Your Eyes Don't Lie.
Chapter Four: Casual Banta.
"No!" Jay smacked the controller from Kai's hand. "Ha!"
Kai growled. "Jay! That's cheating!"
Jay smashed a few buttons. "Cheating? What's that?" He acted dumb.
Well dumber than usual.
Kai picked up his controller and looked at the screen. Jay had already won. The hot head had already lost. "I hate you."
Jay snickered. "Ayyyy!" He put his hands up in the air. "I won! Nyeh heh heh heh heh!" He laughed.
Lloyd burst out laughing. "HA! Kai lost at his own game!"
"BOY! I will end you!" Kai jumped over the sofa and gave Lloyd a noogie.
"Ahh! No!" Lloyd squirmed about.
Zane laughed at them. "Now. Calm down." He snickered. "We don't want Lloyd losing his temper."
"Losing. My temper! Kai's the hot head here!" He exclaimed still trying to escape Kai's grasp.
Kai laughed. "I'm only HOT not hot headed."
"Pun intended?" Cole asked looking up from his phone.
"Pun?" Kai chuckled. "Oh right. HA!"
"Ha. Ha. Ha." Lloyd sarcastically laughed. "You're so funny!"
"Thanks." Kai rolled his eyes and gave Lloyd a harder noogie.
"Stop!" He whined.
Kai let go of him and laughed.
Lloyd growled.
Zane laughed. Jay flicked Lloyd's ear. "Yo, Loser."
"I'm not a loser!" Lloyd exclaimed.
"Oh yeah? Well, I won't call you a loser if you beat me!" Jay teased.
"It's on!" Lloyd jumped over the sofa. "No cheating!"
"Cheating? What's that?" Jay snickered.
Lloyd shot him a glance. "Oh god, you're worse than Kai,"
Kai growled. "Hey!"
They both snickered.
Cole watched the two boys play the game, whilst everyone watched in silence. He shrugged and went back to playing on his phone. Well. He went back to reading.
The room was filled with sounds of explosions. From the video game of course. Cole scrolled through his phone, then Nya leant over.
"What you up to?" She asked.
Cole instantly pressed the home button on his phone. "Nothing." He lied.
Nya smiled. "You was reading then. What were you reading?"
Cole chuckled nervously. He found it awkward talking to Nya. Since he used to like her. He always thought Jay hated it when they spoke. It was natural.
"I was reading. This book, that I like." Cole mumbled.
Nya smiled. "Oh. Which one?"
'Which one.' Cole repeated in his head. "Uhh..." He had to think of a title. He wasn't actually going to tell her. "...I forgot the title." He chuckled nervously whilst scratching the back of his neck. Nya smiled and nodded.
"Okay." She said, she leant away from him and carried on watching the others.
Cole glanced over and caught Jay's eye. Cole instantly looked away. Everyone went silent.
The room was quiet. Not even the Video Game was playing.
Cole glanced up.
"Jay. Why did you pause?" Lloyd asked.
Jay frowned slightly and unpaused. He didn't even answer. Jay looked away from Cole and just carried on playing.
Kai looked over at Cole and gestured for him to come over. Cole jumped up and walked over to Kai. The spiky hair teen led him to the back of the living room.
"Did you see the way he looked at you then?" Kai whispered.
Cole nodded slowly. "I did yes." He whispered back.
They both glanced over at Jay.
"Why would he look at you like that? You haven't done anything wrong." Kai informed Cole.
The raven haired boy just shrugged. "I don't know. We haven't argued in a long time. Kinda..." He coughed.
"Kinda?" Kai questioned.
"Well. We get into this small conversations. He feels depressed and I try to drag him out of his state. He yells things at me and I kinda yell back to try reason with him. Would you call that an argument?" Cole looked over at Jay, and then back at Kai.
Kai rubbed his chin. "Well, no..." He shook his head. "Why is he depressed? We have to help him."
Cole sighed. "That's what I've been trying to do. It's making me come across as clingy. He doesn't listen to anyone else. I think we should tell Nya."
"No." Kai instantly said.
"What?" Cole frowned.
