Disclaimer: I don't own Beyblades or any of the characters in this fic besides Evi.

I dedicate this chapter to Krisin, who over the past week has been my sanity, so thank you. This ones for you.

Last time-

Tala, Kai, Bryan and Spencer stepped off the boat and looked around the docks of Miami. The sun pelted down on them warming them to their very core.

Taking a deep breath Tala smiled to himself as he felt a rush of elation run though his body. From the top of his head to the tips of his toes. He was home. In less than two hours he would see Evi and maybe even his father.

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Chapter 8

Home Free.

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Evi smiled to herself, she had had a good couple of days looking back. For starters she hadn't been sexually harassed by Mr Conners again, she had spoken to Tala's dad finally and it turned out he hadn't been avoiding her and to top it all off things were going well with Chase. Her first ever boyfriend!

It was still raining outside which in Evi's mind made it the perfect Saturday. The perfect day for laying in bed under the covers with a good book and a mug of hot chocolate.

Evi let out a growl of frustration when her cell phone rang, polluting the quite atmosphere of her room but a smile broke across her face when she checked the read out which told her that Chase was calling her.

"Hello." She mumbled into the phone as she pulled her face out of her favorite pillow so she could talk clearer.

"Good morning. Did I wake you?" Chases with a hint of malice in his voice.

"Ha, you wish. Now tell me what I can do you for this fine morning." Evi sat up and arranged the blankets around her so it was like sitting in a nest.

"I'm taking you out for breakfast so get up and get ready, I'll be there in half an hour." Chase told her laughing at the grumble that came from Evi and had something to do with her getting out of bed.

Evi didn't bother to reply, just shut her phone off and climbed out of bed and made her way to the bathroom. Twenty minutes later she was showered, dressed and ready to go.

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The day before Chase and Evi had gone out for coffee and had had a good time. They both liked spending time with the other and enjoyed the company of someone that they didn't usually socialize with. Evi had given Chase her cell phone number and after coffee they had gone to the skate park where Chase's friends had given him a good-natured ribbing about his new 'hotty'. They both laughed it off but none of his friends missed the secrete smiles that passed between the two of them.

He had dropped her off late last night and now it had only been nine hours and he was calling her and wanted to see her again.

A car horn honked outside and Evi took one last look at herself in the hall mirror before she headed for the door. She was pleased with her appearance even though she was only wearing a pair of artfully torn and faded jeans, a black hoodie and her cute skate shoes. She wore no make up or jewelry say for a blue watch on her right wrist. Her hair had recently been cut an inch or two shorter and was now crunched up into curls with the aid of hair moose. Evi bounded down the step and towards the car. Once she was inside Chase gave her a kiss on the cheek and pulled out onto the street.

"So where are we going?" Evi wanted to know. "It better be good if you got me out of bed on a rainy Saturday morning."

"Just a nice little coffee shop I found a while back."

"I'm starting to think you have an addiction to coffee." Evi told him as they drove towards the beach.

"Trust me, when you try their espresso you'll have a coffee problem too!"

"Are you trying to get me addicted to coffee?" Evi demanded making a grab for the door handle and pretending to make an escape. Chase just shock his head and laughed.

"Okay so there's the plan. We will go and get new clothes because I'm sick of these and then we'll find a hotel. Sound good?"

the boys had arrived in the center of Miami's' shopping district.

"And how do you propose we pay for all this?" Kai asked.

"You remember all the fan mail I got? Well most of it had bribe money in it and Ev's parents have been sending me money for years so I have enough."

"I thought you were against bribes? And why did you bring it?" Kai asked as he looked up and down the street. Already there were girls trying to catch his attention.

"I figured that you would plan to run so it was a precaution." Tala explained to everyone though Kai was the only one listening. Bryan and Spencer were looking at two hookers who had just gotten out of a taxi.

"Ah please tell me that all girls don't dress like that!" Bryan demanded of both Kai and Tala.

"No man, they're whores. Evi doesn't dress like that, well I hope she doesn't." Spencer said beside him.

"Anyway guys." Tala was eager to move the subject along, the idea of Evi in cloths like made him slightly uneasy. Filling in his backpack Tala pulled out and envelope. "I think we should get rid of this stuff first. A lot of these places look like they are going to have metal detectors and this place doesn't seem to be weapon friendly." Tala hailed a taxi once more and the boys got in.

"Talk us to the nearest hotel please." Tala asked the taxi driver.

Five minutes later they were standing outside the Sea View Hotel.

Ten minutes later they were stepping out of the lifts on the twenty-sevenths floor and walking down the hall to their room.

"Not bad!" Spencer observed once he was on the balcony overlooking the ocean to the left and the city to the right. Kai walked out next to him and took in a deep breath.

"You've got that right. Come on, lets go." They both walked back into the hotel room. Tala handed them a stack of money each before they left the room.

Evi sat in her room. She had never been one for tv, just staring out the window at Tala's old house where his father had started to rebuild his life after the crumble.

She loved rainy weather but it was starting to get her down. Probably due to the fact that whenever the weather used to be crap back at the abbey Tala would read to her from one of his books that he had manage to smuggle into the place. Sure Bret and Chase were great but they weren't her boys. Not Tala, Kai, Bryan and Spencer.

Music played softly in the background. Bret had gotten her a CD player so that when him or his mates were talking about a song or band she would know what the hell they were going on about. At the moment Kisschacey's Shake was playing into the room.

A knock sounded on her door. It took Evi a moment to realize what the intrusive noise actually was.

"Come in." She called over the music. The door opened and a huge bouquet of pink roses and white lilies made their way into the room.

"Ha, really funny Chase. Good guess with the flowers though. They're my favorite." Evi got off the bed and made her way towards the flowers.

"Who's Chase?" a very familiar voice asked through the bouquet. Evi's breath got caught in her throat. She knew that voice. It was so familiar yet held something unknown to her.

"T-Tala?"

A/N Yeah, yeah I know, it's a shit ending for this chappi but I've had writers block and I'm only getting back into the swing of thinks. The next chappi will be longer I promise.

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