The Cute Pocket Dragon

by Jesse Basler

Episode 1

Surrounded by blackness with a few threads of the pants, I was comfy in my spouse`s pocket. Curling up, I tried not to fall asleep. I am not a pet but you wouldn`t know it from my behavior. In fact, I am half human and half dragon. Changing my size, I stay hidden in my best friend`s pocket some days when he works. It can be a nice get-away from my job as a chef. The walking motion is soothing to me and it tries to loll me to sleep in the nice, warm pocket. I am comforted by my best friend, Patrick, especially from his voice as he talks to the white board that he works on. He paces through the room gathering momentum but it does not matter. I finally give in to the desire to fall asleep, and in a flash of light, I wake up. I look around. Outside of the nice, warm pocket, I stood within some grass far away from Patrick`s office building.

No one is there with me. Alone. What? What happened?!

I scrambled up using my tiny feet to prop myself to stand. Wind is blowing so hard that I started to rise in the air from my wings being pulled to the sky. Some moments are rough at first since I am not used to being this size. I fly until I see my friends gathered at a base of a tree with a table set-up that has a round cake on top. A banner said, “Happy Birthday!” What a surprise it was for me! Landing on the table, I walked over to my best friend.

“Sorry for putting you so far away. I thought that you would turn human again,” he said smiling. I had no clothes to put on to turn human again but I could tell him through telepathy that I wanted to stay a dragon. He told everyone else - which was only two other people – which they understood. I wagged my tail and smashed right into the cake. Well, at least, it wasn`t on fire. My small group of friends were covered with cake. I was covered in cake. They laughed and I ate my cake, happily. When everything was done, I cheerily crawled back into Patrick`s pocket which was now covered in icing and I fell back asleep.