The Red Drink... (Book #1 Of The Dragons Series)

Chapter 4

Remember how I said that I love flying? Well now from planes and choppers, it's just flying with wings. And the most unfair part of flying back in a days flight in a plane, is that I could fly back myself and make the journey shorter. And there is nothing, I mean nothing to do on this plane. Sure it may have some television screens on the back of the chairs but ever since I became a dragon, this kinda stuff is just a bit boring. (cue collective gasps of each human that reads this)
And worse of all, the dragon is talking away about stuff I don't even care about, or should know about. And then my parents are trying to convince me to sleep, but I can't, not because I don't want to, but because I'm not tired at all.
Perhaps I should tell my parents my big (and new) secret.
Should I?
Let's see, what would go wrong?
1. My parents could disown me.
2. I could get put in jail/a lab.
3. I could be killed.
On the other hand:
1. I could be given freedom.
2. I could screw school.
3. Life could be awesome.
That's just what I can list off, but there could be more.
Lots more.
Or less.

Finally! We have arrived! I wish I could kiss the Kenyan ground but that will have to wait. Till I get home.
Another thing is going to happen when I get home.
I'm kinda nervous though. So I hope that the traffic between here and Karen is going to be massive.
But like most things in my life, it doesn't happen. The traffic (for the one part of my life that I want it to be there) is not there. So we're home in about an hour. Hey its not three hours!
So the car parks and the engine is switched off.
"Finally we're home!" I say.
"We sure are. Please help take stuff inside." My mum replies. I grab my 'fun' bag and my clothes bag. I also take the medical bag, and the sleeping bags. I carry them all inside and place them in the places they need to be. Without much effort! Must be the fact that I'm a dragon.
"When did you get so strong?" My dad asks.
"Since new year I think." I reply. I nearly tell him my secret.
"Not yet." I tell myself.
The rest of the day is my parents sleeping while I do random stuff, for some reason I am not jet lagged. It's like I went to my neighbours house, stayer there a night and came back.
Yup.

It's night now. I have been waiting for this moment for AGES! Now it's my chance yo be free, to fly and do whatever I would like, being a dragon that apparently needs half the sleep I once needed. It's one of the best things to happen to me.
I have somehow procrastinated telling my parents for the entire day. I know that I have to tell them eventually. But I hope for that eventually to be in the morning.
I can feel the wind whipping around my face, pushing my wings. It's strong whistle is geared by my ears. It is cold because I'm so high up,but I'm not affected. I take a dive and pull up from hitting a house at the last minute.
Someone screams and I quickly pull up back into the clouds.
"Shoot!"
I then try and find my bearings. I see some pink in the sky and realise that it's getting early.
I'm starting to get tired. I look down and see Kibera.
How did I get to the slums?
It's a long fly back. I have to fly higher and higher as it gets brighter and brighter. I think at one point I heard the shutter of a camera.
And I start to get scared.
Eventually it gets really bright but by then I make it to my house, my 2 acre garden. I land and quickly become Human. I hope my parents aren't awake.

"Hmmmm, there have been sightings of a 'dragon' in Kenya, with a photo to go with it." My dad reads from his paper. I internally cringe.
"Apparently it was heading this way." My dad continues.
"Did you see it Jan." My mum asks me.
Should I tell them.
"Uhh, actually I... didn't see it." I say. Yeah I'm that nervous.
"Are you sure?" My mum asks.
Now should I tell them.
"I'm..."
"The picture was taken at 5:45 in the morning, he wouldn't have been able to see it." My dad says.
"Actually I'm..."
"Did you do all your homework?" My mum asks.
"Uhhh, nearly done. But I..."
"Then go and do it!"
"But I need..."
"Now!"
I walk to my bedroom to finish off my homework. A couple math questions, nothing much. My plans to tell my parents was foiled by questions! I need to tell them, but after the incident last night, should I?
Or should I fake my kidnapping by dragon and escape from all this?
I actually think I will do the latter, I'm Introverted, and can't actually understand other people's emotions. It won't hurt me that much.
And who will recognise me when I have scales and more?