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Captain William Lennox was two breaths away from having a conniption the size of Optimus Prime himself. Not only had they gotten the majority of the bots onto the plane and in the air in what would seem to be record time, (apparently even though they crash landed on the planet, many mechs had reservations on flying) they landed in the backwoods of Kentucky in a small town that got very little big news. So, when they arrived 3 whole news crews tried to follow them until the authorities told them to stand back. To top that off Sector Seven had apparently neglected to mention half of their findings. As far as Will was concerned this was their way of still trying to operate in the dark. So now, here he stood at Sideswipe's crash site trying very hard to stay calm as a S7 agent tried to boldly lie to his face.
"So, you mean to tell me, that you…somehow misplaced a crater the size of half an Olympic sized swimming pool?!"
"Man, that's the biggest load of bull shit I've ever heard! There's fucking foot prints in the damn mud for God's sake!"
Epps shouted from where he stood next to one of Sideswipe's prints.
"Not to forget to mention that the fucking site was found by someone else!"
Will snarled furiously at the agent who had the indecency to snarl back a "No it wasn't."
"Then what the hell is this?!" He shouted pointing to the clear imprint of a converse shoe that was a mere twenty feet from Sideswipe's first foot print. "It even has the fucking label and all!" He growled loudly at the now pale agent. "Great, now we gotta find some college punk and warn him not to share our secret." Epps grumbled from where he was beginning to follow the footprints. "Captain William Lennox, I believe that there is something you should know in regards to the "college punk" you must warn against. "Please Optimus, just call me Will. What did you find?"
"The prints were made at the same time. Whoever found Sideswipe was running away from him."
Ratchet said smartly as he continued to walk along the prints after Sunstreaker, who was skating with haste towards a large mountain side. There was a large opening, one of which he could just barely stand up in while using his tires. His twin had been here and- *squish* "Ughhh! Filthy organics! What is this slag?!" He snarled as he lifted his tire off of the pizza Lilac left behind. Ratchet scanned his tire with curiosity. "Crushed tomato product, coagulation of the milk protein casein, deceased beef flesh, deceased pork flesh, and some form of acidic bulb.
"In other words, it's a pepperoni, sausage and onion pizza." Will said dryly from where Ironhide was holding him on his servo as he walked up to the cave entrance. "You humans actually eat this…pizza?" Ironhide asked looking vaguely disgusted.
"Well, not now that Mr. Happy there ran over it. But yeah, it's a big staple in a lot of people's diets." Epps supplemented from where he was standing next to Will on Ironhide's hand. "Thanks for the lift!" Will called as the giant mech set them down at the entrance of the cave.
Sunstreaker rolled his optics before he continued to study the area of where his twin last sat. He could still read his energon signature clearly. He had just missed him.
With a growl of pain Sunstreaker fell to his knee joints once more. This time, he didn't get up right away. He snarled out in pain as he fell to his side. Sideswipe was losing too many fluids.
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Lilac was panicking. Sideswipe told her that she had to drive him to Nevada. "Sideswipe? Sideswipe?! I'm only thirteen! I can't drive!" She shouted only to be greeted by more silence. Still shaken up she grit her teeth. "I can't drive…legally…but I made you a promise Sideswipe. I'm not breaking it now."
She thought as she threw Sideswipe into gear and slammed her foot on the gas pedal. "GAAAAAAHHHHHH!" She shrieked as she and Sideswipe flew backwards into a tree, knocking it over. With a heavy pant, Lilac looked back before she looked forward again and down at the gear shift. This time, she put Sideswipe in drive and gently pressed down on the gas, this time she rocketed forward and onto the desolate road with a scream. She could barely reach the pedals and steer at the same time, heck she could just barely see over the dash board normally without craning her neck.
Lilac raced along the road, trying to stay in her lane and looking at passing signs. She needed a plan. A good plan with a small lie. "Sideswipe? Sideswipe! SIDESWIPE! She shouted frantically as she punched his radio with all her might. "Owwwww. That hurrrrt!" He whined tiredly. "Wake up! Stay awake! I need you awake and in holoform for this to work!" She shouted as she saw a small rundown looking business. She prayed as she veered across another two lanes that she wouldn't hit anybody or anything as she did so. After getting down the exit ramp in speeds that would make anyone choke, she veered into the parking lot of the rundown business; a garage.
"What…what is this place?"
"A doctor's office for cars. Or in our case an emergency room."
