Right, here we go, it's the reunion culmination, answers, new questions, excitement, sadness, it has got the lot.

I hope you all enjoy this story. There is still a long way to go but, we get past this first major hurdle.

There will be a lot of jumping between POV's in this chapter so bear with me, but it should still be good (hopefully).

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Buckle up and enjoy the ride,

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Alexis's POV

Last night was a nightmare.

For starters I couldn't sleep which wasn't great, I knew I had the reunion coming up, but I just couldn't get to sleep, my body wouldn't let me.

I mean I did have a lot on my mind, with Jaden leaving before the reunion even began and Jesse leaving for New Domino.

Jesse leaving for New Domino wasn't actually really a problem when I went to bed last night. I mean, I know we argued but it just shouldn't have been a conversation, I should have listened in the first place.

As we made our way down to the common room, I decided it was a good time, to talk to Jesse, everyone else had their own little conversations going on and he was still bothered by our conversation earlier, I could see it on his face.

I moved easily alongside him and once he noticed me a small smile crept onto his lips.

I could tell I was going to have to do most of the talking on this one.

"Jesse," I said, we continued to walk but I could tell he was listening, "I'm sorry, for what I did earlier, I know you were only being nice, and I turned you away."

Wow this is actually harder than I thought it would be.

We'd reached the common room and the others had gone inside.

Jesse went to follow them in, but I grabbed his arm and stopped him in his tracks, "hey Jess, are you listening to me?"

He stopped and look me in the eyes, I could see the pain on his face from the conversation.

I just continued talking, "all I wanted to say is that, I'm glad you're going to New Domino, I think it will be good for you and I'm going to be there for you, always, I just need you to know that I don't know what I'm doing yet, okay?"

I could see that his mood hadn't changed, so clearly my apology wasn't good enough.

I tried to go past him, but he moved to the side to the side, "Alexis, wait."

I looked up at him and he had a smile on his face, "you know, I see you like my sister right. I just don't want to lose that so that's why I had to say something, it had been bothering me ever since Syrus had asked me to live with him."

I did a double take.

He was living with Syrus.

I hadn't really considered the fact that he might be staying with someone.

I guess I presumed that he would just get his own place.

I suddenly had a thought, is everyone leaving me behind?

I pushed those thoughts to the back of my mind and just looked at him, "well, at least I won't have to look after you anymore."

He smiled and laughed, "yeah that is true, I think I'm going to go to bed anyway, it has been a long day, tell Hassleberry to keep me a drink of port for tomorrow."

I nodded at him before he passed me and headed to off to his room.

Just before I went in, I heard him talk again, "oh and Alexis."

I turned to face him, "yeah?"

He turned to face me, still walking backwards, "you know that offer is still there for you to come as well, you didn't let me say yesterday, the flat has three bedrooms."

He turned and went down the hallway turning the corner that led to his room.

I just stood still.

There was another bedroom and it had my name on it.

But, did I want to settle down?

I pondered that for a moment before I joined the others in the common room.

All I knew was, I really had some thinking to do about my future.

I was glad I'd made up with Jesse.

But I hadn't even considered my future up until this weekend and now I had to make up my mind by the end of today about it.

It was quite a big decision.

What was the other reason I couldn't sleep?

I'm pretty sure you all know…

Once I'd finished standing in the doorway, I made my way inside.

I was expecting a lot of laughing and smiling but everyone just seemed flat, probably because they were tired.

I don't even think anyone realised that Jesse hadn't followed me in.

I took a seat next to Zane and looked at my phone.

I'd had a couple of texts but really, I was just trying to just distract myself from my thoughts.

Jesse's offer of living with him and Syrus was tempting but was it what I wanted.

I looked at Syrus who was watching something on the television.

I could definitely see myself living with them, but I don't know, was it the right time?

I looked around the room and realised that Juniper must have gone to bed as well because she wasn't here.

We sat for a few more minutes before Chazz started to talk, "where is Jaden?"

Everyone just looked at Chazz, he was just being impatient, so everyone continued on with what they were doing.

"He's probably already run away again," Chazz muttered under his breath.

I looked at Syrus, who's face shot towards Chazz, "Chazz, I'd be careful what you say."

I'd never really seen the angry side of Syrus before, it was actually quite scary.

