Hikari: A new chapter...This is kinda going to be Tetra centered.

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Lashing cries: Thanks for the review, is this soon enough? And which characters? All of them? You'll find out why they act like that in later chapters.

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Warning:Child abuse, suicidal thoughts, rape, and maybe graphic death in later chapters.

Kevin:Hikari does not own beyblade or Rebecca.

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Ocean blue eyes opened and looked out to the horizon. Tetra sighed. It was Saturday, School had been interesting the day before to say the least. She closed her eyes and leaned against the rail. People often said she was like the younger female version of Kai with her attitude. Her thoughts drifted to the boy she had shown around the day before.

'He was so sweet. I'm amazed, most guys are assholes...Wait, why am I thinking of him?' Tetra shook her head, her light lime green hair falling in her face. 'I can't like someone, that's not me...guys can't be trusted...' she thought.

"Tetra?"

Tetra opened her eyes to meet up with emerald jade eyes. The boy she had just be thinking of was right in front of her...

"Hey Joseph..." She looked away.

"Uh...what are you doing at the docks" Joseph asked her.

"Thinking. You?" She answered.

"Oh, my team stays in that warehouse over there." He said, jerking is thumb to a old warehouse.

"...okay" Tetra raised her left eyebrow.

"Don't ask, Ozuma said we should be somewhere where no one could find us." Joseph laughed a bit.

Tetra smiled. "Sounds fun." she said.

"That was sarcasm Joseph." Tetra giggled. It was different for her to be at ease with a boy. She usually ignored them.

"Oh. Um, have you had lunch yet?" He asked.

Tetra's eyes went wide. "It's noon?" She shouted.

"Um...yeah." Joseph looked hurt.

"I'm sorry, Joseph, I got to go, see ya." She said, racing down the docks.

"Bye..." He called after her.

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"Shit, Shit Shit!" Tetra yelled. She raced down the street to her home. Or what she called a home. Tetra ran to the door and opened it quietly, trying to get to her room.

"Where do you think your going Whore?" Came a voice laced with venom.

Tetra turned, and saw the one man she feared. He had her hair color and brown eyes. He was obviously drunk out of his mind.

"Well Whore, why are ya late?" The man slurred.

"I was talki..." Tetra didn't get to finish as she was slapped across the face.

"That's the wrong answer Whore, I guess I'll have to teach you the error of your ways." He said, grabbing the girls wrist and pulling her to a bedroom. Tetra knew what was coming...

She was going to be raped.

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"Hey Joseph, who was the girl that you were talking to?" Mariam asked her younger brother when he entered the warehouse.

"That was Tetra, she's the girl who showed me around yesterday." Joseph answered.

"You should've invited her to lunch, we have plenty." Mariam said.

"I was going to, but she took off running." Joseph said.

"Maybe she had somewhere she had to be." His sister suggested.

"Yeah probably." The boy agreed.

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Tetra sat in a dark corner, disgusted with herself. Her whole body ached, how could she have let someone do that to her. It was her fault. She was a screw up since she was born. And she knew it.

Blood poured from multiple gashes on her body, and from a bloody nose and cut lip. She was unloved, she should've been killed when her mother died. She had been right, she was not only raped, but beaten too. All for being two minutes late to make lunch.

The girl got up and headed to the bathroom. No one was home, she figured her cousins had already been beaten and went to Rika's. That was their sancutary.

Tetra came face to face with herself in the mirror. Her reflection showed not beauty, but a monster. Her hair was a knotted mess, her face was bloody, her clothes were torn. She wasn't a girl, she was a mistake. She hated herself. That's why she couldn't have friends. She didn't deserve them.

Tetra was angry with herself, and slammed her hand up against the mirror. The glass shattered and sliced her hand open, blood poured out of the wounds.

"FUCK EVERYTHING!" she screamed. Her ocean blue eyes were filled with fury and hatred. Hatred towards the man that did this to her. Hatred towards her father.

She headed to her room and grabbed a bathing suit and some clean clothes,threw them in a bag, and raced down to her secret spot. It was hidden deep within the forest, it took a bit of time to get to. Tetra finally arrived at the spot. It was a beautiful pond with flowers and trees all around it. A waterfall hid a cave behind it.

Tetra walked over to the cave, and stripped off her clothes and put on her bathing suit. She dove into the waters, washing away all of the blood from her body. She walked over to the waterfall to let the water pound on her shoulders. She winced a bit, but didn't do anything about it.

She often wanted to cry, but she didn't. No matter what happened, she'd never cry. Tetra learned two things. Crying never solved anything, it just led to a stuffed up head and red puffy eyes. Also, crying never gained sympathy from her father. Instead it angered him, drove him into an unimaginable rage, filled with hatred and disgust towards his pathetic excuse of a daughter.

No, she'd never cry. No matter how great the pain was, she wouldn't let a single tear moisten her face. Only the blood from the thrashings she received. Only from the blood that linked her to her father...She hadn't cried in almost 2 years.

She sighed, and climbed out of the water, and changed into her clean clothes. She threw her bathing suit in her bag, and started to walk to Rika's place.

"Tetra, what happened?"

Tetra froze, she recognized that voice. She turned and saw Joseph.

"...What do you mean?" She asked.

"You have a black eye." concern filled his eyes.

"...I.um...got in a fight with a kid at school. No biggie." She said.

Joseph looked skeptical. He didn't know wheither to believe her or not.

"I got to go bud, see ya Monday." Tetra said, and she ran to Rika's house.

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"Rika! Are my cousins here?" Tetra asked, entering the room.

"Tet, what happened?" Link asked, he too had a black eye.

"You know what happened Link..." Aryll said quietly.

"ERG! Dammit! Why the hell are all of our fuckin lives so fucked up!" Rika shouted, punching her wall.

"Rika, calm down...punching the wall won't do anything." Kari said.

"I know, but we have to tell someone about this." Willis said.

"But who, no one believes us." Rebecca pointed out.

"We're just pawns in their game of anger." Kaley muttered.

"Maybe someone can help." Lisa suggested quietly.

"Yeah, what about those new kids" Mona added.

Everyone went quiet...debating to agree or not. Can the new kids help them?

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Hikari: Omg, that was a very Tetra centered chapter. I don't know, I just love Tetra/Joseph-ness. Anyway, a bit more angsty.

Kevin: RR please