!Chapter 5!

It had been a week and a half since anyone had seen Spud, and Rose was wondering what had happened to him. But her first job was done, now she just needed the boy to show up, although she supposed it would take a while for Spud to come to school. Where had he been staying? Had he moved away? No, no, that couldn't be, right?

Ah, there he was, backpack slung over a shoulder and talking quietly with Jake who was walking with him, a small smile on his face. She went to make her move.

"Uh, hi, Spud." Said Rose, shifting her feet a little, "I heard about what happened, and I just wanted to say I'm sorry for your loss."

Spud stopped and looked down, letting out a long breath, "Yeah, uhm, thanks, Rose." He said.

"So how've you been doing?" Asked Rose, "No one's heard from you for a while."

"I'm uh, I'm doing alright. I've been staying at the Long's, while the state tries to figure out what to do with me."

"I think my parents are trying to adopt him," Jake said, wrapping an arm around Spud's shoulders, who smiled.

"Yeah, atleast I won't be sent to live with some strangers, right?" The wizard asked, then smiled, "Hey, uh, look, we gotta get going,"

"We do?" Asked Jake, a little surpised.

"Yes, Jake, we do, remember?"

"Oh! Oh, yeah, right, well, see you later, Rose!" Jake said, happily, walking around her and down into the halls.

"Bye." She said, shortly, watching them go.

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"Spud, what's wrong?" Jake asked, once they in the halls, kids flanking them on all sides.

Spud sighed, "I don't know, Rose just gives me the creeps, ya' know?"

"No, not really, I mean, Rose is Rose! Just look at her, right?"

"Maybe." Spud said, resignedly, shaking his head a little.

Spud had been getting weird feelings all the night before, when at Lao Shi's shop, working with Fu-Dog in his potion ingrediant lesson, Jake had been out, doing Dragon stuff while Spud had been learning spells and magic and all things encompasing it, and after having an impromptu lesson on the tooth fairy and about dragon teeth, was learning quickly. When Jake had gotten back later that evening, he had told Spud that he had fought with the Hunt's Girl, and it had ended in a stalemate, and now he was paranoid of seeing a flash or two while he was fighting that was definitely not lightening. Which had brought to mind for Spud to show the younger Dragon his new spell, 'Thundaros', which he used to make lighting crawl up and down his arm, Jake thought it was awesome.

"Woooo...!" Jake had been trying to get Spud's attention for the last few minutes but he seemed to have spaced out, Spud suddenly blinked and turned to Jake.

"Uh, sorry, what?"

"I said, 'Are we gonna get to Rotwood's class now, or what?' and then you spaced out."

"Oh, yeah, uh, let's go." Spud said, following his friend to Professor Rotwood's mythology class.

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Author's note: Sorry it took so long! I mean, really, really sorry. I'm also sorry it's so short, but my house is in chaos because I'm going on vaction for two weeks in about a week, and I'm trying to get everything together, so...sorry! Oh, and to answer DanMat6288, it's because mortal's aren't supposed to know about magical stuff and the like, and since Spud is now classified at magical, he is allowed to know, Trixie isn't. And I'd like to apologize in advance if I mess up this altered episode in any way when redo-ing the episode 'Professor Rotwood's Thesis', in which is the episode that Trixie and Spud learn Jake is a dragon, so I'm revamping it and such, and it'll probably be inacurate alot, ok, anyway...Ciao!