Chapter 3 of 'Things Never Said'

By Amber

Edited by Joy

DISCLAIMER: I own myself, Joy owns herself, and we do not own our friends nor beyblade characters.

Character Guide for the un-informed:

Joy: Shirizo (Pronounced as Shear-e-zu) A large white bird-like bit beast with long flowing feathers. It has armor on the stomach part to protect its heart. It blasts light attacks from its beak.

Sarah: Koule (Pronounced as Ko-u-el) A seal-like bit beast with armor all around it's body. Its horn is used for many attacked and can easy pierce armor.

Mary: Fofure (Pronounced as Foe-fur) A fox-like bit beast with a long flowing tail made of fire. Its paws are fire and it is a master at fire-attacks.

Amber (called Ambi for some time): Tiriko (Pronounced as Tear-eek-ko) A weasel-like bit beast that has armor all around it's slim body. Has ice-based attacks and is really quick.

Kelsey: Berinou (Pronounced as Brr-in-you) A purple cat-like bit beast that has psychic attacks. Has two slim long ears and a pink orb in the middle of its head, in-between its two gray eyes.

Last time:

Everyone was running to our sides. I felt my world spinning. 'Crap,' I thought, 'I'm not on drugs…I'm not drunk…but, shit, I am tired.'

And before I knew it, I was caught in nice, soft, strong arms and I couldn't help but fall asleep.

Ray…

Amber's Point of View

I don't know what happened. I was talking with Mary and then all of the sudden Joy faints! Lucky for her, Ray was there to catch her as she fell. Now she was laying motionless in his arms…and I was freaking out.

"Holy crap!" I shouted, "Is she okay!?"

"JESUS! Joy!? Joy?!" Mary screamed into our unconscious friend's ear.

"Is she DEAD?" whispered Kelsey, her eyes becoming wide.

"Holy shit! I think she is!" I answered, now freaking out more than ever.

"Hey, if she's dead, she's so going to hell…" laughed Sarah. We all gave her death glares.

"Sarah! This is so not the time to be making jokes!" Kelsey lectured.

"What?" she said in her defense, "I was just trying to lighten the mood!"

"Guys," Mary said in a little voice, "if Joy really is dead, what will her obituary say?"

I thought for a moment. Would they even put her death in the obituary section? The United States hasn't been too friendly with the BBA lately. And besides, who would take her death seriously? Come on. Who's ever heard of 'Death by Beyblade'. I smiled and started laughing. For some odd reason, 'Death by Beyblade' seemed too hilarious!

"What's so funny?" Sarah asked, 100 concerned about my sanity.

"Three words," I chuckled, "death by Beyblade."

Suddenly, all four of us were on the ground, laughing our heads off.

"Death by Beyblade!" Kelsey laughed, "That's priceless!"

"Sure death by Beyblade is funny, but let's gets back to the real matter at hand- Joy may or may not be DEAD!" Mary said, bringing us back to reality.

"Oh yeah…for a moment I forgot about that." I said, getting back to the matter at hand. "Do you think we could be convicted for murder?" The thought had just came to me. What if we, the innocent bystanders, did get convicted for not stopping the crime? I mean, we all knew they were Beyblading intensely, but still, who knew it was going to go THIS far?

"No." Sarah said matter-of-factly, "Tyson was the one who did that weird move that practically drained Joy's energy. So, he would be the one found guilty."

Tyson and the other boys exchanged annoyed glances. At first, our freaking out was funny. But, now it was obvious that they had enough.

"Girls," Ray started, but we ignored him and continued to rant:

"But what if Tyson doesn't get convicted? We are like the next suspects!" Kelsey cried.

"Why? We didn't do anything!" Mary reasoned.

"Yea, but we were still at the scene of the crime!" Kelsey said back.

"And come on, who's ever going to believe that Beyblading killed someone?" Sarah added.

"Did you all forget that JOY'S DEAD?" I screamed, "Who cares if we are going to jail? Our best friend is dead!"

