It was Monday and Jack had never been more thankful to be back at school. All Sunday he had to listen to Eliza building something or training herself. Worse, he had to listen to Miko complain about it all and had to get use to Raf coming to his side sometimes when Eliza passed by with somethin hard in her hands. Now he thinks that school would be the only escape from her, not including home. When he arrived he already spotted Miko and Raf sitting on the steps waiting for him.

"I'd never thought I would say this but... thank you school!" Jack laughed at Miko as they walked up the steps and into the building and to their lockers. "Yesterday was the longest day of my life," Raf said as he adjusted his glasses. "Well, we won't find Eliza here," Jack said just as he bumped into someone. "Oh my gosh! I'm so sorry." He helped the person up and when they were both back on their feet, Jack quickly knew who it was. "You go to our school now, too!?" Eliza looked at each of them then rolled her eyes. "Well, I have to keep up my grades," she said as she looked at a piece of paper, then at the lockers, and walked to her own.

Jack sighed then felt a tap on his shoulder. "Hey, Jack." He turned around to find Sierra smiling at him. "Oh, um, hey, Sierra. Sooo..." The bell rang and Jack felt a hand on his arm and was pulled to his next class by Raf. Somehow he got stuck with Eliza in every class, except for electives. In chemistry, they were partners, and it didn't go in a way he'd ever think it would go.

After they were paired up and given the assignment, they got to work. "Okay so we need to turn this into liquid then back into solid," Eliza said, holding up a powdery substance. Jack nodded as they got out their notebooks and got to work. After several chemicals the substance became a liquid. "Now we need to turn it back to a solid in any form." "Easy, we just need to freeze it," Jack said as he did just that. "Jack wait!" But it was too late, because he froze part of it causing a chemical reaction and an explosion.

After that, they were sent to the principals office and given detention. At lunch, Jack told the others what happened. "It was obviously her fault," Miko said as she ate her lunch. "But I was the one that didn't wait for her opinion and caused the explosion," Jack objected. "Wow, Jack. Didn't think you'd defend her," Raf said as he ate his sandwich. As Jack took out his own sandwich as Eliza came to their table and sat down next to him and in front of Miko.

They all watched as she pulled out a salad and a sandwich from a paper bag along with a soda can. But before she even ate she took out a notebook and a pencil and wrote in it. Jack didn't want to invade her privacy but couldn't help but look. He saw a bunch of sketches of ideas for gadgets and notes next to them. Before she could look up and see what he was doing he had turned back to his lunch. Halfway into lunch Eliza's phone rang but she just ignored it.

"Aren't you gonna answer?" "It's not important," she just said as she ate. After lunch they all headed to their next class. The entire day Eliza was quiet and tried to avoid and ignore them, at least till detention. When Jack arrived he saw that Eliza was already there with her pencil scribbling madly over a paper to try and finish her homework. Jack looked around hopefully trying to find Miko, only to find the wild girl not there. The one time she doesn't get detention, Jack thought as he slumped miserably into the desk next to Eliza. Soon after detention started the teacher left and the students started to talk. Jack pulled out his phone and saw that Raf had texted him.

Raf: Check this out. Did a background check on Eliza and found almost nothing except her school work. Check out these grades and awards!

Jack chuckled at the fact that Raf had looked at Eliza's past and the only thing he successfully found was her school work. As he scrolled down his eyes grew more wide. Eliza had straight A's and won many robotics competitions and spelling bee's. She also won tons of science fairs but Jack noticed one thing: The things she had built in the pictures weren't anything like the inventions he had seen so far. But one other thing was also weird.

Jack: What about things outside school about her?

Raf: Nothing. It's like she barely exist.

Jack: How's that possible? What about her parents?

Raf: Nothing

Jack sighed as he put his phone away and looked at Eliza. She was reading a book, ignoring all the commotion around her. "Hey, Eliza," Jack said a little weirdly. She glanced at him then shifted in her seat a little. "Yeah?" "I-I just wanted to say I'm sorry. I should be in here not you." "Thanks," she said, still not looking up from her book. Jack took this moment to look at her.

