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ep.3 home

I'm scared for olive, what if he's caught, he can go to jail for this...

Most people are sent to jail for hiding monsters, no matter what age. If olive goes to jail, I'll have no one.

I have two choices, I can either keep quite or I can get rid of it my self...

Getting rid of the egg my self will be hard, I'll have to get rid of it at night. But, if I'm the only one he's told then he'll know I got rid of it. I wish olive knew how dangerous this is.

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"Thank you!!!" His face was full of happiness. "And will you help me care for it?"

I was drawn back by what he just asked "w-what? Help you???" Helping him would be commiting the crime too, I couldn't.

"Yeah help me, c'mon cloe" is he serious, he looks serious, "ah uh, yes, I'll help you" I gave in not putting up much of a fight, I was still unsure about this situation but he's still my friend and I can't let him go down on his own.

Taking the dragon in one arm and hugging me with the other. "THANK YOU" he drew back with a huge sigh, looking at me with a certain look. "I'm glad I can count on you".

Those words made me feel like I was important. He looked down at my hoodie "and please take that thing off".

I couldn't get rid of the egg now... if it means so much to him.

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After, the weekend and learning about what olive had in store, I was on edge.

Coming home I was noticeably nervous.

When I got home I had hoped I wouldn't run into anyone, but sadly as soon as I walked in the doors there was my oldest brother maison.

Just like Oliver's house the stairs were right in the doors view after you walked in.

With my brothers from oldest to youngest it goes

-Maison
-Victor
-Dax
-Ryke
-James
-Ashton
-Daniel
-Alex

And no I don't expect you to memorize all of their names, but I thought a list might be help full.

Soon as I got inside he spun around and noticed me. " hey there cLoE, how was your vacation?" my brothers love to make fun of my nickname. "Fine, thanks for asking" Maison was the one I hated the most out of all of my brothers and he felt the same way about me.

We're always butting heads and don't see eye to eye. We're constantly fighting, sometimes we even get physical, maison has anger issues and I know just the right buttons to push that'll make him angry.

I dont know why I do this but I do. We're basically toxic to each other.

He also seems to pick on me cause I'm the youngest. I pretend to whisper something under my breathe, which clearly made him unhappy.

"What? What did you just say?!" He said as he started walking towards me. "Oh nothing" I said with a smirk. "Why?"

He got real close to my face "cause I THOUGHT you said something"

"Pfft, oh no no no, wait actually I did say something"

He grabbed me by the front of my shirt "what" he said in a harsh tone.

"What I said was...someones angry to day I let out a small laugh.

Before he could do anything else and to what seemed like he was going to hit me, my father came strolling around the corner at the top of the stairs.

My father's voice was deep and could be heard from miles a way "maison, clover stop fighting".

Maison let go, I was soon looking at my father. Directly looking into his solid black eyes. "But daaaad it was just getting good", I knew if maison hit me he would get into trouble for it.

These fights we would have would get my anxiety high and give me an adrenaline rush. This fight also made me forget about the egg incident.

My father let out a small sigh "clover go to your room, me and maison need to talk" I rolled my eyes at his demand and went up stairs to my room

Like I said they don't like to tell me secrets...

Maison is supposed to be the next greatest bounty hunter, just like my parents.

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You see the weird events started after the dragon hatched, the sleep walking and such. Not much happened while we took care of the egg... oddly enough Oliver had a book about taking care of dragons and other creatures. He said he found it while he was skipping school and found it in the principles office. Yes that is kind of suspicious...

The dragon egg hatched days after he showed me, I don't know how many days after. We had to take turns keeping it in the sunlight and heat. I felt miserable in the heat, the conditioner in his room was no longer on. Most of the time while I had the egg I sang to it and rocked it back and forth, like I was a parent with a new born baby.

In order to keep the dragon hot, I thought these type would need to be in lava. But the book said it was fine if we kept it in really hot temperatures.

The book was in another language that I couldn't read, olive said he could read it.

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It's been days since Oliver showed me the egg and to day it was finally hatching.

Me and Oliver sat there in complete awe at what was actually happening right before our very eyes.

With the cracking noise you could see an opening and cracks in the egg. Pretty soon there was a big enough hole were the dragon was trying to come out.

You could see the babies nose sticking out of the hole it made. Smoke also came out of the egg. Oliver started helping the baby hatch, by breaking off part of the shell.