Runaway Chapter 4, a beyblade fanfic

Thanks to all that reviewed! And I realized I had gotten Michael's last name wrong, so sorry about that.

Milena walked next to Salima as they headed to the café to meet this 'Brooklyn'.

"What's Brooklyn's next class?" Milena asked out of curiosity."

"Psychology. He apparently wants to be a psychologist and work in a mental institution or something." Salima replied laughing.

"That's a coincidence." Milena commented lightly though the red heads words struck a cord.

As they reached the café Milena came face to face again with Brooklyn Kingston. It seemed that Salima shared quite a few similarities as Cathy seeing as she tried to set them up after only a few short minutes by leaving them alone at the table.

"So…" Milena started awkwardly fidgeting nervously. Though Brooklyn didn't share her uneasiness, he was sitting calmly with his arms crossed and just gazing at her. And the calm façade painfully reminded her of another red heads. In fact, everything about this Brooklyn reminded her of him. The flaming orange hair, only a few shades lighter then Tala's, and the inquiring aquamarine eyes, which were bright and lively just like a certain pair of turquoise ones. And their statures matched fairly well too, both just a little over 6'.

"Why did you want to pursue a degree in human psychology?" Milena asked breaking the awkward silence.

"Well, from past experiences I have trouble with relationships. And I want to learn more about how they work and such a perhaps help other's with it." A silky voice spoke smoothly with soft smile, though evident pain hidden behind it.

"I thought you wanted to work in a mental institution?" Milena blurted out surprised.

Brooklyn chuckled. "Did my cousin tell you that?" He asked with a broader grin.

Milena blushed at this, and nodded her head slightly.

"That's just her opinion on it after I told her I wanted to major in psychology." Brooklyn explained easing Milena's embarrassment a little.

"Actually, I'm majoring in psychology too." Milena told him, her blush subsiding. "Since relationships are so complicated to understand. It's like one minute you're in heaven floating on cloud nine and the next minute your plummeting down from that cloud into the deepest pits of hell." Milena spoke softly, as her crimson eyes glazed over.

Brooklyn glanced at her in surprise. It was as if the girl read his mind. She understood his words perfectly.

"You have the exact feeling about this as me." Brooklyn spoke giving her a sad smile.

"Trust me, I speak from first hand experiences."

"So then, what made you think that way?" Brooklyn asked softly, noticing the girl tearing up a little.

"Well…"

Milena paused, it was hard to actually say this, especially to someone who looked undeniably like the one that did this to her.

Before Milena could continue, Michael came back from getting their orders and plopped down next to Milena.

"Parker, back all ready?" Milena asked grabbing a cappuccino from the tray.

"Yup, the others are still waiting for the orders but I came back to tell you we have to leave for General Social Sciences." Michael told her pointing to the clock that hung on the wall.

"I have to go, but you want to hang out tomorrow at lunch?" Milena asked Brooklyn, who was still seated their looking at nothing in particular.

"Sure." He replied smoothly.

"So tell me a little about Milena." Brooklyn asked Rei later that night after they both retired to their shared dorm.

"What, do you like her?" Rei asked teasingly baring his fangs.

"No…just curious, she intrigues me." Brooklyn replied after contemplating about it.

"Ok, well, she came from Vancouver, she's a really good boarder, she's loaded…and yeah…that's bout it." Rei ticked off with his fingers.

"No, that's not what I meant, I meant like, her past and last name." Brooklyn told the Chinese boy lying back on his bed arms stretched out beneath himself.

"Her last name is Hiwatari and her past… I have to clue. Though now that you mention it, she never explained her past." Rei realized. "Or why she came here."

"Do you know somebody that knows?" Brooklyn asked now thoroughly intrigued by the shorter blunette.

"Let's see, Mystel might know more, the guy is practically her best friend."

"Thanks." Brooklyn smiled, thinking of a way to ask Mystel without Milena knowing too much.

"So you do like her." Rei grinned.

"Like I said before, she intrigues me, but I don't like her in the way you're hinting at." Brooklyn smiled as he closed his eyes feigning sleep.

"Sure, whatever you say." Rei smiled and turned his attention back to his essay.

Brooklyn's head was racing with thoughts. But the questions that stood out above the rest were what Rei kept asking him. 'Do you like her?' it haunted him, though even he couldn't answer it truthfully. He scoffed inwardly. 'I just met her…but there's something about her that I admire.'

"Yo Brooklyn, you awake?" Rei's voice broke his thoughts. Brooklyn opened his eyes and noticed that he was halfway into falling off his bed. He laughed and got up, assuring Rei he was all right.

"You want to come skateboarding with us?" Rei asked closing his MSN Messenger. "It's about a ten minute drive from here. Mystel, Michael, myself, Salima and Milena are going."

"Why do you ask? I'm not a skater." Brooklyn simply replied.

"Well, your cousin is going to be there, and so is Milena." Rei emphasized.

