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I am reading Romeo and Juliet; it's pretty hard to get in the beginning. I defiantly don't recommend it to anyone under 9th grade. I'm not in high school but I'm an honor student but I'm going to take Contemporary English Literature next year and I'm starting early, but it's still hard.
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Chapter 9: July 9th- Part 2
I awoke in a soft bed. I saw a very familiar face next to me. So kind, so gently, so little; it was little Hailey. I smiled as she looked at me and gave a bit of a laugh like cry.
"You hungry, me too. Let's go. I'll make us something." I picked up Hailey and walked down the stairs of my hallway and into a hallway that looked familiar but yet it wasn't. Where pictures of my ancestors hung were different people. They looked very familiar. They had Jaden and Hailey's same eyes. It was also strange because Hailey's eyes had a the same glassy covering as mine while Jaden's just had their sparkle while Hailey's had both. The people in the paintings had either one or the other, not both. I guess it was just traits that everyone has.
I saw Jaden and ran to him with Hailey in my arms. It seemed to anyone not knowing what had happened that I hadn't seen him in a very long while, but in all actuality I had never left him. "Was that as scary for you as it was for me?"
"No, it was much more for me. I didn't see what you saw Alexis, I saw everything from my point of position and including yours. I honestly couldn't tell you what was the scariest about it. You're brother gone, no Duelist Academy, you getting married, me being a horrible duelist or the kind of person I was there. My parents seemed to be good people from the way Principal Shepard and the article described them, what went wrong." Jaden sat down and I followed to comfort him.
"Nothing went wrong Jaden. It just seemed that from the outside that life seemed so good. From the outside looking in, the castle was a world of beauty and fancy. It demanded respect and honor. From the outside, it was something quite different. It was a world of stupid rules, horrid manners, stupid parties, false marriages, and little work. To someone from the outside it was a good life for you. From you're stand point that's not how it's suppose to be." I said almost hoping that everyone could here me from my society.
"Oh too true Alexis, too true; I myself wished that I could be like the two of you. Not in the way the others think I would. I wish to be like you two in the sense that you have so much at such a young age. You have each other, love, friends, and so many things I could never hope to have." Ladle is one strange person.
"How could you not have these things? I mean, love, friends, relationships. They all come to existence within becoming a person. Were you not a person once?" Ladle laughed.
"You were a person once weren't you? I mean you know so much about everyone, and make feelings to ours. How could you not be human yet know of this stuff." Jaden asked, I too wanted to know desperately.
"I am you Jaden, in the sense that my parents too had a choice to make, me or themselves. Over many, many centuries these choices have been made. Every mother who dies within the birth of her child, within the miscarriage, or early on, has this choice. They can save their child at the expense of themselves or themselves at the expense that the child disappears from existence. You are one type of child, while I another. I once was human, but only lived to be little Hailey's age. I was born 26 years ago, but they changed it and I wasn't there." I felt so sorry for Ladle, so sorry that she would be the one sacrificed.
"That's really too bad Ladle. I would never do that to a child, unborn. I know I wouldn't have the heart after knowing what has happened to you. It's so sad." Ladle laughed.
"Anyone can say that Alexis, but it takes a true person to go through with this. I plan to stop this before it happens. At Hailey's age she has made no choices for the rest of her life. So until now she could not alter the future at all. She is technically no existent. So with me being gone nothing was altered in the future." Jaden didn't like where this was going, and I didn't either.
"So are you going to be ready to see how everything is like without Jaden? You see since Jaden has made life altering decisions, everyone knows he exists, he must disappear without a trace if he sacrifices himself. Everyone would know of his birth and death not like mine." Jaden kind of looked scared at this.
"So I would know that Jaden was a person, what he would be, who he is today and yesterday and so on. It would alter what we know already."
"No Lexy, it would be as though I died. Because it's too late because I altered too many things. I'd have to die when we go back to save my parents." I looked scared because if I remembered him, I'd be sad without him. "We're ready, no me, just them. A year after I'm gone." We nodded and away.
Year 2007, commentary by Jaden 3rd Person
"Hey Alexis, what's up? You're normal or something more interesting." Alexis lifted her head from the book she was reading and sighed heavily. Atticus said looking at me, blaintly reading my book.
