"I'm coming, Sam!" Kai called out to no one as he raced to the park, carrying the precious bag of marshmallows, careful not to squish them.

When he reached the park, Kai scanned the area, shielding his eyes from the sun's intense rays. It truly was a beautiful day in Ninjago City.

Eventually, Kai's eyes rested on a blonde girl sitting on a bench near the fountain next to Zane's "Titanium Ninja" statue. This brings back memories.

The ninja walked over to her slowly, different scenarios running through his head. What was he going to say? Was it even Sam he was seeing?

His questions were answered shortly when he got closer look at her. Coming into view, he could see her face, and indeed, it was the same Sam he had met at the grocery store.

Seeing the familiar spiky-haired brunette, the girl stood up from her seat on the bench to greet him.

"Hey," she greeted him cheerfully.

"Hey," Kai replied, partially out of breath as he held the bag out in front of him. "Got your marshmallows."

The girl smiled, noticing Kai appeared a bit out of breath, like he had been running the entire way to the park.

"Thanks for giving them back," the girl said. "I thought I'd die without them."

Kai chuckled, picking up on her sarcasm. Wow, that was actually quite funny.

"No problem. All I had to do was swim across a lake full of star-teeth, defeat a whole skeleton army, and fight a few Anacondrai snakes here and there," he said. "But other than that, no big deal."

For a moment, Kai thought he may have gone overkill with the sarcasm, however, the girl just smiled and laughed like she had done at the grocery store.

"Is that all?"

After the laughter had died down, the two stood there awkwardly, neither knowing what else to say.

Finally, Kai was the first one to speak up.

"Do wanna sit down and talk for a minute?" he asked. It didn't seem right to him just to leave after giving her back the marshmallows.

The girl nodded, slightly surprised that the ninja would make such a suggestion.

"Uh, sure."

They each sat down on bench, both very careful not to sit too close to one another.

"I didn't quite catch your name," the girl said, trying to break the awkwardness. "You're Jay, no you're-"

"Kai. My name's Kai."

"Kai," she repeated, letting the name roll of her tongue. "That's a cool name."

Call him crazy, but Kai thought he felt himself blush slightly at her compliment. Nonetheless, he pretended as if it didn't phase him.

"Yeah, it's a good name. Think it suits me."

Unfortunately, silence started to rear its ugly head once more.

Desperate to say something before the air became completely awkward and weird, the red ninja blurted out, "I was able to get out of training today," he said.

Sam tilted her head curiously. "Why's that?"

"I kinda hit my head after my teammate dodged my attack," he rubbed the back of his head sheepishly. "But I'm okay now."

"That's good," she smiled.

"Yeah, being a ninja isn't easy, that's for sure."

For a split second, Sam thought she saw a hint of sadness flicker in his soft brown eyes, but when she blinked, it was gone.

"What's it like, being a ninja?" she asked.

Kai's eyes widened in surprise. He hadn't expected her to ask such a question.

"Oh, well, being a ninja is great," he said. "Don't get me wrong. We train, we eat, we sleep. It's a routine."

"And how many ninja are there?"

"There's five of us, including myself. And our Sensei. Plus my sister. We're all very close, like one big family."

"Wow," the girl said, trying to process the information. The ninjas' life was certainly different from the average civilian's, including herself. She imagined what it would be like to be in their shoes for a day. It sounded a lot more exciting than being a regular old college student.

"What's your life like?" Kai asked, running out of things to say. He did enjoy talking about himself and life as a ninja, but there were things that were difficult to explain to a civilian in a single sentence.

"My life is pretty boring, I guess you could say. Compared to yours," Sam said. "I'm a college student, so mainly what I do is study."

Kai nodded, showing he was listening. College did not really sound at all like he and the other ninja thought it was, granted he and the other ninja could not attend one, since training took up most of their time. Sensei had told them once that if they had been average civilians, he would've been in college right now.

"How old are you?" Kai asked out of curiosity. "Not to be creepy."

"19," the girl replied, secretly wondering why her age was important.

"Well, I'm 20," Kai said, remembering the surprise party that Nya and the other ninja had several months back. "So that means I would be a year ahead of you."

"You'd be a sophomore," the girl said. She was slightly surprised at how uninformed the ninja appeared to be about schooling.

"I thought college was supposed to be about having fun and having a good time. Partying," Kai said, referring to her earlier comment about studying. "They say it's the best four years of your life."

The girl smiled and shook her head, chuckling slightly. She found Kai's misconceptions cute, in an endearing way.

"There are parties, however, I don't go to many of them. I'll be honest, I'm not one for partying. So much could wrong, especially at those wild frat parties."

Kai nodded, taking in the information.

So college wasn't what he and the other ninja had made it up to be. It was just studying. Like training.

"This is interesting news to bring to the ninja back home," he said.

"On your ship," the girl said teasingly. She still couldn't believe out of all the places, the ninja were living on a flying ship.

Kai chuckled. Living on a ship did sound pretty ridiculous. Almost like a fairytale. "Yep."

The two were faced with silence again, however, this time it wasn't as uncomfortable.

"Well, I should probably get going," Kai said, standing up from his spot on the bench. "We should do this again sometime."

"We should," she said, clutching her bag of marshmallows. They had been talking for so long that she had almost forgotten about them.

Kai ran a hand through his spiky brown hair, with an awkward grin plastered on his face. "So I guess I'll see you around."

"Yeah."

Both Kai and Sam glanced down at their feet for a moment, neither wanting to be the first one to leave.

Suddenly, Sam's eyes lit up as she looked at Kai. "I'll give you my number if you want it. In case you wanna talk sometime."

She rummaged through her purse to find a piece of paper, however, no such paper was found. Instead, she pulled out a Sharpie, the one she had been using for school.

"I don't have any paper," she said. "But..."

She uncapped the Sharpie, then began writing on the bag. When she was done, she handed it to Kai.

"Here."

The ninja looked at the bag and saw she had written her number on the bag of marshmallows.

"You can take the bag back," she said.

Kai stared at her in disbelief. "But I just gave them back to you. Don't you want them?"

Sam shook her head. "No, they're not that important to me." She felt slightly guilty about not taking them even though Kai had gone to all that trouble to return them to her, but how else could she keep in contact with him?

"You can give them back to me another time," she said. "All the more reason to meet up again."

She winked at him, and it was then that Kai realized what she was doing. Now, unless she wanted her marshmallows back, he had no choice but to see her again sometime. She was right though, he could just return them to her later. No problem.

"You're right, maybe I will." He winked back at her.

"Bye Kai," she waved to him as they parted ways.

"See you, Sam," Kai said as he left. "See you later."