I am What I am Chapter 18, a beyblade fanfic

Disclaimer: I do not own Beyblades.

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"No, I don't want his pity."

"Jess…………." Tala let out a cross between a sigh and a grown. He knew how hard Jess had worked to keep this a secrete from everyone. "Okay, how about when we get home I call in and say I'm spending the day with you. We'll have a Jess and Tala day? We haven't had one of them for ages."

Jess and Tala days were invented back in the day when there was nothing Tala could do to help Jess. Tala came up with the idea that if Jess felt special and loved things would be easier even if it were only Tala she spent the day with. Of course that was fine with Jess, ever since she was born all she had wanted to do was what Tala was doing. Jess was happy doing anything with Tala even as simpler thing as sitting at the kitchen table reading the paper but that didn't mean she didn't appreciate the extra effort.

"Sounds like a plan to me." Jess smiled across at Tala, who gave her hand a reassuring squeeze.

Chapter 18.

The day after Jess's suspension everything returned to normal, well as normal as things could get considering she was left at home all by herself. The day before she and Tala had gone ice skating and now Jess sat alone staring out the window at the rain as it whipped the trees and power lines outside the house. That morning she had cleaned the entire house and now she had nothing left to do except sit and wait for Tala to come home. How depressing!

Instead of doing nothing Jess decided to go downstairs and prepare diner for that night. She stuck her head in the refrigerator and realized she needed to go shopping. "Good, finally something to do."

Jess went upstairs to get ready.

Mai looked at her watch, school just wasn't the same without Jess there, and on top of that she had to deal with AA who always seemed to be flaunting herself in front of her whenever she got the chance.

The bell went for lunch but instead of going to the dining hall to meat up with the boys and her friends Mai went to the library and logged onto MSN instead. She had been hoping that Jess would be on line but she wasn't.

Jess was just getting out of her Porsche in the underground car park of the supermarket, there was no way she was getting wet and sick as well as being suspended. She was making her way up the ramp to the main level when her phone rang. Jess pulled it out of her bag before flipping it open to answer.

"Hello? Jessica speaking."

"Hey Sweats, how's it going?"

"Hi Mai. Not so great, I'm that board I'm going food shopping and to add to the whole thing I'm P-M-S-ing, not fun!"

"That's no good. What supermarket are you at?" Mai asked.

"The one on Main street, the one with the sky roof. Why?"

"This place sucks without you, I'll be there in twenty minutes okay?"

"Sure thing, I'll be in the supermarket."

Both girls disconnected, Jess heading for the trolley bay and Mai to the office to sign herself out.

fifteen minutes later Mai and Jess were walking around the super market. Between the two of them they managed to pick up more food then they could use in a month, most of it was stuff they didn't eat either. By the time the got to the checkout both girls were pushing trolleys filled to the point of over flowing.

"Do you really think we need all this?" Mai was eying the trolleys with a look of disbelief.

"Not really but who cares. The sad thing is I cane here with a list." Jess pulled the list out of her pocket hand handed it to Mai. The list only had eight things on it.

" Okay here's what we are going to do. I'm going to go ever there and leave this trolley and then we will take your trolley to the checkout. Sound like a plan?"

"Works for me. Then we can go shopping."

The girls spent the rest of the afternoon wondering around the shops but neither found anything that warranted buying. They got back to Jess's at about four thirty to be greeted by an anxious Tala and a slightly annoyed Kai.

"Ah, hi?" Jess smiled

"Where were you?" Tala went to Jess and pulled her into a tight hug. "I thought you had run away again when I got home and you weren't here and you dodn't answer your cell…… GOD Jess I was worried!"

"Tala, it's okay, we went shopping. We didn't have any food so I went to get some. Mai called and said she wanted to see me so I told here where I was and then we went shopping and bummed around for a while."

Kai scensing that Jess was running out of air decided to change the subject.

"A letter came for you while you were out."

"Ha? The post isn't due until tomorrow." Jess said in confusion.

Tala took a step back from her before extracting a letter from his back pocket and handing it to her. Jess took the envelope and looked at it.

"Well aren't you going to open it?" Tala was eager to see what it said.

Jess slipped her finger into the gap in the corner of the envelope before tearing it open and removing the smooth creamy paper.

Hello Jessica,

Here is a little poem I think you should like,