Nise-angel: I totally agree with you! Romance always spices things up! If they intended the show for 8 year old boys, then why do a whole bunch of teenage girls like it? Lol!

Clio: Oops, that was just a typo. If I wasn't being my lazy old self and check it over, then I would've corrected it. Haha, well, um...great observations, but I don't know if it'll come true. Thanks for writing such a long review! I was so happy when I read it!

Minijkitty: If you find a guy like Ray, be sure to introduce him to me! Lol!

Rayrules: I know! I can't believe a guy is reading my story either. I wonder why...

Kanilla: The goddess of love? Doesn't that make me sound like Cupid?? Lol. I certainly never pictured myself as a divinity.

Diamond Core: Em...it's Carrie, not Cassie. Don't worry about Tyson and Hil, they'll be paired up soon, after Kai and Jewels.

Queen of Fantasy: I dunno how I got so many reviews. I started out like everyone. Oh and I also asked the host of Destination: Beyblade to put my stories up in her Fanfic section. Go to . You have to check out the cut scenes of G-Rev! It's so funny! Oh and don't forget the season one shrines!

YBM: Well, the question about what Ray and Kai talked about will never be revealed...you can speculate though!

Insane Sarcasm: Really? 00 I'm glad you liked it even if I didn't like it a lot. It was okay.

Eden: Well I'm sorry it was short!

LauncherStriker: It was only a joke! I didn't mean it really. I know not all guys have pea brains like Tyson. Haha, if you're looking for more action I say you come back when I write my next story because this one is basically about romance. You see, the styles of each of my stories are very different. First one was of tournament and battles. The second one is about love. I mean, the title is Love and Jealousy! The third one, now that's just top secret! It's going to be much more exciting than this one and the last one!

Anime-girl: I'm trying hard to make Mariam act like herself in the show. It's hard because all we've seen of her really are covered in two episodes, the one where she got trapped in the building with Max and the one where she battled him.

Raymond: I know, I love Ray too! But I also love Kai. They're both so damn hot!

------------: Um...this story doesn't have beybattles in it because there are none in it! Not every story have to have battles, ya no? God knows I'm horrible at writing them. :)


Chapter Twenty-Six – Mariam's Confession

"Hmm...maybe we should make some for the others," Max said thoughtfully. "I bet they'll love it."

"Sure, it's not like we'll be able to eat them all," Mariam said.

By the time they left, they had a whole bag full of chocolate.

They walked in silence then..."Max, I have to tell you something," Mariam said hesitantly.

Max turned his gaze away from the river and onto her emerald eyes. "What is it?"

"I...I ran away from home," she confessed. "The stupid council was talking about making Ozuma and I marry, even though we both don't want to. They weren't bent on it, but still, it would be bad. I wanted to leave the village when I grow up, but I know they'll never let me, so I decided just to run away. Ozuma and Joseph helped me leave the village one night and I came here."

"What are you going to do though?" he asked.

"I don't know," she answered before walking away to sit on the grassy slope.

"You can stay with me until you figure out something," he said from behind, hugging her.

"Thanks," she said, before kissing him.

"What's this until your bed?" Ray asked Zarine.

"I don't know, what's under there?" she questioned quietly before burying her face in the pillow. Her body felt unusually hot and she was dizzy. All she wanted at the moment was sleep. She wiped the drop of sweat rolling down her face and looked at him.

"This box," he said, opening it.

"Hey! That's mine!" she said angrily before snatching it away. "Don't touch it!" She looked down at it. It had been a while since she thought about the whole mystery behind the girl, Dawn, who wrote the diary. So much had happened since she discovered it and she hadn't had much of a chance to think about it.

"I'm sorry," the black haired boy apologized. "I found it on the floor and I got curious. Why can't I look at it?"

"I don't want you to," she snapped. She felt protective of it. It was hers, she found it.

"Where did you get it?" he asked.

"It's none of your business! Just leave me alone! I want to sleep!" she said before putting the box on her night table and plopping her head down onto a pillow. "We can talk tomorrow."

He noticed the sweat forming on her forehead and he said happily, "Look like your fever's broken." Though one thing still bothered him, why didn't Zarine feel cold and then hot? She had for the first day, but afterwards, she was fine, except that her temperature was unnaturally high. He decided that he was going to take her to a doctor the next day, just to make sure she was fine.

