"Ok Aella lets go and get your first car" Aella's dad stood in the door way beckoning to his sixteen year old daughter. "Yah all right im coming" Aella walked in the doorway to get her shoes. Her dad sighed each time she walked though that doorway she was always a vision of light the backlight making her silhouette stand out even more. Her blue eyes sparkled with delight. Her brown hair hung loosely around her waist; her bangs framed her face perfectly emphasizing her red lips. "Ok dad im ready" Aella had slipped on her runners and had put on a light wind jacket. She raced her dad to their car: a Mazda 3 sport sedan. "Shotgun!" cried Aella. Grinning she got in and the engines revved to life.
Once at the car dealer Aella ran t different cars but she only lingered at one, an old beat up black GMC Topkick. She ran her hands over the hood and checked the price. She nodded with satisfaction it was in her price range. Smiling she looked at her dad and nodded. He winked and told the dealer they had found one. Her dad walked over "honey are you sure, there was a nice affordable Pontiac Wave back there" Aella didn't know why she felt drawn to the truck. "No dad I like this one besides better mileage" he laughed and they went to go sign the papers.
Aella's dad drove home while Aella went for a bit of a joy ride. She sat in the nice leather interior and smelt the new car smell. Smiling she put the key in and started the engines. Suddenly the radio flipped to her favorite station. Gasping Aella smiled "smart car" she commented "what will they think of next" she wondered out loud for a couple of minutes. Aella drove along a long dirt road with lots of bumps. Smiling she pressed the accelerator and floored it. Laughing with excitement Aella suddenly took a turn onto a forest road and full out off roading. Aella smiling wrenched the wheel this way and that swerving trees and other obstacles. Suddenly she popped out of the forest and she saw she was in a meadow surrounded by mountains. Sighing Aella sat back for a little while taking in the beauty. "I love my car" she admitted to her self running the hands over the leather seats.
Aella then took off again looking for a nice tree to climb. She soon found one but had no way of getting to the first branch. She hummed a bit trying to find a way up. Looking around for something to help her up, Aella then spotted her truck. Smiling evilly she drove the truck as close as she dared to get to the tree. Then standing on top of the cab she found she could reach the first branch perfectly. "Thank you" she told her truck. Swinging her legs up she continued to climb the tree until she dared to go no further. Aella had lucked out finding this tree. It loomed over the rest and as she broke through the canopy she let out a gasp. The sky as blue as ever made the mountains jump out at her.
She then looked around and saw a whole manner of wile life including a herd of deer. Smiling she started her decent. Slowly and carefully she jumped from branch to branch. Until she had reached the trucks cab top again. Looking down at her clothes Aella moaned they were grass stained, muddy and wrinkled. "Moms gonna kill me" she sighed to her self. Jumping on the ground she opened up the door and got in. once back in the cab Aella secretly dubbed this place as her secret hide out. Starting the truck she turned around and went back the way she came.
Once halfway through the forest she saw another road and decided to take it. Aella then saw a bunch of mud puddles in her way. She stopped and said out loud "to make my car dirty or not to make my car dirty" after a pause she said "make it dirty" she pressed the accelerator and went through the first puddle splashing her truck with tons of mud. Then next one resulted in the same thing… lots of mud. Once all of the mud puddles were done Aella came across a rocky surface. Smiling she floored that as well suddenly she saw the highway and slowing down she waited for some cars to pass before entering the road. Once back on the road Aella noticed it felt strangely smooth after that long bumpy ride. Aella then made an illegal u-turn and headed towards home.
Aella pulled into her driveway after ten o'clock. Getting out she looked over her car. It was all muddy and dirty. Smiling she patted the hood "job well done mate" suddenly a voice cut through her thoughts "I see you talk to your car more than you do to boys" Aella swung around "mom please not now" she begged. Her mom then spotted the shirt "oh my god what have you done to that shirt young lady!" Aella stammered but then said "like my car" she tried to change the subject. "no wonder boys don't want to go out with out your always so dirty" Aella rolled her eyes and waited for her mom to finish her lecture on how she should get a boy friend. Once her mom was done and had stalked back into the house her pink flip flops and all. Aella turned around to look at her truck again "you are my salvation thanks" she patted the hood again and headed inside.
