost lost in thought.

"Hard to imagine we are finally leaving."

"I know, who would have thought? You know when I first came here, I thought I would never leave, I had lost all hope, I thought I was so pathetic and worth nothing, but you guys helped me realise that it was not true. And now look at us, we are actually leaving this place, I am happy but I am sad as well, our friendship was formed here."

"Doesn't mean it can't grow somewhere else Ria." A new voice filtered out.

Both girls looked down the hallway and smiled at the three other people stood there.

"Emily's right! Just because we are leaving the place doesn't mean out memories are leaving, both, the good and bad times will always be with us and we can make new ones in our new home."

Matilda smiled at Julia's speech and confessed, "It's still strange though, not to mention scary."

Seeing the girls become slight less confident and scared, Ming suggested, "Well then how about we make a pact."

"A pact?" Mariah asked.

"Yep, we should vow to be friends forever no matter what or where ever we are!"

The girls smiled, before one by one they agreed. "Friends forever!"

"Yeah after all the 5 freak sisters have to be friends forever, could you imagine if we were enemies?" Julia said, while laughing.

Shaking her head at her best friend, Emily sighed, while saying, "Come on we should go see Doctor Tate."

"Yeah all this mushy bonding is making me sick."

Ming sighed as Julia ran down the hallway being chased by the others, 'The day they act their age,' she thought before looking at the retreating figures and smiling again, 'Then again I would have it no other way.'

--X--

"I cannot to express how proud I am of you girls today!"

All five girls smiled as they stood in the office of their faithful psychiatrist, Judy Tate. This was the first woman they had been introduced to upon arriving and was also in charge of them, helping them get through their problems and making them 'well'.

"You know it just seems like yesterday when I met you five. I remember you all arriving within a short time period of each other and each of you seemed like such scared young girls, with no interest in hope, no interest in living and biting anyone who came near you." She carried on, while directing the last sentence to Mariah, Julia, and Ming, who laughed slightly.

"Emily, you were the first one to arrive. I still remember how you did not have the nerve to answer any of my questions because you were so afraid of being ridiculed. You shut yourself off to the world and kept yourself hidden in books, while the rest of the world past you by and now look at you, the top scores, and a representative on the council board for the home. I am sure the council will never forget to disagree with all your suggestions in a while, I am sure the presentation you held and the sheer force of the debate had them cowering in their seats. You have grown so much, in attitude and confidence; I know you will be fine. You are such an intelligent lady, with a beautiful personality."

Emily smiled as the tears began to build up in her eyes, she had not been told something like this before, and it meant even more coming from someone she regarded as her mother. She turned her head as Julia and Mariah placed their hands on both of her shoulders, while Matilda hugged her waist.

"Julia, it's been a hard time hasn't it. I do not think I have ever met someone as strong as you. Losing someone that close is never easy and not many people pull through but you did. You lived in your own world for a while, and I was scared that you might have stayed there but you pulled through it all. Moreover, not only did you pull through but also you maintained that fierce but lovely spirit you have inside of you. I am so happy you never lost that even if you were a complete nightmare sometimes. My spite fire ne?"

Julia gripped Emily's shoulder tighter as Judy's words rang threw her. Usually she would have rolled her eyes and gagged but this time it was different, this was pure and from the heart. Unable to stop herself, she let out a small sniff and grab one of Matilda's offered hands.

Swallowing, Judy looked down and smiled at the smaller girl. "Matilda," she whispered, "My Matilda, shy, sweet and lovely, what else can I say about you. Ever since you arrived, you carried that innocent aura and ever today, it is just as pure. I wish I could take you in as my own but I think the girls will be better with you and help you more than I ever could. You may not know it but you have changed, I remember before you could not be left in the room alone or if someone directed a question at you, you would start to cry. You may still be shy but your confidence has grown. You will always be my fairy angel."

The girls smiled at the last sentence remembering how every year for Halloween Matilda would dress up as a fairy no matter what. The said girl had buried her head in Emily's waist and was crying lightly.

"Mariah, the one person who shouldn't be here at all. When they told me, what you have suffered I was so shocked, you seemed like such a stable girl but it goes to show anyone could have problems and I am so proud you pulled through them. Even though I shouldn't say this I still can't believe you thought you were ugly and shouldn't have lived, it was hard and there were times when it seemed like nothing was getting though but something did because I am now staring at a beautiful young lady rather than the meek girl I once saw. You are the mother to everyone and I know you hold the closet relationships with all the girls, even though all of you are so dear to each other. One thing I am going to say to you is that don't completely forget about your past, yes, you have to move on but sometimes having people from your past shows how much you have changed. Just remember you are a beautiful young lady with a beautiful aura."

Mariah did not even bother to hide her tears as she rested her head upon Emily's shoulder. Feeling someone stand next to her, she stuck out a hand and grabbed MingMing's arm, before listening to what Judy had to say.

"MingMing, well I can surely say that the men in at Mizuhara certainly know fear. From that start, you led these girls and I am happy you did because you simply did not trust anyone but you trusted them. I think someone where deep inside a part of you still does not trust me and that can be good and it can be bad, but I am going to let you deal with that because I have complete faith in you and I know you will look after my girls. I don't care what was said to you in your past but you are a lovely girl and don't you think any different."

