*this is the second chapter of JADED*
-chapter 2-
Sierra Vista Southeast , Arizona
Julia has just finished doing research for another plant that she would add in the forest in her own lab. She felt exhausted, but she was happy since her new research about the new plant was in 89% success. She couldn't stand to finish it as soon as possible. She went to her office in order to relax her body and looked the forest's scenery from the window of her office. By the time Julia sat in her chair in front of her computer and laid her back into it, she looked on mom and herself photograph which placed next to her computer. The expression on their face was very happy and excited, made funny face on the top of the canyon. Suddenly, she smiled and murmured on herself when she took the photograph in her hands.
"Tonight will be your last time as an eagle fairy. Next full moon you'll be with me forever, I miss you Mom…" murmured Julia then kissed the photograph.
Within few second, the door of Julia's room was open by the most entertaining person for her, right now. The man who opened the door was in a bit rush brought some junk food for them to eat. Julia took a look on him and started a little laugh.
"Wohooo…. relax, Max. The world won't end today." said Julia got up from her seat and helped her mates to put all of the food that he brought on her table.
"No problem, Lady. I can do this by my hands. All you have to do is just sitting and then eating this stuff to recharge your ammunition." replied Max in her cheery tone then put all the food that he brought on the table, in front of Julia.
"Ok and let's eating together than. I know you have wasted your energy for such unimportant person like me, thank you Sir!" said Julia with a bit laugh.
"I have told you that you are not unimportant person for me, so don't try to repeat trashy words again. Ok, time to eat, buddy!" added Max ready with big mac hamburger in his hands. Julia was laugh loudly and she began to eat with her crazy friend. Both of them had their lunch. They also talked about their band practice schedule. Suddenly, Max's cell phone vibrated. There was a messages came into his cell phone and he read by the time he finished his lunch.
"Uh…..Jules?" said Max without seconds.
"Yeah?" replied Julia.
"I…um…I have to go after I finished my lunch and clean it up." said Max again after he ate his last burger on his hand.
"Huh? Where? How about our band practice?" asked Julia in a bit worried.
"Oh, I will come to the studio for practice, of course. But now I have something important to do. I will not be late to come to our bands practice, swear." said Max in humorous tone but he was serious.
"Well…alright then, just don't be late!" replied Julia with smile.
"Of course Miss Punctual! See ya!' said Max already went out from Julia's office.
Julia began to finish her lunch and clean the wrapping paper of the burger. In the middle she threw the draff, someone was come into her office and greeted her amusingly.
"Good afternoon, Ms. Chang!" greeted the woman who white doctor coat and glasses.
"Oh yeah, good after….noon….Zafina!" said Julia in surprised and wide smile then she came along into her best mate.
"Hell yeah, Jules errr Miss Beautiful Rockstar Scientist…" teased Zafina with big hug to Julia.
"My Goodness, don't say sort of freak words like that." replied Julia in light laugh.
"No way, you are! By the way, can I sit in here?" said Zafina started to chat and pointed one side of the dark brown velvet couch across to Julia's table.
"Sure! Why not? Sorry for being so rude, then." replied Julia then accompanied Zafina to sit on the couch. Before they started to chat, Julia offered a cup of cappuccino to Zafina then immediately made it after Zafina said she loved the sweet ones. When Julia came back with two cups of cappuccino, they began to talk.
"So, what bring you here and by the way, how do you know my new labs and office?" said Julia then sipped her cappuccino.
"I have my third eye, Julie baby. And a little bit luck from the owner of the club where you played your music 3 days ago. He gave me your guitarist's phone number then I asked about you to him." replied Zafina in cheery tone continued by Julia's giggle.
"Then, what kind of conversation that you want to have with me?" asked Julia again.
"I have two kinds of conversation for you. First is about your incredible forest there. I want to make…umm…kind of animal conservation and I offer you to be my partner. So I provide the animals and you, if you don't mind, lend a half or a quarter of your forest to be the place for living of the animals…But that still continues with your permission, of course…" explained Zafina in quite long details then sipped his cappuccino.
"That sounds very nice, surely I don't mind as long as I can see some of unique buffalos on your animal conservation." replied Julia in very happy and full of interest tone.
"Of course you can! So, may I borrow your land?" said Julia and then asked for her permission again.
"My goodness, Zafina…You can always do anything what you want in here if you want to know. Even if you want to have jogging or sunbathing in here." said Julia with sort of jokes.
"Nah, where did you learn to make jokes then?" replied Zafina with loud laugh.
"Almost from people that I have met." said Julia again with her laugh.
"Well, thanks for the permission to use your forest Julia Chang." Said Zafina with smile and tried to make cheers with the cup.
