Tragedy of a love story.
Chapter five.
(Dream)
Jaden found himself walking up to the obelisk girl dorms to visit his girlfriend Alexis. The dream seemed perfect until Jaden saw Alpha sitting in front of Alexis door crying and shaking.
"Alpha?" Jaden asked.
"Jaden!" She yelled standing up. "What are you doing here?"
"I'm here to see Alexis." Jaden told her.
"Jaden, don't go in there." Alpha said with panic in her voice.
"Why not?" Jaden asked. Alpha put herself in front of the door.
"Jaden, you have to trust me, you can't go in here." Jaden pushed through Alpha, who amazingly enough, he didn't go through. He was able to grab her and move her out of the way like she was alive. He grabbed for the door and opened it. Like Alpha predicted he regretted it. He saw Alexis Making out with Zane, on her bed, with him on top with her. It could have been worse, but the sight had already made Jaden lose his breath.
"Alexis…" He said stunned.
"Jaden, I can explain." But it was too late, Jaden turned around and ran, Alpha followed him. Jaden fell in front of the school and started crying. Alpha put her hand on Jaden's back.
"Jaden, I'm so sorry. I know how you feel." Alpha said.
"I loved her, I cared for her, how in the world could she do this to me? She was my girlfriend!" Jaden yelled.
"He was my boyfriend." Alpha whispered, helping Jaden stand back up. "I don't know why she would hurt you like that. You're a wonderful person." Jaden and Alpha met eye to eye, almost as if they were looking into each others soul. She put her hand on the back of his head and brought him to her slowly. They closed their eyes as they felt each others breath. Jaden opened his mouth as Alpha put her lips and tongue, to his.
(Dream over)
Jaden shot up in his bed, breathing hard. The dream seemed so real. But he looked around and realized that it wasn't real. Alexis wasn't his cheating girlfriend, or even his girlfriend. And Alpha and him have nothing romantic between them, or at least he thought. He looked over at Alpha who was reading.
"Hey! I thought you couldn't touch anything." Jaden said rubbing his eyes.
"I can't touch anything with life energy. I can touch objects." Alpha said "What's your deal?"
"Sorry, I didn't mean to snap like that." Jaden said hopping out of bed.
"No, I mean why are you breathing so hard, why are you so nervous. Did you have a nightmare?" Alpha asked.
"You could say that." Jaden said. (A nightmare the ended with us together.) Jaden thought to himself.
"Wanna talk about it?" Alpha asked.
"No thank you. So, what are you reading?" Jaden asked.
"I went back to the pub…the abandon dorm and found my year book." Alpha responded. "I think it can help us start our list of suspects."
"Except, how would we start our list? We don't have a reason. Why would someone want to kill you?" Jaden asked.
"I don't know…" Alpha said. "Revenge?"
"Your dad seems pretty nice, I dought anyone would hate him or anyone in your family. Wait. What if your death was because of Zane?" Jaden asked.
"What do you mean?" Alpha asked.
"Zane's smart, strong, and not bad to look at either, strike that as the girls would say he's pretty hot." Jaden said, he knew what he said was awkward so he continued. "And you we're the girl he wanted. What if some crazy girl couldn't handle it? What if she decided that she needed Zane so much, it was worth a life to get him."
"That is absurd!" Alpha said. "Are you suggesting, that my boyfriend, the love my life is the reason I'm dead."
"No, I'm not saying it's his fault. I'm saying what if someone got so jealous; they decided to remove you permanently? You did say a girl killed you." Jaden said.
"Well..I guess that explains." Alpha said in a kind of horrified way. "Well I've already crossed out all the guys and all the girls I know didn't do it. But we still have a lot of girls to go through."
"Aren't there any girls that were like, really weird about Zane?" Jaden asked.
"Yeah, about two, three, maybe twenty or thirty girls." Alpha said "Everyone was jealous."
"Well then, we need to do more research." Alpha said "Wait!"
"What?" Jaden asked.
"Whoever killed me must have been late getting back to their dorms, so what if we broke into the computer system and looked for students who were late for curfew?" Alpha asked.
"Except I don't know how to break into the computer." Jaden said.
"Me neither." Alpha admitted. "But if I know my dad…he has everything on paper."
"What do you mean?" Jaden asked.
"Every one who was late was written down on the list." She told Jaden.
"The list?" He asked.
"You know, the report to chancellor's list, the we're watching you list. Fonda's list?" Alpha asked, Jaden looked at her blankly.
