Another Dragon
Disclaimer: I do not American Dragon. Sam is mine though.
Chapter 25
Sam woke up the next day feeling better and more certain of things than she had been the previous night. These issues were enough to drive her crazy, if she dwelled on them for too much time. They were so problematic that they gave her a headache just thinking about them and that wasn't making things any easier.
Realizing that she had to get ready for school, she got out of her bed and headed for the shower. Stepping underneath the hot spray, her troubled thoughts went away as if they washed down the drain, temporarily. Wishing that things could be that easy was not going to solve them any quicker.
Jake and her were just starting out and it was only natural that were going to be things that they didn't agree on and would fight about. But if they confronted the issues that they were having any other way then one or both of them might be inclined to fly away. She cared for him and didn't want this kind of anxiety defining their relationship. At the moment that seemed to be all it spiralled down to.
She turned off the shower and got out and then dried herself off and got dressed. She still had to wear long sleeved clothing because of her arm and now her side as well. Jake would still most likely beat himself up if he saw her battle wounds. She headed downstairs to get something to eat.
She grabbed herself some cereal and sat down. She then readied herself for the day ahead. Grabbing her bag, she headed out the door and over to Jake's house. She shut the door to her house and began the trek. She was nervous about seeing him again, especially after the emotional foray that they had undertaken yesterday, it left them both drained.
Sam eventually made it to Jake's house and knocked on the door and Hayley once again answered it. She smiled at Sam and shouted up to her brother.
"JAKE! SAM'S HERE!" She then walked back into the kitchen. The door was still open with Sam standing there.
She honestly didn't know where the little girl got the energy from to shout like that. Still she had to be just over half Jake's age. Sam walked through the door into the hallway and waited for Jake to come down so they could leave.
Sam felt impatient waiting for him today but that was because of the long day that they had had yesterday. It was just because of everything that had happened recently and she wanted to just get to school so they would be immersed in a different kind of environment.
Jake came down the stairs a few minutes later and smiled a little at Sam who smiled back. He shouted goodbye to his mom and his sister and both left the house. Shutting the door behind them, Jake walked down the steps with Sam.
Both were silent for a while once again immersed in their own worlds with their own thoughts and feelings. It was becoming the norm much like other things that had started with them. Neither were willing to say a word or to start the conversation that would stop the silence. Words weren't needed and in some ways they were because how else were things going to be sorted out between them?
They were at the school before either could utter a word because of that nothing changed between them. If they didn't do something then this would end up defining their relationship: Where nothing had been done when it could have been.
She was afraid of losing him because of all that they had been through. He was afraid that she felt that her life was not worthy above saving everyone else. Maybe something had happened along the way to make her feel like that.
How she needed him and how he needed her was different. Definitions of being friends were starting to lose their grips as they began to confide more in each other than before. It was because of that fact that they were in the fast track stages of becoming more deeply involved with each other.
"Sam, come on we have to go otherwise Rotwood will give us detention." Jake finally spoke. He pulled on her shoulder and both quickened their pace and headed into Rotwood's classroom a few seconds before the bell went off, signalling the start of the day.
"Good morning class, I hope that you have completed your assignment from before the weekend. I expect you all to have gotten it correctly." The professor spoke to the class. He was looking right at Jake when he said this.
Talk about persecution, the teacher didn't let up on anything because it was like he knew that Jake was a lot more than he seemed to be. But he could never put his finger on it and Jake did his best to act like there was nothing out of the ordinary about him.
Professor Rotwood turned away and started to write on the blackboard, the screech noise of the chalk broke through any silence that was in the room.
Jake looked bored as he usually did in Rotwood's class and he just wanted the class to be over even though it had only just began. It was what he didn't like about his school day and he would have loved to go up there and teach Rotwood a thing or two.
The class went rather slowly and everyone looked like they wanted to fall asleep but none wanted to get a detention from the strict professor. But they dutifully copied the notes down from the teacher.
This was the start of a very long day.
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The class ended and everyone mentally breathed a sigh of relief and headed toward the door like the room was on fire, not before Rotwood gave them another assignment to be completed for tomorrow.
After that Sam was separated from Jake and the others as they now had different classes to go to. Sam really wanted to talk to Jake, now feeling like she had the courage to do so without the fear of wanting to run away. But right now that was impossible and it made her want to scream out loud, but the feeling of the embarrassment that would be caused made her stop and think about it before she did something stupid.
She headed to her next class, feeling that nothing would ever get sorted between them. Sam put on the façade of paying attention and sat down in her chair and took out her notebook. She listened as best she could to the teacher who was at least not as hysterical as Rotwood but still rather less strict than he had been.
Sam resigned herself to the long day ahead, wanting nothing more than to just get out of here.
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It was now lunchtime and Sam made her way to the cafeteria and got into the line for something to eat. Jake was nowhere in sight and neither were Trixie or Spud. It was probably because they got held up in class or something like that.
She headed to a table after she had gotten her lunch, intending on saving some seats for the others. She saw Brad hovering around her just like he had that first day they met; she remembered how uncomfortable she had felt and how annoyed he made her.
But he seemed to keep his distance this time, aware of how she had made him look and the fact that she had told him that she wasn't interested in being his girl. Neither was she interested in being in his little group of friends, it was because of this that she didn't look at him, making it clear once and for all.
Jake and the others came through the doors of the cafeteria a few minutes later and immediately got something to eat. Trixie and Spud talked animatedly about things whilst both Jake and Sam responded every now and again. Both wouldn't look at the others and do the talking here because it wasn't exactly the right time or place.
"What is up with you two?" Trixie asked now getting a little annoyed at her friends' lack of interest in their conversation.
"What?" Sam asked, coming out of her stupor. She saw the look on Trixie's face and immediately felt guilty because she wasn't focused on her friends only on herself and Jake.
"Sorry Trixie." Jake responded, he looked like she did.
"Whatever is on your minds you need to get over it and focus on the here and now." Trixie spoke quietly and Spud nodded in agreement. Both were sick of the two of them acting like this and not confronting it.
"We have talked about it but there is just so much more to talk about." Sam answered back almost whispering it to them.
"What is it this time?" Trixie asked of them, because sometimes all they ever did was fight or have issues.
"It's nothing important." Sam answered back, watching to make sure that no one was listening in to their conversation.
"Oh, come on. It has to be important for you both to not even talk to each other. There has to be more to it than that." Spud now got involved with the discussion before it could get out of hand.
"We can't do this here." Jake then answered. He wanted them to stop and just leave it at that, the way they had both been confronting their own issues was working for them for the minute.
"What is this about?" Trixie asked again almost wanting them both to just come out with it.
"Just drop it, please." Sam almost begged. She wasn't going to discuss this here.
In the end, Jake and Sam were almost pulled out of the cafeteria by Trixie and Spud. Sam didn't understand what they were doing this for but it was obvious that the only way that it would ever get resolved was to lock them in a room for a while and see what happened.
They found an empty classroom and locked both Sam and Jake in there.
"You aren't getting out until you sort this out once and for all. The HuntsClan could be attacking the magical world at any time and you need to fight them and not each other." Trixie said and both left the two on their own.
Jake and Sam both sat on tables opposite each other and decided that Trixie and Spud were right and they needed to sort it out.
But how would they begin?