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Chapter 2: Plans for Christmas0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
"Hi, can I get you some drinks to start off?" Amara trudged up to the table and gave her usual speech without really thinking about who the customer was. She could treat Kai Hiwatari just like every other customer, but then he turned those silver gray eyes of his towards her and it was hard not to think about it.
"I'll get a coke," Kai's good looking friend, Rei, answered breaking Amara's eye contact with Kai.
Rei and Kai's other friend Tala was basically under the same title as Kai, 'Hot player, I can get any girl I want'. Rei was good looking, with crazy black hair that was usually pulled out of his face by a red bandana and the most amazing amber eyes. Even if she didn't like his type, Amara couldn't even deny that Rei was good looking. Tala had fiery red hair that was similar in color to her best friend Johnny's but Tala had his styled like two wings on the side of his head. It was different than most of the guys styles and for that Amara had to give him credit.
"Coke," Tala, the real player of their crowd, answered with a smile. "And how much for you?"
"I'm sorry but I'm not on the menu. Maybe you should try the five corners downtown," Amara gave him a weak smile then directed her attention back to Kai.
"Anything for you, Hiwatari?" Amara waited with her pen poised.
"Uh, coke," Kai, answered quickly turning his attention back to his menu.
"Alright, three cokes. I'll be back in a minute to take your orders then," Amara said with her drilled in courtesy. She walked back to the kitchen to fill their drink order. It didn't occur to her that her heart had been pounding until she tried to fill one of the tall glasses with coke and realized her hands were shaking.
Amara didn't know how she did it but she managed to get the drinks to the table and take their orders without incident. Kai chose to ignore her and not let on to his friends that he knew Amara let alone use to be best friends with her. Tala tried hitting on her basically every time she came to the table, but Amara brushed it off hoping to discourage him. Finally they left leaving Amara with only their empty table to clean.
"Those guys were pretty hot, Amara," Meredith told Amara as she walked past her with the guy's empty plates and glasses. "You've got to give me credit for those."
"Yes, Mere," Amara agreed reluctantly. "But they're also the biggest egotistical assholes in the entire school."
"So you know them then?" Meredith cocked a sculpted eyebrow.
"Yes," Amara replied with a roll of her sapphire blue eyes. "Unfortunately." She emptied her tray by the dishwasher then went back out to finish cleaning. They would be closer in a few minutes and Amara just wanted to go home and not discuss Kai Hiwatari anymore.
"I'm guessing things aren't well between you and those guys," Meredith continued to pry; following Amara to the table she was cleaning.
"How very observant of you," Amara replied dryly.
"Let me guess," Meredith continued oblivious to Amara's glaring. "They're really popular and you have a crush on one of them and he turned you down." Amara stopped wiping the table to stare at her coworker in disgusted shock. "I'm betting it was that tall blue haired one."
"Are you done?" Amara snapped impatiently.
"I'm right aren't I?" Meredith beamed still ignorant to Amara's reaction.
"No, you're not," Amara answered quickly.
"Not at all?" the older girl pouted trying hard to figure out where she had gone wrong.
"The only thing you had right was that they are popular." Amara brushed a strand of red hair that had fallen out of her ponytail while she was frantically scrubbing the table, behind her ear. " I am not in with their crowd therefore they think me as a social outcast. I know one of them from when we were kids though."
"The tall blue haired one?" Meredith asked eagerly.
"Yes, the tall blue haired one," Amara groaned walking away from Meredith and back to the kitchen. She threw the cloth back in the sink and turned to face her nosy friend. "What is with you and 'the tall blue haired one' anyway?"
"I don't know," Meredith shrugged. "He looks like your type."
"My type?" Amara choked. Meredith nodded with a toothy smile.
"He's tall and cute."
"And that's all my type would be?"
"No, but looks wise I think he's perfect for you." Amara stared at her in disbelief. She couldn't believe what she was hearing. Did everyone think that she and Kai were meant for each other?
"You're forgetting one very important part," Amara cut in prepared to burst any thoughts of her and Kai. "He's got a personality that isn't my type." Amara gave Meredith an exhausted smile. "I'm off now. I don't want to hear anything more about that tall blue haired one tomorrow." Amara took off her apron and pulled the elastic out of her shoulder length red hair.
