~The Awkwardness~
Jake yawned tiredly, waking up the next morning and went into the kitchen to get some water and drank it trying to wake up. He noticed Chance coming into the kitchen and smiled. "Morning, Chance."
"Morning." Chance yawned, getting a bowl for his cereal. "Are there any parts we need to order for the garage?"
"I just woke up, I haven't had a chance to look at the inventory list yet," Jake explained, drinking his water. He noticed Bella hasn't come out of her room yet. "Odd, usually Bella's out around the same time we are."
"She must still be tired after last night, we did work almost all night on that motorcycle." Chance said, eating his cereal. Jake nodded, looking at his water. Having Bella around changed him, he became a great teacher and a good friend to someone that has had the worst experience of her life. He saw she was trying to make herself better, smiling to himself.
"What's that smile about?" Chance smirked, seeing Jake's face.
"It's nothing, bud." Jake finished his water, putting his glass in the sink. "I'm gonna go check the inventory list." He walked by the patio, then saw a blur outside out of the corner of his eye looking out the glass door. "Looks like someone else decided to sneak into the yard, come on." He ran out onto the patio with Chance, vaulting over the railing and ran in the direction of the blur.
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Bella was in her workout attire, jumping up the ladder to the monkey bars and started swinging across. "Don't look down, just don't look down." She told herself, at the end, she jumped down doing a backflip and landed running for the tires and jumping through them as quick as she could. The guys hid behind a scrap pile after realizing the blur was her and watched, Bella jumped up another pile as quick as she could and swung across the lake doing a roll as she landed. She kept running and grabbed the pole, vaulting herself over the last pile and made a beeline straight for the finish line and skidded to a stop when she passed it and leaned on her knees. She stopped her stopwatch that she was carrying with her, checking the time. "Dammit, still not fast enough." She tied the tape back across the finish line, it had at least five knots in it now and was barely hanging on.
"Looks like she's been at this for a while," Jake said, noticing the tape.
Chance looked at well, seeing her exhausted. "If she keeps going, she'll blow out like an engine."
"I better eat something before I blow out like an engine." She told herself, walking then laughed a bit. "I'm starting to sound like Chance." The guys chuckled quietly and she looked around, thinking she heard something. "I must be hearing things." She ate some cereal on the patio, her muscles ached but she wasn't going to let it bother her.
The guys had snuck back into the garage, watching tv in the office. "From the looks of it, she must be trying to get fast enough to beat you." Chance suggested, looking at Jake.
Jake shrugged. "Maybe."
A few minutes later, Bella came down in her regular work attire to continue fixing her motorcycle. "Morning, guys."
"Morning." They said, seeing her.
"Running some laps this morning?" Chance asked, smiling.
Bella looked at him. "So it was you guys I heard."
"Guilty as charged." Jake chuckled, Bella smiled working on the outer layer of the motorcycle. "Need any help with that?"
"Maybe, it still needs a glass shield and a pocket for next to the seat above the wheel well." Bella said, working.
"Alright, let me check the inventory." Jake checked the list that hung on the wall, going through their supplies and jotted down a few things putting it into the computer. He then walked over and helped her with a few things, it was perfect. A sealed basket on each side of the seat, adjustable foot stand and short enough for her to get on.
Bella smiled, wiping her forehead with her sleeve. "Now it just needs some paint and glass and it's perfect, I think I decided on a color for it too. Cherry red."
"Not a bad color." Chance said, they all took the motorcycle into the hangar so as not to get anything else painted and the guys started spraypainting it while Bella watched since spraypainting wasn't her greatest strong suit. "One more coat and we should be done."
"Awesome." Bella smiled, she watched them paint and when she and Jake looked at each other they looked away. "I'm gonna go up top and watch some tv while it dries."
"Alright." They nodded, she left the boys to their painting and sat on the couch.
