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Jay shifted nervously from foot to foot. He had explained to Ashlyn what he wanted to do. She'd looked at him funny and called him a 'dork' but agreed nonetheless.
He swallowed hard as he made his way to the junk yard. The blue eyed boy's head was whirling with thoughts, of what could and probably would go wrong. Heck, he wasn't even sure he could talk to Nya at all! He wanted to. So badly. But he was afraid. But he had to to fix this mess. But she wouldn't answer her phone.
Unfortunately the only way that would get him even close to her was the suicides way.
Go to her actual house and face running into her terrifying brother.
Jay wasn't that crazy.
Was he?
Ok, so he was still debating on going. He actually was planning a way to get there and get out with as little pain as possible. Ashlyn had given him something else to think about now though.
'To keep depression at bay' she said.
The try out's for the team were tomorrow and he wasn't sure if would do it.
His Mom and Dad still had no idea that he'd ridden dragons. He was pretty sure they'd flip and refuse to let him out of the house ever again.
But he wanted to do it. So Badly. The feeling you get from riding on a huge creature in the sky was too amazing to never do again.
But his parents wouldn't ever allow it if he told them.
Jay guiltily decided he wasn't going to tell them.
"After school activity." That was his excuse, he wanted to be an official Dragon Racer.
He already probably lost Nya forever. Dragon Racing wasn't going to be closed off too.
He bit his lip as the trailer loomed in his vision.
"Hi Hon! How was school?"
Jay swallowed, "Erm, uh, great!
I'm gonna be a Dragon Racer tomorrow.
And maybe live to talk to Nya.
Jay decided he might be stretching his goals too high on that one.
It wasn't like he was stalking her. Nope, Nuh-uh. Just um . . . merely observing where she lived. Yah that's it, that sounded less creepy.
Well, it wasn't his fault she was so damn closed off and he found her unbelievably attracting.
Kai muttered under his breath as he hide behind a thick tree. His eyes trailing on the salty red head as she walked further and further into the more nasty part of Ninjago City. He'd wondered more than once by now why she'd live in such a rotten place.
It only made her more interesting to him.
Finally, after a good 20 minute walk she stopped, flipped her fiery hair over her shoulder and walked into one of the worse off houses. It seemed to be bending under its own weight, and creaked dangerously when she slammed the door.
Kai swallowed thickly and gingerly stepped up to the house. What the heck is this? His amber eye narrowed as he noticed her silhouette inside. There was someone else in the house. Kai gaped when he saw the taller silhouette coil back and literally punch the girl. Her body flew out of Kai's view.
He almost bolted in there to demand to know what the hell! He was a bully, true, a regular jerk. But only dealt out physical assault to other guys. He'd never touched a girl like that. His mother would have killed him.
If she was still alive.
He shook out the thought as Skylar came out of the house, head down, slightly wobbly, and her hood pulled over her face.
Kai swallowed, she was probably trying to hide where ever that guy had hit her. He felt his blood boil, his temper slipping out of control. But he couldn't do anything. She barley even tolerated him. What would she think and do if she knew I followed her home.
He ran a hand through his spikes, "Let's she what she does after school." He whispered to himself and proceeded and following her down the cracked sidewalk.
Skylar knew he was there.
She saw him. She just didn't feel like letting him know she knew at the moment. Besides she wasn't all to sure he'd been following her. After all, being in the same place didn't mean he was stalking her. Something in her gut bubbled otherwise.
But she wasn't going to admit that she kind of, maybe, might just like the guy . . . only a little. She couldn't let him know that though, it would boost his ego to infinity. She scoffed, her bright green eyes trailed on him as he stupidly tried to cover up his face with an old magazine. She almost laughed.
Truth be told, she had way to many problems to let anyone get close to her. She didn't need anymore.
"Can I get a lemonade?"
His voice caught her off guard as she looked up from the counter she was polishing in surprise. She saw him standing there with an attempt at a passive look on his face. Like he hadn't been there the entire time.
"Sure." She turned to go make it.
Nobody could ever get near her like that.
"Don't forget the curly straw."
She bit back a smile.
Maybe if anyone could . . . this guy would.
"Here, connect the circuit board." Zane was instructing Pixal on an early Tuesday morning.
They were inside his lab slash room working on Zane's top secret project. Pixal found she couldn't wait until after school so she ran over at least two hours before. The project was to interesting to keep away from and she still didn't really know what Zane planned to do with it. But she was sure it would be brilliant.
"There. Connected." She smiled softly and pushed some stray silver hair out of her face, "How long to you suppose this will take until full completion Zane?"
Zane didn't answer. Pixal turned to see why and found him staring at her in a dazed way. She colored slightly.
"Um... Zane?"
"Huh? Oh, um, until completion, I believe with your assistance it will be done much sooner then I had thought." He smiled at her and pushed back with his feet, rolling backwards in his wheel chair.
Pixal bit her lip as she watched him stretch and turn towards his drawers. She glanced at the clock and saw it was nearly time to go. The silver haired girl fought back a disappointed groan and turned back to Zane, he was busy deciding between two shirts. One was white, the other was . . . white.
She almost laughed at his adorably concentrating face.
"Zane? If you don't mind my asking. What is it that you plan to do with this project once you've finished it?"
Zane picked the white shirt on the left, "Well I plan to get it into mass production in my first year of collage. But first I need some recognition. So if it turns out right I'm going to take it to the Ninjago City Science for Tomorrow competition. It's one of the biggest competitions out there and if I win I can get it patent."
"Oh." Pixal felt a strange feeling of sadness mixed with happiness for him come over her. Sad, because he planned to leave so soon. Happy, because he would accomplish something amazing.
