Ninjago High School

Ch. 78 Dancing Kisses

(Meadow's POV)

I had called Mathew to take Luna and Timber home.

"What exactly are you doing here?" Mathew had said. I shrugged while putting Timber in the car with Luna.

"I'm not sure. Lloyd's the one who had brought us here." I simply said.

After he had left the driveway, I re-entered the building again. Tylor was there already waiting for me. He led me to another room where everyone else was.

"Well, it was.....interesting to be here with you and your friends. But it's getting late for us and we need to get going. We'll be at the bounty when you get back." Tylor said before leaving.

Midnight and Morro went with him.

"What exactly are we doing, Lloyd?" Crystal asked him.

"Uh, well, with the showcase coming up, I wanted you guys to add a little something to our performance. Supposedly you can get more points if you add dancing, so...." Lloyd ended before our instructor came out. It was no other than Mr. Brookstone, Cole's father. He was getting ready for this session.

"Oh no...." I heard Cole mumble. I went over to him.

"I-it's going to be fine, Cole. If you're ready to talk about it now......" I didn't finish my sentence, he just nodded.

He grabbed me by my wrist and pulled me out of the room, far away from it into a storage area. He looked around the hall out of the door to make sure that no one was watching. He sighed and closed the door.

"I don't want to dance because my dad has to point out every little thing that I do wrong. He says good to the rest and bad to me. I don't want to be a royal blacksmith. Just a boy who saves Ninjago as a ninja." Tears were picking his eyes. He must have kept this inside him for a long time.

I looked at his dangling arm and slipped my hand into place with his fingers loosely, and looked straight into his clouded eyes.

"I'll be here to support you no matter what your dad says about you or your dreams." He stayed there shocked. He tightened his grip on my hand. I blushed.

I was about to turn around with him holding my hand, but he spun me around and kissed my cheek. It lasted a few seconds. He was blushing a lot more now.

I blushed as well and held up a hand to my cheek.

"W-what was that f-for....?" I stuttered.

"I-I just wanted to thank you for everything you've done and just being there for me. You're like a little sister to me, even you're Zane's. I just want you to know that if you need any help, need an opinion, or just someone to talk to, I'll be here. I know this sounds weird and I'm pretty sure that you don't care about my feelings, but I just wanted to get it off my chest." He was still blushing a lot. I hugged him.

"Of course your feelings matter to me! What kind of person would I be if I didn't think so?" I smiled and looked up at him.

He hugged back.

"Maybe now is a good time to get back. We've been here long enough." I pointed out.

When we did get back, Cole's dad was barely getting started with stretches. We just sat down next to each other and joined.

"Where were you guys?" Clare whispered to me as we stretched. I had to come up with something quickly.

"Uh, I needed help finding the restroom." I lied. She just shrugged.

Well we didn't do much that day, which was good for Cole, all we did were small, beginning moves to help along with us later on.

But it was really late now, and we were tired. So we just headed back to the bounty.

Hopefully Cole will one day talk about his pains.