Zirconium
By Uniasus
~Gallium ~
31) Bumblebee had this crazy need to have explanations for everything, but he just could not think of one for his mom's obsession with bling.
He assumed it had something to do with being a robot – er, mechanoid. Logic relays and all that. Bee wanted to know about everything. The practical stuff was easy to find on the Internet (Why did it snow? What did this slang word mean? What was ice cream made of?), but not everything was cataloged in the World Wide Web.
Usually these casual questions didn't bother him.
Why is your name 'Sam'? Mom thought it sounded nice.
Why does your Dad like to garden? He says it's peaceful and gets him out of the house.
Why do you eat strawberries if you're allergic? Cuz they taste really good, especially with sugar.
But sometimes they stopped him dead in his tracks.
Why does your mother like 'bling'?
Because to be honest, he had no idea. Frankie and Mojo had matching 'bling-a-licous' collars and their doghouse had a shiny dog statue on the roof perched like a hood ornament. The words on the fridge magnets had been traced in glitter paint, many of the flower pots had colored glass stones around the edge, and her favorite nail polish was this clear stuff with gold sparkles in it.
Maybe she liked shiny things, maybe they were always out of the sparkly craft supplies in elementary school, what ever the reason, he had no idea. It was one of those things you just accept and then ignore as much as you could.
So he gave Bee the answer every toddler (and as he was learning, Autobot) hated: "Just because."
A/N: So...my apartment here in NZ doesn't have wireless, so I get pretty bored on days I don't work. And do a lot of writing, among other things. Case in point: I watched the entire first season and half of the second of Transformers Animated yesterday. (Did you know there's a torrent out there that has every TF comic and show?) So perhaps my updates will be a bit quicker than normal, unless I actually start figuring out my research project...nah. If you guys are interesting in something a little less tame...the next part of Mirage in Dolls will be up soon too ^_~.