"Hey Phoebe!"
I looked up from my sketchbook and saw Sam running towards me with Mikaela behind him. "Hey guys." I said. "Where's the fire?"
"Fire?" Sam cocked his head. "There's no fire. We just wanted to hangout with you, you know, since your one of us now."
"What are you-?"
"The big guys?" He smiled and took a seat next to me against my tree. "Those big metal guys, falling stars, hot sports car, Military secret… Get where I'm going?"
"I'm not stupid, Sam." I frowned and pushed my new red glassed up. "I'm one of them remember? Well sort of… So what do you guys want?"
"Hangout?" Sam said confused. "You do know what that is right?"
"Well, yeah." I smiled. "I just don't see why you guys want to hangout with me. I'm the freak remember? Or did Bumblebee hit you in the head one too many times? Aren't you guys supposed to be hanging out with the 'cool' kids?"
"Your half Cybertronian." Mikaela smiled. "You are one of the 'cool' kids. I can't wait until Ratchet starts testing on you! Maybe you'll be able to transform or maybe you'll have like these really cool powers! You know what would be really cool? If you could fly!"
"No fucking way!" I almost shouted. "I hate flying! People are supposed to be on the ground. God would have given us wings if we were supposed to fly! No, thank you very much; I'm perfectly fine on the ground. Let the birds fly and have their space- You guys are just enjoying me being half robot, aren't you?"
"Maybe just a little bit." Sam managed to say between laughs.
"Hey Phoebe have any plans for the weekend?" Mikaela asked me with a smile.
"No?" I frowned. "Why?"
"Well a couple of the guys from base are coming over so we were going to the lake and have a barbeque at Lennox's after." She smiled. "We were wondering if you wanted to come too, you know, to get to know you better and all. You can bring your foster parents if you want. I'm sure Sarah won't mind. And besides you can't leave a girl alone with those guys." She pouted
"I guess I could come but I'm not really aloud out of the house with Decepticons driving around. Does Optimus know about this? I'm not sure if I should do this."
"Oh come on." Sam grinned. "You could use a break from everything. It almost summer vacation! The Autobots will be there too so what could go wrong? You'll love it- You can swim right?"
"Well…" I rubbed the back of my neck. "I'm not sure… I never really tried."
"WHAT?!" He laughed. "Okay, so you don't like flying and you can't swim. Is there anything you can do?"
"I can kick you ass if you don't watch it. " I snapped playfully. "Okay, I'll come." I smiled. "But you have to promise me that you won't push me in the water!
XxX
"Why did I agree to come with again?" I asked Mikaela as we sat in Bee's alt mode on our way to the lake. This was such a bad idea. I couldn't believe I was doing this. I couldn't swim and now almost everyone was going to be there and I didn't want to make a fool out of myself. People would see my scars and I was in no mood to explain them. Maybe I could just stay for an hour and ask someone to drive me home.
Too bad Thomas and Darla couldn't come, they both had to work. Thomas at the garage and Darla at the kindergarten around the corner. You gotta have respect for that woman. I couldn't be easy to be around small kids when you know that you can never have any of your own. I don't think that they should listen to the doctors - doctors are stupid – they should just try again because doctors are never right, in my opinion, especially not when it comes to the term 'never'.
They told me that I would never be able to walk because of my 'strange' bones. They thought that I would never be able to see because my Iris was red. They said that I would never be able to live a normal life… That is half true, giant robots aren't 'normal'. Well it is now… Ha!
"We're here!"
I jumped out of my seat when Bumblebee's holoform appeared next to me. He was jumping in excitement. He looked like a kid in a toy store and once my heart rate calmed down again I couldn't help but smile.
Sam parked the car between the red Ferrari and the silver Pontiac Solstice.
Man! Jazz was playing music really loud… Can't believe he didn't blow up his speakers yet. I wondered how loud Barricade must have shouted to get Ratchet's attention.
"Yo, Phoebe!" Sam waved his hand in my face. "You okay?"
"What?" I snapped out of my head. "Yeah, yeah I'm fine." I smiled and stepped out of the car. "I was just thinking of something. Nothing to worry about."
