Chapter 14-New Puppy Comes Home
As Jazz and Sam approached their house, Sam started to feel bad for Jazz's losing her job. "Did you lose your job because of Danny and me?" She asked gently.
"Nah," Jazz said reassuringly. "The Manager's a vampire, and he wanted me to join his legion of the undead."
"I knew it," Sam mumbled to herself before Jazz opened the front door. Then she turned to Danny as they walked in. "This is a great home; you'll like it a lot," Jazz turned on the light, and Danny growled at the light, but walked in and looked around. "See?"
"Uh, Sam," Jazz started. She had a feeling that Danny wasn't exactly paying attention.
"Comfy," Sam said and pressed a pillow to Danny's chest. He got angered by this and pushed Sam down. "Hey!" She cried as she fell. Danny was then interested in the pillow and started shredding the cover off of it.
Jazz jumped in to save her pillow. "Hey! What is the matter with you?" She screamed and snatched the pillow away, making Danny lose his balance.
Sam was instantly concerned. "Be careful with the little angel!" She jumped between Jazz and Danny. Danny just stood up, dusted himself off, and started running around the house, very ghost-like; his feet barely hit the floor.
Sam and Jazz just watched Danny run out of the room, and Jazz said, "It's not an angel, Sam. I don't even think it's a kid!" As Danny ran out of the room, she said, "We just have to take him back,"
Sam got mad, and stood up for her friend. "He's just cranky because it's his bedtime,"
From the kitchen, Danny heard Jazz say, "He's creepy, Sam. How can you sleep if he's… loose… in the house?" As Jazz said this, Danny pulled out a drawer full of silverware and tipped it over, spilling all the utensils on the floor.
Sam started yelling at Jazz in the other room. "You're 'loose in the house' all the time, and I sleep just fine!" She stormed into the kitchen and saw Danny holding their blender, which was currently holding some pink liquid. Possibly some unmade smoothie. As Sam approached Danny, he pulled off the lid of the blender and stared inside. "Hey, what are you doing?" Sam asked, and then Danny accidentally switched it on, spraying the pink liquid all over the place. "Drop that, Danny!" Sam cried over the sound of Danny's startled cry and the loud humming of the blender.
Sam just stared, slightly openmouthed, at Danny, as he made no effort to turn off the blender or even to drop it. Jazz came sprinting in the room, and accidentally bumped into Sam in her effort to get to Danny. "Hey!" She cried, and snatched the blender away, turning it off and placing it back on its spot on the counter.
Danny tried grabbing it again, making many grunting noises, but Jazz grabbed Danny around his middle and picked him up, nearly dragging out of the kitchen. "Look at him, Sam. He's obviously mutated from… something else," She staggered to the doorway of the kitchen and tried to go through, but Danny grabbed the frame and held tight. With a hard pull, Jazz was able to pull Danny off the frame. She then proceeded to the door, which Sam followed her to. "We have to take him back!"
"He was an orphan, and we adopted him!" Sam cried, running after her sister. "What about OHANA?" Sam reached her sister and stomped defiantly at the last word.
"He hasn't been here that long," Jazz retorted, struggling to restrain Danny.
"Neither have I," Sam said, stomping again. "Dad said ohana means family," Jazz had opened the door, but hearing her sister's words, slowly closed it again. Danny stopped struggling and growling to look at Jazz in confusion. He wondered why she had stopped. Sam saw that Jazz heeded her words, and continued. "Ohana means family. Family means—"
Jazz said the next line with her sister. "Nobody gets left behind,"
"Or…?" Sam prodded.
"Or forgotten," Jazz finished. "I know, I know. I hate it when you use ohana against me," Jazz said, making a face at Sam, who stuck her tongue out at her. Danny found an opening, and pushed out of Jazz's grip. He started to run up the stairs, and Sam ran to catch up to him.
"Don't worry; you can sleep right next to me," Sam said reassuringly as they ran.
Jazz groaned and flopped lazily onto the couch. She really didn't want to have to deal with Danny at the moment, especially if he was going to act like this. She closed her eyes as she felt a migraine coming on.