whats one day late right? i have now created a team for shift to be on when she gets onto the team. but all in good time my friends all in good time.

Chapter 5

I walked into my living room after practice and plopped down on the couch and turned on the TV. It was on the weather channel from when my dad was watching earlier.

"Today is gonna be a sunny day with a high around 90 and a low of 72." Out of habit I looked out the window. Contrary to what the ever faithful weather man said it was dark and stormy looking outside. I got up and went out onto the back porch and looked up into the sky. Right above my neighborhood was a small storm forming. But the rest of the sky was just as the weather man said, nice and sunny. My dogs finally noticed that I had gone outside and came running up to me. Gracie, my beagle cocker spaniel mix, walked around behind me and stuck her head in between my legs. She has never been to fond of storms but my goodness dog; you don't have to almost knock me over as you cower.

Then the rain started. It wasn't just a little drizzle; it was a cow on a flat rock, a frog strangler, raining cats and dogs. My dogs are at very least smart enough to come onto the porch or to go inside; chickens on the other hand were not blessed with that much brain power. They were standing in the middle of the yard, looking up and switching every time a rain drop hit them in the head. Sighing I ran barefoot out into the grass and tried to scoop up all four chickens at once. If you have ever held a chicken, even just one, you will know that if they just perch on your arm they flap their useless wings to keep their balance as you walk. Now imagine that with four flightless birds doing that. By the time I got over to their coop (with a fair bit of language mind you) I had Jip on my head, Tonks on my right shoulder, Link on my left arm and poor Zelda had fallen off somewhere around the oak tree. After stuffing the three that I had in the coop, rather unceremoniously might I add, I ran back over to get Zelda. As I picked her up I felt my phone vibrate in my pocket. I tucked the red chicken under my arm and answered the phone.

"Hello?"

"Jamie! It's Jade. Isn't this storm awesome?"

"Hang on; let me get out of it." I ran over to the gazebo and set Zelda down on the table.

"What did you say?"

"I said, isn't this storm awesome? I love the rain!"

"It would be better if it gave my dog a back bone and my chickens a brain."

"Go ask Oz about that, I don't think the rain will do that much."

"It's so weird that it's only over our neighborhood though."

"That's ok because now we don't have to share. Wanna come and puddle jump?"

"Is that even a question?"

"It shouldn't be, but you never can tell with your type."

"That's funny, especially since people mix us up all the time."

"Yeah, yeah, yeah, see you in a few."

"Ok Jade, I'll head over there as soon as I can."

I hung up my phone and put it back in my pocket. "Well Zelda, time for some puddles then." I picked her up again and tucked her back under my arm. I finally realized the state that the chicken was in. "Oh yay… a muddy chicken."

I walked down the street to Jades house and saw Jade, already soaked, dancing in the puddles. "Don't worry! I'm here!" I said as I ran up to the puddle she was in and landed so that I splashed water all over her. "Finally you show up. I was beginning to think that a little bit of water was going to keep you huddled up in your shell."

"Not likely."

She laughed and splashed me back. "Are we jumping puddles or not?"

"Well I didn't bring the duct tape for nothing" I said pulling out a roll of silver tape. "Puddle jumping time."

We taped her left leg and my right leg together like we were about to have a three legged race. "Ok, you know the rules: you can only step in puddles, and if you fall you have to gargle what you land in." we had created this game a couple months ago in the last rain storm we had. It's amusing because you don't always jump for the same puddle so you fall into the water and drag the other one down with you.

"Ready," Jade said after we were taped together.

"Set," I said

"GO!"

We wobbled our way from puddle to puddle jumping in feet first, and laughing and enjoying the rain. After a while we sat down on the curb and took a breather. As we are sitting there a silver Mustang sped by us, spraying us with the puddles we had just been playing in. "Why you little-" Jade said as she wiped the dirty water off her face. "Not gonna fly buddy!" she called down the street. She jumped up, pulling me with her and starts running down the street to catch up with the jerk that splashed us.

"Whoa. Wait. Jade. Person. Attached." I babbled as I tried to keep up with her.

"Keep up Jamie,"

I got my feet under me and said "Inside, outside, inside, outside," as we ran so we could keep our steps together since our legs were still taped together. We got the rhythm down and sped down the road after a car that we knew we would never catch. "Eh…. Whatever. We'll let them go this time," jade said as she leaned over with her hands on her knees, trying to catch her breath.

"Ok, I'm taking this tape off before you see a mail man you feel the need to chase, Fido," I pulled out my pocket knife and cut through the tape. "You're free, now sick-em!"

"Bite me."

"Where and how hard?

"My foot as I shove it down your throat."

"Touche."

We walked back to her house, continuing to splash in puddles as we went. When we got there, we both stopped and our jaws dropped. It seemed as though Jade's Step-dad had gotten a new car. A silver Mustang. I looked over at Jade to see that she had picked her jaw up off the ground and had replaced the shocked look with one that told me she was right back to wanting to kill him.

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