Beyblade
Disclaimer;
Well, I own Riley and that's about it! Everyone else is someone else's doing.
To my Reviewers
- Rampant Chaos;
i kind of hope more people will ask me to update! it's more encouraging when someone actually LIKES what you do, you know? And yeah, i know exactos cut more, but how many people who have never cut themselves before walk around with that kind of knife?
- BloodyShadows;
(and Brooklyn shall overpower all hot dudes, alongside Miguel! -/heart/-) you definetly have interesting convos with your friends! lol thanks for the review!
- Torri-Chiobie;
go figure tala'd be happy to go out with a whore! XD and thats just too bad kai, you're evil at the beginning of my story. Maybe it's because i've decided to make you an ass, maybe you're going through a 'phase', only I will tell! (not now though!) thanks for the reviw/convo, Torri Chiobie!
- Rising Pheonix;
i'm glad you, er i mean Tyler, likes the new and improved title! Hey Tala, Kai, Steff, stop being evil pre-menstrual pains in the arse to RP! What has she done to you? Thanks for the review!
- Shades of Black;
Yeah, life's a bitch, one has to try not to get bitten. Kids and teens are a bunch of evil people out to get everyone, it's too bad that some people are targets. It's really sad, and completly unfair. I'm glad you like this story and I hope you keep on liking it with chapters to come!
- rena;
aww but I wanted black dranzer... ;;
- Nariko;
Max is so cute! X3 PLEASE STEPH HIEI IS MY ONLY BISHIE LET HIM GO! XP
- LiloSad;
Glad you're in suspense! Makes it that much more fun for the author ) I'll try to mix up the insults a bit more if it makse you happy. The reason Riley doesn't do anything is because she thinks it's her fault they're like that to her, she blames herself. Crazy, I know, but some people are like that -/cough/-
- skarmory:
kai? as a chibi? OMG! -/glomps chibified kai/-
- Johanna-wind;
Hey hey hey! The tenth reviewer has been found! Yes, I know it's dark, but yeah. . . Actually, I'm not too sure how I'd react personally, if it were me. Everyone has experienced something like this, not to this degree, but something like this at one point or another.
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last time-
But as I sat there on that toilet, I thought, what if it's true? What if my parents only pretend to like me because we have to live in the same house? I don't see why anyone would love me . . . everyone I cared for turned against me in the past, so why wouldn't they do the same?
And as time passed, I got darker and darker thoughts about lies and betrayal from those I once held at heart until it swallowed me like a sinking ship.
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I was left out in the rain,
Full of hate and confusion.
A soul broken from the pain,
A knife's temptation.
The world is a great place
A world without me
In the blade, I see my face
'Please', I whisper, 'set me free'
I had been so blinded by lies;
Shattered on the ground.
But you opened my eyes;
Sanctuary is what I found.
-Sanctuary,
by cynical.life
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Watch Me Fall
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Chapter 2
A Break From The Storm
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I ran out of the stall as fast as I could, running away from the stall, the school, running away from my life. That life that had me chained down to this hell I live in day after day.
I ran and ran, so blinded by tears I tried to hide that I didn't see the principal's door open and ran right into it. The next thing I knew, I was sprawled out on the ground again. Third time in one morning, I think that's a new record.
"I'm sorry" I whispered. I tried to hide the tears that were forming in my eyes as I tried to gather up my things.
"No, it was my fault," said a boy's voice as he handed me a notebook. "Let me help you pick up your stuff."
What? I looked up, shocked, towards the voice and my brown eyes were met with two golden catlike eyes hidden beneath strands of flyaway black hair. He gave me his hand that I shakily took and helped me up. He wore a pair of faded baggy jeans that was torn at the knees, held onto his waist by a studded belt. Multiple chains hung at his waist. He had a black band shirt on. On one wrist, he had a large stud bracelet and on the other arm, he had a wristband just bellow the elbow. I looked at him strangely the entire time. Why would he want to help me, the 'freak'?
We just stood there for a second staring at each other until he cleared his throat and ran his hand through his hair. I could tell that he was pretty uncomfortable by the silence. But then again, I didn't know how to act either. He didn't call me names or prank me like everyone else did. Instead, he was. . . nice to me? But this isn't possible. He can't be nice to me, no one is nice to me, I don't deserve it . . .
"I'm sorry, my name's Rei." He said as he extended a hand. I still didn't really know what to do, so I just kind of looked at his hand without really doing anything. Why is he being nice to me? What kind of taunting is he going to come up with now? How is he going to try and hurt me like everyone else? After a few seconds, I finally snapped out of it.
"Oh, sorry, my name's Riley." I said, trying unsuccessfully to give him a mall smile as I shook his hand. Why is he pretending to notice me? How is it he doesn't see me as a threat, as a disease, as some bug to kill?
"It's a pleasure to meet you, Riley." Rei answered, smiling back. Then, in a more concerned voice, he said "Hey, what happened to your eye?" How is it that he would care? Why should he? We don't know each other, so why is he pretending like this? What does he want with me?
"This? Oh, nothing. I just tripped and fell. I was heading off towards the bathroom to put some water on it before I, uh, kissed the door." Just great, pure genius. Now he'll walk away, never talk to me again and call me a freak like everyone else in this nightmare of mine.
"Yeah, I'm sorry about that, I didn't see you. I'm new, so I was getting my schedule and stuff from the principal." That explains why he isn't staying as far away from me as possible. It's just a matter of time, though, before he abandons me, like everyone else.
