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My chapters are going to be updated with Tuesdays and Thursdays. On Mondays and Fridays are my other fic 'Great Expectations and the Perfectionist' and on weekends are my newest fic 'Eternal Matchmaker'.
+Chapter 7: Fireworks+
"Where are we Jaden?" Jaden carefully removed the blindfold from my eyes and I saw the most beautiful sight to this day and it was almost incomparable to sights I've ever seen before. It was the water fireworks, they are blasted into the air and then explode and show their color then the ashes fly to the water and the water as dust of many beautiful colors. I've never seen a display of water fireworks as long as I've lived.
"I'll take that as 'I like it'." I nodded not taking my eyes of the wonderful displays. Jaden while very much balanced seemed easily to push me over into a comfortable seat he had moved up here and we relaxed together on the upper deck floor watching the display.
It was now 1am and the show had ended and we were back at my house. "Thanks for the most wonderful night ever Jaden; it was perfect." He smiled and we met slowly in a kiss and after a few seemingly long moments we broke apart for air and I walked inside.
Melissa was asleep in her own room and Hailey was fast asleep in my bed so I resided to sleep in the guest room so I would not disturb her but as soon as I passed up my room she began to cry. "Amazing child, cry not for you're never alone."
I walked into the room and picked her up, silencing her as I cradled her and we both fell fast asleep and dreams of wonderful nights with her and Jaden filled my mind.
"Allie, you can't do that to Hailey. She's just a baby. You can't." I girl cried, I recognized that voice as Melissa.
"I have to sis, Hailey may be just a baby but she can't be related to Jaden. Unless they can prove any relation to Jaden…they can't keep her without going through adoption customs. It is how it's done. They have two months; you tell them that." Allie said, yelling at her sister Melissa.
I quickly picked up Hailey and ran out of the room. "What's going on?" I said like I thought there was a fire.
Allie looked at me and examined me like she was a scanner. "Why in the world are you running around the house in your pajamas and carrying Hailey around in that?" I realized that bringing Hailey into this is an mistake because it was something that concerned her.
"I thought something big was going on and if there was something going on I would want to save her, would I?" Major points for thinking about Hailey's safety in a potentially dangerous situation.
"Yah Allie, if something big was happening and she was locked in there. There'd be nothing Alexis could do to protect her child." I nodded and looked at still sleeping Hailey.
"You're concern gets you many points on your test but you have a problem. My sister will explain it to you in the morning. If you have any questions you can call me and ask Alexis." I sighed and nodded and Hailey and I returned to bed.
When Allie and Melissa had left and gone to bed I looked at Hailey. "Little Hailey, you can't always be with me, you'll have school eventually, and I'll have to go to school too. For know you can be with me at all times but you can't always."
I looked at her who my strange coincidence happened to look a bit like me. "I sure wish my mom would have cared for me like I promise to take care of you; now and as long as I live. If I can't then I'll make sure whoever does will take good care of you." My mother never took care of me. I was always with a maid or nursery mother. They were always in charge of taking care of heiresses' children. If I cried my mom never came, a nurse did but after a few years the nurse quit and I was left alone so my brother tended to my needs.
Atticus taught me to duel, cared for me when I was hurt and things like that. My parents sent me away to duel schools; not that I'm complaining or anything. I love the duel schools but they never let me have a choice in the schools I went to, who my friends were at home, what classes I took and such. It got me very bored and lonely as well as against my family but I moved on and lived to be such a great person once I realized who I was.
I'm Alexis Rhodes, sister of Atticus Rhodes and heiress to the Rhodes' fortune. I'm 16 years old and a guardian of the shadow realm. I'm Jaden Yuki's girlfriend, the foster mother of Hailey Yuki, and a superb duelist and an all around good person.
(July 5th) "Good morning Alexis, Hailey's bottle is ready as is your breakfast." I smiled as Kayla my person cook welcomed me to the dinner table.
"Thanks a lot Kayla, I didn't mean to locate Hailey and take care of her. It just happened. I really didn't mean to give you twice as much to do and people to feed." She nodded and brought the bottle to the table and my meal.
"It's absolute fine with me. Hailey's just like you. She's very nice and is very quiet in the arms of her beloved family members." I nodded and looked as Kayla picked up Hailey. "She isn't a big eater. I always heard babies ate a lot."
"Hm, I've never heard that. I guess eating to gain strength is a good thing. I wonder if Jaden's parents were good at dueling and is she?" Kayla shrugged and kept feeding Hailey.
"It is something to think about but it's also important to remember that being a good duelist isn't a trait you can inherit or you and your brother would be in Slifer right now." Kayla said burping Hailey.
