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'' For thinking

Italics just for the fun of it!

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She's Going Where?!

Chapter 4- What Kinda Party Doesn't Serve Caviar?!

Written by Euphrosyne


"No."

That was right. Just as Riley had expected, Tai walked into the door at EXACTLY ten after six. This day was no different, but since it was Riley's first day at Middleton, he made even a bigger attempt to waste no time to getting home. Just like she thought, Tai was totally going to put up a fight about that party.

"The answers final."

Riley stomped her way to the other end of the long dinning table before sitting down angrily. She had tried to slip in the little topic as smoothly as possible, but it was as if Tai's 'fun radar' set off at the slightest mention of a party. Didn't exactly help when she mentioned it wasn't, cough, formal. 'Where was Chloe and Ash when she needed them?!' They were definitely… persuasive…

As if on cue, a loud clabbering echoed in the main hall followed by fast evenly spaced clicking of women's heels. The dining room door swung open, showering the once silence room with the supplement of daily bickering.

Riley sighed. At least this would draw attention off her problem allowing her time to think of some quirky comebacks.

Tai leaned back, preparing for some hardcore verbal combat. 'What can I say,' shrugged Tai, 'It's better than satellite.' His thoughts were soon drowned out by shouting.

"ASHLEY SAINT-STEFANS!" Chloe grumbled before rolling up her sleeves. "YOUR PARENTS WERE RIGHT FOR NAMING YOU AN A.S.S!" Walking over to the other end of the table, she gripped the back of Riley's chair, mentally throwing daggers at the blond boy.

Ash proceeded behind Tai's chair, supporting his weight on the handles. Pointing, he shouted across the room. "Oh shut up Miss Prissy! As hard as it is to believe, I have better things to do than wait on you all day!"

"ARE YOU CALLING ME HIGH MAINTENANCE?!"

"Chloe, god put me on earth to accomplish a certain amount of things. I see no downside to this because, thanks to you, at the rate we're going, I'll live forever!"

Tai rubbed his temples with his fingers. That was a lot of information to retain within a one-minute period. How does Ash do it?

Riley spoke in a singsong voice, "If you allow me to go to Ray's party, that will eliminate ONE of the problems." She smirked at her perfect timing.

Tai threw his head back in agony, trying to hold himself back from tearing his hair out. One word, D-I-S-T-R-E-S-S-E-D-!

"Oh yeah Riley, how was your first day at school?" Finally taking notice of the girl in front of her, Chloe smiled warmly before sneaking a glare at Ash's direction.

Ignoring Chloe, Ash questioned this 'party' he was hearing about. Riley began repeating the details of her day, making sure to tell Chloe about Vivinne. Indeed the way she imaged, Chloe was absolutely horrified with the head cheerleader's repulsive hair and attitude.

"A hundred dollar wardrobe on a one dollar body, with a face not worth a penny. One of those people eh?"

Riley laughed at Ash's description. "That pretty much sums it up."

Returning to her days adventure, Riley began ever so carefully assembling a perfect profile of her new friends, making sure to make Ray sound extra nice. She didn't want to screw up her only chance of going to that party now. Chloe was quite supportive of the whole gathering…that was, at first.

"Sounds like a great way of meeting people Tai. Get to dress up, dance and sing, toping it off with some nice catered food…like caviar! How bad can it be?"

"…Actually, I don't think they're serving caviar. I don't think there's going to be catering either. I'm guessing more along the sides of chips and dip, you know, finger foods…"

Riley was cut short.

"You mean THIGH-ENLARGERS?!"

Chloe didn't understand why Riley would want to go to a party where all these…calories…were made available.

Making a sad face, Ash finally came to Riley's rescue.

"Overall I guess this party doesn't seem too bad…"

"Thank you thank you Ash!" Riley jumped and wrapped her arms around him. Then she thought of a plan. "How about a compromise, if you and Chloe get Tai to give me permission to go to Ray's hangout, I'll do whatever duty Chloe has you tied to. Since I get off school at three anyways, it really shouldn't be a problem!"

Ash's eyes lit up at that offered solution. Chloe shrugged, "I don't know, seeing it's Tai, it's probably easier to receive forgiveness than permission…" After shot by two glares, and not seeing any consequences, she agreed.

All eyes locked on Tai's.

To say the least, he froze like a deer under headlights.

"This is called peer pressure you know."

Finally giving up, he threw his hands in the air. A few mumbled words were heard, "…Yeah, fine, whatever…youcangototheparty…"

Everyone began jumping for joy at the resolution.

"Here are the rules…"

Riley stopped in midair. Knowing she was already lucky having gotten so far about the issue, she decided to plead no further. A mutter of 'Oh boy' was heard within the background.

"No Ash, I'm not going to give her my usual list…no matter how tempting it is." Tai stood up to walk over to the red-eyed girl. Capturing her gaze with his concerned grey orbs, he placed his hands on her shoulder.

"I know it is hard starting a new school and all, but you have to understand I feel responsible for your safety since all our parents are constantly managing the business." He tucked a strand of stray hair behind her ears. "All I am asking for is that you have your cell with you throughout the whole time, and be expecting to be picked up by Will at ten. Is that clear?"

Riley nodded. She could see the worry in his eyes. Kissing him on the check, she brought Tai into a tight embrace. He kissed her forehead before resting his chin on her head, savouring the rich aroma of her hair.

