Hello everyone! Sorry that I haven't posted in a while. I've been really sick the past couple of days and slightly comatose. I really have not had a good night of sleep in live three days so I apologize in advance for any errors.

I decided to take a slightly different approach to this chapter and kind of go off of one of my favorite songs ever. It's a bit of a sappy song but I absolutely love it. I'll post a link to it in my profile and here is an excerpt from it:

I feel like a hero and you are my heroine

And I feel a weakness coming on

Never felt so good to be so wrong

Had my heart on lockdown

And then you turned me around

(Do you know that your love is the sweetest sin?)

I'm feeling like a newborn child

Every time I get a chance to see you smile

It's not complicated

~Hero/Heroine by Boys Like Girls~

I hope you guys like in and please review. I'm slightly addicted to them and in all honesty I drop what ever I'm doing to write. I hope I'm not sounding whiney but I love when you guys help me become a better writer. I especially want to thank Dirigo, DMG44, Azul Angel1251596, and x-xdemonx-x for their constant reviews. You guys always put a smile on my face!

So on with it!

Oh yeah, I don't own Yugioh gx so don't eat me for copy right infringement!

SPOV

A loud thumping was echoing around the room when I woke up. It was way too early to wake up so I tried to muffle the noise by wrapping my pillow around my head. Needless to say, that wasn't working very well so I figured that I might as well get up. Jesse must have already left because Blair and I were the only ones in the room. She was still asleep so I figured that it would be okay if I used the bathroom first.

I went through my morning routine, brushing my teeth, washing my face, and of course trying to comb out the mess that was my hair. When I got to the section near my neck I noticed a new mark on my neck. It was a thin line that curved like a wave and it seemed to originate from the base of my neck. I guessed that it was just from Blair's couch so I didn't examine it too closely.

Once I was done, I walked out of the bathroom to a hyperactive Blair bouncing in place. I already knew what she wanted so I just answered automatically.

"Yes, Jesse and I are together." She shrieked and I jumped back a bit from the unexpected noise. She started jumping up and down and started demanding for details.

"So after you left the hospital, Jesse stayed with me and we started to talk in the morning, the situation got kind of intense once I saw that I had scratched his arms. I got really upset and pissed at myself for doing that. I mean I know I couldn't control it but I was still angry with myself. Then he kissed me and…" before I could continue Blair slapped her hand over my mouth. Confusion crossed my face at her reaction but she decided to clear that up for me.

"Shut up! He kissed you first! Seriously?" she almost screamed.

"Quiet! I don't want the entire dorm hearing, but yeah, he kissed me first. Then we decided to duel and I came running back here. Then we ran into each other and you gave me the outfit, which I love by the way. I went to the courtyard to meet him and I dealt with Kari who was being a bitch. I made her cry and then Jesse found me. We dueled and I beat him with my super awesome deck. Afterwards we hugged and I found the note in the pocket of the jacket. He wanted to race me afterwards so for some unknown reason the distraction we needed just dropped in my lap so then you hit him with the branch and yeah." I said and I took a gigantic breath.

"Wow… He must really really like you." Blair mused with wide eyes. She zoned out for a minute and I couldn't take the suspense any longer. I closed my eyes to switch and began to read her aura. There was a lot of yellow and orange with a bit of pink and purple. The protectiveness she felt was painfully obvious. Should she be scared for me and worried that Jess was going to hurt me? To say the truth, I didn't really know.

"Blair, you there? Earth to Blair! Are you okay?" I said somewhat frantically while waving my hand in front of her eyes. I always hated waiting and usually I didn't have to wait for people to say anything because I could just look into their minds. I can't find reasons for feeling though which only adds to my aggravation most of the time. "Why are you so worried about me and Jess? Is he going to hurt me? You're feeling really protective, is there a reason. Tell me please. I'm begging, don't make me wait any longer. Please please please!" I said with my manic need to know showing through.

"Wow, you really need to know don't you," she stated with an incredulous look in her eyes. I nodded my head vigorously in agreement and she continued. "Jess has, well, done some things that he isn't necessarily proud of. It is not my place to tell you but I'm worried. I don't really know much and I don't know why he did those things so I'm not going to judge him for them. You should ask him though. Lets go grab lunch and some hot chocolate. It's starting to get really cold."

I didn't really know what to make of Blair worried expression. My moral half won the battle to look into her aura. Aurelis was by my head comforting me now and I knew that my aura must have been very blue and orange for her to come out in front of Blair. My Aurelis was extremely shy around strangers, especially ones that couldn't see her. I sent her a few waves of gratitude and she let out her happy giggly laugh. The entire time our exchange was going on you could see Blair's face go from confused to worried to recognition.

