Beyblade; Time Rift
Chapter 2
"You're going to wear that out?" Lexi asked, looking at Vera's hoodie and sweat pants with a critical eye, "you must be kidding me?" Vera eyed Lexi's crimson halter top, black jacket and faded jeans with an equally critical eye before letting out a deep sigh and pulling off her hoodie to reveal a simple black tank top.
"Happy?" the green haired girl sighed and Lexi grinned brightly.
"Now I am!" with a small squeal of glee, the black haired girl pranced over to the door opening it just as Max was about to start knocking on it, "Oh, hey Max."
"Hey," he replied, looking the girls over quickly, "you guys look really great."
"Heh," Lexi smirked slightly, "just great? I'm a little disappointed with that. How about you, Vera?"
"Great is fine with me," Vera said, smirking lightly at her teammate's expression, "well, let's get going. I want to get some sleep in sometime tonight." With that, Vera walked past the two standing in the doorway and started off down the hallway.
"Wet blanket," Lexi muttered, trying hard not to laugh at her best friend and teammate's actions.
"Should we follow her?" Max asked, looking from girl to girl, "the others are waiting in the lobby for us and then we can head out."
"Alright," Lexi smiled, pale blue eyes lighting up at the prospect of having some fun, "then let's get going." Quickly, she grabbed Max's hand before dragging him off after Vera who was already waiting for them by the elevator.
"What took you three so long?" Tyson yelled once the three reached the lobby.
"Keep your pants on, dude," Lexi laughed lightly, "we just got a little held up because so many people wanted to use the elevator. You'd think some of them could use the stairs, but nope. Guess people are just lazy like that."
"Lexi," Vera sighed, "we just took the elevator."
"But we had to go down ten floors," Lexi pointed out, "most of them could have walked down the stairs since they were only going down two or three floors."
"Whatever you say," the green haired girl sighed, deciding to let the issue drop in hopes the black haired girl would drop the matter.
"Yay," Lexi cheered happily, a childlike grin on her face, "Now, where are we going?"
"Right now," Ray explained, "we're just wondering around."
"We might even find a beyblade battle going on!" Tyson cheered before leading the charge outside.
"Fun," Lexi sighed from the back of the group with Vera, "another reminder of our loser team dumping us here 'cuz they're full of chicken shit." Vera cracked a slight grin but said nothing of her friend's antics.
"Opps," Max said, apparently hearing the back haired girl's comments, "I didn't even think about that."
"It's all cool, dude," Lexi grinned, slinging an arm around the blond boy's shoulders, "I'm just kidding. Wolgan and I can't wait to get in a battle or two."
"Wolgan?" Kenny asked, "What's that?"
"My bitbeast," Lexi grinned brightly, pulling out a black and silver beyblade, "she's been my partner for a long time. Other than Vera, Wolgan is the only being I trust to watch my back." Beside her, Vera smiled slightly at her friends antics, self-consciously grabbing hold of her own beyblade.
"Where's Kai?" Ray's sudden question pulled all attention to that fact that, sometime during the discussion, Kai had taken off by himself.
"Should we be worried?" Lexi asked Max, pale blue eyes wide and questioning. Vera nodded, also wondering the same thing.
"Not really," Max smiled brightly, trying to brush Lexi's concerns and Vera's curiosity, "he does this all the time. The last time he vanished, we met you guys."
"Kai can take care of himself," Tyson agreed, "so there's no need to worry about that guy." The girls blinked several times, digesting the information before Lexi grinned brightly.
"Alright then, if you guys say so," Lexi grinned brightly, "if Kai's nothing to worry about, then we can worry about finding something fun to do!"
"I couldn't agree more," Tyson grinned, smile matching the one on the girl's face.
"Lexi's sure something," Max commented as the group watched Tyson and Lexi take off ahead of them.
"She does tend to live for the moment, doesn't she," Vera smirked before following after the pair, "she's been like that ever since I first met her."
"Are you guys coming or not?" Lexi suddenly yelled, stopping so suddenly that Tyson piled into her. The two landed on the ground with a small thud, letting out matching groans of pain.
"I think I broke something," Tyson voiced as the rest of the group ran over to the pair.
"I'm going to break some of your bones if you don't get off of me," Lexi hissed, glaring up at the baseball cap wearing teen, "so get off of me!"
"Yipe!" Tyson exclaimed, jumping up as soon as he saw the dark intent in the girl's eyes.
"I'll help you up," Max smiled down at Lexi, extending a hand once Tyson was off of her.
"Thanks!" Lexi grinned brightly at the blond boy as Vera looked her over quickly, assessing for damages.
"No more running off," Vera sighed, wrapping Lexi's forehead lightly with her knuckles, "got it? We're in a hard enough spot with the rest of our team ditching us, we don't need one of us being hurt on top of that."
"Sorry, Vera," Lexi mumbled, looking down at the ground, "I'll be more careful next time."
