Thank you soooo much to all the reviewers so far! I'm very grateful :D and it encourages me to write more, so keep 'em coming! And sorry that i took so long in updating this chapter. i just had no idea what to write so it took me a while to think of something...

Disclaimer: I don't own Beyblade but I do own Pandora Abduxuel, Maya Chax and Marina Cyzarine.

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Tales of Another Broken Home

Chapter 7

Pandora walked briskly down the deserted street as she tried to remember the direction of her house. Despite being surrounded by houses filled with people, she felt completely alone as she trudged down the pavement. She turned left at the end of the road and came to realisation that she had no idea where she was. She gazed at her surroundings and came to the assumption that she must be in the rich part of town as all the houses were pretty much the same size as Kai's… or bigger if that was possible. She decided to turn back and take the right instead as it looked less classy than the part she was in, and her house definitely wasn't classy so she figured she would be heading in the right direction.

As she walked she continued to hug herself for warmth and wriggle her toes occasionally to keep the circulation flowing. She still couldn't believe her luck that she got paired with Kai to do the project with. 'God must hate me…' she thought angrily to herself, but was quickly awoken from her thoughts as she had the feeling she was being watched. Pandora looked around cautiously, alert for anyone or anything that might be lurking about. When she saw nothing, she quickened her pace and was desperate to find some familiar territory. Even though she didn't see anything, she could still feel like she was being watched.

Faint footsteps sounded behind her and Pandora started to panic. She hurried her pace even more so and to her horror, so did the anonymous footsteps. They gradually got louder and louder and Pandora grabbed her phone out from her bag and was ready to dial Maya's number but she could feel someone right behind her.

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHOOHH MY GOD!" Her terrified scream quickly merged into an angry yell as she found out who her 'stalker' was. "Kai you fucking bastard! You scared the shit outa me!"

He looked down at her petrified form and chuckled slightly as she clutched her heart and stared furiously up at him.

"Stop laughing! You almost gave me a bloody heart attack!" She exclaimed but Kai only continued to chuckle. Bedroom windows started to light up and heads poked out from behind the curtains as residents of the houses nearby were wondering what all the commotion was.

"Why are you following me anyway?" She asked suspiciously, narrowing her eyes up at him.

"I knew you'd get lost so I came to help you find your way home." He replied simply, slipping his hands in his pockets.

"But you don't know where I live."

"Yeah… but I'm hoping you do and that you'll tell me so I can steer you in the right direction." He replied as if he were speaking to an infant. She glared up at him and a low growling erupted in her throat before she told him her address.

"24 Firecrest Avenue."

He nodded before turning back and walking back the way he had come from.

"Hey, I thought you were gonna show me the way back!" Pandora shouted at his retreating figure.

"I am. It's this way."

Pandora stood there for a moment before following him. Oh God, she must look like a right idiot! No wonder it was all unfamiliar to her, she was heading in the complete wrong bloody direction. She mentally kicked herself as she continued to walk behind him. She hated it when Hiwatari was the one in control, but she was too tired to complain and followed him in silence.

As they carried on walking Pandora slowly started to recognise the neighbourhood. How could she have been so stupid to go right instead of left when she was at the bottom of Kai's driveway? But it all seemed so different in the dark… well that was her excuse anyway! They had just turned into Maple Street where the houses started to look more run down and shabby when Kai spoke for the first time since he guided her in the right direction.

"So, do you live in this area?" He asked cautiously. She replied with a short 'yes' and he didn't press the matter further to which she was grateful for. When they reached number 24 Firecrest Avenue, Kai stopped and turned to face Pandora.

"It appears that this is the second time I've saved you now." He smirked down at her.

"Yeah, thanks." She smiled at him, a genuine smile. Damn she looked good when she smiled. Kai's mind was full of dirty thoughts and couldn't stop himself from closing the gap between them and placing a soft kiss on her cherry lips, and was extremely surprised when he didn't feel her push him off. When they pulled apart he noticed a small blush on her cheeks and smirked. He must have more of an effect on her than he thought. She waved slightly before turning and entering her house. Kai stared at the dark, unkempt house and could have sworn he heard shouting coming from within but decided to leave it and return to his home where the raven haired girl lingered in his mind for the rest of the evening.

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The classroom was filled with the usual rabble of students whilst the tall, lanky teacher was trying his best to gain their attention. "Class quieten down please!" Mr Pearson almost whined at them.

"SHUT UP!"

