All Down Hill From Here Chapter 10: There's Gotta be More To Life, a beyblade fanfic

Chapter 10 (There's Gotta Be) More To Life

Silver woke with a start and sat up flinging her arms around in confusion. " Wait! Hold it!" Silver let out a piercing scream as her hands were shoved to her side and being held down. A hand clamped down over her mouth and Silver's eyes snapped open to look into the sapphire orbs of Tala. Satisfied that she wasn't going to scream again, he removed his hand. " Wha…" Silver murmured and blinked slowly at the boys that littered her room. Tala leaned backward, " Did you have to scream so loud?" Silver snorted and pulled the covers higher around her throat. Ignoring his question she fired one of her own.

" What IN THE NAME OF…HELL ARE YOU DOING IN MY ROOM?" Brooklyn was at her side in a second and had her mouth covered. " Be quiet, we're here to help you." Silver tore her face away from his hand and attacked him without another thought. Throwing her whole weight forward into a football tackle. " Help me in WHAT?" She shouted, the hurt from last night returning. " You can't help me you self centered bastard!" With each word she threw a punch at Brooklyn's face, which was all she was aware of, until a pair of strong arms locked around her waist and pulled her off.

" Let me go!" She screamed at whoever held her. Tala shook his head and pulled Brooklyn up, who was just ruffled, not hurt. " If you stop it I will." Kyler's voice broke through her fury haze. Silver slumped forward like a doll. Tears pooled again and the feeling of humiliation seeped into her. Sasatnehiel purred in her mind.

" Wild women," Johnny stated and Silver shot him a glare and yanked forward. Kyler hadn't been expecting her to move to fast and fierce that he lost hold of her and Silver streaked forward. Brooklyn, who had been nearest grabbed her and held her close. " Silver, stop it!" Kai who had been leaning against the opposing wall stood up straight, just in case if she pulled the move again. Silver trembled in his grasp.

" No…let me go, don't TOUCH ME!" She shoved against him. Tala sighed and walked over, hailing her over his shoulder like a sack of potatoes.

" Put me down," Silver ordered coldly and pulled the nightshirt she wore over her knees. Tala walked down the stairs like he never heard her. Silver gritted her teeth and rammed her knee into his gut area.

I've got it all, but I feel so deprived
I go up, I come down and I'm emptier inside
Tell me what is this thing that I feel like I'm missing
And why can't I let it go

Tala winced and bent over a bit, but didn't release her, he straighten after several deep breaths and locked her knees together with an arm. " Silver, the rabbit hole." The three boys looked at each other in confusion and Kai walked over to Tala. Silver stiffened, but settled down. " And Alice followed through." She grumbled out. " If Voltaire's ordering you around like before, you can just tell him to kiss my ass. I'm not in a good mood for this!" Kai actually chuckled at this. Silver stared at him, but he stared back like nothing had happened.

" What are you guys talking about?" Johnny caught up with them. Tala flung open his convertible car door and set Silver down in the back seat. Silver sent him a meaningful glare; that promised death and Tala shrugged. " Save it Sapphire." He buckled a sulking Silver in. " Sapphire?" Brooklyn echoed.

Kai got into the passenger seat. " Get it," Tala walked over to the driver seat and got it. Brooklyn, Johnny, and Kyler got into the back and locked Silver in-between Kyler and Brooklyn. " I'll explain, Silver and I use to go to the same 'school' and her code name was Sapphire."

There's gotta be more to life...
Than chasing down every temporary high to satisfy me
Cause the more that I'm...
Tripping out thinking there must be more to life
Well it's life, but I'm sure... there's gotta be more
Than wanting more

Silver pulled her feet up to her chest and pulled the white nightshirt over her knees. " What's wrong Silver, it isn't like you have anything we haven't seen." Johnny sniped at her. Silver looked over with a glare. " You should shut the fuck up." Her flat tone caused Tala to look back. " Silver." He warned and Silver let out a sigh, not before reaching behind Brooklyn's head and whacking Johnny. Brooklyn sent Johnny a desperate look and gently touched Silver shoulder and winced when she jerked away from him.

Kyler sighed and wrapped his arm around Silver shoulder, drawing her to him. Brooklyn sent his cousin and shearing glare. Silver sighing and snuggled into his embrace, she defiantly trusted him over Brooklyn. " Where are you taking me?" Kai turned around. " What are you going to do about tomorrow?" His eye's asked in return without answering her question. Silver stared right back at him.

