Yay! Chapter four! I'm so proud of myself! This is the beginning of the reunion. It's not even the entire first day. This could turn into a long fic. Oh well. Judging by all of your very generous reviews I'm assuming you won't mind that. Thank you to everyone who reviewed. I respond to all my reviews, but one of them didn't have a way for me to get back in touch so I'll just say thank you to Alfred for reviewing and let you get to this lovely little story.


Spencer parked his car in the hotel parking lot where the reunion was being held. He looked over at Max who was staring at his notebook while chewing on his pencil. The younger blonde's math final was on Monday and he wasn't exactly prepared so he had been working on problems all morning long. He hadn't had much luck with the one he was currently working on and it was getting to him. "Spencer, can you help me with this problem? I keep running into brick walls with it."

"Sure. We'll go over it as we head into the ballroom." Spencer climbed out of the car and walked around as Max dug around in the glove compartment for the calculator he had stashed in it. Spencer opened the door causing his lover to look up at him and grin while a slight blush blossomed on his checks.

"You're such a gentleman Spencer. I knew there was a reason I fell in love with you." Spencer chuckled and offered his hand to the turtle. Max accepted the hand and climbed out of the car only to be pulled into a gentle kiss. "Love you Spence."

"Love you too Max. Let's get going." They started walking towards their destination as Max explained the math problem he was working on and Spencer tried to explain where the other had gone wrong.

As they walked into the room and everyone turned to look at them Max was completely annoyed. "I don't know! I give up. There is no way I'm going to pass this final and that's all there is to it. I'll just take it again during the summer and pass it with flying colors because classes are always easier during the summer. I refuse to give myself a headache over this."

"Oh good you were both able to come. I was worried that with your finals you wouldn't be able to make it" Mr. Dickenson said excitedly.

"Can we not talk about finals? I'm stressing enough as is without people constantly reminding me of how soon they start" Max complained.

"You need to be reminded about finals. You're going to fail your calc three test if you don't buckle down at some point this weekend and study your ass off for it" Spencer pointed out.

"I could take a No Credit grade and just re-take it in the fall. It's going to take me five years to finish undergrad anyway. Might as well try to get a better grade if I'm going to be there."

"Your logic amazes me sometimes." Max shrugged and went to greet his friends. Spencer rolled his eyes as he walked over to where Bryan was standing with Garland. "Hey. Long time no hear."

Bryan looked at him and raised an eyebrow. "Why'd you show up with Tate? You dating him or something?"

"We both go to NYU. Rent and utilities aren't cheap. It's better to share an apartment then rent one on our own and I can trust Max more than anyone else on that campus. Don't jump to conclusions Bryan. You're usually wrong."

Garland glanced between the two looking confused. "I thought you two were friends."

"We were friends. Spencer just decided that he was too good for us and left. It's hard to forget that kind of thing." Bryan glared and Spencer sighed.

"Hold a grudge if you want Bryan, but you didn't need me. I don't and didn't want to spend the rest of my life beyblading. I want to be a psychiatrist so that I can help people to make up for what we did as part of the abbey. I'll talk to you later Bryan. I'm going to go say hello to the others."

"I trusted you to stick around and help us Spencer. I thought you actually gave a damn about us." Bryan didn't bother to look at the tall blond as he spoke, but Spencer paused and spoke over his shoulder.

"You don't need my help Bryan. I can't heal your wounds. The kind of love and support I can offer isn't the type you need. Don't kid yourself Bryan. I've always given a damn about you. Do you really think I would have stuck around after the abbey closed if I wasn't worried about you and Tala?" Spencer walked away and ignored the falcon's angry muttering.