Chazz looked back at Syrus, "oh calm down Truesdale, I'm only joking, I just don't get why everyone is being so relaxed about him being here."

Chazz had gained everyone's attention now, so much so, that the television had been turned off.

"I mean, don't get me wrong, I'm happy he's here, even if I don't always show it but he left without contacting any of us for two years and all of a sudden I'm supposed to be okay with it."

I could see a tension starting to build in the room, there were sides forming, fast.

"He does have a point," Aster said.

I wasn't expecting Aster to say anything, but I could see where everyone was coming from.

"Yeah," Blair said, I think she was only saying it to back to Chazz.

I'd decided they were in a relationship at dinner.

All us girls were together while we ate but she was just sat beside Chazz at all times, with starry eyes.

"Chazz, lets change topic of conversation," Zane said moving ever so slightly next to me.

I agreed with Zane I wasn't in the mood for this. It had been a long day, and everyone just needed to chill out.

I looked at Axel and Jim, I could tell they wanted to side with Chazz, but I knew they were just hurt from Jaden being away so long.

Everybody was.

"Okay, but all I'm saying is, he's now drunk in his room and probably won't even come out again tonight and see us, it just makes me sad that's all," Chazz said.

I could see the sincerity in that comment, as much as Chazz acted like he didn't like Jaden, I think deep down he actually does.

I looked back at Zane who was drifting off to sleep. Syrus on the other hand, I could tell he was full of rage.

"Chazz," he said trying not to shout, "cut him some slack, he's been through a lot today, with the apologies and all, he's allowed to have a few drinks if he wants."

I could tell Syrus was trying really hard not to explode.

I looked back at Chazz who just smiled, there was some definite tension between the two, "you know what I don't think it…. actually, I don't care, he turns up, says sorry and then gets smashed, I'm sorry but it doesn't seem very sincere."

Okay, now I was getting irritated.

Why can't he just drop it!

"I agree with Chazz," Blair said, of course she did, "we haven't heard from him in almost two years and this is how he acts."

I could see people getting uncomfortable.

I was just getting mad. Christ cut the guy some slack; he's had a tough day.

Zane was fully awake now and clearly not very happy, "right, I think everyone just needs to calm down."

"Yeah let's just drop this," Bastion said.

I could tell that Chazz wanted to say more.

Before he even had the chance, I said my piece.

"Chazz, honestly, you're no better, you never talk to any of us anyway, I'm sick of people arguing, can we just all have a good time," I said, getting to my feet, "and to be honest with you, I'm tired of this conversation, I'm going to bed."

I made my way out of the room; I could tell that the others wanted to leave as well but I wasn't going to wait around for them.

I didn't want to listen to Chazz talk about Jaden like that, not after the conversation we'd had today.

As I turned the corner, I came to face to with Jaden, almost crashing into him again.

"Oh, wow, almost again," I said, getting slightly shy.

Shy? Since when was I shy around Jaden?

A small smile came onto to his face and my insides did little backflips.

Okay, I really need to get a grip of myself.

Suddenly that smiled disappeared as everyone else appeared behind me.

I looked at his facial expression and a thought popped into my brain.

How long had he been stood there?

I looked at him, "Jaden, how long have you been here?"

I quickly shifted round to face the others. I met Syrus in the eyes. I could see he knew what I meant, 'say something to him.'

"Jaden," he said without hesitating, "it wasn't what it sounded like."

I mean, that wasn't what I would have said but I went with it.

I saw multiple emotions appear on Jaden's face before he simply said, "I heard what I needed to hear."

It was slightly croaked, the way he said it, but there was a lot of anger in there as well.

Suddenly, he dropped his head to the floor and all I could feel was sadness. The sadness he felt.

"I knew coming here wasn't a good idea, I just thought, that maybe, I was wanted here but clearly I was wrong."

I felt water on my cheeks and realised that the memories of two years ago were flooding back, Jaden leaving, not hearing from him. It felt like that all over again.

The difference was he more mature, he wasn't angry or going to lash out. He was just disappointed. In a way, I was proud of him for not losing his temper, but it still hurt.

"I'll go home tomorrow; I can get the first boat back," he said, before looking at Syrus, "I'm not ruining this for Amalie. Syrus, I expect you to make sure she gets back."

Of course. Amalie.

