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I'm sure if I said this last chapter, but if I didn't then I am saying it now… I am really sorry that it took me a little over a week to update chapter 6, but went funny on Sunday night when I was originally going to post it and didn't go back to normal until a couple of days later, so I just wanted to apologize.

Anyway you know that routine, I don't own beyblades or any of the characters unless you have never heard of them, in which case that means that they are mine!

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CHAPTER 7 – CLIMBING UP THE LATTICE

After a very long shopping expedition the girls retired back to Sian's house, where they had arranged that a chauffer would come pick Odette up at about 9.30pm.

'Oh my God, my feet are killing me! Sian I don't know how you find going shopping for that long fun! Its painful, especially when you attacked by shop assistance, like you're a chip while seagulls fight over you.' Odette exhaled deeply as she flopped back on Sian's bed, also relieved that she hadn't bumped into Logan on her way to the room. She still hadn't old him that she could make their movie date, for the weekend. To be honest she didn't really feel like telling him at all, it was bad enough calling off her first ever date, but she didn't want to see him upset. Sian watched curiously as her friend seemed to be at war with herself about doing something.

'You know that Logs will understand about your date, hell I'll even do it for you! I'll promise that I would be nice.' Sian said with a mischievous smirk on her face. Odette laughed weakly at her friend's attempt to make her feel better.

'I wish that you would, but I don't think that it would be right if you did it for me.' Sian nodded in agreement.

'Well if I may suggest that you do it before you leave tonight. The longer you wait I can't really say what will happen… of course nothing bad will happen, but I know that you don't want to give him the wrong idea.' Odette sighed in defeat.

'I guess that you're right.' She looked down at her watch it currently read 9.07pm. That gave her just over 20 minutes. 'You know where I can find him?' Sian pointed out the door,

'In his bedroom… but make sure that you two leave the bed alone, all right? It hasn't done anything to you!' she whined.

'You are a moron, you know that right?' Odette countered as she exited the bedroom.

-0-

Logan was sitting at his desk attempting to do work for uni. See, the key work in that sentence was attempt, unfortunately all he could think about was his new girlfriend. Could he really call Odette his girlfriend? It wasn't official, but he thought that it was a fair comment. She was gorgeous, almost too gorgeous. She belonged in a class of her own. She was untouchable, out of everyone's reach and league. He thoughts were interrupted by a soft knock on the door. It must be Sian he thought, he wondered what she wanted now? She had been at him ever since she had miraculously managed to figure out that he had hooked up with Odette… she was a strange child and quite rightly annoying at times, he abruptly opened the door,

'What do you want kno… Odette?'

'Ah, hi.' She replied weakly.

'Sorry, I didn't realise that you were over, I thought that you were maybe Sian… Uh, come in I suppose.' Logan gestured to the inside of his bedroom and Odette looked inside, cautiously and nodded before entering and sitting on the bed, Logan dragged up his desk chair and sat on it facing the bed.

'Now what do I owe the honour to this surprise?' Logan asked jokingly. Odette giggled, but couldn't face to look at him. Logan noticed Odette's hesitation and was confused. 'Hey, what's wrong? Are you alright?' Odette tried her best to look him in the eyes, but as soon as she met his beautiful blue eyes she couldn't help but look away in shame, he looked so concerned.

'Well, it's about the weekend.' Odette said very quietly. Logan immediately knew it. She was going to dump him and they hadn't even gone out on their first date, he knew that she was too good to be true. 'Hey, hey, don't worry its not that bad. You look like someone shot you!' Odette continued a little more strongly with a giggle. To be honest, to Logan it did feel that someone had shot him, right through the chest, and now he was just confused.

'How can it not be that bad? You're like breaking up with me and we didn't even make it to our first date!' He replied gruffly. It was Odette's turn to be a little taken back.

'What do you mean breaking up?' Odette laughed again trying to ease Logan. 'I'm not breaking up with you silly, if you bother to let be finish you would have found out that I couldn't make it this weekend, because my crazy father has organised a ball in my honour or something. It wasn't by choice and you have to believe me, I want to take you more than anything in the world, but I'm just not allowed to and that's the truth.'

'Why should I believe you? How do I know that this isn't some elaborate ploy, to break up with me next week.'

'Well because…' Odette hesitated she had to be very particular with her choice of words. 'Because… I'm your…'

'How's things going in here?' asked a bubbly Sian as she burst into the room, where she was met, by two dark glares. 'Okay, I take it that, that was a bad place to interrupt, right. Okay just letting you know that I'm off to Kai's. Later. By the way, Odette your ride will be over in 5… make sure that your ready!' and with that Sian was out of the room and had left Odette rather embarrassed because Logan had figured out what she was about to say (a/n: she was about to say that she was his girlfriend, if you couldn't figure it out XD).

