Warning: This story my not be suitable for young readers. At some point in chapters there will be mature content that some parents may not find suitable for their children to read.

Disclaimer: I do not own Beyblade. I only claim my OC's Ana and Issac and of course the plot

Chapter 4:

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The two of them walked into the empty house quietly. She kept her head down in embarassment not wanting to show her face. In the end they had left the restaurant because she was in such a fret about being there. The other guys had wound up getting some company while at the bar so Tala had suggested they go home, he had no intention of having company like that. Upon going to get Issac from the neighbors the child had thrown a screaming fit when Ana tried to bring him home so he was left there to spend the night, which didn't go over well with her either. He watched her plop down on the couch heavily.

"He'll be fine." he assured her.

"No.." she finally spoke up, "I'm glad he was having fun and wanted to stay. You guys wanted to do something nice for me and I screwed up."

"So you're afraid of public places so what?" he asked raising a red eyebrow at her.

She looked up at him angry. Her eyes seemed to darken to a fierce green color the look almost made him want to take a step back. There was a time when Julia had looked at him in a similar fashion, well actually several times. No matter what he did or said it had never been the right thing at the right time. Except when Julia was angry it wasn't scary, he wouldn't admit this feeling out loud to anyone ever. He could understand why the other guys were so willing to take her in even though they had never said why. There were thousands of questions running through his head of how things had come to be the way they were, but every time he thought to ask it felt wrong. None of the guys including himself were the type of people to pry. All of them had just accepted things and kept going. While the four of them were orphans together it had never been the past that mattered only the present and future.

"I'm not afraid." she said breaking into his thoughts. "I've never been to a restaurant before. The only places I go is the park and back here."

"Wh.."

"You can't really afford to sit and eat in a restaurant when you're an orphan you know?" she said looking away.

He chuckled after hearing her statement, it probably wasn't the most appropriate time but he couldn't help himself. The coincidence of her saying that after his previous thoughts was impractical.

"It's not funny." she said through clenched teeth

"Sorry." he said "Me too."

"Huh?"

He cleared his throat to get himself together. Taking a seat on the couch he leaned back comfortably and laid his arm on the back of it.

"I'm an orphan too." he explained "All of us are. The only family we've ever had are each other…well we did live with this one guy for a few years. He adopted us and we kept our original names, but he was all hardcore military like. The guy enjoyed beating kids into submission to get what he wanted. Unfortunately in our case, he was a con artist and we were trained to be his minions and do things that teenagers shouldn't be doing. Anyways, once we had stolen enough money from other people and him we got the hell out of there. If you haven't noticed we are a rebellious bunch."

He looked at her out the corner of his eye to see her staring at him listening intently to his story. Leaning forward he picked the remote up off the coffee table and turned the T.V. on.

"We were a group of young teenage runaway boys. For the first couple years we continued to do what he had raised us to do. It wasn't a proud moment to keep doing the evil…deeds I guess you could call them. Heh. We even made a fake I.D. so that Spencer could get an apartment for all of us to live in. I don't know if you've noticed but Ian's a tech genius. He can hack anything and can build anything from well..anything. Don't tell him I said that though. The information will go to his head."

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She sat there listening to him ramble on. This was the most the two of them had ever spoken since they'd met. Honestly there were tons of things she wanted to talk to him about and tell him, but she was worried about getting too personal and for some reason she couldn't think of some of the things she wanted to say. Tala reminded her of someone she had once been close to before things had gone south. It wasn't often she remembered the good times between them only the fall out. Turning her head away from him she smiled at little at a joke that had been said on the TV.

"You ok?" Tala asked poking her.

She blinked for a second from having her thoughts interrupted and looked at him. His ice blue eyes looked at her curiously and somewhat concerned.

"I'm fine." she smiled.

"Well you don't look it."

The smile on her face disappeared and she sat there staring at him. He certainly was being talkative tonight. Usually the guys just left her alone and didn't go into it. She knew they knew something was wrong, but they never asked.

"If it doesn't upset you may I ask a question?"

He looked up at the ceiling thinking for a second and then shrugged.

"What do you not like about Issac and I?"

The redhead ran a hand through his hair and sighed heavily. His hand made its way back towards his face and his pinched the bridge of his nose.

"Nevermind." she quickly said. "It's none of my business."

Ana stood up and started walking to the kitchen.

"You're probably thirsty how bout I get you a drink."

"Can you keep a secret?" he asked

His question stopped her completely in her tracks and she spun around as the small pink tinge appeared on his cheeks. The act was childish and cute. She was thrown off guard by his childish behavior and how she was leaning on his left arm with his arm twisted so that his hand covered his mouth.

"Yes." she said slowly while sitting next to him with her legs crossed Indian style

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The front door opened and their other three room mates stumbled in. They were all smiles and laughing about something. Bryan eyed them on the couch and stopped. His smile disappeared and his brow furrowed in their direction.

"Where have you two been?" he asked.

"Here." she answered quickly " I had to check on Issac. You know me I'm clingy with him."

"You really need to chill out with that." Ian deadpanned. "Anyways you my red headed sour puss miss out!"

Tala rolled his blue eyes in annoyance and stood up without and word and started heading upstairs. He waved a wordless goodnight and headed upstairs. She watched him walk upstairs and then smiled at the guys.

"I think he doesn't find me that annoying after all."