The Dragon Ring

Chapter 9: Last Classes

Then the bell rang. I walked to math. We were assigned seats, mine was next to Jack's chair. I like that this is one of the classes that Kelsea doesn't have with me. I went into class.

"You need to tell me some things!" Jack said. I didn't even see him come up to me.

"I know, I know. I will, but not right now."

"Why not?"

"Because everyone is staring at us and I hate being stared at." He looked around. Everyone was staring at us.

"Okay then. Let's sit down then. If that's okay with you."

"Why would I want to keep standing?"

"I don't know. I don't like people staring at me either, so I'm nervous." He whispered.

"Okay then, let's sit down." My arms were getting tired from holding my stuff. We walked to our seats. They were in the very back of the classroom and we were the only ones that sat there, except two girls who didn't hear a thing we said because they were interested in their own conversation.

"What happened exactly?"

"Well first she assigned us to draw a horse. So I started drawing. She commented on my horse, then my ring. Then she said that she always imagined it crawling up her arm. Then she said that she imagined him smiling at her, then saying she lost him and someone else has to find him. The she said that he looked like my ring, so I said who looks like my ring and she said Mycket does. Then she muttered dang it and Mycket came to life. Then she commanded Mycket to go to ring form. Then she scheduled for us to go after school to her classroom."

"How did she figure out me?"

"I said that I was going to go to your house and she said how could I forget about Jack and she set up for us to meet her after school."

"We might need an escape plan." He said with a mischievous glint in his eye.

"Why?"

"Because she might try to kill us." He said calmly.

"Why would she do that?"

"She was banned for not having powers. I think she could be angry."

"But you weren't there when she was banned, so you should be safe right?"

"Mycket was there, so he's in danger. The dragon's theory was she wanted to kill him."

"Why would she want to kill Mycket?"

"She probably wants to kill him because he's a powerful dragon." Our teacher put the warm up on the board. We pulled out our math books but kept talking.

"Okay, what's the plan." I said.

"We need a code word first if we get suspicious about something she says or does."

"Do you have one in mind?"

"Tounge."

"What?"

"Tounge. It's not too obvious and not too long."

"It's pretty random though."

"That's exactly what we want."

"So what's your plan?"

"Well, if she starts doing something suspicious, say or yell tongue. She'll be confused and we can run..."

"Or she would expect us to yell something like tongue and not be confused."

"She'll be confused. Don't worry. In dragon training they teach us to use normal human words for escape plans."

"Why? I thought it was bad to do that."