Chapter 7

As soon as the bell rang for classes to end Blair bolted for the door. This was all so familiar to Blair now but there was one thing she hadn't intended for. One of these things was the simple fact that for once she was able to catch up to Jaden. The other was that Alexis was walking with him alone.

What could they be talking about? Surely she isn't…Blair's mind trailed off. She didn't want to even think about what they could possibly be saying. But in any case, Blair decided to do what was her specialty. And that would be stomping in on the moment.

"Hey Jaden," Blair said a little louder than necessary. But she did her job; she got Jaden's attention.

"Hi Blair how was your day," Jaden asked. Blair noticed that Alexis's body position had tensed a great deal. It took all she had not to laugh at the blonde. No need to get jealous Alexis, Blair thought with a laugh escaping her. Luckily, Jaden didn't notice.

"How are you Jaden," Blair asked.

Fine, now that I am with you. Obviously though, he didn't say that but Blair could always dream.

"I'm great. I got the eggwhich at lunch today and I actually passed Crowler's test. It was funny seeing Crowler's face as he gave me back my test. That was priceless." Jaden chuckled.

Blair stared at Jaden with disbelief; it wasn't that she thought he was unintelligent, she just didn't think that he could ever pass one of Crowler's tests.

"Is he being serious," Blair asked Alexis.

"Yeah, he did. It wasn't that good of a score though," Alexis sighed.

"Alexis you're just jealous that you didn't get an 80 like I did," Jaden smirked.

"Oh yes Jaden, especially since I got a 96," Alexis grinned, her sarcasm showing.

"But that's a better score than what I got, that doesn't make sense," Jaden said, confused. Apparently, he didn't get the memo.

'Uh Jay, I was being sarcastic. I was joking," Alexis explained.

Jaden's dorky grin spread across his face. "Right, I knew that," Jaden denied.

Blair smiled. Jaden's dorky nature was half the reason why she liked him so much. Shades of red flashed over Blair's face. It was the wrong time to be thinking about that. Well at least not now. Later though, although for her it would be under different circumstances.

Jaden, noticing Blair's abnormal behavior asked, "Are you ok Blair?"

"Yeah, I just was thinking about the spicy food I ate for lunch," Blair lied lamely. Geez Blair, if you wanted to sound completely dumb you just succeeded. Way to go, Blair thought. She looked up to see if Jaden had bought what she had just said, he did but Alexis didn't. Alexis was staring at Blair, with a look that saw straight through Blair's lies and cover-ups. It was really uncomfortable. Luckily, Jaden remained obtuse.

"Wow Blair, what type of sandwich did you get," Jaden wondered out loud.

"I got the jalapeño chicken burger thing why," Blair answered.

"Well that would explain everything," Jaden nodded knowingly. If Jaden knew anything it would be his sandwiches. Seeing Jaden with this knowledge made Blair smile. A smile Jaden only could make appear.

"Hey Jaden, aren't we going to go work on our homework," Alexis finally spoke. For Blair, it became fairly obvious why some of the girls called Alexis an ice queen. Her voice could have frozen anything if it had been in front of her.

"Lex, we have till Sunday to do this. It's Friday, can't I chill out? Anyways me, Syrus, Hasselberry, and Blair were gonna duel until it became night time. Then we were gonna watch the videos from Duelist Kingdom. Syrus got his mom to finally send them to him," Jaden whined.

Blair smiled harder. Judging by the shocked look on Alexis's face, Jaden had not told her about Blair hanging out with him. And, she hadn't been invited by the looks of it. For Blair, today was turning out very well.

Blair kept her eyes dead locked on Alexis, for she wanted to see what "the Queen" would do. "Oh well have fun," Alexis smiled grimly.

"Don't worry Lex, we will. All night dueling and movies about dueling, this is gonna be sweet," Jaden exclaimed.

The three started to pick up their pace until they were at the Slifer dorms, where Syrus was there waiting for them.

"Where have you been you two," Syrus demanded.

"Walking here why do you ask," Jaden asked, confused.

"Easy, because I have been stuck with Hasselberry and we want to duel," Syrus replied.

"Oh ok, come on Blair the party is about to begin," Jaden tugged at the smaller girl's arm without much force. "See you later Alexis."

Blair looked at the Obelisk; she was just staring at them with the most distant expression. It was actually kind of funny to see someone who always was calm and composed to have such an unorganized look. But she wasn't able to look at Alexis for long, due to Jaden pulling her inside.

Alexis stumbled back to her dorm. She had a hard time believing that Jaden would invite Blair to something like that and not her. She had known Jaden longer and was there for him much more than Blair ever was. So one question hung in Alexis's mind, and that was why. Maybe she could find out though but first she would have to pull herself together.

Once she was calm she pulled out the PDA device that all Duel Academy students had. Then she called Chazz.

"Chazz pick up please," Alexis said to herself.

"Hello, you have reached The Chazz, what do you want," Chazz picked up.

"Hey Chazz you better head over to the Slifer dorms, Blair just arrived and-,"

"God Alexis, chill out. Even I wasn't that protective over you when I liked you and I was really protective. Blair is not going to confess her 'undying love' to Jaden now. Remember Syrus and Hasselberry are there. The last thing they want to see is Blair go all fan-girlish on them so chill. Later tonight I will head over there ok," Chazz interrupted.

"Fine, I didn't interrupt anything right," Alexis asked.

"Actually you did Alexis, I was hanging out with Mindy," which meant in other terms that he had been making out with her but just didn't want to get Alexis to kill him for it.

