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Chapter Two: Secrets and Promises
A/N: hello! Here's the next chapter! Please tell me what you think! Please! Oh, and I've decided to change the story summary because I was reading it, and I thought it didn't really match the story line. Fear not, tis till the same story I stared though.
"We've all got both light and dark inside if us. What matters is the part we chose to act on, that's who we really are." -Sirius Black
The next morning Antonio was up before dawn to go fishing. He got dressed silently and grabbed a couple of granola bars from the kitchen. He tiptoed into Lauren's room and gave her a goodbye kiss on the forehead, before silently leaving the house. He grabbed his fishing supplies and headed down to the docks.
It was still an hour or so before sunrise, so there weren't many people around. He got to the docks and found a few fishermen already arriving. He found a good spot to fish and got work preparing his fishing poles. He a baited them with smaller fish he'd caught the day before and cast his line. He sat back and munched on his granola bar while he thought about the precious night.
It wasn't uncommon for Lauren to check on him in the middle of the night. But it was uncommon for both Lauren and Jayden to come into his room in the middle of the night. "Weird," he muttered. "I wonder what happened?" He shrugged. He could ask them later...and then ask them again when the red rangers lied.
-Light and Dark-
A few hours later Jayden woke up and got dressed. The rest of his night has been pleasantly uneventful. No more dreams of darkness or finding Antonio's corpse. He shivered at the thought. Crazy, he decided. He decided to skip breakfast and found Lauren in the yard. "Not hungry?" he asked.
She shook her head. "No. Jayden..." she said carefully. "Did you...have any strange dreams last night?"
"No!" He said quickly thinking Lauren had seen him last night. "I mean...no. Why do you ask?"
"No reason," she said casually. "Just curious."
"Ok," Jayden said, his suspicion rising.
-Light and Dark-
Later that day Antonio returned to the house. He found Jayden training in the yard, where he usually was. "Ahola Amigo."
"Hey Antonio," Jayden said. He noticed the gold ranger looked a little tired. "Are you ok?"
"Yeah," Antonio said. "I'm fine."
"Oh. You just look tired."
"Well, a certain fire samurai did wake me up in the middle of the night, as did his sister."
"Sorry about that," Jayden replied. "Wait Lauren came into you room too?"
"Yeah. She woke me up a few minutes after you left."
"What did she say?"
"Not much. Just that she wanted to check on me. That's what you were doing, right?"
"What?"
"You came in to check on me, right?"
"Yeah," Jayden said honestly. "I had this dream and...well it's not important."
"It's just a dream, amigo," Antonio said. "It's just a dream."
"I know," Jayden said. But he didn't t believe it. Antonio stared out at nothing. He wanted to know his best friend's dream had been about.
"What was your dream about?"
"Nothing," Jayden said. "It was nothing."
"Sure doesn't sound like nothing."
"If there's something wrong I'll let you know."
"Sure you will," Antonio said rolling his eyes. "Just promise me something."
"Depends on what it is," Jayden answered giving him a suspicious look.
"Promise me that if theses dreams continue, you'll tell me."
Jayden smiled. "Alright. I promise."
"Ok then," Antonio declared. "Now that that's taken care of, I have to go see mí amor. Adios."
"Adios," Jayden said. Antonio got up and went into the house. Jayden smiled to himself, shaking his head. His amusement didn't last long though as he thought over his newly made promise. "What I am suppose to tell him?" the red ranger muttered to himself. "I had a dream where the world was filled with darkness and I was holding your corpse in my arms?"
He could imagine that wouldn't go over very well. "It's not like I have to tell him," he said aloud. "Besides, it'll probably never happen again. And if is does, it's not like I have to tell anyone."
Little did he know Antonio had needed to run back and grab something from his cart. He stood just inside the doorway frozen in his tracks. "Hey," Kevin said seeing him. "You ok?"
Antonio snapped out of this daze. "Uh...yeah. I'm fine. I just...never mind." He brushed past the confused blue ranger and went to his room. He closed the door quickly, his mind spinning. What is Jayden talking about? He was in the dark and I was...I was dead?! He sat down on his bed slowly. It's probably nothing, he thought. "Dreams don't just...they don't tell the future. It's not possible." And yet he knew it was.