Tandem Lives

Need to Know

Amist this mess, I'm expected to get to class? I feel weird on the fact that three most significant people in the drama of my high school life won't exist. As they shifted realms, the original one would automatically adjust itself to erase all the storyline of their existence and that's how it works. This would be the best time for me to skip classes, I hate living twice or maybe I just hate this part of my existing.

As I enter my room once I get home, a music of relief spread through me. But it shouldn't be the one that I should be feeling as I scuttered over to Jet in the corner, sitting there graciously staring out at the window like he didn't see me walk up to him. "Hey there, princess." Was that his attempt at being chill with all of this? And was he actually failing at it? Yes.

"Get off my window, snitch. Where's Alex?" I pull him down and he looks up to me in fein hurt as he held up a shining smooth globe of crystal Alexandrite. "Ouch? You still not letting the snitch  thing go? I said am sorry years ago and am saying am sorry now!" he spawned out on my floor. Looks like he lives with me now. My cheeks turn red, so I slap them and he looked up towards the sound. I fill in the weirdness with words, "Well, I was hoping you'd deny it or something. Wait, not hope, I mean I thought you'd lie-" well, my words were out and I side eye the consequence smirking at me as he sits up, "Were you hoping I'd say it was a misunderstanding and I would never do that to you cuz I 'love' you?"

"Shut up!" I throw a couch cushion at him, which he effortlessly grabs and presses down with his elbows to lean forward. "But I did say it was a mistake." he pouted and I avoided looking at him. Yes, I remember that memory. That was the first time Jet had spoken into my head. I remember rushing into the woods without a second thought. I remember asking him about how he could betray everything we lived through. And I remember him.. Crying. I remember how he said he got into an argument and it just slipped out. They were supposedly ridiculing him for having no friends, the Royal gem kids, and he had talked about me all high and mighty, a childish boast that lead to me being taken away from Jade. But currently, even with those memories, I'm not mad. I'm more close to curiosity as to the whole Jade situation.

"You think it's ok, for her to be a-" I point to the shining globe of Alexandrite. "Yea, totally fine, because I'm a null. I can null any realm transfer stuff and since she's a full gem and not a halfling like us, she takes up a convenient form." he smiled a gentle one at the object, the kid. "We probably will have to stay here a while. Safer. The royals can't look for her across the realms. But we gotta occasionally take her in to the gem realm for energy." he fell back like he was exhausted. Like he had to go to school. Ugh, I hit him with a pillow. "What?" he asked annoyed. "Just felt like it. Jealousy." I shrug.

I remember why Jet hated Aqua. A random memory that came along. The day I went to Jet. The day he apologized, I was quick to shrug it away. I was just happy to see him. He hugged me tight when I returned a smile to his apology.

"I'm sorry, I thought you'd never talk to me. I- that was nothing, ok? I don't like you." he stood up to leave and I laughed.

But that was a little before Aqua showed up. Jet and I were just on a little friendly banter when Aqua ran up to us and pushed Jet to the ground. He put an arm around me, and held up his other arm in defense attack stance. He was a lot shorter than me. I was gonna introduce them to each other but for some reason Jet felt threatened. Funny fact was that.. He wasn't threatened threatened, he was threatened of me making other friends. A kid who was bullied, a kid who didn't want new people in his circle to take away what's his, is what he told me. To be frank, I wasn't worth all that friendship and love from Jet's younger self. Well, now he's just a jerk, who I have no chance at deciphering. I wasn't part of the rest of the life he lived. Whose side is he on? It's like he hates the royals who were never really nice to him but he's among them. He hates the rest of the gems naturally with nothing specific against them. He just follows me around like he has no other purpose to fulfill now that Pearl's not controlling his actions. Just listening to Emerald and Jade to tag with me, which was what he was already doing, annoyingly following me around for no apparent reason. Well, now we have one. Protecting my death. Great.

"Have you tried using your powers recently? Heard you had lil bit of training with Jade and Amber, classes with Sapphire, man, life must me hectic." he was half trying to annoy me. But I was exhausted to get into a banter for I wanted know why I am the only existing Amethyst because that must have something to do with why Painite and Jade were on about protecting me. But the odd reference of the 'why's Painite questioned didn't make sense yet. But we all know Jade's hiding something and keeping me safe was not without an ulterior motive. I gotta visit him.

"So, let's get going? We have an ex-boyfriend to bail." he smirked softly in the light of the setting sun through my window. As much as it annoyed me, I was having a crush. Can you blame me? But he- I don't know what he harbours for me. If I wasn't my insecure self, maybe I'd think he likes me too but along with these complications of liking me once and betraying me now, tagging along like I am something he's surveiling as part of a job, I don't know. But worth a shot, "Yes, Mr. Who still wears the bracelets I made for him cuz I was bored and jobless as a kid."

He stood against the window and dropped his head back lazily, unwavered, he proceeded to lift his hand to shuffle his hair. A purposeful move to make his sleeves fall back and reveal shining stones held together by added new threads to the disintegrating old ones on his subtly veined arms. Why did I hold my breath? "What? They make me look hot, adds mystery to my personality, you don't like it?" He flashed his teeth in a grin. Not the sexy dude one, the boyish one, the playful one, the one that makes me weak in the knees. "Ok, let's go." I slap his face away from the window.