Time Passes 6

Later, with the mess of Wheeler put behind them and classes ended for the day, dusk already falling over the island Alexis found herself doing her level best to ignore the longing stares following after her.

She didn't really mind that they constantly checked her out, but it was annoying how long they kept leering after her and how many did it. She could feel many gazes on her from behind prickling on on the back of her head.

But she should have expected this. She after all was in the Obelisk Blue male dormitory right now after all. She didn't have a chance today to ask him about what she saw the other day and her suspicions with the Chazz drama getting in the way and waylaying her and then the debacle with those creepy scientist thugs and Wheeler.

...And as it turned out, once again Yarden was right about what Chazz got up to. Because they were found by Professor Banner on their way back to the Academy and he helpfully informed them they caught up with Chazz just as he was sailing away in one of his families private yachts.

In retrospect, it was foolish of her to get caught up in the flow of Jaden and the others and be led around looking through the jungle.

"Hey, Alexis!" a taller fit boy with short brown hair dressed in a grey polo and white shorts stopped and grinned at her as she passed him in the hall on the way to her destination.

"Not interested." Alexis absently shot him down, noting in the corner of her eye that his eyes went wide with horror and dismay at the instant rejection.

Well, she didn't have the time to care about whoever he was, she had too much on her mind right now. What she saw the other day and today even had her head spinning with the possibilities.

And she knew of only one person that possibly had the answers she sought. So the busty blonde made her way through the Obelisk Blue male dormitory, up the stairs to the level the first years were on and made her way to a specific room she had only been to once before and knocked on the door.

There was no answer for a few moments. So she knocked again, louder this time.

Finally, she heard a muttered curse from beyond the doorway and the sound of foot steps approaching the door before it suddenly swung open revealing Yarden.

"Yeah?" he asked through a wide yawn, rubbing at his eyes and not even looking at her yet. Her eyes scanned his body. He was clad in nothing but a pair of red shorts, with nothing on his feet and his torso bare showing off a toned physique.

'Was he always this broad?' Alexis wondered as her eyes took in his arms and shoulders. She didn't think so, she'd had her eye on him from the first day after all and now looking closely she could notice a definite increase in the broadness of his arms and shoulders.

He opened his eyes after rubbing them and then blinked, "Oh, Alexis, the hell are you doing here?" he raised an eyebrow at her, "Don't you prefer to avoid this place with all the mutts scrounging after your hotness?"

"Hello to you too Yarden," Alexis rolled her eyes, ignoring the fact that yes, he was spot on, "Can I come in?"

The Scottish teen shrugged and merely pushed his door open wide and gestured for her to come in, "Me casa es tu casa," he replied, "I said that right, right?"

"Said that correctly, right," Alexis corrected his grammar with a smile getting him to roll his eyes, "But yes, more or less. Though your pronunciation could use a little work." she added and stepping in to the room.

Honestly, she as surprised again with how neat and tidy he kept the place beyond bottles of liquids to drink sitting beside his bed and his laptop on his ruffled bed as well.

Looks like he really had been asleep and woke him up. She felt a little guilty, he'd been complaining about feeling bad all day and she and the others had caused him to miss napping in class to recover and now she'd woken him up.

"Well sorry miss three languages, we can't all be bilingual and speak Japanese, French and Scottish." he closed the door and rolled his eyes.

One of her eyebrows rose, "I speak Japanese, French and English." she corrected reflexively.

"That's what I said," Yarden shrugged and made his way over passed her to slip over the back of his couch and land on the front of it sitting down, "So what brings you to my room at this time love." he looked over his shoulder and asked.

He seemed to think for a moment before wiggling his eyebrows, "Coming by at this time, when everyone outside their rooms probably saw you on the way up here, the rumours will be scandalous," he teased, "They'll probably think I'm having my wicked way with you, all manly and Scottish like."

What did being Scottish have to do with being manly? Well, if using those guys out there as comparison and Chazz, she supposed it had to be something, "Good, maybe they'll stop bothering me if they think you're screwing me and that you'll beat them up for bothering me," Alexis rolled her eyes, unbothered by his teasing, "The reason I'm here though, there's something I want to talk to you about." she said and made her way around to sit down on the couch beside him.

"I figured as much, you wouldn't drop in un-announced if it wasn't important, you're too nice and polite for that," Yarden ran his hands through his hair before looking her in the eyes, "So you wanna know about the duel spirits, right?"

Her eyes flew wide open in shock, "You knew I was there and saw you?" she gasped, understanding dawning on her.

"Course I did," he chuckled, "I've got monster spirits hanging around all the time, you think I wouldn't notice you following me when they were out and about all around me?"

Alexis' eyes narrowed, "You wanted me to see that," she accused, though not angrily. Things were just beginning to fit into place now, "It was how you found me so quickly when Titan attacked me and what you told me when you carried me back."

'Ask me no questions, I'll tell you no lies' - that was more or less what he had said to her.

"You wanted me to see spirits were real before talking to me about it," Alexis mused, "Seeing is believing after all. You wanted to tell me about spirits for a while now, but why?"