Meanwhile Max was being bombarded with questions concerning his arrival with Spencer and his disappearance from everything beyblade related. Max offered the group around him a smile. His eyes darted across the bladers as he took a mental note of who would be supportive when they finally found out and who wouldn't. Zeo was standing directly behind Tyson trying to desperately get the former world champion's attention, but Tyson was focused on Max. Ray was paying attention to Max, but he seemed to bemore concerned with checking out Johnny who was standing across the room. Daichi was being his usual hyper-active self simply asking questions. Emily and Kenny were looking at his laptop and listening to the conversation. Michael had his arms around Lee and Eddy was checking out Hilary's chest. Hilary herself was asking the most questions.

Finally, Max was able to get a word into the conversation. "Hang on! I can only answer so many questions. First of all I came with Spencer because I live with him and have for the past year and a half. We live together because he and I both attend NYU and can trust each other to pay half the bills when they're due. Plus the apartment is really close to campus so neither of us has to go very far to get to our classes. Secondly, I've been going to school and working to put money towards paying off my loans. Finally, I stopped keeping in touch with everyone because it was extremely difficult to keep in touch with everyone when I have a very challenging double major to deal with. I just don't have the time to deal with it all. I apologize and beg your forgiveness."

"Are you and Spencer dating then?" Hilary inquired.

"Huh? Dating? What makes you think we're dating? You've thoroughly confused me." Max pulled off his best confused face in hopes of fooling his friends into believing that he was indeed confused by Hilary's question.

"You're living with him Max. It's a logical assumption. We all know you prefer boys to girls" Hilary teased.

Max blushed. "We're not dating. I told you why we're living together. Trust me, if I were dating Spencer I wouldn't be on speaking terms with my parents. They barely trust him enough to let me live with him. How long am I going to have to talk before you actually believe me?"

"I believe you Max. You're not the type to lie" Ray replied.

"Finished staring at Johnny?" Max inquired. Ray blushed at the question. "I'll catch up with you guys later. I'm going outside for a minute." The others nodded and Max wandered outside for a breath of fresh air free of questions. He walked along the edge of the building trying to stop the headache that was forming. Max stopped dead in his tracks when he saw Enrique and Oliver making out a few feet in front of him. He cleared his throat in a successful attempt to get their attention. The couple jumped apart and blushed deeply.

"Hello Max. How are you?" Oliver asked trying to avoid the blonde's eyes.

"Does anybody know you're dating?" Both Europeans shook their heads and looked at him with worried eyes. "Don't worry about it. I won't tell anyone about you. It's not exactly my place to tell them."

"Thank you Max. We appreciate it. What are you doing out here anyway?" Enrique spoke up as he pulled Oliver into his arms.

"Getting some air and away from the interrogation I just went through. Apparently I haven't been a good friend and kept in touch as much as I should have so everyone has a million questions they want to ask me. Given that I get migraines and have been stressing over my finals that start next week I thought it would be a good idea to get out of there for a few minutes."

"Max, there you are. Are you alright?" Spencer stopped when he spotted Enrique and Oliver.

"Yeah Spence. I'm okay. I'm getting a bit of a headache though. I might have to go home early." It took him a minute to realize why Spencer was uncomfortable and promptly smiled. The two Europeans were looking between them clearly confused. "I don't mind keeping quiet about your relationship because Spencer and I have been dating for three years and only one other person knows about it. We just told Kai yesterday so I'm used to keeping relationships quiet."

"You two make a very cute couple. We'll stay quiet about your relationship in return for your courtesy. If you ever need to talk to someone please feel free to talk to us. We won't let anyone know. On our honor" Oliver replied kindly. The Europeans left leaving Spencer and Max alone.

"Ask Kai if you can use his room to lie down in. I'll run home real quick and get your medicine just in case this turns into a migraine." Max leaned up and kissed Spencer's lips gently.

"Thank you Spencer. I'll go talk to Kai." Spencer left to go to the parking lot and then home while Max went back inside.


There is the fourth chapter. I hope you all thoroughly enjoyed that. It was really easy to write for the most part, but this whole story has been easy to write. Please keep reviewing for me so that I know if you're liking where this is going. Also, if you have a request for a pairing let me know and I'll see if I can't work it into the story.