Disclaimer: Well, I used to own a Beyblade, but I lost it…I don't own the show though…because if I did, lots of things would be changed. (Gets out list) See? For example, Brooklyn would end up with Julia. Need I go on?
This is…well, a Rei/Mariam one-shot and Maxie shall not get in the way! (Glares at Max), though I'll try to use all their dub names. I don't usually write in the present tense, unless it's in someone's POV, but I'm not even sure of myself anymore. I don't know why, but I like doing things more in the guy's POV, even though I'm not one, but I think it proves a challenge…or something like that.
Pairings: Some hints at Tyson/Hilary and a kind of one-sided Ray/Mariam, but Mariam's emotions aren't explained so you don't know, do you? Hah! I think there's a puny bit of Kai/Ray and a punier bit of Max/Ray…but whatever.
I know they're OOC, but hey, I tried…One of the inspirations for this fic was the fact that I had to make an AMV about Ray before I really got into writing this…or at least get into his character.
Summary: Ray has feelings for a certain indigo haired girl and only truly realizes it when she's about to be out of his life. RayMariam.
And this ficcie shall go to suicidalbeyblader, all right then? Good. The title is um... well, you know that girl Tifa from FF VII, right? It's sorta like that.
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"Ay-ya!" the hazel-haired girl exclaims, bringing down one of Tyson's kendo sticks near the sleeping bag he was just residing in.
He peers an eye open, "Huh? Ah!" the navy-haired boy rolls over to avoid it, and ends up rolling into a wall instead. He brings his hand to rub his head, "Hilary, what was that for!" Tyson gets up, holding up a fist at the girl.
Hilary puts the weapon to stand beside her, like a person boasting a flag of their country, "Well, I can't wake you up any other way, can I?" she says smugly, closing her eyes.
Tyson growls, "Well, why didn't you wake any of the others like that?"
The brunette opens her eyes enough to be ruby slits and she jerks a thumb over her shoulder, where Max, Ray, Kai and Kenny are sitting at a table, smiling happily and eating the food that Tyson's grandfather made for them, with the usual exception of Kai who's just closing his eyes, taking light sips from the teacup in front of him. Tyson's eyes go wide and his jaw drops quite low in his shock as he slumps his shoulders.
"Uh…uh…." He stutters.
Max gives him a very sunny smile, "Morning, Tyson!" he waves cheekily, unknowingly taunting the poor hazel-eyed boy.
Tyson straightens himself in an awkward way, then rolling up his sleeves, his feet apart and legs spread, knees bent slightly, with angry huffs escaping his nostrils, "Save some food for me!" he yells, stomping his feet.
Hilary brings the kendo stick over, slamming it on Tyson's head, making him resume his previous slumped position, "Tyson, can you not think about food for at least once in your life?"
"If I said 'no' the last ten times you asked me that, what makes you think I'll say 'yes' this time?" Tyson says dryly.
A piece of crumpled paper is thrown at Tyson's head, which bounces off the top and lands behind him, "Read it…" Hilary grumbles, retreating over to the table with the others.
Tyson mutters angry threats under his breath, squatting down to pick up the thrown paper. He straightens up with a stretch and a yawn, the paper in his left hand. He wipes his sleepy eyes, and then opens the paper, his dark hazel eyes moving along the neatly printed words.
The others watch him, excluding Hilary, studying his facial expressions. Tyson confuses them inadvertently dawning an excited expression, then a concerned one and finally a saddened one. They all exchange looks with each other.
"What's it say, Tyson?" Kenny asks confusedly.
Tyson holds the paper to face them, "Well, you remember Mister X…er, Ozuma, right?" he asks, receiving a nod from everyone and a grunt from Kai, "He says that since their mission is over, they leave today and yeah…" he says, not wanting to elaborate such a simple thing.
Kai brings his teacup to his lips again, "Well, I suppose they would. They have no further reason to stay, and even if they wanted to, a warehouse couldn't suffice their needs."
"They could've made pretty good allies…" Max smiles, looking around at everyone.
Hilary and Kenny sigh, "I guess…" they say together.
"Oh c'mon, we've gotta at least see them out of here!" Tyson grins. Then he realized that it sounded like he wanted to rush them out of the country, "Um, not like I want them to leave…" he covers up, flushing slightly.
"Hm…" Hilary gives him a dull look. He waves his hands in front of himself, signaling that nothing's wrong.
Ray sends his gaze to his left, staring out the window.