'Whatever you say, Ams," Meredith put her hands up in defeat. "But don't come crawling to me to whine when you don't have anybody."
"There will be no need for that," Amara stopped to answer before opening the door to leave. "I will not be alone. There is someone out there for me and Kai is not it."
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"Amara, honey, Kai is here," Nancy called up to her daughter from the base of the staircase. Amara's poster covered door swung open.
"You're kidding?" Amara shrieked. "He's actually on time?"
"How many of your rides have red car's with pounding sound systems?"
"Why is he on time today?" Amara groaned. She vanished from the doorway back into her room. "I'm not ready yet."
"What do you want me to do about it?" Nancy asked.
"I don't know?" Amara's head reappeared in her doorway. "Go outside and stall him. He's your godson after all, I'm sure you can find something to talk about for five minutes."
"Alright, but hurry your little butt up," Nancy told her daughter. She grabbed a jacket off the coat rack and went outside to talk to Kai.
Amara frantically pulled a red football jersey style shirt over her white long sleeved one. She ran her fingers through her hair and surveyed the floor for a matching pair of socks. There hadn't been much time to clean her room since she had been working every day for the last week, which made if very hard to locate clean clothes. Amara raced down the stairs trying to pull on her socks as she went without falling down the stairs headfirst. Her ratty skater shoes were already waiting for her along with her black leather jacket. At the last minute she grabbed a toque and mitts since she saw frost on the ground outside.
Nancy was talking to Kai through his open window. She looked up to see her daughter rushing to the car.
"Sorry," Amara mumbled an apology as she climbed into the passenger's seat.
"That's ok," Kai replied politely. Amara was sure he did that for her mother's benefit.
"Well Kai, it was nice to talk to you," Nancy smiled at them as if she was sending them off on a date instead of school. "It's been far too long since I've gotten to see you. Say hi to your mother for me."
"I will." Nancy stepped back from the car and Kai pulled out of their driveway. "Your mom said Brian was coming home this weekend." Kai said a few minutes later. Amara nodded. "Leanne is supposed to be coming home too."
"Really?" Amara asked suddenly interested in what he had to say.
"Yeah, I think she's coming back this weekend too."
Leanne was Kai's older sister. She was twenty, the same age as Brian. She was the older sister Amara didn't have. When Leanne moved to California to work as Cinderella at Disneyland, it was like losing another sibling.
"I can't wait to see her," Amara smiled to herself.
"She said she wants to see you too," Kai informed her. "Something about sister time with you and Holly." Holly was Kai's nine-year-old sister.
"You talked about me with her?" Amara's eyebrow shot up in surprise.
"She asked me about you."
"Oh," was all Amara could say. They spent the rest of the ride to the school in silence.
The rest of the week continued in the same fashion. It seemed that about every other day Kai would arrive on time while the rest he was late and Amara would be pacing in front of the door. There was generally little or no talking at all, which just led to the music being blasted. Amara was glad the Kai had good taste in music other wise the ten-minute car ride would have felt like an eternity. Jules had been more than willing to save her friend from further torture by offering Amara a ride home after school. Amara had never been so happy to see Saturday as she did that weekend.
"Brian comes home today!" Amara said in a singsong voice as she bounded down the stairs and into the kitchen. "I'm so excited and I just can't hide it."
"There's a reason why people in this family don't dance," Nancy matched her daughter's happy tone looking over the top of her newspaper. Amara stopped her impromptu jig and sat down on a barstool across from her mother.
"What happened to not dashing our dreams eh?" Amara sneered taking an apple for the bowl in front of her. "What if I want to be a dancer?"
"Well honey some dreams need to be dashed."
"Whatever," Amara chuckled. "So where's Brian?"
"You sound like a three year old," Nancy informed her daughter without looking up.
"I don't care," Amara said with a fake pout. If her mom said she sounded three then she would do her best to make herself sound even younger. It was just something Amara always did. "I want Bri."
"He said he would be here around ten."
"It's after ten," Amara pouted looking at the clock on the stove.
"Then he should be here any minute and you need to get dressed young lady."
Amara looked down at her old baseball style t-shirt and plaid shorts. "What's wrong with my pjs?"
