CHAPTER 15 - "The Cin-3000 design"
"A car... with a blonde girl... a guy next to her... kissing her...". He sighed dreamily.
"Jimmy?" she asked, her temperature raising, boiling to explode. "JIMMY! Would you listen to me?"
He sighed again. "I would like to be honored for this prize, and thanks to Cindy, because without her, I couldn't do this", he blabbed, while he was imagining the noise of some applauses.
"Oh, that's very sweet! But first we got a car design to start!" she yelled.
Jimmy woke up from his dream. "Huh? What happened?". He looked around to find Cindy at his side, with her arms crossed and the look at her face wasn't very friendly.
"Oh, nothing, Neutron, you were just blabbing about winning a golden statue while I was burning my eyes trying to do the design for the stupid car!" Cindy sarcastically said.
"You look mad... here, let me help you" Jimmy said, innocently, without realizing her mood status.
'It's 1 AM in the morning, I should be home'.
He realized that Cindy was very upset.
"Don't go yet. Please, stay with me" Jimmy begged, as he put a hand on Cindy's shoulder.
"Where do you had the idea that I would just go?" she asked.
'Great, he's looking at me with those puppy eyes'. He could hear a desperated sigh, too. 'I'm melting... I'm staying'.
"Nothing... just... stay here, ok? I'll look up for some ideas" Jimmy said.
Cindy sat on her chair, as she looked at something at Jimmy's lab to get some kind of entertaining. But the lab looked the same as some years ago. There was the Chrono-Arch, the Brain-Gain 8000, the Shrink Ray, VOX's computer, the stupid Nanobots trapped like Hannibal and begging for their stupid mechanical lives. She sighed a deep sigh. Then, she looked at Jimmy again, bored and very tired.
"Think... think... THINK!" he said, as he squeezed his face, closed his eyes, greeted his teeth. He imagined his HoverCar, then, the Shrink Ray, then, Goddard and the fly-cycle. "Brain blast!" he shouted, waking Cindy up. She was trying to get some sleep, when the sound of his voice startled her.
"Well?" Cindy asked, yawning. "What do you got?".
"We'll work basedon the HoverCar. The car will have the ability to fly, with the same cycle mode as Goddard. And it'll have the ability to shrink the people and the car so the traffic will be fast on streets!" Jimmy explained. Then, he continued, marking some drawing on the car's model design. "So, if we put this here, and here... ok, how do you want the car's color?".
"If it's going to be a Cin-3000, pink. If it's going to be a Nerd-3000...". She fought about her last words.
He looked at her, a bit confused and disturbed.
"Ok, ok, a Jim-3000!" Cindy finally said.
"Right. It'll be blue or red" Jimmy said, going back to the design.
"How about an universal red car? For men and women" she suggested.
"Mmmmh... I like that one" he said, as he added the number of colors on a list.
"I'll start drawing that in a opaque paper to see how it'll be with colors" she said.
"Ok, and I'll build a prototype of the car" he said.
"You what!" Cindy asked, a bit surprised.
"A prototype, a little one, to show the class how it works" Jimmy explained.
"Ok, but you will show that to me first, mister" Cindy suggested.
"It's a deal" Jimmy said.
They kissed each other quickly and they started working, assuming their positions.
The hours passed. And Cindy was doing her best to draw some designs of the car. She got tired. And she fell asleep. Jimmy, who was tired also, but kept going on his prototype, noticed that. He placed a pillow under Cindy's head, and continued with all his work. She woke up with the feeling of something in front of her eyes. A little car was sitting on the table, while Jimmy was right next to her with a big shining grin on his face, despite the fact his eyes were starting to close. He fainted after he looked at her approval smile.
'Poor little fellow'.
Cindy shook her head and sighed. She smiled happily at the little car. It had the first color she chose. Pink. She was about to wake him and hug him, when she noticed that he also dropped a small control that was first on his own hands.
'I wonder how this works. I'm dying to know!'.