Chapter 25: A new Doctor, a tired Champion.
"So how does it feels," Julia asked vivaciously rolling Ashlene in hug,
"Well, I'm not sure myself. I'd fine people with me there. Guess I'm gonna miss them for sometime after I'm done with Internship. All the Doctors, Fred, Zane, might be Lana too," Ashlene said skeptically but smiled,
"Aw, c'mon, you can sleep past seven! You can rest all you want! You've become an official Doctor today, Ash! Congrats!" Julia smiled ebulliently and her joys had no bound,
"Mom became a Doctor? When?" Ellie asked puzzled,
"Today!" Raul cheered and rubbed a loving hand on her head, "So Dr. Ashlene, I'm having a little problem, can you treat me?" Raul asked playfully,
"Uhhu," Ashlene nodded with playfulness and smirk, "But first you need to tell me what happened? Your chief complaints?"
"Uh, that- That I forgot," They laughed.
"I received this certificate in morning. Everyone was so happy. I can't believe finally I've done this. Five years and what not has happened. My struggles finally paid, Jules," Ashlene looked heartily at Julia,
Julia just smiled sincerely.
"So, are you going for Internship right tomorrow?" Raul asked,
"Ah Raul, give her a rest, puh-lease," Julia snarled,
"Oh yeah, we have a post-graduation entrance test also after Internship, in September so I will be busy might be from now on itself." Ashlene sighed, "We won't get much time after Internship"
"Hey, don't worry. Rest for a week, you can start then. You will do it." Julia said worriedly,
"Nah, I'm not bothered about scholarship this time, honestly," Ashlene giggled,
"WHY?" Raul and Julia asked in unison, surprised,
"Ha ha," Ashlene laughed nervously, "I CAN PAY, can't I?" she winked,
"Oh yeah, of course. I forgot. We have moved from rags to riches," Raul rolled his eyes,
"But try;" Julia said maturely, "You yourself will be delighted and satisfied when you get a free seat. Of course you can pay in case you don't, she smiled,"Anyway we still have a year,"
"Will definitely try," Ashlene gave thumbs up,
"I am planning for job there itself in my ex-hospital later. I know it will be tedious but I'm gonna give a try, at least for month,"
"Experience and relish of a new Doctor, huh?" Raul nudged, "That feeling huh,"
"Y-yeah,"
"I'm so confused myself what I should be doing," Ashlene said with joys barreling each other and sorta puzzled,
"First go and have a shower now, and sleep plenty." Julia said with shining eyes, pointing her straight to her room,
"As you say sis,"
….
Ashlene woke up next morning at nine, her back already was answering her was sleeping too much and prepared French fries for her. She had already hired a maid for her personal works and chores. Currently she was ordering her to cut the potatoes strips, and boiling the oil.
"Mischa, please prepare a coffee right now. Cut the potatoes after that," Ashlene ordered kindly,
"Yeah Ash," The old lady, in her early forties nodded,
"And yeah, switch on the geezer and iron a pair of jeans and shirt for me that I kept on the table,"
"Yeah, sure," Mischa nodded as she quickly switched on the geezer and kept milk to boil on stove. Meanwhile Ashlene had the bath and wore her pressed clothes and a coffee was awaiting on her table.
Mischa already cleaned her study table and went to cook French-fries.
Ashlene bought few books last evening when she went for the walk with Raul and thought to start it now.
She firstly felt a little irritated at all the books seeming to mock her. However she casually got used to and after an hour, she took a break and devoured the French-fries and paused with her books.
…..
"Ash, are you sleeping?" Julia spoke as she entered her room expecting a snoring brunette,
Ashlene turned and cocked her head back. Julia gaped as she saw her on her desk.
"W-What? Are you serious?" Julia trudged towards her and looked astonished,
"Y-yeah, I've to get started; besides I've no other work today. I will be bored. Ellie is sleeping, and its Sunday, and I think she will be sleeping for few more hours." She sighed, "This girl will drive me crazy if she wakes up. And its Sunday, so no school and bantering mamma all the day"
"Yeah, a cute daughter of a cute momma," Julia nudged,
"And a caring da'dda too," Ashlene impulsively joked pointing Raul. Julia was nervous but she ignored,
"Lol, funny huh," they started laughing and Ellie mumbled in her sleep causing the laughing duo to shut,
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"I'm fucking tired, so stop smudging me, Daichi!" Tyson shouted as he lied on the couch lazily,
"What's up Tyson? How was the interview?" Max asked jovially hitting a large ball outside into the lawn,
"Awesome… I guess. It was fine. Not sure when they will call for the job," Tyson stared lazily at him,
"Tyson, you'd an interview today?" Ray asked curiously,
"Yeah, why?" Tyson said involuntarily
Ray shut up, and fought hard to keep up with his sudden attitude. It wasn't Tyson's fault. He was so accustomed to their attitudes of negligence and uncaringness.