'She is fine. Xeora interfered and made Zarine better,' Driger told him with disapprove in his voice. 'I didn't think she should have done that, but it's not like she ever listens to me.'

'I'm glad,' Ray told his bit-beast in relieve.

"GO OUT WITH KAI!" Carrie yelled at her sister later that night.

"NO WAY AM I GOING OUT WITH THE HIWATARI MORON!" Jewels shouted back. "Why should I?"

"Because you like him," Carrie answered as if it's the most obvious thing in the world. "Besides, you've been moping around since the afternoon, when you and Kai kissed in the mall. It's not exactly fun to be stuck with my grumpy twin."

"Hey, you could've gone out with your boyfriend," Jewels said. "But no, you had a cow over it because there's still a bruise on your cheek."

"Not everyone wants to appear like they've been in a ditch on their first date!" the green eyed girl said, looking at the purple spot on her cheek in the mirror mournfully. "Back to you, just tell him that you like him. It can't be so hard to say three words, can it?"

Her twin said in frustration, "Get this straight in your head! I don't like Kai and I don't want a boyfriend."

"Stubborn mule," Carrie muttered under her breath. Speaking louder, she told Jewels, "Fine, don't take my advice and be miserable. Don't come asking me why you're feeling down." She flopped onto her bed and started flipping through a on, sis," Jewels said, throwing a cushion at Carrie.

"Don't throw that at me," Carrie growled, looking up.

"Make me," the girl with the violet eyes said before throwing another pillow at Carrie.

"Okay that's it!" the short girl yelled as a pillow bounced off her head. She stood up and began whacking her sister with a pillow.

Twenty minutes later, they both collapsed onto the bed, laughing hard. "That was fun," Carrie giggled madly. "Let's do it again."

"Nah, I got a huge rip in this pillow already. Mom will kill us if we destroy another one," Jewels sighed regretfully.


In the middle of the night...

Max woke up with a start, his arm numb. He looked around in confusion, why was he lying on a slope with Mariam's head on his shoulder??? Then he thought that he and Mariam must have fallen asleep while talking earlier. He looked at his watch and sat up suddenly, waking Mariam.

"What is it?" the blue haired girl asked in a sleepy voice.

"Wake up, it's two in the morning. We have to get home. My dad is going to be so worried," he said urgently.

"Two?!" she said in surprise. "Let's go then."

He picked up the bag of chocolate from the ground and grabbed Mariam's hand in his other one.

They hurried back to Max's house to find his dad still awake. He frowned, "Where have you two been? Tell me if you are going to be late next time, Max."

"I'm sorry. We fell asleep by the river when we were talking," his son apologized.

He smiled, but didn't buy the story. (Haha, know what he's thinking? It's not that hard to figure out.) "Alright, make sure it doesn't happen next time,"

"Do you mind explaining why you're so protective of a diary that's not even yours?" Ray asked the next morning.

"Ray! You weren't supposed to have read it!" Zarine scolded, getting out of the bed.

"It must be Kai's mom or her sister who wrote it," he said thoughtfully. "Did you know that there's a key on the bottom of it? I wonder what it's for."

The mention of 'a key' made her look up sharply at him. "Let me see," she said, holding out her hand.

He put a steel key in her palm. She studied it. It was larger than the average key and it was heavy. "It must be for a big lock or something," she said after a minute.

"We have to give it to Kai," Ray told her seriously.

"No, we don't! It's mine!" Zarine snapped. "I found it!"

"Zarine! You found it here, in this room, in Kai's house! It's his! I bet you anything it's his mom's."

"Then explain this, why does he have his mom's last name and not his dad's?"

He was stumped. How should he know? Kai didn't talk about his family because of his terrible memories of his grandfather. "I'll give it to him on my own. It's none of your business," she said, taking the box away from him.

He gazed at his girlfriend, thinking hard. Why was she being so possessive of a box? It had nothing to do with her......unless there was something that she was keeping from him. Another thought hit him, what if she was somehow connected by those two people from the diary?

As the doorbell rang, Carrie peered out the window to see who it was. She let out a gasp as she saw her boyfriend standing at the door, waiting patiently for someone to open it.

"IF ANYONE ASKS FOR ME, I'M NOT HERE!!!!" she shouted before shutting herself into a closet.

"What's going on? Who's at the door?" Jewels asked, barely stifling her laughter.

