Elena just stared "You talk?!" He perked his head to the side and searched her face for a clue as to what she was saying. He was also still holding the pizza box, "I guess not," she muttered. Elena pushed her dragon-guy thingy onto the couch while she prepared their dinner. Before she knew it her dad barged into the house. "Soda's here!" he shouted. Her dragon looked so scared at his shouting, his face paled and he held his arms up as if he were caught by the police. Elena put a reassuring hand on his shoulders then whispered to her dad, "He doesn't understand English, dad." "Right.." he responded, "He is a dragon..they communicate through growls and stuff," her dad seemed totally unfazed by it all. "Can we name him? How will he learn English? Do we have to buy him pajamas?," Elena questioned. "Uh...yes, I don't know, sure?" he responded,"Let's start by naming him." "Ah..okay...how about-Lukas?" Elena asked.

 "I feel like I've heard that name before, wasn't that your Norwegian foreign exchange student?" 

"Never mind,  how about Aaron?"

 "Ooh, that's pretty sassy!" 

"Sassy!?"

Aaron just sat there with his head thrashing back and forth between the two as they continued their conversation. "I don't know...I guess we'll come up with that part later," her dad sighed. "What about him learning English?"asked Elena. "Oh-Do we have a dictionary?" he pondered,What kind of question is that? Was the only question that ran through Elena's mind. "No reason, I'll go find one. I'm sure Ma left at least one in the house," he said,mostly to himself. He quickly bolted up the stairs to look. Elena looked at her dragon again, he seemed worried about something. She set her arm on his shoulder again and he sent her a sympathetic smile as if he was guilty for something. Elena glanced at the clock on her microwave-9:30!? She quickly stuffed the pizza into the oven before any more time could pass. After dinner she and her dad set up a guest room for her new dragon buddy and they had all gone to bed.

By the time Elena woke up the sun was already high into the sky. She slowly dragged herself to the kitchen only to find her dragon was eating Merriam Webster's English Dictionary! Right beside him was a note that simply read At Work!-Dad. "AAH!I know you're new to Earth but we do not eat books!" Elena was panicking and frantically trying to pry the dictionary away. His jaws were clenched so hard on the pages that he could've been mistaken for a dog playing tug-o-war. "B-but....m-must...learn!" at that Elena dropped the book and stared, "Excuse me?" "I w-want to l-learn.." he looked really disappointed with himself when he said that. His voice was pretty low compared to Elena's so it was pretty weird hearing him talk for the first time. Elena watched in awe as he chewed down another page and another until-"My name is... Adbjorn,"