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Chapter 3
Raimundo woke up with Dojo pushing and then pulling his shoulder.
"Come on, Raimundo, wake up! The others are already training and you're late!"
"Hmm… what time is it?" Rai replied with a yawn.
"It's 10:03 am. Come on, get up and get dressed and meet me and the others outside."
Dojo went out of the room, leaving the brazilian alone. '10:03… that means I slept about four hours…' he thought as he got dressed.
"Hey, guys." Raimundo said. He came to meet his friends while they were taking a break.
"Raimundo!" Omi exclaimed happily " We were so worried about you!"
"Feelin' better there, partner?" Clay asked.
"Yeah, much better, thanks."
"Good…" Kimiko replied, turning around. She was still suspicious about where Raimundo went last night, and she was sure it wasn't just a little walk to go get some air. 'He's definitely hiding something… and I'm gonna find out what!'
Master Fung appeared a little later.
"It's time to get back to training, young monks. Raimundo, do you feel well enough to train?"
"Yes, Master Fung. I'm fine."
"Very well then. Choose your weapon…"
"I'll take… the Sword of the Storm."
The monks started to practice, and they spent all morning training.
Jessica Spicer decided that she and her daughter were having lunch at the mall. She gave Jackie six dollars and told her to eat whatever she wanted. The albino teen took the money and headed to "Burger King", while her mother went to buy a plate of italian food for herself. When they both had their meals, they went to a little table in the middle of the place. They started eating in silence, saying nothing to each other, until Jessica broke the silence.
"I bet you already have an idea of who's coming for a visit…"
Jackie nodded and replied, "My father."
"That's right, honey. Harold is paying us a visit. He'll arrive on your birthday's eve and stay for a week.
Jackie spilled the Cola she was drinking and fell from the chair.
"WHAT?" she screamed, still sitting on the floor. She got up and blushed when she realized that everyone in the place was staring at her. Then she grabbed the chair and sat on it again, looking at what remained of her food. She was so shocked she lost her appetite.
"I see I surprised you…""Yeah… a little bit…" Jackie tried to stay cool, although she was starting to feel the big will to scream. All the words that came to her mind were 'A week… A WEEK! HE'S STAYING FOR A WHOLE WEEK!'
Jackie never liked that man. As a matter of fact, she hated him. After all, he's the one who forced her to disguise as a boy. He's the one that leaves her and her mother alone while he takes care of business with other rich companies in other countries. And he never lend her mother some money or letted her go find a job. There were times when Jessica and Jackie almost starved to death. But the worst thing she always remembered about that guy was that whenever he came for a visit, he always locked Jackie in her own room, never letting her out, except for lunch and dinner. She tried to sneak out through the window several times, but she got caught everytime she tried.
"Jackie… Jackie, sweetie, are you feeling alright?" She heard her mother's voice calling.
"Huh?… Oh, yes… I'm fine." She replied.
"Well then. I want to ask you something."
"Yes, what is it?"
"I want you and Harold to get along. Just this time."
"You know that's nearly impossible, right?" Jackie replied.
" But at least try. There's nothing to lose. And it's gonna be your birthday, after all. I just want everyone to be happy…"
Jackie just couldn't refuse when her mother asked something so nicely.
"Oh, alright! I'll try to get along with… but don't get very hopeful, I'm not assuring you that I'll succeed."
"Thank you, honey."
"Say, haven't you noticed anythin' different 'bout Raimundo?" Clay asked the others.
"No. Why do you ask, my friend?" Omi replied.
"Well, I have a feeling his head is somewhere else. He was very distracted during the training, and he's not playing videogames in his break like he's usually does."
"Now that you mentioned it, you're right." Omi agreed. "But maybe he found another hobby."
"I don't think picking up flowers outside is a hobby. And Rai hates to do that." Kimiko finally spoke.
Omi looked at the window and saw the brazilian boy in the backyard, picking up red roses. He could hear him sing and noticed that Raimundo had a big grin across his face.
"Do ya know what this means, little buddy?" Clay asked the young monk.
"Huh…no, not really…" Omi replied, wondering what Clay had in mind.
The cowboy sighed. "It means we have the videogames all for ourselves!"
"Fresh!" Omi exclaimed.
"That's 'cool', Omi" Kimiko corrected.
"Whatever!"
Omi and Clay ran into Raimundo's room, but Kimiko didn't follow them. She got closer to the window and stared at brazilian.
