The chapter everyone's been waiting for

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Chapter 11: I Warned You

Jayden woke up when he felt someone poking his shoulder. "What do you want?" He groaned not opening his eyes. "I'm trying to sleep,"

"I warned you if I had nightmares that you'd have to stay up with me,"

Jayden opened his eyes and propped himself up on his elbow. "Emily? What are you doing in here?"

"You made me watch a scary movie which gave me nightmares. I said you'd have to stay up with me and you said fair enough. So are you going to hold up on your promise?"

"To be fair," Jayden yawned. "I never actually promised." Emily made a face, "But I'm not one to let my friends down, I'll stay up with you." He sat up and threw off his comforter. "Since you don't want to sleep, what do you want to do?" He asked stretching.

"I was thinking junk food and television,"

Jayden looked at the clock and saw it was four in the morning, they still had four hours before any of the others would wake up. "Okay, sounds pretty good." Jayden put on his slippers and the two headed to the kitchen.

"Do you have a preference of potato chips?" Emily asked looking in the cupboard.

"Whatever you like is good, what do you want to drink?" Jayden asked looking in the fridge. "Milk, orange juice, bottled water,"

"Soda,"

"It's not really a good hour for soda."

Emily grabbed a bag of Doritos and walked over to Jayden. "There's nothing more exciting than breaking rules Jayden." She said grabbing a can of Pepsi.

"I guess you're right," Jayden grabbed his own soda and they headed into the living room and sat on the couch. "I didn't think you guys would ever break rules. From what I've seen you're all sticklers for them."

"Only because we're scared of Ji's wrath. Last month he went away for a week and we had a party."

"Really?" Jayden asked raising an eyebrow. "Just you guys or did you invite people cause I thought this place was supposed to be secret."

"Okay I lied, we didn't have a party. We just pigged out on junk food and stayed up late."

"You guys are so rebellious," Jayden sarcastically remarked turning on the television.

"It's probably more than you've done to rebel, you only had one day a week to do what you wanted while we get most afternoons off."

"You forget, my best friend went to public school," He said channel surfing.

"So?"

"So I snuck out a lot after I went to bed."

"You did not!"

"I did, it was the only way to have a social life and have fun whether it was hanging out with Spike and his friends or with girls."

"You went out with a lot of girls?"

Jayden shook his head. "Not really, I've only had a few dates. The best time I snuck out was Spike's going away party last year. The punishment I got for that was well worth it."

"You got punished for going to a party for your best friend?"

"I made a lot of noise when I got back and the next morning I had a hangover."

Emily's jaw dropped in surprise. "You got drunk? If that was a year ago, that means you got drunk at seventeen."

Jayden nodded. "Yeah, one of Spike's friends got their older brother to get a keg."

"So what was your punishment?"

"Hard labor in the form of yard work while they made a bunch of noise since sunrise. It was actually a good punishment, I'm never going to drink again and when my kids come home drunk I'm going to do the same thing to them."

"I think you're officially the most rebellious on the team."

"It's not really something to be proud of, we learn from life experiences and we use the learned lessons to teach the next generation."

"Well I grew up on a farm so I'm used to hard labor. I don't know what my parents would do to punish me or Serena."

"Does that imply you've never been grounded before?"

"Yeah," Emily said softly. "if you're going to say I'm too nice or too goody-goody go ahead, all the others do. They all think I'm nowhere near tough enough to even be on the team."

"They must be blind because from what I've seen in battle you're kind of a badass."

"I am?"

"Yeah, I admit you're not physically the strongest but you're the swiftest."

"Thanks,"

"You're welcome, anyway I was going to say in regards to the grounding thing, it means one of two things."

"And what are those things?"

"That either you've never really broken a rule or you've never been caught."

"I can't get caught if I don't break a rule."

"Yeah but you're breaking the rules right now." He said gesturing to the junk food and television.

"True,"

"So what do you think your punishment should be?" Jayden asked trying to be serious but he had a smile.

"I don't know, what do you think?"

"I think…" Jayden trailed off but then started tickling Emily.

"Stop! Jayden no!" She said between laughs.

Jayden stopped and hoped he didn't accidentally wake anyone up, he liked being alone with Emily. "I'm sorry but it happens when you break the rules."

"I hope that didn't wake anyone else up."

"Why is that? Afraid Ji will come in and get mad at us?"

"No,"

"Then why else would you hope nobody woke up?" Emily looked away and took a drink of her soda. "Oh, I get it."

"What?"

"You don't want anyone else to wake up because you want us to be alone."

"What? No," She denied. "I just don't want them to lose any sleep."

"Is that the truth?"

"Yes," She lied.

"I was hoping you would say no,"

"Why?"

"Because I like spending time with you."

"You do?"

"What guy wouldn't like spending time with a pretty girl?"

"You really think I'm pretty Jayden?"

"Of course I do, I told you when we met."

"You're the first to call me that,"

"That can't be possible,"

"It is, I was always the quiet shy girl who had a perfect sister. I know my parents love us equally but it always felt like she was the favorite."

"Be glad you grew up with your parents and sister."

"I'm sorry Jayden, I didn't mean to upset you."

"You didn't, but you should know I did grow up with a pretty good life. I didn't have a family but I had friends courtesy of Spike."

"It's great that you and Lauren managed to find best friends."

"I only found one best friend, Lauren was blessed to find five. I'm sorry she had to keep me a secret from you guys."

"It's not your fault, was Lauren a secret to Spike?"

Jayden shook his head. "No, I told him everything except about being a samurai, until I walked with him after the movie."

"You told him about being a samurai?"

"I couldn't keep it from him anymore, he doesn't keep anything from me. He pieced together on his own that the rest of you are the other rangers but he swore he wouldn't tell anyone, not even you guys."

"So you broke the rules," Emily smirked.

"Yeah, I guess I did. What are you doing to do about it?" Emily shoved Jayden onto his back and climbed on top of him. "I think I'm going to like your punishment," Jayden teased.

"Oh yeah, see how much you like this!" She started tickling Jayden but he didn't seem ticklish. "That's not fair, you're not ticklish." Emily whined.

"Sorry," Emily took a different approach and pinched Jayden's arm. "Ouch!"

"I win,"

"Are you proud of yourself? Your win came at the price of my pain."

"I'm sorry,"

"It's okay, now could you get off me?"

"I don't know, you're pretty comfortable." Emily giggled.

"Emily, I'm warning you now, if you don't get off of me I'm going to do something that will probably earn me a slap to the face."

"Oh yeah, what would that be?" Jayden put his hand on the back of her neck and pulled her down crashing their lips together.

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