Rules of Conversation, Chapter 6
By MidnightzStorm
Disclaimer: I do not own American Dragon: Jake Long.
Author's Note: This time it is two-hundred words, because a hundred could not do this justice. I have no idea where the angst came from, but it was hidden inside I guess. I will give a dragon-shaped cookie to whoever can figure out who the boy is!
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Haley didn't know what to do. She was flying to her dragon lesson when she saw the boy there. At school they never taught her what to say to a potential jumper. The boy was about Jake's age and tall and scrawny, she couldn't think of how she knew him, but he was slightly familiar. He was out on the ledge of the building staring at the city below, his eyes filled with an eerie emptiness.
"Don't do it," she said weakly after she changed into her human form.
"Why not?" the boy retorted, not at all curious to what a young girl was doing on a roof, "I never can do anything right, I'm a failure. Everything would go a lot smoother if I wasn't around."
Haley tried to think of a decent response to that, anything to make him back away, but she didn't have time, he had lost his balance and fell. Haley quickly dragoned up and raced to catch him before he hit the earth below, the wind attacking her face and her heart pounding as she reached out to the boy, but she was too late, Haley Kay Long for the first time had failed.