She said as she hastily threw him in park and stumbled out to meet the older man and what appeared to be his son running out of the shop. Thankfully, Sideswipe's holoform still worked, but at the rate he was losing energon, it would only last for a while longer.
"You okay there missy? What happened?"
"We…we…road rage. Some goons accidentally hit us and when we went to confront them, they beat my boy friend up!"
She said stumbling over her words. "Boyfriend?! The younger one asked alarmed. "Yeah, he's my friend who happens to be male. They did a number on the car." She said sadly, sounding close to tears. "It's not a total lie. There was a goon and he did beat up Sideswipe." She thought as the older man helped Sideswipe hobble into the lobby as she hopped into driver seat and put him in neutral. Once they got him into a bay, he settled on his axels in pained exhaustion which was something that only Lilac seemed to notice. "So, what happened?"
"We got into a small accident. The people that ran into us…had a nasty temper. We tried to be calm about the situation, but they just went nuts. I had to hide…"
She said sadly as a couple of tears traced down her cheeks.
"We…we need this car. We need it to get to Nevada."
"Hmmm. It doesn't look so bad, but the leaks down below have got to be fixed and the dings will have to be banged out- "
"He said not to worry bout the dings, just focus on stopping the leaks."
The older man said as he came out of his office. "O…okay. Do…do you guys take cash?" Lilac asked as she held out a shaky hand with four hundred dollars of the remaining money that she and Sideswipe had. The two men looked at each other before looking at her with a worried expression. "Miss, repairing all those busted lines down there might not be so expensive- "
"But the labor and finding parts for this old classic will be."
The older man said as he took off his baseball cap to scratch at his balding head. "Please…I…I have more. I'll find a way to pay you. What if I paid you for your tools?"
"Now calm down there lil' missy. Tell you what? I got an old roadster out back that's going up for scrap. Why don't we pull it apart and see what we can salvage?"
"Okay."
"Good, now I need you to take a deep breath and calm down. Jonny, go check that old scrap heap, will you? Now what do you know about cars young lady?"
Lilac sighed through her nose as she pulled her backpack out of Sideswipe's back seat and began looking through one of its pockets. She knew her filing system well enough to pull out the few pages of notes she took on cars months ago. She didn't know a lot, but she hoped that she knew enough to fix Sideswipe.
The Older man flipped through the notes and hummed. Things didn't add up. Two kids show up to his shop, one in need of a little more than a bag of ice the other looking as though she had witnessed something horrifying and both wanting to make sure that the car got fixed asap. Kids weren't wise creatures, but something certainly wasn't right.
"Alright, it aint much, but you can help."
"Don't know how much more we can salvage from that old thing. I pulled out a hose and a couple of lines but that's about it dad."
"Well…"
"What if we melt a few of the lines shut? I have some duct tape that we can use to seal them, then maybe we can melt them?"
"Well it's worth a shot, but first we gotta get the leaks to stop."
"Okay. I can do that. My neighbor showed me how to use a welder once. The big kind, like for melting two pieces of sheet metal together and the small kind for working on circuitry." She said as pulled her hair up into a high pony tail. Both men looked at her suspiciously before she shrugged shyly and said "He was a really into science and stuff. He was always building something." as she grabbed a roll of duct tape and slid under Sideswipe.
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Sideswipe's holoform lay on the couch in the owner's office groaning softly. He knew that his self-repair systems would eventually kick in, but at the moment, it certainly didn't feel like it, especially since the humans were talking about repairing him. They knew nothing about his systems, and he couldn't reveal himself without breaking protocol or causing damage to the building itself thus putting his guide or the other humans in danger of being crushed. He'd give anything to see his twin one last time. To say sorry for not making it back to him.
"OW!" He yelped as something hot touched one of the wires in his undercarriage. Using his sensors, he saw that Lilac was using a small flame to melt his damaged tubing shut. "OWWW!"
He shouted again as she continued to weld. He couldn't believe it, she and the other humans were trying to fix him! He was going to be okay…so long as none of them messed up his already functioning systems. With a sigh, he shut off his holoform and used his holographic systems to create a blue glowing sign. Lilac almost screamed and dropped her welder when the blue sign popped up. It read "Thank you for helping me! Mind if I guide you?". She nodded hesitantly and watched as the sign changed into a blue arrow with instructions on where to weld and what to weld.
Within the next four hours Sideswipe was feeling better. He guided Lilac in her welding enough that he no longer had any leaks, and he was no longer in immediate danger of off-lining. The two men banged out the majority of his dents leaving him tired and sore all over. He sighed softly, sinking on his axels and falling into light recharge where his systems began to finish the healing process. However, before he fell into recharge, he noticed how the two men stepped into a separate room…the lobby…and came out with saddened faces, especially when they looked at Lilac.
