Chapter 5: Parties and Meetings
(Top Deck of Ship) I looked into the caressing clear blue ocean and clear blue skies and wondered how it would be to live like a dolphin out in the ocean and see skies of this shade of blue many years to come. It was an over coming feeling brought to me by Jaden; Jaden and his wondrous plans.
"What you thinking about Lex? Anything in particular." I nodded and looked out at the ocean.
"Even with a party going on underneath me it's so serene Jaden. So gentle, beautiful, calm and just so…" I took a deep breath.
"Wonderful," He knew me as well as I knew myself. He saw what I saw in the way that I saw it. It was one thing I never thought was possible. "Just like you, perfect, beautiful, smart, delicate, talented."
"You're going to have to stop if not than I'll be forced to stop you." I said blushing very contently.
"What are you going to do?" I smiled and leaned in to kiss Jaden on the lips which was the first time. I would have loved to been kept like that for an eternity but sadly the moments don't last forever they only last for a short time and I didn't want to break but we needed air.
We finally broke and we looked at each other and it was like a physical bond that we were bonded to come together again which we did after a few seconds to catch our breath. "Now that was wonderful." He smiled too, he was blushing too. I didn't think I'd ever do something like that to someone, especially to Jaden but it was bound to happen sometime and this was so perfect.
"Ya Lex, yah it was." I smiled and we went down the stairs giving as smile so big it looked fake on Jaden. Me, well I closed my eyes descending down the stairs if on air but I looked as if I was drunk, I wasn't I was so out of it.
I walked around and finally after we had all partnered up in turned out like this.
ME and Chumsley
Atticus and Molly
Jaden and Me
Jane and Sebastian
Mimi and Syrus
Lisa and Zane
TK and Kari
Amy had to leave for her college entry examinations and we freely let her go.
We had 16 people at the party but Chazz disappeared into my house and Amy left for her exams. I went inside to look for Chazz and when I came in I found Chazz making out with Allie. I looked surprised and Jaden tried to suppress a laugh that was too coming to me.
"Hey Alexis," Chazz said in his usual flirty yet guilty-free tone of voice. Jaden kept laughing. Allie smiled too. They both seemed very happy.
"I expected you to be bothering Melissa while she's watching Hailey but this cuts the cake. I mean Miss. Allie Thrones a relationship expert and goody girl making out with Chazz the big bad guy on campus. This isn't as much as expected." I couldn't start but laughing with how Jaden said it. It made it seem like Allie could do no wrong and all Chazz could be was a bad boy. It was hilarious.
"Not funny Mr. Yuki, I am a childcare relations officer not a relationship advisor. There is a huge difference Mr. Yuki." Allie said very puffed up at Jaden who seemed to comfuse two very similar things.
"I'd say in order to have a child and be a good parent you'd have to have a good relationship. Don't you Jaden?" He fell on the floor laughing.
"Yep, a good relationship between parents is the key to a successful parenting. That's what the parenting book Alexis made me read said." Jaden hated reading but he as much as I wanted to keep Hailey so we had to know how to handle many situations and that was the childbirth pre-stage chapter.
"Of course but I don't plan on having a child anytime soon so I don't have to worry. Not like you two do with Hailey." I thought about Hailey. If she was my daughter, than I would be the most proud mother of all time. She was perfect in anyway. I would have to be the most perfect mother to be hers. Maybe that's why Jaden's family is such a group of wonderful people because they have parents like Molly's, Jaden's, and Hailey's. It's so sad how they all died. I think someone is plotting against their family.
"I wish I was her mother more than anything. She's so perfect and wonderful; just like Jaden." I said smiling widely at Jaden. He blushed and then looked away.
"I'm sure you'll make a great mother to Hailey, Alexis. You just have to graduate school first. If all goes well on the 8th then everything will be great." I sighed and nodded.
"So let's get back to the party, we're going to discuss the good old days. What do you think?" Chazz sighed and walked off but slightly stopped and hesitated to go. He looked back at us. "What's up Chazz?"
"Allie, can she come? She is part of everything that's been going on lately." Chazz said sort of pleading yet still staying hard to deny.