Brooklyn merely chuckled. "Sure, but you'll have to teach me how to skateboard." Brooklyn agreed.

"If you want to learn you should get Milena or Mystel, or even Michael to teach you instead. Their all way better then me and have more experience." Rei informed the new addition to their group.

As Milena went on the rainbow run Brooklyn cam up behind her.

"Where did you learn how to skate?" He asked casually, while trying to get the hang of moving on the board. For someone who always looks so calm and collected, Brooklyn looked out of place at the park, as he kept wobbling unsteadily. Though Milena had to praise him for getting the hang of it fairly quickly.

"I hung out with my brother and his friends a lot, so I learned along side them." Milena told him smiling.

"So you hang around skaters?" Brooklyn asked raising an orange eyebrow.

"Yep." Milena answered proudly. "I have a few pictures I can show you some other time." She offered. Brooklyn nodded as he digested this new information about the otherwise enigmatic girl.

"Milena!" Salima ran over smiling. "Can you show me how to do the olly again?" She asked pleadingly. "You put your left foot near the end of the grip tape and your right near the front but not too front. Then jump first with the right and follow with the left." Milena explained in one fluid motion while doing a slow motion example.

"Your really good!" Brooklyn praised clapping.

"I try hard at what I do." Milena grinned wholeheartedly.

"Do you like my cousin? You two seemed to hit off well in the café and the park." Salima prodded Milena's arm smirking.

"No…. not that way. I mean, he's a nice guy and all, but not really my type…" Milena explained smiling sadly.

"Milena, why did you move here anyways? Not that I'm not glad that you did, but Brooklyn asked me earlier and when he mentioned it, I realized you never told us."

Milena stared at her feet. She knew she'd have to tell them sooner or later.

"My heart shattered. I couldn't take it anymore and didn't have the guts to pick the pieces up in front of him." She said softly.

"Whole story." Salima demanded.

"Remember in the picture I showed you." Milena stop up and took out a picture of Tala, Enrique, Johnny, Cathy, her and Kai. "He's my problem." She pointed the slim red head at the very left.

"He doesn't look like a problem, he's drop dead gorgeous!" Salima gushed.

"I've like him for over two years now, almost three. But since I'm such a coward I never told him, since we were pretty good friends."

"Did you notice you though?"

"Well, not really, since he's my brother's best friend, so I've known him for just as long, but he thinks of me as just one of the gang or 'Kai's little sister'."

"So…" Salima urged.

"Cathy finally couldn't keep her mouth shut and told him. Tala Ivanov."

"Ivanov… that names sounds really familiar." Salima mused.

"He's the son of Dimitri Ivanov, CEO of Ivanov Corps." Milena informed her off-handedly.

"Wow, he's really somebody then huh?" Salima asked awed.

"Yeah, but that's not the bad thing. It's just that he's a really big player and always has a girlfriend latched onto his side." Milena sighed.

"Ouch, tough, that must hurt." Salima winced as she gave her friend a hug.

"Yeah, but I guess it could be sort of my fault, because I knew he only thought of me as a friend though I wanted to be more. But Kai what a player he was warned me and I guess I got burned when I played with the fire. Though what really hurt was that despite how Cathy told his the whole story and how I really like him he dismissed it as quickly as it came and went out and asked another girl out in front of me…" Milena trailed off.

"So you couldn't take it anymore and left."

"Yeah."

"Do you still like him then?" Salima asked softly.

"I'm not really over it, though it's getting easier to think about him without it hurting."

"Is that why you ignored Brooklyn in the beginning?" Salima asked curiously.

"Yeah, because he looks so much like Tala, it was just kind of odd."

"So do you like him?" Salima asked once again grinning.

"Who?" Milena asked tilting her head up.

"Brooklyn."

"I don't want to face the whole relationship thing again so no."

"You mean you're never going to fall in love again?"

"I guess." She shrugged.

"Milena, am I the only one that knows this?" Salima asked, not really sure if it was ok to tell all this to Brooklyn.

"No, Mystel knows."

"You told Mystel instead of me…?" Salima glared pouting.

"Nope, my idiotic brother blurted out the whole story to him when he was here over the summer." Milena sighed, glaring at the thought.

"Oh ok." Salima laughed.

Milena sighed and went on the computer and logged onto her MSN Messenger.

She had an email from Cathy. She read it slowly.

Yo Milena! How's Toronto U., Vancouver is ok, and Tala and Kai are reading over my shoulder right now so none of our secret stuffP. So how's life? And tell the fangirls that if they want to see Kai then all they have to do is give me a $10 000 fee. LMAO! A girl has to make money somehow huh? Well, ttyl Cathy.

An annoying ring filled the room. Cathy had just signed on and was impatiently trying to get her attention.

Cathy says:

Yo Milena!

Milena/I hate you but I love you I can't stop thinking of you. You mean the whole world to me but when I see you my world turns upside down says:

Hey

Cathy says:

God… ppl are annoying these days, especially the skater group.