"No way those flowers are for me… I'm sure it has something to do with last night…" she murmured while watching Raimundo now picking up white roses.
Suddenly she started to feel jealousy. What if Rai met another girl last night? And what would she do if he fell in love with that same girl? Even though she never admitted it, Kimiko always had a crush on Raimundo, and she has the feeling that she would die if she lost him.
She had to get answers.
Jackie was starting to feel pissed. Why didn't she look good in any type of cloth? What was wrong? Her hair? Her body?…
"My skin colour?…" she murmured, trying to keep anyone from hearing that. Unfortunately for Jackie, Jessica heard her.
"No, sweetie, it's not because of your skin colour" she said, obviously knowing why her daughter made that question. "It's because of the dresses' colour. Black is what fits you best. Red, black and white go pretty well…"
"So it is because of my skin!"
"Well… just a little bit… but black makes you very elegant. A simple dress would be the best option. It should show your neck and shoulders and cover your thighs, but it shouldn't go under the knees."
With the description her mother gave her, Jackie imagined herself wearing that dress. And she was gorgeous! But still, there was something missing. She tried to figure it out, but she didn't have a clue.
"And you know what? That same dress would match perfectly with some high-heeled shoes." Jessica said.
'That's it! High-heeled shoes! There's my missing link!' she thought to herself. But what kind of shoes should she wear?
Then she spotted a pair that she liked.
"You mean, like those?" she pointed at them.
"Well…yes! Those are perfect!" Jessica replied.
"Hi, Raimundo" Kimiko complimented.
"Gah! Oh, hi Kimiko" Rai replied "How's it going?"
"Yeah, fine… I was just wondering… have you met anyone recently?"
"W-what do you mean?" he asked, feeling nervous.
"Have you met anyone new, like, a new friend?" the Japanese girl questioned.
"Hmmm… no, not really." Raimundo lied. "Why?"
"Are you sure? Are you sure you didn't meet any girl… somewhere… last night?
Raimundo felt even more nervous than before. Could it be that Kimiko followed him when he went to Spicer's house? Was she suspecting something?
'Or am I acting too strangely?' he thought.
"Well?"
"I'm sure. I didn't meet any girl last night."
"Then why are you picking up flowers?"
"B-because… because… because they'll make my room smell better. I thought some roses would do the trick."
Kimiko frowned and then left, heading back to the temple. Raimundo sighed with relief.
"I've gotta be more careful. Especially with Kimiko. She's obviously suspecting something" he murmured while picking yellow roses.
"Damn!" Jessica yelled. "Fifteen stores and we didn't find the dress we were looking for!"
"Mom, just chill. We can come back tomorrow. At least we already have a pair of shoes."
"Yes, I guess you're right… but still, it infuriates me!"
Jackie had the will to laugh. She always thought her mother was funny, even when she was mad about something. When she finally managed to calm her mother down, Jessica suddenly needed to go to the bathroom.
"Oh, I have to go now, sweetie. Nature's calling."
"Okay. I'll be waiting here" the goth replied.
The young woman headed to the bathroom, leaving Jackie alone. While she waited, the redhead stood in front of a goldsmith store, staring at it's shopwindow. Since it was next to the hallway that led to the bathrooms, her mother would quickly find her.
She looked at everything. Watches, bracelets, necklaces, earrings… until she found something that really caught her attention. A ring. But not just any ring. It was a wedding ring. Just looking at it marvelled her. It was made in gold, with a little diamond attached to it.
Jackie was so busy staring at the ring that she didn't notice someone approaching her from behind. When the girl stopped looking at the golden object, she heard someone breathing behind her. Slowly, the albino teen slightly turned her head to the right, peering from the corner of her eye. She didn't see much, but she could tell that that person was a man. A man with long black hair.
She discretely grabbed the collar and put it around her neck. Then she quickly turned around, facing the man and quickly recognizing him. He was a deal taller than her , had long black hair and his eyes were yellow and reptile like.
"Hello, Spicer" the man greeted.
"Chase…" Jackie replied, surprised. Her voice was now sounding like a boy's. "What are you doing here?"
The dragon lord gave the disguised girl an evil smirk. "Oh, just walking around, watching some movies and… looking at young teenage girls staring at wedding rings…"
"W-what?" Jackie was astonished. How in bloody hell did Chase find out that she was a girl disguised as a boy? "How… how did you…"
"Discover your true identity?" the man finished the sentence. "Didn't your father tell you? He gave me an invitation to your birthday party."
