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Sorry for late update…………

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Chapter II-The Friends Circle

Ray walked alone through the semi-dark corridors lit with flickering white neon lights. He walked straight in the semi-darkness clearly seeing the small engraved numbers on the name plaques that hung on every door of the dorms. His eyes shone amber and cat-like pupils.

"11235.(Adds to 13? Nice!) Ah! This is it." He said and blinked, his eyes changing to their normal colour.

Ray entered and saw three Bishounens (handsome boys) laughing their heads off over something. A black haired guy said, "Oh man! She'll never change, dear Sunako-Chan!"

He looked up at the noise of the door opening and saw Ray come in. "Oh, Hello! I believe you're our new roommate? I'm Oda Takenaga. " He said smiling.

"Yeah, hi! I'm Ray Kon." said Ray returning back a weak smile.

A cute (girlish-looking) angelic faced light blonde haired guy asked, "Hey! You're one of the World beyblade champ right? I'm Toyama Yukinojo. But you can call me Yuki."

"Uh…… Yeah", replied Ray looking a bit embarrassed.

"Ha! Super cool man! We have the Champ as our roommate!" Yuki said his green eyes shining.

"Nice to meet you, Ray. I'm Ranmaru, Morii Ranmaru" a redhead said.

"Nice to meet you too" Ray replied. He wasn't shy or anything but he somewhat had difficulty with making friends and talking freely to company thrust upon him. To avoid looking at them for too long Ray looked around the spacious room.

He noticed that in the centre of the room there was a large oriental red carpet with designs of Indian elephants in golden draping carrying ancient Kings and Queens. Ray himself stood in some sort-of small entrance place, a few beanbags and a centre table lay around with the guys sitting on them. Pushed to the far side of the room were six huge four poster beds, each bed and its surroundings replicated their owners' characters and interests. Another shaded door stood to the right of Ray. On the left covered with large full-length white curtains opened out to the large balcony which looked out to the gardens down below.

He pointed with his thumb towards the beds. He asked, "So which one's mine?"

"This one-" said Takenaga pointing one of them. Ray walked up to his bed and sat down on it. He put his bag pack on the side-table beside it.

("Hmm… Quite soft"), he thought.

"So, made any new friends here?" Yuki asked.

"Yeah well……..sort of." Came back the reply.

"You already know Kai I guess." Takenaga said.

"Yeah and………………yeah I think another blonde haired guy who sat next to me in class." Ray replied frowning.

"That would be me.", Said a tall, lanky guy with blonde hair and brown eyes entering through the door. "So, friends already?" He asked throwing his bag on the bed next to Ray's. Ray assumed it was his.

"Yeah, just started knowing each other", Ranmaru replied.

"Hey, I don't think we've had a proper introduction yet! I'm Kon Ray." Ray said looking at the guy who had just entered. They had been so absorbed in their conversations that they hadn't bothered with their names.

"Yeah……….. Come to think of it we haven't. It's Kyouhei, Takano Kyouhei." He said. Turning his gaze to Takenaga he asked, "Spoke to Noi, yet?"

"We just managed to have a small chat. She said she wanted to meet me before class tomorrow" Takenaga replied with a smile on his face.

("Looks like she's his GF"), Ray thought.

"So, you met Kai?" Kyouhei asked sitting opposite Ray.

"Yep, one of our classmates told me he was here."

"Who? Al? I mean Alvina? (Ray nodded) Obvious, she is a good friend of Kai, Beyblades herself. So, is she friends with you?" Kyouhei remarked.

"Um….. We had met before. And I met another classmate, Jun!"

"Oh! You've met most of our group then!" Takenaga said.

In another room:

It was the girls' dormitory. Similar to the guys' it had long red curtains and a carpet which had the design of a lion and a lioness in gold. There were 3 bean bags and 2 study tables.

Three girls sat on one of the beds, talking and laughing. One of them was thin, fair and had brown curly hair with beautiful blue eyes. Her name was Keira. The second one was a fair girl with short light brown, neck length hair. She had brown eyes behind black framed specs, her name was Zaphilia. The third one was laughing the most. She had a very beautiful smile and a face that reminded everyone of the Tennis Player Maria Sharapova. Her name was Scarlett. She was very fair with bright green eyes and blonde hair.