'Um… okay what I was saying before…' Odette attempted to pick up where she had left off, but was surprised when she found that Logan's lips were pressed against hers. Odette blinked a couple of times before her eyes, began to flutter shut. I take it that this means that they were okay…

-0-

'Kai!' Sian whispered loudly. No response. 'Kai!' she tried a little louder. Still no response. 'Kai!' if anyone thought third time lucky, they are sadly mistaken. Now Sian knew that Kai was in his bedroom, because he had his TV on and she could clearly see the lighting change, when he changed the channel. Time for plan B. Sian felt around for some stones that she had collected and put in her pocket and threw them as best as she could at the window while trying her best to hold herself up. Why did Kai's bedroom have to be situated on the second story? Didn't he know that it was very hard for his girlfriend to climb up the lattice in stilettos? Before she knew it she was out of stones as well. This wasn't good, there was still no response and she was starting to slip. She couldn't scream because she would attract unnecessary attention and she didn't have anything else to throw. In once last effort Sian tried to regain some grip, but it all appeared in vain as she felt herself completely slip off. Great she was probably going to break her leg or something.

-0-

Monday night, Tala decided to let his father know that he didn't feel that the new marriage was such a bad thing after all. He decided that he would give his new 'mother' a chance and have dinner, just the four of them. Tala's father was so proud of him and grin the stretched from one side of his face to the other. They happily sat there chatting away as well as eating fabulous cuisine.

'It's so nice to finally meet you, Tala. I can understand that the marriage may have come as a shock to you, but your father has said such wonderful things about you.'

'Ah, thanks… mum, I suppose.' Tala said as he blushed. Both of the parents sat there smiling, so glad that the family was getting along better then planned, then Tatiana (Tala's new mum's) face fell.

'Um, is something wrong?' asked Tala, not really sure what to think. He was answered by a weak sigh.

'Oh, it's nothing really. It just, I wish that the girls would be as forth coming as yourself and Matt.' The soda that had once been in Tala's mouth was all over his half eaten dinner.

'You have girls?'

-0-

Sian's eyes were glued tightly shut, embracing herself for the pain to surge through her body, but it never came. Sian carefully opened her eyes and looked down, surprised to see herself still hanging a fair distance above the ground. She heard someone above her clear their throat and she quickly looked up.

'Do you always hang outside your boyfriend's window or is this just a one off?' Sian shivered as Kai's thick, warm voice spread over her body.

'Well I wanted to surprise you, but how was I meant to know that you lock your windows?' Kai smirked and gently pulled Sian up into his bedroom. Kai's bedroom was not your typical teenage boy's bedroom it was tastefully decorated with dark, chocolate brown timber furniture, which complemented his navy colour scheme. In Sian's opinion, the best thing in his room was his extremely comfy king size bed!

'So what do I owe this announced to?' Sian pouted.

'Do I always need a reason to visit my boyfriend? After all I did miss him!' Kai chuckled.

'You saw me less then six hours ago!'

'It might have only been six hours ago, but it felt like a life time for me.' Sian cried dramatically as she threw her hands onto her forehead before she collapsed on his bed laughing. Kai watched his estranged girlfriend, amused.

'You got some music, oh boring one!' Sian hailed as she hoped off his bed and made her way to his extensive CD collection, before she found something that she liked and popped it in the stereo. Kai continued to watch Sian as she began to slowly move her slender body and the beat pulsated, she smirked cheekily before she came closer to him and pulled him reluctantly to his feet and began to move around him as well as press her body against his. Sian was in one of her little dance moods when she would put a bit of a show for Kai, who admittedly liked them. Playfully, Sian pushed Kai back onto the seat and straddled his hips, looking deeply into his crimson eyes that appeared to have darkened. Carelessly she tossed her long blonde hair over her shoulder before leaning and kissing him.

It was weird, for Sian; ever since Odette had started attending their school for some reason her relationship with Kai had rectified itself, from being almost none existent like an old couple that had been married for over 50 years, turning into something much more then lust and desire. They needed each and what was better that they understood each other. Sian groaned pleasurably as Kai immediately responded to the kiss. There was no need for either of them to beg for entrance, as without a delay they were both tangling tongues. With Sian's legs still firmly wrapped around Kai's waist, he stood up, not once breaking the kiss, and relocated to the bed. Before anything could happen a ringing sound interrupted them. Sian reluctantly began to pull away from Kai so that he could answer the call, but he firmly held close to him.

