AN: thanks for waiting everyone! Sorry for the wait btw :( anywho, found time to write another chapter today so here it is! :D Enjoy :)

Chapter 7: Awkward Night

Late at night, Emily silently tip-toed to Jayden's room. Even though Jayden was in the dojo training, she wanted to make sure no one heard her going into his room. Especially Antonio, since his room was next to Jayden's. She didn't worried about anyone else since they were asleep. She never got why Jayden always liked training late at night though.

Slowly opening his door, Emily slipped threw and gently closed it without a squeak. Emily looked around, surprised on how clean his room was. She would've thought that his room would be a pig's pen; like Mike's for example.

Emily suddenly realized that she didn't know what she was suppose to be looking for. Susan just told her to come into his room to look for something, but what?

"You can come anything soon, Su." Emily whispered, hoping that Susan would hear her. Emily nervously looked around until her eyes landed on some photos on top of his dresser. As Emily stepped closer up, she recognized some of them were of the team and some personal pictures. But one particular picture caught her eye. It was of Jayden and his father, standing together and looking...well, official. Neither of them were smiling and looked stiff. In Jayden's hand, he had a sword that looked beaten up. In his father's hand was a box that had the Samurai symbol on it, but only the symbol had a X crossing it out. Emily found that alittle odd to have, especially when you're posing for a picture.

All of a sudden, she heard the door start to open. Quickly, she ducked from cover and crawled beneath the bed. Emily could see Jayden's feet moving into the room, door closing behind. Emily's felt her heart beat harder and faster each time Jayden came closer and closer near the bed. Emily covered her mouth in hopes it would make it more difficult to hear her breathing.

She watched as he walked towards his dresser. As she watched Jayden standing there, a towel suddenly dropped to the ground. Emily's eyes narrowed away quickly, now knowing where he was when she was snooping around in here. Even though she could only see Jayden's feet and ankles, she still felt embarrassed for almost seeing something she didn't want to see.

When she noticed pants covering his ankles, she thought it was now safe to look again. Jayden moved around the room, as if looking for something. Emily watched as Jayden opened the door and started walking out. She found this the best time to get out before she was caught. Crawling from out under the bed, she ran to the door. Just as she was almost out the door, Jayden walked right into her. Emily fell the floor, looking up at Jayden like the world now came to a end.

"Emily, are you alright?" Jayden asked, helping Emily back up.

Emily nodded her head quickly. "Yeah, I'm great but I gonna go now." Emily tried making her way out the door but Jayden blocked her.

"Wait, what are you doing in my room?" Jayden said. Blushing, Jayden added "You haven't been in there long, have you?"

"No, no! I haven't." Emily lied, seeing the reddness leave his face.

"Well, what are you doing here?"

Emily tried to think of something clever to say. "I wanted to ask you something but you weren't here."

Jayden crossed his arms while leaning across the door frame. "I'm here now, ask away."

Emily's mind raced through the possible of answers she could use for questions. "Uh, well I came to ask you about..."

"Ask him about the picture." Susan said, coming into Emily's head.

"The picture!" Emily blurted out. She didn't realized she said that until she heard the whole thing.

"What picture?" Jayden asked.

"The picture on your dresser."

"The picture on your dresser!" Emily repeated. Her and Jayden walked to the dresser while Emily was begging Susan, in her mind, to hurry up and say something else.

"Ask him what is going on in the picture of him and his father."

"Here's the picture." Emily pointed to the picture she was looking at earlier. "I came in here and saw this. What exactly is going on here?"

Jayden began to scratch the back of his head, as if he was nervous to explain. "Well, that's me and my father."

"That's what I obviously guessed." Emily smirked. Jayden rised his eyebrow in a "excuse me" manner. Emily bend in her head alittle. "Sorry, continue."

"Anyway, umm... let me think of how to explain this."

"I'm good with any explaination." Emily pointed out. What Emily really wanted to do was to get the heck out of here because she was buring up like crazy from all this pressure.

"Umm, what I'm doing here is holding my favorite sword, which my dad gave me. And my dad is holding... a box of his."

"What's the box for?" asked Emily. She started to became interested at what was happening in this picture. Mostly of the fact that Jayden seemed to have been keeping it secret.

Jayden fell silent for a couple of seconds before asking, "Promise me you wouldn't tell anyone I told you this?"

"I promise." Emily stated. Even though she promised she wouldn't tell anyone, she didn't promise if someone will hear it.

"Ok, what's really going on in the photo is from the day this house was attacked...by a nighlok." Jayden paused to give it a dramatic affect. "My dad, me and Mentor had to fight off the nighlok all by ourselves. It was really tough but we defected them." Jayden looked back at the picture with the pride that was built into him.

"Wow, that's impressive. I can't believe Mentor could fight! But where is he in the picture?"

"He was the one taking the photo." Jayden explained.

"You still haven't answer my question about the box."

"Oh right, that box was where we keep the nighlok. At first it was just a ordinary box that we would keep samurai trinkets in. But when the nighlok came, we need to put away its energy somewhere safe. This nighlok was no ordinary one; it was powered by a stone that gave it its energy to live off of. Once we destroyed the nighlok, all that was left of it was the stone."

Emily was so dazed by the events of this story that she jumped when Susan came back into her head. "Ask him where the box is."

Emily argued in her head, "No, he already told me more than he wanted. He trusts in me too much..."

"I don't care! Ask him!" Susan hissed.

Even though Emily's head began to ache, she tried as much to ignore the pain and get herself out of Jayden's room.

"Jayden, thanks for telling me the story but I've gotta go." Emily took off ranning towards her room before she heard whatever Jayden was telling her.

Once she got into her room, she closed the door shut and locked it for no one to come in. Emily fell to the floor as she wrapped herself into a ball and held her head tight in pain.

"You brat, you didn't finish through what I ordered to you do!" Susan said, practicely yelling in Emily's head.

Emily whined, "I couldn't do it, I just couldn't. I felt bad for even asking him in the first place; he seemed like he didn't really want to talk about it. He trusted in me too much when I kenw he couldn't trust in me." Emily saw the tears from her eyes begin to fall on the floor as she wept.

"You little mouse, I don't care on what you thought. I wanted my info but I never got it!" All of a sudden, Emily's wrist was tugged from her and Emily found herself being lifted from the ground. "This is to show you that you are WEAK stupid twig!" Emily suddenly cried in pain as Susan began carving the word WEAK into Emily's wrist. Emily shrieked in pain as she grabbed her arm while her feet kicked harahly from her dangling in mid-air.

Emily dropped to the floor, holding on tight to her wrist. She saw the blood dripping slowing through the cuts as she read each letter to herself.

"That's what you happens when you don't follow the rules, little one." Susan smirked, leaving Emily to cried and whined in pain in the dark corner of her room.

AN: Please tell me you liked this chapter? :D If you did, please please PLEASE review! Also, I told you that I would make the next chapter longer ;)

Peace out :3