"Ray?" Max asks, making the brunet jump a bit, "Are you okay? You're rather quiet…" he notes out, looking worriedly at his friend.
The addressed boy nods, forcing a smile to his lips, "I'm fine, Max," he lies, standing up, "I just…need to take a walk right now." And before anyone can object, Ray walks out of the room.
"Hm? What's wrong with Ray?" the brunette looks around at the boys who are either staring at the door where Ray exited, or just sipping tea, in Kai's case.
"If we knew, wouldn't we be going after him?" Tyson glares at the girl who returns with her own death glare, "Just leave him to sort out his own business." Hilary growls back at him.
Kai scoffs, "Well, as much as I'd like to stay here and watch you guys fight, and at the risk of missing desert, I think I've lost my appetite." He says monotonously, walking out.
"But he only had two biscuits and three cups of tea…" Hilary says softly.
Tyson glances at her, "And you're keeping track because?" Hilary raises her fists angrily, which is met with Tyson's same reaction.
Max's forehead lands in his palm, only propped up by his elbow, knowing that another mindless fight would ensue.
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Ray wanders around for a while, trying to sort out his thoughts until he passes by a bridge. Deciding to go over to it, he leans his elbows on the railing, staring down below. He was fine this morning, so why now did he suddenly feel so depressed? He hadn't felt this bad since he lost Drigger to Dunga and the other Saint Shields a while back.
The sounds of approaching footsteps enter his ears and he whips around, finding Kai walking over to him, "Aren't you the jumpy one…" the slate-haired boy mutters.
"Kai!" Ray exclaims, startled, "I-I…thought you were someone else…" he turns back to the bridge.
Kai comes up to the brunet's left, "Someone else like…Mariam?" he guesses calmly.
Ray glances over at him and his dark, laughing crimson eyes, "M-Mariam?" he stutters, hiding the slight blush that wanted to show, "What's she have to do with me?" he asks in a low tone, his eyes wandering away to the ground below the bridge.
"You like her, don't you?" he taunts. The wave Kai's voice is giving off brings an unusual feeling to Ray's head, as well as his chest. Kai smirks, watching his friend shift uneasily whose hand is fidgeting with the collar of his white shirt, giving a slight gulp.
Ray reluctantly shakes his head, "N-No, I…don't…" his hand shakily returns to the railing of the bridge, not even wanting to see the look on Kai's face.
Kai just scoffs, "The look on your face is betraying you, Ray." He points out with a smirk.
Ray couldn't even imagine how weird he must've looked right now, his mind flooded with thoughts of what he was supposed to do now, until Kai let out a chuckle which sent a dark shiver down the neko-jin's spine. At a loss for words, Ray merely looked up at him with confusion.
"Hn," is the only response Ray is met with for his silence.
"H-How'd you…" the Chinese blader murmurs, looking away yet again, fearing that all he could do now is stutter his words out in hopes that they'd be understood.
Kai raises a brow, crossing his arms, "Just because you don't say anything about it, doesn't mean I don't know. I know everything about everyone, Ray, get used to it." Kai failed to mention how he saw how Ray had his eye on her for quite a while, with Kai almost pitying the brunet at some points. He also saw that Ray would have the hardest time tearing his eyes away from her, then for some reason, would look back at her in under a couple of seconds. For that whole while, Kai felt the need to encourage Ray to do something, but then he figured it was none of his business and he'd let Ray handle it on his own.
Ray's golden eyes remain on the ground over the edge of the bridge, quivering lightly, knowing that's why he was so depressed when Tyson explained what the note contained and what it meant. She'd be out of his life.
"Kai!" Ray yells out suddenly, realizing this little detail now. Kai remains unshaken, merely nodding a head at the worried brunet, "She'll be…"
"I would've thought you'd realize that sooner, Ray…" the Russian interrupts, "I suppose you want to tell her,"
Ray nods, running back to the dojo, with Kai following.
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"Ray, you're back!" Max exclaims happily, his arms thrown into the air, "Did you find out what was bothering you?"
Ray nods hastily, "When're they leaving?" at that point, Max's arms drop back to his sides with an innocently confused look on his face.
Tyson blinks, "In a few hours…why?"
"I…" Ray starts, but something in his mouth prevents him from breathing a word about it to them, "I want to be there when we see them off." His eyes wander over to his left.
Tyson runs over to Ray and wraps an arm around his shoulder, "See, Ray wants to!" he grins at the others who all sigh.