"Yup, don't mention it." said Julia with the cheers on his cup too.
After they made cappuccino cheers, Julia began to ask another question about Zafina's arrival to her new labs and office.
"Then, another talk?" asked Julia in sudden.
"Ow….Umm, yeah…Bout that….I mean…." said Zafina in stammer.
"Yeah?" continued Julia with curious sight and light smile.
"Um…but promise me you won't angry or maybe switch to another topic when I talk about this." ssked Zafina in careful tone.
"Uh-huh…then what is that? You have just engaged with Hwoarang?" asked Julia added another joke then lay on the couch.
"Oh ok, I will not talk to you again if you keep joking all the time!" said Zafina in annoying tone and wave her right palm in front of them.
"Allllrrriight! Then just talk." replied Julia in laugh.
"Ummm…may I know why you seem hate to talk about…Jin?" asked Zafina in quiet seroious and curious tone.
Suddenly Julia's laugh was stopped and her face turned quite ignorant. She seemed very lazy to answer Zafina's question. She took long enough time to make her answer. Then finally she answered it in serious tone.
"Well…I don't expect you will ask about that. Do I have to answer it or…" said Julia in slow intonation.
"In detail. Please Julia, please. I want to know why because I will explain some facts that you perhaps didn't know yet." interrupted Zafina and begged Julia.
Once again, Julia seemed very hard to say what was her reason didn't want to talk about Jin. She thought that if she talked about this, it just the same like she would open her old heart wound. Actually she didn't want to be hurt anymore, but since the person whom asked her question about Jin was her very best friend, Julia might trust Zafina to share about her wound.
"The answer is….I don't want to make my life more messed and build another problem…" said Julia carefully.
"With?" asked Zafina in curious tone.
"Xiaoyou." replied Julia after took quite long second to answer Zafina's question.
"Xiaoyou? Ling Xiaoyou? Oh...well…what is her business in this case?" said Zafina continued with question with quite serious and curious face.
"She had helped me to find my missing pendant to save the entire of Mishima who are controlled by the devil-gene." answered Julia in half daydreaming.
"And then? I mean…why do you have to worry about that? She didn't do anything after that, right?" asked Zafina still in confused.
"She did, Zaf. After she gave me the pendant, she asked me to avoid Jin as hard as I can. She even didn't want to see me anymore in around her and Jin!" replied Julia in very serious tone.
"What? What the…tsk…avoid? Want you to leave? What kind of impolite request is that?" asked Zafina in a tone of disbelief.
"I didn't know why she asked like that. She seemed afraid that Jin would be in love with me and vice versa…"said Julia again.
"So you didn't?" asked Zafina in a bit shock.
"What do you mean?" said Julia in half ask.
"You never love Jin? For this very long time you never love Jin?" asked Zafina in curious and disbelief.
Being shot with this question, Julia felt very confused to answer. She didn't want anyone to know that she once had crush or maybe love on Jin. She wanted to keep it alone because she knew that impossible for her to get him.
"I never say that I hate or never love him. I just think that he is….quite good…person. Just that!" said Julia carefully.
Zafina was completely confused with Julia's words. She thought that Julia loved Jin based on Hwoarang's info. While Julia turned her back immediately from Zafina's critical sight, suddenly Zafina caught that Julia said dishonest things. She saw that Julia was act awkwardly. Zafina smiled very lightly and continued to ask for leave and waited Julia's confession about her feeling to Jin.
"Alright, fine. I don't want to bring you in complicated situation and I will end this now. Thanks for your time today, thanks for your cooperation, and see ya." said Zafina in friendly tone while approached Julia to say good bye.
"Yeah, me too…." replied Julia in a bit frustrated tone then accompanied Zafina to ther car.
"But I'm ready when you want to confess anything about that, Jules." said Zafina again while she entered and closed her car's door.
When Zafina had just gone, Julia was being disturbed by her heart voice. She crossed her arms then began to ask why she remembered about that feeling to Jin again. She had decided to forget and buried that deeply in her heart because of a promise to her best friend, at that time. A promise to avoid Jin and let her best friend had "happy ending" with Jin, a man whom she loved badly.
"It was over, and I have to move on. Yeah, move on and never let them beat me again." murmured Julia while she entered her own lab and prepared to go to the studio for practicing in band. She felt that she would trap in long and tired day.
Tokyo, Japan
Jin was in his restless slept. He had the dream about Julia again that night. But his dream about Julia was different with the previous nights. This time, he could reach her hand and tried to talk to her.
"Wait Julia, wait. I wanna talk to you, please stop walking." begged Jin to Julia on his dream. When he said that, Julia still didn't care about his words and kept on walking went through the forest to the shore of beach which is located in the end of the forest. Jin tried to beg once again then finally he could reach Julia's hand by the time he caught her wrist into his arms.