My mind went back to my new red-haired friend. She wasn't here, she didn't know what was going on.

I couldn't look at him anymore. I felt to ashamed to have been involved in that conversation. It hurt just thinking about how hurt Jaden was.

Someone moved past me to stand in front of Jaden, "Jaden," Zane said, "Don't do thi…"

"It's okay Zane, I've made my decision. I'll be seeing you guys."

And just like that, Jaden headed to his room.

There was silence amongst us before one by one people just headed off to their rooms leaving me, Syrus and Zane standing there.

Syrus put a hand on my shoulder, "hey, he'll come around, don't worry too much and try to get some sleep."

I hadn't realised but I was still crying.

Syrus headed off leaving just me and Zane standing there.

Zane turned to face me and pulled me in for a hug.

We stood for a while before he silently let go and headed to his room.

I stood in the corridor. I felt so lost, but I knew I had to try and get some sleep.

I moved too slowly back towards my room; I went to bed, but I knew it was going to be a long night.

So, you see, that is how I ended up having no sleep last night.

I grabbed the kettle that had finished boiling and poured myself a cup of coffee.

It was early, let's put it that way. No one else was awake yet. I wasn't sure whether Jaden had left yet but thinking about it hurt considerably.

I pulled up a chair and sat down. There wasn't really much to do at this hour in the morning, so I opened the page to the book I was reading and started to flick through it.

Before long, I felt a pair of footsteps enter the kitchen, "good morning," Amalie said with a whistle in her voice.

I felt a load guilt course through me.

She has no idea about Jaden.

She carried on with her morning routine whilst I figured out the best way to tell her about Jaden.

"You know Alexis," she said turning to face me, she had definitely just gotten out of bed because her hair was everywhere, "I'm so glad that you guys sorted everything out and all, he was really worried about it."

I assumed she meant the conversations Jaden had with everyone, well, all of them except the one before bed.

I felt another surge of guilt.

"Goes to show how much an apology goes towards making things right," she said, taking her toast out the toaster.

I looked at Amalie, a sudden idea popping into my head, "Amalie, repeat what you just said."

Amalie looked confused, "what that Jaden was worried about seeing you all."

"No, after that," I said standing up, out of my seat.

"Goes to show how much an apology goes towards making things right?"

That was it!

I ran to Amalie and gave her a hug, "that's it, oh, you're brilliant!"

Amalie looked incredibly confused, "huh?"

I quickly told her about Jaden and the idea her comments had given me.

At first, she was understandably cross, but then calmed down at the thought of my proposal.

"Hey, I didn't even know what was going on and I'm still the saviour," Amalie said, puffing out her chest.

"You know Amalie, you're right, you may have just kept Jaden here for the reunion," I said, grabbing my phone and texting the others.

Jaden's POV

Note to self, never get that drunk again.

I picked up the third glass of water I'd made for myself and took a rather large gulp.

I hadn't really been able to sleep last night, mainly because of how drunk I was but also, I was contemplating whether or not leaving was the right thing to do.

However, this morning I'd made my mind up to go.

It wasn't that I was using it as an excuse, I just didn't want to be here if people didn't want me here.

I would feel like I was just imposing.

I packed the last few bits into my bag and looked around my room.

It was sad, going before everything had even started, but it was what felt right.

I turned to head out the door and saw DK and Yubel, hovering at the doorway.

"What are you two doing," I said walking towards them.

"We're here to stop you from making a mistake," Yubel said, "I'm not letting you leave, not without thinking about this properly first."

I walked towards them but Yubel moved into my pathway.

"Yubel," I said crossing my arms, "you know I can walk straight past you," I said doing exactly that.

I walked through both my duel spirits and started walking down the corridor.

The hallway was mostly empty which I thought was good a thing, considering I was leaving, and I didn't really want to talk to anyone before I left.

I put my key in an envelope addressed to Amalie with a little note giving an explanation.

I'd thought about telling her personally, but I didn't really want to face the fact that she'd probably tell me to stay. I think it was worse worrying that she might just leave with me, she had such a good time yesterday that I couldn't face the reality of ruining her weekend.

I slid the letter under the door and then proceeded to head towards the docks.

"Jaden," DK said sounding serious, following on behind me, I'd never really seem him serious, "I agree with Yubel, you should reconsider leaving."