Background: Kayla is about 29 and is Alexis' and Hailey's personal chef at anytime they can call on her to make food. She has a daughter Marie(mar-e) that's age of four and her husband Marcus works for Alexis' brother as a chef and their daughter hangs out in her bedroom all day.
Part 2 on Background: Thomas is Atticus' Best Friend but a year older and he started school 2 years before Atticus to get a jump start.
"I'm sure you're right. My mom just heard that Middleton Academy was where Thomas went so she decided that Atticus could be with his good heir friend and then she wanted me to be with my brother and it turned out to be a dueling school. It's nothing to do with genes. But good duelist parents make good duelist children." I smiled as Kayla's little daughter Marie walked up to Hailey and took a look.
"She's a baby mommy." Kayla smiled and nodded.
"Yes she is Marie. She is Alexis' daughter. She's lives here with us in Alexis' room." I smiled at how Kayla treated Marie. Marie listened to what her mom said and if she didn't understand then she asked questions.
"Wow, I didn't know Alex is a mommy. Where's her Daddy?" Marie defiantly wasn't stupid. She knew that she had a mommy and a daddy but Marie realized that Hailey didn't.
"Hailey's real parents are somewhere…else Marie. Alexis is just filling in but Alexis' boyfriend Jaden acts like Hailey's daddy, okay?" Marie nodded. Death wasn't a think a little four year old needed to understand but Kayla was very open but kept part away to protect her.
"I meet Hailey's filling in Daddy?" Kayla nodded and handed me Hailey and Kayla picked up Marie onto her own lap. "What's his name Alex?"
"His name is Jaden, Marie. He's very nice. You've met him before remember. He has brown and blonde hair and is funny, remember." Marie nodded and smiled.
"Ya, he helped me when I fell into the dock. I couldn't breath and he pulled me out." Kayla and I were shocked and in fear.
"When was this Marie? When were you outside alone? You know Mrs. Rhodes doesn't allow you to dishonor her." I frowned. Everyone called my mom Mrs. Rhodes even by habit Atticus did.
"What is dishonor and what did I do to her?" I scribbled down on a piece of paper a poem that was imperative to this situation.
Born into a world so old
While being so young
You feel cold
While in the storm so long
You forget to remember one thing
A person a being
Must learn things from the old
When you're young
An original me poem
This meant that the world doesn't start new when you do. You must realize that when you're young you have to learn from the things that are older than you to catch up without waiting for time. It's imperative to realize this young.
"This is mommy and daddy's jobs and most people thinks that it's bad to have children at their job and you're a child so they think this is bad and we are." Marie ran off crying and I had another verse to add.
Too young to see
Too young to hear
What the old see
What the old hear
You can't see threw their eyes
You can't hear threw their ears
You must just open your eyes to understand
And open you ears to hear what they say
Only the old can tell you what they see and hear
Another poem by me
"Growing up stinks doesn't it." Kayla said, she had a clue once but it's harder when you're young.
"Ya, sometimes it does because you don't have that prior knowledge they had about subjects like this. It's hard to adjust." Kayla nodded and looked at the stairs.
"Do you think I should go talk to her about it? I mean I can't just tell her it and hopes she understands that I don't think like that. I should explain it." I looked at Kayla and her careful nature toward her daughter. I'm sure if I ever had a daughter. I'd need much more practice than just Hailey. I'm sure I could do better with Hailey too.
"No, you don't understand what a horrible world wealth is as well as I have to. I'll explain, I'll need the practice." Kayla smiled and nodded. "Thanks Kayla."
"No thank you, this is good for her to understand it from a point different than someone who is trying to protect her. It's good for you, me and her. I must learn to stop protecting her."
"Stop protecting her, but why?" I asked, why would a mother stop protecting her child.
"Alexis, it may not seem like it now to you with Hailey because she's so young and even with Marie. They need independence or they'll never let go of you and need you for every small thing and never live happily." I though, I guess.
"But it seems that they could get hurt, or in trouble or something; what should I do?" I said worried about every leaving Hailey on her own. It could be dangerous.
"How happy would you be if Atticus and your parents never let you out of their sights? You stayed in the house all day, never left or anything." Kayla said asking me very easy questions to answer but hard to relate.
"I'd be very bored, upset and I would never get smarter, or meet any of my friends or date Jaden and be very upset." She smiled. "I see; they have to live their own lives. How do you know when they're ready?"
"Small steps Alexis, small steps; you have to give them little chances to prove themselves ready for a bigger step and always be ready for them to come back with failure because some go ahead farther than they can take it." I nodded.
"Parenting seems so much harder than everyone makes it seem. I don't think I can do it." I said sitting down and leaning against the chair with Hailey in my arms. "What if I'm the only one who is failing? What if she's climbing and I leave her on a security rope and pull her down."
