The next few days passed without too many events. Breakfast, lunch, watch his team mates practice, go to the window and look for the girl with the straw hat.
"I can't see her, why won't she come to the park again." He thought. Dinner and then bed. Dreaming, dreaming is the only place he saw Charlie after that day in the park. It was driving him mad.
"She couldn't live too far; she did walk to the park. Or did she? Maybe those kids know where to find her. Maybe I should be looking for them." He thought. Anything to find her.
"Kai…" Tyson said but his voice was lost in the ocean of Kai's thoughts.
"The ice-cream vendor. He's there everyday, maybe he knows…"
"KAI…" Tyson screamed at him. Kai sat right up in his bed and looked around.
"Almost time to go." Tyson said, packing his backpack. Kai had lost so much time and lost track of the date. This woman infected his mind and made it a pink swirling, strawberry and vanilla ice-cream cone. He didn't like it much, but he wasn't about to complain. He liked strawberry and vanilla ice-cream anyway. The thought of her made him smile.
"Look at you, you don't want to eat, you can't sleep and now you're smiling to yourself like an idiot. What did that girl do to you?" Tyson said, sitting on the chair in the corner.
"What girl?" he said, getting up and walking to the bathroom. He splashed cool water onto his face and stared at himself in the mirror.
"The one you met in the park, you haven't been you normal grumpy self ever since you met her." Tyson said, folding his legs under him.
"Well, Tyson, I'm almost 25. Maybe I want to settle down someday. Is there any harm in that? You understand, you got engaged to Hilary last year. Maybe I feel the same." Kai said walking to his rucksack and pulling it closed.
"With this, girl, what's her name?" Tyson baited him. Kai packed his things up and swung the rucksack over his shoulder.
"Charlie, her name is Charlie." Kai said, walking up to him. "So, where are we going?" he asked. Tyson stood up and looked at Kai like he had lost his mind.
"The tournament, it's today. Wow, she really scrambled your brains." Tyson said, walking out the door.
"Maybe." Kai said, closing the door behind him. They climbed into the elevator and the uncomfortable silence was filled with even more uncomfortable elevator music. The lift doors opened and they walked out to the shuttle that was waiting for them.
"Come on, we're going to be late." Ray called out to them.
"Yeah, yeah, keep your ponytail on." Kai said, getting onto the bus and walking to the back of the shuttle, sitting down in the corner. The bus started up and began to drive to the beyblade stadium. As they drove past the park, Kai turned his head and looked for the girl with the straw hat.
"There she is!" he screamed out loud. "Stop the bus!" he screamed and the driver slammed on breaks. His mind raced and he was about to get up and out the bus when she turned her head. It wasn't her. He sunk down into the seat, folded his arms and looked ahead of him. The team was looking at him over their seats.
"What you looking at? It's not her, just go." he shouted at them. They all looked at each other and looked ahead of them again.
"Hey, have you practiced at all?" Ray asked him.
"No." Kai said. It was the first time in his life that he had been distracted from the goal. The tournament. Winning. All he wanted was to see her again. Speak to her some more. Maybe go out on a real date this time.
"My mind has been somewhere else." He added, looking out the window.