I stopped in my tracks and turned to face both of them, "well, do you know what, I'm glad you two agree on something for once but I've made my mind up," I said getting frustrated, "where have you two been anyway?"

They both looked worried, but DK answered anyway, "we just went to explore, I've never been here before, so I wanted to take a look around."

"Oh great," I said, snapping at them both, "so when I needed you both for some morale support, you were off flouncing around."

I instantly regretted what I had said as they both looked rather sad straight after.

"Hey look, I'm sorry okay, it's just been a long few days and I'm really tired, can we just get going please," I said pleading with them both.

They both looked at each over and begrudgingly nodded.

As we neared the port, I could see a group of people in the distance.

Hmm, that's strange, wonder if they're getting on the same boat as me.

They all had bags packed and looked as though they were heading off the island as well.

At least I won't be alone.

It was a lovely warm summers day.

It would have been perfect for a reunion.

I cut out those thoughts as I neared the port. I realised, as I got closer to them, that I recognised the people, "what the…"

I stopped just short of where they stood. Every one of my friends were stood with their bags, looking at me.

I was silent.

"What the…." I literally couldn't say anything else; I was so confused.

What were they doing?

I edged my way forward till I was just in front of them and stood there.

I looked at my friends, they all had serious expressions on their faces, like they had a point to make.

"What are you guys doing here," I said, trying to put on a hard persona. I didn't want them to know that I was struggling with my decision to leave.

It now made sense why I saw no one this morning, they were all here instead.

From behind Zane, Amalie appeared and stepped forward, "Jaden," she said rather quietly, "what are you doing?"

She put an emphasis on the 'doing', almost counteracting my question.

I looked at her and smiled. I had no reason to be mad at her, no reason at all.

But I had to be truthful with her, I had to keep up my hard exterior.

"Amalie, I'm going home," I said. I think it sounded like I was trying to convince myself at this point.

I tried to put a smile on, almost as a goodbye, but it wasn't really working. I tried to step past Amalie, but she stepped in my way.

"I don't think you understand, if you go home," she turned to face everyone else and they all nodded, "we all go home."

I was shocked, "wait what."

Amalie picked up her bag and took a few steps back to fall into line.

One by one people started to step forward.

"Jaden," Syrus said stepping forward first, "if you don't stay it won't be the same."

Next was Hassleberry, "we don't want you to go sarge, we'll come with you if you do go."

Chumley was next, "yeah, I've not come all this way for you to go home early mate, I want to have a drink with you."

I smiled, even if I did stay, I definitely wasn't having another drink.

Next Chazz and Blair stepped forward, I knew how these two felt, I'd clearly heard them last night and I didn't really want to listen to them, but I guess if it was sincere enough.

"Jaden, we know what we said was wrong, I think it was just because we missed you so much, just don't go again okay," Chazz said.

I wasn't going to say anything but I'm sure I saw him well up a little.

It definitely sounded like he meant it.

Blair just looked at me and nodded.

Axel, Jim and Aster all stepped forward and told me that they would come with me to New Domino if I left, which I thought was actually quite flattering.

I could feel myself, getting a bit more emotional each time someone new stepped forward.

"Jaden," Bastion said, "there is no us without you, you can't leave yet."

Next forward was Atticus, I wasn't expecting him to be here.

I was sure he was meant to be helping to set everything up, so him being here was nice that's for sure.

"Jaden, please don't go," he said, "look Alexis told me what you said."

I stopped for a second. He knew. He knew what I had said two years ago to Alexis in almost this exact spot.

Atticus smiled at me, stepped all the way forward and placed a hand on my shoulder, "sometimes we all say things we don't mean huh."

I smiled at him. He was forgiving me but also telling me to forgive them.

"Just don't leave yet," he said stepping to stand beside me.

I'd hadn't realised until now that everyone who had already spoken, except Amalie, had how come to stand beside me.

The other four left, Zane, Amalie, Jesse and Alexis, all stepped forward together.

"Jaden, what we're trying to say is," Zane said, "you're one of us and even if you leave now, we're not going to stop being your friend."

"We've only just got you back mate, don't leave just yet, I've still got so much to share with you, I need my best friend here," Jesse said, him and Zane both coming to stand beside me.

