Chapter 1: Jax of Hearts

Groaning, I didn't even bother to lean over to turn off the alarm, I simply cast a spell to do it. I sighed, today's the day; the day when I put into motion my father's plan...or was it our plan? I shook my head as I rose out of bed, I didn't even know anymore.

Casting a spell, I put on the school uniform, including my combat boots; I never go anywhere without them. Next, I walked to the bathroom to see my messy black hair. Tilting my head, thinking of what style I should have it, I casted the spell. I smirked when I saw the perfect result. Hey, what can I say? Elvis had a really good hair style, so why shouldn't I be inspired by it?

Then, I smiled at myself, exposing my teeth. The next spell made them whiter, causing me to grin. Gathering my blue and black magic, I tele-transported out of the bathroom and into the kitchen. I had a view of the living room through there, so I turned on the tv as well. It provided a little noise in this empty house.

I made a bowl filled with cereal and milk appear, then made a spoon appear in my hand. I brought the items with me to the living room, where I sat on the couch enjoying my breakfast and watching tv.

After that, I cast a spell to clean the bowl and spoon, then sent them back to the cupboard. I picked myself up from the couch, turned off the tv, then walked over to the front door. On the coat rack, was one of my leather jackets, ready to be worn. After zipping it up, I put on my black riding gloves, finally, I put on my helmet, strapping it in place. I grabbed my keys.

I stepped outside, locked the door, then walked to my dirtbike. Grinning, I started it, then took off toward my newest victims.

When I arrived, there were students everywhere. So, I did the only thing one can do when surrounded...I popped a wheelie, then swerved to a stop, getting dust all over some kid.

Turning it off, I could feel everyone's eyes on me, especially the girls. I took off my helmet, eyeing the building.

"Iridium High, prepare to be Jaxed."

I followed the signs inside to the principal's office, where I knew my schedule was supposed to be. Eventually, I got there, knocking on the door.

"Come in!" A man's voice sounded from inside.

I stepped inside, to see a man wearing a suit, with brown hair and eyes, sitting at an oak desk. 'Mr. Alonso' was on a small golden nametag at the front of his desk. Wait...so did this mean the Chosen One's father was the principal? Maybe meeting her was going to be easier than I thought, didn't teachers and principals with kids always brag about them?

"Hello! How can I help you?" He smiled.

"I'm Jax Novoa, the new student?" I tried, hoping he'd take the hint.

"Oh, of course! Here, sit down while I call my daughter here..."

Damn. This is almost too easy. There had to be a catch.

He pressed the intercom button on his desk. "Attention! Principal Alonso speaking!" He turned towards me. "Can they hear me? I don't think they can hear me...is this thing on?"

I mentally facepalmed, he must be new at this.

"Hello? Can anyone hear me?"

"Yes, they can hear you." I whispered, stressing the 'can'.

"The red light's not on..oh oh wait! It's blinking, okay, okay. It's on."

I rolled my eyes.

He cleared his throat before continuing. "Emma Alonso, Emma Alonso. Please report to the principal's office!" He paused, before smirking. "Thank you, thank you very much." Snickering, he turned off the intercom. I tilted my head, an Elvis fan? Maybe he isn't too bad after all. At least I'm going to meet the Chosen One, and then this plan can get started.

He bent down in his chair to a drawer, then placed a pale brown manila folder on his desk. Next, he rose out of the chair, walking to a small aquarium where a few turtles were placed.

"You'll love Iridium High! Jax...that's a unique name."

Wouldn't be the first time someone said that, not that I dislike my name or anything. "It's a family name." I clarified.

"Ah!" He exclaimed, picking up a rock. "So is Francisco, believe it or not!" He chuckled. I tilted my head, already getting bored.

"We have tons of activities. Our swim team, best in the country!" He put the rock down, reaching once more into the aquarium.

"So I've heard, looking forward to that." I replied, still bored. I decided to try to entertain myself by making a pen float in the air.

