We Didn't Start the Fire: Part 3
Alyssa's mom found out that she was staying in the room with Jack and nearly had a coronary. For some reason this irked the woman on the fundamental level. I don't know what the heck she was thinking but it really didn't seem to be that big of an issue with me. Honestly it wasn't like any thing was going to happen, so there shouldn't have been any problems with it. Besides even if something DID happen, which I'm not sure is even possible, it wasn't any one else's business because we were both over the age of consent.
Still her mom was flipping out because she was worried of what some one out there, who I don't know, would think if they found out her daughter was in the same room as a guy she wasn't married to. The fact that they had found a way to shrink down to human size made it that much worse. It really, really had her going nuts. So she was letting Alyssa have it.
"No I don't see what the problem is mom," She sighed.
"Its appearances! What's every one going to think when they see you going into the same room as a guy?"
I gave the woman a flat look and proceeded to ask, "Everone who?"
"Every one who sees her!" The woman shouted back.
"Umm… Mom I don't know if you realized this, but there isn't any one who's really going to care, here to see it."
"Of course someone's going to care!" Her mom continued, "I don't want people thinking my daughter is a woman of loose morals!"
"What people?" I asked her back, "The only ones around here that are going to see it are the autobots and they couldn't care less."
"I don't care what kind of amoralistic problems they have here! I will not have it do you hear me! I will not!"
"And I thought you're step dad was bad," I muttered to Alyssa.
"You have no idea," She replied, then turned to her mom. "Look would it make you feel better if I moved into my own room for now?"
"What do you mean for now?"
"I mean while you're staying here, would it make you feel better if I had a private room?"
"Yes, in fact I demand that you get your own room! At least Angel is actually married to hers, if she wants to stay in her own room she can."
"That's so generous," I muttered again, "Well come on, lets get you moved into one of the other rooms." I look up to Optimus and Jack, "Is that okay with you two?"
"No it's…. Ooof!" Jack promptly got elbowed by Prime.
"That's fine Angel," Optimus told us, "You need some help moving her things?"
"Nah I think we can handle this one." I grabbed her and hauled her out of the commissary.
Half way down the hall she exploded, "What's wrong with her!"
"You tell me, she's your mom."
We finally made to her and Jack's room and got all of her stuff gathered up and took it to one of the guest rooms.
It was a pretty nice room to be honest but it wasn't with Wheeljack and that just ticked her off. But she wanted to humor her mom so she moved in there and did her best to make her self comfortable. One of the nice things about this room was that some one had installed its own bath room. She went in there for a second and left me sitting on the bed playing around with her lap top. She was in there for a few seconds and then all of sudden there was a strange sound came from in there. I went and knocked on the door seeing if she'd managed to fall in or something.
"Alyssa? You alive in there?"
"Yes," Came the muffled reply, "Can you ahh... do me big favor?"
"Sure what …." It suddenly occurred to me what was going on and I almost cracked up. "You're kidding?"
"DO I SOUND LIKE I'M KIDDING!"
"Apparently not. Do you need me to go in to town?" I asked.
"Yes please, you know what to get right?"
I nodded even though she couldn't see me, "yeah I know, but what kind?"
"Hang on; toss the cell phone in here will you? Then when you get to town call me and I'll tell you."
"Okay," I got her phone out of her bag and stuck my hand through the door, "Need any thing else?"
"If I think of something I'll let you know when you call me okay."
Again I nodded, "Okay then."
I headed out into the base, two steps into the hall however I ran into Jack.
"IS she okay in there? I can't believe that her mom said that."
I looked up at him, "That makes two of you."
He sighed, "So is she coming back out?"
"Ahhh… not for a while, I kinda have to go into town and get some thing for her."
He got a worried look, "Is she sick?"
I promptly blushed wondering how to explain this, "Nooooo… She just kinda.. needs some things."
I took off and left him there standing out side the door wondering what the problem was. I got to the main room, and found Prime. He how ever was busy at the moment. Some thing had caught the attention of him and Prowl, so they couldn't be spared from business at the moment. I had to wrack my brain to think of one of them that I could get to give me a ride. Thankfully right then Jazz walked by.
"Hey Kitten," he grinned at me. "By the way do you know what's the matter with Wheeljack? He's standing out side the room Aly had to move into."
"Well she kinda can't come out right now," I blushed again.
Jazz thankfully is a lot more perceptive than most folks give him credit for so I guess he read the look on my face.
"Hmm… I'm guessing you need a ride into town?"
"How could you tell?" I blinked up at him.
"Hey kitten, I know a lot more about humans than most of the guys around here. Come on get in"
He changed into his alt mode and I hopped in. "Do I even want to know how you found out that lil' tidbit?"
"Its amazing what you can find out when you sneak Carly's copy of vogue," He laughed, "And if you ever tell her that it was me…"
"You'll deny it?"
"Right down to my spark core Kitten."
I had to giggle over that one. About ten minutes later we made it to the Portland Rite aid and I headed in.
Over the cell phone I got the shopping list and headed in, "Uh huh…. Okay yah they got 'em." I paused for a second and listened, "Hmmmm…any thing else? Okay then I'll be back in about ten minutes."
I paused and listened to her rant on the other end of the line as I headed back up to the counter. I had to keep my mouth clamped shut because I heard most of one half of a shouted conversation between her and Wheeljack. I guess she was getting a bit irritated at all of that. I mean I don't know why it never even occurred to either of us that this might happen. We assumed that it wouldn't be a problem, and it seems the two of us had assumed wrong. It made me wonder when my turn was going to be, but considering I had been hurt and sick, it might not be mine for a while yet. I shouldn't have been laughing at her, it wasn't right to get the giggles over my friend's discomfiture but it was one of those situations that you see in sitcoms. Well close any how.
We finally made it back to the ark and I headed in. I had made sure that the clerk gave me a paper sack because the last thing I wanted to do was embarrass the girl more by broadcasting it to the rest of the base. I got back to her room and found half of the population of the ark standing out there trying to guess what was going on.
Sunny and Siders where trying to get her out by offering to set up some more games. Jack was trying to get her out by promising to be good to her parents until they left. Not to mention all of the other things that all of the rest of them were offering. It was a funny situation to say the least. It wasn't really Alyssa that I thought was funny; it was the way that the guys were acting about the whole thing. IF human guys ever behaved that way most of the women on this planet would die of shock.
I managed to shove my way through the crowd and headed in to give her the stuff she needed. Back out side, Wheeljack caught the look on Jazz's face and realized that he knew something.
"Out with it Jazz!" The engineer demanded.
"Uh uh…I'm more scared of what the femme will do than you Jack." He headed off and Jack took off after him.
"Come on tell me! I want to know what's wrong with her."
I was back to my spot on the bed and could hear the bag rattling as she pulled her supplies out.
"Thanks Angel, I promise to pay you back."
I grinned, "Don't worry about it. Oh and the heresy's kisses are on the house."