"Good," the green haired teen nodded once before patting Lexi's head as a silent way of telling her not to be so sad, "now, are we going to get going or can I go back to our hotel room and sleep?"
"Right!" Lexi said, quickly recovering from her moment of depression. Vera fought the urge to sigh at how simple minded her friend could be sometimes smiling lightly with the knowledge that Lexi didn't always act in such a manor.
"Looks like a party up ahead," Vera commented after several minutes of walking, nodding her head in the direction of flashing neon lights and a long line up of teens outside a fairly large building.
"Wanna check it out?" Lexi grinned brightly before grabbing hold of Vera's arm and running off in the direction of the group, the boys following after the girls as quickly as they could.
"What's this line for?" Max asked a group of teens huddled at the end of the line. One of the boys looked first at Max before scanning over the rest of the group. The boy's eyes stopped on Vera and Lexi, neither of whom looked all that happy with the attention.
"We're waiting for the doors of this place to open," a girl in the group explained, shoving the boy as if to tell him to stop looking at other girls, "there's an awesome band playing here tonight. You'd have to be crazy to know about them and not be here."
"What band?" Lexi asked, looking to the front of the line and back, "and it looks like the doors just opened."
"Sweet!" another female member of the unnamed group cried happily, bouncing up and down with glee, "I finally get to see Super Joy live!"
"Super Joy?" Lexi asked the girl, "as in THE Super Joy?" The girl nodded quickly before Lexi joined her in happy squeals of glee.
"Super Joy?" Vera questioned, "Isn't that the band you're obsessed with?"
"Yes," Lexi grinned before turning all her attention to Vera and the boys, "please let me see this, please, I'm begging you." Lexi fell to her knees, hands clasped tightly in front of her as she begged.
"Fine," Vera sighed, "but only because you'd make my life miserable with your sulking if I didn't give in."
"I don't sulk," Lexi huffed, insulted slightly, "when have I ever sulked?"
"When we were fifteen and you found the guy you were crushing on making out with one of our former teammate," the green haired teen sighed, "and that's just for starters."
"Fine," the black haired teen pouted slightly, "so, I can go, right? What time are you going to want me back in the hotel room by?"
"Before midnight," Vera nodded before starting to walk away from Lexi.
"If it's alright," Max suddenly voiced, "I think I'll stay here. I've heard some things about this band, so I kind of want to hear if they're as good as there supposed to be."
"It's your life," Vera shrugged, "do whatever you want." Tyson, Ray, and Kenney nodded in agreement and Max grinned brightly before he and Lexi joined the line of waiting teenagers.
"See you guys later!" Lexi called, waving brightly as the line started moving.
"Let's get going," Vera sighed, eyeing the rest of the boys and knowing that she could easily escape from them so that she could return to her hotel room and get some sleep.
"So, how long have you and Vera known each other?" Max asked Lexi as the two slowly got closer to the front entrance.
"Since we were really little," Lexi shrugged slightly, "maybe six or so. Vera got caught shoplifting or something and they brought her to the orphanage I was at. I caught her trying to escape on night and made her a deal. If she got me out of there, I'd help her in any way I could, be it in beyblade or simply by lifting someone's wallet. Heh, I always was good at stealing things."
"What do you mean?" the blond boy asked.
"Back at the orphanage, I was always lifting things form the nuns running the place," Lexi laughed, "it wasn't anything big, just simple things that always seem so important to little kids, like candy or something like that."
"Why were you two in an orphanage?" Max asked, wincing slightly as he noticed Lexi's hurt expression.
"I can't really tell you why Vera was there, that's her story, not mine," she sighed after a moment, "but I was there 'cuz my Mom died when I was really little and my Dad didn't want me. I mean, not body knew who he was, and all my Mom ever said what that he wouldn't want me. Not to mention nobody knew who he was."
"I'm sorry," Max said, unsure of how he should comfort the girl.
"It's all good," Lexi grinned brightly at him, causing the boy to blush slightly at her happy grin, "I can't remember my Mom, and clearly I don't know my Dad. It's one of those 'can't miss what you did have' situations." Max opened his mouth to ask more, but they reached the door and after a quick once over by the bouncer they were let in.
"Your back," Vera smirked several hours later, not even bothering to look up from her book at her best friend. Vera had known Lexi for long enough to know that the black haired girl was grinning brightly and skipping ever so slightly after getting to see one off her favourite bands live.
"It was so awesome," Lexi gushed, flopping down on Vera's bed, "you should have been there, Ve!"
"Ve?" the green haired girl quoted, one lone green eyebrow rising while she kept her eyes trained on her book, "what's up with the nickname?"
"Opps," Lexi grinned before launching into a long, in-depth account of her night until she eventually fell asleep. Vera sighed slightly before smiling lightly.
"Looks like you're enjoying yourself, Lexi," Vera said softly, patting her friend's hair gently before leaning over to turn off her light and set the alarm. Moving over what was supposed to be Lexi's bed, Vera curled up under the covers and fell asleep.