I'm back my little story reading peoples. You may be older than me but you are all still my 'little story reading peoples'. I got 2 reviews and I would really love at least 3 before my next so no 3 reviews, no chapter. Finally of story. Sorry that it had to come to this but you people are reading and not reviewing and it upsets me without anyone to help me fix it so sorry but that's how it works from now on. If I get 6 reviews than 2 chapters and so on.
And to answer any question no you may not each send me 3 reviews just to get another chapter. I mean you may send me 3 reviews but they only count the number of users. K.
I think it is pretty obvious why I called this story Jaden and I but I have decided to tell the history of the title anyway. Here it is:
I tried a long time to find a perfect title for it but I couldn't. After typing over and over Jaden and I, I decided to just copy it and paste it. It appears 23 times throughout the original Jaden and I fic. The other reason is that Jaden is who Alexis talks about along with herself. She is narrating so it's Jaden and I. Alexis was added to make sure those who read it knew it was about Jaden and Alexis and not me the writer. Such the title Jaden and I was born.
Jaden and I 2- Chapter 2: To Learn from Jaden's –Not- Sister
I heard my cell phone ring and I went to answer it and it turned out not to be Jaden. But my other friends Jane and Mimi; I sincerely didn't want to talk to them after the crazy stuff that happened last night but they were my friends so some things had I had to force myself to do.
I picked up the phone. "Hey Jane, Hey Mimi, what's up?"
The two girls laughed. Mimi was the one to speak. "Lexy, don't 'What's up' us. You know what's up. We helped you with your date. We know it happened and tell us every extreme detail." I sighed.
"Jane and Mimi this isn't a really good time. I…"
They rudely interrupted me. It was Jane's time to speak to me. "Have to talk to Jaden or something related to Jaden right."
"Ya, but how did you know." Mimi laughed and struggled as she took the phone from Jane.
"It's just stuff we know. You shouldn't keep him waiting then. Have fun Lexy." They hanged up and I realized that that I needed to figure out something. I needed to figure out what time that was and how that all worked out.
I opened my phone again and called Jaden. "Hey Jaden, how are you?" I wanted to be polite and not just skip to the part about asking his sister.
"I'm fine but I'm worried about Molly. I can't find her anywhere." I laughed. "She's there isn't she."
"I'm not exactly sure but that would be my best guest so get on the boat and I'll meet you at the harbor." I couldn't wait to see Jaden again. I usually saw him everyday so this was no big deal but now that it was summer I wouldn't be able to see him everyday without going out of my way.
I walked out of my room and knocked on Atticus' door. There was no answer. I then, walked down stair and sat down to have a quick breakfast with my parents. "So how did you date with Jaden go, Alexis?" My mom was always happy when I was happy and this was no exception.
"It was very nice but I have to hurry and finish eating then meet him at the docks. Oh, by the way; have you seen Atticus and Molly anywhere?" I hoped she has because Jaden and I had some questions for her.
"Ya Alexis, you brother and Jaden's sister went down to the mall. They will be back in a few minutes if you need them. I'm sure you can wait, right?" She looked at me and smiled.
"Ya, I wouldn't want to interrupt their date. I'll just go wait for Jaden. Tell them when they arrive that I need to talk to them." My mom nodded and I walked out to the dock to see Jaden.
"Hey Jaden; Atticus and Molly left early this morning on a date and will be back soon so we'll just wait. Do you want something to eat?"
"Sure Lex, I'd love to have something to eat. I didn't eat breakfast and I got pretty hungry on the way over." I nodded and went into the kitchen followed by Jaden.
"Jaden, go sit in the luncheonette; my mom should be in there. What do you feel like having?" I asked wondering why Jaden would come into the kitchen. Did he expect to watch make food? I laughed and Jaden walked in.
"What's so funny Lex?" I put my hand on the back of my head and laughed.
"Well nothing; but you do know that I'm not going to be cooking right?" I was thinking.
"I'm not sure. I was just following you. I'm sure one of your maids or cooks or whatever could make it but I was just following you. You coming?" I shook my head a polite decline in his offer.
"No, the maids and cooks are off. I was going to see what we have but I'll make something if you want." He bent down and fell back laughing. I stared at him with a face that read. 'Not Funny'.