"I don't care, you Lex?" I shook my head, no. I didn't care, Melissa worked for me but Allie had a government job and was still on mission so everything was okay. "Go on Allie, you're invited."
"Thanks Jaden, Alexis, and especially you Chazz. I never get invited to these sorts of things. I'm never invited because my business partners are afraid I'd judge their attitudes there. I would never dare to. Well, unless they did something potentially dangerous to the child. With Hailey safe asleep with my sister I have nothing to do with this party." I laughed and she looked hard at me. It was like wood chipping off my skin, I was like something was wrong with me and I didn't know.
"You are a huge part of this party, with Chazz being who he is. You've become a part of our adventures. Since you'll have to stay with us during school; you better know all our friends. Right?" she smiled and nodded as I directed them to the dock.
"Finally you guys are back, we were getting worried. And yet, we were still tempted to not go because of Chazz and other people in the house. You would never know with him." Molly said in a hush-hush tone of voice. Allie looked oddly at Chazz and he just laughed.
"I'm going to go catch up with Syrus, okay Lex?" I nodded. Syrus and Jaden were inseparable from each other. They were so close like to long lost brother that could get along very well.
"I'll just go catch up with Zane and Lisa. Nice couple those two, aren't they Jaden?" I said kissing him on the check as we split to converse with our 1st year friends and for me someone who I'd find to not see for a long time.
"Hey Zane and Hello Lisa, how are you two doing?" I said as happy than I could be with the expressions they were giving. I forgot how emotionless they were. It almost gave me chills and their faces could settle the raging winds in a tidal storm.
"I'm fine Alexis, so how is Hailey. I haven't gotten to see her. Is she here?" Lisa said looking around trying to find Hailey. After a few seconds she didn't see any signs of Hailey.
"No Hailey's not here, the boat would upset her. We left her with Melissa. She's asleep so all the commotion would upset her. She's never been upset as long as she's with me or Jaden. I'm surprised that she adjusted to Molly so fast." I said taking the break in speech to look for Hailey myself. I don't know why but me and Hailey had a connection.
"You sure she's not here Alexis. Because since I know you; I know you're looking for her." I sighed and nodded. Zane knew me, my feelings and expressions.
"I know she's not here. I do. It's just that it's like she's my daughter. I miss her when she's gone, like I miss Jaden when he's gone. It's a feeling that I can't explain." I thought about it, it's like going to an empty house where your best friend moved out a year ago that day and thinking she'd be there. You know she isn't but you look anyway.
"I know how you feel Alexis." I turned around to Chumsley with ME. "It's like knowing the fridge is empty but by mindset you keep returning without finding food." He was kind of right. It wasn't by habit I missed Jaden and Hailey it was by love and a connection.
"I guess but it's through love and a feeling that I miss them and search for them. Every night I'd search my bedroom for Jaden, I knew he would be there and he never is and never was in there but I search to reassure myself I couldn't have missed him." It was so lovey dovey kind of feeling.
"I wonder how horrible it feels to have that feeling ripped away from you; with the death of a loved one. If a few minutes or hours of separation causes you to look for something that's clearly not there, what will death separation do to a love stuck person?" ME's question was very deep for her. It was true if I lost one of them, what would I do.
I started crying harder than I'd ever thought possible. It's as though I knew someone who was related to me who was ripped apart like this and I could remember the feeling without the knowledge of the person.
I hit the floor hard and curled up into a ball. I don't know what was happening but whatever it was I sensed Hailey, Jaden and I were all going through it together. That was the bond. Who was the person who was lost, for me? For Jaden and Hailey it was there parents, but what for me? Why not Molly, she knew this too with Jaden and her parents.
Jaden walked over to me when the feeling had stopped. I was still in the ball, crying. Jaden and Hailey are alive. All I need is them. "It's okay Alexis. It's okay. I promise, you'll never lose that person whoever it is?" He too knew I didn't know the person.
"Sh. Alexis, it's okay. I'm here and so is Hailey. See." Jaden was holding Hailey in his arms and she was quiet and not in fear of what, I was fearing. She was calm like always. Seeing me upset didn't upset her it didn't like I'd heard it did to children.