"Our debate team won regionals last year, mostly due to Gigi Rueda. You really can't shut Gigi up." He started to chuckle.

I inclined my head in his direction, raising an eyebrow. I've never heard a principal say that about a student before, most were strict, yet this guy seemed so carefree. Like I said, maybe he isn't too bad.

I turned back to the pen. "No, really. You can't." He said, all serious.

I spared him another glance before looking back to my current distraction.

"So um, how are your grades, Jax?"

Putting my hand down, yet still not breaking my concentration to make the pen float, I leaned up and looked at my grades. C's and D's greeted me.

Quickly, I gathered the all too familiar smoke in my hands, then changed the less-than stellar grades. "Good, mostly A's." I lifted my hand back up, controlling the pen again.

"Good for you. We need students like you at Iridum." He praised. I held back a smirk.

"Hey Dad!" A female voice suddenly came. Snapping my head towards her, I was shocked to say the least. The pen clattered to the desk.

The girl with chocolate hair and eyes glanced once in my direction, before turning back to her father. "I mean, Mr. Alonso. You asked for me?"

Woah. Dad didn't tell me she was so beautiful...I knew there had to be a catch.

Mr. Alonso smiled. "There you are!" He gestured to me. "This is Jax Novoa, new student transfer from.."

I smiled, only taking my eyes off her to inform her father of where I was from. "Sydney." I didn't waste any time to gaze at her again.

"Emma, I'd like for you to show him around." The principal said.

"Me?" She asked, pointing to herself. "Sure but, don't you want someone who's been going here longer? I've never even been to some places like: the band room, the workout room, basement biology lab...that place is just scary." She cringed.

I held back an amused grin.

"I'm sure you'll do just fine." Her father reassured.

"Yeah," I stood, still not removing my eyes from her, "I'm sure you'll do just fine." I couldn't control the flirtatious tone...not that I tried to.

Emma's cheeks turned a soft pink, making my smile spread a bit wider. "Um, okay Dad. C'mon..Jax."

She turned to the door, however I stopped her. "Ah ah!"

Confused she looked at me and raised an eyebrow. I smirked, opening the door. "Ladies first."

Her eyes widened, yet she still walked out the door. I glanced back to her father, he gave me an approving smile and nod.

Smiling, I walked out.

Emma turned out to be a pretty good tour guide, leading me to all the places she knew of. Though, I had a hard time concentrating. I gazed at her long brown hair, my fingers itching to run through the locks.

"And this is the trophy case!" She smiled, walking over to stand by the case. "As you can see, the Sharks won a lot of them."

"So your Dad's the principal." I started, wanting to be sure of the fact.

"Yep. He was promoted after the last principal...um..h-had a bit of a meltdown."

I was curious of what she meant by that, but didn't ask. Instead, I picked up a small trophy. "Did you win any of these?"

Her eyes widened until she broke out into a smile, scoffing a laugh. "You're obviously new here, otherwise you'd know I'm waaayyyy too clumsy to have won any sports awards."

I looked her up and down. "You don't look so clumsy to me." I protested with a smile.

"You've only known me ten minutes! Give it another five, I-I'm sure I'll trip and knock my lunch tray on you."

I seized this opportune moment, not for the plan, just for my own pleasure. "Are you asking me out for lunch?"

She looked confused, while still trying to be polite. "Um, no?"

My smile fell. Well, that was a blow to the ego.

"I...sure! Daniel and Andi are waiting for me, but you're free to join us!" Emma quickly said.

Daniel and Andi? Are those two boys? Does she sit with boys? A strange feeling stirred in my stomach, I covered it up with a grin.

"Not what I had in mind, but if you insist." I put back the trophy. "Just let me drop my bag off at my locker."

"Oh, right! It's part of the tour." She looked through the papers she held. "Let's see...over there!" She pointed behind her with her thumb.

Emma held out the paper to me, I took it, studying it. "Okay. Be right back." I headed off in the direction she pointed out...only to be greeted with two hallways. I bit back an annoyed groan.