The next few hours weren't exactly a blur, but Ray found them extremely pointless, and at the same time, he thought them to have gone by much faster than he thought. He glanced around at everyone, mainly sleeping on Tyson's dojo floor, that is – if you weren't Kai, leaning against the wall. Then a small feeling made its way into Ray's stomach, making him feel like he had to earn her trust before he could tell her he liked her. That was shit and Ray knew it and yet, he still felt like it wasn't right.
"All right, let's go!" Ray's voice rose, startling all but Tyson who Hilary had to hit with another kendo stick in order to awaken him.
And so far, Ray found the walk to the airport even more uneventful, his head swarming with so many different emotions. His black clad hands were clenched in his supposed anticipation. This comes into Kai's attention and he lets off a smirk.
"There they are!" Tyson exclaims loudly, grabbing Ray's neck in one arm, pointing to the door of the airport with is other hand. And there the group finds the red, orange and gray clad foursome, standing around, looking at the flight schedule. Ray nods unnervingly, forcing out a chuckle. A very weak chuckle. The navy-haired boy releases Ray and runs over to them, the others given no choice but to follow.
"Mister X!" Tyson says loudly, making all four of them turn to him. Ozuma gasps for a second before his mouth shut again, forming a smirk and a small grunt of approval. As usual, Dunga is standing to Ozuma's left with Joseph to Ozuma's right and Mariam to his right. Like Ozuma, Joseph and Dunga smirks and grunts slightly. Ray notices that Mariam remained casual, expecting some kind of reaction to their presence and he frowns a bit, which also comes into Kai's attention.
Ozuma raises a brow at him, "Please don't tell me you forgot my name already…" his smirk drops a bit as he folds his firm arms over his well muscled chest.
Tyson raises a thumb in return, "Nope, it just brings back memories," he lets off a large grin.
"Please don't…" Ozuma's eyes lower dully.
Dunga goes over and slams a hand to Ray's back, "So no hard feelings for taking Drigger, right?"
The force pressed into the brunet's back makes him slump forward a bit, allowing a sigh to flow from his mouth, "Uh, sure…" he replies as Dunga pats him on the back some more with a large grin playing on his face…but the so-called 'pats' are rather hard. It felt more like Dunga was slapping Ray's back senseless.
"Dunga, if you keep that up, you might end up killing him," Ray looks up, seeing Mariam smirking tauntingly at Dunga, one hand on her hip, the other in a lecturing position, "and with your temper, you just might…" she finishes.
"Ooh!" Dunga growls at her, stomping a foot on the floor angrily. Mariam laughs at him, making Ray smile a bit, but at the same time, he feels a bit disconsolate that he wasn't the one who made her laugh, feeling a light twinge of jealousy. Dunga huffs, walking away.
Mariam looks over at Ray, smiling a bit, "How's your back?"
Ray's eyes widen slightly and a light blush falls on his cheeks as he straightens up, "Um, fine, thanks." He says softly, yelling at himself for blushing in front of her, because everyone knew it pretty well that he didn't really do blushing.
She flips a hand down at him, "Eh, it's fun bothering him. Let me know if he bothers you again." Ray felt his heart skip a beat when she gave him a light smile.
"Right…" Ray nods, then looks at her eyes, "But, I don't…" he starts, blinking innocently at her.
"You don't like being saved by a girl or something?" Mariam assumes, glaring at him.
Ray's head tilts back a bit, eyes widen even more and a gasp escapes him, "Wha?" the tint of scarlet returns to his cheeks, staring at her harmlessly in return, "Um, no, I…I didn't say that. I was…going to say that…I don't want to bother you because of Dunga." He gulps again, giving a weak smile and a small chuckle to match.
"Oh…" Mariam just raises a delicate violet brow at him. Where did he get off caring about what she felt? "Okay, then…"
Ray catches Kai standing a few good feet behind Mariam, urging the brunet to say something to her non-verbally, but nodding a head at her with a slightly concerned look on his face. Ray only gives him a frown in response. Ray opens his mouth to say something to her, but gets cut off by a happy cerulean blonde.
"Hey Mariam, one last go?" Max smiles, holding up Draciel. Ray clenches a fist at Max's interruption, cursing himself for being shy like he is.
"Oh no, I'm not falling for that again," Mariam gives him a look as if to say 'nice try' and Ray lightens up a bit. Max only chuckles lightly, taking a grip on her wristband, pulling her in one direction.
"C'mon, one battle won't kill you," the American insists, leaving Ray standing there, watching them go.
