"I wonder where Chazz is…I can't believe he left school right before the dance!" Mindy pouted, stamping her feet. She had ended up going with that gorgeous hunk of a tennis player – she couldn't remember his name, and right now, she didn't really care. She had wanted to go with Chazz, to get to show it off that SHE had been the one to snag Chazz's heart!
But no…he had left school two days before the dance! His room was still empty – despite the fact that the Slifer Red administrator had seen him leave, no one really wanted to admit that he was actually gone. And no one wanted to go into his room without Chazz's permission – Chazz never let anyone in his room. People occasionally barged in, but no one went in there when he wasn't there. Not even the cleaning crews. He always supervised their work.
"We should clean out his things." Dr. Crowler said testily. Zane stood behind him, and Alexis glared at her teacher. "Well, if you want to do it, go ahead. But I'm not moving his stuff, and neither is Zane." She said stubbornly. "We'll get him back, Dr. Crowler! I know we will. We're not going to let Chazz go that easily, no matter how upset he is." She said with a flare of emotion.
Be it far from her nature to admit it, but…she did miss Chazz. His snippy remarks, that naturally raspy voice…those cold grey eyes…there was something admirable about how secluded he was. Chazz had the sort of attitude that drew people towards him, when all he wanted to do was to push them away. And Alexis was set on finding out where her friend had gotten too.
A month passed, and a sort of stupor had fallen over the classroom. None of Chazz's smart-aleck remarks livened up the room, and even Dr. Crowler would occasionally glance at the empty seat, as though wondering why Chazz was so late in coming back to the class. But no one ever spoke about it – except for one person.
"How am I supposed to duel my rival, if he left the school?" Complained Jaden loudly. "Sy, it's really not fair. Honestly! I don't even know where he is, so I can't bug him about coming back." He complained.
By this point it time, he had already defeated Bastion. He was going to represent Duel Academy against Northface Academy. But his heart wasn't in it, not really. It was great to duel, but he really wanted to be dueling Chazz, to see his rival getting fired up. Chazz's cheeks always flushed, and his voice became even raspier, full of a passion that only dueling could put in him, when they dueled. And his arrogance ran to new heights, every duel, which was one of the most amusing and amazing things to watch; Chazz evolving through a duel.
But now…Chazz wasn't there. And it wasn't big things that upset people about Chazz having left – no, he hadn't had a profound impact on anyone's life, really. But there was just something tangible about his frustration with the world.
Whenever people got angry, and snapped something, they would think of Chazz, and then feel a pang of remorse when they realized that he was gone. It was nothing big, really. But it was, certainly, something that had changed the school just a little bit.