Thank you soooo much to all the reviewers to far:D I hope you all like this chapter, I didn't really know what to write... that's why it's a bit shorter than the others. It's mainly about Tala and Marina and their big date! boo yeh! Don't forget to R&R CHANKS!

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Tales of Another Broken Home

Chapter 8

It was 6.30pm Saturday evening and five girls were rushing frantically around in Marina's closet trying to find something for her to wear. (They had decided to go to Marina's before the 'big date' instead of Julia's because it would just be easier this way.) They only had 30 minutes before Tala's arrival and they still had to find some suitable clothes and finish off her hair.

"Ahh only 25 minutes left!" Marina wailed as she stood in the centre of her room only wearing a pair of faded jeans and a bra with her hair still up in curlers.

"We've still got time! We can do it ladies!" Julia said sounding quite like a fitness instructor… Maya rummaged around Marina's drawers and found a silky dark green and black boob tube and tossed over to Marina which she quickly slipped on over her almost nude frame.

"Marvellous." Maya said proudly as she stared at the green haired girl approvingly.

"Tala won't be able to keep his hands off ya!" Pandora winked playfully at Marina whose eyes widened slightly after hearing this.

Marina stood in front of the mirror and examined her reflection which didn't look much like her at all. Her hair hung in loose ringlets down past her shoulders which in her opinion made her look a lot older. Her usual make-up free eyes were adorned with a thick layer of eye liner, mascara and black eye shadow which created a smoky look around her onyx eyes. A thin layer of clear lip gloss was smeared across her full lips and a slight amount of blusher covered her cheeks. As her eyes travelled further down her body she gave credit to Maya for choosing a flattering and chic top. She was still wearing the faded jeans from earlier and a pair of black heels.

"Our work here is done," Mariam declared in a satisfied tone, placing her hands on her hips in triumph.

"Thank you soooo much. I wouldn't have been able to do this on my own!" Marina said as she hugged the four girls. With one minute to spare Marina quickly ushered the girls out the house.

"Good luck and don't forget to write!" Pandora called through the letterbox of her front door as they exited. As they walked down the street they noticed the familiar black blur of Tala's car screeching past them.

"I hope he's not to forward with her…" Maya said with a hint of worry in her voice.

"I'm sure it'll be fine," Mariam replied reassuringly.

The doorbell rung dead on six and Marina almost tripped and broke neck as she ran down the shoe-filled corridor to answer the door.

'Holy crap!' were Tala's thoughts as she was revealed to him. She looked so much different than she did at school. She had more of a sex appeal to her now as she stood before him and he just wanted to rip off her clothes right there!

"Ready to go?" He said as he gave her a charming smile which could make any girl melt. She nodded and followed him silently to his car. Her tongue didn't seem to want to work at that precise moment. The weekend had crept up too quick for her liking and the date was finally becoming reality.

"So, where are we going?" She asked as she stepped in his car.

"I thought we could go to the cinema. That film 'Hostel' is out which looks good." Tala answered as they sped off down the road and on their way to the cinema. Tala casually slung an arm around her petite shoulders and steered her into the Odeon when they arrived. As they walked through the main entrance they noticed a group of people who they would least like to see huddled around the sweet section. To their dismay Charlie, Crystal and their slutty fan club were clustered around a group of Hench looking guys.

"Shit," Tala muttered under his breath as Charlie caught sight of him and strutted over.

"Tally! I thought you said you were busy this weekend?" She asked as she stared critically at the green haired girl standing next to him.

"Yeah, I've got plans with Marina if you hadn't already noticed." He said coldly and carried on walking past her, still guiding Marina.

"Why would you want to do anything with that whore?" She spat angrily back which made Marina raise an eyebrow in a disapproving manner which only made Charlie angrier.

"Don't speak to me like that and she's not a whore. You're the only whore around here Charlie." Tala replied in an icy tone.

"You don't mean that," She shouted at Tala's retreating figure. He chose to ignore her and carried onto order a ticket. Marina had decided not to get involved in their little spat and kept her head down as she walked over to the cash desks. She was never good in arguments. However, she did feel pleased that Tala had stood up for her! Maybe he wasn't the same as the guys back in Russia.

"You'll regret the day that you turned your back on me Tala. Your little bitch will pay for this!" Charlie shrieked as she stormed out of the cinema leaving her friends dumbstruck at her outburst.

"Sorry about her," Tala sighed as he ordered their tickets.

"That's ok…" Marina replied shyly not knowing what else to say. She did feel a little worried about Charlie saying that she would 'pay', but decided to brush it off and enjoy her outing with Tala.

The two entered the gloomy screen room and sat in their assigned seats which were in the second back row. Marina slurped on her drink as the adverts played and felt Tala's warm hand slip around her shoulders. She smiled inwardly to herself at Tala's eagerness.

Tala's arm remained there and Marina snuggled further into his body as the scary parts started to appear on the massive screen. A Chinese woman was strapped blind folded in a chair and a masked man held a pair of pliers around one of her toes and snapped the tool shut. Marina scrunched her eyes shut and buried her head into Tala's muscled chest at the gruesome scene. A smug expression washed over his face as he stared down at the squeamish girl before him.