Now Tyson, Ray, Kenny, and Max looked incredibly angry. Kai looked amused, as if he was enjoying us freaking out. Ray shouted, "Girls!! Joys…"

"We know Ray!" I shot back, "We know she's dead!"

Mary, Kelsey, and Sarah nodded in agreement. "The main thing we should think about," I continued, "is how are we going to hide this from our parents, other friends, classmates, and the world?"

We all looked at each other. Shit, that was going to be hard.

"Let's throw her in a ditch!" Mary suggested. Her comment had us all going, "Well that may work…" and "But where would we dig this ditch?" and "Isn't that, oh I don't know, illegal?"

At that, the guys definitely had enough. "EVERYONE SHUT UP!" Kai yelled. We all stopped and stared at him. Wait, Kai had yelled that? I thought Kai couldn't talk.

"Thank you Kai!" Ray said, relieved. After taking a breath to keep his calm, he continued, "Guys, Joy isn't dead! I've been trying to tell you guys this! Joy just fainted from exhaustion; I don't think she was used to battling like that. And, as you all failed to notice, she's breathing!"

We were all silent. Oh wow…that was pretty embarrassing. But I seriously thought she had died! But Ray's right, she was still breathing. And now was the time when everything was going to get extremely awkward…

"Why didn't anyone think of checking her pulse?" asked Sarah, slapping herself on the forehead. We all burst into laugher. Even the guys, Kai included, cracked a smile.

"So she's going to be okay?" I asked, but it was a stupid question- she was looking pretty peaceful in Ray's arms.

"She'll be fine." Ray said, calmer than he was four minutes ago.

And of course, an awkward silence arose. The guys (and Joy) were on one side and we were on the other, avoiding eye contact and yet staring at the same time. Thankfully, Max came to the rescue.

"So, I think we should finish introducing ourselves. I know that I haven't met everyone yet." His peppy suggestion saved everyone from an extremely embarrassing awkward silence.

"Okay," Mary said, "I'm Mary."

"I'm Kelsey."

"And the one unconscious is Joy." I laughed. "I'm Amber, but I'm pretty sure Tyson told you about me."

"I'm Sarah, and I'm also pretty sure Tyson told you about me."

The group gave Tyson an unreadable glance and Tyson said, a bit too quickly, "Oh yeah, I've told them lots about you guys."

"Well we haven't met you guys yet!" I said, still trying to figure out why Tyson looked so nervous when he said 'oh yeah, I've told them lots…' Could it be that he was lying to me?

"I'm Kenny!"

"I'm Max, awesome to finally introduce ourselves!"

"I'm Ray and your friend's really light…" I laughed. That's because she's anorexic, I joked to myself. (E/N: Blah to you too, Amber!)

"…." No answer from the guy named Kai. Wow, surprise, surprise.

"And your Kai, the Emo Boy Wonder?" I joked.

My response was, (don't be too shocked), a stare. Wow…this guy's really good at showing his emotions.

"I'll take that as a 'yes, I am the one and only Emo Boy Wonder.'"

Another stare. Okay, this was getting annoying.

"Emo Boy Wonder, can you not talk?"

"Stop calling me Emo Boy Wonder." He grunted. Oh wow. 6 words! We were making an improvement! The other guys and my friends just stood around looking bored, wondering why I was pestering this guy so much. And to be honest, I didn't really know why myself. I was just trying to stop another awkward silence from happening, I suppose.

"Well that's not fun! Do you have a problem with me calling you Emo Boy Wonder?" I laughed. I think he started to twitch. I also think I saw his hand roll into a fist, with Ray trying to hold him back from punching me. Wow, was I really THAT annoying? (E/N: You have no clue, Amber…)

"Do you ever shut the hell up Little Girl?" He glared back at me. I took a step back- excuse me? Little girl?

"Little girl? I'm practically your age ass." I said, take two steps forward.

"Oh yeah? You sure don't look like it." He remarked, stepping closer.

"You are so messing with the wrong person, dick!" I glared. I have this sort of problem with people making fun of my height. I mean, sure a little joking here or there doesn't hurt me, but making a judgment of me because of my shortness made me want to kill him. We were now practically in each other's faces (well, Kai sort of towered over me…).

