Chapter 21 - Look, register and Ignore.

"Would you believe if I say that Tyson is in love?"

"HUH? WHAT DID YOU SAY?" she was shocked and jumped out of her skin.

"Yeah…you heard me right." he said softly and yet sadly," But that's not the problem."

"But who is that lucky girl, anyway?"

"Hmn," he smirked, "Hilary."

"You mean that girl who hung around you guys?" she asked with a sweatdrop and a funny feeling.

"Hmn, yes."

She chuckled shortly and held a hand around her mouth to prevent herself from bursting in laughter.

"I don't see anything so funny Mariam."

"I'm sorry." she ceased to giggle," I mean ,there's nothing funny, but the fact Tyson, 'Tyson', the arrogant champ falling for her, and I never supposed that, because they usually bickered about the meaningless things. I guess that it was obvious that they liked each other." she said in chuckles in between a few words.

"Hmn...Yeah." he smiled.

"But you just said that some, I mean, some 'problem' " she retorted

"Hmn, you see, he doesn't know about Hil, and also the biggest mess is that Kai likes her too...no he loves her too and we just witnessed, even a confession." he said the last part in great dismay.

" SaY WhaT?" she bewildered, "This is no real joke, first you freak me saying about Tyson and now you say KAI too! This is absolutely unbelievable! What the mess and triangles are being created here!" she said a bit louder and shocked tone, placing her hands on her hips.

"Hmn, I know, everything is really getting too complicated and I feel too sorry for them." he said in a worn out, upset tone, "But you know, these messes doesn't end up here, there's much more even Ray." he gave a long sigh.

"YOU MEAN RAY TOO FOR HIL?"

"NO! I mean, there's another girl. You remember Salima from team Pyskick."

"OHH! Yeah I do!" she said her mind trying to form the picture, "So what's the big deal there?"

"More than anything! She's dead!"

"Max, you are giving me both goose bumps and heart attacks!" she exclaimed petrified.

"You know what…She suicided a few days back."

"BUT WHY?"

While Max explained her all the complicated and tangled love stories of his friends, Maraim continued to gasp and give surprised and really bewildering faces. Max tried his best to let her calm down, but he gave her at least to get back normal, she pondered seriously about each thing he said.

"Oh my God! I never thought these many things can be muddled up!"

"Hmn…never did I!"

"I really feel sorry for both of your friends!"

"You are forgetting the third one, I guess, if not, who is he then?" he asked with sweat drop

"I mean, of course Ray is for sure, and the second one isn't Kai!"

"Oh! Thank god, I feel the same way!"

"Of course, that was obvious; actually I don't see that scarfed jerk fit anywhere here! He's making everything so complicated by being involved. I favor Tyson."

"Hmn…I am doing the same, after all he's my best friend."

"I hope you aren't s up with anyone." she smirked,

"Huh?" he blushed, "Of course not...I'm still on the right path, why you thought that way?"

"Uhmn, just!" she smiled.. "Sometimes I feel, it's really nice to have a friend like you around."

"What?"

"Hmn nothing." She smiled.

…

I am just glad we met finally; hopefully he isn't messed up with anyone. I missed our friendship a lot Max, I donno if you feel the same way, but that doesn't matter, now, all that stays is that we are together and you still find me worthy to confide everything…that's all. I hope I can be a little happy now, that's all!

…

I donno what she thinks about me, just as a friend, or may be a real good friend, that's all, Hmn I guess I should respect whatever is there in between us, I couldn't create any more mess of myself like others. Hopefully like I missed her, she did the same. I wish we could battle sometimes, draceil haven't been out for a while now.

…

"Would you like to battle me?"

"Sure..Why not." He lit up and they rushed to the nearest park with beydish.

Another day- same cloudy sky and no sign of sunlight. Just a new day challenging for Hilary Tachibana and Tyson Granger.

Today she decided to get up a little early and take deep insight sitting around in balcony from 5 to 6; she didn't know that it would drizzle soon after that, but when it happened, she slowly got up from sitting down in balcony and strode inside shutting her balcony door harshly and pulling the curtains open. She pulled her notebook and wrote off one page and burnt it quickly.

She tend to more write these days, think less about them, and started taking tranquilizers and sleeping pills on which she seemed to be addicted on. She packed her bag pack, pulled in all the notebooks, wore a black top, and short white denims and tied her pony and the she rushed to prepare her breakfast, just a vegetable sandwich with a cup of coffee.

She hurried to the academy institute, and took her seat, her mind raced through if she forgot her chemistry notebook, but when she checked it wasn't there! She thought about going back and she dashed through the chaos in the class and crashed with someone.

"OUCH! That hurts!" she cried as she collided with someone's nose and her forehead ached. Her eyes were still closed, and unknowingly in anger she held his collar and shook the guy.

"Excuse me." The navy haired blader said in awe.

"Huh?" she opened her eyes and saw the person she had been lately avoiding, and was surprised, they looked at his collar that she was grabbing and she immediately released it, and moved back, coughing a bit.

She was sure she felt a comfortable feeling when she almost was near him, but then she let that thought simply go away, she coughed, ignored again and walked away. He shrugged at her conduct and was perplexed.

"Hey, where are you going?" a feminine voice called her. She turned to see who it was, and it their lecturer.

"Hn, nothing ma'am. I just forgot my notebook so I was going to take it back." She said softly in tired voice

"It's okay dear, you're such a good student, just come inside; the class will just get started."

Hilary found no point in arguing with her favorite lecturer, and she was right, if she went to get back her room, she would miss the lesson too, so she nodded in tiresome expressions and strode walking right past the blader who was standing there still. Her teacher noticed her attitude, it wasn't like Hilary to not at least punch Tyson at this point, and she was looking tired and weak but her mind drifted off when the chorus in the class started.

She walked inside followed by Tyson and coughed to make her presence aware, and the class subsided its commotion. Hilary sat next to Delia with Margot at the back of her while Tyson much far from her and she took out her Physics notebook and browsed through the pages what was lately done.

She felt she had studied more than they had done in the class and now she gotta simply hear the concepts she had been through already in her house. Ok, fine, room.

Tyson watched Hilary as she looked dull and uninterested in class he didn't even bother to mind which note book he plugged in and wouldn't care if he scribbled physics in chemistry or any other thing, for him what mattered the most was Hilary, and he couldn't stop thinking about her as she ignored him most of the times.

"Hilary, are you alright?" her teacher asked her biting her lip, Ms. Fernanda didn't know that her best student was giving it her all to concentrate, and she was doing it well to some length but her facial expressions denied everything.

"Hmnn, yes ma'am alright, please continue." she said in a soft voice, trying not be noticed by everyone.

"Okay students, as we already had started with..." the crimson haired lady continued, while she picked the marker from the table.

"This is absolutely boring." Hilary mumbled as her gaze fell down on her desk when her teacher turned to write something on the white board. She looked around and felt a pair of crimson maroon eyes staring at her, she shot back the same way, but to her surprise, he looked back to his desk and then continued listening to the boring lecture of the day. He felt there's no point doing anything right now, she wouldn't listen to him.

"Okay students, can anyone please tell me the procedure to solve this problem?" the blue eyed lady asked pleasingly to everyone and Hilary was the one to be influenced first. She glanced at the problem, she did that last evening and she had the complete procedure in her notebook, but before she could raise her hand, someone else did.

"Takao? "

A/N: Thanks a lot to Solitude13, Blue Lightning of the Night, AlwaysNia, unaisa memon and Rock the Road for reading and reviewing! That definitely means a lot! ^_^