Jaden flinched as a textbook landed on his head.
"Jaden! Phone away!" Crowler yelled.
Jaden sighed and dropped his phone into his pocket. A few minutes went by and then Jaden's ring tone went off.
"JADEN!" Crowler yelled.
"What? The phone's away!" Jaden whined.
Crowler returned to his lesson, still slightly annoyed. The ring tone went off again. Crowler's hand closed tightly on the chalk.
"JAAAAAAAAAADEN!" he yelled.
Jaden smiled nervously.
"Sorry," he said.
Crowler loosened his grip on the chalk and kept writing. Jaden's phone went off again and the chalk in Crowler's hand broke. Jaden pulled out his phone.
"What?" he asked in a harsh whisper. "To the point please, Sara."
Jaden was silent, listening. Then his face lit up.
"You're here?" he exclaimed.
He leapt to his feet and ran out.
"Wait up!" Jesse yelled, running after him with Syrus and Hassleberry on his tail.
Alexis rose and followed them with Bastion and Chazz. Jaden was sprinting for the docks where a boat was docked.
"What is he doing?" Alexis asked.
"I don't know," Bastion replied honestly.
Then Alexis saw it. A girl with black hair, dressed all in black was running towards them. Alexis stopped and watched the girl fling her arms around Jaden who picked her up and spun her around.
"God Sara, I missed you," Jaden laughed.
"And I you!" Sara squealed.
Jaden stopped spinning her but his hug never ceased. Alexis gulped as Sara's dark gaze landed on her. The girl's lips curled in disgust and she gave Alexis what could be considered the nastiest death glare possible. But as Jaden pulled back, Sara was all smiles again.
"I... I did NOT imagine that, did I?" Alexis asked Jesse who was standing right next to her.
"No, you did not. That gal has it in for you, 'Lex," Jesse declared.
Alexis hugged herself, feeling goose bumps.
"Yeah but why?" she asked.
"Jaden, why aren't you looking?" Sara demanded.
Jaden looked at her out of the side of his eye.
"Simply because Chancellor Sheppard knows to keep a close eye on me," he said.
Sara propped her chin on her hand.
"He can tell a bad boy when he sees one," she laughed, brushing Jaden's hair out of his eyes.
Jaden smirked.
"I hear you."
"Jaden! Are you going to stay in there all day or are you coming out soon?" Bastion yelled through the door.
Jaden rolled his eyes and sighed.
"Oh look, my adoring public," he muttered, slightly annoyed.
"Oh go. It'll make Chancellor feel that you're returning to your old, carefree, kid self," Sara said.
"Hey, don't hate the carefree kid self," Jaden said, standing.
He pulled his shirt and jacket on.
"Yeah, yeah," Sara said, rolling over on her bed. "Enjoy."
Once the door closed behind him, Sara sat up.
"Now time to impress him," she declared.
Alexis caught the end of black hair before it vanished around the corner.
"What?" she asked herself following it.
She found Sara kneeling outside Chancellor Sheppard's office, peeking in. An evil grin decorated her face. Slowly, she looked around. Alexis hid around the corner and peeked back into the hall. It was empty. Alexis walked over to Chancellor's office and went in. It was empty, dark and Alexis questioned her own sanity. With nothing of interest in the room, she turned to go.
"Ah ah ahh," Sara taunted, swinging down from the ceiling.
She kicked Alexis right in her stomach and knocked her back onto the Chancellor's desk. Alexis gulped as the door slammed shut of its own free will and the blinds flew shut. Sara crossed her arms.
"Listen here, Lex. I want you to stay away from my Jaden," she hissed.
'A bit straight to the point but okay,' Alexis thought, sitting up and sliding off the desk. "Jaden is a friend. That's it. I don't think it fair that I can't talk to him just because I'm a girl," Alexis declared.
Sara chuckled and soon it escalated into an evil cackle that filled the room.
"You have no clue why I'm telling you to stay away. So, I'll tell you. Jaden has the darkest, tainted soul I've ever encountered. You ,though, the purity of it all sickens me. Like Yin and Yang. But this time, I won't let a single drip of yang meet yin," Sara declared.
Alexis's hand curled into a fist.
"And if I refuse to leave Jaden be? If I keep being his friend? What will you do?" she demanded.
Sara's hand rose and with it, so did Alexis.
"Wha...WHAT!" Alexis cried.
Sara grinned.
"You will," she declared, pushing her hands forward.
Alexis screamed as she was thrown at the window. The force of her hit broke the glass sending her out. At the last second, Alexis grabbed the ledge.
"Now will you?" Sara asked, standing over her.
Alexis glared at her.
"No... never," she declared.
Sara sighed.
"Then I have no use for you," she said, stepping on Alexis's hand.
"Ow!" Alexis cried.
"Sara! ENOUGH!"
Alexis and Sara glanced in the direction of the new voice. Alexis gulped as she saw Jaden. His eyes were glowing red and his hair was almost levitating. Sara stepped back and then sprinted from the room. Jaden watched her before turning to Alexis.
"Lex, I-"
"ACHOO!" Alexis sneezed, her grip failing.
She fell, screaming her throat raw. Air hit her with enough force to make her eyes hurt and the water from them flew past her cheeks and into the air. And suddenly, she wasn't falling anymore. An arm was wrapped tightly around her waist. Glancing up, she discovered Jaden. Wings had sprouted from his back, tearing his shirt but not his jacket which Alexis saw was falling past them. Jaden landed on a ledge a few feet down and let Alexis go.
"J..Jaden. What... is this... is this why you weren't going to come to Duel Academy this year?" Alexis demanded.
Jaden said nothing.
"Love had nothing to do with it! Jaden, why didn't you tell anyone? Why didn't you tell me!" Alexis cried.
Jaden held out a brown leather journal.
"Jaden?" Alexis asked.
Jaden shoved it into her arms.
"Only you," he said, his red eyes meeting hers.
Alexis gulped but nodded.
"Only me," she promised.
Jaden released the journal and backed away, his wings fluffing. He leapt into the air and soared away.