Author's note: Here is it, the 5th chapter! I won't talk that much, so..why don't start reading?

Disclaimer: I do not own Bakugan Battle Brawlers, Bakugan New Vestroia or Bakugan Gundalian Invaders or any of its characters.

Chapter 5: Time to decide

He lay there, next to the girl who's heart he broke, next to the one he still has feelings for. That boy lay there, regretting everything he had done to her or which pain she was always going through because of him. Wishing he was allowed to touch her, just go through her hair, slowly, smoothly, gentle. Seeing this calm face, full of tears... The boy wished to see his high-spirited girlfriend again. Always up to something new, with that sparkling smile of hers.

It's my fault. I destroyed everything...

"She's not here either.." Runo said with the the head down when she came back to the others who were sitting around the table. Disappointed she joined them. "So, all this effort... for nothing?" Sarah from Julie's cheerleader club sighed. "Seems so.." another one answered. "Poor Julie. She must be really down right now.." Marucho added to the conversation. The atmosphere was getting tense, for a while nobody said something, a silence, sometimes interrupted by a sigh. Suddenly Dan jumped up, shouting,"Hey guys, don't turn yourselves down like this! We'll surely find another way to cheer her up again.." Everyone was staring at him with surprised impressions. Runo could only reply with a blow on the head, screaming, "Who's fault is it anyway that this here didn't work out, you moron?" " Ouch! I already said I'm sorry, why do you keep hitting me?" "BECAUSE YOU RUINED EVERYTHING! You...aren't... good..for...anything!" she said while hitting him again and again. "Runo, stop it! That's enough OK? We need to think of something new, Dan's absolutely right," Sarah interrupted their fight. Finally, Runo calmed down and listened to the suggestions the others were proposing...

"OK! New plan, everybody knows the situation, right?"

"YES!"

"And as her closest friends, we have to help her, don't we?

"YES!"

"Each of you understood the plan and will do their best to successfully finish their part, isn't it like that?"

"YES!"

"Dan won't talk in front of her about the heart-breaker, IS IT CLEAR?"

"Yeah... My mouth's shut."

With that, they split and went home, everybody wishing for Julie to get better soon and hoping they won't spoil the plan, especially Dan.

„Shun," Julie whispered while slowly opening her eyes again. She didn't sense the warmth of the sun anymore, night already started. „What..."Dizzy, she turned her body to the right and tried to recognize something but it was to dark. Moving the hand towards her face she noticed dried tears.

Shun was here a moment ago...or not?

Thinking that, her eyes widened and immediately she jumped up, but before she could start to look around, suddenly something fell from her shoulders. A bit shocked she turned around. "This looks like...a jacket? Hesitating she picked it up and took a closer look at the darkish thing.

It couldn't be that he...

"Chiing!" all at once, something fell out of it. "Hm? What was that..." she wondered, kneeing down again to look for it. "I'm sure it fell down here somewhere...Or no! Rather there...Huh? Ohhh, now I've definitely lost it!" Giving up on finding it she stood up again, staring at the jacket she held in her hands.

You're here somewhere...aren't you?

Yes, she was right. Not far away from her, there was Shun sitting on a tree. "Just to verify if she really is alright." That's what he kept thinking to calm himself down, trying to deny things like " I want to get near her" or the like. Yet somehow he drifted away to the time she was still unconscious, imagined him lying there, next to her.

"Wha-?" With that scream he was immediately brought back to the present and discovered Julie lying on the grass, scratching her head.

"Ouch! That hurt, I slipped..."

"Chiing!" she heard something again.

What is she doing down there...?

"Didn't the sound came from.." she speculated, "...wait..." Julie stood up, looked at the place she slipped and noticed a glimmer. "What is..." the girl started talking, but all at once she stopped moving...

Shun couldn't help but being curious about what she found down there and tried to spot something. Still everything he could see was Julie, staring at something.
"Isn't this..."he heard her saying, "But...th-this can't be possible, I mean he..."

All at once she started screaming, "SHUN? Are you here?"

Wait..What did she find there in the grass...

Squinting his eyes eventually he managed to see the thing Julie was staring at and...

This thing is...

The moment Julie wanted to grasp the glimmering thing in the grass, Shun became nervous- he knew what lied there and he didn't like the fact that Julie was about to find out what it was, too. Or did she know it already? After looking at it she started shouting his name, so..

It must have fallen out of my jacket somehow..Why didn't I check it earlier?

There had to be a way to distract her attention away from it.. But there was no time to think, only to act.

Julie was curious about the object. If she was right with her speculations a new flame of hope would spread out inside her heart.. if.
She kneed down and wanted to take it...though instead of grabbing this thing, she felt something else.. Immediately she raised her head... Her heart almost stopped beating. They stared at each other for quite a while. None of them even dared to move.
Suddenly Shun stood up, holding that thing, picked up his jacket, turned around and started walking.

"So...You're leaving just like this?"

No answer.

"As if we never knew each other?"

He stopped but didn't make it to say something. Julie was looking for words. She wanted to see him, she wanted to talk to him, now she had the chance but.. She bite her lip.
Shun stood there, waiting for something he didn't know what it was. He became weak, he knew it. How much did he hate the fact that months ago, his heart began to get stronger than his brain, when he started liking that girl so much, when he got to know other sides of this girl and understood the specialness about her. The eternal fight between brain and heart, why doesn't it stop already? His feet were like frozen, he wasn't able to move forward, like his brain told him but backwards where his heart was leading wasn't an option either..The decision was almost impossible, what will he chose over the other?

Author's note: I know this chapter is really short and a bit crappy...However, it still contains important stuff for the continuation of the story so..you know what I mean^^
The next chapters will be much more interesting, you'll see..
Wondering which path Shun will go..and even if he'd choose to start over with Julie, will she even accept him? o_o We'll see...

Again thanks for reading and those replies I received! I'll do my best and upload faster, as promised^o^b