Once Upon a Dragon Wish

Chapter Five

BLAKE

Jace and Cameron dropped me off. The new rental wasn't bad. It was better than what we own in Paegeia.

Who the hell borrowed my dad, money?

I rushed up the stairs as the guys drove off with a honk.

I seriously couldn't believe that Chloey did that to Elena this morning and I knew that tomorrow something else would be waiting.

I just have to find it first, debunk the booby, and not let Elena end up hating me.

Chloey was seriously messing up with my future big time.

"You okay?"

"Yes," I looked around the lounge. It was seriously not a bad place. "Dad, where the hell did you get the money?"

"I had to borrow it from King Helmut."

"You didn't tell him."

"No, I just told him it had something to do with Al and Katie, something they put this side that we needed to find and ask if he could fund our trip."

"He believed it."

"Yes, he was Al's friend, Blake. What did you think we just skunked off during the night?"

"Yeah, pretty much."

"She is the princess of Paegeia, your rider, Blake. This is not a mission just for the two of us."

"Oh, so you told him the truth?" I was sarcastic.

"Not yet, but when the time comes, he would know. All of them would know."

"You think they would buy it?"

"You said it yourself, she looks like her father, besides, she is with Jako and he is still a royal dragon. Tanya would come forward too when this comes out. And you would tell them."

"Oh, yes, because my word is the law."

"Blake you have a say in Paegeia. Believe me, if you were not my son, things would've been a lot different for us."

"Dad, we don't get things handed to us, okay. We have it bad, whether I am your son or not." I turned around and walked up the stairs. "Where is my room."

"The first one."

I opened the door and put my backpack down. I need to get Elena's phone number. I wondered if she even owned a phone.

How the hell was I going to deal with Chloey Bishop? Sure the girl was in Tabitha's category of beauty, but she was twenty times worse than Tabitha. She irritated the living crap out of me.

I wondered if Master Longwei knew where I was? Did my dad speak to him too? Did my friends at least know that I was with my father?

What the hell were the tabloids saying about this trip? 

I missed home. The air smelled different up here and constantly trying to hide my scales whenever I got upset wasn't easy either. I almost showed them this afternoon when Elena told me that I was the reason why Chloey did that. Who the hell did she even think she was to put a claim on me like that. She would piss herself if she saw my true form.

I wanted to laugh but then Elena's face jumped into my mind. She would probably piss herself too and then would want nothing to do with me. I needed to find a way to get closer to her. I just didn't know how. The only way was to have a serious discussion with Chloey and just show everyone that nobody is going to lay a claim on me unless their name was Elena Watkins.

The next morning Jace picked me up again in his jeep. It was sick how much money some humans had. He reminded me a lot about Lucian, but he was nowhere nearly as brave as Lucian. He had a snide streak to him too, reminded me a bit about myself too. I was a mess, and I couldn't believe that I was going to pull Elena into all of this, but she was, what she was to me. I had no choice. 

She seemed so tiny and yet she was my salvation, she was Paegeia's salvation and we need to find a way to get these dragons that wanted her dead to stop trying and kill her.

It wouldn't stop once we went back home. 

I just didn't understand why my father  put all this pressure on me.

"Blake," Jace yelled and I looked at him.

"Sorry, didn't sleep much last night."

"What, Chloey kept on texting you till morning hours. She seriously has an obsession, Blake. According to her, there is already a wedding date."

I roared with laughter. "No, I blocked her number."

"Say whaaaaat?" He sounded shocked, but was just acting.

"Haha. She is not my type."

"Chloey Bishop, not your type?" Now he sounded shocked.

I shrugged. 

"Holy f**k. So who is your type?"

"Wouldn't you like to know." I smiled at him as the cold wind in my hair started waking me properly.

"No, don't say it's the artist geek."

"She is not a geek, and she has a name. It's Elena. Sure she has a weird sense of dressing, but she is quite good at drawing."

"She drew you yet?"

"She might have, I'm not sure."

He laughed. "You f*****g with me, right?"

"No, I'm not messing with you. Put a foot on the gas, I would like to see what Chloey is up to this morning."

"That is who she boobied yesterday?" He roared with laughter behind the wheel.

"Yeah, I'm not happy about that either. She practically ran away from me yesterday when I went to say hi. Chloey is f*****g up my groove."

"Your groove? Chloey is going to have a major b***h flip when she finds out, Blake."

"So what. I don't f*****g care, Jace. She is not the sun."

"You have balls man, that I can give you."

"And she will learn fast, nobody puts an unwanted claim on me behind my back."

He drove faster and we reached the school.

I climbed out of the car and for the next fifteen minutes, I greeted so many people I felt sick afterward.

Then the drama queen walked up to me.

"Why didn't you return any of my texts last night, Blake?"

"I was busy, besides, I blocked your number. You are way too much drama, Chloey."

Her face fell instantly as Jace struggled to suppress his laughter.

Everyone was shocked as I walked into the building. My eyes found Elena's figure immediately as she tried to see if her locker was booby-trapped.

I laughed softly and walked over to her.

"She wouldn't do the same thing twice, but just to be safe, let me."

"Oh, aren't you the knight in shining armor." She teased and I opened her locker.

Nothing happened. I chuckled at the look on her face.

"Morning, Elena." Jace walked past us and the guys laughed.

"Oh crap, what did you do?"

"Nothing," I chuckled.

"He never spoke to me before, and now he knows my name, it's just a matter of time before I received a bucket of rocks on my head, Blake."

At that precise moment, Chloey walked past and if Elena could climb into her locker she would.

"Relax, she won't okay. She knows exactly where she stands with me, Elena."

"What?" Elena looked at me with a raised eyebrow.

"Yes, I like to make things clear if you haven't picked up on that by now. I told you before. I like hanging out with you. You are light, not a lot of drama seems to follow you."

"And that is what you like because I'm light." She scoffed. "You clearly do not have an idea of what you are saying."

"I'm willing to find out if you are," I said and walked away before she could say another word or reject me altogether. She was my future, literally. And I had less than three months to get her on my side.