Once inside her mom came up to her again "hey honey, Laura just called and I arranged for you to go shopping with her tomorrow" Aella's eyes went super round "you WHAT!" she exploded. Aella's mom was unfazed she was used to this "you know shopping, you buy stuff with money preferably clothes and not boy clothes like last time, maybe a dress" she added hopefully "why me, why me" Aella looked up toward the ceiling "if there is a God out there… he hates me"
Aella's mom made a tuting sound and said "your going you need new clothes" Aella raised and eyebrow "I need clothes, I have too much clothes" "but you only have fourteen t-shirts and they have all those rude sayings on them" Aella's mom made a disgusted look when she had said that. "Aella please honey just go have fun" Aella turned around and purposely hit her head very hard against the wall groaning she headed up stairs.
Aella's mom clasped her hands "I don't get it I buy her pretty stuff but she never wears it and the last Barbie I bought her was a disaster I found the remains after cleaning up that bomb she 'accidentally' made" Aella's mom was almost sobbing now "she needs a man in her life" Aella's dad shook his head vigorously he didn't see any thing wrong with their daughter, but then with women there was never enough sighing he went back to his motor magazine. Back in Aella's room she sighed she didn't see any thing wrong with her either sighing yet again she went back to her motor magazine.
The next morning Aella sat in her room dreading the next hour for that hour was the hour when Laura arrived. Suddenly the doorbell rang and she heard her mom exchanging gossip with some one suddenly the door to her room burst open and Laura charged in a smile plastered on her face. Some times Aella wondered if Laura had had plastic surgery, she seemed so fake. "Hello best buddy of mine" Laura practically squealed "hullo" said Aella lazily. "lets go to the mall please and then when we buy lots of clothes we can come back her and try them on and then switch up clothes see what looks better on each of us and then maybe if we try reaal hard we can get a sleep over and then we can watch movies all night and if we do can we watch that new chick flick a brought it with me I haven't seen it yet but im sure we will both like it isn't this going to be so exciting" Laura said that all in a matter of two breaths and thirty seconds.
Aella sat on the bed her mouth open, quickly closing it once she saw Laura's face "did I say some thing?" she asked "you said too much" mumbled Aella under her breath "ok well lets get going before traffic starts pilling up, you know I was in traffic for like three hours once-"Aella cut her off "lets just go" she said glaring at Laura. Laura went off after Aella and crawled into the passenger seat of her car Laura looked around nodded and then went of into her speech of how she liked the truck "nice car" she said "truck" corrected Aella. "What ever" Laura said waving her hand in a who-cares manner. "Any ways it's nice….. But its not cute you need a cute truck to get the guys. And it's to high I could barely get in" Aella started the truck and backed it out of the driveway with ease "are you even listening to me" persisted Laura. "Yes I am, my truck is not supposed to be cute it's for off roading, and it's got extensions that's why it's so high" Aella said crisply. She got onto the highway and started to head for the mall. Only two hopes for having a fun day were there she didn't count the one where Laura got kidnapped.
The first hope was the car shop, a place she spent a lot of time at. And the second was the electronics store. Aella sighed and prepared her self for the longest day of her life. Laura continued to chatter on as Aella made the turn into the mall parkade. She looked for a spot to fit her large bulky truck and was starting to get the hope that they couldn't find a spot when suddenly another truck backed out right in front of her. Sighing in defeat she parked and got out. Once out she waited for Laura to grab her oversized purse. Once she was ready she took one look at Aella and screeched "oh my God where is your purse" Aella took a step back afraid from the sudden out burst. She then took out her wallet from her back pocket and gave Laura a smile. Laura shook her head and said "what it the matter with you girl, guys don't like girl who just carry a wallet" Aella shook her head and walked into the mall entrance. They stood in the main lobby and Aella turned to Laura "ok so ill meet you in the food court at twelve" Laura smiled a knowing smile "there is no way you are going any where with out me, so where do you want to go first?" Aella smiled "the electronics shop" Laura's smile quickly disappeared. "Are you kidding we can't be seen in there that would be so…..nerdy. Ok but after we go my stores"
Laura's smile was alive again. "Ok lets go" she linked her arm with Aella's and they headed to the electronics store. Once at the entrance Laura was beginning to have second thoughts. "Are you sure you wanna go in there I mean think of your reputation" "I have no reputation so I don't really give a damn" Aella was growing tired of Laura. She walked in and Laura trotted after her. Once inside Aella heard someone call her name looking around she saw it was the manager Al.