Carrie glared at her and said, "It's not funny! I'm in my pajamas! What the hell does he have to show up at eight thirty in the morning?"

"Carrie dear, Jason is here. He wants to talk to you," her mom told her absently, hurrying along the hallway with a basket of laundry.

"Mom! I told you to tell him that I wasn't here!" she said.

"Why are you avoiding him? He is your boyfriend."

"That's the problem! I'm in my ABC pajamas for goodness sake! I can't go in his presence looking like this!"

"I'm glad I don't have a boyfriend. It sure saves me a lot of stress," Jewels remarked, rolling her eyes. "Just go down there. If he really likes you, he'll think you look good even if you are wearing something stupid."

"Well, it's not like it's my choice now! He knows I'm here," Carrie pointed out crankily.

"Maybe it's because of all the yelling," Jewels told her.

Carrie ignored her as she walked down the stairs to see the guy who was waiting for her downstairs.

Jason, who had heard every word that Carrie said upstairs, was waiting for her in the living room. He whistled when he saw her walking down the stairs, making her blush furiously.

"How's my hottie doing today?" he teased, kissing her on the cheek.

"I'm good, thanks. But seriously, I'm not hot. I'm wearing PJs that have ABCs on them," she told him.

"Okay, but you look really cute in them," he said. "So do you want to do something together today?"

"Sure..." she said. "When?" [I really shouldn't put off our first date just because of a bruise.] she thought to herself.

"Great, do you want to go out for breakfast? Or do prefer later?" he asked her.

"Let's go now!" she said enthusiastically. She thought Jason was very nice to her and she did like him a lot. "I've been looking forward to doing something with you,"

"You could've said something," he laughed.

"She didn't want to go out on her first date looking like she had been in a ditch, she says," Jewels informed him, fully dressed.

Jason looked at Carrie, his eyebrow raised in question.

She averted her gaze in embarrassment and muttered, "Don't ask. I'm going to get changed."

"What's the story behind that reason?" he asked Jewels.

"It's the bruise on her cheek. She thinks she's completely disfigured because of it, and therefore, not fit to go out with you," the red head explained. "It's one of her quirks."

He sat down on the black leather couch, frowning. The latter about his new girlfriend not wanting to go out with him because of a bruise was kind of upsetting for him. He thought she wasn't that kind of person who freak out because of a little thing like a bruise, or a broken nail like Shea and the rest of her cheerleader girls.

After five minutes, Carrie appeared at the bottom of the stairs, looking very attractive with a red halter and jean shorts. "Now you're just drop dead gorgeous," the blonde haired boy complimented, making her blush again.

"Guys, have fun. But please don't be like anymore sickening than that in my presence," Jewels said, closing the door behind them.

"Your sister is sure a pleasant one to be around," he said.

"Don't mind her, she's like that," Carrie said. She looked a bit startled as he enveloped her small hand in his, but nevertheless smiled at him.

Jewels sighed as she watched the two of them walked down the street through the window. [Why can't I have someone?] she pondered, depressed. [Wait, I did not just think that, did I?]

'You did, don't deny it,' a gleeful voice said in her head. 'Just admit it, you want to be together with Kai.'

[Great, now I'm hearing voices in my head. All this talk about boys had officially driven me to the brink of insanity.] she thought.

'I'm no ordinary voice and you know it!' the voice said, sounding offended.

She bit back, 'Special voice or not, you're still a voice, so just leave me alone and get lost! Why do you care about my love life so much anyway?'

'A friend told me to try and bring you to your senses,' the unknown speaker explained. 'You don't know him in person, but he had asked me for help.'

'Why does your friend care? Wait, I don't want to know, and I certainly don't wait to have another word with you. Stop invading my mind!' she mentally shouted, half convinced that she was going insane.

'Jeez, I'm going to look forward to actually meeting you,' the voice muttered.

'The feeling is mutual,' she sneered back.

'Well it was nice talking to a civilized girl,' the voice said, his voice dripping with sarcasm.

'My grasp on civility isn't all that tight," she explained. 'Now good day, and get out!' She breathed in relieve as she felt the presence leave her mind.


Poll: Which OC is your favourite?? (I forgot to do this last time.)

1) Zarine

2) Jewels

3) Carrie

I think either Zarine or Carrie's my fav. I dunno, I can't choose!!