Jess scowled as she glared at the open desert before her.

She thought that leaving the base help her calm down. However, now alone in the open air (with the exception of Smokescreen parked nearby) she couldn't help but think of Crystal.

She knew that her cousin would have loved the moment of being outside. Even in the daylight. The timid raven haired girl always had some sort of fascination with every small town they found.

Jess recalled moments when she would ogle at the antique shops, looking at the trinkets with envy yet interest.

Once upon a time Crystal had a bag full of small, useless baubles that she bought from previous towns. Sadly though, they lost that bag when their pursuers had almost caught them.

The redhead exhaled a cloud of nicotine smoke into the air as she turned to the town of Jasper behind her.

'No wonder Miko was eager to be at the base.' Jess thought lazily, 'This town is pathetic.'

With that thought in mind, Jess began to wander through the dull town, lazily glancing through the store windows.

From the corner of her eye, she saw Smokescreen slowly drive after causing the redhead to snort.

'Sure, like that isn't inconspicuous.' She thought with a roll of her eyes.

Still she ignored the bot as she continued with her walk, ignoring the stares and frowns of disapproval she was getting from the people she passed by.

She didn't care. It was a free country. She looked old enough to smoke. Not like they could do anything legally to her to make her stop.

Her mood slowly began to deteriorate as she thought of Crystal, how the soft-spoken girl would be making comments on the town or some strange thing that caught her attention in a store window.

Sighing, Jess dropped her cigarette, grinding it to the pavement below with her sneakers, before spinning around to face the car that was tracing her, startling the Autobot.

"I'm bored." She told him, ignoring the stares of confusion she was getting from the passerby's.

Before Smokescreen could even speak, loud music caught her attention, causing her green eyes to drift to the source.

Parked across the street was a silver Shelby Cobra blasting music. Sitting in the driver's seat was a redheaded boy Jack's age smirking at her.

When their eyes met, his smirk widened a bit, winking at her.

Jess knew what she wore would get people's attention. Not that it was a bad thing for her. The young Bonnet lived off the attention. Thus, the reason why she wore the daisy dukes and the skin tight green tank top with a denim jacket over it. Unlike Crystal, she wore what showed off her assets the most.

So, with an enlarged ego, Jess sauntered across the street over to her fellow redhead.

"Salut." She purred, leaning against the window, smiling coyly at him.

"Hey." He said smoothly, not even hiding the fact that he was staring at her chest, "Never seen you around here."

Jess's smile widened a bit.

"Let's just say that I'm here for a super-secret reason." She said in a mock reason.

The boy leaned in closer to her, Jess not even moving when their faces got closer.

"Can you tell me?" he smirked.

"I can," she started before she leaned forward, whispering into his ear, "but you mind end up gravely injured cause of it."

She pulled back and gave him an impish smile.

He stared at her, a bit unsure on if she was serious or not.

"So," he spoke after a while, shaking his head to clear his head from the trance she seemed to put him in, "what's your name?"

"Jessica Bonnet." She answered, "But I like being called 'Jess'. How about you handsome?"

"Call me Vince." He said coyly, leaning out his window, trying to act cool.

Mentally Jess snorted at his idiotic actions but continued to smile at him.

"So Vince," he seemed to melt slightly at the way she said his name, "anything interesting to do in this town?"

Hearing this he smirked, "There's a race that happens every week."

"You just missed this week's." he told her, "I can take you to next week's if you want."

"Are you asking me to a date Vince?" she playfully asked him, her eyes gleaming with amusement.

"Maybe I am." He said, "So, what do you say?"

Jess bent down, her hands on her knees to look at him in the eye, but also pressing her breasts together.

"I say, 'when and where'?" she breathed huskily.

Once again he seemed to be caught in her little trap, his eyes glazed over as he stared at her chest.

"U-um," he stuttered, trying to regain his thoughts before saying weakly, "next Wednesday, five thirty at the KO Burgers?"

Once again Jess smirked quickly giving him a peck on the cheek before she began to saunter over to Smokescreen.

"It's a date!" she called over her shoulder, skipping onto the sidewalk.

Vince still had the dazed look on his face as he held the cheek she kissed when Jess hopped into Smokescreen's passenger seat.

"What did you just do?!" the Autobot yelled once the door was shut.

The redhead chuckled as she leaned back, her eyes glowing brightly in amusement.

"I just got next week's entertainment." She cooed, before looking at the dash, "So Smokey, how do you feel on racing?"

(I am extremely sorry for the hiatus for this story. It took a whole new job for me to get inspired to write this.)