"And I would be a fool to let you leave before you got a chance to enjoy this reunion," Amalie said, coming to stand by my side.

Finally, Alexis was the only person left.

She took a couple of steps forward until she was right in front of me.

I could feel the heat on my cheeks, as she stood there.

She smelt of peaches. I'd never noticed before.

Wait, what!

I regained some composure quickly, I was losing my mind, I was sure of it.

Alexis looked at me in the eyes and smiled, "we all know we did wrong," she said looking at everyone else.

They all nodded and smiled.

"But, I'll be dammed, Jaden Yuki, if I let you walk onto that boat, it was hard the first time seeing you leave, but none of us are willing to let you go again, especially me," she said taking the other side of me.

I felt my heart race when she said 'especially me'.

Yep, I was definitely going crazy.

Alexis came to stand beside me, and I felt our hands brush. A jolt of electricity went through my body which felt weird, that had never happened up until now.

For goodness sake, what was she doing to me?

I took a couple of steps out so I could face my friends again, who were all lined up.

It was all very overwhelming. They had come all the out here, to stop me from leaving.

What friend would I be to leave now?

How could I leave them all after this?

Syrus and Jesse both took a step forward and looked at each other nodding.

"Plus Jaden, this isn't all about the reunion," Syrus said, smiling.

"Yeah bud, if you leave now, you won't get to celebrate the fact that me and Syrus are moving to New Domino City permanently," Jesse said, getting a cheesy grin appear on his face.

I stood stunned.

"Wait, you guys are…."

Jesse nodded and smiled.

I couldn't believe it, Syrus and Jesse, two of my closest friends are moving to New Domino City.

The city I lived in.

The would be right there.

I looked at everyone they were now smiling.

Honestly, how could I leave now.

But, maybe I could play a prank, I mean they did deserve some payback.

I picked up my bag around turned around starting to walk towards the docks/

"Jaden," Alexis said, trying to get my attention.

I could tell she was panicking now.

I quickly changed directions and looked at them all, "what," I said, trying not to burst out laughing, I put on my brightest smile, "don't we have a reunion to go and get ready for?"

Amalie's POV

I must say Alexis's idea was brilliant. I wasn't sure that it would work but it was brilliant.

Imagine, getting everyone to go down to the docks and apologise to Jaden with most of their bags packed, genius!

It was hard trying to convince everyone to join in at first, though.

Well, when I say everyone, I mean that Chazz guy and his girlfriend.

I mean, I wasn't sure if she was his girlfriend, but it did look like it from where I was standing.

We'd all just made our way past the Ra Yellow dorm, heading back to the Obelisk Blue accommodation before Jaden came to walk beside me.

I guess I had been expecting him to come and talk to me at some point.

"Hey," he said, sounding tentative.

"Yes, Jaden, you are a dunderhead for trying to leave but I forgive you," I said, trying to play it cool.

I can't say, I wasn't worried, when he started walking towards the docks after everyone had spilled their guts to him, I thought he was going for good. I guess, even in a tense situation, Jaden still loves a joke.

Jaden chuckled beside me, "ahh, Amalie, of course I can trust you to get straight to the point in an awkward situation."

I skipped just ahead of him, put my hands under my chin and tried to make a cute face.

It seemed to work because Jaden laughed even harder.

A few others laughed at my antics before I fell back in line with my friend.

"Honestly, though Amalie," Jaden said, suddenly getting serious again, "thank you for doing that."

I looked at Jaden and then towards Alexis.

"I mean, I'd love to take the credit, but it was her idea," I said pointing at Alexis.

Jaden looked at Alexis before looking at me.

A number of emotions came over him and I could tell he wanted to go say thank you to her.

"Oh, okay, umm, I'll talk to you later," he said before jogging off to catch up with Alexis.

I watched as they chatted and laughed with each other.

Things between them had already changed so quickly in a day but, I suppose, I'd never seen what they were like before this weekend.

There was something though, a spark between them.

It was this weird chemistry; I couldn't put my finger on it, but I could definitely see it.

We made our way back up to the Obelisk Dorm and everyone separated to go and get ready.

At dinner last night, me and Alexis had agreed to get ready together.

We'd asked Juniper but she wanted to stay with Bastion, which we thought was fair enough considering he was her boyfriend.

