Chapter 4 The red and white dragon

Hi, guys! Sorry I haven't updated in a while but my homework was literary breathing down my neck!

Nuff said. I don't own any of the sky high characters you recognize.

"What does Kate think about it?" asked Jane two days later. Jane was Robyn's other best friend, you could call her the only 'girl' friend Robyn had. She had had a crush on Garrett in junior High but when they all became friends she started to think about him as a friend like Robyn.

Jane's gray hat covered her dark blue eyes and made her round face look dark. Jane had short eye lashes and had stubby short fingers that almost always held around a pencil. She had short thin honey brown hair and always wore some sort of hat or caps.

"Dunno. I haven't talked to her about it." said Robyn in a wouldn't-care-less voice.

"C'mon Robyn, this happened on Saturday right? This means that you had a day to talk to her about it."

"Who cares?" asked Robyn. "Kate is stupid; I wouldn't be surprised if she started calling Mr. Boy dad after a week. And I spent most of the Sunday on my room if you have to know."

"I just thought that she might have come with a plan to get rid of Mr. Boy." she said simply, raising her shoulders.

"Which would be wrong… And evil and self-centered." she said when she saw the look of Robyn's face.

"Get a grip on your self Robyn! Mr. Boy is sweet and kind and thinks of nothing but the welfare of others…"

Garrett, that had been sitting quiet on his chair during the entire conversation, finally turned and frowned at Jane.

"If you like OLDER guys!" he said and gave her a look of disgust. Jane rolled her eyes and bent over her drawing. They were sitting in Mrs. Wilfred's art class where they had been told to draw something from your soul, which Robyn found difficult. First she had started with a portrait of a black hair boy, which she had had many dreams about, but when Jane said that it looked very much like Tom Olsson, the chess captain, Robyn hurried to put the paper in the trash. She had ended up with a red and white dragon which turned out to have been the symbol of peace in China for over 3000 years ago, at least according to Mrs. Wilfred.

"What is that anyway?" Robyn asked Garrett as she leaned over to see his drawing. "A yellow pear impaled by an iron stick? I never thought of you as a poet." Robyn guessed. Garrett shot her an angry look.

"It's supposed to be a guitar!" Robyn blushed and gave him an apologetic look.

"I think it's beautiful, it really speaks to me…" said a thin short haired girl with a small nose and way to pink cheeks, called Fiona. She had just appeared behind Garrett with a huge grin.

"Sure if you can talk to pears." mumbled Robyn. Jane smiled from underneath her hat while both Fiona and Garrett glared at her.

"It really shows me who you are." She continued in a dreamy voice.

"I'd take that as an insult if I were you Garrett." said Robyn, now looking up from her own drawing. "She just called you a fruit!" Jane burst out laughing, dropping her pencil to the floor while she made loud grunting sounds. (That was how she laughed…)

"Thanks Fi, appreciate It." said Garrett and punched Fiona hard on her upper arm. She let out a cry before she stoked off.

"Jackasses." Said Garrett but with a little smile.

"You really don't know how to treat a girl do you?" asked Jane after drying her eyes. He gave her an empty look.

"Fi?" she said with a small hint of pity in her voice as she picked up her pencil. "And I would say it's rather rude to punch a girl like that."

"I didn't punch her! I gave her something the boys on the basketball team call 'the appreciation touch'."

"The what?" asked Robyn.

"After being friends with us, you'd think that you should know how to act around a girl." Said Jane before Garrett could speak.

"You're not girls!" he said quickly. Robyn raised her eyebrows and leaned on her fist while Jane actually pulled her hat back a bit.

"Then what are we? Aliens?" snapped Jane.

"I Dunno, are you?" asked Garrett suspicious. Robyn glared at him.

"C'mon, you're my buddies!"

"Well you're hopeless." Said Jane just as the bell rang and they left without waiting for Garrett or his stupid face expression.