by Shadou-sama
Chapter 5 - Redeadening Is Not A Word
Disclaimer: I do not own Beyblade.
The week carried on. Shadra had forgiven her friends, or at least realized that they were sort of right, but she kept up the strange new habits. Which was why she gave some money to Oliver (three weeks allowance gone, she whined) to pay for their little outing. Of course, she still had training to go to, but the others figured they could forgive her since they were taking her money for selfish means.
The three car owners, Kai, Enrique and Mariah, drew straws to see who would pick up who. For some reason, the whole group found that this would be the fairest solution.
And lo and behold, Kai drew Carly, Enrique drew Rei and Mariah drew Oliver. In the end, it wasn't exactly fair since none of them drew anyone they wanted in the first place (although the chosen were still nice choices, or so they said) and had to drive almost all the way across town. Then they figured out that they could fit in one car. And some people wonder why they weren't A students.
And so Kai, who lived farthest from the theater, got to drive everyone in his new Jag. And guess the color? Black.
His first stop was Enrique, which made him late for the rest of the pick ups. Kai had to wait in the car for fifteen minutes before he got fed up and knocked on the door. He heard a few voices screaming inside, something about who was going to answer the door. But Enrique showed up and hurried him away before Kai could ponder on the event.
Next was Mariah and Rei together. They lived pretty much in the same neighborhood anyway, in Hieville's Oriental Town. At least that's what the residents called it, because the only Chinese Food place was there, which coincidentally was owned by Gary's folks, a Tokyo 7, a Japanese import store, and the dojo that Tyson's grandfather owned. It was the second coolest place in Hieville. Not because there were huge hills at the edge of it (they surrounded the entire town), but because it bordered the only road out of town. Plus, the whole not norm thing.
Carly got the next draw because she lived just outside of Oriental Town. When they arrived, they decided to go and see Carly's stepmother, or Shadra's mother, and wish her well.
Oliver was last because he lived downtown next to his family's restaurant. They watched as he hurriedly tried to escape.
"But Oliver, you're such a good cook and with Antonio sick—"
"You'll do fine, Mother," he told her, then rushed off.
"But-But!" she called after him.
Oliver hopped into the car. "Drive," he said.
The Hieville Cinema only had three theaters, which was bigger than most small town theaters. Usually, you couldn't find anything good, since they could rarely afford the Blockbuster movies. Unluckily for them, they were playing both Roses of Eden and Flash that night.
"Roses of Eden, it's so romantic," Mariah said.
"But Flash has all those explosions and--Er, I think Roses of Eden would be a great movie," Rei said, smiling artificially and looking nervously at his girlfriend's glares.
"Yes, I think Roses of Eden would—" Enrique noticed Carly glaring at him. "Flash?" he asked meekly. She nodded.
"There's more to a great movie than car chases and explosions," Oliver said, acting wise.
"No there isn't," Carly said. Enrique shrugged.
No one noticed that Kai had wondered from the group. He really didn't want to see a romantic movie with Rei. And he'd already seen Flash. He looked up at the third poster.
"What about this?" he asked.
They all looked over. "The Redeadening?" Mariah asked.
"It'd be fair," he said.
"Isn't that something off the Simpsons?" Carly asked.
"Yeah, but they turned it into a movie," Rei said. "I forgot about that."
"We're going to see this," Kai ordered. "Anyone got a problem with that?"
Everyone shook their heads. None of them wanted to find out what the 'solution' would be.
Shadra had been waiting until the boys left the locker room before entering, or until she was sure they were dressed. In the afternoon, it wasn't so bad as she retreated to a cubicle to change while they changed. But in the morning, well, they were always there first because they lived there, in the actual house section. She didn't want to think the really cruel guys as being sexy. But that afternoon she had been pulled aside by Boris for a few minutes, so she tried walking in with her eyes closed and her hand outstretched to keep herself from bumping into anything. What could go wrong with that plan?
Three steps into the locker room and her hand touched something hard, but still cushion-y. She frowned, not knowing what it was. So of course she had to feel around a bit. It felt almost like—
"Feel something you like?"