I turned back around to ask her where to go, however I discovered she was gone. Furrowing my eyebrows, I went back in the direction we came from, stopping when I saw her at her locker...talking to a brown floating book.

"Hexie! What are you doing here?" She paused. "Andi brought you? That's it! Andi can't babysit you anymore. Now, get in there before somebody sees you!" The book complied, floating back inside the locker. Emma shut it, then continued down the hallway.

I couldn't believe it. Emma has the Hexoren? Dad said it was a long lost book, nobody knew where it was. Apparently the Chosen One has it. I smiled, it seemed that she even had a bond with the book. I'm not going to lie, it's pretty cute.

However, now I had to find my locker. "Emma!"

She spun around. "Oh, Jax!" She walked closer to me. "What is it?"

"I..ah, can't seem to find my locker." I admitted, embarrased.

She giggled. "No worries, I'll show you where it is!"

I let her take the lead, where we walked past the trophy case, then coming to the two hallways. She chose the right one.

I was gonna choose that one.

After walking a little ways, she stopped in front of one. "Let me see your schedule to see if it's the right number."

In handed the paper over. After looking at it for two seconds, she smiled brightly at me. "Yep, this is it! Welcome to your locker, your home away from home!"

I chuckled as I put in the combination, opening it. It was bland, I'd have to fix that later. For now, I just put in my bag, then shut it.

"Okay. How about we go to the cafeteria now?" She asked.

"Sounds good to me." I replied, walking next to her again.

Finally we arrived in a pretty busy hallway. "The cafeteria's straight through there." She pointed. I took my eyes away from her face as I glanced at where she pointed. "The food's pretty decent, but watch out for Tasty Taco Tuesdays. They ain't tasty...or tacos."

We shared a quick laugh.

"That concludes our tour! Thank you for choosing the Alonso touring company! Any questions?"

I thought, placing a finger to my lips. I didn't really want to let her go yet. Come on Jax, think of something! "Yeah, just one. Would you say that there's any-"

"Emma!" A girl's voice broke in.

Before I knew it, two girls had both of my arms, as if I was escourting them somewhere. I stared at the speaking girl, confused.

"Don't be so rude!"

"Uh-" I cut in but she continued on.

"Jax is new here, you should introduce him!"

I turned to the other female holding my arm, who was smiling at me in a desperate way. I recognized that look, lots of girls have given it to me before.

Realizing something, I turned to the darker-skinned preppy girl. "How do you know my name?"

"How do you know his name?" The girl on my other arm asked. I looked at Emma confused, back to the blonde girl, then back to Emma.

"You were just looking at the Miss Information alert with me that mentioned his name twice!" The other girl spoke.

I returned my attention to Blondie Prep. "Oh yeah! But how did Miss Information know?" Something told me that she was a few screws short of a dirtbike.

I looked back to Emma, a sudden idea forming in my head. "Magic?" I suggested, testing for a sign, moving my eyebrows up and down.

She laughed nervously, passing my test. I smirked.

"I'm Katie, Head Panther." The girl on my right spoke. "And this is Sophie," She gestured to the other girl, "You'll wanna hang with us." Katie looked at Emma, smiling with false sweetness. Honestly, I was used to this; girls trying to 'claim' me. It's never worked, and now I'm just even more motivated to spend as little time with these girls as possible.

"Don't worry, they might seem intimidating, but the Panthers are harmless." Emma said. I wanted to laugh, I was intimidated by no one...except for my father... "See you later!" She smiled, then walked off.

"But-" I tried but she was already gone. Dammit.

Katie and Sophie released my arms, coming to stand in Emma's previous spot. "Sooo," the blonde drawled, "where are you taking us to lunch?"

I'm pretty sure there weren't any restuarants in Iridium High. "Um, the cafeteria?" I motioned my hands at the food source behind me.

"Ooh! Great choice!" Sophie squealed.

Well, looks like I'll have to eat lunch with them. Just as I started walking, I heard two ringtones go off. Stopping, I looked back at the girls.