Her slightly mixed emotions weren't lost on Zane, "Don't worry Pixal," He bent to take her hand, "Maybe, if we plan this right," His icy blue eyes connected to hers slowly, "You could come with me."
Pixal forgot how to breath.
"Me? Go with you?" She could hardly compute this idea, "I . . . that would be an honor Zane."
They smiled at each other, warmth surrounding them, both forgetting school would start in less than half an hour.
Jay hated this. The suspense was going to kill him! He waited and waited for that dumb bell to ring. Why wouldn't it ring! He swore somebody had stopped time. I need to get out of here! He was in the same science class with Nya and she hadn't looked his way once. He felt the ice cold shoulder she was giving him from across the room.
I need to get out of here now! Ring dang it! He felt the roof was caving in, breathing was becoming harder, spots were surrounding his eyes, the teachers voice droned on unbearably in his ears. He was going to die!
Riiiiing!
The first one out that door was Jay.
"Took you long enough." Ashlyn jabbed as Jay practically burst into the Dragon stalls. His blue eyes were darting frantically, his hair a mess. he looked like he'd been running from a monster or something.
"Um. Jay? You ok?" The dark haired girl asked, narrowing her eyes as she studied him.
"Yeah, yeah. Just um, I thought school wouldn't end. Ever!" He looked terrified.
Ashlyn almost laughed. Almost. She would have if he hadn't looked so seriously afraid, "Well, it has so . .. um, try out's are gonna start in five, here's Wisp, you wanna ride her right?"
The blue eyed boy nodded, his demeanor more calm now after a few deep breaths.
"Great. Go on now, Garmadon expects your best so give it to him." She paused for a thoughtful moment, "And don't crash, chances are you won't get up like last time."
The boy practically turned pink in embarrassment, "I don't plan to. Crash that is."
She chuckled and punched his shoulder playfully, "Go get 'em Hero."
She saw him straighten in confidence now, grasp the reins and march out into the field to show off his stuff. Ashlyn admired him for that. And to think, the first time she met him she thought he was a hopeless wimp. Maybe he had tougher stuff in him after all. It just took the need for it to bring it out.
The horn blared catching the girls attention. She quickly closed the gates and ran off to the bleachers to watch the try out's. there were at least four boys trying out this semester. Ashlyn was a little disappointed no girls would try out. Oh well. One could always hope right?
"Hey Ash." Cole called her from his seat where he had his bound leg up. She almost skipped to him but restrained herself for reputation reasons.
"Hey." She smiled at him before sitting down.
Cole grinned, "I saw Jay. He's really doing this huh?"
"Yep."
"He looked yellow. You sure he's ok?"
Ashlyn looked confused for a minute, "Nerves Cole. He told me he was ready though."
She turned her amethyst colored eyes towards the field. The wannabe racers lined up. Start off, the maneuver race.
She hoped Jay knew that.
In, out, In. Out. In. Out. Jay steadied his breathing. He was the smallest racer there, it made him feel insignificant. and pushed him more towards hyperventilation mode. Plus, it didn't help that his parents knew nothing about this. What if he got killed doing this? How would they feel when someone told them? Oh hey Mr. and Mrs. Walker? Yeah, you know your son, Jay the moron? Yeah, he got killed trying to fly a dragon!
Oh God, he felt his stomach twist. Don't not puke, do not puke, do not puke. Do NOT puke! His heart stabbed in his rib cage, his body was rigid, he was sure he looked like wreck. Garmadon was studying each racer. The others looked cool and confidant. He felt like a mess.
"Go!"
Jay felt his heart lurched into his stomach. Come on, Come ON! You've done this before, what the heck's wrong with you!
He snapped the reins. Wisp took off. He was airborne once again, and that awesome feeling that replaced all else filled him up. Fear vanished, Jay let out a whoop and pulled the reins to make his dragon go higher. He felt his insides untwist and let him feel amazing.
Wisp turned easily where he wanted her, he even managed to make her do a few air rolls. He forgot he was in a try out and flew in a free pattern. His mind cleared as they went higher, flashing through the clouds, dew drops clung to him, cooling his face. Then, with one snap they were plunging straight down. Jay felt his stomach stay up. He whooped on pure excitement.
Wisp flew faster then pulled up from the ground last second, whipping over the finish line. Jay grinned like crazy as he deftly slowed his dragon to a stop.
It never got any less awesome.
"You did it!"
He saw Ashlyn jumped over the bleacher rail and run towards him, Cole and now Zane, came right after her.
"You were awesome!" Ashlyn threw her arms around him and squeezed, knocking the air out of the boys lungs.
"Th-thanks Ash." He felt his face turn purple, "Can't. Breath!"
"Oops." She let him go.
"Thanks." He wheezed.
They all laughed. Jay's smiled, he felt really good. Much better than he had all day. That is he did, until his blue eyes landed on a figure in the corner behind them.
Jay's heart stopped. His ears zoned everything out as he stared in shock at Nya's hurt look. She was there! He wanted to talk to her. He felt his heart rip when she gave him a disappointed shake of her head.
Then she turned and walked away. Jay wanted to yell after her. Wait, don't go! PLEASE! It's not what you think! I need to talk to you. He did none of those. He just stood there and watched her go. Possibly go out of his life for good.
"Did you hear that!" Cole was saying excitedly.
Jay blinked, "What?" His word came out slowly and without much effort.
"You did it Jay!" Ashlyn was practically bouncing on her toes, "Your a Dragon Racer!"
Why didn't that sent a zap of excitement through him like he thought it would. In fact he didn't feel anything.
He was numb all over. No wait, something, he felt something. His heart hurt.
I'm a Dragon Racer. He thought slowly. I should be happy with that at least.
So why did it hurt instead?