"It's very hard Alexis. You just need to make sure that you let a little slack on the rope so you can save her if she falls. Sometimes they need a push, a pull or just a support rope but you'll be ready for whatever they need. Just stay calm and focused." I nodded and smiled.
"I'm just afraid I'll mess her up for good. So bad that it's irreversible to fix her to the better. It all seems so hard." She laughed.
"Children are little sponges. They absorb how you take to something and react to it. If you scream and cry then they scream and cry because they trust you. You must do for them what you'd do for yourself in their best interest." I sighed and I walked up the stairs and talked with Marie.
(July 8th) "Hello Principal Shepard, how are you?" I asked sitting down at the desk with Hailey in my arms and Jaden to my side.
"Hey Principal Shepard, so why are we here instead of at the school?" I sighed and he laughed.
"Well Jaden, it's because I'm not your principal anymore, well not for a while. I'm on probation for putting you in trouble with the shadow realm and everything."
"That's so unfair, we agreed to it. It should be our fault, not yours." I nodded in agreement; Jaden was right it was our fault.
"Well this isn't about that it's about this darling of a girl here, Miss. Hailey Yuki." I handed Principal Shepard Hailey. "Isn't she a sweetheart, like her mother and strong like her father."
"Um Principal Shepard; Hailey is not our child, she's Jaden's sister. I mean well she is Jaden's sister we are adopting." He laughed.
"Of course, I knew that. It's just that…
"You knew my parents didn't you." Jaden said jumping up and shocking Hailey but she didn't make a sound just was jumpy. I grabbed Jaden's shoulder and pulled him to a sitting position.
"Of course I didn't Jaden. No one knew them extensively. They were one of the richest families in the world. They lived on the island where Alexis lives now. No one knew they had a child, or got married, or anything. It was like a secret organization in there. The three families to ask about your parents are the three richest. Of course that would be the Truesdale Family, the Rhodes Family and check the Yuki Family records for anything." Jaden looked upset that no one knew much about the family.
"So where could we find them, the records of any kind." He pulled a chest out and picked up a fairly large book and blew off the dust. "That's it? Wow, it's huge."
"Yes it is Alexis. This is all about Jaden's parents and his birth and everything about their family. Here you go Jaden. It's all yours. They left me in charge of the reconstruction project and I happened to stumble upon this book and I kept it just in case someone was looking for it." I nodded as I picked up the book and exchanged Hailey for the book with Jaden.
"So is Molly in here too?" Principal Shepard nodded. "So this is all about our family history; everything about our riches, their deaths, my grandparents and anyone else about this." Jaden was amazed by all his history in one book.
"This whole chest is filled with things we pulled out of the fire. They are Books of rules that heirs have to follow which you should start to follow now that you have the rules." Jaden sighed.
"This doesn't sound like much fun for me; the whole being in heir thing." I laughed. "What's up Alexis?"
"Trust me it's not any bit of fun. You're going to have to be completely civilized like Zane, Syrus, ME, Molly, as well as Mimi, Jane and everything. You are now suceptable to following every rule in that book and I'm going to make sure of it." He backed up out of his seat.
"Why do I have to follow all these rules? It's not like we're famous or anything. It's just me and Molly." Principal Shepard laughed.
"You think you should warn him?" I shook my head. "Are you sure that he shouldn't be prepared?"
"I'm sure because he can do it and if not than he's in trouble." I turned to Jaden and laughed. "Jaden, you're in for it because now that it's going to be announced to everyone that the Yuki Family line isn't dead you are expected to be a well leveled member of society."
"This so stinks, I mean the whole fanciness already sounds hard but a well leveled member of society sound painful. I think I'm going to rewrite the book. If the Yuki Family was the most powerful than I should be able to write a new book or rewrite the old rules." I smiled.
'While you're at it Jaden, rewrite mine." He laughed and picked up the book. He looked and threw it at me.
"I actually very much like how they wrote yours. I mean you talented, smart, pretty, sophisticated, nice and everything. I think they are doing a fine job with the rules you follow but I'll check to see which ones went out with times but you are awesome so why would I change rules that make it like that." He said very temptingly for me to kiss him but not here, not now.
"So Miss. Hailey is welcome under nursery care of Miss. Molly during the day but other than that Hailey can go with you after end of the day classes let out. I have to warn you that you and Jaden becoming a couple and the baby are going to bring up some unwanted rumors though." I looked at Hailey then at Jaden.
"We can handle it Principal Shepard, thanks anyway. Plus how bad could it be?" He shrugged and that was the end of that. -Review-