"You have a spirit partner too, don't you? Which one of your monsters? Show me!" my best friend demanded. I pulled out my cards and sifted through my deck until found the card I was looking for. My little fairy winked at me as I handed my creation to Blair. I could tell she wanted to see the rest of my deck so I took my cards out and handed them to her. For the next thirty minutes I just laughed at her wide range of expressions while looking through my deck. Her face seemed to go everywhere, contorting into grins and her jaw dropped at Reginona.

"This monster looks exactly like you. Did you plan it out that way or did it just kind of happen?" Blair said with her eyes looking at the card longingly.

"Well, originally she looked completely different. Her hair was black, the wings looked more like a bird's than a dragonfly's, and her eye tattoo was centered, like the area where your collarbones meet. When Pegasus had to look her over and he decided change her face structure completely and pretty much to go to town with it. Eventually Reginona just kind of became, well, me. There are a few differences between us though beside my obvious lack of wings and tattoos. She just sort of embodies the, I don't want to say evil, but the harsher side of me, the ruthless side. The flipside then is Aurelis and Regina," I said pausing momentarily to hand her the cards to compare.

"I like to think that I have a similar, more gentle demeanor like those two when I'm not dueling or in full on glow mode," I said with a bit of nostalgia in my voice. I could see the original sketch of Reginona in my head. Now that I though about it she looked a lot like a Harpy Lady, though she looked almost crueler than one. Now she seemed less menacing, but she still held an air of power in her picture. Blair just seemed a bit out of it when she looked at me, "What's up? What are you staring at?"

"T-the wave on your neck that wasn't there before. It looks, it looks like the tattoo's aura path on Reginona," she whispered as her fingers cautiously rose to touch the new mark. I ran to the bathroom before she could make contact though. The mark was not from the couch apparently and I had to see what she was talking about. Things were getting weirder and weirder everyday here.

As I inspected my neck, I could feel the fear in my aura become apparent. The thin cyan blue waves started at outer corners of my eyes, where they came to a point. If you followed them down my face they arced towards the outer edge of my face and they continued down my neck. Finally they gracefully disappeared behind my back. They weren't extremely obvious and you could only see the extent of the wave if you looked closely. Blair then rushed in and I could intuitively feel her about to ask to see my marks, which I shot down.

"Come on! I'm starving and you can look at my deck and me later. Let go get some food please," I said as I literally dragged Blair though the freezing hallway to the dining room. I tried desperately to find a distraction from my anxiety in the gaudy hallway. I realized after a couple of seconds that each of the golden sconces hanging on the velvet-lined wall had an angel type duel monsters carved into it. I recognized quite a few and I decided to preoccupy myself by trying to remember what level each monster was. Eventually we made our way to the dining room, which to my surprise was extremely unpopulated.

We got our food from the buffet and I noticed that I had absentmindedly piled a lot on to my plate. I always ate more when I was nervous but this was getting really ridiculous extremely fast. I had two bowls of soup, a large salad, pasta, an apple and a roll by the time we were out of the line. Blair then dragged me to her supposed favorite table, which was on the opposite side of the room. The table was directly below an oval window and was smaller than the other ones in the room. It could hold maybe four people as opposed to ten.

I only realized how panicked I was when some other student looked at me from across the room and I almost yelped. I tried to hide the jumpy feelings by eating the copious amounts of food I brought to our table. I shoveled the endless supply into my mouth in a continuous stream until I saw my friend's expression change from one of awe to a furtive glance over my shoulder. My entire body went rigid when pair of strong hands placed themselves on my shoulders while their owner's head was right behind mine.

"The only time I've seen someone eat that much food was when Jaden was in the hospital after he collapsed the first time after his duel with Axel, right Blair?" a familiar smooth southern drawl said into my ear. After Jesse's distinct voice allowed my tense position to relax, I felt him slide into the seat next to me. He decided to trail his fingertips down my arm, which made me shudder slightly. He clasped my hand and Blair just sat there with a big smug grin on her face.

"Hey Jess. Where did you go this morning?" I asked with genuine curiosity. Not only did I want to know but the question also distracted Blair from talking about the marks, at least for the time being.

"I decided to get an early start on fulfilling my end of our bet. It's almost ready and all I need to do is secure it to the tree. I just decided to break from working to eat. I walked in here and spotted ya'll and decided to sneak up on ya Sage. I hope I didn't scare ya too much though because ya wouldn't let me do this if ya'll were," my boyfriend trailed off and lightly kissed my cheek. I felt my cheeks flush a bit but my happiness was so undeniable at that moment I couldn't care less. Through the haze of my mild embarrassment though I could see Blair trying to pull her jaw up from the floor.

"Here take some of my food," I said pushing my tray to him. "I took way too much, so would you please have some? I would feel guilty throwing the rest of this out." I added to explain half my reasoning. I truly wasn't hungry anymore now that his peaceful presence was here calming my pervious anxiety but I really didn't want him to leave. I knew it was pathetic but I could swear something felt like it was tearing inside me every time he was away from me.

