Chapter 12

Normal Point of View

With the Christmas dance approaching and Christmas coming as well everything was getting hectic. Dylan and Jake bought a four bedroom apartment not far from the dojo and school for us to live in. I live there but spend the weekends in the dojo. I still beyblade and sing but not as much. I dunno why but I never really feel the urge to now. I probably will sooner or later but I don't have a team. According to most of the BBA staff next January there is a new tournament for all teams of any level. I want to enter; maybe Dylan and Jake will join in our team again. We used to have a team when we were younger called the 'Rogue Dragons'. They were originally a duo team with Shiro and Kuro being Dylan and Jake but I was a spare that went to the contests but only sat in the crowds. I used to think it was kinda unfair but I grew used to it. When Dad died and then when they went to uni the group split and left for different ways. We used to blade in hoods black and white but I wore the red one. Aka. It was fun at the time but all good things have to end. We went out to the mall last week because Christmas is in four days time, which means the day of the dance.

"Thea hurry up in the toilet!" shouted Mariah from the hall, I sighed and looked once again in the mirror. I was in the black dress with my now longer hair in a small loose bun. Mariah had insisted on putting make up on me. I sighed again and walked out of the bathroom. All the girls were waiting outside on the landing of the dojo and squealed when they saw me. I backed off slightly and just stared at them. They were all stunning and looked a lot prettier then me even if they weren't wearing dresses or even going to the dance, they were still beautiful. Surely Ray wouldn't have wanted to go with me once he saw all them. He'd probably be 'Your not worth it'. I nodded and smiled at them

"Okay picture time," said Emily setting up the camera and pressing it. It flashed two times then finally took it. I was standing on the end next to Hilary and Mariah while the other girls tried to look at the picture I tried to run but unfortunately Julia caught me and dragged me back.

"But, I don't want to go out there!" I cried "It's embarrassing to be in a dress!" I added

"You have to Ray's waiting," teased Salima

"God, I hate you guys," I mumbled

"You love us really," said Mariam. I nodded and slowly we walked down the hall and through the main doors leading to the garden. I walked through holding Hilary's arm.

Ray's Point of View

The first couple of girls came out and I started getting nervous. What happened if she didn't like me like I love her? I kept running it over in my head until I saw her. Everything in my head flat lined when I saw her walk through the door. He was grasping Hilary's arm and looked dead nervous. My jaw dropped at the sight of her, she looked beautiful. She was blushing and walked over to me slowly.

"Hey," she said smiling,

"H-hi, y-you l-look n-nice," I stuttered. Man, what are you doing Ray? This isn't you, you never stutter!

"You too Ray," she replied smiling. I nodded and held out my arm

"Should we go?" asked Max smiling, we all nodded and all the girls waved us off. I saw Thea make a begging sign but Mariah just winked.

Normal Point of View

When we arrived at the dance, music was already blaring out the front of the gym. I walked in with Ray and we were immediately dragged off to a photo stand.

"Smile! Its going in the year book!" cheered a snobby, rich girl behind the camera. Me and Ray smiled nervously and sprinted away as soon as the picture was taken.

"That was embarrassing, it should be illegal to assault people like that," I huffed smiling. We stared at each other then burst out laughing. We were soon joined by the others and stopped laughing although I did see Tyson and Max giving suspicious looks at us. I smirked and watched the band play for a bit and occasionally dance.

"Guys we're up next, come on!" said David walking over casually,

"Sure, come on Kai, I'll be back in about half an hour, so watch us," said Ray hugging me quickly and running off after David, followed closely by Kai.

"Hey where are they going?" asked Kenny sneaking up behind me. I jumped so high and turned to look at the little brunette.

"Oh God, its you Kenny, yeh they went to perform, this is going to be good," I replied smiling,

"Looking forward to watching Ray?" asked a sly voice behind me, I whirled round and saw Hilary smirking, I gasped and felt the heat rising in my face.

"No, he just a friend and I've never seen them play live before!" I retaliated, she just nodded knowingly.

"Ahem!" called a voice, I looked up and saw Mr. Chiaki by the mic "I would like to welcome to the stage a group of young men which they also asked me to mention, they found a name for their band, Vertigo." He called out to everyone, looking bored as hell, I was shocked and smiled when I remembered Kai and Ray telling me they named it after my bit beast. I clapped and shouted along with the rest of the crowd. The curtains opened and I saw all the guys on stage. Kai stood in front of the mic with David and Ray behind on guitars and Mike on the drums.