Waving she walked over to him, Laura stood still gawking "you know these, these…… people!" Aella turned around and decided not to waist any more words so she just nodded "that's sick!" Laura ran from the store sobbing. Aella ran a hand through her hair nervously. "Um that was odd" admitted Al. Aella slammed her head on the counter "you don't even know odd" suddenly a small boy came up to the counter with a game in his hand. Al immediately put on the cool act "hey bud was sup?" the boy shrugged and handed his game over to be scanned. But when he was the price he gasped "forty bucks uh never mind ill just be going now" Aella saw al's face and came up with a plan "aww to bad your mom surgery will have to wait a little longer and what was the amount more that you needed just to get it" she asked winking at Al "oh right the surgery well im short forty bucks"
Al's eyes began to water he placed his head on the counter sobbing softly. The boy looked at Aella a guilty look on his face he quickly put fifty bucks on the counter and ran out with the game. Al stopped crying almost right away Aella turned to him a smirk on her face "the crying was a nice touch" al bowed and said "good quick thinking. Hey to make it up to you want a drink" Aella smiled and nodded and so they both headed out towards the food court. Once there they were joined by another friend Ross the manager of the automotives store. They all sat at a table drinking their coffees suddenly Laura popped out of no where "hey Aella since I cant sit with you meet me at that clothes store over there ill be waiting" she quickly dashed off trying not to be seen with 'those people'
Ross stared at the running form of Laura but when his eyes shifted back to Aella he saw she was braiding her lengthy auburn hair. Ross sighed and said "let it out girl" Aella exploded her fists slamming on the table "I mean just who does she think she is ordering me about that stupid slut only cares about her reputation, and further more she thinks trucks and cars have cuteness levels I mean come on why is every one trying to get me to change" she then placed her fingers on her temples and looked up and al and Ross. Al looked at her and said "I just learned a new word" Ross rolled his eyes and said "once you're done with her wanna come over to the shop I got something to show you" Aella nodded and drained her coffee she then left. Ross turned to al "did you really just learn a new word" al nodded "but I don't know what it means"
Aella caught up to Laura and a soon as she was there she was forced to try on almost every bit of clothing in the store the same thing happened in the next and the one after that, finally she had had enough "can we go to one of my stores now?" she asked putting all of their used clothes back on the shelves. Laura rolled her eyes "sure fine" Aella practically ran out of the store and headed towards Ross' shop. When Ross looked up and saw Aella entering her eyes cut through him but he smiled and said "that must have been hell" "im still obliterating it from my mind" Laura walked in the fake smile plastered to her face "so what are we doing here?" she asked politely "Ross wants to show me something" Ross nodded with a lot of enthusiasm "come here Aella" he lead her into the garage and once Aella saw what was in there she gasped ran and hugged the hood of the yellow Camero with black racing stripes.
Ross laughed and Laura's smile finally faded. "what the-" she began Aella hushed her and continued to hug the Camero. "what is she doing" Laura asked Ross, he laughed and said "what I have here is Aella's favorite car. And her favorite paint job too" Laura didn't get it "what so special about it?" she said walking around it "it looks normal to me" Aella gasped and started to stroke the hood "no she didn't mean that your beautiful." Laura shook her head and she pulled at Aella's shirt "I have to go home now" Aella snapped out of her trance "huh ok lets go, thanks Ross" she stood on her tip toes and kissed him on the cheek. "see you later" Aella and Laura left.
