Your Eyes Don't Lie.

Chapter One: Something's Wrong.

It's a beautiful morning in Ninjago City. Children are playing in the parks, and everyone is exchanging friendly smiles in the street. Cars are speeding by and bike chains click. It's just a normal day.

A teenage boy, who just turned sixteen is sitting in his room. The one he shares with his friends, the ones he had been with for many years and much more to come. This boy is Jay. Jay was normally a happy and energetic guy, but recently he's been down. He rarely ever jokes about anything anymore. He barely smiles. He's just not the same.

"Hey, Jay." A rather small boy said with a smile.

"Hi," Jay said back. He looked at his friend. "How are you doing Lloyd?" He asked.

Lloyd nervously coughed. "Well. Kai said breakfast is ready." He coughed again. "He wanted me to come get you, and well I did..." He trailed off.

Jay sighed. "I'll be down in a bit." He grumbled. Jay the watched in silence as his energetic friend Lloyd bounced out of the room. "Boy, for a teenager he sure has a lot of energy," Jay mumbled.

"Ya' got that right." Someone pitched in.

Jay jumped and sat up quickly from his bed. "Ah!"

He heard muffled laughter. He glanced over to his left, his best friend was holding his right hand over his mouth and laughing into it. "Sorry. Did I scare you?" He asked trying to hold his laughter.

Jay stared at his friend for a while. "Yeah. You did." He said calmly.

His friend smiled at him. "Come on. Let's go get breakfast." His smile widened.

"Okay, okay. I'm coming to get breakfast now Cole." Jay rolled his eyes and climbed down quickly from his bunk bed. Cole waited patiently. Jay was always amazed at how patient Cole could be at some times. Normally he'd run straight into the action, just like Kai.

"Ladies first!" Cole joked, muffling his laughter with his hand again.

Jay chuckled a little. "Go on then." He said.

Cole stopped laughing. "Hey! I was aiming that at you!"

Jay giggled. "Oh sorry. I thought you were talking about yourself!"

The Master of Earth just laughed. He walked through the doorway, Jay not far behind him.

These two had a special connection. They used to fight all the time. Every day. For hours. Now, they get along really well. Sometimes they have their moments, but they clicked.

"I got him!" Cole announced as he pushed the door into the dining room open. Jay walked in behind him, with his hands shoved into his blue jacket pockets.

"Finally!" Lloyd exclaimed. "I couldn't get him out of the room!" He threw his hands up high into the air and let out an annoyed groan. Jay sat down in his seat, along with Cole sitting next to him.

Kai grinned. "You look like crap dude." He snickered whilst staring at Jay. The Lightning Master just rolled his eyes.

"Thank you!" He said sarcastically. "I appreciate the compliment!"

Kai snickered. "I know you do."

"Now, now brothers. Let's not fight at the table." Jay's other friend pitched in.

"Sorry Zane," Kai said quickly.

Zane smiled. Zane was a very kind hearted spirit. He was also made of titanium. The Titanium Ninja. A Nindroid, and a great friend.

Lloyd laughed. "You can't insult Jay Kai, you look like Sonic the Hedgehog with your hair!" He pointed at Kai's spiked up hair and then burst out laughing.

Cole joined in with the laughter. "You're right! He does!"

Kai's face heated up. Clearly embarrassed. "Oh HA HA!" He crossed his arms and went silent. "You're so funny, Lloyd!"

The boys had casual chatter as they ate breakfast. Jay stayed silent unless someone spoke to him. Cole didn't like that. He turned his head to Jay and lowered his voice. "Are you okay?" He whispered.

Jay didn't answer. He just looked away. This made Cole worry, even more, he had been noticing strange patterns in Jay's emotions. He wasn't usually like this.

"..." Cole frowned in concern. "Jay. Don't ignore me." He commanded.

Jay growled and turned his attention to Cole. "What...?"

"What's wrong?" He asked.

Jay sighed. "You wouldn't understand."

"..." Cole didn't know how to answer to that.

"Hey, gang!" A female voice piped up.

Everyone directed their attention to the door.

Kai's younger sister Nya stood there.

"Nya!" Kai said with a big smile. "Hey, Sis!"

"Morning Kai." She giggled. Nya sat down next to Jay. It was the only available seat. Jay didn't look too happy about it.

"Hey Jay," Nya said glancing over at him. "How are you?"

Jay hesitated to answer. "Oh, I'm...fine!" He lied. "Just great! You?" He pulled a crooked smile. Nya didn't see past his lies and nodded. Jay nodded back at her and looked down at his full plate of food. He wasn't hungry. "I'm going back into the room," Jay announced.

"Why?" Lloyd asked. "You haven't eve-"

"Shut up." Jay cut in. "I'm going back." He stood up and left the room rather quickly.

Everyone sat in silence, utterly confused.

Why was Jay acting like this?

Cole pondered to himself. He had noticed the tension between him and Nya, maybe something happened between them. He wasn't sure. Jay had only started acting like this recently. He knew Nya and him were still together. So it's not possible that it could be Nya. Kai had annoyed him, it could be Kai. Cole shrugged it off. He'd check on Jay later. He doesn't want to get in the way of Nya and him.

"Nya, you should check on him." Zane nodded.

Nya stood up slowly. "I will." She ran out of the room.

Nya ran down the hallway and came to a stop when she was outside the boys room. She knocked on it four times, then walked in. "Jay, it's me."

Jay let out a groan.

"...Jay." Nya called out.

Jay sat up from his bed. "What?"

"What's wrong?" She asked putting her hands on her hips.

"Nothing! I already told Cole that!" Jay raised his voice, clearly annoyed. No one knows the reason.

"Then why are you acting so rude?" Nya asked.

"Why not!?" Jay growled.

Nya let out a disappointed sigh. "Jay, you've changed."

That caught Jay's attention. "Huh?"

"Every since we got into that argument, you've been moping about. " Nya pointed out.

Jay stared at Nya. "Well..." He couldn't think of a reason.

"You've been avoiding me. You've been avoiding everyone else, but Cole. Is there something you need to tell me?" She asked. Obviously hinting something.

Jay shook his head. "Nya, please. I'm tired." He pretended to yawn, covering his motor mouth.

Nya sighed. "It's 9AM." She scoffed.

Jay shrugged his shoulders. "I don't care."

"You don't care about much!" She turned on her heels and stormed out of the room.

Jay didn't care. His mind was too wrecked to care. All he wanted was to be alone.

Why doesn't anyone get that?

Hello! I hoped you liked that first chapter, also there isn't enough Bruiseshipping out there so you can guess what this is. I hope you liked it. It'll get better as it goes along!

- Spoon.