She'd stayed up at the room whilst we went to get Jaden.

Bastion had said that she wanted to start doing her hair or something like that, but I just think she wanted to avoid the awkward conversation.

I walked with Alexis and Jaden towards their rooms.

"Oi, Wise," Jaden said, interrupting his conversation with Alexis, "you know your room is that way."

I looked at him and smiled, "yes, Yuki, I'm well aware, however, Alexis is coming to get ready in my room and I said I'd help her carry her stuff, why did you want to spend some alone time together?"

Jaden went red in the face with embarrassment at my comment and he quickly said his goodbyes before heading into his room to get ready.

We went into Alexis's room where she gave me some of her stuff to carry and then grabbed her dress before we left for my room.

We walked alongside each other down the hallway and I could tell that Alexis had something to say.

"Thanks, Amalie," she said, "I know you told Jaden it was my idea, the thing at the docks, but it was really our idea."

I looked at my new friend, she had a little blush on her face.

"Ahh, it's okay," I said.

It really was her idea, so why was she embarrassed by it.

It was definitely to do with Jaden thanking her. I was sure of it.

What was up with these two?

We made our way to my room and Alexis went to shower. I told her she could use all my stuff because well, I had so much spare that, she could pretty much use what she wanted in there and I'd still have enough stuff left to last me another two years.

I sat on my bed waiting for her to finish. I'm not going to lie; she was taking a while.

I leaned over and looked at the pile of pictures that were by the side of my bed.

I'd taken a load of pictures of Jaden and his friend whilst I was here.

I was going to give them the pictures as a thank you for making me feel so welcome but they had kind of become a memory of sorts for me as well.

I flicked through some of the pictures until I found some of Alexis and Jaden.

I still couldn't work out what was going on between them but decided to see if these gave me any clue.

As I looked through the pictures of them something caught my eye.

Alexis's facial expression every time she was talking to Jaden, it was as though she was looking at her crus….

Just then Alexis reappeared from the shower, "hey, your shower is way better than mine, mine isn't as…. oh, hey what are you looking at," she said coming to sit next to me.

I wasn't really listening; I was flicking through pictures of her and Jaden.

The facial expression is the same in every single one.

"Oh, wow," she said, picking up the ones that I had already looked at, "did you take these?"

I nodded at her.

"Yeah, I've been taking them over the weekend, as like a reminder for myself but a gift for all of you as well," I said.

I held out the pictures of her and Jaden, "I got these of you and Jaden as well."

I handed them to Alexis who looked at them, she started to go red in the cheeks and I smiled.

It all started to make sense. The way she acted around him. The way she stuck up for him. Why she didn't want him to leave the island.

Alexis Rhodes had the hots for Jaden Yuki.

I watched as she flicked through the photos. Her eyes lingered on some more than others, which I guessed were the ones of her and Jaden.

"Alexis," I said interrupting her train of thought.

She looked up at me and smiled, "yeah?"

I smiled at her, she was so oblivious, "do you have a crush on Jaden?"

If you picture, a deer in headlights, that was the look on Alexis's face after I had asked her my question.

I'm pretty sure she started to sweat as she stuttered out a response, "what… don't be… no…. of course I don't have a crush on Jaden."

"Okay, Alexis, if you say so," I said back to her, with a huge smirk.

She looked at me very confused and put the pictures down on the bed before going to the mirror to do her makeup.

I was 99% sure at this point she was trying to convince herself that she didn't like him, but I let her off.

As I got up to go and get ready for the reunion, I smiled to myself, thinking about her reaction when she realises that she does like Jaden Yuki.

Alexis's POV

I pulled on my dress as we walked the final few steps towards the ballroom.

I'd gone for simple blue dress, the same shade of blue my obelisk uniform was when I was a student here. I just thought it was fitting for an event like this.

Amalie had gone for an orange dress. It was simple but she did look really good.

We were running slightly late to the reunion and it was my fault.

It wasn't my intention to make us late. Amalie's question had just completely thrown me off.

Did I like Jaden Yuki?

No, course not.

But every time I tried to convince myself it wasn't true, something hurt inside.

I'd never really thought about it until this point. I'd only ever seen him as a friend.

And that's what he was: A friend.

Nothing more.

I pushed all of these thoughts out of my mind as we arrived at the ballroom.