Once back in the car Aella hurriedly got out of the parkade and drove as fast as she could towards Laura's house. Once she was out she backed out of the drive way before Laura could ask about the sleep over. Once back on the road she decided to take her time. Suddenly a police car appeared behind her its sirens calling. Aella sighed and parked of to the side. Suddenly her truck seemed to develop a mind of its own and tires spinning it took off. The police car was after her. Aella started to panic no matter how much she slammed the brakes the truck would not stop. She then kept a firm grip on the steering wheel. But she took a sharp turn which caused her to let go smashing her head on the window. Moaning she healed her head in her hands when she felt a slight turn and another looking up she saw that her car was swerving in between traffic- it was steering its self Aella screamed "oh my God im in a possessed truck. It's possessed."
She screamed but then stopped her body told her to scream but her head told her that wasn't going to help any. She let the truck steer hoping she was in a nightmare but when her truck started to off road at the place she was at the other day the shaking told her it was real. A few seconds later she was in the meadow the truck swerved the door opening and the seat belt letting go. Aella was flung from the truck into the soft grass looking up she tried to get her Barings. She then heard the sound of gears turning and metal creaking. Looking up her truck was now a twenty foot robot. The robot turned to her. Aella tried to move away but her but was rooted to the spot.
The robot yelled at her "RUN!" this caused her to shake and she began running for the woods but looking back she saw the police car was also a robot and was now attacking her truck. Screaming she ran for her tree and hid in it. Shaking she held onto the branch she was in until the sounds of shots and rumbles were gone and only a low moaning could be heard. Suddenly she saw the police car drive away. Her truck then turned to the forest where she was hiding. "Aella" it called. Aella shook even harder "it knows my name" she kept repeating that, until the sounds of large metallic footsteps were by her tree. "Aella" he called again "come out of the tree I wont hurt you" Aella shook so hard she thought she would fall out of the tree "It knows where I am" that added to her repeating. Finally she had the guts to look down. What she saw made her shake so hard she did fall out of the tree. But instead of falling to the ground she fell into the hands of the giant robot. She curled up in a ball shaking "this can't be real" suddenly she felt something at her back it at first was soft until it grew to a pleasurable back rub.
Looking up she saw the robots face. She waited a little more allowing him to rub her back some more. Once she sat up she had stopped her shaking entirely but she was still to afraid to talk to her truck. The robot talked first "do not fear I will not harm you" Aella studied the robots face. His mouth was in a concerned frown and his eyes looked so worried. Aella stood up and the robot brought her closer to his face. "My name is Ironhide" Aella then asked "how do you know my name" "that person named Laura kept saying you name" Aella smirked. "Seeing that you have weapons and all do you mind if I ask you a favor" Ironhide's frown turned into a cocky smile "nah I cant dispose of your friend" Aella snapped her fingers "at least I tried" Ironhide laughed. Suddenly Aella had thousands of questions run through her brain. Ironhide saw her expression and said "we are aliens to this plant but we must remain here until we can find another place to live"
Aella nodded then asked "what do you mean we" well there are more like me and more like that other one that attacked us. I am part of a group called the autobots and that car his name is Barricade is part of a group called the decepticons they don't care about human life while we also protect them." Aella then said "I come in where?" Ironhide shrugged "you bought me im your truck and your protector" Aella did a thumbs up "cool" she admitted. She then looked at her watch "oh crap if im not home in five minutes im grounded," looking up she asked "can I asked you super robot power to help me get home" Ironhide nodded. Letting Aella down he transformed into the Topkick and Aella climbed in.
They got home in three minutes. Aella gasped "that was the best ride of my life, to thank you im going to give you a wash tomorrow" Ironhide shook slightly. "Why do you keep talking to that stupid car?" "Truck" corrected Aella. "What ever" her mom shook her head "so what did you buy?" she asked. "Nothing" Aella walked into the house and went to her room.