"This first song is dedicated to all the people with a hate love relationship. All you heartbreakers!" called Ray across the mic system. All the girls were in the front of the stage screaming absurd things at them like 'Kai marry me!' or ' I love you Mike!' then I heard something that pissed me off 'Baby! I Love you Ray! I want your kids!' I turned and saw it from somewhere in the crowd and was about to run savagely at the group of girls when Max grabbed my arm.

"Leave it Thea," he said seriously, I sighed and nodded "Besides Ray only likes you!" he replied cheerily, I turned bright red again and turned away.

"Damn boy, they're all trying to make my head explode." I muttered angrily. I was shook from my grumpy stage when they started to play.

Every time we lie awake
After every hit we take
Every feeling that I get
But I haven't missed you yet

Every roommate kept awake
By every sigh and scream we make
All the feelings that I get
But I still don't miss you yet

Only when I stop to think about it

I hate everything about you
Why do I love you
I hate everything about you
Why do I love you

Every time we lie awake
After every hit we take
Every feeling that I get
But I haven't missed you yet

Only when I stop to think about it

I hate everything about you
Why do I love you
I hate everything about you
Why do I love you

Only when I stop to think
About you, I know
Only when you stop to think
About me, do you know

I hate everything about you
Why do I love you
You hate everything about me
Why do you love me

I hate
You hate
I hate
You love me

I hate everything about you
Why do I love you

They finished with the ending chord and the gym burst with cheers. I smiled inwardly at this and watched again. They started playing Fallout Boy, Panic at the disco, Linkin Park then they turned around and played slower songs for everyone. I stayed by our table cheering and smiling, but inside I wanted Ray next to me, to dance with me and hold me. Sighing again I stood up and started walking away to the doors. The night was a totally blow out. But then something sparked my attention.

"We would like to ask someone on stage to sing with us. She's a little shy so you have to cheer with us! Thea!" called David smiling, He started clapping with Mike and Ray and Kai joined in with strumming his guitar a bit. The rest of the gym cheered and pulled me to the stage. I always had stage fright and never wanted to sing in front of large crowds. Someone lifted my tiny body onto the stage and I glared at Ray and David.

"What the hell is this?" I whispered furiously.

"You were leaving and I know the crowds wanted to hear you sing, am I right!" cried David across the mic,

"YEH!" they screamed back, I looked around and then saw Heather and her cronies glaring at me. They looked as if they would send Hell Fire at me. I shivered and turned back to Kai. He nodded his head solemnly and moved back behind me.

"Fine!" I said back to them, they smirked and Ray nodded

"What song?" he asked me, I thought for a second. A good song I can sing, not a particularly slow one but also not the fastest upbeat one. I guess 'Can't stop the rain' is out of the question. I could try Say 'Hide and Seek'.

"Do you know say Hide and Seek?" I asked them, Ray thought for a minute and nodded.

"Yeh, 3-2-1," he said, they started playing and I started singing after them.

Where are we?
What the hell is going on?
the dust has only just begun to form
crop circles in the carpet
sinking, feeling

spin me 'round again
and rub my eyes,
this can't be happening
when busy streets a mess with people
would stop to hold their heads heavy

hide and seek
trains and sewing machines
all those years
they were here first

oily marks appear on walls
where pleasure moments hung before the take over,
the sweeping insensitivity of this still life

hide and seek
trains and sewing machines (you won't catch me around here)
blood and tears
they were here first

hmmm what'dcha say,
hmmm that you only meant well?
Well of course you did
hmmm what'dcha say,
hmmm that's all for the best?
Of course it is
hmmm what'dcha say?
Hmmm that it's just what we need
you decided this
hmmm what'dcha say?
Hmmm what did she say?

ransom notes keep falling out your mouth
midsweet talk, newspaper word cut outs
speak no feeling
no, I don't believe you
you don't care a bit,
you don't care a bit

(hide and seek)
ransom notes keep falling out your mouth
midsweet talk, newspaper word cut outs

(hide and seek)
speak no feeling
no, I don't believe you
you don't care a bit,
you don't care a bit

(hide and seek)
oh no, you don't care a bit
oh no, you don't care a bit

(hide and seek)
oh no, you don't care a bit
you don't care a bit
you don't care a bit

I stopped singing and bowed slightly after while the crowd cheered.

