Transgender Jay : A Ninjago Story

40 - Secret No More

(Warning. This chapter contains bad language.)

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"Everybody here?" Lloyd asked, looking around the table in the dining room as he carried the last plates through.

"Other than Kai and Nya, yes." Zane replied.

Speak of the devil, Nya walked moodily through the doorway, lazily dressed in a red dressing gown.

"Kai doesn't want any food." She sighed.

"He tell you that? Or did he just ignore you?" Cole asked, almost smiling.

"Actually he threw a pillow at me the moment I opened the door and told me to f*ck off, but you know."

"Damn. What happened to him?"

Jay scratched his head looking guilty.

"Ahh, that might've been me."

Cole almost leaped out of his seat.

"What? Did you punch him again?!"

"No! I didn't! I just, I had an in depth talk to him about trans stuff. I think I might've proven him just a little bit too wrong, and, well, he's never taken that well." He explained, and Cole sunk back into his seat, mildly disappointed.

"Ah. That makes a lot of sense." Zane added, and then froze up, tapping his fingers together nervously.

"... uhm... Why does that make sense?"

The struggle on Zane's face was visible, before his mouth opened of its own accord and answered the question.

"Kai was crying in our room earlier."

The room fell pretty quiet, the only sound being Zane's repeated tapping.

"... I shouldn't have said that."

"... it's not your fault, you can't lie Zane." Jay added.

"Yeah, uhm, for Zane's sake, shall we all pretend that he never said it?" Cole followed up, and there was a mutual nod of agreement. Zane looked slightly relieved, and Lloyd placed down the last plates of the soup he made.

"Part of the thanks goes to Cole, he went out and bought all the stuff I used, so, thank you Cole." He said, finally sitting down and resting his legs.

The regular thankyous were exchanged, and people began to eat.

"Wow Lloyd, this is actually really good!" Nya smiled, tucking in enthusiastically.

"Oh, so you expected it to be bad?"

"What? No! It was a compliment!"

"Just teasing you."

Small talk was kept up, making sure the room never suffered any tension or comfort throughout the meal. It was a very nice change from the regular atmosphere of late.

After everybody finished up, Zane offered to do the washing up, and Nya stayed in the kitchen for a little while longer to keep him company.

The rest of the group went to the bridge together, lacking anything else to do at that moment.

The evening was in full bloom, and the magnificent sunset could be seen through the windows. It was a nice place to sit and talk.

Cole started speaking as soon as the three had all sunk into a seat.

"... so... you talked to Kai? About, stuff?" He asked, and Jay nodded.

"Yeah. I actually seemed to get though to him a bit."