Me: Oh. My. God.

Tala: What?

Me: It's chapter 11!

Tala: So?

Me: I never though that I'd ever get this far with a story.

Tala: ??

Me: I mean whenever look at this I think of me eating a cheeseburger.

Tala: And the cheeseburger has to do with the story..

Me: It doesn't. I just had a cheeseburger earlier today.

Tala: ..

Me: Anyways! I don not own Beyblade any characters that are unfamiliar are mine and mine alone.

I feel like shit. Shit that has been stepped on by someone. And then when they noticed it dragged across the sidewalk so they could remove me. Then after all of that some pigeons fly by and add more of their shit to join the collection. And as if that wasn't bad enough. A dog came and pissed on where I have been dragged and abused. This day couldn't get any worse.

"TALA!" yelled Mariah

I stand corrected.

"TALA!" she yells barging into my hotel room in which I have taken arms against Kai. I mean After you've been molested in front of the person you love and they ran away. Wouldn't you be hiding from the one who molested you as well?

"Tala what are you talking about?" she asked.

Damn.

"A book I was reading before you rudely infected my breathing space." I said

"Sheesh." she said while shaking her ugly head. Flinging her hair (and probably dirt) around her(and my things which I now have to wash.). "Anyways.There will be practice tomorrow. You will show up."

"And what makes you think that?"I said.

"Easy. I told Yang before I told you." she said smiling evilly.

Damn.

"I don't want to go to practice."

"Eat your food Tala." said Yang, ignoring my plea.

"But I'll have to leave this room!"

"And?"

"And I refuse to leave it!"

"Oh really?"

"Yes." I said crossing my arm like a child.

Okay. I do not care if I look like a five year old at the moment. I do not care that Yang is just humoring me by keeping this conversation. I really don't care that I'm being rude to the person who brought food up here for me. And I especially do not care that I am acting like a coward...Shut up! I know you're laughing at me...like that cow. Seriously! I was walking somewhere in Russia and there was a farm and I had tripped. The cow there was staring at me and went mooooooooo. I swear it sounded like it was laughing at me...STOP LAUGHING AT ME!! I KNOW THAT YOU ARE!!

"I'm not laughing Tala." said Yang smiling at me

"Oh." I said sitting down in my seat in which I had unconsciously jumped out of.

Sigh. This is what my life has been reduced to. Sitting here in a hotel room. Eating my meal out of take out boxes while hiding from the world with my ever so faithful friend. This is depressing.

"Tala," said Yang after a minute of silence has passed between us, "Why are you refusing to leave this room?"

Because Kai is out there and he's going to rape me...Oops.

Yang's eyes narrowed at my comment. Oh, Did I forget to mention that Yang is Kai's highly over protective cousin? Welll, she is and right now she's torn between killing me or just ignoring what I've said. Hopefully she won't kill me. It sucks to be dead.

Yang takes a deep breath before continuing.

"Why did you say that?"

Is that trick question? Yang looks at me with actual curiosity in her eyes. Aw what the heck. I have nothing to lose but my life and now that I think about it. That's basically nothing without Rei. I take a deep breath and tell her everything that's been happening to me from Brooklyn's crush on me to Kai kissing me. Hell, I even tell her about the little nicknames that I made for myself. When I'm done I can tell that Yang is between laughing her ass off at me or trying to comfort me in the way that all girls tend to do.

"Well," she said after a moment of thought," Staying in this room isn't going to help you." shesaid

"Huh?"

"Go out there and find him." she said," And don't worry about Kai. I'll take care of him."

What?

"Go and find Rei." she said smiling, "Tell him what really happened. How you really feel."

"But what about Kai?" I said.

"I told you not to worry about him." Yang said, "If anyone can deal with Kai. It's me."

I wandered the halls wondering where Rei could possibly be. I looked in the arena, dining room, his hotel room and even the stalls in the boys and girls bathroom. (Which made several girls angry. I still don't know why Mariah was in there. Mariah is not a girl...I think.)Running a hand through my already tossled red hair I hear voices coming from my left. Okay not voices in my head. I'm not that crazy. Looking around for the source I come face to face with the second to last person's hotel room that I want to face. Brooklyn's. Taking a great deep breath I raise my hand to knock on the door.

