Hi it's Kick-flare with chapter 12, this is going to take longer than I thought, so any help that anyone can give on my other stories, (e.g.: Dark vs. Light, Rebel's Way, and Demolition Kid) would be greatly appreciated.

Disclaimer: Kick-flare doesn't own Beyblade, she owns the plot for this story, her OC Harmony. She is merely borrowing them for her story.

Harmony confused : Okay, well thanks and R&R!!

Who ever said running a café was easy?!

Chapter 12 – Missing family links

"Having a mum." Tala's voice held the pain, he had buried deep for so long.

"Not all it's cracked up to be, but it's nice to be able to go someone when you're hurt or hurting." Harmony's voice softened, as she placed her hand on top his.

'She cares? Why would she care?' His thoughts were racing, he knew that she was friendlier than anyone else he had met, but he didn't realise that she was also more compassionate than others, as well.

"You're luckier than you think." He said; his icy turquoise blue eyes drifted around their surroundings.

"No, I'm not." Harmony replied quietly that he almost missed it, but he didn't.

"What is that supposed to mean?!" Tala felt his temper rise, he had never had a mum, and now she was downgrading her mother, he would kill for someone like her mum, but his own.

"The family is incomplete." Harmony said, keeping her gaze to the window.

"As in?" Tala's eyes narrowed, she was totally unpredictable, to the extent that when he thought he had her figured out, she did something totally out of character and it would throw him. Needless to say it pissed him off to no extent.

"My dad, and my brother are the missing family links. It's just not the same without them." Harmony answered keeping her voice steady, even though she wanted to brake down and cry.

"But you still have family. It may not be complete, but it's still there." Tala answered, as his calm, cool exterior kicked back in.

"Yea, you're right." She said, moving her hand away, as her barriers kicked back in. Unfortunately Tala sensed her barriers, and had only just realised that she had given him, her hand, but she had moved it now.

"You are so unreadable." Tala's statement hit hard, but before she had chance to reply, he had returned to his own seat. The bus came to halt, outside a large white building, all the windows had been boarded up, and the front door was also boarded up.

"Excuse me, but are you sure this is the right address." Harmony asked the bus driver.

"Yes. You said Slakcy House, right?" The bus driver interrupted,

"Yea, but..." Harmony had begun to say.

"Well, this is Slakcy House." The bus driver snapped, rudely cutting in, again, before pushing her out, and driving off. Harmony sent a mean glare after the driver, before pulling out a set of keys from her pocket. She strode up to the front door, and tested the boarding.

"How are we supposed to get in?" Bryan's annoyed voice cut through the silence.

The boarding was loose so Harmony pulled it off, dropped it on the floor, and put the key in the lock, and turned it. The door creaked open, as the foul smell of mould and stale air flooded out, Harmony gagged before stumbling backwards.

"GOD THAT REEKS!!" Ian all but shouted, covering his nose, before retreating as far as he could.

Taking a deep breath of fresh air, Harmony ran up the house, and started to pull the boards off the windows. She had to retreat again, before she ran inside the house and threw the windows open, and dashing out again.

"How long?" Spencer grumbled, his nose wrinkled with disgust at the smell.

"God knows." Harmony grumbled, standing up and heading back to the house. The smell had dulled to tolerable level, she had signalled the others over.

"Still reeks." Ian stated, waving his hand in front of him. Broken glass was scattered on the floor with thick greenish black mould, covering the wall like very smelly wallpaper. Even the ceiling was covered in it, but it wasn't as bad, only because most of it had fallen to the floor. Tala stepped over the chunks of ceiling and mould, and nearly fell over as his foot had fell into a hole.

Fortunately, Bryan had caught the back of Tala's jumper, and pulled him upright. The fact that Bryan had nearly strangled Tala was overlooked because Bryan had stopped him from landing face first, on the rather filthy floor. They paused for a moment, while they surveyed their surroundings.

"This is going to take awhile." Ian grumbled pitifully, leaping sideways to avoid a piece of ceiling as it collapsed.

"Well, what are we waiting for?" Harmony chirped, rubbing her hands together eagerly, before she shot around the corner.