The Fire of Life

chapter four
the date


Jacob walked to to his car. A blue truck. "So where are we going today?" I asked. "The most romantic restaurant in town." he answered. "Are you talking about Romantic Fire? That's not only the most romantic, its also the most expensive." I said. "I can afford it," he said," My job pays a lot of money." I didn't pay that much attention to what he said, I was busy wondering why he asked me out. Oh, well. I'll worry about it later I thought.

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When the waitress sat us down I realized that Jacob wouldn't stop staring at me. It was kinda creepy. I grabbed my menu hoping he didn't know I saw him looking at me. I didn't want it to ruin the date. "So, what are you going to order?" I asked. "I don't know. What are you getting?" he answered. "I think I'll get the steak." I said. "I'll get it too." he said. When the waitress came back he simply said "two steaks" and the waitress left muttering something like " How can a girl like that get a boy like him?" I started to get furious, then I felt a calming sensation. I looked up and he was looking at me again. I needed to start conversation.
"So, what's your job. You said you get a lot of money, so I'd like to know." I said. " You don't need to know. Now lets focus on the important thing right now. Us." he said. Us? There was an us? soon he was staring into my eyes, again. "Why do you keep doing that?" I asked. "Doing what?" he said. "Staring at me. Why do you keep doing that?" I said. "Well, your eyes are so beautiful and........ oh look! The steaks here." Sure enough the waitress was coming with the steak.
My steak looked so good. It wasn't as juicy as Jacob's looked, but it was good enough. Before I ate I looked at the waitress, who was about to leave, and said, "Will you please get me a water?" "Of course ma'am." she answered. When I looked back at my steak it looked different. It was juicier. When I looked at Jacob's it looked the same. That's weird.
"Is something wrong?" Jacob asked. "Oh, no. Nothings wrong." I said as I looked into his eyes. His beautiful blue green eyes. Wait. I can't believe I never noticed this before! I thought. One of his eyes is blue and the other is green! Suddenly I smelt poison. Someone had put poison on my steak. If Jacobs eyes were blue and green, there was poison on my steak, and he can't tell me his job then that means, he's a....................... dragon. Oh great. I'm on a date with a dragon.
Well, just to be sure, then I froze everything. "Why did everyone just stop suddenly?" he asked. That concludes it. Jacob's a dragon. "Jacob, I know your a dragon." In a flash I was using magic so he couldn't move. "Now, if you want to survive you'll answer my questions. First, who sent you here to kill me? Second, why did you use poison? I mean, don't you know that I can smell poison better that other things?" "I'll never answer those questions!" he said. "Oh, really? We'll see what you say to that when I chop your tail off." I said with a smile. "Okay! I'll answer, just leave my tail alone." he said.
"That's what I thought." "The Ultimate sent me." he said. My eyes widened. So the Ultimate wanted me dead too. "I used poison because it was the only weapon I have that I can use." I let him go. "Now leave. If you don't I'll kill you." He ran. I unfroze everyone and started walking home.
Once I was out of sight from everyone I decided to fly. So, I transformed into a blue jay. Soon I was soaring through the sky.