"We're over now anyway," said Ray next to me, "Thank you everybody!" h cheered, the crowd screamed and a few people helped me off the stage. I walked over to the drinks stand with people congratulating me on how well I had done. I smiled and thanked them and got a drink.

"Who do you think you are? We warned you about going near our guys," said a shrill voice behind me. I turned and saw Heather and her cronies. There were about 6 of them, all in matching pink dresses to their feet, pink corsages, and lots of frills. I shivered inwardly, too much pink.

"If I believe correctly, they don't have you name on them?" I replied coldly "And they hate you," I added glaring at them. Heather came up and slapped me across the face. I stood there and just got so angry. First mother, then that idiot, Kuroyuri and now this cow, this thing hit me. I turned and punched her in the stomach. She screamed and her date stood up next to her, busy checking her then he turned to me.

"Don't you dare hurt her," he shouted at me

"What you gonna do, hit a girl?" I asked, bad thing to do. He turned and punched my stomach; he hit so hard I cough and covered my mouth. As I coughed I felt something metallic in my mouth. I moved my hand and saw a deep red colour on my hand. Blood. That bastard hit me so I cough blood. It was coming out of my mouth and slightly down my mouth.

"THEA! You did gr-" started Hilary until she saw me. I smiled weakly then turned back to this giant senior, who was Heathers date. I could have sworn he was 6 foot. I glared at him and brought my foot up to meet her gut. I kicked him and he didn't move. Usually this would have worked which surprised me.

"What is going on!" shouted Mr Ohama, the science teacher coming over.

"She hit me!" screamed Heather over exaggerating,

"Liar!" I shouted back," Then why the hell am I bleeding!"

"Did not!" she screamed back

"Be quiet!" said Mr Ohama "Tell me what happened," he asked calmly again. I explained my side of the story, then Heather's then her dates. He came to the conclusion that I had to go clean up; Heather and her date were to stay away from me. I was walking away with Hilary to the toilet when we saw Ray running over.

"Thea what happened?" he asked urgently

"Nothing, just an argument with a fan girl," I replied smiling weakly, he nodded slowly and hugged me tightly.

"Not meaning to break the mush moment but she needs to clean up," said Hilary,

"Okay, I'll be by our table, see you soon," said Ray as we walked off. 9I sighed again and walked with Hilary into the loo's to clean off. She helped me wipe the blood away and help fix my make up and hair after tons of complaints, I might add. We walked back outside to the table and saw all the Bladebreakers sitting down chatting. I sighed and sat down next to Ray.

"You feeling better?" he asked looking worried,

"I'm fine, I'm gonna go dance," I said again gulping down a glass of water and getting up to dance. I started dancing in the centre and got lost in the rhythm of the song. I felt someone put their hands on my waist and I spun around. I saw Ray looking happy and dancing with me. I smirked and carried on dancing with Ray. After a few fast, upbeat songs a slow one was played for all the romantic couples. I was never liked the slow ones because of all the 'lovey dovey' couples, it made me slightly sick, everyone sucking each others faces off. I turned to walk off and not stay for this when Ray grabbed my wrist. He spun me inwards toward him. I was stunned and didn't even realise when he put his hands on my waist, I looked up at him and saw him doing his cheesy grin. I smiled back and stared into his eyes. They were the type of amber you could get lost in. My arms involuntarily wrapped around his neck, he leaned his head down so it was resting next to my neck. We started swaying slowly to the song, just enjoying each others presence. The whole time smiling and I noticed Max giving me thumbs up and Hilary winking. I gapped at them but then turned and ignored them.

"I'm sorry about Heather," he mumbled into my neck

"It's not your fault," I replied softly he took his head away and looked at me in the eyes, slowly but surely he started leaning forwards. I had no clue what to do; I just looked at him as he leaned in. Slowly he pressed his lips onto mine. I stood there but soon kissed back. It was gentle and unsure as if I'd reject him, he deepened the kiss and I closed my eyes. When he broke away he turned away going bright red.

"I shouldn't have done that," he mumbled, I still had my arm around his neck and turned his head so I could kiss him again quickly on the lips. I pulled away and smiled.

"I don't mind," I said resting my forehead on his. Smiling He leaned his head down on my shoulder again and started humming to the song.