Meanwhile, Lilac was enjoying a sandwich curtesy of the two men for a job well done.
"So…you positively sure it was road rage?"
"Yes sir."
She said watching as the younger of the two chew his food thoughtfully before he looked at his father with a skeptical look. "Alright. I don't know what happened, and I get the feeling that you're not gonna tell us. But, dad and I won't say a word."
"Really?"
"If anybody asks we never saw ya."
The older man said as he sipped his coffee. "But in return, you two need to be more careful. Not everyone in this world are as nice as us. Not only that, but the gangs in this area are meaner than hell."
"Yes sir. I promise we'll be more careful."
She said as Sideswipe's holoform walked into the room with a soft groan. His holoform still had a black eye and a few bruises, but for the most part, he looked better now than he did before.
"He's awake. You want something to eat son?"
Sideswipe groaned again as he shook his head trying to clear the fog in his processor. Thankfully both men took his head shake as a no and left it at that.
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As Lilac refueled his true form, Sideswipe thought it only necessary to thank the two men for helping her save his life. He also wanted to make sure they got paid.
"Thank you two for uh…helping us."
He said grabbing the older man's outstretched hand and letting him shake it. "Odd custom." He thought taking notice of the man's grimace as he paid him the money for fixing him. "Is this enough?"
"It's more than enough really…but ya'll probably need the money more. Here, take some back. After all, we aint gonna stay open here for much longer."
"Really?"
"Nah, we're movin' to the city. Already got a garage set up there. Aint many coming to this location anymore."
"Oh. Well…"
"Thanks again for all your help, and for letting me work on the car to save money."
"Don't mention it. Ya'll drive safe now!"
"We will!"
Sideswipe said chipperly as he pulled back onto the road and back onto the freeway. The old man watched them go before walking back into his office with a sigh as his son got off the phone. He looked to the bulletin board where a few pictures sat pined. He took the ones of him and his son off the wall before looking to the picture on the counter. It had sat on the board longer than most for many reasons, the reward being one of them. "You sure we did the right thing?" His son asked as he looked outside to the freeway already hearing the sirens in the distance. His father looked at the old sign in the driveway "John and John Automotive Repair" would live to see the next generation thanks to that reward money. Could even afford some commercials for the new location maybe. "We did the right thing Jonny. You know that if that were you I'd be torn apart. Even if the lead was a mistaken identity I'd still want to know that people haven't forgotten you or how much I missed you."
He said watching the local sheriff speed down the highway hopefully to stop the two kids and take one home to their distraught family. It was times like this he was thankful that his wife (God bless her soul) encouraged him to watch "America's Most Wanted" with that John Walsh fella. Hopefully the couple would get their daughter back.
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"What's with the sirens?"
"I don't know…you weren't speeding, were you?"
For once Sideswipe admitted that he was going the speed limit. Neither of the two had a good feeling about the Sheriff catching up to them. Especially Lilac. Seeing the look on her face, Sideswipe decided to take matters into his own servos. "Hold on." He said as he sped up. The sheriff saw the silver corvette speed up and frowned.
{"This is Sheriff Baxter calling in all units! Repeat I need all units to stop a Silver 1971 Corvette Stingray. There may be a missing child in the vehicle."}
{"10-4. What are the plate numbers?"}
{"P as in Pat. L as in Lee. 8. 4. B as in Bell. 9. A as in André. And it's got a funky hyphen."}
{"What is it?"}
{"Some sort of sad face or something. Its red I can tell you that."}
{"10-4. I see him."}
Said one of the police officers from the city they were passing. The sheriff smirked to himself. Between the state police, himself and the other police stations in the cities the driver didn't stand a chance.
Sideswipe had to admit, the earth enforcers were persistent. But they were no match for him and his speed. Each time the sheriff or another enforcer caught up to him, he sped up and held a new speed. He snorted as he passed by Grand Island watching as six more enforcers began to chase after him. At the speed, they were going, he and Lilac would get away easy. And they'd shave off hours of drive time to Nevada to boot! Just as he thought this, two cops came up on his sides while another behind him tried to close the space between them. They wanted to box him in. They wanted him to stop. Just who did these enforcers think they were?! Trying to make him of all people stop!
"Sideswipe! Please, just stop! They're really mad!"