"Well anyway, it's probably been filed, which means all we have to do is pick the lock and find our paper." Alpha said.
"Picking the lock is easier said than done." Jaden said, Alpha looked at him with shocked eyes.
"You can do it though right?" Alpha asked, Jaden looked away for a moment before he gave Alpha a look.
"I can learn." He said.
"We don't have time." Alpha said still sounding a little shocked. "We have to go and be quick before my dad, or worse Crowler finds us." Jaden looked away for a moment; he looked at Alpha's book when an idea came to him.
"Wait, you said you can touch things that aren't alive right?" Jaden asked.
"Of course." Alpha told him. Then she realized where he was heading. "So that means I can break into the files."
"We'll do it before class, come on." Jaden said. They walked to the file room, which was near Chancellor Shepards office. Jaden and Alpha stood outside.
"Ready?" Jaden asked.
"Yeah" Alpha said she closed her eyes as she ran through the door. In a moment she was in the document room. "Where should I look?"
"Well, there was a certain date, when did you die?" Jaden asked.
"I think it was in April, yeah it was April 15th, and it was two years ago, so it was April 15th, 2004." Alpha said going to the files marked with Dorm Files 2003-2004. She opened it and found a file marked with April. She pulled it out. "I got the file!"
"Great, now how do you get it out?" Jaden asked.
"I'll go…..Oh snap, I forgot I can go through the wall, but the file can't!" Alpha said. "I'll just have to read it here."
"We have no time! Crowler's coming out of Sheppards office." Jaden said. Alpha eyes grew wide with Panic.
"I'll slide it under the door!" She yelled getting down to the floor to slid the file under.
"Hurry Alpha!" She sent it to the other side, just in time for Jaden to grab the file and hid the file in his jacket.
"What are you doing slacker?" Alpha herd Crowler asked as Alpha came through the wall.
"Nothing sir, just on my way to class." Jaden said smiling.
"Funny considering class is down the hall that way." Crowler said pointing the other way.
"Really? And to think I've been going the other way. I'll remember that." Jaden said, Crowler glared for a moment before turning around and walking away.
"Do you have it?" Alpha asked, Jaden pulled the file out of his jacket and smiled. Alpha clapped her hands and tried to hug Jaden, but she went through him. "Oh right." She blushed for a moment. "Alright, so I'm gonna go read this File, and I'll meet up with you after class, kay?"
"Okay." Jaden said "See you after class." Jaden walked down the hall as Alpha returned back to their dorm. When Jaden got in the class he took his seat next to Syrus.
"Where were you?" Syrus asked.
"Doing something with Alpha." Jaden said.
"You're spending a lot of time with her." Syrus pointed out.
"We're just friends." Jaden said back.
"Who's just your friend?" Alexis said taking a seat next to Jaden. Jaden looked at her, a little fazed after his dream.
"I'll tell you later." Jaden said as Crowler began his class. It seemed like the clock was moving in super slow motion as Jaden sat through Crowlers class. Jaden normally would have fallen asleep, but he found himself wondering about Alpha. Would they have met if she was alive? Of course they would have, she was supposed to become a gatekeeper, and she was once duel academy's second best student, not to mention she dated the top student. If they met when she was alive, Jaden and Alpha probably would have dueled all the time for the next spot. The only real question was who would have won?
"Class dismissed." Crowler said, Jaden jumped up when he realized he wasn't paying attention for most of the class. Then again, what else was new?
"So who's just your friend?" Alexis asked with a somewhat evil grin.
"You know, most people forget little things like that." Jaden said laughing. In his thoughts he decided the dream, was a dream and nothing more.
"Who is she Jaden?" Alexis asked, despite the fact Alexis was a little more tomboyish then most girls at this school. She still was a gossip queen.
"Well, she's a girl….in class, that's all I'm saying." Jaden tried to make a story; maybe if Alexis believed it was just another student, she would let it be. After the real story wasn't very believable.
"Jaden are you in love with her?" Alexis asked, but she didn't sound happy like most friends would. She sounded worried, even though there was a smile on her face, everyone could see she didn't like the idea of another girl with Jaden. Or at least almost everyone.
"No, no I'm helping her with this project." Jaden said.
"Considering you never do your own projects, I think your lying." Alexis said. He should have known better than to tell Alexis that, so instead he tried a different approach, maybe he could get something out of this conversation.
"Alexis, what if you like someone, but you're not sure if they like you back?" He asked. Alexis shrugged.
"What kind of like are we talking about here?" She asked.
"Love." Jaden admitted. Alexis looked worried but supportive at the same time.
