Chapter Six
We arrived in the park after a nice stroll through the neighborhood. The car-beings rolled alongside of me on the sidewalk, asking questions about how humans lived. One time, a dog barked at us, and the cars jumped and scattered.
"What was that?" Boost asked, clinging to my legs.
"A dog," I replied, chuckling. "Another kind of pet animal."
"It's loud!" Wingo commented.
The park was bustling with activity. The car-beings stared, wide-eyed, at all of the different vehicles and their human owners. As we made our way through, the car-beings elicited a lot of stares from the show attendees. A few stopped and asked questions, and were surprised that the cars were actually alive and could talk.
"Yo, we're famous!" Wingo proudly exclaimed.
Boost and Snot Rod spotted a group of muscle cars and went over to check them out. Wingo and DJ followed me to a modification vendor booth. The woman in the booth smiled.
"Those are sure cute little miniature cars you have there," she said.
"Oh, these are my friends," I replied, sort of automatically. The woman looked at me rather strangely. I turned around and looked at DJ and Wingo, who had decided to play a trick on me. They were parked very still and had their eyes closed, so that they looked like inanimate objects. I rolled my eyes.
"Knock it off, guys," I scolded. Wingo tried very hard not to laugh but couldn't hold back. He and DJ erupted into a fit of giggles. The woman in the booth jumped in surprise, but then joined in the laughter.
"I have never seen anything like them," she commented, laughing. "They're funny and cute."
Wingo puffed up with pride. "Thanks, yo," he replied. DJ snorted and rolled his eyes.
"Where on earth, or not, did you come from?" the woman asked in somewhat disbelief. By this time, quite a crowd had gathered around us. DJ tried to explain the strange light and how they ended up with me. I watched the reactions of the people standing around. I could tell a lot of them were having a hard time believing what they were seeing.
"Someone pinch me," one man said.
Boost and Snot Rod joined us. People were now taking pictures with their cameras and cell phones. I started to feel a little concerned for the car-beings being thrust into such instant celebrity.
"Thanks, everyone, for your interest," I announced, "but we do need to get going now."
I made my way through the crowd with the little cars following me. People reached out to feel them as they rolled past.
"Yo. Why are we leaving?" Wingo asked once we were clear of the crowd.
"I don't want stuff happening too fast," I replied. "People won't leave you alone before long."
"I like it, yo," Wingo said.
"She's right," DJ said. "We're freaks on display."
"Oh, I wouldn't say that," I commented.
"The humans were always touching us," Boost added. "To see if we were real. It was strange."
"I was scared," Snot Rod said and sniffed. "I dun like being a freak."
"Poor guys," I said to myself, knowing too well what it's like to not fit in.
We made our way back to the house, unaware we were being followed.
