Chapter Three
The Test
Jake had been late to Rotwood's class but luckily he was able to sneak in so Rotwood never noticed Jake was late. "So far so good," he thought. This day seemed like it was going to be a good one. Well Jake just worked on his plan throughout Rotwoods useless lecture of mystical creatures. Jake already knew the answers because if Rotwood said it was one thing it was most likely the opposite. Eventually the bell rang and class was dismissed.
Jake's next class was Gym. So he went to the locker room and changed into his Gym clothes. When he took off his shirt and revealed his newly acquired muscles Spud freaked.
"Yo, dude where'd you get the six pack?" Spud asked.
"Oh just a gift from my dragon powers," Jake explained to Spud how he got his muscles and Spud seemed impressed. They were about to go into the Gym when Spud said,
"Yo, dude you like see your huge new muscles show through your shirt dude!" Jake looked down and Spud was right. They did show through. "Awesome!" he thought.
Today's activity in Gym was Volleyball. It was one-on-one girls vs. boys. To Jake's surprise Rose volunteered to be Jake's opponent. It struck him as odd at first but then he figured she just wanted to look at his new muscles. So the match began and it was harder for Jake to score than he thought it would be. The match went on and on with neither of them scoring the entire class period. Jake finally found out the true reason why Rose was his partner. It was when he was knocked the ball over the net. Just after it went over, Rose did some Kung Fu spin jump and spiked the ball. Jake nearly missed the ball but managed to hit it over the net again. "It's a test! She's testing me to see how good I am!" he realized. So Jake started to treat is as a test. The game became more and more fierce. Finally with five minutes to go Jake scored. He leapt for joy and let out a victorious cry. However two minutes later Rose scored a point too by hitting Jake in the face with the ball and since he was dazed the ball hit the ground and she scored. For the last three minutes they went all out until the teacher said "Game Over!" Rose walked over to Jake holding the ball. Both looked tired and had massive sweat streaming down their foreheads.
"Good game," said Rose.
"You too," replied Jake.
"I have one question Jake, Do you like to hunt?" asked Rose. Jake had somewhat anticipated a question similar to that one.
"Yeah I do," was all he said in return. In fact it was all he could say because the principal called out his name.
"Mr. Long please come with me," was all she said. Jake shrugged at Rose's puzzled look and followed the principal. So Jake followed her to her office. In one of the chairs in front of her desk sat Brad. Jake knew what this was about now. Brad went and snitched about the fight. He probably left out a lot of true details too.
"Mr. Long take a seat," said the principal. Jake sat down next to Brad and threw him a fierce glare. Brad didn't seem affected ("most likely because he thinks he's gonna win. Ha! Fat chance!").
"Mr. Long Brad here tells me you assaulted him in the hallway earlier today," said the principal.
"I did beat him up," said Jake. He wasn't afraid to admit it. Although Jake thought Brad needed another beating real soon.
"He also says you did it for no reason."
"That's a lie!" exclaimed Jake. "Out of all the lies he could have told he used that one! Oh I'm beating that dumbass to a pulp when this is over!" thought Jake.
"Well then Mr. Long tell us your side of the story." So Jake told exactly what happened. Afterwards the principal seemed conflicted.
"Well it's one person's word against the other. I have no choice but to suspend you both."
"What!" exclaimed Brad and Jake at the same time.
"But he beat me up!" yelled Brad.
"You were all up in Rose's grill!" yelled Jake. Then it hit him. Rose! She could set it all straight.
"Rose was there! Ask her," said Jake.
"Good idea Mr. Long. I'll be right back." The principal left the room to fetch Rose. Brad looked really worried while Jake just probed his feet on the desk and waited. He would be off the hook and Brad in trouble. This was fizzine!
The principal brought Rose in and questioned her and her story was just like Jake's. When the principal seemed satisfied she sent Jake and Rose away so she could deal with Brad.
"Yo, Rose thanks for the help in there," said Jake when they were out of the office and heading back to the Gym to change.
"Thank you for dealing with Brad." With that Rose softly kissed Jake on the check and ran off leaving him there shocked. He touched his cheek in amazement. "She kissed me!" He went to the Gym to try to catch Rose but she was already gone. So he changed and went to lunch to tell Trixie and Spud what happened.