"Can you tell me where class 6A is? I'm trying to find my way around the school before Monday"
"Um, sure. It's the first class if you go down the hall and turn to your left. Good luck!"
"Thanks Riley!"
"No problem." I replied and, in the first time in longer than I can remember, I felt . . . good. I'd stop running, I'd go back to class because now I know that there is a soul out there that doesn't hate me. I've never felt better in my whole life. Maybe if I stayed home all weekend, cut off from the rest of the world, I'd be able to feel like this for two more days . . . one can only hope.
The principal came out of his office. "Oh Mr. Kon! You're still here, good. I was just about to send for you and assign someone to show you around school." That's when he saw me standing there near the wall. "And here is that someone! Miss Stone, will you please show Mr. Kon around the school? I'll write up a note for you to give to your teacher explaining your absence." I nodded. There was only one period left until the end of the day and nothing pleasant was waiting for me in class so I agreed.
"Good, good. Now get along you two, I don't want you waisting the rest of the day standing there!" said the principal, clapping his hands then walking back to his office.
I looked at Rei and he looked at me. I just shrugged and asked him what classes he had.
I showed him where all the classes where, I took him to the auditorium and the gym, the cafeteria and the labs. It sounds like a really boring thing to do, getting stuck with the 'noob' but I had a great time. Rei is so fun to joke around with; he sees me as a real person and not just some 'thing'. I haven't been treated like that by someone my age since . . . well, that's history, a history best forgotten. Maybe Rei will let me start over. Who knows?
I was around the auditorium, having a blast talking with him and he seemed to enjoy my company too.
". . . Who do you have for history?" I asked him.
"I have Mr. Goodenmayer."
"Oh, him. Make sure you get a seat in the back in his class; he tends to spit when he talks. Especially when he does his lectures on world revolution. How about math?"
"eh. . . It says here I have a Mr. Bates." He replied
"Oh yeah, the batman."
"Batman?"
"Yeah. We all call him batman because he always has his black hair slicked back with TONS of gel and his ears really stick out, making him look like a bat. You can't miss him."
"Something like this?" Rei pulled back all his hair from his face with both hands and blew up his cheeks with air. I started laughing so hard that tears formed in my eyes and my sides started to hurt.
"You laughs look just laughs just like him!" I said, trying to catch my breath. That's how it's been during the whole 'tour'. I'd show him around, warn him about the teachers and he'd make me split a gut laughing. By the time we finally got going to our lockers, the halls were already pretty empty, since it was Friday and all.
"Hey Riley?" asked Rei as I opened my locker.
"Yeah?" I replied, shoving all my books into my bag.
"What are you doing tonight?" I stopped what I was doing and nearly dropped everything. Huh?
"What?"
"Do you want to hang out? Some of my friends from my old house are coming over tonight and we're going to watch movies and stuff. Want to come? I mean, you seem pretty cool and I think we can be good friends and all so why not?"
Me? Cool? And friends? As in actual friends? Me and Rei? But. . . his friends will be there and they'll think I'm a freak like everyone else. . .
Please just don't play with me my paper heart will bleed
This wait for destiny won't do
Be with me please I beseach you
Simple things, that make you run a-way
Catch you if I can
Rei saw my uneasiness and asked me what's wrong.
"Oh, nothing. It's just that I'm a bit shy around people I don't know."
"Really? You didn't strike me as the timid type. But come anyway, I'm sure they'll like you. It's just a few of my friends, not even that much. And if they don't like you, you don't even have to see them again because they live in another town. Please?"
Tears fall, down your face
The taste, is something new
Something that I know
Moving on is, easiest when I am around you.
"Um. . . okay. But I just have to ask my mom first though. Where do you live?" Rei tore off a piece of paper from his notebook and wrote his address on it. I read it over a second time to make sure my eyes weren't acting weird on me.
"What's wrong? Is it too far?" he asked me.
"No way! This is just a few houses away from where I live!"
"Whoa, really? What house are you?"
So bottle up old love,
And throw it out to sea,
Watch it away as you cry
Now a year has past
The seasons go
"I'm the big creepy victorian at the end of the road. It's not haunted." I quickly added, a little embarrassed. Another thing people said about me was that my house is haunted and that I'm either a witch or possessed.
"I love old houses. They're so cool. And as for the haunted part, I don't really believe in ghosts. Do you?"
"Well, no, not really. It's just that some kids here think that it is haunted, and that makes me possessed or something."
"Well, I don't think so. But you shouldn't pay attention to what other people think. Everyone has an opinion of us, whether we want it or not. So don't worry so much!"
Waiting, day to day it goes through
My lips, are sealed for her
My tongue is,
Tied to, a dream of being with you
To settle for less, is not what I prefer
"I'll try. Hey, what time do you want me to come over?"
"How about around. . . 7 o'clock? Is that okay?"
"I'll see." I grabbed a quarter and pushed it into the nearest payphone.
"Yeah hey mom? It's Riley. . . . . yeah, my day was fine. Hey listen, a friend invited me over to his house tonight, can I go? It's just a few houses down, he just moved here. . . . . . . . yeah, the old Burke's place. . . . . . . mmhmmm. . . . . yeah. . . . . . . . yeah. . . .. . ok, love you too mom. Bye." And I hung up. I turned to Rei and told him that she said yes.
We turned and headed home, talking and laughing the entire way.
Summer time, the nights are so long
The leaves fall down, and so do I into
The arms of a friend
Winter nights
My bedside is cold, for I am gone
And spring blossoms you to me
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I TOLD you it would get better for Riley! But now, could you PLEASE review for me? It would be GREATLY appreciated! D
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