Chapter 3: Jay and Nya

Jay stomped into the bedroom, angry look hidden under his hood. Nya looked up from her magazine. "Something wrong?" she asked, concerned. Jay yanked his hood off to reveal his messy, black hair.

Nya's jaw dropped. Soon she was overcome with giggles, chuckles racking her body. "Wha...What happened?" she wheezed out.

"Kai saw the text you sent me." Jay said bluntly. All the color drained Nya's face. "What?"

Jay smiled. "Yeah, I tried to explain it all away, but he saw right through me."

Nya groaned, and wacked him with a pillow. "You shouldn't have let him see your phone!"

"It's not like I wasn't trying to hide it!" Jay defended. "He just snatched out of my hand." Nya shook her head, smile on her face. "It's fine... He'll get over it." she assured. Jay smiled. "Good. I don't need the master of fire angry at me." he said, cupping Nya's cheek. He pulled her, and kissed her. She pushed him back, laughing.

Jay scowled. "My hair isn't that bad."

"It looks pretty ridiculous." she rebutted. Nya ran her hand through the scorched locks. His hair had gotten longer, hadn't it? When was the last time he cut it? An idea suddenly pooped into Nya's head. "I can fix it." she offered, devious smirk making its way across her features.

Jay pulled back. "Nope. Not happening."

"Why not? I cut Kai's hair all the time when we were kids." she explained.

"That's the point."

Nya scowled, but then her face softened, tears brimming in her eyes. "Do you not trust me?"

Jay paled, and shook his head frantically. "No, no, no, no! You can totally fix my hair! I... I ju-just didn't want to bother you." he assured his girlfriend. It took all of Nya's strength not to smirk. "It's okay." she said, patting him on the shoulder. "If we do it right, it shouldn't take more than fifteen minutes."

Except Nya didn't do it right. She didn't stay focused (too busy thinking about possible modifications that could be made to the Bounty), and in her distraction, she snipped too much hair off of one side of Jay's head. Then she tried to compensate by snipping more off the other side, but she overcorrected and snipped too much.

Before she even realized what had happened, the two ninja were left with mish-mash of short, long, and messy curls. And the worst part was Jay was trying to comfort Nya over the awful haircut, not the other way around!

"It's not that bad!" Jay had tried to convince her. "And while it might not be the best look, it'll grow back."

Why in Ninjago did Nya ever dump this man?

But she could tell how disappointed he was. It was written clearly across his face. She had to do something to make him feel better. And then, she got an idea. A really bad idea.

She could cut her hair too.

Nya looked in the mirror, knuckles white from gripping the scissors. This was alright. She could do this. It's her boyfriend's feelings, or her hair.

Shouldn't this be an easier choice?

Okay, just breathe. Other girls would rather eat dirt than do what she was about to do, but she wasn't like other girls.

Nya raised the blades to her hair with shaky hands, so very, very nervous. But she had to do this, before she lost her nerve. She quickly snipped off a small chunk of hair, and looked in the mirror. It didn't look too bad, right?

She continued with the scissors until her whole head was a mess of uneven strands and choppy bangs. FSM, it looked awful. But it could help make Jay feel better.

It just needed one final touch. She grabbed a silver band, and pulled her hair back into a high ponytail. Most of her bangs fell out of it and into her face, but it looked decent enough. Kind of like Pixal's hair.

Nya left the bathroom, and casually walked into the game room. Jay sat there, alone, with his hood on his head, playing some video game Nya couldn't be bothered to remember the name of. "Hey Jay." she said, sitting down beside him. "I'm really sorry abut your hair."

Jay paused the game, and sat the controller down. "Nya, I already told you it's okay..." He trailed off, surprised by the state of her hair.

Then, he started laughing, hysterically. "Are you okay?" Nya asked, suppressing her own giggles. "Yeah," Jay answered, removing his hood to reveal a bright smile.

"You're the best, you know that?" he pressed their foreheads together. "I love you so much."

Nya smiled just as big. "I love you too." she turned her attention back to the game. "So think you could show me how to play?"

Jay rolled his eyes, smile still plastered on his features. This was like the sixth time. He didn't care. The two just sat there together, happy to be together, and know that they had each other.

...

So here's a funny story. I was originally going to do this angsty chapter were Jay gets trapped in a cave for two weeks, which makes his skin get paler, which brings out the freckles, then he dyes his hair to honor his birth father, but Cole's chapter was pretty sad and Zane's and Lloyd's chapters are going to be angsty, so I was like, "we can't have the only funny chapter be Kai's, but what could I do?" So I'm just chilling in my room, scrolling through YouTube, before I noticed a Wu's teas in my recommendation, and I watch it, and it's the one where Kai drinks sereni-tea. After I finish it, I start scrolling through the comments, and I read one where someone said that Kai burned Jay so bad he turned his hair from red to black, so I was struck with inspiration!

Then I read a review from Kai's chapter about how they liked that Skylor styled his hair, so I was struck with more inspiration, and I found a way to incorporate Nya's chapter into this one. For her, I was going to do something where she cuts her hair while having a panic attack, but I don't have the skill to write that, so it didn't happen.

I do like this version of the story better though, despite how cheesy the ending is. Feel free to give me constructive criticism, I've got a lot to learn, and I always appreciate it when people take time to give me pointers.