Sarina and the Jealousy

Chapter 22
I watched as the old man slowed his pace and looked me over twice,
“Sarina?” he questioned.
I saw in his dark blue eye’s that he recognized me ,even though year’s hade passed since we hade last saw each other he could see the little girl I hade grown up to be.
I nodded and my heart leapt for joy,  I could feel tear’s wanting to push through.
He shook his head as if trying to get this straight, he looked over at Torah and looked her over and  that sealed the deal,
“Oh Sarina how I missed you!” he said opening his arm’s I ran over to him and through my arm’s around him , and he squeezed me tight,
“I missed you too Grandpa.” I whispered, I felt so relived to see he was still alive and that I still hade family.
We stayed like that for a moment , then he finally pulled me away and looked at me,
“look at you all grown up , you look beautiful.” he said smiling from ear to ear.
For the most part he stayed the same  only now , his hair hade changed to a dark gray and more wrinkles added to his face, but the same loving face was there.
I smiled shyly and tucked my hair behind my ears, I wasn’t used to getting complement’s like that.
“Shawn, I‘d like you to meet my granddaughter Sarina.” he said laying a hand on my shoulder and reintroducing me to Shawn,
“yeah we were just talking.” the friendly charm in his voice hade faded to a mellow tone.
“Sarina Sanchez.” he said my name with a little disgust,” I think I’m going to go and clean the stall’s.” he said leaving without another word. My only thought was ’that was strange’    
{//what’s got his tail in a knot.//} I could hear Torah as she lifted her head into the air.
“so what are you doing here?” he asked “ I’m sure it’s not a trip your mother hade planned.. The last time I spoke to her she… oh we don’t need to get into that know, how’s your father?” I looked down , I hade forgotten he didn’t know what hade happened.
“Grandpa we need to talk.” I said trying to control my voice.
His face grew grim as he listened to the story of what happened and that I hade been living alone and when the dragon booster came -of course I left out the fact that Artha was the dragon booster-When I finally finished my story.
He stood there for a moment tacking it all in. I stood there silently , waiting for him to speak .
He cleared his throat,
“ so you’ve been alone all this time, I thought it was just your mother keeping you away from me.” he stopped and shook his head,
“I should have gone down there, to visit, then I would have known what hade happened.” he said in a frustrated tone  , he shook his head and looked up  at me, his eye’s were glassed over.
“so where have you been staying since the temple was destroyed? Not on the streets I hope.”  his face grew pail of at the thought of me sleeping on the street’s.
I shook my head and smiled,
“I’ve made some friend’s the one’s who were helping the dragon booster, I’ve been staying with them at there stable.”
He smiled and looked so relived,
“who are they I might know them.” he said cheerfully
“well there actually here , we were actually returning a package to , Gwen.” we walked back to the gear shed where they had last been. I couldn’t believe my luck the magndradriconious must have hade a hand in this to make us cross path’s like this.
I knew my friend’s weren’t going to believe it, because I couldn’t .
as we rounded the corner I waved at my friend’s  happily . I knew that my smile would , bring some  question’s from them so I would beat them to the punch,
“Hey guy’s.”  I knew I couldn’t’ control my excitement, Kitt looked at me with the ‘what’s up with you  look’
“I can’t really believe this..” I paused tacking in a breath and looking over to my grandfather “ but I would like to introduce you to my grandfather.”
They all gasped for a moment in disbelief, Conner turned around to face us ,as he was over at the side talking with Gwen. His eye’s set upon my grandfather and he shook his head and looked a second time,
“Yvon?!” he said knowing my grandfathers name. I stood there set back for a moment, he knew my grandfather’s name?
Conner then looked form my grandfather to me, he squinted his eye’s as if he hade never seen me before. His eye’s widened and he shook his head in disbelief. I looked over at my grandfather for some answer’s but he only smiled and chuckled,
“you’ve been staying with Connor Penn?!”   he shook his head and Stepped towards Connor,
“It’s great to see you ! “ he said giving his hand a  shake “ you know I don’t think I’ve seen you since the wedding .”
“wedding?’ I questioned , everyone else seemed as intrigued as I was.
My grandfather chuckled
“why don’t we talk about this over lunch?”
“Lunch , yes!” Lance replied quickly. And we went into the house leaving our dragon’s to roam about.

Once everyone was settled and hade some food on there plates.
My grandpa sat next to me at one end of the table with Conner at the other end , and everyone else filled in to the rest of the seat’s. I looked over at Conner eager to find out how my grandfather and Conner knew each other, Conner’s eye’s met mine and he let out a small chuckle and looked down at the table before he started to tell the story .