He started to cautiously pick apart the roll I hadn't touched yet but miraculously he did it without letting go of my hand. He seemed slightly puzzled and reluctant to eat the food. "Are ya okay Sage? One minute you're eating like an animal and the next ya aren't hungry. You look different too Sage, paler maybe. Are ya sick?" he said as he began to raise his hand to check if I had a fever. I bolted before he had the chance. I didn't know why but I just had a bad feeling about him studying my face. It almost felt like if he looked at my face he would become scared of me if that was possible.

I was almost to my room when I got the sense that someone following me. I turned around, now glowing in an effort to prepare myself in case of a fight, to see Jesse's aura through the wall around the corner. A frantic blue, red, purple and white mixture dominated his aura until he saw me. The blue then spiked as he held his hands up in an effort to show that he meant no harm. He felt extreme guilt and sadness because he though he hurt me and with that I knew I hurt him in the process.

"Jesse, I'm not going to hurt you. I just let my instincts take over when I heard someone following me and in the process I changed my eyes. I'm sorry I left. I just don't know what came over me. I'm sorry," I whispered quietly, ashamed to say it any louder. I felt the tears coming on when Jesse, in a newly orange and yellow aura, wrapped his arms around my waist.

"I'm sorry I hurt you. I don't know what do to really to help ya. I hope that ya don't hold anything against me. Ya know that your eyes aren't the only part of you glowing right?" He said softly in my ear while we continued our embrace.

"No, I didn't actually. Where am I glowing?"

"There are these, I don't exactly know what to call them, paths or tattoos maybe. Anyways there are these new paths on your face, neck, and shoulders that are glowing. They're really beautiful by the way," Jesse said as feather light touches from his hands followed my newly acquired marks, "Do you want to go to your room or my room now or do you want to see the swing?"

"Lets go to my room, its just a couple dorrs over," I said as I began to lead him to my room. It was just as plain as I remembered and most of my stuff was still packed but my computer was still out displaying my Itunes library. If I remember correctly, it was playing the acoustic version of Hero/Heroine by Boys Like Girls. For some reason, this song was really relaxing if it was played at the correct volume and I use to fall asleep to it all the time. I directed Jesse to sit on my couch while grabbed my computer. I sat down next to him and he then grabbed my laptop from my hands.

"You like BLG?"

"Yeah, I love them. I use to fall asleep to this song all the time. I know that it's not a particularly happy message but it was sort of my feeling of love at the time. You know, the whole someone putting themselves out there and then getting crushed."

"I can see that meaning but unlike most people, I kind of feel that the song is more about a fight in a relationship that the people just fixed."

"Now that you say that, it makes more sense. That's way happier than my original interpretation. I love doing this though, interpreting songs especially with you because you understand me. I have to say that most of BLG's songs kind of remind me of you," I said with a bit of a sheepish grin. I had said a bit more than I wanted to but it felt right putting myself out in front Jess. I knew he would never hurt me and I knew I was safe with him. I then found myself completely shocked his next actions.

"I tried to read between the lines. I tried to look in your eyes I want a simple explanation; what I'm feeling inside. I gotta find a way out, maybe there's a way out. Your voice was the soundtrack of my summer. Do you know you're unlike any other? You'll always be my thunder, and I said your eyes are the brightest of all the colors. I don't wanna ever love another," Jesse quoted perfectly. And then pointing to me he said, "You'll always be my thunder…" I couldn't escape the tears that followed and soon I kissed him.

This wasn't like our previous chastise kisses. This one was more passionate as I tried to put myself entirely into this kiss. I could feel his hands sliding down my arms going to my waist and the shivers that simple act induced. I tried to go off instinct rather than experience because I honestly had none when I trailed my hands to his perfect teal hair. Of course my intermittent clumsiness had to show up now and the kiss was broken. The next thing I knew was I was on the ground and Jesse was sprawled on top of me.

We were then in a giant fit of giggles as he pulled himself off of me. I saw a flash of something in his eyes though when he was halfway off of me. He almost looked reluctant to laugh and by avoiding my gaze he accentuated that. It was now my turn to be worried about the other. Had I done something to upset him? My insecurities flared though when he made absolutely no movements.

"Are you okay?" I said as I desperately tried to keep my voice even.

"I'm more than okay," he said with a completely numb monotone that was similar to mine. "That was probably the single best experience in my life and I'm just genuinely too shocked to react. All I can is that was, well, wow."

"Yeah. As you articulately put it, that was…wow." I said as I tried to find his hand in my blind state. A slight smile crossed my lips as we turned our heads at the same time to meet each others gaze.

"Those songs will never be the same."

I hope you guys liked it! I think I'm going to go back and edit my first chapter for some inconsistencies. Let me know how you feel about it and There will be a duel in either the next chapter or the one after that! Oh yeah and if any one of you read The House of Night series, Sage's new marks are similar to Zoey getting more tattoos. I'll also post a link to a picture that reminds me of the blue I'm trying to portray when Sage glows.

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