Chapter 2: No Matter How Lonely I Get

"No matter how lonely I get, I have a feeling that I'll see you again"

Thank you for reading the first chapter, here's the second one. I really honored to get such supportive reviews from Yugiohfanfic26 and PrincessAnime08! You people have no idea how much those reviews have motivated me!

Another thing for Yugiohfanfic26, I know, I like their Japanese names too. Yeah, I like the 'Juu-chan' and 'Jo-kun' better than 'Jay' and 'Jess', honestly. But I figure that their popular and international names were 'Jaden' and 'Jesse' and it will make more readers able to distinguish who's who if I make it that way, so I did.

Please note, I don't think I'll write any lemony thingy here, sorry if you were expecting it. Firstly, I enjoy reading lemon, but realize that I'm somehow unable to write one. Secondly, I want to make my fiction more like 'romance story' rather than 'erotic story', so even if I was capable of writing it, maybe I'll do it when I'm older.

Oh right, here's the disclaimer:

YGO! GX and the song 'LOVE & TRUTH' belongs to their respective owner. I only own the story idea.

"Hi, Jaden. Thank you for the donuts. I know it was you." Jaden heard a familiar voice.

"Err…Who are you?" Jaden asked. He didn't know why but it was really dark around him. He couldn't see anything at that rate. Everything was utterly covered by the color of black, and the every sound he heard –including his own voice- was echoing, making it more difficult to hear everything.

A playful sigh heard. And then, the voice went with a friendly, questioning tone. "How many people in this world have been secretly given a box of donuts by you?"

Jaden realized whose voice that was and suddenly a large amount of lights shone brightly. In fact, the light was way too bright, it did not illuminate anything. It blinded everything, including the brunette's sight.

The sun was shining brightly, penetrating some parts of the window that weren't covered by curtains. Jaden slowly opened his eyes, and then stared in confusion at the ceiling about what was actually happening. He was dreaming, dreaming of Jesse …again. It had always been like this since Jaden fell for him, since the brown-haired boy didn't know when.

That day was a public holiday, so Jaden didn't need to rush to the school like usual. He was still lying on the floor, thinking what to do that day. "Oh, I know where to go!" he said loudly to himself as he threw a pillow he was hugging and started to get fully awake. After he got his breakfast, he went to a music shop nearby. It wasn't a big shop, but since it offered music with reasonable price, it had been Jaden's favorite spot in the city.

"Okay, are there any new albums?" Jaden said to himself as he observed the rack of new albums. He kept scanning the albums thoroughly. "Okay, I haven't heard that Evanescence are about to launch any new album. And the Paramore's new album won't be out until September, I guess. But isn't the latest The Used's album should have been sold in stores by last month?" (1) He mumbled as he kept looking for any album he'd fancy buying. "What was the album's name? Right, Artwork, artwork, artwork…"

He was repeating the album's name and really concerned to find it that he didn't noticed his surrounding, he didn't even remember that he could ask the shop assistants to get it with less effort.

"Jaden?" someone called him from his back. Jaden recognized the voice immediately and turned back. "Oh, wow. I don't know that you're interested in music." Jesse said in a cheerful way. Jaden was really surprised to see his crush. He didn't know Jesse knew his name. He didn't know Jesse could be this close to him. He didn't even know how he should react that time. However, Jesse seemed to be clueless about the silence he met. He actually was waiting if Jaden was about to say something, but quickly realizing that the brunette was somehow unable to form a word. "Hey, I'm looking for a guide video to play guitar. Have any good videos that could be lent to me? Or can you recommend me any of these guide videos over here?" The blue-haired boys said as he pointed the rack of videos which was in front of him.

"Ah, well… I do play guitar, but…" The younger boy said nervously.

"Sorry, I wasn't listening. What was that?" The Obelisk Blue boy said as he turned from facing the videos rack to Jaden, causing the younger boy to got even more nervous and avoided the eye contact. Jesse somehow could read the panic in Jaden's face. "Am I bothering you?"

"Nn… No!! I'm just… Umm… Not feeling really well lately…"

"Okay, then… Yeah, I guess I'll just have to randomly buy one of these." Jesse said as he grabbed one of the videos reluctantly. It seemed like he really didn't have idea at all about how to play guitar.

"Hey, if it's playing guitar, I can teach you." The brown-haired boy said. For once, he said everything so clearly and firmly. Jaden couldn't help to stay quiet when it comes to music …and Jesse, for sure. And of course he would never miss a chance to get closer to his crush like this. "…well, if you want..?"

"Oh, so you do play guitar?" asked the older boy, giving an uncertainly glance at Jaden. He thought that Jaden didn't know anything about guitar-playing since the dark-haired one didn't even react like a person who's interested in it when he talked about learning that before. "You don't mind teaching me how to play it?"

"Yes, I do play and No, I don't mind." Jaden replied nicely, trying to convince the blunette into accepting his offer. "It'd be great to have a friend to do music together."

After some discussion, Jesse walked home, leaving Jaden with a big smirk on his face. 'I'll be meeting Jesse every weekend!' the brunette shouted in his mind. That day was –probably- the best day for Jaden. 'I can't believe this is happening…' He couldn't help to stop grinning and acting cheerfully, though he had arrived home.

The Slifer boy didn't remember about the song he was working out at that moment at all. He was too excited by the thought of mentoring his crush. Not caring anything around him. Still spacing out, he pictured some moments that may be happened while Jesse learned things from him. He thought what the bluish boy would do to say thank you. 'Would he just simply say thank you? Or give him a cake? Or maybe Jesse would…' The brunette snapped out of his daydream as he shook his head. 'Shouldn't be imagining things like that...'

As it was getting dark outside, Jaden's eyelids grew heavier. At that really sleepy state he remembered about the song. "Oh yeah, the song…" He said with a sort of regretting tone. "Well, I guess it can wait till tomorrow. Doing it half-awake definitely won't make much progress."

The Slifer Red students climbed to his bed and pulled the blanket. He closed his eyes and easily got asleep with a mild smile still on his face. After all, it had been a tiring yet wonderful day for him. "Jesse… I… love you…" (2)

Notes:
(1) Yeah, I mentioned Evanescence, Paramore, and The Used there since they're my favorite bands at the moment. They have been writing tons of great songs which inspire me a lot. I know that most of their songs are either depressive or creepy (or even both), but songs like that create such feelings that is so inspirational to me. lol. And also, I don't think The Used has released their fourth studio Artwork yet, but I heard the information about Paramore releasing their third studio album on September is true. Not so sure, though.

(2) Yeah, Jaden's asleep. And I guess, that's what you call …err, sleeptalk…? Duh, I really don't know what's that in English, sorry!

I know the story's going kind of slow, but just stick with me. I won't disappoint you, I hope.

Now, review, tell me what's good and what sucks. I really want to hear your opinions …and also some nice critiques that probably will help me to improve my writing ability. It may takes longer for me to upload the next chapter since assignment week is ahead, but I promise I will never abandon this story!