"You all right?" He whispered huskily into her ear.

"Yeah I'm fine, I just hate feet!" She replied cringing just saying the word 'feet'. He snorted slightly at her response and continued to watch the movie.

As the film got further in, Tala's hands wandered further around Marina's body which made her become slightly uncomfortable. She grabbed his right hand which was becoming dangerously close to her chest and placed it back on her shoulder. He may be hot, but there was no way in hell he was getting that far on the first date!

But Tala wasn't the type of guy to sit around and wait for some action, so his attempts became more persistent. One of his hands slid seductively up the inside of her leg and caressed her thighs whilst the other reached down to her chest and started travelling under her top and as she turned to tell him to keep his hands to himself he crushed his lips down onto hers causing her to gasp in shock which allowed him entrance to her mouth. She wasn't very experienced in this department as guys from her old school were complete jackasses and after a bad experience with one of them, she never went near any of them again. Sadly, this had given her a severe mistrust in males and would rarely befriend them, let alone go on dates with them so this was a big step for her and Tala was completely disregarding it!

So she did the first thing that came to mind. A loud slap resounded throughout the cinema which caused a few heads to turn. Tala looked in shock at the fuming girl who sat next to him.

"What the hell was that for!" He hissed irritably to her as he rubbed his stinging cheek.

"For touching me up!" She retorted in a low voice and staggered past the sitting people and dashed out. Tala sat there confused for a minute, wondering what he'd done before charging off after her, knocking food and drinks out of people's hands as he ran.

"Marina!" He yelled as he sprinted through the crowds of people. She chose to ignore his calls and carried on running, carefully dodging the groups of people. As she neared the exit she noticed it had started raining. 'Typical, bloody typical!' she thought angrily to herself. But she still ran out and into the rain, the cold water flooding over her pale skin and seeping through her clothes and hair. Various people ran to their destinations trying to cover themselves with items of clothing and others had sensibly bought umbrellas to shield themselves from the rain.

"Why didn't I bring an umbrella!" She muttered angrily to herself as she looked for the nearest sheltered place.

Tala exited the cinema shortly after Marina and his eyes searched the perimeter for her, but he had no such luck. There was too many rushing people and brightly coloured umbrellas scattered about to see properly.

"Fuck!" He swore loudly causing some random passers by to stare disapprovingly at him. His vivid red hair dangled limply over his face as the rain had softened it tremendously. His wet clothes clung to his muscley body as he sauntered back to his car. As he walked he rummaged in his pocket, flipped out his mobile and searched through his phonebook to look for Marina's number, but then realised he didn't have it. At this point he was seriously thinking about smashing his phone into the ground but then decided against it as it was just a plain stupid thing to do.

"FUCK!" He bellowed once more when he was comfortably seated inside his car and started to punch the living daylights out of his steering wheel. Passers by stared in confusion as his car was emitting very loud honking noises and flashing immensely as the alarm had gone off from the impact of the punches, creating a lot of noise and havoc. He didn't stop pounding the wheel until someone tapped on the window.

"What?" He gritted out after he had opened the window. To his annoyance, it was none other than a patrol officer who had disturbed him from his one on one with the steering wheel.

"Yo-You're double parked, I'm afraid I'm g-going to have to give you a t-ticket." The ticket man said in a shaky voice. He couldn't have been much older than Tala as his face still had the remains of some acne which were dotted about over his cheeks, forehead and chin. As he wrote the ticket, his hand was trembling so much the writing was nearly illegible. Tala could sense the fear coming off him and wasn't surprised. Not many people would want to approach a car where a livid young man inside was attempting to destroy it, so he just snatched the ticket from him and drove off. Whilst he was driving his eyes drifted over his knuckles which were torn to shreds and swollen almost double their original size. He growled menacingly and returned his eyes to the road, but keeping an eye out for any flash of green.

Marina had taken cover under an old bus shelter where an overpowering smell of urine came from within. She looked around and saw an ageing man in tatty clothes and stubble coming out from all over the place, snoozing on top of some laid out cardboard boxes. Suddenly his eyes cracked open and pierced into her onyx ones, making her feel very uneasy. She slowly edged away from him and took her chances with the rain.

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The rain stuck for the whole weekend just like how Marina was stuck in Tala's mind and he was stuck in hers. Tala didn't understand why she had flipped out like that in the cinema, no girl had ever done that to him before and he couldn't even call her to find out why! Marina however was disappointed to find out that the boys here were exactly like they were back in Russia. Sex driven maniacs. She didn't know why she expected them to be any different here and felt like a right idiot for thinking so.

It was Monday yet again and the weekend seemed to have gone by faster than usual. It was frickin' typical that it had to rain all weekend so there wasn't much that they could do. What was wrong with the weather all of a sudden? A couple days ago it was sweltering! But now you could be covered in hot water bottles and still be freezing!

