Rei slept in again, he has slept in now for the past 3 days. "wake up Rei" Mariah jumps on his bed and scares Rei out of bed "ah! Mariah! please dont do that again!" Rei wakes up to a sunny Tuesday the past thunderstorm had left rain on the streets, and raindrops still dripping form the gutter. Rei hops out of bed "why did you wake me up Mariah? couldn't you sleep? sorry about my disorganisation.... I have no spare matresses in the house, and Kai took the foldout bed" "its ok, the futton you made with the spare quilts was comfortable" Mariah gets off Rei's bed "The reason why I woke you up today is because today is a special day Rei! Do you know what today is?" Rei thinks for a minute "......I have no clue Mariah" "I didn't think you would, some friend you are.... kidding" Mariah teases "today is three years since we last saw eachother at the Asian tournament!" "whoa how did you remember that?" Mariah smirks "I have a good memory". "so Mariah says, grabbing onto Rei's back "What do you want to do?" "I'm sorry?" Mariah lets go of his back "dont tell me you forgot about after the match, we said we'd hang out....well we never did" Rei turns around "oh I get you, you want to go out right?" Mariah ruffles his hair "full marks for you mister" Rei blushes "yeah.... so where do you want to go?" Mariah smiles "I know just the place...."
"The carnival?!" Rei hops out of his car "Mariah....don't you think were too old to go to a local carnival?" "not me Rei, I missed out on things like this" Mariah grabs Rei's hand and runs to the front gate, where Rei graciously pays for the front tickets. "Lets go on the roller coaster!" Mariah shouts" "not so loud Mariah I'm right here" Rei says "ok.....but im not good on rides".
"I think I'm going to be sick......" Rei stumbles off the roller coaster and onto a bench "Awww come one Rei thats only the fourth time on the coaster" Mariah says encouragingly "lets go again" Rei slowly gets up "Lets just go on something less exiting first, before you kill me" Mariah whines "oh come on Rei....I dont want to go on anything else!!! I've never done anything like this before in my life" Rei grabs her hand "come on lets go on the ferris wheel, I've heard it has a great view at the top".
"This is soooo boooring" Mariah moans "How long does it take to finish a ride!!!" "well since were stuck up here you might as well tell me about your past few years" Rei comments, "We are'nt up here for that long Rei" Mariah says. Rei faces Mariah and sits up "ok, then...tell me why did you come back to Bey city??" Mariah pauses for a minute "well...if you must know....I met Kai at the Russian tournament. And he told me he was heading back to meet you guys again, so I decided to go as well, I had some complications trying to leave.....and in the end...." Mariah finishes "Go on..." Rei says eagerly "never mind I'll tell you later" "No come on Mariah.. tell me now does it have something to do with the White tigers???" Mariah just looks down at the floor.
Rei and Mariah get home before sunset. They walk into the lounge room and on the couch is Kai snoring. Mariah nearley cracks up laughing, and Rei holds his laughter in "and I thought it was you Rei!" Mariah giggles "very funny" The two sit down at the table drinking on some coffee and watching the sun set. "So, this is your first day back here in bey city, where do you want to go for dinner" Rei asks, "I dont know, its been too long for me to remember where is a good spot for me to eat." Mariah gets up "Lets just go find somewhere nice to go to in the city, I'm sure there are good places that you know of Rei".
"This is my favourite restaraunt of all time Mariah, all you can eat Vietnamese, Chinese and Japanese" Rei announces proudly "you are such an Idiot Rei, but you do have a good taste in food, thats for sure" Mariah says as she sits down to their table. "Lets just have the works, what do you think Mariah?" "That sound great". The two sit down to the dinner table outside on the balcony of the restaraunt, the waiters push trolleys around the tables and offer people all kinds of dishes from around Asia mongolian lamb, fried rice, tempura prawns, duck, ox and much more.
"ohhh, my stomach.....now I know how Tyson feels!" Rei groans "Yeah I hear you Rei" Mariah says while sipping on her champagne.
"Wow check out the beautiful sunset Rei!!" The sun is just above the horizon, but the clouds are cutting off half of the rays to form what looks like a jellyfish figure that lights up the water. "Thats amazing I've never seen a better sunset" "And I've never had a better day with you Rei" Mariah smiles "I've never been soo spoilt" "Who says I'm paying Mariah?" Mariah slaps Rei on the shoulder "Just kidding Mariah, its my pleasure to take you out". "come on lets go" Rei helps Mariah out of the chair, walks over and pays the bill.
"Do you want to go home now Mariah?" Rei says, driving home. "why? is there anywhere else to go?" Mariah asks. "well I was thinking of going down to the point, by the beach" Rei replies. "It has some great views of the swell comming in at night, its quite spectacular" "ok sure, sounds great" Mariah says.
"Wow this is soo cool" Mariah says as they get to the beachfront. The ocean is lit up so people can swim at night, the water looks soo blue and calm at night it reflects into the sky and nearley gives and auroura borealis effect. "yeah I thought you would like it Mariah" "this has been the best day Rei, I just still feel bad about 3 years ago though" Mariah confesses "why?" Rei says, putting his arm around her, Rei clearley see's that this has been bothering her for a while. "well....you know how cruel I was acting to you before by acting like you were a traitor, and telling you, youre not part of the team anymore, without even knowing why you left our city!. "I'll admit, when you left, I was seriously hurt, but it was immediatley hidden by my sudden anger about your actions." "Mariah its ok" Rei assures her. "I just dont feel right about what I did to you, after all when you beat Lee I went over to congratulate you, you didn't feel like talking to me." "so thats probably the main reason why I didn't go back home with you, and continued on with the White Tigers"
"Mariah you didn't need to tell me all of that" Rei says, while walking up the steps to his home "I know, I just wanted to get that issue off my back" Mariah replies. "well you dont need to feel bad about what happened in the past Mariah, just look foward to the future" Rei says kindly "oh I will, don't you worry Rei." Rei gives Mariah a kiss on the cheek "thaks for a great day Mariah". Mariah blushes. Arriving inside Kai is snoring again "put a sock in it Kai" Mariah says "come on Mariah theres plenty of room for a futton in my room" "great thanks Rei" Mariah picks up her futton and sets it up in Rei's room.
The time is 1:30 in the morning, Rei is staring through his skylight and letting his thoughts drift him off to sleep. *I feel great, now that Mariah is now back in my life again. Things couldn't be going better for me* Just as he is beggining to drift off to sleep a loud roar of thunder wakes him up and then the rain begins to pour down.