His voice echoed throughout the now silent classroom. "Thank you… we have a new student starting today called Marinochka Cyzarine. Why don't you tell us a bit about yourself?" Mr Pearson asked politely and smiled at the nervous girl standing next to him.

"Hi, I'm Marinochka but I hate being called that. I prefer people to call me Marina. I moved over here quite a while ago from Russia," she had a soft, husky voice which had a slight Russian accent. "And yes they are real." She added looking down at her chest which was in fact rather on the large side. She was receiving many appreciative stares from the boys and numerous glares from the girls, i.e Charlie and Crystal.

Tala was naturally one of the boys who was gawping at her. She had a different look to her than the usual girls he chased after. He stared her up and down, drinking in every detail of her slender body. She had waist length sea green hair which flicked out slightly at the ends, very dark brown – almost black eyes and a porcelain complexion. She wore no make up except for a bit of mascara which thickened her lashes and accentuated her mysterious eyes. Tala also noticed that she had a bangin' figure! Curves in all the right places, nice long slim legs and not to mention her generously proportioned chest. Furthermore, he liked the clothes she was wearing too as they were very flattering to her figure, but not too raunchy. She had on a creamy white corset top, a black skirt which came down to her mid-thigh and a pair of shiny black heels.

"Thank you Marina, why don't you take a seat next to Enrique where the empty desk is?" Mr Pearson said trying to look everywhere but her chest. She nodded and proceeded onto her newly assigned seat. Enrique was looking very smug about this and scooted his chair over slightly towards her before speaking softly in her ear.

"Enrique," He said as he took her hand and kissed it gently. She smiled awkwardly in response and slid her hand away from his and returned it to her desk. Pandora noticed that she seemed a little uneasy and swatted Enrique's hands away and leaned over his desk so she was closer to Marina.

"Hi! I'm Pandora, ignore him," She said smiling as she nodded her head slightly towards Enrique who opened his mouth in mock outrage. Pandora held out her hand and she graciously took it.

"It's nice to meet you." Marina replied smiling back at the raven haired girl.

"What lessons have you got next?" Pandora asked looking at her watch, realising that the bell would soon sound signalling the start of their first lesson.

"Err… English then Art." Marina answered examining her timetable.

"Ah, well we're in the same art class but not English…"

"Luckily, I've got that next." A red headed boy said peering over Pandora's shoulder just as the bell rang. He stood up and grinned down at the Russian girl who smiled shyly back. Tala liked this new girl. He could tell she was going to be worth chasing after and perhaps be the one for him to keep at the end of his pursuit.

"Okay, well I'll see you later Tala and I'll see you in art Marina!" Pandora waved goodbye cheerfully, dragging a drooling Enrique with her. Hopefully, Tala wouldn't come across too strong on Marina, she seemed like a nice girl and she would like to get closer to her, but not in a dyke-a-delic way or anything!

"Late again! Tut, tut, tut, I think that's a detention Hiwatari!" Pandora said merrily, wagging her finger at Kai as she skipped past him as he entered their form room for last minute registration. He stood there stunned for a minute at her lively behaviour before continuing on to get registered.

"Ah, I think you're right Pandora! This is your third late in a row Kai. Detention. 30 minutes with me after school." Mr Pearson said brightly and smiled at Pandora as she poked her head round the door and stuck her tongue out at Kai who stood there for a moment fuming before charging after her. She 'eeped' as the two dashed down the corridor, dodging in and out of students making their way to their lessons.

"When will those two admit they like each other?" Mr Pearson said chuckling to himself.

"I think you're asking for a miracle," Tala said as he walked by with Marina close on his heels.

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It was lunchtime and the usual suspects had gathered around a picnic bench in one of the courtyards. Enrique and Marina were the last to arrive as they just had the same lesson together. They had all been introduced to Marina now and all got along with her as they had all had at least one lesson with her.

"Why are you looking so pleased?" Maya asked Marina warily as the two gradually got closer to the table. She did in fact have a big grin plastered across her face and a slight blush crept upon her cheeks as Maya asked this.

"Tala asked her to go out with him this weekend." Enrique replied for her, looking very miserable.

"Oooo! What did you say?" Julia asked eagerly.

"I said I'd think about it," Marina replied shyly looking down at her feet as her blush worsened with her every word. Boys weren't really her forte and she'd find herself extremely embarrassed just talking about them!