'Just leave it, message bank will pick it up.' He whispered, a little out of breath, before re-capturing her lips with his own. But who ever was ringing Kai's mobile was determine and would not stop, both the teenagers became irritated by the constant ringing, so Kai got off the bed and walked over to his desk, where the phone was situated. To add to his irritation, it appeared that none other then Tala was calling.

'What the hell is it Valkov?' Kai picked up gruffly.

-0-

Extremely tired after her long day out (surprising it takes a lot out of girl after she has been at school all day, then goes shopping afterwards till late, before she has a make out session with her boyfriend), when Odette returned home she retired to her bedroom. There was no chance she was going to get any homework done in the state that she was in so she decided to get ready for bed.

20 minutes later she exited her bathroom and hopped into bed. She was just about to turn her bedside light off, when she heard a distinct buzzing noise coming from her desk. Wearily she got out of bed and made her way to her desk where she found her mobile buzzing erratically.

'Geez about time you picked up.' Came a voice on the other line.

'Huh? What? Kai, is that you? Why are you ringing me now? Is something wrong?'

'I don't think that you should be directing those questions to me.' Kai replied.

'I'm lost, who should I direct them to?'

'Who else, the dim-whit with red hair, his raving on about something'

'I wasn't raving!' interrupted Tala, clearly distressed.

'Tala? What's wrong?' Odette asked filled with concern.

'Well at least someone is a bit more sympathetic then you, Kai!'

'Hey, shut your hole Tala, I'm busy here and then you ring me and except me to give you my undivided attention!'

'Kai I don't think that making out with your girlfriend counts as being 'busy'' Odette laughed.

'What? How do you know that Sian's here?'

'I'm not stupid; I was at her house less then an hour ago and she left before I did and said that she was going over.'

'Alright people I'm the one here with the problem!'

'Fine Tala, what's the problem? And make sure that you chose your words carefully cause this better be—'

'Sorry guys its me, I thought that I would take Kai's phone away from him before he did something drastic. You know what his like when his pissed!'

'Hey Sian, nice thinking.' Odette giggled.

'Hello! People, problem. Me. Now!' Tala cried, but the only response was Sian laughing.

'Sorry Tal, nothing against you, but Kai isn't in the mood right now, if you know what I mean!'

'But—'

'Sorry T-man you'll have to tell him at school tomorrow! Later!' and with that Sian hung up leaving Odette to sort out Tala's problem.

'So Tala are you going to tell me what's wrong?' Odette said, trying to stifle a yawn at the same time.

'Well, it turns out—'

'Sorry Tala, hold on a sec, Cinta is trying to tell me something.' Tala sighed, why wouldn't anyone listen to him! 'Yes Cinta, what is it?' Odette asked as the maid hesitantly entered the room.

'Sorry Miss Odette, I wasn't sure if you were still up, but your father requested that he speak to you immediately in his office.'

'Of course tell him that I'll be there in a minute.'

'Very well.'

'Hey Tala, you still there?' Odette took that the small grunt that she heard on the other end of the line meant yes. 'Would you be able to hold onto your problem till tomorrow? I've got to talk to me dad and you know what he's like when he wants to talk!'

'Yeah, I understand. I'll see you tomorrow.' With that he hung up. Odette placed her mobile back onto the table and then put on her dressing gown, before making her way to her father's study… she wondered what he wanted this time.

-0-

The next day at school, like usual, the group waited outside in the parking lot, before the bell sound to signal the beginning of class. Sian was tucked neatly under Kai's arm, both resting against his car, while him, Rei and Johnny were engaged in a heated conversation. Odette was quietly observing the others and noted their appearance. For some reason Kai looked different, although she often saw him and change was never particularly obvious, there was something defiantly different. Aware that someone was staring at him, Kai looked up and his eyes lock with deep emerald eyes. The sudden acknowledgement from Kai made Odette blush and quickly look away. What was her problem? Why was Kai making her blush? She put it down to what her father had told her last night and then the sudden confrontation when she realised that she had been staring at him. Before her thoughts could continue she was brought back to reality.

'So did Tala tell you what his problem was?' Kai asked.

'Nope, I had to go, my father wanted to talk to me about something. He seemed upset but he said that he could wait till today. Now that I think about it where it Tala, he is always early. I hope that this has nothing to do with his problem. What if something happened to him Kai and we were too busy to even bother listen to him… this is all our fault.' Odette cried, panic evident in her voice.