"Nothing, well nothing more or less important to you; it's just me, being me." Alexis said hiding her tear filled eyes. Alexis is crying but why?
"Can't you give it up? He's gone, he didn't run away, he's dead, dead! D E A D! Calm down about it. He's gone, never coming back, dead." Atticus calmed down and walked over and gave Alexis a hug. "Lexy, just because you're upset doesn't mean you have to give up on you're life. I'm sure he wouldn't want you too." She can't remember why I did it, or how I died? Alexis looked away, upset and angry at Atticus.
"I will not, do you hear me, not accept his death. I'd rather die than except it. No proof, no trust, no belief. I trust only what I read and learn to understand. A person just disappearing does not give any hint that he is dead." Lex, give it up, I'm dead. I know it. Don't you? Tears appeared hard, cold, and wet in Alexis' eyes.
"Alone will not do you any good Alexis! Talk to someone, someone at all. Even you're councilor. Please, for him?" Alexis spun around and smiled with a lot of sadness in her eyes.
"To be alone is to wish of a companion, let me remind you, I can't be alone. I had someone. I had Jaden." Lexy, don't do this to me. Alexis ran up the stairs and cried. She walked into a room that was all black and red. It was very gloomy and dark.
"Here again Lex, I'm sure that you'd much rather go to you're room than this one." Zane came out in the only little crack of light that could enter the room through the entrance door, behind Alexis.
"No Zane, I wouldn't. Why do you insist that I make this room if you think it's horrible that I be in here? It doesn't make sense. Why make a place to use if you don't use it." He laughed and pulled the now crying Alexis in his arms.
"I made this room to comfort you. I hoped you wouldn't ever use it. It was a way to say that like this room he is always be there for you. You could always go to Jaden for anything but did you?" Alexis shook her head. "This room is a memorial for Jaden."
"I know but I need him now more than ever and he's not here." Alexis cried and Zane tried to calm her down.
"-sometimes in our lives we must release the hand of someone we know into the hand of someone we have not yet met.- It means trust that in heaven he's happier. You know he's gone. He's been gone, he is." Alexis nodded her head in tears.
"I know he is. I just don't think I can say it, not even in my mind. I know. I do, I just can't. Not know not ever." Zane shook his head. "I loved him, I did, now he's gone." Zane nodded and held her close.
"-the people we truly love don't ever leave, nor does our love for them ever dim.- It's means that you love him, he's not gone. He's here, but you realize that you must move on. Promise me someday soon you will." Alexis looked away at a red spot on the floor. She had marked for a particular reason.
"Why'd he go? What purpose did that serve? I'm left with nothing but memories. Happy memories? Couldn't he leave me with sad memories to forget him, why?" Alexis fell on the floor and Zane sat next to her and looked at her face.
"Maybe someday we will know Alexis, for know it's not what we don't know, it's what we do. He shouldn't have left, shouldn't have died. But things happen, things that shouldn't have happened. Can you honestly say to me you wish now that you know him, that you could forget him?" Alexis held her eyes tightly closed. She grabbed onto Zane's shoulders.
"No, never would I wish to forget him. I wish I just knew. Did he know what was wrong with him? Accident or planned course of action? Why him, why me?" Zane lifted Alexis off the spot by her wrists.
"Alexis dearest, are you almost ready to eat?" It was Alexis' mom. "Oh, hello Zane; would you like to stay for dinner;for the 7th time this week?" Zane looked at Alexis and nodded.
"He's not coming back, is he?" Zane shook his head ever so slightly. "Jaden, good-bye, forever. I love you." Zane led Alexis out of the room.
"It's okay to use the room when you're down and feel like you need to talk to someone. It will always cause someone to come and help. Remember, Jaden and this room are one in the same. Always there, if you need them or not." Alexis nodded.
Ended- 1st Person
I stood up from that horrible excuse for the future. I calmly stood up and walked over to Jaden who was stunned, yet I was the one who was upset and crying. I smacked Jaden right across his face.
"What's wrong with you Alexis, are you okay?" I nodded and hugged him. I cried and he looked at me confused yet just comforting me. "Tell me what's wrong?"
