Chapter 3

Chapter 3

Alexis waited a few minutes before leaving the parking lot to Jaden's apartment complex. It had been so long since she last looked at the building; it was like she was returning to her home. But it wasn't her home anymore, it was Jaden's. She had to remember that. She also had to remember that she wasn't dating Jaden anymore, she was with Harrington.

Forcing the unnecessary thoughts from her head, she pulled out of the drive way and drove to the mall where she would meet up with her maid of honor, Mindy. Alexis just chill out, so you saw Jaden, it was no big deal Alexis assured herself but deep down she knew that it wasn't. It was the first time in a year that she bothered to call Jaden as well as meet up with him. It was the first time in a year that things felt right.

Mindy was waiting for her, when she reached the store. "Alexis come on, I thought you would never come," Mindy ran to her car.

"Ok, I'm here, chill out Mindy," Alexis gave a small sigh. Why was it that Mindy was getting more excited about her wedding than Alexis was. This was something that Alexis had planned since she was a little girl. Now that it was coming, she didn't think that much of it.

"Are you ok Lex, you're acting really weird," Mindy noticed.

"Am I really? I hadn't noticed," Alexis replied. In truth she had noticed. She just thought she was imagining things.

"Yeah you are, but cheer up Lex; this is your wedding dress we're going to find," Mindy instructed her. Yeah Lex, cheer up; this isn't your funeral you're planning, Alexis thought.

Mindy and Alexis walked inside the shop and automatically someone came to their side. It was a good friend of them and it shocked them to see her there.

"Jasmine, oh my god I didn't know that you worked here," Mindy exclaimed, hugging her friend.

"I didn't think you guys would be here. Oh and congratulations Alexis about Harrington," Jasmine returned Mindy's hyper activity.

"Thanks," Alexis muttered her mind in other places, as in the land of white dresses.

"You don't look happy Alexis are you ok," Jasmine asked

Alexis faced her friend and knew she couldn't lie. Jasmine was the type of friend who knew when you were lying and when you were being honest. "I think that maybe something is wrong," Alexis replied honestly.

"With what, with you and Harrington," Jasmine demanded.

"Something on the lines of that, yeah," Alexis shrugged.

"What happened," Mindy leaned in. It was just like back when they were at Duel Academy; one of them had a problem and automatically they were rushing to find out how to cure it.

"Well it wasn't like he did anything because that isn't the case at all," Alexis started out and instantly her friends' faces became less anxious, "it's just that things don't feel right between us. That connection you're supposed to have, it isn't there," Alexis looked down at her feet. She had been thinking about her time today with Jaden.

"Are you serious? Alexis you're getting married and that's your problem," Jasmine shook her head as if disappointed.

"What, is it not a big issue," Alexis raised an eyebrow. She was clueless as to what was the problem was.

"Yes it's huge. How can you marry someone if it doesn't even feel right," Mindy took over. She was equally disappointed.

"I don't know, I didn't feel this way before, it isn't until now that things seem to have changed," Alexis shrugged.

"Is there something you're not telling us," Jasmine and Mindy inquired with the same amount of curiosity.

"No," Alexis lied even though it was pointless. She didn't want to tell her friends about her encounter with Jaden. They were most likely to assume the worst.

"Alexis Rhodes you can't lie to us. That won't help you," Jasmine assured her calmly.

"Fine I saw Jaden today, does that make you happy now you know," Alexis told them bluntly.

Mindy and Jasmine gasped as if they saw something gruesome in a horror movie. "You did what," they demanded.

Ok, maybe I shouldn't have told them. That was a bad idea, you should have stayed silent. But they would have guessed it sooner or later; you know it's true; Alexis told herself.

"Alexis Rhodes, did you see him while you were coming here or did you meet up with him," Jasmine closed her eyes, hoping that it was the first thing she said and not the second.

"I-um called him and we went to breakfast," Alexis whispered playing with her fingers. No wonder Jaden got the wrong idea when they were together earlier, the way it sounded in words gave her the impression they were on a date as well.

"Hold on, you called him," Mindy spat. Mindy still had a grudge against Jaden for Alexis's depression after they broke up.

"Yeah, he called me and I wasn't up so I returned the call," Alexis looked up at Mindy and Jasmine who both looked like they could have slapped her.

"Alexis no wonder you're feeling the way you do. You're not over him," Jasmine sighed.

"Excuse me, I am not in love with Jaden Yuki still," Alexis practically yelled. For some reason she couldn't accept that as a possibility. "No I just feel weird because I missed him as a friend and that's all," Alexis turned around so she wasn't facing her friends' distraught looks.

How would they even know what was going on with me, Alexis huffed silently. They weren't there, they wouldn't know. They can't just assume stuff like that. Either way I don't love Jaden. It doesn't work out. It won't work out. It can't work out.

Alexis turned around and glanced at her friends, they both were staring at her. More than anything she wanted to get out of the store she was in. She wanted to escape the white dresses and happy couples walking by. She wanted to escape all the things that she was and what she wasn't. But most of all she wanted to escape the memory of Jaden Yuki.