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“Don’t worry,” the woman standing there said with a smile, “I won’t tell anyone.”
“You won’t?”
So, she was a cool grown-up.
She wasn’t going to tattle on him. That was good. Nice.
“No, I won’t tell. I need something from you, though.”
Oh, so she wanted a favor.
It was going to be like a trade.
Felix frowned. He knew he wasn’t supposed to be talking to strangers, but this woman had seen him jumping. He couldn’t exactly tell her to leave him alone. What if she told Mom that he’d been messing around?
“Just a small favor,” she said.
“What is it?” Felix asked.
“I have some cake for the wedding,” the woman said.
“Cake?”
Felix’s stomach rumbled. He loved cake. Mama said every little dragon did. That was what she was always telling him.
“Cake,” the woman agreed. She smiled. “Only, it’s too much for me to carry all by myself. Do you want to help me bring it inside?”
He did.
He did want that.
“I’ll give you an extra big piece, of course,” the woman said, “but we need to go now.”
“I gotta tell Mama,” Felix said. He knew he wasn’t supposed to go anywhere without letting his mother know first.
“We’ll be quick,” the woman said. “Besides, your mother is busy helping the bride and groom.”
Felix glanced over at the crowd who seemed to be dealing with a simple problem of their own. He still wasn’t exactly sure what was wrong, but he knew that his mom would be able to handle it, whatever it was.
“Okay,” he finally said, and he took the woman’s hand. She didn’t bring him to the front door of the hotel, though. That was a little strange. She led him down a hallway, through a door, and then down another hallway.
They were walking quickly, and she was squeezing his hand.
Felix tugged, trying to free himself.
Suddenly, he didn’t feel like he wanted cake that much after all, but the woman kept yanking, pulling him along.
“Stop,” Felix said.
The woman didn’t speak. She ignored him and just kept walking. His hand hurt more and more as she tugged, pulling him along, and he regretted the fact that he hadn’t followed the rules and told her to leave him alone.
He wasn’t supposed to talk to strangers.
He wasn’t supposed to go anywhere without permission.
Now, he was starting to think this lady wasn’t going to give him cake the way she promised.
“I don’t want to,” Felix said, digging his heels in the ground. “I want to go back. I don’t want to go with you.”