"I smacked you for many reason. One, for thinking about leaving me. Two, to make sure you're still with me. Three, it made me feel the comfort of having you always be there for me." Jaden, still confused but was starting to understand.
"I don't think I could leave you at this point in time Alexis. It would be a different story if I didn't have a life already and I guess that's what my mom saw too. She saw me with a life of my own, happy. I wouldn't take it way from my child either." I nodded.
"So you have decided that you will leave you're life alone at the expense of you're parents, correct?" Ladle asked and both of us nodded. "Why? I need a statement for other generations to help not use their time up."
"Taking away someone important to so many people is a crime. Taking away someone who was a saved by the another sacrifice is an even bigger crime. If I lived then my parents would have had to died anyway so we all would have died such their sacrifice would be avail." Ladle wrote this down and nodded.
"You still have 2 days to deal with your own choice and with only 2 days to do it you must rush the decision which is bad to do. It will cause many mistakes." Ladle said making me worry if our decision was anything like this one.
"What is our choices? All of them. I need to know now." I screamed, I wasn't going to take this any longer. I was wasting my time and this was so mad, and scary and I was defiantly freaking out.
"Would you like to know the question first, or just the answer? I need to know what to tell you and such and you're really not helping me much with this. So tell me exactly what you want." I sighed and shut my mouth.
"Go on, I'm just a bit scared and freaked out by this question. Jaden's decision and wondering how Hailey's involved. I'll just shut up now; to save you. Sorry." I said leaning on Jaden's shoulder as he held Hailey.
"Okay, but I still need to know what you want to know first. A simple question, and answer response please." I nodded and Jaden did too.
"Why are we here? Simply put." Ladle nodded and smiled.
"You are here because you must decide the fate of the people that stand before me. You, Jaden and Hailey. You don't know how important this decision is to your future." I nodded but realized that we would be in danger.
"Do you know how Hailey's related to me? By any chance." Ladle fell onto the floor laughing. Jaden's question was a question. He was off topic, but whatever.
"You two are very stupid aren't you? Let's see everyone has given you clues and yet you still know not what she is to you. This is a major step to you're future. I'm going to see if I can extend you're time because you're very behind with this." I laughed as she disappeared.
"Can't you answer us straight? She is Jaden's….
"…and your daughter."
Hours later I woke up. Same old room, same old paintings of people I don't know, same old lunch. I came down the stairs to Jaden staring at me. It was pretty usual for him to watch me come down but it was how he was that was beginning to freak me out.
"What's up Jaden? What's up with the funny face?" He laughed.
"Lexy, do you remember fainting?" I laughed, me faint funny.
"I fainted, when? I don't remember if I did. Why did I faint?" Jaden forced into my hand a slip of paper.
"Just promise me that you'll not faint when you read this. You fainted when Ladle said it so I wrote it down." I laughed. What would be so strange or creepy that I would faint.
"What would be creepy enough for me to faint? That's hilarious, how'd you manage that. Let's see. 'Hailey is my daughter.'" I fell over onto the floor this time laughing.
"That's really funny Jaden, I guess by adoption in the future she would be our daughter but really what is she to you." I asked, constantly wondering what kind of joke this is.
"No really Lexy, she's my daughter. She is. I promise you, no joke." I got up and kept laughing. "Come on Lex, be serious, she's my daughter, my child, she is."
"I got her from the past, when you were born. She's a child alive somewhere in our time that we returned sometime. She's from the past." Jaden sighed.
"No she's not Alexis, she is from the future. You took her from the future, when history once again repeated itself. This time Hailey was the Jaden." I started to fit but how could Jaden have a child. It didn't fit. Ladle was from the future so she would know but how.
"Let's say I believe you? Who's the mother than?" I said trying to make a point. I crossed my arms and waited for a response.
"You might not want to hear this right now Alexis, and you too Jaden. But the mother obviously would be you Alexis." Block out big time. A few minutes this time I woke up.
"Would you repeat that? I think I'm going to be okay? I'm sure. I didn't hear that." Jaden looked at me and held my hand.
