A paint disaster and a new friend:
Authors note: This chapter is dedicated to my new friend Compooperauthor. I hope you all enjoy this chapter.
In Charlotte's home:
It was morning the sun was shining, but what Jak liked most was his new friend Charlotte, she is really nice, nicer than any person he met in Haven city and he meant it.
Torn was way too scary for him although he never showed it and strict, Tess is way way too creepy with her mood swings one minute she is nice, the next she is a nasty witch, Samos was always too busy to pay any attention to him, it was always the underground he was worried about, Jak would have liked it if Samos could play with him at least for five minutes, Kor well you know his story.
Charlotte was not like any of them, she is nice, smart, it was like she was really a mom and to Jak, she was the closet thing he ever had to a mother.
Today Charlotte had an idea, she took out all the furniture of the guest room Jak slept in and told him
"Hows about we redo the room?", Jak who was busy eating a turkey sandwich and an apple he nodded and hurried up eating, putting a pair of old jeans and a white shirt he walked over to see what Charlotte was doing, examinating the room she said
"Hows about a blue or maybe a green?", blue, Jak liked that color so he nodded,
"Okay a blue it is, now we need to stop at home depot to buy some things" said Charlotte.
"Home Depot?, what's home depot?" Jak asked himself as he followed Charlotte to the mini van she had.
After hopping in the back seat and putting on his seatbelt the car began to move, this world was strange to Jak, he has never seen things like bicycles or television or cars like they call them, but what was mostly weird was why didn't they have pointy ears and why didn't he has his either, his ears are not round and short not like before.
There were soo many questions he had about this world like, why are people so nice to one another?, why isn't there a war?, where are the walls that protect them from metalheads? or maybe there are no metalheads here.
Jak somehow knew that all those questions were going to have to wait, they approached a tall orange building, the sign in front said Home depot.
Once getting a parking Charlotte got out of the car and helped Jak out and they began to walk towards the building, in the way he saw people with big baskets that had wheels on them.
Curios to know what they were Jak tugged on Charlottes pants and pointed at it,
"That is a shopping cart Jak, now thinking of it we need one of those" said Charlotte as she began to walk towards an empty cart, taking it she said
"Now Jak stay close to me so you don't get lost" she gave him a little pat on his head before they entered the building.
The building was bigger inside than out, there were many things Jak was pretty familiarized with like lamps, but never in his life he has seem them in such designs, he wondered how many designs existed in this world.
Getting distracted by all the things Jak wondered off to another section to discover, Charlotte was nowhere in sight.
Jak wasn't worried, it wasn't the first time he got lost, so he began to make his way across the sections.
"This place must be bigger than Haven city" Jak though as he looked around, one of the sections were filled with lamps, there were in every shape, size and color you could imagen, after getting out of that section Jak wondered his way into the carpet sections on Home depot.
Carpets now that was something Jak had never seen or heard of before, so he looked at this plain carpet left unrolled on the floor, curiously Jak got down and rub his hands on it,
"It feels fuzzy, like crocodog hair" Jak though giggling,
"Hey kid, you want to get static?" asked a man, not wanting to get into trouble Jak was going to stand up wondering what was static, no sooner than he touched his knees a current of electricity pass through him, Jak slapped the spot,
"Oh now I know what's static" he though as he stood up and began to walk around, he entered the green house section where there were many plants.
Tilting his head he wondered what were the names of all those plants, never in his life he has seen those, so once he left he wandered into the bathroom section, where he saw the displays of all the bathroom styles and tiles there were available before heading down the aisle.
There near the paint section he saw an empty shopping cart, getting near it he felt a temptation,
"Well nobody won't mind if I use it" though Jak as he took the shopping cart and began to push it, being small he began to run and jumped into the cart ridding it,
"This is fun" though Jak then the cart slowed down, hopping off the cart Jak began to push the car faster than the last one, once fats enough he hopped into the car again.
This time the car went too fast, it sped out of control, seeing he was going to crash into the shelves with pain cans Jak jumped out of the shopping cart just beraly, but the shopping cart rams itself on the shelves filled with cans of pain.
The paint went flying everywhere, the paint splattered all over the place, including Jak who was now covered in red, blue, green, yellow paint, looking up a can filled with white paint landed on his head covering him with white paint.
Getting the can off his head Jak tried wipe his eyes clean but they were burning, getting up Jak looked around to see the disaster he had made, in the left side of the room he saw a man, a very angry man, not knowing what to do Jak gave him an innocent smile.
Somewhere in Home depot:
Charlotte was beyond worried, she was looking like crazy for Jak, true he wasn't her child but she loved him like he was her own flesh and blood.
As she looked around she heard a call through the intercome,
"A missing child was found in the paint section" he said,
"Jak" Charlotte said as she ran towards the paint section faster than anybody could breath.
There in the paint section she saw a Jak with a man, but she also saw the paint disaster Jak made and that he was covered in paint,
"What gives you the idea of...." the man stopped, that woman was not like he expected her to look,
"I am soo sorry, I'll pay for all the damages" said Charlotte as she held Jak,
"No, no, no, it wasn't the kids fault, it was my fault, its just that this kid nearly got killed because of me" the man lied,
"Oh you don't know hard was I looking for Jak",
"So Jak, that is his name" said the man,
"Yes, my name is Charlotte" said Charlotte as she extended her hand,
"Weavel" said the man.
The man was somewhere near his late twenties, he had red hair, his skin is a creamy white, his eyes were green, he was wearing the home depot uniform,
"So I guess I will be seeing you around" said Weavel,
"Sure why not" said Charlotte as she took her own shopping cart which had the things she needed like paint cans filled with indigo blue pain, a few cans of furniture paint and a pack of some glow in the dark stars.
After paying for the paint Charlotte and Jak went back home.
Back in Charlotte's house:
Charlotte gave Jak a lecture about getting lost as she gave him a bath getting all the paint he had out of his hair and skin, once that was done, it was dinner time, this time it was take out from someplace called Kentucky.
Charlotte gave Jak some fries and chicken before they ate, once done it was seven a clock time for bed.
"Wow I must have been lost longer than I though" though Jak as he got into his pajamas, once in bed Charlotte red him a story, it was about a girl in a wonder land, the tittle Alice in wonderland.
Once Jak was asleep Charlotte tip toed to the kitchen where there was a phone, she dialed a number and a male voice answered
"Law office, lawyer Devan speaking",
"Hello,I have a question, lets say you found a lost child and the parents don't return to claim the child, tell me is the adult taking care of the child gains full rights?" said Charlotte,
"Well there is a process to the whole thing, first things first, you may ask a judge of the state to gain the rights of the child once a year passes and the parents haven't come to pick the child up, then if the judge agrees to give you the right then he is all yours to keep" said Devan,
"Thank you" said Charlotte as she hang up the phone.
To be continued....