"If you say so." He said and shut the door. "Whoever reaches the lake last is a rotten egg!" And he bolted to the lake throwing his shirt of along the way.
I looked at Mikaela and she smirked at me before we both ran after Sam. A laugh escaped my mouth when I passed Mikaela. I felt awesome. I sped up and ran up to Sam. I loved the shocked look on his face when I past him.
I reached the lake first but I slammed my heels in ground and stumbled over the grass before I could land in the water. There was no fucking way that I was going to get in the water I told myself as I caught my breath. Too many bad memories.
Suddenly the air was knocked out of me when Sam crashed into me, sending us both down the water.
Sam was just laughing his ass off as I clung to him half screaming. I wrapped my legs around his waist and tightened my arms around his neck as tightly as I could. I was going to kill him for getting me soaked! I hadn't brought any spare clothes and I wasn't even wearing my swimwear because I COULDN'T SWIM!
"Pheebs…" Sam choked out. "Someone help! Can't breath… here!"
"Too bad, moron!" I shouted, slowly starting to hyperventilate and pushed my glasses up and the bangs from my face. "I told you I couldn't swim! NOW GET ME OUT!"
I screamed when someone pulled me off of Sam and wrapped an arm around my waist. I tried to splash him away but he dunked me under water.
"Calm down, Sweet Spark." I heard Sideswipe laugh as I clung his shirtless muscly torso when he lifted me up again. "It's only water!"
"Sideswipe," I said. "Tell me… Does your holoform feel pain?"
"Um… No."
"If you ever push me under water again I am going to test that theory and I will promise you that you will feel pain." I threatened and I felt my eyes glow slightly as I looked up at him. "Now, would you please just get me out of here? I don't like water."
"So the squishy can't swim?" He laughed and before I could say anything he dunked me under water again.
"You son of a-" Sideswiped dunked me one last time before stepping out of the lake with me still hanging on to him as he carried me bridal style. I would have hit him in his holoform head if I wasn't coughing my lungs out.
XxX
It felt weird to have laughing people around me as I lay in the grass drying in the sun. It was a funny sound but I liked it. It was strange to have people and holoforms around me, I wasn't used to it yet. It had been four days since I returned from base.
It was nice being back home, even though it would only be for a while. There were only seven weeks left of school. I had missed a lot after Barricade tried to save me. Apparently my 'malfuction' had been worse then I thought. I had been out for nine days after I was found in the snow and the Decepticons had held me captive for five days but I had been unconscious for three of them. Ratchet told me that it also had taken them a day to find me in Russia because of the weather there and they couldn't spot me right away because my 'signal' had been too weak for Barricade to detect.
Thinking about Barricade made my heart itchy. I didn't like it but I have had this weird feeling in my chest since I shook Barricade's finger or hand or whatever. It was this weird pulling feeling and it was getting really annoying.
I snapped out of my thoughts when someone held a bottle in front of my face.
I looked up and smiled a little as I accepted the drink from Sunstreaker.
"You're not going to swim?" I asked with a smirk.
"No."
"Why not?" I laughed. "You don't seem like the I'm-afraid-of-water type of a guy."
"I'm not." He huffed. "There are to many fleshlings running around and I don't want them touching my paint."
"You're such a Drama Queen." I shook my head with an amused smile before taking a sip from my drink. I almost choked to death. This wasn't Coke or 7-Up! This was freaking energon! "What the hell?!"
"Is something wrong?" Sunstreaker asked with a worried frown. "I'm sorry… Ratchet said that you had had energon while you were with the Decepticons. I-I shouldn't have given you it. I'll get you something else."
"What? No, no, no, no! Sunny, it's fine." I smiled I grabbed him shirt and pulled him back down next to me. "I just thought it was something else. It caught me bysurprise a little, that's all. I forgot how good this stuff was."
"You should try the energon from Cybertron or high-grade." He smiled. "Oh, by the way… If you call me Sunny again then I will drop you in the lake without a second thought and leave you there."
"Exactly like you would do if I touched your paint?" I gave an evil smile and reached out to the yellow Lamborghini that was on my left.
