Okay, then this one should bump me up past two hundred reviews. We're at one hundred and ninety-nine right now. So close.
Disclaimer: I don't own Beyblade.
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"I don't wanna live without you."
Don't Wanna Live Without You
"Your turn." Max smiled smugly, having finally managed to beat Mariam at thumb wrestling. "Tell me a secret – something you've never told anyone before. What don't I know about you?"
He sat forward on his knees and leaned across the coffee table at the center of the Tates' living room. He raised an eyebrow at Mariam, mirroring the look she often gave him. His soft, round, boyish face wasn't used to the expressions her sharp, accentuated visage could house. He looked pretty amusing. Pair that with the diction that wasn't his (they were more like the words of a trying-too-hard flirt) and he was making a fool out of himself. He enjoyed every minute of it.
"You shouldn't try so hard, Max." Mariam leaned forward as well and executed the raised-eyebrow expression the proper way. "I can't take you seriously."
"Have you ever?"
"Not really."
He tapped his chin thoughtfully and then shrugged. "Fair enough. That can't be your secret though."
"Fine," Mariam sighed, faking a certain degree of airy boredom. "You want me to tell you something I've never told anybody else?"
Max nodded earnestly.
Mariam cupped his face and pulled him close, pressing her lips to his ear. He shivered and instinctively tried to pull away as her breath tickled his skin. She held fast and hissed a phrase she'd never said to anyone before.
"I don't want to live without you."
Max let out a breath he held as a nervous habit. "Mariam, that's-" His breath hitched as her lips caught his cheek. "-sweet."
Two hands tightened around a mug. Judy tiptoed back into the kitchen, annoyed by Mariam's terrorizing of her son and sweet nothings that she couldn't whisper just a bit louder. Why did their secrets have to be so secret?
A/N: Judy was thrown in for my amusement.
Did you all get the new chapter notifications for the last chapter? I didn't get mine until the next day so I just wanted to make sure everyone got them, because it would be just like Fanfiction to wait until I wouldn't send out messages to not send the notifications to everyone.
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