She was very pretty. She was sometimes serious and other times she was very nice. And secretly, Jack liked her and her personality. Even her secretiveness made her attractive to him. As he looked at her, he kept on having to look somewhere else whenever she looked at him for some reason. This is going to be the longest hour of my life.

After detention was over Eliza quickly headed to the front of the school, where Digit was waiting for her next to Arcee. "Enjoy detention?" "Whatever," Eliza said as she put her helmet on. She hopped on and rode to the base. As she rode she couldn't help but look at Jack, who was riding Arcee next to her. Why do I keep on doing that? She wondered as she saw the spot in the rocks where the entrance to the base was.

When inside, Eliza went to her room and brought out a gun like object to her inventing desk that was next to the wall holding up the platform where the TV and couch was. To drown out all the sounds around her, she reached into her bag and pulled out her phone and wireless headphones. As she scrolled her playlist for a song with her headphones on, Miko pulled out her guitar and plugged it into an amp.

When Eliza had just started to listen to one of her all-time favorite songs, Miko started to play a song on her guitar loudly. Eliza silently growled but patiently spoke to Miko over the noise. "Miko, can you please turn that down a little bit?" But the Japanese girl didn't pay attention very well. "What!? Turn it up!? OK!" Miko turned a nob on her amp with her foot and the volume increased. Eliza sighed as she rolled her eyes as she picked up her phone and gadget and bag and headed to her room.

In her room, a Victorian Steampunk theme was everywhere. on her bed, on her floor, on her walls, even the furniture was steampunk. She pulled out a speaker and plugged in her phone, hoping that her own music would drown out Miko's. As she worked on her weapon, she heard Miko starting to finish up her routine and there was silence except for her own music.

Somethings not right, she thought as she kept her music playing but walked to the door. When she opened it, Jack, Miko, and Raf fell onto each other in that order through her door way. She rolled her eyes as they stumbled out a sorry and leaved her be. The rest of the day went like it normally did. She worked on her gadgets, did some exercise, and just lied on her bed, thinking.

Later that night she stepped out of her room and to the fridge the 'civilians' had once installed and took out a small container with a sign that said 'Eliza's: DO NOT TOUCH' on it and spaghetti, tomato sauce, and a meatball in it. She heated it up and sat down on the couch with a fork and watch the late night news. The Autobots were 'sleeping', but earlier today Prime had said something important.

Tomorrow they were going to get the information about the mission that made her come here so that it could be carried out on Friday. I can survive a week with these losers, Eliza thought to herself as a story about a man found in the sewers of D.C with hypothermia and half dead came on. She didn't want to be here. Too many memories lied here in Jasper, Nevada that she wanted to forget.

This was where she was born, where her adventures with the Autobots started. And where she lost her parents. Her aunt was here, too. But Eliza couldn't look at her without thinking of her mother and crying. That was why she was glad to have had to move to California. An old abandoned warehouse there is better that a place that makes her want to cry 24/7.

Eliza was lost in her thoughts and soon realized that there was no more spaghetti left and that she was eating air, but she had left the meatball. She always left a meatball behind so she could shove it into her mouth and down to her almost full stomach. But it was also because it made her parents laugh. When she was little and before she lost her parents, Eliza would cram the last one into her mouth and made her lips make an 'O' form, showing the brown and sauce stained piece of meat. Just thinking of it made a single tear trail down her cheek and into the container.

After she finished she put the container back and went to her room. She changed into a soft, sleeveless shirt with a floral design and black shorts. She chose a song that always made her fall asleep. As it played, she sang along the lyrics.

"Another day has gone by.

I'm still goin', but I don't know why.

I guess that's just the way things are,

to keep goin...

Even when I wanna quit

I can't.

Because I gotta find my way through it.

I wanna just stop and take a break,

Not want anything goin wro-o-ong.

But apparently, I just can't.

Is it me or someone else?

Who or what is makin' me

Move o-o-on...?"

The song continued, but Eliza was too sleepy to finish it, and let her dreams take over.