Kai sighs in shame at Ray's lack of courage, but then again, Kai didn't think he'd be any better himself. The slate haired boy goes over, placing a hand on Ray's shoulder, "You, Ray, are terrible at this,"
Ray looks over, seeing Tyson and Hilary talking to Ozuma who doesn't seem to be all that pleased, then looking a bit further, Ray sees Joseph and Dunga watching Max and Mariam battle. He smiles a bit, walking over to said battle.
Mariam smirks at Ray's presence, "Wanna go two on two again?" she offers.
"Oh no, I'm on to you!" Max points an accusing finger at Mariam, then at Joseph.
"Che, fine, Ray's my partner then," Joseph smirks, preparing himself.
"What? And leave me with this accusing creature?" Mariam asks loudly, nodding her head towards Max. Max blows her a raspberry.
Joseph rolls his eyes, "Fine, I'll go with Max…" he sighs, going over beside the American.
Mariam gleams in her victory, going beside Ray, who hasn't said a word.
"Doesn't Ray get a say in this?" Max demands. Joseph and Mariam shoot him dull glares, "Well, you guys are bickering over who gets to be with him…"
'Gets to be with him…' repeats in Ray's head, his mind is obviously jumping to conclusions that he wished would happen. "Ray?"
Ray looks around, seeing Joseph, Dunga, Mariam and Max with dull glares, "Yeah?" he choked out, trying to cover the fact that he wasn't listening.
"So, who'd you rather be with, me or puny?" Mariam jerks a finger at her brother who rolls his eyes and shakes his head in shame.
Ray's never ending blush returns, "I'll go with Mariam…" he sighs, his mind getting another weird idea with his last statement.
Joseph shrugs, "Suit yourself," he says nonchalantly, "I suppose you just want to lose…"
Mariam raises a brow, "And what's that supposed to mean?"
"It means he picked you on his team because he knows he'll lose if he does." Joseph replies, smirking with closed eyes.
"He picked me because he knows I'm a good blader and that I'm not short like you!" Mariam retorts, "Right, Ray?"
Ray is once again knocked out of his thoughts, "Right…" he says uneasily, dawning a flush which Max notices and raises a brow at.
"See?" Mariam smiles in her victory and Joseph just sighs in shame.
The whole battle got blocked out of Ray's head. All he could remember was getting slightly upset when both Max and Joseph slammed into Mariam's blade at the same time. Just slightly… But he didn't really care about the battle anyways. Nothing really happened since they refrained themselves from using their bit-beasts. Now everyone was just sitting around and waiting for their plane to arrive.
Max was sitting beside Mariam, further explaining the bond between one and one's bit-beast. Over to their left, Tyson, Kenny and Hilary were bothering Ozuma, rambling about when he was the mysterious blader, and then Mister X. Kai was across them, talking to Dunga about finding him a decent opponent. Ray was to Kai's left, across from Max and Mariam, not even listening to Joseph who was going on about being underestimated due to size.
His warm golden eyes were gazing at the violet haired girl. He knew that she was part of the reason why he lost Drigger a while back, but he couldn't seem to pull himself from her. He then decided to pull his eyes away from her, biting back the urge to look at her again, and looked at Joseph instead, trying to concentrate on the boy's words. It wasn't working. He gave up self-denying the actuality that he liked her long ago. He didn't care that she conspired to take Drigger from him (and actually did); he liked her, he knew it, but he also knew that she probably didn't like him in return. The temptation bit him hard, cancelling out the urge he built up to prevent himself, and he looked back at her, in hopes of memorizing her face, finding himself addicted as he was.
Kai's eyes had started wandering away from Dunga's boasting while ago, but as his head turns to see Ray, he smirks, knowing that again, and to no surprise, the Chinese blader is staring at the indigo haired Mariam. Kai's soft chuckle escapes his lips, shaking his head in slight pity for his friend, for he feels that Ray seemed hopeless at this point, so he smiles forlornly at Ray's expense. Now he really pitied Ray, but still, he'd stick around anyways, and he himself didn't know why.
As Max was telling her of the bit-beast bond, Mariam was nodding, faking her interest in the current subject. She refused to roll her eyes at him, although it was tempting. But Max had stuck around long enough to knock some sense into her. Might as well pay him back some way… Mariam smiles a tad. When Max closes his eyes, bringing one hand in a lecturing position, his head tilted toward the ceiling, Mariam takes that as her chance to find out why she felt like she was being watched. Her bright jade eyes glance over, seeing a pair of gold eyes staring right at her. Ray Kon. She lifts a brow at him and could swear that he was blushing as he gave her small, timid smile and looked away from her. That was weird… Mariam notes. She glances back at Max who was still in the position she last saw him in. She looks behind her, seeing only the male security guard, therefore cancelling out her thought that Ray was looking at someone behind her.
