So, I found a list I made way back that had everyone's requests written down on it. I saw that RedWheeler had requested something from when Max and Mariam first started dating before she made another request at my request, because I forgot about her initial request. (XP) So, I smooshed it together with her current request – Max, Mariam, and a bus.

I have since lost this list, because our room's being renovated, so…it would be in everyone's best interest to check my profile for an important update on what's going down with the things I've owed you for over a year now.

I don't own Beyblade.

Hand In Mine

Mariam sat down next to him, and his heart fluttered. She smiled. He just sort of stared and grinned dazedly. Somewhere in the back of his mind he realized that he must look like a real idiot. It never quite reached the front of his mind, though. So he just kept staring and grinning. Like an idiot.

A ball of paper hit him in the back of the head.

He snapped out of it and turned around to see Rick looking pointedly at him. He saw a flash of blue out of the corner of his eye; Mariam had turned around, too. She rolled her eyes. They were beautiful and green. Her hand touched his shoulder, and she guided him back around. He could still feel her fingers long after they let him go.

"Your friends are ridiculous."

"Yeah."

Feeling as though his hands needed something to do, he worked on untangling the paper. There were several rather lewd suggestions scribbled in Michael's and Eddy's handwriting, and one nicer one written in Rick's. "Hold her hand," it said. Easy for Rick to say.

"Are you gonna do it?"

He jumped, subconsciously scrunching the paper up in the process.

"Do what?" he asked a little too quickly.

Mariam raised an eyebrow.

Max blushed.

"Hold my hand. Not the others. No way in hell I'd let you do the others." She smiled slyly. "Unless you had your heart set on some of those others?"

"N-no. Not particularly. Or not at all, really. I…no."

Mariam smirked and slipped her hand into Max's, giving it a squeeze. "I didn't think so." She planted a soft kiss on his cheek. "Good boy."

Max's face burned scarlet, and he bowed his head to hide his smile.