Bella flipped through the channels, seeing a few movie trailers but nothing worth seeing. She growled a bit, putting the remote down. "Dammit Bella, get your mind off it. It's not worth jeopardizing his duty over." She then heard the phone, going over and picked it up making up a greeting. "Jake and Chance's salvage yard, this is Bella how can I help you? Oh hi, Callie. Okay, so what did he say? Really? That's incredible, I can't wait to tell the guys. Again thank you so much." She hung up, punching the air. "I did it!" She decided she would keep it a surprise, continuing to watch tv and saw a sappy soap opera which pretty much explained her dilemma.
"Roger, I love you but can't be with you. You're an alien cop, you have a duty to uphold." Tammy said, looking at her lover who was green and had six tentacles.
"It doesn't matter, no matter where I go our love will expand across galaxies and keep me safe," Roger said, kissing her.
Bella stuck out her tongue, changing the channel. "Ugh, soap operas." She had a sandwich in the kitchen when lunch came around, looking out the window and sighed. "I guess I can go check on the motorcycle." She went into the hangar, smiling when she saw it. "Wow, the guys did a great job."
"Thanks." Jake smiled, walking over.
She jumped a little, seeing him. "Jake you scared me, where's Chance?"
"He's picking up lunch right now," Jake explained, looking at her.
'Okay Bella just talk to him about it, just like Chance said it's best to get it out of your system.' She thought to herself, then took a breath looking at him. "Jake, I wanted to talk about last night."
"I do, too." Jake admitted, scratching the back of his head. "I didn't realize what you guys were talking about until it was too late, and I didn't want to scare you."
"Well, I appreciate the concern." She said, twirling a piece of hair in her finger. "But seriously, I think...well...I wanted to say." Bella was having a tough time coming out with it, she looked at him unable to say it. "When my motorcycle is done, can you teach me how to ride it?"
"Of course," He smiled, he always had the sweetest smile.
Bella smiled. "I'm gonna go upstairs and watch some tv, let me know when it's completely done okay?"
"Alright, I will." Jake nodded, watching her leave and sat down. "That was weird,"
Bella sat on the couch, thinking. "What do I do, now things are probably gonna be worse between us. Agh, why couldn't I just tell him and get it over with!"
"Tell who what?" Chance walked over with some food for him and Jake, seeing her.
"Chance!" She jumped a bit, seeing him. "Nothing, I was just talking to myself."
He looked at her red face. "Your face looks like it got sunburnt, what's wrong?"
"What? Nothing's wrong, why would anything be wrong?" She stammered, blushing.
He blinked, not believing her. "Riiiiiight, I'm going to the hangar." He went into the hangar, Bella groaned from being frustrated and fell onto the couch on her face.
"Jake, is something going on? Bella's acting weird." Chance said, walking over to him.
Jake noticed Chance, shrugging. "Honestly, I have no idea."
"Well, whatever happened at least it's done and over with." Chance said, eating with Jake.
"Yeah," Jake ate, soon the glass came in and the guys installed it. "There we go, it's perfect."
Bella was called down and she sat on her new motorcycle, smiling happily. "This is awesome, thanks for all your help guys. Wait, I don't have a helmet."
"Hmm." Chance looked through a box of junk, finding a fairly old helmet that didn't look scratched and gave it to her. "Here."
Bella examined the old red helmet, putting it on. "Well, it fits." She buckled it, turning on the engine. "It sounds amazing." She smiled, hearing it purr like a kitten. "Now let's see, the throttle is on the right I think."
"Wait a minute Bella, don't twist-!" Chance warned her, Bella twisted the throttle and it shot off knocking her over and the motorcycle fell over a few feet in front of her.
Bella got up with Chance's help, Jake grabbed the motorcycle walking it back over to her. "Well, it has a kick, that's for sure."
"You can't just take it out, you need to gradually speed up and balance," Jake told her, it was a long afternoon of trying to go at least in a straight line and she kept falling over but got a bit farther each time. What happened earlier went into the back of her and Jake's minds, their current objective now was getting Bella to learn to ride.
"At least I'm learning." Bella smiled, enjoying her time with them.
We are now at the halfway point, things are going to start to get interesting from here on out.
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