" Don't worry about me." She muttered out and twisted her new hair around her fingers, missing the glances of surprise at her choice of colors. Kai nodded and they drove to his house. " By the way…" Silver said when they stepped out of Tala's car. " How are you going to explain to everyone that you kidnapped me at dawn?" The boys looked at each other, minus Kai who just walked into his own home.

" We haven't thought that far…"

I've got the time and I'm wasting it slowly
Here in this moment I'm half way out the door
Onto the next thing, I'm searching for something that's missing

Silver walked into school with Kai, Brooklyn, Johnny, Tala, and Kyler, who was just shadowing Brooklyn to see the school. " You can leave now…everyone's staring." The boys broke away from Silver, and she darted off to find Amy, Kyo, and Kayra, and to avoid Aki.

" Eww…" Kyo sighed and set the plastic spoon down. " They call this food." Silver grunted absently and stared out the window. Kayra took a sip of her Coke and looked over at her best friend. " Cae, what's the matter?" Amy stopped eating too and looked over. Silver lifted her head from the cradle position between her arms and spilled her life out.

" THAT BASTARD!" Kayra shouted when Silver finished. The cafeteria went silent and everyone turned to look at Kayra. Kyo shook her head and gently tugged Kayra down. Amy frowned and a swear word on the tip of her tongue. " The question is what are we going to do?"

The loud speaker was suddenly blasted to life, making everyone jump. " What the…" Aki and his group looked over in confusion. (There's Gotta be) more to Life blasted on. People got up from their seat and started dancing and sing.

Silver blinked rapidly, " did the principal loose her marbles?" " Who cares!" Amy shouted over the noise, " Come on!" Silver frowned. Ok she was in pain and they wanted her to dance? Sighing and hoping this would help her mood, she flowed into the beat. The beat altered into a new song and Silver actually loosened up. Laughing and giggling with Amy over certain songs and watching Kai being dragged around, caused them to fall onto each other.

" Silver?" Silver turned to look at Brooklyn, chewing her lips and broke into a light smile and he swung her around on the table. The placed turned into a 'club'.

" Lets get it started hot!" " Get down dirty!" They laughing and several people had a dancing competition and the way they danced was dubbed, fucking with clothes on.

I'm wanting more
I'm always waiting on something other than this
Why am I feelin' like there's something I missed...

Unfortunately the principal had come in and the cafeteria was ordered into detention. Silver jingled her keys from hand to hand as she dodged outside and skip detention. Hoping into the car she dialed home and left a message. She turned off her cell phone and gripped the steering wheel. " Sorry." She murmured and turned off an exit. The sign read ' Airport 1/2 miles.'

Aki walked into his house and hooked his keys on the rack. Stopping he turned and looked at the empty spot where's Silver was suppose to be. He raced out to the garage and realized that neither the car she drove today, nor the keys were there. Running back into the house, he saw the answering machine. Dreading what he was going to hear, he pushed play. " Hey, Aki you're probably listening to this first, and erase it and tell dad I ran away. I'm sure Natalie would be happy to hear it and you yourself will be celebrating. Was I really that fun to hurt? Were my feelings that unimportant to you? I'm human too, I may not be perfect, but who is? You?" Bitter laughter filled the speaker, " Keep thinking that, you'll be the last person who's perfect." A pause and he heard a deep shaky breath, " I'm leaving, going back the Russia. If you can do me a favor, the only thing I'll ever ask you to do is, please tell Amy, Kyo, and Kayra I'm sorry for leaving without telling them, that if I stayed…never mind… Tell Kai, Tala, and Kyler thanks. They'll know what I mean and tell Johnny to kiss my ass, he's still an asshole. As for Brooklyn…tell him I forgive him. As for you…I don't know what to say…I should thank for opening my eyes. And Dad…if you're listening…I love you, honestly I do. Even if I believed you walked out of my life all those years ago. If you want to find me…I'll be at the fountain…like always."

The dull click signaled that the message had ended. Aki sank back into a chair. What had he done? He cradled his face in his hands and felt tears prickle at the back of this closed eyes. Let them fall master. He looked up at Rosiel, his bitbeast. The male angel looked down. Let them fall master. Aki took a deep breath and the tears poured forth.

Author's Corner:

Wow...it's kinda hard to believe I've gotten this far. Well this story is almost coming to an end. A crappy ending if I might add. You'll hate me for this, but I'm horrible with writing happy, sappy endings. Ok well the ending isn't that happy and sappy, so don't worry too much.

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