Moving In

Chapter2: Reunion

Cole's POV

Memories......

As I lead Jay down the hallway, memories come back flooding to me like a hurricane. We used to have so much fun in the old times......

"Wow, big building." Jay observes. Of course, it's a bit big to him as the biggest place he'd been to till now were our middle school hallways. I, on the other hand, have felt at home here, and I should be, considering who my parents were and where I used to live. When my mom was alive.... No, Cole, don't go there.

"Cool, right?" I ask him. I don't know why, but Jay is quiter than usual. I mean, of course, we've all changed, but I wasn't expecting him to change this much. Especially the part where he seemed to control the electricity.

"Yeah, I guess.." he replies, trailing off. Wow. I guess he was right about changing. We all have changed so much.
Zane upgrading his body and social skills, Kai and Nya's parents disappearing, Lloyd magically aging up from 8 to 12 thanks to the accident with traveller's tea, my mom.... No, Cole, distract yourself, focus on.. ummm Jay's arrival and his crush on Nya.... Seliel....

"Cole?" Jay suddenly asks to me out of the blue.

"Yeah?" I ask.

"What if... What if I told you that the reason I changed... was more than just maturing with age?" He asked, visibly nervous. Wait, what?

"Jay, what are you talking about?" I ask in reply.

"Uhh nevermind. How much longer is it till we get to the guys?" He asks. I'm very concerned and confused now. What happened to Jay in all those years? Could he be picked on? He always was bullied until I saved him back when he was young. I don't know but I have to find out more.

"Jay we're here. But, if you have any problems, I'm here for you, buddy. You can talk to me anytime." I say.

"Huh? Oh I'm perfectly fine, Hehe. Come on, let's go see everyone else." He says in his hasty but lousy attempt to fool me. Well, if that's the case, I'm just going to find out about this some other way. Now, let's focus on our little reunion.

I open the door and lead Jay in. Everyone's here. Nice. At least we all are here to welcome back our resident funny friend.

"Welcome back Jaaayyy!!!!!" We all scream. Ha-ha, this'll give him something to remember. Though I can't help but notice Nya is screaming his name loudest. Oohhhh.... I gotta tell Seliel about this... Hehe...

No one's POV

"Aiihh... my ears are definitely going to remember this...." Jay jokes as Kai rushes forward and gives him a hug while the cheers of 'welcome back' and 'hello again' ring around.

"Aww guys, thanks for the ear-deafening
screech to welcome me back!" Jay says in his usually cheerful tone.

"Ha-ha! Anything for our childhood friend!" Lloyd replies, obviously enjoying himself.

"You're welcome, Jay. Besides, it really is good seeing you again." Zane says.

Kai's POV

Wow. It's been so long since I've seen motormouth. After releasing him from the hug, and him joking around, I get him to sit down to talk to us.

It's been quite a while since I've seen everyone here in person, and to be honest, it feels really nice, even if we've all changed.

"So, Jay, how was life in the village as one of the only late-teens there?" Lloyd asks. I quickly tug his arms and say, "Lloyd, that's rude."

"It's ok Kai, besides, Lloyd's only 12 mentally." Jay says.

"Nuh uh. I'm sixteen." Lloyd replies.

"Mmhhmm. Don't think you can make me forget that accident. You're still the youngest of us. But come on, let's party!  And, Lloyd, remember to never be a party pooper." Jay replies.

"May I ask what is a 'party-pooper'?" Zane asks, confused. Ahh, poor Zane.

"Something we can talk about later. Right now, let's have some fun!" Jay says in his always enthusiastic tone. Some things never change after all. Then, Cole says something in my ear as well as the other's.

"Hey, Nya, why don't you get some cold drinks for us." I say to send her off. Now that she's gone to the kitchen, we can discuss this.

"So, Jay, things have changed, eh?" Lloyd asks in a more serious tone.

"Uh yeah, why?" Jay asks, having caught on to Lloyd's tone of voice. Huh, he can still guess our emotions by voice.

"Oh, nothing, mind explaining this?" Lloyd asks again, this time while Zane shows the video feed of him somehow controlling the electricity of a light bulb while holding it.

And, suddenly, Jay's face turns into a look of horror. So, this is how he's changed? Well, so have we, I guess...

"T-this is photoshopped!" Jay said in his defence. Yeah right.

I sigh, then say, "Jay, it's ok. Look, we have powers too." And we show him our powers.

Then, Oh no. Nya's going to come in!

"Guy's, stop!" I say as we all hear footsteps and stop displaying our powers.

"Hey guys. Whatcha talking about?" She asks. Phew, she probably didn't see us.

"Uhh we're talking about..... The time.... Cole sang Glow worm! Yeah, that's what we were talking about.. hehe.. pretty funny, right...? Jay said, and I am facepalming internally. Still, we all agreed with him. And right about now, Nya will probably snap at him and force us to tell her what it really is, and we'd make up an actually believable excuse.

And... She burst out.. laughing?! Huh?!

"Ohh yeah... That's actually pretty funny... Haha.. ok, I'm going to Skylor's now... She's going to teach me how to uhh... cook... Bye..." And she leaves. Huh. That's weird.

"Well, say hi to her from me, ok?" I say.

"Ok... And, Jay, welcome back."

"Well, looks like we're saved... Ok now let's talk about this later and party!" Jay exclaimed as soon as Nya left and jumped up.

Well then, let's have some fun!

A/n: I was actually going to write more for this chapter but I saw I already crossed the one thousand mark, and kinda ran out of inspiration for what happens in the party. So, here's what would have happened if I had written any further. Played party games, teased Cole, Zane asking 'party-pooper''s meaning, never being explained, Lloyd accidentally blowing something up, the boy's trying to hide it. And I ran out of steam there so didn't write it completely. Byeee!!!