Chapter 7: Annoyance
Charinady and Jake arrived back as his house just in time before curfew. After dinner, Charinady went over to Haley who was watching television.
"Hey Charinady want to watch America's Wackiest Home Videos with me?" she offered at Rin.
"Sure I love this show!" she cheered and hopped on the couch.
"So what did you can Jake do today?" Haley asked as she was curious to know about his brother's life, yet she would never ask Jake himself.
"Well we visited Meropolis, oh and Jake got a D in home-economics today!" she answered.
"Seriously, who can fail at cooking?" Haley laughed.
"I know seriously,"
"Well you can't blame Jake. He's not that good at anything," They both were hilariously laughing.
Jake walked by and overheard their conversation. "Great, now there's two of them," he sighed as he saw how Charinady oddly resembled his sister. He walked upstairs, and went to bed early.
That morning, Jake was over Charinady. He just wanted to get her off her back.
Especially during school, which was another way she could upstage him. Now Jake knows he's not the best at everything, but it really irritated him when people rubbed that in his face. The only thing that got that, burden, off his back was being the American Dragon. He was the only one, and that no one could say anything. However, that all changed once Charinady came into the picture. It even seemed that she was better at being a dragon than Jake, and she has only had her powers for less than a month.
Once school was over, he brought Trixie, Spud, and Charinady back to the shop. At least he was told today he had no dragon training, so he was off for the day. A day off to Jake Long meant a day off from anyone who annoyed him.
"Yo Charinady, mind if I have a word with Trixie and Spud, ALONE!" he ushered toward her to leave the shop.
"Sure no problem Jake, I have to stop by at my uncle's house anyways, pick up a few things and say hi to my parents. All check you later at your house, kay?" she smiled.
"Yeah, fine go spend time with your family, bye!" he shoved her out of the shop. Once she left, Jake leaned against the door, and gave a sigh of relief.
"Guys, you have to help me get rid of her!" he screamed toward his friends.
"Why, Rinady seems like a nice girl and all…" Trixie added.
"Nice! She's far from nice, she's annoying! Everything I do, it seems she's better at. And she has no problem of mentioning that to my face!"
"Well at least you have your dragon powers, she can never take your place as the Amdrag!" Spud said.
"Believe me; you haven't seen her dragon powers! She can fly faster than me, do some weird fire rain thingy, and breathe underwater! She has me beaten in that category!" Jake yelled out.
"Jake, don't put down Charinady just because she's better than you!" Trixie gave a stare at Jake.
"You don't understand guys. It's like having my little sister follow me everywhere! Telling me about every mistake that I do!"
"Well at least she's not here now," Spud added.
"Yeah, let's make the most of it now, and play some video games!" Trixie mentioned.
Jake made a smile, and decided Trixie was right. Then hopped onto the couch, and played some video games. They played until Sunset, then after they all headed out back to their houses. Once Jake got home, he headed down in the basement to find Rin. He felt kind of bad leaving her for the whole day, and decided to go down and chat with her. He walked down to see Charinady playing with a sticky hand on her bed.
"So, how was your parents?" Jake said, trying to make a conversation.
Rin put the sticky hand away, and looked over at Jake, "They're great, oh, and my mom said she thanks you for helping me a bit with my dragon powers," she smiled.
Jake put his head down, in shame. He felt bad being so harsh on Charinady when everything that was annoying him about her, she probably wasn't doing it on purpose.
Charinady had a carrier full of things she brought with her on this trip. She picked up a few things she'd had forgot to grab from her parents. Out of her suitcase, she grabbed out a picture of a cat. She took it out, and put it on a table next to the bed.
"Who's the cat?" Jake wondered.
"It's my cat, his name is Scatcat. We had to leave him back in Nevada. He's kind of like what Fu dog is too you; except he doesn't talk and doesn't understand anything I say to him." She giggled a bit.
"Hmmm…"
"Yeah, kind of weird, I know!" she smiled. She set down the suitcase, and jumped up and down a bit on the bed. "Well, goodnight Jake!" she squeezed into her bed.
"Night Rin," Jake said, as he walked up the stairs and turned off the lights.