"I'm sorry Lex but I didn't think you could cook. It was a laugh. You thought it was funny that I'd think you would cook so I thought that you couldn't. Can you really cook?" I nodded and looked at the surprised and amused look on his face.
"Ya, all heiresses have to attend a culinary art school for 4 months on the summer of their 12th birthday." He laughed at this. "What's funny about that? Me cooking or me actually obeying some of the rules?" He laughed at my little joke.
"The part where you can cook; I'm stay here and watch you until it's done." I sighed.
"So what do you want? All offers are open. There is nothing in here we don't have so what would you like?" He thought. I sat on a chair and waited.
"Rice balls are always good for an early lunch it's almost 10 so rice balls will be it." I nodded and went of to get the rice cooker and the spices as well as the rice ball shaper.
After a few minutes I was finished. "So what do you think?" I said as I joined Jaden at the table.
"These are really good Lex, you should cook more often. Why don't you cook?" I laughed and almost fell out of my chair. At the same time two farmiliar faces came in the door and heard Jaden's question.
"Why doesn't Alexis cook, Very good question Jaden. Alexis would you care to answer his question or shall I?" I stood up.
"You may ask the question my dear brother." I said trying to act as complicated and non-silly as my brother was.
"Let's see and let me try to explain it as simply as possible. Jaden, if you went to a restaurant would you go in the back and make the food then eat it?" Jaden and Molly laughed at this.
"Why would someone go somewhere else, pay for a meal and cook it themselves. They could do that at home for a lot cheaper." Atticus held out his arm at his dear non-official girlfriend Molly.
"We pay our chefs very good money and give them jobs and housing so they can feed us. Why would we want to make the food ourselves and pay them." Molly nodded realizing her non-official boyfriend's tricks.
"Then why send her to a fancy cooking school to learn to cook if she'll just make other people do it." Atticus thought about this.
"Because they think that just because you can doesn't mean you have to. If they ever needed to they could. They think girls should be well rounded housewives, cooks, and anything else a man could need. It's also just in case something happens and they lose all their money or such." My mom said at the opposite end of the table taking another sip of her tea.
"I think it's because they have the money to send their kids to the school so they do. They are just annoying and bothersome. They find even stupider ways to spend their money every day." Atticus laughed and we high-fived each other. I liked my statement and my mom didn't enjoy it but gave a little nod to the statement.
We ate all the rice balls easy; well Jaden and Atticus mostly. "So Molly would you like me to escort you and Jaden home or would you like to take a boat." I laughed at this; Atticus being polite and gentlemanly.
"Actually Atticus; Jaden and I needed to talk to Molly so we'll go on the boat I loaned to Jaden and I'll escort them home. If that's fine with you?" He nodded and gave a quick peak on the check to Molly and walked upstairs. She blushed and we boarded the boat.
"So what did you two want to ask me about?" Molly said as we sat down in the main room inside the ship.
"Well we heard from a man that there was a family on a nearby island with the last name of Yuki and a daughter and died soon after their daughter was born." I said as easily as I could put it without telling her about the dream thing. Molly looked worried and concerned.
"So this is about our mom, correct?" Jaden and I nodded. "Well I have to tell you something Jaden. I know nothing more about our parents than you do."
Jaden looked somewhat surprised that she didn't even know their mother and father. "So were we like at an orphanage or something?"
"For a little until I was 10. Then they decided with the new DNA technology to see if they could find money from our deceased parents for us. They found that Ellen and Daniel Yuki were our parents and we got a ton of money from their bank account. When I was 10 I paid a babysitter, maid to watch us so I could go to school and then you could and we got a small house they left us here and when I got older it was just us. That's it Jaden." Molly was about to cry and I went over to her and it seemed to calm her down.
"Anything else I should know." Jaden also looked bothered by this. It still didn't make sense.
"Since you're related when after the destruction of the main city was Jaden born?" Molly cried horribly and Jaden wondered why this upset her.
"We're not, at least not for sure." She whimpered between her cries.
"What?" Jaden jumped off. I looked at him and tried to keep him quieter.
"DNA testing just came out Jaden. It was extremely expensive for the people at the orphanage and they only tested me for a match to our parents. We were in the same area, we looked alike when we were little they didn't find it necessary." I was so surprised; Poor Jaden. He might not even be related to Molly. It scared me and what was going through his head.
