-1The second chapter in my characters life fifteen years later. She now has a daughter called Soraya who posses the sweetest nature her parents have ever seen. She's seven years old and her father will be left with her on his own at some point so he can test his father hood skills. Oh and the father, you'll have to read in order to find that out.
EBONY
Great, bills, bills and more bills. It's a good thing I have enough money to afford them, but there just so annoying to get no matter how rich you are. I've got a job now working with archaeologists about beyblading history and the sacred spirits. You may think it weird someone with £50,000,000 in her back account would choose to work. But I'd rather earn the right to have as much money as that in my life time, when I retire I'll gladly enjoy it but until then I'm a working girl. I used to be able to go around the world sometimes but now I have a certain responsibility that doesn't give me that pleasure anymore. When Soraya came around I had to stop working around the world on a whim. I still work full time but I stay in the same country working at the museum studying all sorts of strange things I get back from the archaeologists. Tyson's father is by far the winner of brining back the strangest things I have ever seen. My little girl is too important at this moment in time. Her dark black hair glistened in the sun like her brown eyes which were so full of life. She ran around the garden without a care in the world flapping her arms thinking she was a bird. "I'm flying mummy!" I'd hear her cry. "That's great Sora." That was our nickname for her. Sometimes I wish I could be six again, but then remembering my past experiences made me change my mind pretty quickly. The only thing that strikes me as odd is she acts nothing like her father and I.
I liked being alone with Soraya but it would be great if her father could stop working for a day and spend sometime with her. He's far off somewhere in the world working for his grandfathers company as hard as he can. (Can you guess who the father is yet?) It hurts me when Soraya asks where her daddy is. Sometimes I don't know what to say and change the subject very quickly. The first time she saw him he was more like a stranger than her father.
Tyson and Hilary are also married. I convinced Tyson to break the question to Hilary soon or I'd break his fucking legs!' I was being driven crazy by the two love birds. "When will he ask me?" Hilary would say. "I got this ring for Hilary but I don't know if I should ask her."
Eventually the blade brakers and I got Tyson and Hilary to go out to a romantic restaurant. They were seated outside in the cool summer night looking very happy. I paid the waiter to put a little note in Tyson's menu before handing it to him. It read as follows. 'Ask her you fucking idiot!' Tyson looked around for us but we were looking down on them from a hotel room. I had the binoculars and could see everything very clearly. Kenny had his laptop computer and everyone watched the drama unfold on the screen. When they asked each other who set this up after he proposed and she said yes (obviously), they stood up looking for us. We didn't see them until next week thinking it best to give them a wide berth until they cooled down with us. Well they ended up with little Tyrone (Tyson thought up the name) who is just like his father in so many ways. But if I had to list them the main two would be their eating habits and their love for Beyblade.
Ray is married to Mariah and living in china with a couple of kids. (Sorry for who I put ray with but I just couldn't see him with anyone else.) Yow, looks like a mini version of him, whilst Tema looks like her mother only without the pink, she wears dark blue instead.
Max married Emily when he left for America. (Doubly sorry.) His is the same age as Tyrone. The kid who's called James is mad about beyblading and because Max retired he gave the kid his Draciel. Now the kid called him uncle Max and asks him for tips about training. James has the same belief about defence as Man. As the saying goes, like father like son.
Kenny managed to get a ring around Ming Ming's finger. How he did that I'll never know and don't want to know. She's still singing her crappy songs and is currently touring the world. Kenny got a job as a Beyblade data collector in the local BBA office. He was so thrilled when Mr. Dickinson hired him, I've never seen Kenny skip around like a little girl before. Well he's doing that with Ming Ming as she tours the globe. Not such a bad match after all. No sign of any children yet which I personally think is a blessing if they ever had a girl. Can you imagine a world with two Ming Ming's? It's unthinkable!
Tyrone is 14, James 13, Yow and Tema 13 (twins). I would've had Soraya sooner but because of a certain old bastard my husband and I had to wait.
Oh did I tell you the best news? Voltaire died! That old bastard popped his clogs when I told him what I would be doing with my money. The look on his face was priceless. And when he got out of the way can you guess who I married then? That's right, I married Kai and we're living at his place. (How many of you got it right?) Unfortunately this was eight years ago and he has been working hard ever since. At least he was present when I gave birth to Soraya and the first year of her life. But after that he hasn't been back for more than a day or weekend at a time. Soraya has either been asleep or away when he came to visit once every half year. The only time she actually saw him for a day was when she was two, and I doubt she'd remember that. He's even away on Christmas and has to put Soraya's birthday present in the post. I keep thinking Soraya's too young to understand but she's getting wiser with each passing day. The look on her face at her last birthday when she received an expensive looking china doll was unreadable. She was happy to have gotten the gift but longed for he father to be here.
Mira's with us too. Her grandmother died a couple of years ago and was about to start university, but took a year off to get over the shock of it. She also needed to adjust to her new life living here and move her things to her room. Her blading skills have improved immensely but she doesn't enter tournaments anymore and released them. Now she feels she can finally go to the university her gran picked out and paid for. All Mira has to do is go back to Russia and complete the course of her choice. Kai didn't like the sound of this but eventually agreed. She left this morning and said she'd write us every week. Soraya was sad to see her playmate go away but just took one look at me and smiled again.
Well back to my life….again.
Soraya and I were in the living room playing a board game when Winston came in. He's the new butler I got when the old one passed away just as soon as Voltaire did. He's much nicer and treats us with respect compared to the old one. He brought in a mobile phone and handed it to me. "Hello?"
"Hey Ebony I'm coming home tomorrow." Kai, how I missed his voice. He never actually admitted how hard he worked, but I was told from his colleagues. They were asking me to get him to go home and have a holiday because he was turning in to Voltaire and scaring them. I said I'd see what I could do and told them to keep Kai's work load as minimal as possible. Low and behold he was now able to have a well deserved month off. He had been working non stop ever since Voltaire died all those years ago. He came back for a couple of days at a time since then but now he could afford to have a real holiday.
"DADDY!" Soraya exclaimed but Kai hung up as we finished talking. Had he been gone for so long he'd forgotten about his own daughter? Soraya looked disappointed but didn't cry. If there was a trait from us she had it would be her strength and refusal to show any weakness. I thought she would be screaming when she skimmed her knees but she didn't make a sound and just dusted herself off before running around again. I hope Kai can learn to be a father to her when he comes back.