Ozuma attempts backing away from the trio who are questioning him for so long. Then Tyson gives off a grin, Hilary claps her hands happily and Kenny draws up a file on his laptop, each action sending Ozuma down further the hole of confusion. Shoot me now… he wishes, looking at the ceiling. The three look at Kenny's computer, in which the screen is facing away from Ozuma, so he doesn't even care. Even if it was facing him, he wouldn't really be interested in watching. All this technology wasn't exactly something Ozuma was a fan of, let alone did he see people so into it back in the homeland. He stole a glance at the other Bladebreakers, but Ray was the one who caught Ozuma's eye, since he found the neko-jin staring at his female teammate and he didn't look like he was going to be looking away any time soon. But since Ozuma was at an angle, he suspects that Ray's looking at something behind her or something near her.
Kai smirks, seeing everyone, in turn, look at Ray with a questionable look on their face, raise a brow, shrug, then look away. All but Mariam, that is. And Kai's beginning to get the feeling that about everyone knows about Ray's little infatuation, at least by now. Took them long enough, the sour thought enters his mind, in shame of how slow they were.
Joseph looks up at Ray, seeing his gaze fixed upon the olive haired boy's sister. Joseph lifts a brow and nudges Ray in the ribs, "Hey, what're you doing?" he asks suspiciously, raising a dark green brow.
Ray's eyes widen, having been caught in the act that had quickly become a habit for him, "Doing…?" he asks, trying to avoid the question by acting duller. He rips his gaze off Mariam, yet again, looking down at her brother with a questionable gleam in his eyes that Joseph took a quick note of, reminding himself to report that to Ozuma when they got back home, "What'm I doing?" his voice floods with false question in which Joseph is clever enough to see through.
"You were staring at my sister…" Joseph points out bluntly, dipping his head down slightly, continuing to glare at the Chinese blader, but his dark emerald orbs tilting upward this time instead of straight on like normal or like others would.
Ray let out a few pause words, "Uhh…uh…um…" if they were really considered pause words, (1) but he blinks at Joseph, pondering on how to respond to that, "I was?" he asks indirectly, this question full of the same false wonder used only a mere few seconds ago.
"Never mind…" Joseph lulls his eyes away from the accused, rolling the forest green orbs. Ray lets out a small sigh of his relief, having escaped the accusation in which would reveal everything. And surely he wouldn't trust her brother with such a bit of information.
Ozuma glances up from his three…interrogators to see the people on their flight getting up, then looks over at the gate to see that it was their flight. He stands up, "Yeah, we're going now; plane's here." He backs away from, with a sudden developed fear. Tyson, Hilary and Kenny get up too. The others see and do the same. Each begin to shake hands, starting with their respective bladers.
Ray reluctantly shakes Joseph's hand, being intimidated by Joseph's glare that means to say 'Do something to my sister and die' which causes Ray to raise a brow in confusion, like the kid is crazy, "Uh, come back and challenge me any time, kid…" Ray forces a grin.
Joseph keeps his glare, "Oh, don't worry, I will…" he assures him, releasing Ray's hand. He then wanders off to Max. Ray sighs and shakes Dunga's hand next, deciding on talking to Mariam last.
Dunga gives off a grin, "No hard feelings and I'll be back to take Drigger another day…" Ray's expression drops at that, but Dunga gives another wide grin, "I'm kidding…aren't I?" he pulls Ray into a headlock, jerking a hand in his hair, "Right, buddy?"
Ray strains a grunt, "Uh-ugh…" he nods weakly, the weirdest straining sounds coming out of his throat.
"Dunga, let him go," Mariam's voice lectures from where she's standing with her hand clasping Tyson's in a friendly handshake. Dunga grumbles again and releases Ray. Ray starts trying to gather the air he recently was cut off from, pounding a fist to his chest to be able to breathe normally again. He then turns lightly scarlet at Mariam who gives him a small smile.
Ozuma smirks, walking over to the neko-jin, "I saw that," he says as he holds out his hand.
Ray takes it, "Saw what?" the two exchange a handshake, while Ray's pretending to be confused at Ozuma's smirk.