"So you never checked it?" Jaden asked not as a yell or a complain but a simple question. She simply shook her head.
"It was too expensive and until now I never thought about it. I took care of you and we acted and were treated as siblings and I just never thought about it too much. I thought of it once and the thought that growing up with you, you being left there scared me. If you didn't have family, you'd be left there. After growing up together and protecting you I couldn't chance it." She broke out in tears.
Jaden walked out of the room and looked at the sea and not exactly sad but not angry. He was lost in thought.
Break!- I'd like to ask those people to review and answer me a question. Who do you think is sadder in this situation? Jaden or Molly.
Molly- her whole point in life is to love and protect her dear brother Jaden.
Jaden- who doesn't even know if he's related to anyone and the only person left for him could be her or not.
Just say Jaden or Molly in a review because I don't know because they are both just so sad.
I followed Jaden out. "Jaden, I'll pay for you two to have a DNA test and find out, if you want. If you don't that's okay too." Jaden looked at me and what I saw would have caused me easily to jump off the ship.
I saw worry and pain. I saw this when he wasn't himself at the battle versus Zane that concluded last year. In that time he was lost in the worry of defeat and the pain of the battle. This time he is lost in the worry of is she my sister or not. The pain comes from the simple thought that he might be alone and she might not even be there to comfort him.
"Jaden," I called to him but he was too lost to be found as simply as calling his name. That would be too easy. "It doesn't have to hurt; it really doesn't. I think for once that you are truly over thinking this. It seems that when you do that the outcome is never good until you face it. Like the end of the year duel.
"Thanks Lex. You're right but time can't fix this. I don't want the answer if it is what I want or not I don't think I'd be happy." I didn't quiet understand what the point of that was but whatever it was it meant Jaden didn't know what he wanted. I know what I want; for them to be happy; either as friends or siblings, I want them happy.
I walked back into the room where I had left Molly here in tears on the floor. "What has caused all my pain, Alexis? Why did this have to happen now? He can't go off and afford everything he needs, he just can't. He needs me and now this comes and leaves him on his own."
"Molly, nothing if for sure yet; we'll find out soon. I'll pay for a DNA test, okay. I'll promise you two things. Anyway it turns out you two are like siblings so don't worry he won't hate you and you'll see him again. Two, no matter what happens and wherever it ends up. I will not let Jaden down. I'll be there helping him; even he refuses, then I'll push him. We'll do it together." Molly looked up with her tear filled eyes.
"Thank you Alexis, Jaden needs someone like you to help him along. You are just too nice." I laughed at this. She smiled through her tear filled eyes.
"We arrived!" The conductor called from the upper deck.
Molly got off and Jaden didn't move. "Jaden aren't you going to get off?"
"I guess Alexis. I was just thinking that…
"This might not be you're home. Well do yourself and me a huge favor and stop thinking for a while because you're only upsetting yourself." He looked at me and nodded.
"Okay, thanks Lex. I don't think I could handle this without you." I nodded and kissed Jaden on the check. Jaden touched his check with an amazed and very humorous face. I just realized what I had done. We were both blushing. I'm so glad that it was Jaden and I. I'm glad that Atticus and Molly weren't here. Jaden smiled and walked off.
"Jaden if you ever need anything just ask. I want what's best for you no matter what happens. Never forget that, k." He laughed.
"I wouldn't forget that ever Lex." I waved a good-bye as we left the shore and I smiled.
I went to my bedroom and looked over everything that had happened. Jaden and Molly might not be related. Molly is an emotional wreck. Jaden is over thinking everything and very upset. I kissed him and he's probably even more confused then when we started.
Atticus walked into the room and looked at my love struck face. Or something like that and somehow concluded something I would have never guessed. "You kissed him, didn't you?" I was so surprised. He laughed and walked away. "Don't go to far little sis." I threw a shoe at him in the hall.
What a wonderful, crazy, creepy, love filled and pretty perfect way to start out the first day of summer vacation. I kissed Jaden. That phrase would circle around my head for a very long time until I was completely happy and it happened again. It was inevitable that I would soon kiss Jaden and again and fall even more in love.
Wait a second Alexis, you defiantly can't kiss Jaden until this is sorted out. He's an emotional wreck as well as confused and sad. That was a very stupid and not helpful thing to do. I'm sure you'll regret doing it now but someday I hope you won't.
