Chapter XIII

Wake-y, wake-y, Jaeda! Come on, get up! We…uh… well, you'll have to see for yourself…

Jaeda slowly stood herself up and rubbed her eyes. She looked to the left and saw Brainwave. He had his right arm over her waist.

"What…what happened?" she groaned.

We sort of, uh… 'slept in'.

Jaeda took a look at her surroundings. She saw grass growing on top of rock and soil, with a few trees surrounding both of them. She looked up and saw a pink and orange ceiling. No, it wasn't ceiling.

They slept on top of the mountain!

"Damn! What time is it?!" she shouted.

It's 6:52. Do you think we can make it back?

"Without getting busted? Probably not. By now my dad would've had the police out looking for me," she said. She stood up on her feet and brushed off the dirt and leaves left on her pants. "We go now!"

Okay.

Jaeda helped him get up. "Well, I guess we might not see each other for a while. I'm nearly late for school and my dad's going to be pissed!"

At the speed that Brainwave went, they arrived at the house in twenty minutes. They had already spotted a police car parked up in their drive way, so Jaeda told her robotic friend to sneak over into her bedroom window.

When they got in, Jaeda said "Help me!" She was taking off her clothes (hoping Brainwave wouldn't mind) while Brainwave was getting some new clothes for her. He tossed them over to her and she put them on as quick as she could. While she was dressing, Brainwave took a look at Jaeda's school schedule and figured out all of her supplies and put them into her backpack. When Jaeda was done putting her shoes on he handed her the bag.

"Now you try to sneak down there and get back into the container. I don't think my dad could've gone there yet. I'll distract him."

Alright. Do you think he'll buy this?

"He better! Just start praying, and I mean it!"

Lord Primus help us!

Jaeda gave a little laugh and walked down the stairs to see her dad talking to the policewoman and her mom crying on her husband's shoulder.

"Are you sure she didn't run away, Dr. Scotts?" the policewoman asked.

"Why would she run away? We weren't tough on her!" he answered in a raged tone.

"You'd be surprised, actually," she said as she wrote down something on her pad. "Do you think she was stolen?"

"I'm not sure. Everything is as it was last night. Even the front and back door were locked. I don't see how-"

"Hi Dad!" Her father whipped around to see Jaeda coming down the stairs and walking up to him. "What'cha doin'?"

"Uh…well, I uh…" The doctor didn't really have anything to say. He was sure his kid wasn't there when he went up into her bedroom, and now here she was, smiling up at him.

"Is this Jaeda Scotts?" said the policewoman.

"Uh, yes," Jaeda answered for her dad. "I'm Jaeda. Nice to meet you, Miss…"

"Stone. Amanda Stone. Were you up in your room just then?"

Jaeda found this rather easy. "Yes I was." It was the truth, wasn't it?

"All night?" Now it was time for a lie.

"Yeah. At least when I woke up I was there."

"Well, that's all I need. See you later, Dr. Scotts," the policewoman said.

"Thank you, Officer Stone," George answered coldly.

She tilted her hat and drove off in her car. Jaeda's dad ran his fingers through his head. As for her mom, she cried tears of joy and hugged her daughter.

"Oh, Jaeda!"

"Um, Jaeda," her dad spoke. "When I went up there, you weren't there at all." Jaeda took a glance behind her and saw Brainwave taking a slow crawl down the steps.

"Uh, I was in the bathroom. I got up early and couldn't go back to sleep." Unfortunately, lying was getting a little too easy for her. How long will it be until she lies to her other members of the family?

"In the bathroom?"

"Yep."

"What time?"

"What time?" She looked at Brainwave again. This time he looked back and put his index finger to his mouth. And continued down the stairs.

"Well, I woke up at 5: 45, I think. And that's when I went to the bathroom. When I couldn't go back to sleep, I started reading my history book, just to see if I had missed anything the other day." Oh my gosh, it made sense! Jaeda was shocked at herself!

"Reasonable enough," said Emily. "Don't you think, George?"

"I'll take it for now. Now get some breakfast, and fast! We're leaving in ten minutes."

"Okay, just let me go check on Br- Sparx!" She had forgotten that her dad didn't know about his real name. Before her dad protested, she zipped down into the basement.

"Brainwave, you still up?" she said when she saw his optics closed. They slowly opened and he smiled at her.

Nice distraction!

"Yeah, but I don't like lying to them." Then she changed the subject. "That was so awesome! It was like a movie! Boy and girl sneak back into the room and try to hurry up, the whole scenario! It was amazing!"

Both of them laughed and looked at each other again.

So I'll see you when you get back?

"Definitely! This time we go back before we fall asleep."

Okay! Have a good day!

"See ya!"