"Uh, simply," Ray shrugged and Tyson looked way boringly,
"Look, Daichi, practice if you want to, without me. I'm sleeping. Don't disturb me and yeah you can wake me if Gramps is up. Max, I hope you've given Gramps his meal," Tyson asked,
Max nodded, "I had," as he continued playing with the ball,
"Nice ball Maxie, I will play with you tomorrow or tonight might be," Tyson smiled lazily as he sunk comfortably in the couch,
…..
"Had a nice sleep?" Tyson turned at the voice as he was yawning,
"Hmm? Oh yeah." Tyson gave a look to Kai before going to check Gramps,
"I guess you remember we have championships-"
"Exactly after 18 days from now," Tyson said all-knowingly, "I know, too well. You concentrate on my- oops, I mean your title" Tyson managed to snap Kai and he was satisfied. He no longer was dismayed or upset that Kai will be officially taking his title,
"Hey gramps," Tyson closed the door at Kai's face as he entered the room,
"Hey kiddo, how was your interview?" Gramps asked as he coughed and tried getting up. Tyson helped maturely,
"Awesome it was." Tyson enlightened, "Just pray that I get this job." Tyson sighed
"You will get and you will get a handsome salary too, mark my words." Gramps smirked,
"How can you be so confident?" Tyson quirked an eyebrow,
"Because I'm your Grandpa,"
"Oh wow, I didn't know that,"
"Ha ha, anyways tell me. Is your health improving? Are you feeling better?"
"Yeah." Gramps wiped his running nose with tissue,
"When did you catch cold?"
"In morning. I forgot to close the window and the breezes of dawn killed me,"
"Uh, take care. Wait, I will make hot turmeric milk for you. It will relieve you,"
"Thanks T-man!"
"Gramps, I want to say something." Gramps nodded, "Yeah, I'm all in ears,"
"I was planning not to participate in this year's tournament-"
"WHY?!" Gramps almost fired,
"Look, I'm anyway not playing the third round, so no title this year, and, oh yeah, please don't think that I'm disappointed or something, it's just that I… I-I don't want to leave you alone…Really." Tyson softened at the end,
"Are you kidding? Am I a small kid or what?" Gramps snorted,
"You went so ILL LAST TIME. Hope you remembered." A vein appeared on Tyson's forehead as he said,
"Y-Yeah, but that was different,"
"No excuses. The team has great Kai, Max, Ray and Daichi. Three rounds and four players, more than enough," Tyson said triumphantly,
"No, you're going, I will come along if you want to" Gramps argued,
"Stop kidding, please." Tyson said seriously,
"You ARE going and that's final. And if you're not, then I won't pray for your job or anything. Don't upset me or god,"
Tyson rolled his eyes "Fine, I will go only if Mr. D agrees that we can take you as well,"
…
"Hey, when did you wake up?" Max asked as he rubbed his eyes,
"A few minutes back," Tyson sipped his coffee,
"You prepared coffee?" Max smiled sleepily,
"Yeah," Tyson was busy reading some Beyblade article, "It says the Red Scorchers never lost any battle,"
"They will lose this time though, we will defeat them!" Max cheered with smirk,
"Not we, you all." Tyson corrected. Everyone looked at him. Kai was going to the Kitchen who stopped and Ray who was chatting on phone and eavesdropping also noted.
"What do you mean, Ty?"
"I'm not coming with you guys this time. Gramps is not fine too. Remember what happened last time. Can't risk his health anymore," Tyson said finely, "Besides I can get the call for the job anytime," Tyson sighed,
"W-what? You're making no sense," Max shook his head in complete disagreement, "We CAN take Gramps with us and you can put a hold to your call for job. I'm sure it will be after tournament,"
"Max-" Tyson softly started,
"No, you listen to me! You are coming and that's final. Firstly you're an idiot to lose in that-"Max stopped as he saw Kai and Ray around and he didn't take the topic to their previous official battle,
Max stomped out in anger and Tyson sighed.
…..
After some time,
"Guys, come here. Let's see the pattern for this year and the probable predictions for our team to win," Kenny yawned, tears unravelling in his sleepy state,
"Really?" Max trudged beside Kenny. Ray and Kai and sooner Daichi follow the suit.
"Look, we have the qualifiers playing for the week, and that doesn't include the Red Scorchers because they are the regional champs of Florida. After that, we've the pros. The teams listed here is the black Chasm, Robot genetics, which means Zeo returns, Light Shards, oh, how can we forget them and yeah, The PPB All Starz are in too." Kenny said, "Any idea Ray, why The White Tigers aren't participating?" Kenny cocked his head back to look at Ray,
"Am I supposed to know?" Ray said groggily,
"I thought you'd know," The spectacled boy shrugged.
