Good day everyone! How have you been?

Well, I been burning, 'cuz it's so hot in here I can't even think -.-

I apologize for how long this took to make, I really would like to be able to assure you of when will I next update this, but unfortunately, I can't. Writer's block and Laziness-attack are not helping xD

Well, I won't entertain you anymore, enjoy!

Chapter's Warning: Angst (or is it drama?), some OOC, you probably won't like how characters react here, it confuses more than what it explains, and I'm so tired I can't even...

Disclaimer: Beyblade doesn't...ugh...to hot to care...

Chapter I: Shock

He had to be honest with himself; he had no clue what to do now. He did not expect this to happen. It never crossed his mind…not even once.

Ok, that was a lie. He had dream about it several times.

Of course, in his dreams, it was a beautiful day outside and Kai was smiling when she told him, and then she would throw herself at his arms and they will have hot, passionate sex in the middle of…wherever it was they were in the dream, he wasn't picky.

But this…

What should he do? What must he do? What should he say? He was never good at break ups!

Ok, ok, calm down! Let's start with the little things. It's freezing outside, let her in.

"Oh, good…" Tyson took one step forward and touched Kai's check, feeling how cold she was "Come in, you're freezing"

The dual-blunette smiled sadly in form of gratitude and he ushered her inside, taking her bag for her.

The girl looked…lost, for lack of a better word. She was standing there, hugging herself and looking down at the floor, surely about to start crying.

But Tyson knew Kai, and that was surely not going to happen any time soon.

"Here, sit down" he grabbed her arm and guided her to the couch "God, you're shaking. What are you wearing under that?" he asked once she sat down, going to get one of the extra coverts from the closet.

"Just a…shirt" the girl's voice was barely over a whisper and she wasn't really moving.

Tyson swallowed hard, this was…awful didn't quite make it justice. And he didn't know what to do to make it better.

"Here" he said draping the cover over Kai's shoulder and walking around the couch to kneel before her.

The dual-blunette had an empty look on her eyes, gazing into infinity but not really looking at anything; and it broke the blunet's heart to see her like this.

"Hey…" he called her, to no available "Hey!" he called her again and took both her hand in his, finally getting her attention "Listen to me. It's gonna be ok"

Maybe it was a little too optimistic to say that now, he didn't even know what happened, but what else was he going to say?

"I promise it'll be ok" Kai looked at him with disbelief all over her face, and he didn't like that "I promise. I'll get you some tea, you'll warm up and…" he sighed, ignoring the pain that what he was about to say caused "We'll fix this up, I swear"

If he had to be honest with himself, he didn't really want to fix the relationship between Kai and Hilary. But above all else, he didn't wanted Kai to be like this ever again.

He wanted her to be happy, and if being with Hilary made her happy, then so be it.

Kai smiled softly. It was still a sad smile, but a different kind of sadness. A hopeful one. And she held his hands a little tighter.

"Thank you"

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"Here you go" he said passing a cup of tea to her friend, who eagerly took a long sip from it as soon as it was in her hands.

"Thanks" Kai said once she dank half the content of the cup, holding it tightly between her hands to heat them up.

Tyson sat beside her on the couch, wanting to hug her and pull her close to him, but not sure if he should.

The ex-blader had barely said a word since she came in, and she had only moved enough so the cover was covering all her body.

She was in a catatonic state, apparently. Not thinking, not feeling, just…existing.

It was not good, and he wanted her to react, however badly.

"Hey…" he called, and the other sat a little straighter on her spot as a sign that she was listening "About what you said" he swallowed, this was a delicate question, but it needed to be asked; he needed to know "What happened?"

At his question, Kai straightened more on her spot, put the cup down on the coffee-table, and looked at the roof with astonishment.

"I don't…know" she said, and he could tell it was true "She just…" she shook her head, not able to put into words something she didn't even understand.

She was re-living what had happened over and over in her mind and she still could not make any sense of it.

She was not a cheater. She had never cheated. She wasn't even interested in other people, for god's sake!

What would make Hilary think that she…?

"I don't get it" the girl sighed dejectedly and covered her face with one of her hands, getting in a semi-fetal position.

Tyson wanted to say something to make her feel better, but admittedly he didn't know what to say.

Over the years they've known each other, Kai have never had a break up. Fights? Yes, but a break up? Normally she was the one to console him after a break up, regardless of how awkward her attempts at doing so were.

He carefully put a hand on her back, trying to easy her erratic breathing.

"God, this is stupid" the dual-blunette said while straightening and forcing her breathing to normalize.

"Oh, come on, it's not" the ex-world champion said in a reassuring way, hopping things won't go to that place "There's nothing wrong with crying after what happened"

The minute those words left his mouth Kai turned to look at him with angry, watery red eyes –that were redder than normal-, and he knew they were already on that place.

"I am NOT crying" of course she wasn't. She never was. What was he thinking?

That's angry sarcasm, by the way.

He did not liked the way his friend had for 'dealing' with sadness, he never had. He knew it had to do with the way she was raised, but after all this time he had hoped she had given up on that whole 'crying is a weakness' thing.

"Kai" he said with a serious tone, ready to argue about repressed feelings and how stupid that was.

"Aren't you going to clean up in here?" but before he could say anything else, the dual-blunette abruptly changed the subject.

