It's Complicated

The First Argument

Jay POV

Everything seemed to run smoother now that I had told my friends. It was like I had broken the cage and became free from it. I had no idea about the chains that surrounded me emotionally and mentally until after I told them. When I came home that night, I cried tears of happiness. I was finally so relieved.

Some things changed while others didn't. I met up with everyone after their school days ended almost everyday. I still did homeschooling. I came back into the light as the Blue Ninja, which made Libbie and Cliff really nervous. It wasn't that they didn't trust me, and I knew that. I knew that they were scared for me. Scared that they would lose me just as quickly as they got me back.

I had been receiving messages from who I am assuming was Nadakhan and Morro. That was the one thing that I didn't tell anyone. They started showing up on my phone after I reunited with them a couple of weeks ago. I didn't want them to worry. I didn't want any of them to worry. So, I didn't tell them. I didn't say I was going to keep secrets anymore, right? I still felt incredibly guilty for my habit. 

"Jay? You okay?" Cole said as he threw his arm around me. 

"Why wouldn't I be?" I asked as I punched his arm before going to hold Nya's hand.

"I don't know. You just seem... Oh I don't know. Distant?" Cole asked, whether to me or to himself I didn't know. 

I couldn't help but sigh to myself. Cole and I were practically the same person at this point. I stopped going over to Nya and Kai's house as much and started hanging out more with him. He was becoming very observant over the things that I did. He seemed to always be able to pin point my mood. I was able to do the same for him.

"Yeah, I'm fine. I think I just have my head in the clouds today." I reassured as I listened to Kai rant about something stupid I am sure. 

It was in fact something stupid. Apparently, Kai got morning detention for something that he did, and then Ray grounded him from seeing Skylor because he thought that would teach him a lesson. Really, I think it is just that he doesn't like Skylor at all. He doesn't like me very much anymore either, but I kept that to myself. Nya didn't need to know that I wasn't getting along with her Father anymore. 

It was the main reason I stopped hanging around their house so much. Ray terrified me with a passion. He didn't understand how Nya could get back together with me after I broke her heart, and I couldn't help but agree with that understanding. It didn't make sense, but I still loved her. Maya loved me just the same. Our reasoning is that I just snapped under the pressure of finding out I was adopted. She was quick to understand the kind of stress that I must have been under, so I was very quickly forgiven. It wasn't a complete lie, but it wasn't safe to tell the truth either. Ray didn't buy it at all, and Kai and I both decided that we wouldn't tell Nya that.

"I for one think that you deserve it. Well, not the punishment. I think it is stupid to be banned from seeing someone." Zane said as he thought to his own girlfriend, I am sure.

"I don't understand why they would punish you like that. I don't think he knows his own son. He should know that you are going to sneak out to go see her anyway." Nya mumbled as she rolled her eyes a me.

"Perhaps they just don't want to believe that he does it, Nya. Wu pretends to believe half of my stories that I say when I skip class. That, or he is just very, very old." Lloyd said as he slapped Kai in the back of the head.

"If you so much as just ruined a spike in my hair, Garmadon, you are dead." Kai growled as he shot Lloyd a murderous look.

"Perhaps you should just start a relationship with yourself if you aren't allowed to see Skylor. You aren't allowed to marry yourself, but since when do you care about rules?" I mumbled, which caused Nya to slap me in my arm. I knew only she and Cole would be the only ones to hear my comment.