I grasped Hailey from Jaden and he smiled as I hugged her tight. Why do I feel like she's my flesh in blood? Am I related to Jaden? I hope not, I'd can't be. It's not possible. I can feel this love for Jaden with him being related to me. I just can't. I love Jaden.
"I'll always be here for you mommy." I didn't know this voice but it was a voice from like someone. I thought it was Hailey. Was she so young that she thought I was her mother. It was possible but the talking of her, didn't exactly fit.
"Can you get up Alexis?" Jaden said looking at me. I seriously couldn't move a muscle in my body. I think that the other realm is calling me.
'Do you hear me realm? I can leave, not now. I need to be here for them. Wait, then you can take me and explain this all. I promise this to you on my life that I will go freely after I talk to my friends and teachers. I need to be here for Hailey.' I though and talked to the realm. I didn't know if it would respond. 'Whoever you are who's calling me. Don't, not now. I'll come when I'm ready. Do you hear me?'
'Alexis, of course we hear you. We are the realm connectors. You will be ready the 9th of this month until the 12th to be gone. Prepare because we can't hold too long without you. You need Hailey and Jaden too.' The voice said back. 'You know me o so well so listen and be prepared to keep your promise.'
'I will.' I said waking up from my trance and awaking in my bed trying to find Hailey and everyone in the party. "Hello, anyone here?"
"Yep, you really shouldn't do that. You drove poor Jaden crazy wondering what's wrong with you." I sighed, of course he was worried. I was conversing with my mind and in a trance.
I went back on the boat and came into the conversation. "So Crowler is our principal for the year? That's seriously whacked Jaden."
"Well it might be whacked, as you say Chazz but it's true, none the less." I said in my omnipresent tone of voice, like I had never left. I easily could join in. After all, I had talked to Crowler too.
"Hey Lex, you feel better?" I looked at Jaden and nodded.
"So Alexis what was going on with you? You seemed to have a seizure. It was so scary and you looked as though someone close to you had died. Like what we were talking about." I thought. That was the easiest way to describe it to them.
"That's how I felt, It felt like someone so close to me had died. It was someone who I had never met had died. It was sad even more than if I knew the person. I lost all sense and control and feel to the floor. The immense pain of feeling the loss of that loved person would kill me inside." I said as Jaden walked over to me and kissed me. "So what's new with you Chumsley, and you Lisa?" Lisa and Chumsley were the most likely ones to be asked. Syrus, Zane and ME lived so nearby that I knew what they were up too. The same was true with Atticus, Molly, Jaden, Chazz, Jane and Mimi. Sebastian I had not talked too but Jane had said enough to know like if he told me.
"I'm designing a lot of new cards these days. Cards that are designed to what we call, play roles. They have guardian cards, savior cards, soldier cards and magician cards. They do as they say. Guardian cards act as defensive fields between your life points and your opponent; defense monsters and spells. Savior cards are cards that are quick play and save your life time when guardian cards fail; trap cards. Soldier cards are cards that are offense made strong for attacks; offensive monsters and spells. Magician cards are field and equip cards that are like magic. They now make 4 decks called 'The Quad of Power' owning all of the cards together would be impossible but unstoppable because they are made up of the best of all the cards." Chumsley said. He really made a future for himself. I wonder how that goes in the future for him. I'll have to ask.
"Wow, it seems that they are working you hard. So Lisa, what's new with you?" Lisa was surprised that I had cared to ask.
"Really nothing, I had a challenge everyday with Mr. Truesdale next to me. He doesn't give up when a 'girl' beats him. It's funny how that could be such a great form of motivation with him; especially when a 'girl' is the only one to have ever beaten him." There were two, Mr. Truesdale-s on the bus but only Zane fit the criteria and detail he said.
The conversations went on pretty much like that for the rest of the day and until it was about 8. At 8 everyone left to go see the stadium to see the final season baseball game. It was also the prime spot to catch a horizon full of fireworks. It is beautiful, but Jaden had other plans for us two.
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