“where to start.” he mumbled softly lifting his hand to his neck and rubbing it as he seemed to ponder over something . “Lilly, Sarinas mother and I were Orphan’s together as children.” he said finally looking up at us “ when I first meet her she was rummaging through some boxes behind one of the ally way’s searching for food like I was. She looked only a few years younger then I was and very frail and looked like she hadn’t eaten in a while but she hade spirit enough to tell me off and to go some where else to look for food.” he let out a chuckle. “but I stuck around just keeping my eye on her as she was younger than me and I couldn’t just let her be alone. Later that night some crew member’s found her around there compound and were going to  do away with her like some piece of garbage so I jumped in and stopped them , probably saving her life too. After they hade taken off I went to see if she was alright. She was curled up along one of the wall’s clutching her knee’s I sat down beside her and asked if she was alright, she told me to worry about my self and leave her alone, but in her eye’s I could tell she was scared so I took Lillian in as my sister, looking out for her and helped her with thing. though we were not related .if one of us was in trouble the other would be there to help. we were inseparable, even after we were picked up by DCS and brought to an orphanage we never left each other’s side…  until  I was chose to go with the dragon Priest , and Lillian well she too was chosen by some Priestess . For many year’s our path’s never cross , with my learning of the academy arts and all I rarely ventured into dragon city. then I started racing and trying to get into the academy , where  Lilly and I ran into each other again on the track, she too was trying to get into the academy.” he said looking at me.
Then Grandpa continued “where she met my son, your father Sarina., and to make a long story short they got married . for a while we all kept in touch but then , The secret shearkin order called your parent’s and their dark purple dragon’s into service to protect the mask. After that we rarely got to see each other.”  he finished.
For a moment everyone was silent. As I took in all this new information,
“so that would make Conner your uncle?” Alina spoke up , I wasn’t sure if she meant it as a statement or a question, but Connor  smiled,
“Lilly was like a sister to me, the only person I hade as close as a family. Making you family too Sarina and your always going to be welcome at my stables.” he said reaching out and placing his hand on my shoulder . I couldn’t help but smiling. I hade family again.
“so I guess you and Alina will be moving out then.” Lance said a hint of disappointment lingered in his voice.
I turned to my grandfather , I hadn’t really asked him about Alina , everyone hade given a brief introduction but I never got a chance to explain Alina predicament to him I cleared my voice , figuring I should let him in.
“Grandpa, Alina.” I started not sure how it was I should continue “Alina  has a very intresting story too, as you may have figured out she is the sister of that racer Lucas Bronze, who was killed after a race . And than her mother left her, she has been living on the street’s her self and has no home and I couldn’t just let her stay out on the street’s alone, so I offered to let her stay with me.” I said , my words coming out in a hurry , I looked over at her and smiled “ she’s now become like a sister to me.” I looked back at him hoping that he said that she was welcome.
he looked over at me and smiled,
“Sarina you have a good heart. but your not old enough to take care of Alina by your self, and well I’m running a business and I’m gone a lot. But I know of some one who would be glad to give her a loving home, they have adopted children for years and are very close friends of mine… actually you might even remember them. They live on the stable property in the second building. Most of there kid’s are always working around the stable. Shawn was one of the first they adopted and Gwen is another. ” he said getting up from his chair and walking over to the wall taking a picture off the wall and passing it to me.`
“Is that Scott and Wendy?”  I asked examining the couple surrounded by at least 4 kid’s,
“yup, that’s them.” he said taking his seat again , I looked at all the children’s smiling faces and there own , every child with a different skin colour and hair none of them resembling Scott or Wendy at all , but they all shared one thing for the look in there eye’s and the smile on their faces that all loves on another, ‘this is where Alina belongs’ I thought, as I passed him back the photo , a thought drifted into my mind.
“so what one was there child ? I remember the last time I visited you they were about to have a baby.” I asked tacking a bite of the food that was on my plate, only then realizing how hungry I was.
Grandpa let out a long sigh and sat back in his chair, and scratched the light part of the beard on his chin.
“about two week’s after you had left , we had just got a new dragon to train he was he ever fast , but skittish , any little Clint or clack from anything at the stables would send him running.  I think it was late after noon after he hade gone around the track a couple times he was out in the stables  just bathing in the sun when some one from one of those down city crew’s used my stable as part of a race track , there was at least ten of them that road through, Wendy ran out to see what all the noise was about when she saw them bounding down onto the stables roof and  onto the main street, any way that got skitter onto his feet and without looking he ran d right into Wendy sending her flying onto the ground” grandpa stopped and shook his head “ when they finally got her to the hospital , the Doctor’s went able to help, and after that they said she would never be able to have children again. After that Wendy and Scott made there decision to adopt  starting with a young boy they seen around the track, Shawn.” grandpa smiled   “most of the kids have grown up and started there own life and family but Shawn even after he’s grown up he still stay’s around to help at the stables…and a good racer too , you should see him and his dragon Joeysyd or Joey for short. Never see a couple of racer’s work quite like they have, not since my boy and his dragon Laurence.” he chuckling “Shawn and Joey have been really doing well on the qualifying races and he’s  been up in the top 5 in his last few street races! He’s been working really hard and one of the best rookie racer’s Ive ever hade at my stables.” he looked over at me “and now that you’re here we’ll be able to get you a racing licence and have you and Torah out on the track racing too! “ he exclaimed
he began to eat his meal.
At that moment I could hardly contain my self, I was going to be a street racer!