"Anyway, I am looking forward to our schedule," Daichi's eyes glittered in excitement,
"The first battle is between Light Shards VS Black Chasm," Kenny spotted the chart carefully, the winning team plays against the PPB All Starz and the then winning team fights against us. Simple," Kenny states,
"And we're gonna win!" Daichi exclaims,
"Nope, we still have Red Scorchers. They have to battle against PPB All Starz again and the then winning team battles against us, in case we win there," Kenny concludes.
"Everything is fine Kenny, except one thing," Max sighs,
Kenny quakes an eyebrow at him,
"Tyson is so reluctant to play this year. He's just too obsessed for his job and Gramps." Max heaved a sigh,
"I will try explaining him," Ray said,
"No use Ray; he's different now. He no longer has that fanatical excitement and craziness for the sport. It seems that the old Tyson is gone. This Tyson just wants Gramps, and his career fine. He seems to be lost and forgetting the passion of beyblading." Max paused, he himself registering what he just said "Just think guys: A world Champion- An eight times Champ in a row, who has never been permanently defeated by anyone, suddenly gives up on participating in a tournament, the sport for which he'd sacrifice anything anytime. Why is he doing this?" Max looked at them accusingly,
Ray and Kai couldn't decipher his intentions. They just blankly stared at him.
"What ARE we supposed to do?" Kai asked,
"That's something we'd figure out ourselves separately rather than I being the only one who sees this transparently," Max sneered vaguely and got up and moved away,
"What's wrong with Max?" Ray shrugged,
"I'm not sure," Daichi looked down, blinking in thoughts.
"You know guys, I think-" Kenny stopped as he realized if they'd not understand,
"Continue Kenny," Kai urged,
"Might be Max means that we don't give importance to Tyson. We ignore him a hell lot times. We don't spend time with him as friends DO. We don't. I try to take care of Tyson but I and Max personally feels that he really receives a whole lot negligence and hatred sometimes, from you and Ray," Kenny said flatly,
Kai and Ray rolled their eyes literally and shamelessly left the room, "It's not our fault for an oversensitive soul to be bruised by us," Ray blatantly marked,
Kai nodded as he left too. Kenny seethed.
Kenny stormed to Tyson's room that evening and broke through the door and saw Max and Tyson reading books separately.
"Tyson! What the hell is wrong with you!" Kenny yelled at him,
Tyson's ears pricked and he rolled his chair quickly to see the brunette.
"What happened Kenny?" Tyson asked clueless-ly and scared,
"Why ARE you not participating in the tournament? Are you crazy? You can hella postpone your job anytime because they'd understand since the WHOLE world knows that you're a sportsman, a world Champion! You can take Gramps along with us! Then WHY ARE DOING THIS?" Kenny jolted at him, almost,
Tyson gulped and stared at the little brunette sweating.
"Okay Kenny, I will come but I will battle only few easy battles. Please," Tyson said stutteringly,
"Fine. I'm just shocked that a crazy-" Kenny laughed darkly in sarcasm, "That a crazy, loving Beyblader just doesn't give a darn about the tournament!" Kenny screamed, "And you know what, it's because just that a few of your teammates doesn't care about you or hate you. And you're damn oversensitive."
Tyson's eyes widened and he stood petrified and frozen. Why Kenny knows all…
"It has got nothing to do with my teammates and their perceptions and attitude." Tyson smirked nostalgically, "Let their own attitudes fuck them,"
"Language Tyson!" Kenny yelped again,
"Tyson, I know we haven't been the best with you for sometime-"
"Uh puh-lease Max, five to six years is not sometime," Tyson shrugged his head defiantly, "I might have been the champion, but this champion is fucking tired now, of everything,"
"Language!"
"But Tyson, I've tried to be good to you." Max stated," I find it hard to deal with you sometime. Rather than others who just aren't civil with you or just hurt you in some way, I've never done that. You know it."
"I know everything. And this all combat for is for a title and it will probably be solved this year. Kai will take my title, Next year; probably Ray will do and let them do whatever they want. At least, they will not try each moment or whatever moment they find so to insult me or invisibly taunt or hurt me. Their souls will be at peace. Their only opponent, Tyson Granger, himself doesn't want to participate-"
"SHUT UP!" Max squealed, "You know what, you lost that battle! Your fault! Could have won just like how you defeated Kai three times in a row a few years back. What was with that! I swear you lost on purpose. You didn't lose your concentration Tyson! DON'T DENY IT!" Max held Tyson by his collar in his fury. Tyson just smiled, "You definitely can't be my enemy,"
"Tyson, let them take the title, but please, battle. Show the world that Tyson Granger is still the best," Kenny said with a tired sigh,
"I will Kenny," Tyson smiled. Max left his collar, "You better do, Tyson,"
A/N: Well, I know the starting part of Ashlene was a little boring, but the main thing I want to put here was that she has finally become a doctor and now will be proceeding for Internship. And, regarding Tyson's part, are you glad that he will be coming in the tournament now? :D
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