"Uhh.." Katie stared at her phone.

"It's Maddie." Sophie stated. "She sounds really upset."

"Who's Maddie?" I asked.

"Head Panther." Katie replied, only taking her eyes away from her phone for a second to look at me. But her reply confused me..

"I thought you were Head Panther?" I pointed to Katie, emphasizing my question.

"Uhh, I am!" She made it sound as if I asked a stupid question, which never happens. "Just don't tell Maddie I said so." She smiled nervously.

"I don't know who Maddie is." This got pretty awkward, especially when she tried to fist bump me, when my hand wasn't even in a fist, or held out to her.

Katie turned to Sophie. "We should probably go!" She took her friend's arm, preparing to leave, but not until Sophie spoke. "We'll have lunch tomorrow. It'll be Tasty Taco Tuesday!" The two 'Panthers' left, leaving me wondering what just happened.

I wasn't about to think, because suddenly another girl was next to me holding a mircophone, a guy was in front of me with a camera in my face. What the hell?

"This is Miss Information with an exlusive interview with new student Jax Novoa!"

I glanced at the cafeteria, wondering if anyone else was seeing this. By the way everyone continued on their business, it seemed that this was a regular occurence.

Miss Information looked at me with a big smile. "Hi Jax!" She went back to her camera to say, "Welcome to Miss Information!" then to me again.

Confused, I turned to her, getting ready for this 'interview'.

"Question one, why did you move here?" She shoved the microphone in my face. Wow, personal question much?

"Um," I started but she took the mic back.

"Question two, are you single?" As if it couldn't get any more personal.

She moved the mic toward me, then quickly took it back. "Question three, were you, or were you not, canoodling with Emma Alonso?" She grinned, putting the mic back to my mouth.

I made an awkward smile. "Um..."

"That concludes our exclusive interview with Jax Novoa, this has been Miss Information reporting to you live from the cafeteria!"

Suddenly the camera was lowered, as was Miss Info's mic. "Thank you, Jax! I'm Gigi Rueda by the way."

"Um, hi." I replied.

"Well, I better get going, there's another scoop I must find!" With that she hurried off with her cameraman. Before any more weird things could happen, I went to the cafeteria and got my lunch.

At the end of the day, I walked over to Emma's locker, but not before listening to her conversation with the Hex.

"We have to walk home by ourselves today. Daniel's in detention and my Dad's waiting for Daniel's parents to get here. Somehow Daniel covered my Dad in pudding."

I stifled a laugh.

"Does it matter what flavor it was?" She paused. "Chocolate."

I decided to make my presence known. Smirking, I sauntered over to her. "Is that an Iridium High thing?"

She jumped back, laughing nervously. "Whaa? I, um..didn't see you."

"Do you talk to all your books?" I teased.

"J-just the science books! The literature ones are all stuffy and intellectual." Emma quickly made an excuse.

Deciding to try to make another move, I asked my next question. "I heard you're walking home. You want a ride?"

Once again, her cheeks tinted a soft pink. "Uhhhh, no thank you!" She stuttered. "I um, live really close! So close, that I can hear Mr. Smith get over excited about geography class!"

I chuckled at her shyness and nerves...along with her poor lying skills.

"Yep! So, I gotta go! See you tomorrow!" She quickly grabbed the Hex out of her locker, tucking it under left arm. "Have a safe walk home!"

I smirked.

"But, you're not walking."

Amused, I shook my head 'no."

"Y-you're driving your bike...which is a dirtbike.." She closed her locker door. "So, yeah..see ya!" She ran past me, leaving me chuckling, looking down at the floor. That's when I noticed it.

"Wait, Emma!" I shouted, bending over to pick up the forgotten wallet. "You dropped your.." I trailed off, noticing that she was gone. I looked back at the object. "wallet." I bit my lip in anticpation.

This means I get to go to her house to return it, thus seeing her again.

A/N: And that's episode 1 :D

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