"Those two..." Kai cleared his throat. "They haven't been getting on well as of recently. They need a...'break'"
Cole blinked a couple of times. "What?" He said calmly.
"...Arguments. I think that's what set Jay into his state. Nya always walks away from him mad."
Cole crossed his arms. "True. Well, every relationship has arguments! It's probably just a stage!"
Kai shook his head. "No. These ones are every day." He said.
Cole closed his mouth. He was going to say something.
"...We shouldn't tell Nya." Kai said slowly.
Cole nodded. Kai knew what was best for Nya. She was his sister.
"Though..." Kai smirked. "This is your chance."
"WHAT!?" Cole yelled.
Kai snickered. Cole looked around the room. Everyone was staring at him. He waved awkwardly and then chuckled. They all waved back and turned away.
Kai nudged Cole. "I see the way you look at him."
"A-Are you trying to say I LOVE Jay?" Cole lowered his voice.
Kai wiggled his eyebrows and grinned. "Mhmmmmm."
Cole's mouth dropped. "A-Are you insane!" Cole blushed out of embarrassment. "No!"
"Yes," Kai smiled. "Yes, I am insane!"
"No Kai! I'm not like that!" Cole crossed his arms. "I'm not gay."
"No, you're bi." Kai shrugged. Teasing Cole was funny to him.
"Wha? What! No!" Cole turned on his heels and faced away from Kai.
"Why are you blushing then?" He asked.
"Shut up," Cole said through gritted teeth.
Kai laughed. "Okay, Okay."
The room went silent for a little.
"But you still love him!" Kai yelled.
"KAI!"
Kai ran out of the room and Cole was straight behind him.
Zane chuckled. "What was that about?"
Lloyd snickered. "Kai was probably teasing Cole. It's Kai come on."
Jay nodded. "That's true,"
Zane smiled. "Yes. Probably."
Nya giggled. "That's my brother for you."
Kai ran into the room, out of breath. "Guys! Help me!" He said.
Nya shook her head. "Nope! Never!"
Jay watched as Cole walked up behind Kai, and flipped him over him and onto the floor.
"OUCH!" Kai yelled from the floor.
Cole raised an eyebrow. "That's what you get!"
Jay snickered. "Kai got owned."
Cole smiled. "Yeah. He did."
"My back hurts!" Kai whined. Lloyd jumped up to help Kai.
Cole crossed his arms and smiled proudly. "Heheh." He giggled to himself.
"Banta!" Jay exclaimed.
"Banta?" Cole turned to Jay. "The hell?"
Jay laughed. "You don't know what banta means! You're so dumb."
"Hey! I am NOT dumb!" Cole exclaimed.
"Yes, you are!" Jay jumped up from the sofa and stuck his tongue out. "Nyaaaah!"
"You're so immature!" Cole stuck his tongue out at Jay. "Nyaaah!"
"You're immature!"
"Oh yeah? You're a motormouth!"
"You're a pebble!"
Cole snickered. "A pebble? HA!"
Jay giggled. "Yeah. You pebble."
"You're a peanut." Cole laughed. "Midget."
"Hey! Just 'cause you're the second tallest doesn't mean I'm a midget!" Jay exclaimed waving his arms about.
"You have to stand on your tiptoes to be able to talk to Zane." Cole pointed at Zane.
Zane laughed. "Yes, but it's much harder for Lloyd he's the mid-"
"SHUT UP!" Lloyd suddenly shouted. "Don't judge my height!"
Kai laughed. "I'm the third tallest!"
"I'm the fourth tallest."
"Smallest." Cole coughed.
"Shut up!" Jay yelled.
Cole snickered, and Kai joined in. Zane was laughing. "You're all so immature."
They all joined in with the laughter.
This is what Jay enjoyed. The day's like these, but he knew that worse ones were to come.
Hi, everyone! Thank you SO SO much for all the reviews, if you couldn't tell Bruise is my favourite shipping. This is what the story is, but I'm trying to pace it all out but it's difficult. Sorry. Also, the Jaya is in this for a reason. ;) Thank you again for the reviews! I love reading them. I hope you all have a wonderful day!
-Spoon