"I don't know what to do." came Rei's voice from inside Brooklyn's room.

I promptly put my hand down and pressed my ear against the door. What is he doind in there with Brooklyn? Oh my god! Don't tell me that Brooklyn is trying to take my place in Rei's heart by comforting him and than raping him when his guard is down. Run Rei! Run Away!

"I mean I thought that he liked me at the very least."

Who? Me? Of course I like him.

"Rei..." said Brooklyn, " He probably does."

I do! I love you Rei!

"Then why did he kiss Tala! What is it that Tala has that I don't! WHAT?"

I flinch at the sound of Rei yelling. I gues it wasn't me he was talking about since he obviously hates me. I mean never have I heard him even raise his voice to even Mariah when it was clear that she was angering him with her obsessiveness over him. Damn. People I have hit an all time low.

"Rei. He likes you as a friend." he said.

"Yeah. I get that but"

"Rei. I know it's not what you want but it is what is."

"Can you stop telling me that?!"

"Not until you get it." he said

Silence reigned in the room and I pressed myself closer to the door trying to hear if they were saying anything. Hm. I hear birds and footsteps and the door handle being touched..oh shit. I jumped back and ran down the hall when the door was pulled open. Rei stepped out looking more angry than I've ever seen him. 'Go and find him. Tell him how you feel.' Yang's words echoed in my head. But what about-- no. Forget Kai.

"Rei!" I yelled as I jogged up to catch him.

Hearing me he started to try and run but his just recently healed ankle wasn't up to it and he fell down clutching it.

"Rei! Are you okay?" I said when I caught up.

"Leave me!" he said.

"No. Your ankle is--"

"Why would you care?"

"Because..." I start but the Rei's not paying attention, "Look, I don't know how to fix things between me and you but you can't do anything on that ankle."

"Hmph."

"Stop acting like a child and let's get you to a medic at least. Then you can go back to hating me for something that isn't even my fault." I said picking him up.

"Not your fault? Not your fault?!" he said forcing himself out of my arms, "Do you even know how long I've tried to get him to just even smile with me. To acknowledge that I'm even there and you just waltz in and take him from me! Three years! Three long fucking years and now I can't even sleep properly because every time I close my eyes I see you and him kissing! It's not fair!"

"No it's not fair but life's not fair. I get it you like him, you want him, you need him but you can't have him.You pray everyday that he returns your stares or your smiles. That he comes up to you one day and says I love you and actually mean it. But life said no. You can't have that. So now you're angry and you don't know who to blame it on." I said harshly.

I took a deep breath and looked at Rei. His golden eyes were wide with shock. Oh how I just wanted to hold him and make all his fears and insecurities disappear. I would never do this intentionally to him. Never.

"Was it you or him? Or maybe it's the guy he was kissing? You don't know. So you take it out on whoever is easiest. You can't take it out on him because you love him and you already feel like shit so that only leaves one person. In this case it's me. I understand Rei. But there are things you need to know. Things that you assumed where true aren't." I lowered my voice to a more gentle tone

"I'm not in love with Kai. I used to like him as a friend but now he ruined it. I'm in love with... someone else." I say

After all of that I still can't tell him how I feel. I can't and it's because I love him that I can't. I know that he'll never return my feelings. All I want for him for him is to be happy and I realize that his happiness is not with me. It's with Kai. Picking him up I start to walk to the medics.

"Tala" he says quietly.

"Yes?"

"...Thank you."

A/N: And that's Chapter 11! Everyone say YAY! Now I've been gone for about 3 months and that you've all started to probably wonder if I was going to be like some of those authors who start a great story and then somehow just vanish into thin air, leaving their readers with an unfinished story. Well hopefully not. But I shouldn't be unless my hand just spontaneously falls off my wrist or something. (Hopefully not. Life's hard with just one hand.) I think that this story has about 5 to 6 more chapters left to it so let start on Chapter 12. Gomen nasai to all my faithful readers and Domo arigato! Ja Ne! (waves frantically)