"Wow," Amalie said from beside me.

This was definitely the first time I had ever seen her speechless.

"I know right," I said, making my way down the small set of stairs that into the room.

The room was decorated with bright lights, streamers and different floating duel monster balloons.

There was a stage and a dancefloor, several different bars as well as hundreds of tables.

We'd all been allocated a table. Our group had been put right at the front.

I was convinced that it was Atticus's idea, but I wasn't going to have a go at him for it.

We skimmed the crowd and finally located the table that all of our friends were sitting at.

As we made our way over to the table, everyone shifted around to look at us.

A few stood up to greet us, but I couldn't help but look at Jaden.

He had a grey suit on, with a red tie and a tiny little slifer encrusted into the end of the tie. His hair was still as messy as ever, but he looked smart, something that I wasn't used to.

I greeted a few others before Jaden came over, "if you had worn any other colour but blue, it wouldn't have been right," he said smiling at me.

He pulled me in for a hug and I felt a smile broaden on my face.

"Well, Jaden, I see that red couldn't escape the weekend forever," I said pointing at his tie once we separated from the hug.

"Of course," he laughed out, playing with his tie, "I would never come all the way back to Duel Academy Island without paying homage to the Slifer Dorm."

I looked at him.

However much Jaden had grown up and changed, he was just the same old Jaden.

"Alexis," Jaden said, I realised I must have been caught up in my thoughts, "do you want to go get a drink?"

I looked at him and nodded.

After the morning I'd had, I was looking forward to having a drink.

We made our way over to the bar and he ordered us something.

Whilst he ordered I looked at him.

I was glad that he had decided to stay in the end. It just wouldn't have been the same without him. I would have been miserable. Everyone would have been miserable.

He was like the glue that brought us all together, but he could easily undo everything as well.

He handed me my drink and we made our way back to the table.

Everyone sat and chatted for a while. I could tell everyone was started to drink a little because people were starting to dance to some of the background music. I'm even sure I caught Atticus attempting to do the worm as he made his way back from the toilet.

After a while, Chancellor Sheppard got up on stage and made a quick speech about how nice it was to have everyone back together in one place.

I looked around the table. He was right. Never in a million years did I think that everyone would be back together like this, celebrating. It had certainly been a long time since we had all celebrated together like this.

Once all the speeches had finished, Miss Dorothy and her team brought out all the food and everyone tucked in.

As usual, she had done an exceptional job of cooking all the food. I mean, clearly all the boys thought so, having gone up for more than their fair share.

We all finished our food and chatted for a while. I overheard Jesse and Syrus talking about their new apartment and it got me thinking.

During this whole weekend, there had been an underlying question of what I wanted to do after all this was over.

As I looked at my friends it became clearer to me what I needed to do, what I wanted to do.

Once all the plates had been cleared, I looked around the room, people were happy.

I was happy.

For the first time in a long time, I felt at home.

Not long after the music started playing and everyone went up to dance.

I hadn't really thought about all the dancing, I'd been so consumed with my thoughts that it hadn't occurred to me there would be dancing at some point during the night.

Amalie and Juniper came over with a mischievous look on their faces.

"Alexis," Amalie said, trying to put on some form of puppy dog eyes, "come dance with us."

I looked at them, one thing I did not do was dance. Not even by myself. I was rubbish at it.

"I don't dance girls, but you two can go up there," I said resting back in my seat, drink in hand.

They both looked at each other and smiled before grabbing one of my arms each and pulling me up to the dance floor.

Now, for how organised of a person I was, I was an incredibly uncoordinated dancer. But just for tonight, I would let my hair down, just this once.

For the remainder of the evening, I switched between dancing, ordering drinks from the bar and just casually chatting to people.

I'd had several requests to dance with people, but I didn't really want too.

There wasn't a reason, I just didn't fancy it.

It didn't feel right.

All of a sudden, the DJ behind the booth, picked up his microphone, "right everybody, it's the last song of the night, so grab yourself a partner and come on down."

I looked at our table, I realised that most had already partnered up and headed for the dancefloor, the only people left sitting were Jaden and Bastion.

Juniper came up beside me, "I got Bastion, you take Jaden?"

I looked at her confused.

She smiled at me, "I mean, I'll dance with Bastion and you dance with Jaden."