"You gotta say yes! Then you can come over mine and we can get you all done up and everything!" Julia almost shouted whilst clapping her hands together enthusiastically. She absolutely loved dressing people up and she got on really well with Marina and she was glad to help her out as she could tell that she was quite shy when it came to boys.

"Okay, thanks!" Marina was very grateful of this gesture and she was now feeling very nervous about the upcoming event as she only really had bad experiences with boys from her old school. Nevertheless, Julia had arranged for the girls to go round hers this Saturday. They decided to change the subject as they noticed how bashful Marina got every time Tala's name was mentioned until suddenly the bell rang indicating that lunch was over. They all forked out in to separate directions depending on which way their next lesson was. Pandora and Marina headed towards the History department; Maya and Miguel headed in the direction of electronics and Mariam, Julia and Enrique took the opposite direction and headed towards Geography.

Tala, Kai, Johnny and Ray were still sprawled out on edge the school field despite the bell having rung. Charlie, Crystal, Mariah and a cluster of girls whose skirts looked more like belts were lounging around them tittering away to one another.

"When you delete a phone number from your phone, where does it go?" Charlie asked whilst flicking her long blonde hair over her shoulder. The boys sat there for a moment, dumbfounded at what she had just said, Ray's mouth had even dropped open a little.

"That has to be the most retarded question I've ever heard." Tala muttered, massaging his temples in frustration. The other girls hadn't seemed to notice his remark and were taking her question seriously and were discussing it amongst themselves, some were even getting out their phones and searching to see if they could find any erased numbers anywhere in some sort of magical place where all deleted phone numbers were stored.

"What do you think Tally? What's wrong?" Charlie asked in an over the top girly voice, noticing that the red head was massaging his temples and looking quite strained. "Don't you feel well? Do you want me to kiss you better?"

But before Tala could answer Charlie was already nuzzling his neck, leaving a trail of glossy kisses until she reached his lips and started to full on kiss him. He wasn't really in the mood for Charlie today as another girl was already occupying his thoughts, so he lightly pushed her off him and stalked off towards his next lesson. Charlie was left slumped on the floor staring after Tala, completely flabbergasted.

"What do I dooo!" She cried out, tears stinging in her eyes. Kai smirked at Tala's actions and shortly followed after him, leaving two very upset brunette girls who were draped over him. You might be wondering why Crystal isn't all over him. Well, after he left her feeling humiliated at Mariah's party she decided to find a new boy toy to play with and has been flinging herself at Johnny in attempt to make Kai jealous, but failing miserably as both Kai and Johnny have no interest in her whatsoever.

Pandora and Marina who had been walking along the path at the top of the field to get to their History lesson had witnessed Tala's little outburst. They could see him marching ahead with a sniggering Hiwatari close behind and a group of very confused teens still lazing about on the field.

"Wow, you must really have an effect on Tala!" Pandora exclaimed, amazed at his actions.

"What do you mean?" Marina enquired.

"Well, he and Charlie sort of had a 'thing' going on before you came but I've never seen him push her away before!" She replied looking quite pleased at what just happened.

"So wait… he asked me out this weekend even though he was seeing someone else?" She asked sceptically.

"Err… well, they were never official or anything and Tala really is a good guy and he must really like you to turn away Charlie!" Pandora stated trying to show her that Tala wasn't that bad. Hell, she would go for him if they weren't such good friends. "Are you still gonna go out with him at the weekend?"

"Umm…"

"Go onnnn! You know you want to!"

"Oh, fine." Marina sighed, but then flashed a grin at the raven haired girl walking beside her.

When they finally arrived at their classroom the lesson had already started and everyone was sat in their pairs working on the project except for Tala who was scribbling down some notes and Kai who was sat in the back corner with his feet resting upon the desk and his eyes closed.

"You're late Pandora, sit with your partner and tell him to take his feet of the desk." Mrs Whitehead greeted sternly which made Pandora smirk as she walked to the back of the room and kicked Kai's feet off the table before taking her own seat.

"Ah, and you must be Marinochka. Well, we've just started a project on trench warfare during the First World War; I trust you know about that?" Marina nodded in response before Mrs Whitehead continued. "You will need to join a pair…"

"She can join us." Tala said grinning at the green haired girl.

"Thank you for volunteering Tala!" Mrs Whitehead said pleased at the young man. Marina took the empty seat next to Tala and was glad she was with him and not with some random person she didn't know. The two had just fired up a conversation when Charlie came waltzing in the classroom with her skirt hitched up even higher than usual. She stopped dead in her tracks when she saw that Marina was sitting in HER seat next to HER Tala. They seemed deep in conversation and hadn't even noticed her presence in the room, which was definitely a bad thing. She strutted over to where the pair were seated and coughed loudly so they would acknowledge her.