"I… I don't believe you…"
" Oh, believe me, Jack… or should I call you Jacqueline?"
That one hit her hard. Chase not only knew she was actually a girl, but he also knew her real name? What the hell was happening?
Suddenly, she felt something coming out of her pocket.
"Changing Chopsticks!" Wuya called, and the Wu made her grow into her original ghostly size. She turned to Chase with a wicked smile on her mask.
"So, you also received an invitation. You know, Jackie's father promised me that I could have my human body back, but only for that night. So I was thinking… how about we dance together at the party? I would love that…"
Chase gave the witch a cold grin.
"Hum… have you been in my pocket this whole time?" the goth asked but Wuya just ignored her.
"So, what do you say? We have a deal?" she asked the dragon lord.
"Maybe on the second dance, but I have the first one reserved for another person" he replied.
Wuya frowned in outrage. "What? Are you rejecting me?"
"No, I'm just refusing to dance the first dance with you. I already reserved the first one for another young lady."
"Oh, really?…" Wuya asked in an irritated tone "And who might that 'young lady' be?"
"None other than the birthday girl." Chase answered, giving Jackie a quick glance. "Now, if you don't mind, I would require to be alone with Jacqueline."
The purple ghost gave another frown. "Fine! Who needs you! I'll just go scare some kids at the toy store…"
Jackie watched as Wuya went away. "Was she serious?…"
"Just ignore her. Scaring young children has been quite an entertainment for her since she turned into a ghost. But she does it mostly when she is angry…"
Jackie turned to him with a confused expression. "What's going on with you? Normally you would insult me and treat me like garbage, but instead you're treating me like if I was the most important person in the world! Why is that?"
Chase stared at her for a while, until he finally spoke. "That's because you are the most important person in the world."
"Come again?"
"For now, that's all I can tell you, Jacqueline…"
"Fine. But I have two thing that I need you to do." Jackie replied.
Curious about what the goth was going to ask him, the dragon lord arched his eyebrows, like if he was asking the girl to continue.
And so she did.
"First, I want you to call me Jackie. Jacqueline is kinda cliché."
"Of course, Jackie" Chase said, sounding like if he was the girls servant.
"And the second thing is… I want you to keep the secret. When we meet at showdowns or other occasions with other people around, I want you to treat me as you always did. By the name of Spicer (sometimes, if you prefer, you can call me Jack) and as a simple, useless insect that's always bugging you."
"And what if I don't keep it?" the dragon lord replied, giving the younger girl a challenging grin.
What Jackie did next really surprised him. She laid her hands on her hips and also gave him a daring smirk. The Heylin warrior felt suddenly attracted to that girl and that wicked smile of hers.
"Because, Chase Young," she started "if you don't, I guess you'll have to find another girl to dance the first dance at the party. Wuya's interested…"
Chase was starting to get annoyed. He never expected such an answer from the teen. But what surprised him most was her attitude. She showed no fear. He always knew Jack Spicer as a clumsy, coward and annoying boy. That sudden change in 'his/her' behavior made it look like it wasn't Spicer who was talking, but some kind of impostor.
But it really looked like Spicer. His clothes, his skin as white as snow and his eyes and hair as red as blood… and his voice. How did that girl manage to change her voice into a boy's?
Chase looks at her body in search of an answer to that question, and he spots a black collar around her neck. He narrowed his eyes and slowly drew closer, pinning the girl to the glass of the shopwindow, and his hands reached for her neck.
Jackie was so shocked with the man's reaction she froze. Her brain was telling her to kick that pervert in the balls, but her body refused to do so. Before she knew it, the dragon lord's gloved hands removed the collar from her neck.
The albino girl opened her eyes to look at Chase. She never noticed she had closed them in first place. She stared at the older man's golden pupils, and this time she was afraid.
"Ahh… now that's an expression I recognize in you." Chase said in an amused tone, hiding Spicer's collar behind his back. "Tell you what, Jackie, I want to hear your real voice. If I like it, we have a deal. But if I don't, I guess I'll keep your little invention. I might need it someday…"
Jackie felt afraid, but furious at the same time. The man wasn't stealing from her, but it almost felt like it. Still, she knew that she couldn't do anything about it. All she could do was talk and hope that Chase liked her voice.