"Then tell Mindy I said 'hi' for me," Alexis sighed.

"Hi Alexis," Mindy practically yelled.

Alexis hung up. She really didn't want to hear Chazz and Mindy be all flirtatious at the moment; which left Alexis walking to her dorm alone. On her way back she saw her brother and Jasmine talking.

How weird, she never talked to him before. My brother is probably being a flirt like usual.

"Wow Atticus, that was really pretty," Jasmine gushed, her face red.

"Well I thought you would like it, I'm glad to know I was right," Atticus smiled. Seeing this exchange, Alexis walked over to her friend and her brother.

"Yeah, I never knew you could write poetry, you're good at it," Jasmine continued.

"I meant for it to be a song but I couldn't come up with an idea as how it would sound as a song so I made it into a poem," Atticus said calmly.

"Well it sounds great," Jasmine giggled.

"Hey you two, what are you doing," Alexis pretended to not know what was going on.

"Oh Atticus wrote this really pretty poem and he wanted me to listen to it and see get my opinion," Jasmine replied, her eyes on the Atticus.

"Uh huh, right Jasmine," Alexis rolled her eyes. She was absolutely positive that Atticus had written that poem for her.

"Hey what's with you? You're acting unnaturally sarcastic. That's Chazz's job," Atticus intervened.

"Nothing, I just am a little shocked that's all," Alexis shrugged.

"Alexis, it happens to everybody. Failing one of Crowler's tests in inevitable, just ask Jaden," Atticus wrapped an arm around his sister.

"Atticus I can't ask Jaden, he is with Blair, Syrus, and Hasselberry. And I didn't fail Crowler's test," Alexis sighed.

"Oh, so am I the only one who did badly on it? Geez…" Atticus muttered.

"Hey wait a minute why aren't you with Jaden?" Jasmine asked.

"I wasn't invited. I figured if he wanted me there he would ask," Alexis shrugged.

Jasmine shook her head. There were only a few times where Alexis actually acted like a blonde, this was one of them. "Alexis, is that it," Jasmine inquired.

"Well it's an all-night thing and if Hasselberry and Syrus fall asleep and Chazz doesn't call me in time well then Blair might…"Alexis trailed off.

Jasmine walked over to her friend. Then she slapped her right square in the face.

"Alexis Rhodes get over it. Chazz hates Blair as well remember? And duh the two dorks are going o fall asleep and you will be there so if she does try anything you will be there. Stop feeling pathetic. You're supposed to be a Queen not some paranoid loser," Jasmine snapped.

Alexis felt her face. It burned where Jasmine had hit her, and as mad as she was at her; she was also grateful. Jasmine was right. Alexis shouldn't be acting the way she has been. But she didn't have to hit her to get her point across.

"Sorry Jasmine, you're right. I shouldn't be acting like this, it's just I never wanted something to go right for me this much and I am a little freaked," Alexis admitted.

"I noticed, now let's go hang out. I think that maybe you just need some girl time," Jasmine advised as she showed her the way inside.

The two friends went inside and did something that they hadn't done in a while, they hung out. They didn't worry about guys and plots. Just them. This continued until Alexis got a call around ten.

"Hello," Alexis picked up.

"Yeah, I'm at the Slifer dorms. Blair is trying to get Jaden alone. I think you should come over here and keep an eye out for her," Chazz growled.

"Ok, thanks Chazz," Alexis hung up the phone.

"Let me guess, it's time," Jasmine guessed.

"Yeah, hey when you get back we can watch a movie or something," Alexis suggested.

"Sure but for now go get you're revenge," Jasmine smirked.

"Ok, bye Jaz."

"Bye Alexis."

Alexis ran out of the dorm and down the steps that led into the night. Once again, it was abnormally cold. But that was ok, she was running and could barely feel a thing. When she arrived, Chazz was waiting for her. And of course, Mindy was with him.

"You're just in time Alexis come on," Mindy grabbed her arm and pulled her to a window. There Alexis saw Blair in a room alone with Jaden.

"So what did you want to tell me," Alexis overheard Jaden say.

"It's just that I um…this is really hard for me to say," Blair whispered.

Alexis realized that this was the perfect time to barge in. Blair would never see it coming and she wouldn't be able to do anything about it. She walked over to the door and pressed her ear against it so she could hear.

"Blair it's ok, just tell me I'm not gonna go crazy," Jaden promised.

It's just that I-well I like-,"Alexis then ran in.

"Oh hey Jaden, Blair. I think I left something in here Jaden," Alexis looked around. Now it was Alexis's time to see Blair looked shocked, but she looked beyond shocked. There weren't words to describe the amount of shock on her face. But to Alexis she looked funny.

"Really, what is it that you're looking for," Jaden asked, his attention now on Alexis.

"My video I let you borrow last week," Alexis answered.

"I gave that back to you though," Jaden looked in his VCR to make sure.

"Oh yeah, you did well I'm sorry. I hope I didn't ruin anything," Alexis said innocently.

"It's ok Lexis. You didn't ruin anything," Jaden smiled.

"Ok." Alexis couldn't help but smile back at her friend. With every moment she grew cheerier. "Well I'm gonna go see you later Jay," Alexis added.

"Oh ok, well then I will see you tomorrow," Jaden's grin widened as he said that. It was like he wanted the next day to happen then.

Alexis walked out of Jaden's dorm and once again pressed her ear to the door.

"So what did you want to tell me," Jaden asked.

"Forget Jaden," Blair sighed. But it was a sigh of defeat. And Alexis left knowing she had a story to tell Jasmine when she came back.