All five girls clutched one another as they realised what was coming up next, "Well girls, this is it. I hope I don't see you here again, I have faith in all of you to make it in the real world but remember I am always and I mean always here."

Judy tried to swallow her tears once more as the girls hugged her one by one, they didn't realise, but she thought of them as her own. She hadn't seen her son in so long due to her work and these girls had filled a place, not her son's, no one could take that place but she certainly felt like a mother to them.

"Go on," she whispered as they all looked back at her, while leaving. "Good luck girls," she said as the door closed, "Good luck."

Julia slammed the trunk down as the last of her stuff was placed in side. All the large boxes had been in the moving van but some stuff they took with them. "I still don't get why I have to sit in the back with these two." She mumbled, as she climbed in, sitting down next to Matilda, while Emily sat at the other side.

"Because," Mariah laughed, "You would end up falling asleep and driving Mingie mad." The girls laughed at Julia's misfortune when another presence was felt.

"Mariah."

Mariah felt the colour drain from her face, as she looked at the person in front of her.

"Ray," she whispered, her heart beating furiously, he still had an effect on her.

"Um, I am sorry to just appear like this but I was hoping that maybe I could talk to you before you left. As long as there is no inconvenience or anything," the black haired and golden-eyed boy added furiously.

From the back seat Julia snorted, before saying, "Well, we do have to leave," but was silenced with a glare from MingMing.

"It's okay Ria; we will wait for you here."

Mariah just nodded before she walked to the side just out of hearing range from the others.

"I am sorry to show up, it's just I had to see you before you left… I just wanted to say sorry."

"Ray," Mariah said, "You don't have anything to be sorry about..."

"No I do Mariah, so just let me say this, please. I am sorry if I ever hurt you because I never wanted to, you were one of the best things that ever happened to me and I am just sorry it… it came to this."

Mariah smiled sadly before taking his hands into hers, "I guess it just wasn't meant to be." She whispered, the tears making their way down her cheeks.

"Yeah." Ray said, not very convincingly, "I am really sorry about how you found out about Salima, I should have told you myself but I guess I was a coward and I couldn't face you."

"Oh Ray," she smiled, moving her hands to cup his face, "You shouldn't apologise you had a right to move on and I really hope you both are happy with each other, you deserve to be happy. But just like you I need to move on as well."

"I meant it when I said I loved you." Ray confessed, his eyes closed, while enjoying her touch.

"I know and I meant it back." Mariah replied before letting her hands fall from the side of his face.

Ray grabbed her arms and held them in her place as his eyes flashed golden, "I never wanted to hurt you," he replied, not quite ready to let her go.

"Don't forget me?" She whispered, the pain rising in her heart.

"I could never," he replied back as she kissed him on his cheek and turned to walk away from him.

'Goodbye Ray.'

"Are you okay?" MingMing asked as Mariah got in.

"Yeah I am fine, just drive," she whispered. Ming nodded before glancing in the mirror and seeing Ray in the background.

Sighing, she set the gears and pressed down making the car move forward. Each girl turned around and said goodbye to the place they had called home, Mariah's eye falling on a figure still standing there as the car drove on.

--X--

Julia shifted in her seat, they had been driving for about two hours, which would have been fine except the atmosphere was slightly misty and not to mention Mariah had her love song collection on repeat.

"Damn it Ria can we please change the CD?" She asked, waking Matilda and Emily in the process.

"Hmm? Oh sure," the pink haired girl replied before sticking another CD in.

"Finally, what is it?"

"Love Songs Volume II."

Julia's slapped her forehead and mouthed, 'Why me."

"Why what do you wanna listen to?" Mariah asked, turning around to face the girl in the back.

"I dunno, stick Overlap on or Shuffle or something, heck even play Ryuusei but this, it's making me scratch my eyes out."

"Hey it's not Ria's fault if you have animalistic instincts you know," Emily chided, always ready to ruffle Julia up.

"Whatever geek face!"

"Bitch!"

"Slut!"

"Whore!"

Mariah and Ming both sighed as the familiarly argument took place, when suddenly the car began to churn and Ming had to stop on the side.

"Ming?" Mariah asked.

"I dunno, Julia you did refill up the gas right? Like I asked you to?"

"Um, yes?"

Mariah slammed her head down on the front, while Emily rolled her eyes and Ming gritted her teeth.

"JULIA!" Ming screamed.

"I AM SORRY OKAY! I forgot!"

"You are so irresponsible!" The blue haired girl continued.

"I said I was sorry what more do you want from me, I got caught up in packing."

"If you had done it the day before like I had done we wouldn't be in this mess," Mariah mumbled.

"I said I am sorry!"

"Please," Matilda whispered, "Let's not fight."

"Matilda's right, there is no point and it's not like it's going to get us anywhere." Mariah stated.

"So what are we going to do?" Emily asked, when to their ultimate horror it began to rain, and the sky darkened immensely.

"You have got to be kidding me," Ming mumbled.

"Great this is all we need."

Suddenly there was a knock on driver's window, and the girls screamed before Ming lowered her window, and asked, "Yes?"

"You girl's in trouble?"

Ming looked at Mariah, who glanced back and then turned to look at the others in the back. What should they do?

TBC

Eh, I know stupid place to end but, lol. I know the speech's Judy gave were a bit but I think they were what the girls needed to hear. Anyway, please guys Read and Review!

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