Their talks were interrupted by the arrival of Jun and Alvina.

"HIIII!!" said Scarlett smiling wide at them.

Zaphilia screamed "WHAT WERE YOU TWO DOING FOR THIS LONG? WE WERE SEARCHING ALL OVER THE GROUND!! YOU COULDN'T EVEN SEND A TEXT THAT YOU WOULD'NT BE COMING?"

"SORRY! We were in the cafeteria!" Jun said.

"FOR SO LONG? WHAT WERE YOU DOING……?"

Kiera said "Hey, I think I saw you and that new guy going in together!" looking at Alvina.

"Huh! Oh! Is he your 'this'?" Zaphilia asked holding out her thumb and winking.

In Japan, the thumb stands for an indication of boyfriend and the smallest finger stands for indication of girlfriend.

All four of them burst out laughing. Alvina looked at them with an expression of disbelief.

"No ya. He isn't my 'this'! (She said doing the indication) I just know him from my blading days. We'd met up in a tournament when we were younger. Don't jump to conclusions so fast for God's sake!!"

"Oh ya we believe you all right! Come on ya! We were just pulling your leg! " Kiera said with a sarcastic smile playing on her lips.

Al smiled and said (stifling a yawn), "Ok! Then I think I'll be preparing for bed." And she went to the washroom to change.

When she left immediately Jun said, "Oh! But they look so cute together you know!"

"Ya." Said Zaphiria nodding.

All of them smiled mischievously at each other.

"So you met Kai there too Jun?" said Kiera.

"Yeah!! He actually let me sit with him on his table!! YEAA!!!" replied Jun happily.

"Oh C'mon!! Whats happening here? He's your friend since so many months!! Whats so great if he lets you sit with him" said Zaphilia, who, even though teases them a lot, doesn't like talks about actual crushes and stuff at all!! She is a total tomboy and says she will never ever like a guy.

"Leave it Zaphilia….. you very well know Jun has a huge crush on him since the last 3 yrs!! Since she saw him on TV blading" said Keira.

"How can u just have a crush on a guy seeing him on TV?" asked Zaphilia her eyebrows contracting.

"Even you like Rafael Nadal, don't you? Same way, even I like Kai" replied back Jun.

"Yeah yeah…." Said Zaphilia and jumped on her bed with a book in her hand.

"But really, Ray Kon is a very cute guy!!" said Keira looking at Jun and Scarlett.

"Really? I'll have to see him properly then" said Scarlett.

"Haven't you seen him yet?" asked Jun with one raised eyebrow.

"You know her!! Always lost in her dream world" said Keira rolling her eyes.

Hearing this Scarlett started laughing, like her usual self.

At that time, Alvina came out of the washroom.

"Don't you think Ray's really cute Al?" asked Jun mischievously.

"Don't start off again you guys!!" said Alvina.

"Ok ok….. but genuinely, don't you find him cute?" asked Keira

"Yeah well, he is cute…." Came the reply "but that doesn't mean you start teasing me with him!"

"Oh man! After so many days we got a guy worth teasing!!" said Jun.

"Yaya… you people don't have a problem!! You have a fan crush on Kai, Scarlett has a MEGAHUGE crush on that guy from the other class and Keira has a bf. Leaves me right? Anyways, I'm really tired, g'night!" said Alvina, collapsing on her bed.

The others too went to sleep.

Alvina lay on her side of the bed looking at the faded posters of her favourite beyblading teams including the Bladebreakers and her ex-team- the BladeXplellers and other posters.

("Hmmm I miss my blading days..……") She was thinking about her blading days, her eyes closing to sleep.

There is a large lake which looked like a piece of glass reflecting the full moon hanging in the pitch black sky. The glass lake was surrounded by an orchard of sakura trees. On one side of the bank stood a lady samurai her sword and body bathed in the blood of her unlucky foes. The crimson stained sword read near the hilt, the name of the sword in a strange language. While another foe rose towards her from the depths f the unwavering water. The sword was raised, not a sound was heard but the foe's blood floated in the clear waters of the lake.

And the dream got over. Alvina tossed to the other side and dreamed on through the night.

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