Her eyes snapped open. Blue eyes pierced into her own brown ones. She had been feeling up Tala! And he was only wearing boxers! She jumped around, facing the opposite way. She was blushing so hard that she was afraid she'd it'd be permanent. "Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry," she said, her hands covering her nose.
"Sorry, but my heart is reserved for beyblading, and beyblading only."
"Shut up, Ivanov."
Four hours later, she was still blushing. It didn't help that every some minutes Bryan would make a remark. Or Tala would. Or Spencer would smirk. To wrap it all up, she couldn't even concentrate on her beyblading.
The gang sat in the middle of the theater, in the middle of the movie. Oliver was sitting at one end, with Kai beside him, who unfortunately was next to Rei sitting with his girl, Mariah, then Enrique and Carly.
Mariah was practically sitting on Rei, under the pretense that the movie was scaring the crap out of her. Which was true. She couldn't even look at the screen.
On the other hand, Carly was far as could be, or at least to Enrique's mind. "Oh come on, that looks so fake!" she'd whisper, or "Cliched much?" What really shook the blonde beyblader was that he almost jumped into her lap when Baby Button-Eyes jumped out from the bushes.
Kai glanced over at the lime haired beyblader. He expected him to be shivering in his little blue coat. But no, Oliver was actually leaning forward. Kai thought he heard the guy mumble something about great visual effects. He looked back at the screen just as a gray-haired black cape-style wearing man was illuminated by lightning.
Kai jumped and nearly fell onto Rei, but he was still awfully darn close, not that he realized it. The guy on the screen looked just like his grandfather! Now that was frightening.
Rei felt something on his right arm. He looked over and saw it was Kai's scarf. And boy did he ever looked scared. But that wasn't the thing he concentrated on, rather the fact that now two people were clinging onto him. His stoic captain and his girlfriend. Little did Rei know how much the two had in common.
Shadra walked home from training. She had checked the mirror before leaving, and her face was still red. Even professing her love to Kai while she was asleep during the history final (which she blamed on the school policy of making students stay a full hour) wasn't as embarrassing.
She saw Kai's car pull up to her house. Had something happened? Oh, wait, her friends had gone to the movies with her evil stepsister, on Shadra's dime. Oi.
"Oh hey, Chaton," Rei called, leaning outside the car to do so. She frowned. She really hated that name. He got out, as did everybody else.
"What's wrong?" Mariah asked, seeing her red face.
She blushed even more, if that was even possible. "Nothing happened, nothing at all," she said, waving her hands that were clasped to her launcher and beyblade. She had left the rest of her gear at the training base.
"Do we have to tickle you?" Enrique asked, looking down at her.
She sighed and told them about her little 'run in' with Tala. As soon as she finished, they all burst out laughing. Enrique was even rolling around on the lawn, and Kai was snickering.
"Hey, a little support here," she demanded.
"Sorry, sorry," Rei said as he tried to calm his mirth. "It's just that you felt up…" They all broke out into fresh peals of giggling.
"Leave it to you to make up such a stupid plan," Enrique said when they had calmed down again.
"It was good in theory!" she defended herself.
"At least you didn't feel less... desirable areas. Or desirable, depends on your view," Rei said.
"And at least he wasn't completely nude," Carly said.
"I guess. I mean, I would've died from embarrassment then."
"So tell us, was he very lickable?" Mariah asked. "Only asking," she said to Rei who looked a little peeved at the question.
"I don't think that I want to answer that," Shadra said.
"I guess it doesn't matter as long as we don't find you two making out behind the bleachers," Carly said.
"I would never!"
"How do we know? You never answered Mariah's question," her stepsister said.
"Because I don't think they are!"
"Then why are you blushing?"
"Grrr."
"Besides, you're already half way there."
"I didn't mean to."
"How do we know? We weren't there. For all we know you could have—"
"I'm going to bed! B-E-D! And don't you perverts dare think that anything but sleep is going on there!" She spun around towards her house and stormed up to it.
Carly sighed. "I guess I better go make sure she doesn't break anything." She too retreated to their house.
"Well, one thing's for sure. Even with her new attitude towards rebonsipility, she's still the same underneath," Rei said.
"AND DON'T YOU DARE TELL ANYONE!" Shadra yelled from the window.
To be continued...