"Well…I think you should tell her how you feel, if she feels the same way, you'll be glad you did it, if she doesn't then it was never meant to be, and if she laughs at you, your too good for her Jaden." Alexis said offering a smile. Jaden smiled back.
"That's helpful Alexis, thanks." Jaden said before grabbing his bag and taking off. When he got into the dorm, he saw Alpha sitting in the chair reading a book.
"Well?" Jaden asked, Alpha looked up and smiled.
"We now have a reasonable number of suspects." She said.
"How many is reasonable?" Jaden asked.
"Four." Alpha said putting her book back. "Nina Richeton, Cosette Morren, Rio Sanchez, and Jacey Moore."
"Well it's somewhere." Jaden said blowing his hair out of his eyes. "How do we find out who did it?" Alpha looked away as her face turned grim.
"I don't know, but there must be some way." Alpha said.
"Were any of these girls in the public dorm?" Jaden asked.
"No, they were all were at the private girl's dorm." Alpha said. "There all still there."
"Huh?"
"They haven't graduated yet." Alpha proclaimed proudly. "That means I can raid their rooms."
"So we have to, go to these girls rooms, and brake into them?" Jaden asked.
"I can go alone." Alpha said "I'll go tonight, when their asleep."
"Hey Alpha." Jaden said, he was going to see how much Alexis and Alpha were alike.
"Yes?"
"What if you love someone, but you're not sure you love them back?" Jaden asked. Alpha looked at him with her extremely deep eyes. Her eyes could draw anyone in. She gave him a warning glance.
"Don't make the mistake of letting them go, tell her how you feel Young Blood." Alpha told him "I felt only a small taste of an everlasting love, don't make the same mistake." Okay so it wasn't the same thing Alexis said. But then again, Alexis and Alpha weren't the same. Although Alexis free willed, and always did things her way. Alpha had a stronger understanding of life, and was stubborn, but kind. Maybe you could pass them off as long lost sisters, but you couldn't pass them off as each other.
"Thanks Alpha, I know that came from the heart." Jaden told her, Alpha shook her head no.
"Not the heart Young Blood, that came from experience." Alpha said. Jaden wanted to grab her shoulder, but he knew it would go through. So instead he gave her a smile that was before Syrus came crashing in.
"Jaden!" Syrus shouted. "You won't believe this!"
"What is it?" Jaden asked.
"Look!" Syrus pointed outside; When Jaden looked his eyes grew wide with happy shock.
"Snow." He said running to the rain of white snow, it was coming down quickly, but it took it's time to cover the ground.
"I bet tomorrow, we could have a snow ball fight." Syrus said. Alpha smiled.
"This isn't the first time it's snowed here." Alpha claimed.
(Flashback.)
Alpha, Zane, and Atticus walked out of the office building, to see the ground was covered with snow, from a night of non-stop snow.
"Wow, I've never seen snow before." Atticus said running out.
"Lucky you." Zane muttered.
"Come Zane, you can't tell me, you hate the snow." Alpha said.
"It's not the snow I don't like; it's the freezing weather, numb fingers, and stupid games I don't like." Zane told her, and then out of no where a snowball flew and hit Zane's face.
"Hey!" He shouted at a laughing Atticus. Alpha just laughed well brushing off the snow.
"Nice one." She yelled to Atticus. Then she got hit with a snow ball made by Atticus. "Atticus!"
"Sorry Alpha, no one gets left out." Atticus said laughing.
"I couldn't agree more." Zane said getting snow off the ground.
"Ditto." Alpha said getting snow. "On three, one, two, THREE!" Both Zane and Alpha attacked Atticus with snowballs. Atticus fell to the ground as they continued throwing snowballs.
"Alright, Alright I get the point!" Atticus yelled. Alpha shouted in victory.
"Alright In your face!" She yelled before jumping into Zane's arms. "We won!"
"We won." Zane repeated as pulled Alpha from a hug, and brought her in for a kiss.
"Ew gross, not in public!" Atticus cried, they both pulled and turned to him.
"Shut up Atticus." Both Alpha and Zane said as they grabbed hands with each other.
(End of Flashback.)
Alpha sighed at the memory, knowing that even though it was only a year and a half ago, it still seemed so far away. It hurt her every time she had a flashback, it was even worse when she saw Zane. She began to question whether she could truly let him go. She knew she had too, but she didn't know if her heart would ever let her. Then she decided she had no real choice. That night after she went through the suspects rooms, she was going to go to his room.