"Oh don't curse little girl. I think you might need a time out." I looked into his face. I might've been short, but I could still see the weird blue colored markings on his face. What the hell? Who has blue colored markings on their face?

"I conclude that you really are the Emo Boy Wonder." I began, "Only Emo Boy Wonders have blue makeup of weird patterns on their face. What, playing with makeup is the only way you can be tough? Because seriously, it just makes you look like a—." I was then interrupted by Sarah.

"Amber, Kai STOP!" she hissed, "You guys are acting like 2nd graders. And that's Mary's job!"

"Hey now," I defended, "Would 2nd graders call the other person a dick?"

"Umm…I hope they wouldn't." Sarah said, "What's your problem anyway?"

"Don't want to talk about it." I hissed, still glaring at Kai who was, surprise, surprise, glaring at me. I couldn't be sure if he was mad that I kept calling him Emo Boy Wonder, or if that was his regular expression.

Another awkward silence would have appeared, but Joy woke up.

"Guys…what…what happened?" she asked, rubbing her eyes.

"Oh my god Joysies!" I shouted, running up to her. "We thought you were freaking dead!" She wasn't in Ray's arms anymore (oh what a shame, I thought, they were looking cute together too), so I gave her a huge hug. Mary, Sarah, and Kelsey followed.

"Okay. Which one of you idiots thought I was dead first?" she joked. Yeah she was feeling better- in fact, she was back to her old self. Again, what a shame.

"Well…you know…it might have been me…but, you were…like…not moving!" I said sheepishly. Okay, so I did act like an idiot and embarrassed us in front of the guys. Hot guys (with the exception of Max and Kenny), I reminded myself. Oh crap, I am an idiot!

"Well the good thing is," I continued, "that you are okay! Seriously Joy, when you just fainted, I got freaking scared. You are SO lucky Ray was there to catch you before you got any brain damage. Not that it would matter anyway, but I want you to keep your few brain cells alive. But anyway, did you know you were out for half an hour?!"

Joy blinked, trying to comprehend what I said. Her reply was, "Excuse me Amber. But I have way more than a few brain cells left!" (1)

I replied, "Sorry Joy. I forgot about those extra 5 you had in storage." I laughed at my own joke…apparently the ONLY one laughing at my joke. The rain poured down even harder to the point where I could barely see clearly.

"Oh crap!" yelled Kelsey, "My freaking laptops in the rain!" Wow…she just realized that although it had been raining for an incredibly long time.

I laughed, only Kelsey would forget about her laptop getting wet. I reached into my tote bag to get my cell phone. The time: 7:59. I froze.

"Oh shit, oh shit, oh shit!" I winced: in a minute it would be 8:00, and we would all be in way deep shit.

"What is it Amber?" Tyson asked. Kenny looked confused, and Kelsey, like me, had a look of fear on her face.

"Yeah Amber, what's wrong?" Kenny asked, incredibly confused.

"Its nighttime…and you know who comes out right?" The question was more for Kelsey than Kenny and Tyson, but they answered anyway:

"No." while Kelsey answered, "Oh shit yes!"

"Wait I'm confused." Kenny asked, "What comes out at night?"

"Why, only the rapists, the pedophiles, the drug dealers, and the murderers!" Kelsey said, maybe a bit too cheerful than needed.

"Excuse me?" Tyson began but I cut him off.

"Kelsey, where is everyone else?" We looked around. Ray, Kai, Max, Joy, Mary, and Sarah had disappeared. It was only us four, stuck in the park, in the pouring rain, at the time when the rapists came out. Oh, fuck.

Joy: Okay, I did not write this chapter so I have no clue what the hell Amber's thinking. Yep, short but that's Amber for you ;)

(1): Note that I'm not dumb. Uh-uh, not at all! Amber made me (Joy) look like a total retard in this chapter. Don't mind her, she's going back to the mental institute as sooooon as she types the next chapter up! Yessirriee.