"You're sitting in my seat." Charlie said rudely to Marina whilst giving her an evil glare.

"Oh sorry, why don't you just get another chair..?" She replied airily.

"Because that's my seat. Why are you sitting here anyway, Tala's my partner." Charlie spoke in an even ruder tone than before. Okay, all pity Marina once had for Charlie has now gone.

"I needed to join a group and Tala volunteered. Wasn't that nice of him?" Marina retorted in a sweet voice and batting her eyelashes up at the fuming blonde. Tala sat back and watched amused as the girls continued to bicker.

"Well, I'm sure that Mrs Whitehead forced you into our group. Tala wouldn't volunteer when he already had me." Charlie said triumphantly.

"No, I volunteered." Tala interrupted with a wide grin on his face. He had two hot girls squabbling over him, now this was a day to remember. Charlie just stared at him for a moment in disbelief before huffing and grabbing a spare chair and placing it the other side of Tala as close as she could get it to him and snuggled into him arm. He shrugged her off and turned his attention to Marina.

"Do you know anything about trench warfare?" He asked Marina whilst checking her out - which he did often.

"A little, but not much." She replied whilst looking over some of the notes he and Charlie had made, well mainly Tala's notes by the look of it. Charlie's input seemed to consist of a small drawing of her and Tala getting married... Creepy.

"I'm bored!" Charlie declared looking at Tala expectantly, trying to turn his attention back to her.

"Try helping then." Tala snapped at the blonde who was now looking quite hurt.

"I would if this lesson wasn't so shit." She replied.

"Why did you take it then? Just try and do something useful for once." He sighed whilst flipping through a textbook. She stared at him blankly for a moment before answering but on a complete different subject.

"Oh Tally, I forgive you for getting stroppy earlier!" Charlie cooed as she lunged onto Tala and attached herself to the left side of his body. He decided to shrug her off again and try to ignore her by turning his attention yet again only on Marina and scooting his chair a little closer to her to escape Charlie's clutches.

"Ugh!" Charlie crossed her arms and sat there fuming, glaring at both Marina and Tala.

Pandora and Kai watched amused as Charlie's patience got thinner and thinner. They were waiting for her to explode and storm out the classroom, but she was doing something else instead. Charlie pranced over to Kai and stood behind him, wrapping her arms around his neck lovingly.

"Hey baby," She whispered in his ear whilst glowering at Pandora. Kai rolled his eyes but didn't make any attempt of getting her off him. He was quite enjoying the fact that Charlie's breasts were pressing into him.

"If you don't mind Charlie, we're actually trying to work on the project. So go on; Scram!" Pandora said whilst making a shooing action with her arms.

"Why don't you shut up?" Charlie gritted out menacingly.

"Why don't you walk into traffic?" Pandora replied with just as much menace in her tone. Kai snickered at this remark which made Charlie 'hmph' rather loudly, and storm out the classroom shouting insults all the way. Mrs Whitehead didn't seem fazed by Charlie's sudden outburst and turned back to marking books.

Tala watched as Charlie left the classroom and gave a sigh of relief. He didn't want to ask Marina about the upcoming weekend whilst she was there otherwise Charlie would go after Marina and it wouldn't be pretty.

"So, have you made up your mind about coming out with me this weekend?" Tala asked casually.

"Yeah, I will." Marina replied, blushing furiously. Tala noticed and gave her a comforting smile which then cracked into a huge one as she had agreed to go somewhere with him.

"Great. I'll pick you up about 7. What's your address?"

She scribbled down her address on a blank piece of paper and handed it to Tala. Their hands touched briefly during the exchanging of the paper which made Marina's face redden even more! She really had to stop blushing around him!

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Arrgrggghhhhhhh! The ruler line thing isn't wokring so I had to use the stupid dash things! oh well.. I cant be assed to wait for a while to see if it works then...

Anyway, tell me what you think! But if it is criticism, write it constructively and not spitefully. Cos that is just extremely immature and you need to grow up if you go around flaming other peoples stories, and get over your jealousy cos people who flame are usually jealous, pathetic little kids who can't write anything better themselves. -rant over-
But to all the nice reviewers, I hope you like this chapter! It took me aggeees to write! lol

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