"You know I want you to be happy, so have fun."

Pulling away, Riley rubbed the sides of Tai's arms. She smiled, "Thanks, I will.."

"Okay children, dinner will be served in five minutes!" Katherine's voice came booming from the kitchen. "Riley helped prepare it, so brace yourselves for even a bigger feast!"

"Backup plan, I like that." Tai draped his arm around Riley's shoulder, pulling out a chair for her to sit.

"You know what they say, the way to a man's heart is through the stomach." Riley laughed, "Katherine was totally in on the plans too."

Ash rolled his eyes, "From what I've seen from Chloe, the way to a woman's heart is through the man's wallet."

"Shut up Ash! I'm not even close to being through with you!"


Holding Riley's hand, Tala made his way to the stands. Pulling her up to the top, the two joined the gang at their usual place.

It wasn't the best of seats, but it was definitely the perfect spot to admire all those skimpy little skirts on those cheerleaders. Michael was even better off, he was on the field.

Receiving a hug from Emily, Riley was greeted by the rest of the group. Everyone got comfortable, preparing themselves for the long game ahead of them…ohboy, this was going to be fun.

Feeling crumbs being chucked into her hair, Riley turned to see Tyson stuffing his face with cookies. Sighing, she spoke.

"Tyson, a balanced diet isn't a cookie in each hand."

My, did she ever sound like Chloe!

Max laughed, "Don't mind him Riley. To him, a successful diet is the triumph of mind over platter."

Tyson paused to breathe before speaking, nearly knocking someone's eyes out with his dangerous slobbering habits. "That's right! Thou shall not weigh more than thy refrigerator, that's my motto!"

Rolling his eyes, Tala spoke. "Don't get too open-minded Tyson, your brains might fall out…"

"…Ain't got much left either…"

"Hey!" Shouted the navy haired boy.

"Keep your mouth shut while your chewing! We already have enough guck on our clothes, believe me, we don't want to see where it's coming from!" Emily jumped on Max's lap.

'Wouldn't mind Riley in that position on me,' thought Tala.

"Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity…" Kai walked up to the bleachers, taking a seat next to Tala. A short boy wearing thick rimmed glasses covered by messy brown hair sat next to Kai. A laptop opened and instantly he began clicking away.

"By the way, this is Kenny," spoke Kai, eyes resting on Riley's face a bit longer than he expected. "He's our information and stats guy for the school Beyblading team."

Riley smiled. "Yes, we've met."

Bringing his face away from the screen; Kenny finally took notice of their conversation. "Oh hey Riley!…That's right, we met at Chess practice," he smiled, "Quite a rowdy debater too, if I may say so myself!"

Laughing at the compliment, Riley replied. "Me rowdy?! Just trying to keep up with you buddy!

Kenny blushed before awkwardly adjusting his glasses.

Leaning over to catch Riley's attention, Tala spoke. "Never thought I would say this, but I am starting to see geeks and nerds at a whole new level…" He added a wink just for fun.

Tyson cleared his throat. "Better be nice to those geeks and nerds Tala, you'll be working for them someday!"

Just as the handsome cerulean-eyed boy was about to break Tyson's face into a million shattered pieces, the cheerleaders ran onto centerfield lead by no other than Miss Bitch herself, Vivinne DeCourte.

Regaining his original position, Tala sat back down. Riley heard him whisper to Kai. "So, how exactly did the break-up go, the second time around?"

Before Kai could answer, the squad had begun performing.

"GO MARIAH BABY!" shouted Ray a row down.

About thirty seconds into the routine, Riley was in complete awe. 'This is what they call a cheerleading team?!' She definitely needed some kind of journal of keep all these entries for Chloe. The blonde was totally going to laugh her ass off when she heard about this. 'These yellow, green, and white miniskirt-wearing girls made it to the continental championships? Oh puh-lez!'

"Isn't my Mariah great!" It was more a statement than a question.

Returning her attention to the field, Riley did indeed notice her pink haired friend wasn't bad. 'Those are some nice strong landings for her back flips. Both feet together.' Vivinne and her little mob of wannabes however, were performing what appeared to be like retarded dancing. They were shaking their bonbons like there was no tomorrow.

Riley sighed, 'If this was the best part…can't wait for the game."

As if someone read her mind, the football team ran out. The game was put to a start.

"Hey! There's Michael!" Pointed Emily from behind.

"Yeah! Hey man, kick some ass!" Ray switched between cheering for Mariah and Michael. At this rate, the Chinese boy would easily replace Vivinne.

"He's got the ball! He's running, ohman he's going to make it….!" There was a silence as everyone in the crowd waited for what would be the first touchdown in decades.

"OUCH!" Tala shielded his eyes from the gruesome sight. "Looks like he won't be having kids any time soon…"

A smacked was received by Tala on the head. Emily spoke, "Oh shut up Tala!"


Question: Thanks to some creative sarcasm from my editor, apparently I've used the throwing of pillows too much between Kai and Tala. (Quote from Aglaia ) "Okay, WTF with the pillows? Pillows are a GIRLS tool of friendly destruction. For guys well…refer to le GAY men club!"

So, to all the readers, what exactly do GUYS chuck at each other during friendly neck breaking moments?

Please don't say socks! (Sweat drop)

Haha, thanks for reading, and please review!