"Get dressed." Nancy's tone was final. Amara crinkled up her nose in distaste. She usually stayed in her pajamas until she had to leave for work in the evening or if she was actually going somewhere but she figured it was best to humor her mother.
Amara threw her apple core in the garbage and headed back to her bedroom. As she walked past the front door to head up the stairs she saw, through the large glass oval that there was someone standing there. Curious to why they hadn't rung the doorbell, Amara opened the door for them. To her surprise it was Brian kissing a blonde that she couldn't see the face of.
"Welcome home, brother dearest," Amara greeted him. She watched with odd satisfaction as his body tensed and he pulled away from his blond companion.
"Morning Amara," Brian replied. Amara wasn't sure if his cheeks were pink from the cold or the embarrassment of his little sister catching him making out with his new girlfriend.
"Morning," Amara said again with a cheeky smile. "Leanne?" Amara's jaw dropped. Brian had moved so she could see the blonde's face and sure enough it was Kai's sister. "You…Brian…kissing?" Amara found herself unable to piece together full sentences as her blue eyes darted back and forth between her brother and Leanne.
"Hi Ams," Leanne offered the flustered girl a weak smile that was very similar to Kai's.
"Oh Ams, stop being such a drama queen," Brian rolled his eyes and moved to push past her to step into the house. "Can we come in now? It's freezing." Still dumbstruck, Amara moved over and let Brian and Leanne into the front entry.
"Brian, Leann, you're here," Nancy joined them from the kitchen. "I didn't hear you ring the bell. Amara, honey, are you alright?"
"Brian…Leanne…no ring…kissing…" Amara mumbled to herself. Nancy cast a questioning look at his son.
"She's fine," Brian shook his head. "You'd think she'd never seen anyone kiss before."
"Well it's a little bit of a surprise when your brother is kissing your sister," Amara snapped crossing her arms against her chest.
"Oh Amara," Leanne chuckled and embraced the distraught teen. "I guess it would be kind of a shock, we didn't really tell anyone that we were dating."
"It would have been nice," Amara huffed.
"Sorry Ams," Brian offered up an apology and a hug. "I should have kept you in on my personal life but I thought I should be allowed to keep some secrets from you."
"Dream on," Amara smiled. There was no way she could stay mad at her brother. They had always gotten along. Their mother always joked that they were like an old married couple and some people actually thought they were since there was little resemblance between the two. Brian had light violet hair and eyes to match while Amara had burnt orange hair and dark sapphire eyes.
"Leanne have you even gone home to see your family yet?" Nancy asked.
"No but I called them and said that we would be stopping by here first and my mom wanted me to ask you guys to come spend Christmas with us up at the cabin," Leanne smiled at Nancy and Amara.
"Oh that sounds lovely," Nancy gushed. "We'd love to."
Amara's jaw dropped. Christmas vacation with Kai Hiwatari! Was her mother trying to kill her?
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There you have it, chapter two of my new story. And just because I started this one does not mean I'm not going to keep writing 'Deal with the Past' I'm gonna do both. I can do it really. Anyways thanks for reading hope you enjoyed it and please review ;)
Till Next Time
Miss Wright
THANKS TO THE REVIEWERSStarAngel Caelum SunSoar: I'm glad you liked my new story since I know you like the other one. Thanks for reviewing. Enjoy ;)
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Ramen II: I'm glad you like my new story…why would Kai not be hot??? It would just be wrong if I tried to make him unhot since he is just so hot…anyways I like Meredith too…she'll be a good help for some comic relief and trying to push Kai and Amara together. I thought it would be cool if Amara's older brother was one of the other Beyblade characters, it was hard to pick one but Brian won out in the end. Johnny won't be changing, well character wise anyway, I wanted him to be the fun guy friend that Amara has, Johnny seemed right for the part. I'm so happy that you like my story after only one chapter. I hope I don't let you down now. Thanks again fro the review ;)
Obs3ssi0n: That's funny that you were just at Boston Pizza…actually I was there the day I started writing this story…I guess that's why I picked that restaurant. Funny…anyways I like Jules' taste in clothes too. She's a bit adventurous which is going to be fun to write. Thanks for the review ;)
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