"You, Alexis; You're Hailey's official mother, by birth." My mouth was wide open I looked at Hailey and was very confused yet so happy. Ladle was so right it was obvious all a long. Principal Shepard, people, are eyes, this house, the time frame, her, what I saw, it all led up to this.
"Lexy, you okay?" I nodded happily. I could see why motherhood was such a happy thing.
"I'm a mother." I started to faint but Jaden's slapped me and knocked me out of the spell I have before I faint.
"I've kind of had enough of you fainting for one day. I mean how many times do you have to process it and faint before you get over it." I shrugged and hugged Jaden.
"Thank you, Jaden." Jaden was a bit confused as to what I was thanking him for but he'd understand soon enough.
"Exactly what are you thanking me for? I'd like to know because nothing seems to be worthy of a thank you right now. What are you thanking me for, just to be sure?" Jaden asked, careful not to offset me.
"For everything, for not dying to save you're parents, though it's sad. For just being there for me, I mean I really don't appreciate it a lot of the time; Also in the future for bringing me Hailey." His face turned red as did mine but I was too happy to actually pay attention to this.
"You're welcome, I guess. I didn't do most of things just for you. Some I actually did but it's just who I am and by being around me you atomatically get some of those rewards but Lex. You're the greatest gift and person I've ever met. I mean, who else could have bore a beautiful baby girl like Hailey." He looked at me, and I blushed. He started laughing.
"What Jaden?" I asked him.
"Now that my eyes are open to the possibility that she's our child, and she is. I see what they see. I see the resemblance between her and us. I saw it between her and I the first time but know I see even more the you, in her." I nodded and smiled and blushed some more.
"I'm sorry to break up this whole little party thing but you still have some choices to make. I mean it's either her or you. I know that everyone seems to think it's either way easy or super hard but you're the first to actually get to meet and talk to you're child. It's going to be harder." I laughed, and Jaden pouted, and thought.
"By any possibility, is there away we could do both? Keep both of us alive. I'd really like to, if all possible." Ladle thought, I hoped it was a yes, but if not than this would be harder than I though before.
"No one has ever tempted fate before Alexis. It never turns out well for them. If you could find something that's different between Jaden and the continuation then it might save a lot of people. I don't see it but maybe you can." I smiled.
"So there is a chance, even a tiny one, right?" Ladle nodded, she smiled, but then frowned. I had to make sure that all three of us lived to be happy and healthy and live long upon this earth because it's like this.
"We could do it. If there's even a tiny chance we'll exploit it. Lexy and I are different, we change it to fit us. When Hailey needed someone to help her, she bent the time streams to find us and we could do the same thing to save ourselves, to stay with her then." Ladle looked at her feet.
"One problem with that; if you are with Hailey in the future than her involvement, the love, the connection is all lost. As long as you have Hailey, she can't be with you in the future." I sighed. "I'm sorry but you both can't have Hailey, one or the other."
"Jaden, for the best, we have to make our choice, save us all and bring her back. If all goes well she'll only be gone for a little while, while we're gone. And I have a plan?" Jaden smiled.
"So what is the plan?" Jaden asked and I looked out into the yard, and ran toward the door. Ladle blocked us.
"Hello, you two are marked as 'dead' so many years ago. They'd think you were evil spirits. You have to dress up like normal people then do whatever you need to. I won't stop you but I will answer any questions you have." I nodded.
"How would we die, if we had to?" Jaden was a backed by this but he didn't get it. If that event happened without us there, Hailey would still live and we wouldn't die.
"You died as did Jaden's parents, an accident a the chemical plant. I'm warning you, if you play with fire, or time. You're going to mess it up and get burned." I jumped for joy.
"The only chemical plant is owned by my family anymore. But see Jaden's parents inherited theirs such they were in charge of it. Jaden's father was 1st born as was Jaden but Jaden can't inherit it because it burnt down and I'm a 2nd born so all we have to do is leave Hailey in the place where I found her in the accident and Jaden and I stay far away. Right?" Ladle was surprised.
"It seems that you Alexis, can tempt fate and beat it. Knowledge goes a long way too. You must make sure that Hailey is very, very safe. Or you lose again." I nodded.
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