'Whoa, Odds calm down. I'm sure that his fine, probably had to drop Matt off at school or something.' Kai replied calmly as he nuzzled into Sian's hair, who giggled. Odette looked away, for some reason her stomach did a little flip when she witnessed Kai acting all affectionate. 'Look, here he comes now.' Kai announced as Tala's electric blue dodge viper rolled into the parking lot.

'What took you so long T-man?' enquired Rei. 'You were freaking Odette out.' Tala looked confused.

'Why would you be concerned if I was late?' Tala asked as he got out of the car. Not sure if she should announce it in front of the whole group, Odette walked up to Tala and whispered in his ear.

'I thought that it might have something to do with what you wanted to tell us last night.'

'Oh, well you see—' but Tala was cut off by the bell and all of the friends groaned before trudging off to their classroom, where another day of hell was about to commence.

-0-

'Now, now class settle down I have announcement to make before you all head off to your lessons today. I am pleased to inform you all that we have two new students who will be join us for the rest of the year.' As if on cue the classroom door slid open and two girls entered the room. There was a heavily sigh heard from the female population of the class, they were sick of always getting female transfers, but the boys seemed extremely pleased, typical!

They both appeared to be of medium height, extremely busty, with medium size hips and slender legs. They had honey brown eyes and chestnut coloured hair, with a sun kissed complexion. Strangely enough, bar the eyes, they had an uncanny resemblance to Odette, which went unnoticed to the girls themselves, funnily the rest of the class seemed to pick up on it.

'I hate to put you on the stop girls, but would you mind tell us a little about yourselves?' continued the teacher.

'No problem,' replied the one on the right, who appeared more interested then her sister. 'My name is Aleks and that is my sister, Ariel.' She motioned to the girl to her left. 'We are 17, and recently moved here with our mother and younger brother.'

'Not by choice.' Interrupted Ariel, which earned her a dark glare from her sister.

'As I was saying, we moved her because our mother got remarried…'

'To some prick,' continued Ariel.

'Shhh, Ari. I do apologize for my sister's behaviour, she wasn't to keen on the idea of moving.' Tala, who wasn't really listening to what the girls were saying as he was giving them a thorough look over like most of the boys in the class, slightly tensed up when he realised the situation of the girls, it sounded like his, but without the whole moving thing. 'Anyway our younger brother is called Matt and he's—' Yep, that's what did it. Their sentence was cut short as a loud BANG was heard in the back of the classroom. All of the students redirected the attention to the back of the room where the noise was heard from and they found a certain red head stiff as a bored, lying on the ground, out cold.

'Geez, I knew that Tala loved to perve on girls, but I didn't no that it could kill him.' Sian whispered to Odette, who chuckled in response, but suddenly stopped. Could this have something to do with what he wanted to tell herself and Kai yesterday? But she thought that when he told her that his father had remarried that the wife only brought a son. Aware that Kai was thinking along the same lines as herself, as he kept looking from Tala to the twins and then back to Tala. Odette rolled up little balls of paper and began to flick them at Kai, in order to get his attention. Once she finally did, she motioned to the teacher and they both stood up and made their way towards her. Sian gave them a weird look.

'Ah Miss I think that we should take Tala to the infirmary, I think that he is suffering from shock.' Said Odette quietly so that rest of the class couldn't hear.

'I can see that, but what shocked him?'

'Ah well I think that it has something to do with the girls, so Odette and I were wondering if they could come along, we just need to ask them something privately,' Kai added in.

'Yes, yes that's fine, just be quick… I always knew that Mr Valkov had a fondness for women, but I never thought I'd see the day…' the teacher trailed off, but Kai had already picked Tala up and slung him over his shoulder while Odette ushered the twins out.

-0-

'What's the deal?' asked Ariel as they all made their way to the infirmary.

'We could ask you the same thing,' replied Kai, with a grunt. Tala wasn't exactly the lightest person in the world you know.

'What do you mean? We've never even seen the guy!' protested Aleks.

'Yeah well your mother didn't happen to get remarried recently to a wealth business name with the name Valkov did she?' continued Odette, as she could see that Kai wasn't exactly in the best mood to talk.

'So what if she did, what's it to you?' Ariel replied hotly.

'Well it doesn't mean a great deal to us, but this,' Odette said pointing to Tala, 'Is your new older brother.' Then she burst out laughing, while the twins just stared at her.

-0-

'You can't possibly be serious.' Sian giggled as Odette told her how Tala and the twins were actually related. After the incident, and once Tala had regained consciousness, the three new siblings were sent to the counsellor's office by the nurse and hadn't been seen since. 'Poor Tala, he just gave his sister the official checking out… it's kind of gross now that you think about it.'