Tyson looked at her, stunned by the interruption and saw the raw need for distraction in her eyes. She wasn't ready to talk about it, not yet, and the least he could do for her was allowing her some time to process what had happened.

"I was about to start" if he sighed in frustration, she didn't mentioned it "but then you came in"

Kai breathed and nodded in understanding, not wanting to think about this morning and what had brought her here.

She felt the knock on her throat tightening and her breathing accelerating once more, clear signs of impending crying; so she slapped herself lightly on the cheek to keep the tear at bay.

Tyson hated when she did that. Those stupid ways she had to keep all inside. She had has them for as long as he had known her, never quite able to let them go.

"You still keep everything in the same place?" Kai asked, determinate to distract herself and not think about things that were illogical, made no sense and were surely just a cruel joke.

The blunet frowned sadly, looking at the wetness in her eyes and the soft-red print of her own hand in her cheek, and nodded.

He didn't liked what his red-eyed friend was doing, but he wasn't about to force her to cry when she obviously didn't wanted to.

Not now at least…

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What. A. Day!

It was freaking cold outside. It snowed a couple of times. It took tame hours to clean up the whole mess. The snow had made it impossible for them to leave the house to see their friends off the airport. There was not enough alcohol to cheer things up and…oh! He almost forgot! His best friend was dying inside and fiercely pretending not to.

All in all, a great day…

…That was sarcasm if you didn't get it by now.

Tyson looked up at the roof and sighed tiredly. He couldn't sleep, not one bit.

This whole business with Kai was messing up with his head, and he had a nagging feeling at the back of his mind that he was somehow responsible for all of it.

Kai hadn't said a word on the subject once they started cleaning –haven't said much at all for that matter-, so he didn't really knew why has Hilary broken up with her; but he felt guilty nonetheless.

Ugh…what had happened the other night? What exactly did he do?

For the life of him, he could not remember clearly. He had vague images of kissing Kai, but mostly just sensations and feelings, nothing really certain.

Maybe Hilary saw them and that's why she decided to end it with the dual-blunette?

That could be, but…he kind of imagined the brunette more of the likes of 'breaking his nose for kissing her girl' than one to just 'give up'.

One of the good things she had was that she never gave up without a fight, and this looked like a complete surrender.

So, he either wasn't seeing things as they were, or there was more to this than whatever it is he and Kai did the other night.

He sighed again in defeat. There was no point in pondering about this, not when the dual-blunette was denying being affected by it in anyway.

He needed to make Kai talk, to face her feeling, to really face them, and vent out. What she was doing did her no good, and she should know that by now…

"Ty?" a hesitant call and the sound of his bedroom's door being open ajar distracted him from his thought, and twisting to face said door he was met with his unexpected –jet not unwelcome- houseguest.

Kai was wearing one of his old t-shirt –'cuz she didn't have any pajamas in the suitcase she brought- and she pulled at it a little bit in a useless attempt to cover more of herself –he was still able to see her legs in all their glory-, looking uncertain about something.

"Something's wrong?" he asked worried, in all the time they have lived together, this was the first time Kai has ever came to his room by her own initiative –well, except for that one time when he fell off the bed and she came to check on him.

"No, nothing. It's just…" Kai sighed and looked down at the floor, and Tyson could have swear she was blushing "I guess I kind of got used to sleeping besides someone"

Oh…

So, comfort, that's what she wanted. No words, no promises, just someone to hold her when the pain was at it's strongest.

Yet she was too much proud, too much stubborn, too much 'Kai', to ask directly for it.

Tyson blinked in confusion. It's not like they have never share the same bed before –once she had gotten tired of kicking him out of her bed, he used to go sleep with her at least twice a week, till she got into a relationship-, and he definitely wanted to make her feel better, it's just…

This was the same woman he had, no less than 24 hours ago, been determinate about forgetting. And here she was, half naked on his threshold, begging him to let her in and laid beside him on the bed.

If he didn't know any better, he'll say that this was a gift from the cosmos…

The blunet sighed and moved to one side of the bed, and Kai quickly got in beside him.

"Thank you" she said after a while once they settled in beside each other "For letting me stay…for this"

"It's nothing" he shook his head, there was really no way he could say 'no' to this woman.

Kai looked at him conflicted. She wanted to say something, he knew, he could see it in her eyes, but she was hesitant, not ready to do it.

Maybe not even ready to face the reality she would encounter in the morning once she wake up and realize that the day before have, in fact, happened and it wasn't just some bad dream.

She contented herself with just holding his hand for a while, holding on to it for dear life.

"You're a good friend" she said and, with a final squeeze, she let go of his hand and turned around to go to sleep.

Tyson waited for a while till he heard it, that soft 'hmm' that signaled that she was already in Morpheus's hands, and sighed dejectedly.

With a freedom he wasn't sure he had, he hugged the dual-blunette from behind, pressing their bodies together, and buried his face on her hair, breathing in the sweet essence that was only Kai's.

No, he wasn't a good friend. He didn't think he was. Not when this, this moment right here, right now, was making him so immensely happy.

To be continued…

Well, what you think? Is it too much OOC or is, in fact, more IC than before?

Next chap, hopefully, will have Hil on it, so it's gonna have more drama than this one (unless my plans changes).

So you just wait for it! Drop a review and tell me what you think so far!

Have a nice day and c'ya latter!