Secrets of the Tanners (Chapters 1-3)
Secrets of the Tanners
Chapter 1
Hello my name is Drake, and until recently my life has been relatively normal. I am a 7'0 ft. tall 18 year old black and blue dragon ...Now. I guess I should start from the beginning.
"Drake WAKE UP!" dad yelled from downstairs. "Be down in a minute" I said, the smell of burnt toast and eggs was in the air that morning, which could only mean one thing.... "Promotion" I said out loud, dad had been trying his best to get a better paying position at his work ever since mom left us, which I don't think is possible when you are an accountant for a modeling agency. "Hey Kiddo, sleep well?" Dad asked when I appeared at the bottom of the stairs. "Kinda I was up studying for my math final" I replied. He handed me a plate of burnt toast, badly cooked eggs and a glass of orange juice. "Thanks dad, but I think I will buy my lunch at school". "Oh ...uh...ok, see you when we get home" He replied sadly. I hated seeing my dad sad, but I couldn't risk eating his breakfast. I grabbed my bike from the garage and headed to the second best place in the world, Algernon Community High School.
*Chapter 2 *
"Morning Drake" said Danny, my best friend. "So what's up?" I asked already knowing what he was going to say. "Well let's see, airplanes, satellites,.." The bell rang, the term 'Saved by the bell' came to mind. I walked into my first class, AP Biology. "Good morning class" started Mr. Brookes our monotone teacher. "We are going to learn about the most spectacular discovery in the world!" I looked around and saw half of the class asleep and turned back to Mr. Brookes. "Can anyone tell me what that would be ... anyone, anyone at all" I raised my hand, "Yes you Mr. Tanner". "If I remember correctly" I started in the same monotone as him "Molecular Coding" I completed. "That is correct Mr. Tanner and guess what your prize is..." I looked at him "A Detention, congrats" He said handing me a yellow slip. I knew I shouldn't have said it like that. 'RING' Time for Gym. "Line up!" screamed our gym coach, Mrs. Voss.
Everybody groaned everyone except Tony Anderson, the quarterback for the fighting wolves. Everybody envied him, especially me. Honestly you could help but to, I mean his about 6'2, 250lbs of raw anger. He turned and saw me staring. I quickly turned my attention to our coach.
"Time for some cardio" Mrs. Voss announced. We ran for 30 or so minutes, and then practiced some basketball. Then headed off to the locker rooms, I was at my locker and noticed someone behind me. I turned to see Tony glaring at me, butt naked, I gulped. "See something you like fag?" he said in a hushed tone. I shook my head. He smiled deviously; "I didn't think so" He went back to his locker. And I let out the breath I was holding in for the past few minutes. Then I thought 'fag? What's that'? The rest of the day continued like it normally does. After school Danny asked if I could come over, "Sorry man, I can't I got to get home to see if my dad got that promotion" I said. "It's fine, another time, maybe?" he asked, "Sure maybe this weekend" I said. He smiled; I truly believe I am his only friend. "Um hey Danny, what's a fag?" He looked at me like I was crazy, "It's another word for gay, stupid." I was taken back by the way he said that. "See you later, Drake" he said angrily. "See you bro"
Chapter 3
Dad wasn't home when I got there, so I grabbed the spare key we hid and walked into the house and went down to our basement/spare bedroom/lab, I walked down and went over to the bank of computers on the wall. And turned one of them on, which then proceeded to turn the rest of them on; I got most of the computers at school auction. And then I went over to the ChemAna3212, it was a chemical analyzer I had bought off eBay, in my spare time I do chemical testing for a local hospital. I switched it on, and went over to the main computer and logged in; the basement suddenly went from pure quite to a symphony of the windows log on music, and then quieted back down to just a hum of computer fans. I brought up the ChemAnalyzer program and logged in. The screen popped up to the last thing that was saved, but it wasn't my work. 'Genetic Recession' was the title, I decided to see what it was about but it was mostly graphs of DNA codes and theories, I was about to start a new page when something in the last sentence caught my eye. 'If I turn off dominate D-Genes, then offspring should have Recessive as a Dominate| Analysis completed by Nathan J. Tanner at 4:44 am-Yesterday.' I sat there stunned, unable to make heads or tails of this, that's when I heard dad come in upstairs, I quickly exited the page and began to work on what I had to do. Dad came down stairs, "Oh, hey Drake when did you get here?" he asked. "Uh l-like 2 minutes ago" I said still trying to figure out what those graphs were. "What are you working on?" he asked. "Uh..Uh..W-W uh work" I finally choked out. "Ok see you upstairs"