I looked at her shocked.

Wait, she wanted me to dance with Jaden.

She pulled me up out of my chair as the song came on.

It was slow.

Of course, it had to be slow.

It couldn't have been a jive or something.

We reached the guys and Juniper grabbed Bastion's hand, "come on, last song, you're with me."

Bastion moaned before getting to his feet and following his girlfriend to the dancefloor, leaving just me and Jaden.

"So," he said, looking rather awkward.

I quickly sat down in the seat next to him. Maybe that would mean we didn't have to dance.

"So," I said back turning to face him.

I'd never had an awkward conversation with Jaden in my life, I couldn't believe it, why was everything so awkward all of a sudden?

Jaden rose up to stand in front of me, holding out his hand, "I know I agreed no dancing yesterday, but it's the last song and I don't want you to feel left out."

I looked at him.

Was he…? Was he asking me to dance?

I slowly rose to my feet.

There was no harm in two friends dancing.

To a slow song.

At a school reunion.

Right?

I took his hand and he guided me towards to the dancefloor.

I blushed as people started to look at us. I caught the eyes of Amalie who was dancing with some guy and she just winked at me, making me blush even more.

Jaden took us to the middle of the dancefloor before spinning to face me, "I'll have you know," he said, stepping closer to me, "my mum has been training me for these moments my whole life."

I smiled, I'd never really pictured his family, mainly because we never spoke about it, but I could imagine a young Jaden dancing around the living room with his mum.

"Well," I said back to him, "I'm hopeless at dancing."

He smiled at me, "well, just follow my lead."

He placed both my hands on his shoulders before putting his own on my hips.

I felt heat surge through my body as he did so, but this time I wasn't worried.

Heck, I've been fighting it all weekend, I was due a break, wasn't I.

He slowly guided me around the dancefloor, being careful not to step on my toes.

I met him in the eyes, and he smiled.

I liked the way he smiled, it was a good smile.

I smiled back as I felt another warm feeling grow inside me.

I made my hands meet around the back of his neck, just getting a little closer to him.

He smiled at me again, "you know, I never got a chance to tell you earlier, you look really good tonight."

My heart felt like it was doing flips as he had turned us in another direction.

Jaden Yuki had just told me he thought I looked nice.

But the biggest revelation was that I really liked it when he said it. I didn't make me feel weird. It felt right coming from him.

My mind suddenly trailed back to what Amalie had asked me earlier; 'do you have a crush on Jaden?'

I wasn't really able to answer the question then because it came out of nowhere but now when I thought about, all the strange feelings I'd had around Jaden, it all made sense now.

These feelings, they'd all felt exactly the same. Whenever I was with him, I felt good, like I never wanted it to end.

I didn't ever want him to go, to be by my side at all times, I knew it, I'd just been trying to convince myself that it wasn't the case but it was too obvious, too clear.

But I couldn't deny it anymore, being in this moment with him I knew…

I loved Jaden Yuki.

I paused for a moment and Jaden looked concerned. I quickly smiled and continued dancing, trying not to concern him.

I couldn't believe it; I had a crush on Jaden Yuki.

The question was, did he like me as well?

The thought that he didn't made me suddenly feel very hollow.

Oh no, I can't be doing with this.

I can't be getting worked up over a boy.

Even if it was Jaden.

Just as the song was ending, Jaden snapped me out of my thoughts, "what you are thinking about?"

I hadn't realised but I had just been dancing with him without saying anything.

Great good job Alexis, you just work out you like someone who you're slow dancing with and you completely ignore them for the whole song.

I looked at him and smiled.

I knew I couldn't tell him what I was thinking about, I needed to time to process my newly found feelings.

But I mean, I couldn't not answer his question, that would just be rude.

So, I said the first thing that came into my head…

"Jaden, I'm moving to New Domino City."

Woah okay, I thought the last one went on ;)

There you have it folks, there was your reunion.

I really hope you liked it, I took a lot of time over everything and went back through to check several times, hence why it took so long to upload.

There was so many different points in there, but I won't go over them all, I'll just say….

That ending ;)

Anyway, I'm not sure when the next update will be because this one took a lot out of me, so I'll get the cogs turning for the next part of the story and update as soon as I can.

Until then, favourite and review for updates and I'll speak to you all soon.

Writey x