Sorry, no action or adventure to be found here, just straight up romance featuring Jaden and Blair!

Disclaimer: I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh GX.

Chapter One

The girl scanned the crowd, looking for anyone she knew. When she spotted an old friend, she broke into a huge smile and ran over.

"Hi! Remember me?"

The brown-haired boy was surprised by the girl who had suddenly appeared beside him.

"Um..." he looked at the vaguely familiar face. "You do look familiar."

"It's me, Blair! I made it into Duel Academy!"

"Blair?" Jaden's mind was drawing a blank.

"I told you I'd be back!" Blair then noticed Jaden's confused expression. Before she could get upset that he had forgotten her, Syrus piped up.

"You're that girl that had a crush on Zane! Then you ended up liking Jaden! Guess she still remembers you, Jay!"

Jaden smiled as he finally remembered her.

"Well, I am hard to forget!"

"That's for sure," Blair sighed. Jaden looked a little scared by her admission, so she hurried on. "But I remember you, too, Syrus. You're Zane's brother."

"That's right! But Zane's not here any more. He graduated and now he's one of the top duelists in the Pro League!" Syrus said proudly.

"I know, I've heard about him. He's really good. Well, that's no surprise, since he was always really good. That's one of the reasons why I liked him," she turned pink. "Oops, too much information," she said, embarrassed at what she'd revealed.

"Don't worry. That's one of the reasons everybody likes Zane," Syrus said, putting Blair at ease.

"I'm a Slifer red like you, Jaden. Do you mind if I hang around with you? I don't know that many people here yet."

"Sure, why not?" Jaden answered. "The more the merrier!"

Blair tagged along with the two boys and got introduced to all their friends. First, they met up with Hassleberry, a guy Jaden roomed with. Then there was the insult-spewing Chazz, who also lived at the Slifer dorm. And Alexis, who could forget her? She was the one that had hung around with Zane when Blair had come to the Academy the first time. She noticed the closeness between Alexis and Jaden and wondered if that would be a problem for her in trying to win Jaden's heart. She shook off her worries as she met more of Jaden's friends: Jesse, with his cute Southern accent; the brainy Bastion and finally, Aster, who was also a cutie. Wow, this had to be the hottest group of guys on campus!

After meeting their friends, they headed over to the school. Blair wanted to see the classroom. When they got inside, her eyes widened. It was huge! It was so much larger than her old school.

"Where do you guys sit?"

"We sit with all the other Slifer reds, over there," Syrus pointed.

Blair started walking to where he had pointed, at the front of the room.

"Does that mean I get to sit here, too?"

"Sure, you're a Slifer red!" Syrus exclaimed.

Blair noticed Jaden's unhappy expression and sighed. He certainly wasn't making this easy for her! She looked at a beaming Syrus and smiled. At least his friends were nice.

The rest of the day passed as much of the same. She tagged along after Jaden and he basically ignored her. But at least he was nice about it. He patiently answered her questions when she asked them, but other than that, he didn't talk to her. This was going to be way harder than she had thought! She had imagined he would take one look at her and fall madly in love with her. He had to love her, because she loved him, right? Isn't that how it worked? Well, not that it had worked that way with Zane, but she had only been a little kid back then, so that didn't count. Jaden wasn't as old as Zane, and she had grown up, so it was different this time. Yes, it was different this time and she was going to make sure there was a different ending this time, too!