'Well its not that bad, I mean that is if he does like either of them. Its not like they are blood related.'

'I guess that you have a point.' Sian replied as she took a bite out of her peanut butter and jam sandwich. 'So what is it that you wanted to talk to me about anyway?'

'Ah yeah, well you see my mother and father had a word to me last night about the ball. The good part is it turns out that my mother found this beautiful dress while she was away and I was wondering if you wanted to come over on Friday night to check it out.'

'Of course I would love to. It would be totally awesome to actually see your house on the inside! I mean Kai's house is big and everything, but I swear that yours takes the cake!' Sian chatted away happily while taking other bite of her sandwich. Today that had decided to sit outside by themselves as Odette insisted that she needed to speak to Sian in private. 'Wait a second, you said good part and that obviously isn't what you wanted to talk to me in private about so spill it, what's the prob?'

'you know how I'm taking Kai to the ball as my partner.' Odette paused and Sian nodded, ushering her to continue. Odette's face twisted as she tried to find the right words, without getting angry with her father for doing such a thing. 'well it turns out that he hoped that I would chose Kai over Tala as he has told almost everyone that he works with that we are an 'item'' Odette breathed deeply trying really hard to keep calm, while on the other hand Sian looked at her with a weird expression on her face as she continued to eat her sandwich. 'Don't you get it?' Odette cried, 'this means that I have to act smitten with him, even kiss him.' She continued clearly horrified.

'Your joking right.' Sian said with her mouth open, the sides twitching slightly. But it didn't take too long before she broke into a huge smile and started laughing. 'And here I thought that Tala was in a sticky situation!'

'This isn't funny Sian, I have to kiss my best friend!'

'Well I don't have a problem with it so neither should you. After all why are you complaining, his really cute.' Sian giggled, while Odette flushed.

'Yeah, but its probably going to look really stupid if we try and kiss each other, we're both probably going to freeze up.'

'Oh I get it; well I suppose that you just need to practise before hand. Hell I'll even give you pointers on what looks realistic.' Sian smirked.

'WHAT! You're not meant to be that willing to let someone else kiss your boyfriend!'

'What's your problem? I understand what your father's expectations must be like, I'm just trying to help out.' Odette eyed her curiously.

'Are you sure?'

'Totally. I don't feel that after the ball, Kai is going to dump me, we are both pretty content at the moment.'

'You're weird you know that.' Sian scoffed.

'You know that is the part where you are meant to say thankyou… but I'll take what you just said, it's close enough to a complement! So where do you want to do it, his house, your house or my house?' Odette shifted uncomfortably. 'You haven't told him have you?' Odette shook her head.

'We are suppose to have a quick run through on what is going to be happening on Thursday night at my house.'

'Well how about we tell him now, so he can brace himself to kiss his hot best friend!' squealed Sian as Odette blushed again.

'Okay, but I have one more favour to ask you.'

'What?'

'You mind not tell Logan?'

'I think that he would be more upset if you didn't tell him. After all Kai and he are mates.'

'I suppose that you are right…'

'Of course I'm right, my name is Sian, what did you expect?' Odette playfully pushed Sian they both rolled onto their backs and started giggling.

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Do you think that it is such a good idea that Sian is so willing for Kai and Odette to act like boyfriend and girlfriend? Could it lead to something? shrugs shoulders who knows, I don't even know, but all will be revealed next week!

I need you to tell me if I am forgetting to write about something, cause I find that I am having a goldfish like memory and am forgetting the main plot ideas :P so what ever you tell me will be greatly appreciated!

I also know that I said that I would mention or answer any reviews that I got from the last chapter, but I don't have the internet on the computer in my room as my mum doesn't trust me to do my homework if I am tempted by the internet. So basically my time is very limited and I have to copy all of the reviews onto my USB and then take them to my computer. You see my mum gets suspicious when I take a long time on the computer with internet, so basically I have to put everything that I want to post in a word document and then quickly paste it, when ever I can convince my mum that I need the computer for homework… I know that I probably sounds like a really lame excuse, but I thought that I needed to explain myself… I'm a tool aren't I?

Lol anyway, I hope that chapter was alright and I will DEFINATLEY reply to all of the reviews from the past couple of chapters in the next one… I PROMISE and if I don't then I will post two chapters at once to make it up to you, of course that is if you are still reading my story, I don't know what possess those who read it to do so, but I thank you for it! You are all an inspiration to be (especially you kaNi-chaN!) if anyone wants to just talk give me a shout either by msn or email: I would love to talk to you all!

Keep it Real!

Kat