-1Disclaimer: I do not own Beyblade.
A/n: Tyson is back into the gang and series. In the next series, he'll be a regular, but Ray won't make any appearance, other being mentioned. Tyson's not a big writer - as previously seen, so sorry about such a small chapter!!
Fading into the Summer.
Chapter 6: Tyson
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7/21
Today's Mariah's birthday. She's having a sit-down dinner tonight. Seven months ago, I wouldn't even talk to one of these guys, and now I'm considering them as my best friends. Seven months ago, I was on the football team, dating Stacy and living the "life." I'm nothing like I used to be. I'm like the people who I used to give shit too. It's like I'm changing into a better person… but I don't know if I really am. Sometimes I sit down in front of the mirror in the bathroom and just stare at myself.
I am changing. It is scaring me. I want to go back to being me.
Me.
What is me anyway? I am Tyson Granger, 16. Los Ventra High School student going into the eleventh grade. I do not know who I am anymore.
And that scares me more than anything.
7/22
Mariah's birthday sit-down dinner went surprisingly well. I turned up to her house, nervous about not fitting in anymore than I was and thinking I was going to say something stupid. My biggest worry in life is that I am going to say something incredibly stupid or wrong at the wrong time and everyone hate me for it. Sometimes, I am a loser. I drive myself nuts with insecurity. The dinner itself was good and it was good seeing Hilary for the first time in a very long while. Her hair was very long and she was very tanned, from the last time I saw her. I remembered back to last summer, when Hilary first met Michelle. When she first changed. It's like, after Hilary changed, we all changed. Well maybe expect Kenny. He hasn't changed at all. Still the same old nerdy small Kenny who has seemed to developed a vengeance against Michelle about her beating him at the end of last year. Last years marks for me? I don't know I've ever done so bad. I remember just bombing my exams. I then remember Grandpa yelling at me calling me a fool, idiot and told me I was an dickhead for following my friends into a endless routine of stupidity. I stopped hanging out with my friends, dropped out of the football team and started it all new again. I hung out with Kai and Tala again during gym while Max was away. I was invited to sit with them at lunch. I sat with them during lunch. Then the school year ended, and I thought the friendship was pity and wouldn't last past the first week of the summer. Yet, that isn't the case. I'm sitting here, still in my outfit from last night, finally realising that I've changed too.
7/23
Went to the beach today. And now I look like a blue-haired tomato. It was fun and long and tiring. I never realised that four hours at the beach feels more like eight. I'm so god damn tired I feel like I'm going to fall asleep right now. It was awkward a little bit today. Kai and Hilary weren't talking to each other, Hilary wouldn't talk to Michelle unless necessary and I couldn't talk to Hilary properly without thinking back to last year when her and I hooked up. Before her and Kai. I just sat back and watched everyone else interact. I didn't feel like I should intrude on what was happening. I didn't know half of any of their stories. Their last year was a lot different to mine. Mine was simple. I started tenth grade, I had shit grades, I dated one of the most popular girls in my grade, I was on the football team. Every Friday night was a football game, followed by a party at someone's house, followed by a huge hangover the next day, which led to another party which led to another hangover. By then it was Monday morning and we were back at school. I skipped lessons to hang out with Stacy. I remember when Stacy and her friends bashed up Michelle. It was my duty to be on Stacy's side, even though I didn't want to associate myself with Stacy's doing. By then, I was letting Ray, who had been dumped by Michelle, take over my spot. Tenth grade had been the hardest grade of all, especially after I used to think that grade nine was hard. Ninth grade was about finding a place in the grade. Grade ten was about keeping that spot. So, junior year. What's that going to be?
7/24
Because I'm still looking like a tomato, I hung out at a public library. Yes, me, Tyson at a library. It was quite, air-conditioned and totally out of my boundary. I grabbed a stack of car magazines from the rack, and sat down at one of the tables in a corner. Who comes to libraries just to read out-of-date car magazines? Me, of course. I sat there, looking like a huge dork until someone slammed a large, thick black book on the other side. It was a tall, thin, pale orange haired dude wearing an entire gothic outfit. His skin was literally white. And his clothes seemed to be painted onto his body. I stared at him as he sat down and started reading. I stared at him, like a total nut job who had nothing better to do but stare at this guy with very orange hair, the whitest skin and an outfit that stood out. I stared at him for like five minutes before he looked up and raised his eyebrow at me. And asked what I was doing. I just looked down at my out-of-date car magazines then bolted far, far away from him.
God, I'm a freak sometimes.
7/26
I did nothing yesterday but sleep and veg out in front of the television. Today I went out into the mall with Tala and Mariah. And we were browsing some clothing shop. More like me and Tala waiting for Mariah to try on a million different outfits. And I saw the guy with orange hair, sitting outside the shop on a bench opening something plastic. I hid behind some racks, watching him as he opened the plastic package. I was curious. And I don't know why. It's just some guy with orange hair in an outfit of entirely black. Something about this guy makes me watch him, stare at him like some loony. After that, I didn't see him again in the mall. But I tried looking for orange hair but had no luck. Oh well.
7/27
Went back to the library today. Had nothing else better to do, plus free air-con. I actually went on a hunt for some books that I could read and waste the rest of the summer with. Yes, I, Tyson is going to read a book that doesn't have pictures. I was standing in front of the 'Classic Literature' section when a pale hand went in front of me, and grabbed the book that I had just thought about getting. I turned, and guess who it was. Him, standing next to me, with a good few inches on my height. He asked if I was going to get that book. I nodded in reply and he held it out to me, telling me to take it and that he was sorry. I said, "No don't worry about it. I only thought about it cause it was a thin book." And he smiled and said, "I take it, your not much of a book reader?" I was ashamed. Kai and Tala read more books than me, even if Kai's are about psychotic killers and Tala's are sex-filled. I shook my head. And he smiled again. His name is Brooklyn Marston. He's 16, and goes to San Ferrano High, which explains why I've never seen him before. He showed me around the library, showing me some good books, and giving me a few to start with. I couldn't help but watch as his pale, bony hands grabbed the spin of the book, the way he spoke Passionality about his favourite books. I don't know what I am feeling, but it's different. Something I've never felt before, not even with Stacy.
7/28
I think I have a crush on Brooklyn.
Even though he's a guy. And I'm a guy.
But I see girls, and still think their hot.
What does that make me? Gay? Bisexual? Straight with a crush on a boy?
I see Brooklyn, and I go all hot and bothered and transfixed. I can't stop thinking about him.
I need to stop thinking about him.
Right.
Now.
7/29
Saw Brooklyn today.
Got hot and bothered again, like I normally do.
Saw him in the park, sitting reading a book when I was walking to Max's house.
I think I've got a crush.
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A/n: Finally, it's done. Thanks to the pestering of Kailey! It's done, done. And Tyson's got a love interest!! Super excited about that, I am. And they are going to be long-term! Next is properly Hilary or Kenny, haven't made my mind up yet. Review!!
Emily-Jade.