"Please stop walking in fast movement, Julia. I need to talk to you. Please…" said Jin in deep and hopeful tone. Julia still didn't care about him indeed saw to another sight.
"Why do you just keep avoiding me? I really want to talk to you a lot Julia. You even never want to face me. Do you mind to tell me your reason?" asked Jin in pitiful face.
For now, Julia faced him then said some words in deep hurt.
"You really want to know?" asked Julia then followed by nodding of Jin's head.
"I totally hate you! Got it? Now let me go!" said Julia in deep hurt tone then pulled herself away from Jin. She kept on walking but Jin followed her to get an honest answer from her mouth.
"No way, you lie. Tell me the true reason, Julia. Hey, I'm talking to you. Wait! Julia!" said Jin in quite high tone but Julia kept on walking.
Suddenly, Jin woke up with sweat in his entire body. His breath was puffy and his mind was terribly messy. He looked to the clock on the desk on his left side and the time showed that was 4 a.m. He opened the second drawer from the top and put the eagle's tail necklace which has maroon color at the bottom of the tail. Jin held it and began to walk to the balcony of his bedroom and began to murmur to himself.
"Where are you, Julia. I really want to meet you. So many words that I want to say to you." asked Jin to himself and put his clench in his face with the necklace in his hands.
When the time was already 5 o'clock in the morning, Jin wanted to start his training. He put back the eagle's tail necklace to the drawer and changed his pajama with his training clothes. After he changed his clothes, he went to the dojo and started his training. In the middle of his training, Jin kept thinking about Julia. Every time he moved his body, he saw her face in blank stare seemed no hope appeared in her face. When he wanted to kicked the sand sack in front of him, Jin saw her face again. He was in terrible frustrated then kick it hardly and screamed loudly. He stood in panting breath and beat the sand sack in hard punch.
"You have juts dreamt about her again, haven't you?" said a person who were approaching Jin with deep wise tone in the dojo.
"What do you know and what do you want?" replied Jin madly to the man who approached him.
"Your mom also dreamt about the two Indian women again in the full moon. And you are supposed to dream the young Indian woman, aren't you?" asked the man who is Jin's father, Kazuya.
"You don't know anything about her or even about me. Leave me alone!" yelled Jin in frustrated tone.
"Hey, son…." replied Kazuya but being interrupted.
"Don't call me "son"! I'm not your son, jerk!" yelled Jin again.
"You do and let me finish my sentence, just short. Can I?" asked Kazuya in serious face. Jin took long second before he replied his father request.
"Go on then, but make it fast." replied Jin without looked on his father's face.
"Alright, I'll make it short. If you want to find her immediately, I can help you. I have to option for you to choose; first, with my own squad and second with canceling your engagement plan with Ling if you asking me to do that." said Kazuya in calm and serious voice.
"What? Engagement? Tsk…what the…fuckin' engagement that I have to do? I even don't know about….." continued Jin with confused and anger.
"Of course you don't know about that because you great grandpa hasn't told you about this. He planed to tell you about the engagement today, in this evening." replied Kazuya again. Jin began to punch the sand sack harder and yelled in deep frustration.
"That's why I offer you the second option in order to delay the plan. I don't want you to lose the chance to find your beloved person. Losing something important is hurt deeply." continued Kazuya in half daydreaming as he looked through out the dojo.
"Huh, what do you know about losing? You even don't know about the meaning of losing!"
"I did, Jin. Six times losing important things in my life were enough for me, losing my mom, my great grandpa for awhile, my life, your mom, and you. Now I don't want my son losing his important person, because I know that is hurt. So think back about the options that I given to you and make sure you don't choose a wrong option." said Kazuya and left the dojo. In the middle of Kazuya left the dojo, Jin was thinking about his father option. If Hwoarang had found Julia's address while his father tried to negotiate about his engagement plan with his great grandpa, it would take enough time to talk with Julia and perhaps he could say his feeling to her. This time, he really hoped with what Kazuya had said.
"Hey…dad….I want you to do the second option. I have ordered my best partner to search Julia's place. Would you please….do the second option for me?" asked Jin with a million hopes. Kazuya was shocked but happy that finally Jin called him with the word "dad". Suddenly Kazuya stopped his footsteps and smiled lightly. Then he turned his back to his son.
"Alright….." replied Kazuya shortly.
"And I hope you won't lie!" said Jin in quite loud voice with very light smile.
"Sure." replied Kazuya again then continued to leave the dojo.
-end of chapter 2-
I hope you all enjoy this chapter,,again critics and reviews are very ACEEPTED! and sorry for the grammatical mistakes because English is not my first language...see ya on chatper 3