"Stupid weatherman. Heat wave my ass." Pandora mumbled to herself as she entered the school gates wearing a scarf for Pete's sake! A SCARF! It was nearing June and yet it felt like November.

She was only running five minutes late but she still hurried along to her form. Partly because of the temperature, but mainly because she wanted to find out how the date went between Marina and Tala. As she entered the classroom, Marina and Tala weren't sitting next to each other all cosy like she had expected, Marina was gazing out the window in a world of her own and Tala wasn't even there yet. This was unusual for him because he was generally on time, but she figured he must be somewhere with Kai as he wasn't there either.

"Heya!" She greeted to Marina and Enrique as she sat in the spare desk in between the two. She had managed to convince Enrique to swap seats with her so she could sit next to Marina and further away from Kai. She was starting to become more drawn to him recently which she definitely knew was a bad thing.

"How did your date with Tala go?" Pandora asked enthusiastically.

"Not so well…" Marina sighed with a glum look on her face. Enrique's face however, lightened up immensely after hearing this.

"Oh really? How come?" He asked with a little too much glee in his voice.

"He was just a bit… touchy feely." She replied scrunching up her nose in distaste. Both Pandora and Enrique stared blankly at her for a moment not understanding why that was such a problem.

"Elaborate…" Pandora said in a posh voice and even rolled her 'r' whilst making a hand gesture for her to continue.

"Well, the boys back in my old school were all obsessed with sex and would go to any lengths to get it."

"Ha! They're no different here," Pandora cut in.

"What about me?" Enrique asked whilst giving her a puppy eyed look.

"Oh come on, you know that's all you ever think about!" She said as if it were the most obvious thing. He just flashed a mischievous grin in reply.

"Anyway…" Marina said loudly to drown out the other two. They gave their apologies and signalled for her to carry on. "There was this one guy who was really forceful and the police got involved and everything and it just put me off guys ever since."

"I'm sorry, I didn't realise." Pandora said in a comforting tone.

"It doesn't matter. But we also saw Charlie at the cinema and she wasn't happy at all to see me with Tala and she said I would 'pay'." She continued doing air quotes around the word 'pay'.

"Oh, don't worry about her. She's depriving a village somewhere of an idiot, she's no problem." Pandora beamed.

"Wait, so does that mean you don't trust me?" Enrique enquired whilst again performing his infamous puppy dog eyes.

"Of course it doesn't…" Marina replied with a hint of sarcasm in her voice which Enrique didn't seem to catch. The two girls smirked at each other just as the bell rang.

"Oh God… Biology!" Pandora groaned as she wrapped her scarf around her neck. The three grumbled as they made their way to the biology department. On the way, they spotted a familiar flash of red and Pandora was off. She stormed through the crowds, pushing passing students out of her way so she could strangle the red haired teen.

"VALKOV! Get your as here right now!" She roared down the corridor. He and Kai turned around to see Pandora charging towards them. Well they couldn't really see her so much because of her short stature, but they assumed it was her from her voice and how the rabble of students parted as she pushed her way towards them. When she was only a few feet away from him, she pounced ready to maim him but instead she felt a pair of strong hands encircle her waist and haul her over the owner's shoulders. Strands of slate hair brushed past her face and she assumed it was Kai who had protected his friend from her.

"Arghhh! Put me down you dilhole! I swear to God if you don't put me down I'll kick you so hard in the nuts you'll never be able to have children!" Pandora threatened whilst pummelling her fists on his back.

"It's a good job I don't want children then, isn't it?" Kai replied haughtily, being the cocky bastard he is. Just after he said this Marina and Enrique came bursting through the clear path of students Pandora had just made. There was an awkward silence between the five as they had all obviously been filled in on what happened over the weekend. But before anyone could say anything Marina had turned away and proceeded onto the direction of the biology classrooms with Enrique who shortly followed.

"Marina wait!" Tala called after her, but she didn't respond.

"You are such an inconsiderate asshole!" Pandora spoke annoyed, now just hanging limply over Kai's shoulder.

"What the fuck! I didn't do anything!" Tala exclaimed.

"You tried to push her into something she didn't want to do." She replied.

"What?"

"Do I have to spell it out for you?" Pandora asked and when she got no response she assumed he was standing there with his mouth hanging open like a goldfish with a bemused expression on his face. She couldn't actually see him seeing as though she was still hanging over Kai's shoulder who refused to loosen his grip on her.

"Ugh! She doesn't trust men. It was a big step for her to even go out with you!" She sighed. That boy could be extremely dim witted at times.

"What? Why?" He asked, clearly confused.

"'Cos she had bad experiences with guys back in her old school. So go and apologise! And will you put me down!" Pandora shouted as she started to pound on Kai's back again. A smirked graced his lips and instead of putting her down, he started walking off to his next lesson which they shared together.

"Keep your hands to yourself!" Pandora screeched as Kai's hands had mistakably rested upon on derriere.

Tala stood there on his own for a minute and watched as the two departed whilst thinking about what Pandora had just said. Apologise? Pfft… Never in his life has he had to ask for forgiveness from someone and actually mean it. And that day wouldn't be coming anytime soon.

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