"Don't even try it, femme." He growled and narrowed his eyes on me. I was actually kind of fun to tease him like this. No wonder Sideswipe thought that this was fun. "Phoebe… Do. Not. Touch the-"
I touched the car and I swear felt it shudder but I had no time to think about that anymore since I had Sunstreaker's holoform running after me. I screamed when he almost caught me but I dodged him just in time. I jumped through the crowd and over girls that were trying to sunbathe.
I looked over my shoulder and cheered when I had lost Sunny. I leaned on my knees as I caught my breath. All that running from Decepticon had made me one hell of a runner. My clothes had dried but my hair was still damp and stuck to my face, much to my distaste. It was going to be one hell of a mess once it was fully dry. I laughed breathlessly but someone suddenly appeared in front of me.
"What are you doing here, freak?"
I gasped softly and looked up. Trent's eyes were locked on mine and the other jocks surrounded me. I groaned silently, I didn't like where this was going and the fact that letters appeared in front of my eyes wasn't helping me calm the small panic.
"What? Surprised to see us?" Trent laughed.
"Not really." I said standing up. "Apparently you guys appear where ever I am so I don't think it's anything new." I had faced Decepticons so I was not going to be afraid of these idiots. "Now are you guys going to move or do I have to spread my freak germs all over you?"
"Did you get new glasses?" Trent asked and snatched my glasses from my eyes before 'accidently' dropping them and 'accidently' stepped on them. "Oh sorry." He gasped and faked a shock. "I didn't mean for that to happen. Aw, is the little girl going to run home to her fake mommy and cry?"
"No." I growled and my hands turned into fists. I had had enough! "First I am going to beat the shit out of every single one of your guys over here, then I am going to visit your little whore Brittany and her friends and then I am going to reshape you face. Now get out of my way, I have been through enough crap these last couple of days so fuck off!"
"Ooh, the freak has grown balls since last we saw her." Trent said with an evil smile and the jocks moved closer to me. "Come on then." He teased. "Throw the first punch. Don't tell me that you don't want to do it… Go on, I'm waiting."
"Hey!" I exhaled in relief when I heard Jazz's voice. I would have snapped if he hadn't been there. Trent looked over his shoulder and sure enough, there was Jazz's holoform walking up to us with Sideswipe, Sunstreaker, Mirage, Bumblebee, Sam and Mikaela behind him.
Jazz was a cool guy, so of course his holoform was cool too. He had dark skin, his black hair was braided in cornrows and he had an earing in his left ear. He was wearing black vans, black skater jeans and a silver tank top, showing off his Autobot tattoo on his shoulder. Of course Jazz being Jazz, he was wearing headphones around his neck and he had a couple of silver bracelets around his wrists.
"I didn't know you would go this low, freak." Trent laughed. "Does the little monster need her friends to get her out of trouble? Pathetic! I didn't even know you had friends. How much did you pay them?"
"You okay, Sweet Spark?" Sideswipe whispered as he and Sunstreaker took a step next to me.
"I'm fine." I growled through clenched teeth. Truth was, I wasn't. I was so close to shutting hit face once and for all.
"Is there a problem here?" Mirage asked as the jocks took a step back while the other Autobots moved around me. I felt safe. Finally!
"Why don't you just go a wash your car or something, Trent." Mikaela snarled. "I'm sure you don't want your new little bunny to get her greasy fingers all over it."
"Mikaela, Mikaela." Trent tsked. "Still with the Wikkickey loser?"
"At least he's not a jerk and it's Witwickey." She said and grabbed Sam's hand. "And I get to drive in his car, which is much cooler then yours by the way."
"You mean that piece of crap Camero?"
I think I just hear Bee growl as he stood next to Sam. This was one hell of a stand off!
"Let's go." Jazz ordered and shoved Trent out of the way. "These slaggers ain't worth ou' time."
The twins both grabbed my hand and started to lead me away but not before Sunstreaker had a final word. "Come anywhere near her again and my twin and I will put you in recharge and make sure that you stay there. Got it?!"
"Not to mention these idiots around you." Sideswipe added. "Come on, Sweet Spark. Let's not waste anymore time on these pieces of scarp."
At least this chapter was a little happier :3
Let me know what you think! I still have a couple of chapters before I go to Kenya, so do not fear my dear readers! (I have no clue) :3
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XxX KneelingAngel