"That's no problem. I can build another one. Those are easy to make." she replied in her female tone.
Young arched his eyebrows again, but he only did it to scare the youth. He didn't like her voice. He loved it. The albino's voice had changed into a young woman's, and it was quite nice to hear it.
"Hmm… very well. We have a deal." he said, giving the collar back.
Jackie took the collar and gave Chase a surprised glance. The only reply she received from him was a smile. The Heylin warrior gave her a smirk before he disappeared.
After he left, Spicer sighed in relief. Although she felt Chase was acting kinda weird, she didn't want to think about it.
That's when she feels a hand on her shoulder and turns around. It was her mother.
"Man, what took you so long?
"Sorry, sweetie. I found an old friend of mine and we started talking. And we talked, and we talked and we just couldn't stop and… you know…"
"Yeah, I get it…"
"But why didn't you go inside? You could have talked with us for a little while, instead of staying here waiting for a lifetime…"
"Don't worry, I also found an old friend. We had a little chat and then he left." The redhead replied.
"Oh. Okay then. Let's go home. It's starting to get dark."
The two young women started walking towards the mall's exit and Jackie felt something slipping into her pocket. She didn't freak out, though. She knew it was Wuya.
Training time was over and Master Fung told the monks to go take a shower and have a break until dinner was ready. Raimundo was the first one to shower. After he was clean and dressed, he headed to his room. Since there were no Sheng-Gong-Wu going active, he spent the whole afternoon training. He so needed to rest! He decided that he would lie down till dinner time. And he did! He would have fallen asleep if he didn't turn his face to the right and notice the bouquet of roses on the little table next to his bed.
He grabbed it and stared at the mix of colors of the petals. The way the colors were mixed kinda made the bouquet look weird. What could he do to make it better? He couldn't give it to Jackie in these conditions.
"Wait a minute… that's it!" he spoke to himself. Then he started changing the roses places in the little complex.
By the time he finished his little peace of art, Dojo was calling for him. Dinner was ready.
During the meal, Kimiko paid a lot of atention on Raimundo, but he barely said a word. Most of the time he was looking out the window, like if he was anxious about something. This was making Kimiko feel even more nervous. She was sure Raimundo was anxious to go meet his new lover again.
Jackie and her mother ate raviolis for dinner and had some ice-cream for dessert. Jessica couldn't stop noticing that her daughter was often looking out the window. She quickly understood that the girl was anxious about something, but she didn't dare to ask.
'After all, she is a teenager…' she thought, remembering the secrets she had when she was of Jackie's age. There were those times when she bought loads of candy at school without her mother knowing, or when she participated in a food fight… she even remebered that she was Jackie's age when she had her first boyfriend.
She suddenly stopped looking at the past and came back to the present. Now a question messed around in her head. 'Can it be that Jackie's in love with someone?'
Still, she wasn't going to ask the girl.
Dinner was finished, and Rai immediately started doing his chores. He had a lot of them, and he was sure that when he finished those, the other monks would already be asleep. And he was right. When he finally managed to finish his chores, everyone was in bed. Now he could sneak out without having to worry about being seen.
But then he remembered two things. One. The bouquet. Two. Kimiko. He had to go get the flowers and find a way to trick Kimiko into thinking that he was in bed. He entered his own room, grabbed some pillows and putted them under the sheets, then he grabbed his favorite teddy bear and used it to pretend it was his head with the face turned to the window.
After that he grabbed the flowers and left.
"Get ready, Jackie Spicer, cuz Raimundo is on his way."
After dinner Jackie took a quick shower and prepared for Raimundo's visit. She didn't change much, though. She only putted on some perfume and the only make-up she used was her usual eyeliner. Of course, this time she wasn't wearing the wig. Raimundo already knew about it, so it wasn't needed.
Although Jessica noticed Jackie getting ready for something, she pretended she didn't. Something told her that the right thing to do was ignore her daughter's change of behavior.
Hours passed and it was time for them to go to bed. Jessie immediately fell asleep, but Jackie didn't even dare to sit on her bed, afraid of falling asleep too. Instead, she stood by the huge window, waiting for Raimundo.
Minutes looked like hours, and Jackie was starting to think that Rai wasn't coming.
Suddenly, a little rock hit the window's glass. The teen quickly opened the window and came out to the little veranda. When she looked down at the person that threw the stone, a huge smile of happiness formed on her face.
It was Raimundo.
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