-1Disclaimer: I do not own Beyblade. Just the plot, what happens and a bunch of OC characters.

A/n: Here we go for a third time! I remember my junior year like it was yesterday, it was two years ago. I don’t know what’s going to happen after this one, but until this is done, here it is, starting with the lovely Miss Tachibana. [This is set several weeks after the events of ‘Fading Into The Summer’]

Still Not Going To Fade Away

Chapter One: Hilary

9/03 4:14pm

Today was the first day of junior year. This time last year I was nervously biting off my nails for sophomore year. Now I am only one step away from becoming a leader of the pack. Last year I had the boys plus Michelle. This year I still have the boys, plus Mariah and Wednesday but minus Michelle. Look what a year has done. I expected to see her roll up this morning, holding hands with Kai but when Kai turned up alone this morning, I knew she was avoiding me. I asked Kai where Michelle was (Very Politely) and he said that she had transferred to San Ferrano High. I froze in shock. Michelle hated me that much to transfer to another school just to get away. Everyone was in shock. Obviously she hadn’t said anything. I remember pacing around my room on her birthday, with my phone in hand, deciding whether or not to text her a simple “Happy Birthday”. Now I wish I had. Then I could’ve stopped all this stupid bullshit and made her not transfer to another school. Kai said to me during German (A class I would’ve shared with Michelle), that Michelle wanted peace between her and me and then, that’s when she’d wanted to start all over again. It didn’t help me feel any less worse. I guess I should talk to her.

9/04 6:57pm

School wasn’t much better than yesterday. It was still weird sitting in German or French class and not have Michelle swearing in those languages underneath her breathe next to me or her during a class break telling me the latest gossip about such and such or which teacher did what. After school, I caught the next bus that went some where near Michelle’s grandparents house and went on a search for her, and our friendship. I turned up, nervous as hell with very sweaty palms, sweaty in general body and freaking out. Melissa, the air-head, answered the door. “Oh.” Was the greeting. I asked if Michelle was home (I knew that anyway, her car was out the front) and Melissa said up in her room. I went upstairs and knocked on Michelle’s door. She swung the door open violently and stared at me. “I thought you were Melissa coming to complain again. What do you want?” What did I want? I wanted our friendship to return to it’s normal state. I wanted Michelle to return to our school, not stay at San Ferrano. I wanted her to be happy with Kai. I wanted everything to return to normal. I couldn’t move my mouth. Not in front of her. “If your coming to apologize, then hurry up.” She sounded so harsh, but the look in her eye said more. It was just all an act. She was hurt. I was hurt. “Can we be friends?” I asked her, trying to smile and look like I meant it at the same time. “No.” As soon as that word came out of her mouth, I turned and ran out of that giant prison cell and all the way home.

9/05 10:26pm

School wasn’t much fun. It’s too hard to look at Kai because of Michelle. It’s not his fault but every time I see him, I think of her and I just almost start crying. I think of how such best friends we were and now, she can’t even stand to be my friend. I didn’t even hang out with the gang at lunchtime. Tyson took me to the library to yap to me about Brooklyn, who goes to the same school as Michelle. He and Tyson are coming over tomorrow afternoon. Apparently, I need to meet him.

9/06 8:47pm

Brooklyn is odd. In a way, he is really… sexy… sorry Tyson… but it’s true and he has an odd personality. I would’ve never guessed he was gay. Like Tyson. You can’t tell. You’d just think they’re best friends. Though Brooklyn gave me the weirdest look when he turned up to the park. He raised his eyebrow and smirked. It reminded me of Tala. Then it reminded me that no one besides me knows about Tyson and Brooklyn. I felt very special as I was the only one who saw these two together. Then it made me feel really lonely. Like I’ll never ever get to feel that kind of… togetherness. School was almost as bad as it has been for the last couple of days. Everyone keeps coming up to me and asking me why Michelle has left, like I know the answer. I don’t know that answer and I just want to scream FUCK OFF at them. I guess her sisters would be sick of that too.

A/n: There we go! Please Review!!

Emily-Jade