Beyblade Fan Fiction ❯ Solitary Flame/A Final Spark ❯ Toilet Underwear ( Chapter 14 )

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Chapter 14

"Well that tells me a lot!"

To make this long story a bit shorter, I told him everything that happened last night. Everything from the odd tour guide to the magazine, to the car crash.

"And then I read the magazine, now I feel really bad for what I said…" I explained, biting my lip gently.

"What you said wasn't really that bad." Rei tried to assure me, not succeeding by the way.

"Would you talk to me if I said those things to you?" I asked, already sure of his answer.

"I would." Came his voice. I looked at him in surprise, "Really. No matter how mean you are to me." He smiled.

"Thanks, Rei." I thanked him greatfully.

"No problem. Will you just talk to Kai?" he pleaded.

Reality struck me. Talk to Kai? After he had ignored me in the stands?

"I'm not talking until he apologizes." I blurted out. I hadn't meant to say that aloud, but it just flew out of my mouth.

Rei gave me a long look, "Alright. I'll see you later, Des." He waved and left.

A few days later, I was walking around the city in the markets when a familiar face crossed my path.

"Jacquie!" I smiled and waved my hands above the huge crowd so she could see me. I saw another hand wave back to signal she saw me. After a few minutes, Jacquie and I met up near a mango stand.

"Big crowd, huh?" she stated.

"No!" I replied sarcastically, "There's like, no one here!"

"Funny, Mannings." We both laughed, "Anyways I'm sorry about after the match. I kind of got moody."

"Don't worry about it," I shrugged, "losing is hard for a lot of us."

"Well you better do me proud and win this tournament!" she grinned.

"You bet! Hey, now that we're both here, let's do some more shopping!"

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After shifting through tons of clothing, shoes, jewelry, and new Beyblade parts, our day of shopping was over.

"Awesome top you got, Jacquie!' I stared in awe as she held up her new long-flowing-sleeved-black-and-red "Marika" top.

"Thanks!" Jacquie smiled, "Today was really cool!"

"Yeah…" I said, maybe sounding a bit too down. No matter how hard I try to run away from reality, it always ends up standing right in front of me. Clothes wouldn't make Kai talk to me, nor would it make everything better.

"Are you okay?" she asked.

"No. Kai wont talk to me, and this really really annoying horoscope is confusing the hell out of me." I answered.

"Horoscope? What horoscope?"

"The one in the magazine on the stand there." I pointed.

"You actually read Beygirlz?" she asked humorously.

"Well I've only read a few pages of the issue this tour guide gave me." I said, a bit annoyed.

Jacquie walked over to the stand and bought the magazine, then she walked back while reading my horoscope.

"To choose the right friends or the wrong… Be sure to look out for a troubled friend…" she nodded while reading, "You believe this?"

It was my turn to nod, "Greatly."

"Before I tell you what's on my mind… Let's get off of this bench and lug our shopping bags around." She suggested.

"Okay, okay." I agreed, grabbing my dozen shopping bags and starting to walk back to the hotel with Jacquie right behind me.

"Really, Des," Jacquie questioned after we got to my hotel room, "you don't believe in this garbage; do you?"

"I do." I answered simply.

"It's not very practical, believing in horoscopes." She bgan, "I don't believe it but I guess what you think is right…"

"Change of topic. Remember the last time we went shopping? You had to leave in midsentence?" I asked.

Jacquie just looked at me for a few seconds, "…no."

"Don't you remember? We were talking about Kenny and then suddenly you had to leave." I explained.

"I-I don't know what you're talking about!" she argued.

"Jacquie, I KNOW you don't have THAT bad of a short term memory."

"I'm not telling you anything." She made up her mind stubbornly.

"Please?" I pleaded.

"No."

"With cherries on top!"

"No."

"And chocolate fudge sprinkles!"

"No."

"I'll buy you that black skirt we saw at Target today!"

She paused, considering the dea., "No."

"But Jacquie!"

"You wont stop bugging me, will you?"

I shook my head with an evil grin.

Just as I thought, she relented, "Fine. But this has to stay between the two of us. Got it?"

"I put my hand against my heart, "Promise."

Jacquie sighed, "It was two years ago…"

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Flashback, Jacquie POV

"Hey, Kieran!" I called. A tall, blond haired teen turned, waved, and came my way.

"Hey, Jacquie!" he greeted, pulling me into a hug, "How's my best girl?"

"Perfect, now!" I answered, content with the world. I thought that it couldn't get any better than this. Unfortunately, all good things must come to an end.

One bright, Tuesday morning (which happened to be Valentines Day), the phone rang. I went to answer it, but the answering machine picked it up instead. I let the answering machine take the call.

"Hey! You've reached the Konkin residence, Leave a message!" came my pre-recorded voice, followed by a beeping noise.

"Hey, Jacquie, it's Kieran." I heard, "We need to talk." He hung up, leaving me very confused. I knew nothing good could come after `we need to talk'.

I grabbed my jacket and headed to Kieran's house.

When I got there, my hand trembled when I pressed the button for the doorbell. Kieran opened the door and let me in.

"I got your message." I stated, trying to sound cheery. It was probably a Valentines Day surprise, I tried to assure myself.

"Yeah. I don't know how to say this so I'll just come up and say it."

How hard could `Happy Valentines' be? I thought to myself.

"I hooked up with Ashley last night, and I really like her," He began to explain, "so we're going out now."

Tears began to well up in my eyes, "So you're dumping me for that slut, Ash? Kieran, how could you do this to me?"

"Ash isn't a slut." He tried to defend her.

"Yeah, she's just slept with what; 10 guys?"

He just shrugged his shoulders. I left.

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Destiny POV

"I cried for months," she told me, "and sometimes I still cry now. I just don't want to get hurt again."

"It's not that bad, Jacquie." I comforted, "It's better to have loved and lost than not to have loved at all."

"I'll think about it." She said, giving me a small grin. She looked at the clock above the computer, "Oh shoot. I've gotta go for practice. I'll be seeing you, Des!" she called, halfway through the door. I waved and lay on my bed.

I lay there and thought about the horoscope.

"What could it mean?" I asked myself, "Light, bright, what?" I let out a growl.

I turned over and thought some more. I was so tired. So… Tired…

Knock Knock Knock.

I sat up, straightened my clothes, and called out, "Come in!"

"Hey, Destiny."

"Oh hey, Kenny!" I greeted, "…what are you doing here?"

"Is this a bad time?" he asked.

"No, I just didn't expect you, that's all." I explained.

"Okay. Well can we talk?" I looked into his eyes and saw pure innocence.

"Sure…?" I hesitantly accepted.

"Well.. I-it's about Jacquie," he stuttered, "does she have a boyfriend?"

"N-not… That I know of, why?"

Kenny blushed a deep shade of red, "No reason at all, Destiny. If you think I like her, you are very wrong."

I grinned, "You're a bad liar, you know that?"

He sighed, "I know. Tyson told me that when I tried to tell him I didn't flush his underwear down the toilet.""

I looked at him in confusion, "I don't even want to know…"