Sabrina's POV
I woke up the next morning to my dad calling my name, asking me to get dressed for school. Groaning, I toss off my bed covers and slowly trudge over to my closet, and taking out a pink college sweatshirt, a red v neck tank top and a pair of black platform ankle boots. I went to my dresser to get out a pair of ripped jeans. After I got dressed, I walked over to my desk and put on some makeup. Putting on my waterproof mascara and my light pink liquid lipstick, I walked downstairs and enter the kitchen. I see dad's furious face as he sees what shoes I decided to wear today.
"Sabrina Tucker, go back upstairs and put on a different pair of shoes." he says sternly.
"But, dad, that will ruin my outfit." l pout.
"I don't care. You could twist your ankle." he warned.
"I'll be careful, dad, besides, I walk down the stairs just fine didn't I?" I said with utmost convincing.
"Don't sass me, young lady. Go back upstairs and change your shoes now!" he angrily exclaims.
I leave the kitchen, and sit down on the bottom step of the staircase and take off my boots. Carrying them in my right hand, I walk back to my room and approach my closet.
He never had a problem with me wearing those shoes when mom was here. Why is he acting so differently? I'm going to show him, and everyone at school that I can be rebellious.
Walking over to my bed, and sitting down to put my boots back on, l grab my book bag, violin, and my purse. I finished all my homework in school, so I have enough room in my book bag to put the violin case safely inside it. Putting it in the second pocket away from my back. I zip it closed, and put it on my back, then walk over to the window, opening it and taking out the fire escape ladder dad had bought. I place the ladder onto the window sill and quietly unroll it. I pick up my purse and put it on my left shoulder as l climbed down the ladder. I glanced at my watch and see that it is 5 am.
Dad, just because mom is in the military that doesn't mean you can wake me up before sunrise. I don't even have to be at school till 8:15.
I decided to take a morning walk to clear my head. I get three blocks before my cell phone starts to vibrate. I take it out of the front pocket of my purse and see that it's my dad.
"I'm sorry, dad, but I don't want to talk to you right now." I answer, ending the call before he has an opportunity to reply.
I shove my phone back into my purse and keep on walking. Getting to the stop sign, I see Cliffjumper drive up to me from the corner of my eye. He stops and opens his passenger side door. Looking around to ensure that no one's around, I get inside taking off my book bag and purse, and set them on the floorboard, sitting down in the seat and buckling my seat belt.
"Hey, Cliffjumper, what are you doing here?" I ask.
"I was on my morning patrol, and I saw you." he says calmly in his western tone.
"It's too early to go to school. Do you think that we could go back to your base? I'd really like to get a bit more sleep." l say, yawning a bit.
"I was about to ask you why you're up this early." he says.
"My dad thinks I function better when he wakes me up before the sun is up." l say.
"Why are you walking around Jasper this early?" he asks again.,
"I got into a fight with my dad. He didn't want me to wear my boots to school." I say.
A few seconds later I hear a rumble of thunder, and see some dark clouds rolling in as I glance in the rearview mirror, I sigh in relief realizing I'll be safe from getting soaked. I lean back and close my eyes, then fall asleep as I feel Cliffjumper pull away.
Cliffjumper's POV
I activate my holoform and look over towards the passenger seat, pulling back into the base., I see Sabrina in power down. After I try, and fail to wake her up, I transform to my robot mode, carrying her over to where the TV is and laying her down on the couch. I turn around to see Ratchet and Arcee walk up to me.
"Why did you bring that human here?" Ratchet asks.
I put my finger to my lips, "Shh, Ratchet you'll wake her up. She needs a place to sleep other than her house."
"How come?" Arcee asks.
"She said that her dad freaked out about what is was going to wear to school." I whisper to the two of them.
Arcee walks over to the railing and sees what Sabrina decided to wear to school, "I don't see anything wrong with her outfit it's within the school's dress code."
"Cee, how do you know what the school's dress code is?" I ask.
"I was doing some research to get to know this planet better when I stumbled upon it." 'Cee says.
I walked away from Sabrina so she wouldn't hear any more of our conversation. Hearing a buzzing sound around an hour later, we turn around to see Sabrina waking up. She reaches over to the table and takes out her cell phone from out of her purse. The buzzing sound stops as she sets her phone down on the table. She slowly sits up on the couch and turns around when she hears me walking up to her.
"Morning Sabrina." I say smiling.
"Hey, Cliffjumper, I take it Ratchet is the orange and white Ambulance robot that isn't fond of humans?" she says.
I nod and put my right hand in front of the couch. Sabrina hesitantly hops off the couch and lands on my hand. I walk back over to Ratchet and Arcee. A few seconds later we hear a loud growling sound.
"What was that?" I ask.
We look down at Sabrina to see her cheeks begin to turn red, "Sorry everyone, that was my stomach. I'm a little hungry. "
"I can take you to your house." I say.
"No thank you Cliffjumper. I'd rather pick something up from the diner. If you are aliens, don't you want to maintain that a secret from everyone else? Don't you have some program you can be used for to make a fake human? So the citizens won't think we have haunted cars driving around Jasper." Sabrina says.
"We do have a program that creates holoforms." Ratchet answers.
"Really?" Sabrina gasps.
"I'll show you what mine looks like," I say.
Sabrina's POV
Cliffjumper activates his holoform program after he sets me down on the floor. He sees a slightly unimpressed and worried look on my face when I see a twenty-year-old man wearing a t-shirt with a picture of a bull and the phrase, "You mess with the bull you gets the horns" on it, a pair of ripped jeans and black leather cowboy boots with spurs on the heels.
"Not bad, but if my dad sees this walk me to the door, he might freak out, and call the police." l say.
"What do you suggest?" he asks.
"I think you should just try to look like a high school student. Then you could tell him that you graduated early and came back to Jasper when you found out the college you applied for and attended; the staff didn't treat you with respect, so you had to drop out. " I say making up the description.
"That is a pretty accurate and long explanation." Arcee says.
"Well, I'm a terrible liar, at least this sounds realistic, so that he won't get suspicious."
"Shouldn't I have a human name so we can keep up this ruse?" Cliffjumper asks.
"How about Clark?" l suggest.
"Sounds good." He says
"Sabrina, you might have to help Ratchet with reprogramming Cliff's program to make him look like a high school student." Arcee says.
"Okay, if Ratchet is fine with having me as a temporary partner." I smile.
"Fine, fine, let's get this over with, I need to get back to my scouting for energon." Ratchet says waving his hand slightly annoyed.
Cliffjumper picks me up and puts me on his shoulder. It feels kind of weird riding on the shoulder of a two-story tall robot. Ratchet plugs a cable into Cliffjumper's head, and I see the program appear on the screen in front of us.
"What should the holoform look like?" Ratchet asks, glancing at me.
"You can keep the face structure the way it is, but you need to soften a few of the features and little less facial hair. The hair should part to the left, but have it be a clean cut it, and also the hair should be a light brown, and the eyes should be hazel instead of the color blue they are now. Most human boys aren't that muscular so tone that down about ten percent." I say giving my viewpoint on what Cliffjumper should look like.
"Anything else?" Ratchet asks.
"Nope." l say.
Ratchet finishes typing the updates to Cliffjumper's program, then unplugs him from the computer. As we walk back over to Arcee, Cliffjumper holds up his hand, and I climb onto it.
"How about we take my new holoform for a test run?" Cliffjumper says.
"Sure Cliffjumper, that sounds like a good idea to me. I need to eat something before I go to school otherwise I won't be able to focus on anything, but food." I say.