"Heh, don't think I don't know what I'm talking about, Kon." He lets go of Ray's hand, walking away. Ray just stares confusedly at the departing form that is Ozuma, until someone touches his shoulder from behind, making him jump in whip around to face them.
"Um, Ray?" Mariam asks, noticing that his face seems to be getting paler. She raises an eyebrow at him again, which gets another blush out of him that she blinks inquiringly at, "You okay?"
At his loss for words, any words at all, he nods, holding up his shaking hand to her which she takes, his blush growing just a bit. Ray frowns inwardly. A long while ago, Kai had dubbed that Ray had a soft spot for her, now seems like a very noticeable soft spot for her. A smile dawns her face, and Ray was finding himself liking the smile a lot.
"Bye." He mutters softly, hopeful that she at least heard him.
Mariam nods, the smile still gracing her features. She let go of his hand. Ray frowned to himself again. Mariam turned to walk away but she was stopped, "Mariam!" Ray calls her back, though not knowing what possessed him to do that.
"Yeah?" she turns back to him.
Ray felt his throat dry and he tried moving his mouth, with no words coming out, only mere stutters, "I…" is all he manages to get out.
"Mariam!" Ozuma yells from behind her, halfway to the gate.
Mariam rolls her eyes, turning to the leader, "Yeah, hold on!" she yells back, and then she looks back at Ray, "Hm?"
"I…" (2) He dips his head low so she can't see most of his face. The most he manages to say is, "I'll…miss…you?" his voice rises a bit at the end, the statement he made sounding more like a guess.
"Thanks," Mariam says, confused, then softly she adds, "I guess…" she turns, following Ozuma and the others through the gate.
Ray lifts his head in time to see her gone, but utters out, "I love you," as if she were still there, though disappointed in himself that he didn't while she was still there. With the exception of Kai and Ray, the gang yell their farewells toward the Saint Shield's backs and Ozuma merely raises a fist in response. The yelling only stops when they're out of eyesight.
"C'mon, let's go see the plane take off!" Hilary grabs Tyson's wrist, pulling him to the windows of which they can view the plane outside. The rest follow while Kai is forced to push Ray over to the windows.
(3) After so long, the plane begins to start up and after another few minutes, it begins to take off. The group waves at the window, in hopes that they'd be seen, but Kai is leaning against a wall, arms folded while Ray just stares at the widow, searching for the violet hair he wouldn't be able to stare at any longer. He can barely find it and he turns away from the window, going over to the wall that spread the windows into smaller fragments. As the plane takes off, Ray slams a fist to the wall and lets out a pained cry.
All eyes turn to Ray who has now lowered his head, his back slumping over.
"Ray…" Tyson, Hilary and Max mutter at the same time. Kenny and Kai just give him a concerned look.
Quietly, he whispers to himself, "I love her…" he lifts his head. He wasn't going to lose her!
End.
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(1) – In Japanese, pause words are like "eto" and some others are translated into words like uh, um and all those things we say when we can't think of anything else to say. But you knew that, right?
(2) – What? He's a shy boy! At least that's what I've read by his profiles… (I do have some episodes, but they're in Italian. I don't speak Italian! All I understand are the more common phrases.)
(3) – These things take forever! So making me write the whole waiting period doesn't seem to do much justice, ne?
Um, did this suck as much I thought it did? It did? Is a sequel an option here? No? Okay… Reviews are good!
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Here's a little bit of the sequel (or second part) that I wrote (if you guys want one, that is...I really don't mind) :
Mariam smiles lightly, handing the cloth to him, "You um…" she stalls, taking a light bite into her lower lip, a nervous smile replacing her light one. She blinks a couple of times, her radiant jade eyes being shielded every few seconds until Mariam regains herself. She flipped the left side of her bangs and smiled again at him.
"What?" Ray asks, clutching the red cloth in his hand, refusing to put it on while she was talking. Though, without the headband, his dark bangs are evidently going to fall in his face. And they do while Ray brushes the right side out of his eyes to look at her and is shocked when he sees Mariam's hand brushing the left side of his bangs away from his golden orbs, drawing out his never ending blush.
"You don't look half bad…" she gives a light smile again, emerald orbs gleaming at him. Ray felt his face heat up even more, eyes widened and nonetheless, he's still smiling back at her as she withdraws her hand. After a while, Ray ties the headband back on his forehead and stares at her.
Haha, no one gets it, right?
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Okay, so just tell me how this is and how many improvements I need to make. Sigh...so many...