I picked up my cell and called Zane. He was like a more mature form of my brother and he could give better advice. "Hello Mrs. Truesdale can I talk to…Syrus please."
"Of course you can Alexis. I'll go get Syrus for you. Wait a second." Why I asked for Syrus, I don't know. I think him being Jaden's closest friend might just be what I need.
"Hey Alexis, do you need something?"
"Ya, I'd think I'm going to need you're help with something. It's a long story so prepared to talk to me for a while."
"Okay Alexis but maybe Zane would be a better choice to talk to for this. I mean I'm not good with helping people out. It's more of Zane's thing."
"I'm not sure. I think I'm going to come over and talk to both of you, okay? It's about Jaden but I need good advice as well so talking to both of you might help."
"Okay Alexis, I'll go get Zane and we'll meet you in the backyard." Zane and Syrus' family lived a few doors down and that's how I got so close to Zane when my brother disappeared.
I walked over and Zane was leaning against the back of his house and Syrus was sitting in a chair and I sat down in front of them both.
"So Alexis is Jaden sick or something." I shook my head and breathed deeply.
"No, he's fine, health wise. It's him and his sister that I'm worried about." Zane seemed a little concerned and Syrus looked scared for his best friend.
"Jaden and I were sucked into another world or I think time. We aren't sure when or where we were but it seemed to be in the real world, here. We were at an abandoned island. We found a man and as we introduced ourselves he had heard of the name Yuki before. He said that two people last name Yuki tried to save this island with their newborn daughter but died in their attempt. Jaden figured it was his parents."
"But Alexis, I know losing his parents is upsetting but Jaden knew that. How is that so upsetting especially upsetting to Molly and Jaden?" Syrus had asked questions too early.
"The people in the place lived on the island yet Molly said that the house their parents passed down was on inner city and not the island like he said. It isn't them. That isn't what's upsetting though. Molly said that they were both found far away in an abandoned area not near their house. They have no proof that Molly and Jaden are related." Syrus jaw dropped and Zane nodded. Syrus feel out of his chair.
"So what's you theory for the two people in your vision?" Zane asked hiding the emotion and surprise he once had.
"Sorry Zane, but for now; I'm trying to figure out how to help Jaden and Molly. Jaden keeps staring at the ocean and doesn't show the happy go luckiness he usually does. He's lost it and Molly is in tears. That's our problem for now." He nodded. "What do you suggest?"
"Easy convince Jaden and Molly to take a DNA match test. It's simple enough to get it done. Expensive but you could help them out. You just have to encourage them and try to keep them united at happy." I sighed. He was right.
"Syrus, you have anything to say?"
"Poor Jaden and Molly; I mean if they aren't related then Jaden has a whole hurt for his family and they both could be left so alone." I started crying and Zane walked over to me.
"Alexis, it's okay. You just need to help them and be and stay strong like you always are." He took me hand and helped me off the ground. I couldn't help crying because losing someone that important like the last member of your family is so sad.
"Ya Alexis, it's not like it's for sure that they aren't related. It seems that they have no clue either way so they just have to be pactient and wait, right?" Syrus said with so much hope I believed him and smiled.
"Thanks Syrus and you too Zane; I'm glad I decided to talk to someone about this. I'm sure that talking to Atticus would be a waste of time. He'd just keep bothering me about it." Syrus laughed.
I walked home and realized that I would have to make myself dinner. No maids or cooks to serve me and parents already made dinner for the family so I could feed myself. I decided to make some mini pizzas from the fridge. I didn't feel like making a full big meal and pizza suited me just as well as any gourmet dinner I've ever had.
I desperately wished that Melissa was here. Most people would think it would be so she could do my laundry, clean my room, make my bed, cook dinner and stuff like that but she doesn't do any of that. I told her she would never. I still think it's pretty mean and cruel to her but I pretty much pay her to be my friend. Not literally though. I mean I pay her to be with me and mostly her pay is because she's an accomplished dueling prodigy young and we pay her to match against me for practice. She's good but she's more of a friend that a maid and servant. She's on a two week off vacation when I need her. She's like a sister and friend I never had.
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Ta, da, all my chapies aren't as long as this one clearly. This is 10 pages on Microsoft word long at size 11.5 type and Arial print so it's tiny tiny if you copied it over.