Sideswipe felt the thrill again. It was the same thrill he felt when pranking the Hatchet or Ironaft. It was the thrill that only a pure mischievous deed could create. There was no way in pit that Sideswipe was going to stop. Not until he lost the pack of pathetic enforcers.
Up ahead, the police laid down a spike strip. The car wouldn't be able to drive too far without tires. Then they'd nab the speedster and check on that poor sweet girl with him. Hopefully she was safe.
Safe. Lilac just wanted to be safe. Was that too much to ask? She looked over to Sideswipe and saw that he was grinning like a maniac. He laughed wickedly as he sped up once more pushing 180 miles per hour. Lilac looked ahead and paled. The cops had made a blockade…no…wait…
"Sideswipe slow down!"
"No way! They can't catch us! Pfft! They even gave up! Look, all the enforcers are parked on the side of the road!"
"SIDESWIPE! THEY LAID A SPIKE STRIP! SLOW DOWN!"
"HOLD ON TIGHT KID! HERE WE GO!"
Lilac screamed in terror as they approached the strip. Sideswipe cackled mischievously as he flew over the strip, ignoring the momentary pain that the spikes caused his tires. All of the cops watched in awe as the car kept going with no sign of stopping. They continued to watch in awe as one cop read out what the speedometer in his hand said as Sideswipe passed them. "280 miles per hour."
One of the officers got on the radio and told the sheriff what they saw
{"That…that's not possible. Not for a 71 corvette…"}
{"Sir…"}
{"My uncle had one when I was a kid! They can barely reach 190 and that was back then! There's no fucking way it hit 280! A Lamborghini can't even go that damn fast!"}
The sheriff swore.
{"With all due respect, we know what we saw sir. I know what I felt as the backdraft hit me. What the hell were we chasing?"}
{"Whatever it was, it wasn't legal. That's for damn sure."}
{"And it's gone now. There's no tracking whatever it was. Even the helicopter up ahead lost track of it."}
The sheriff sighed. He'd have one hell of a time explaining this in a report. Not to forget to mention that he'd have to put the alert out for the car. It surely had to stop for gas at some point. Too bad he never got a good look at the kids inside, what with the illegal tint and all.
What's worse is that this little incident would be all over the news. Freeway closed, cars forced off the freeway at all exits, 10 cops from different towns, 9 state police officers and a sheriff chasing an illegal supercar disguised as a beat up 71 Corvette Stingray. Oh yes, the press would have a field day with him yet. Especially since he couldn't catch it to prove his story. And for that matter, the mechanic who called about the car and the kids inside must not have looked the car over right. How he missed details that would allow something so old to move so fast was beyond him.
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Sideswipe was still laughing as he pulled into a more secluded part of the Lake Ogallala campsite, one where he could transform and not be seen. Lilac got out of him shaking. She was petrified at what had happened.
"Oh! Slaggit! You should have seen their faces!"
He laughed hysterically as he transformed, only to bend over clutching his midsection with mirth.
"A…An…and you! (snicker) You should have seen your face! You were so scared!"
He laughed, not noticing Lilac's lower lip tremble. She was scared, traumatized, nauseous, and angry. So. Very. Angry.
Without a word, she picked up her backpack and began to storm off. "Hey hey wait! Where are you going?"
"Away."
"Away? Away where?"
He asked only to be ignored. "Oh, alright. I'm sorry for speeding and scaring you. Okay?"
He said in a dry mirthful tone. "Now come on! If we keep up this speed, we can make it to Nevada in a few hours!"
He said still watching her retreating form. With an annoyed sigh, he shouted "Oh come on! I said I was sorry!"
This got Lilac to slowly turn around. "Sorry? Sorry?! Do you have any idea what you just did?! I can't be seen with you!"
"What the frag is your problem? I got us away from them!"
"Yeah. Great job! You got us away from them- "
"I just fragging said that!"
"I KNOW THAT YOU IDIOT! ITS CALLED SARCASM! GEEZE! HOW STUPID ARE YOU?!"
"HEY! I AM NOT STUPID!"
"Whatever. You can get to Nevada yourself! I'm done helping you. Find some other human."
She snarled as she continued to storm off, with tears streaming down her cheeks. Sideswipe was confused. He really didn't mean to upset his guide. For the last day and a half, she seemed fine but earlier today at the adoption fair, he could tell that something was bothering her. He didn't want to ask for fear that she'd get angry and abandon him, not to forget to mention that he still didn't know what common social habits were for humans. For once he tried to play it safe and all it did was get him yelled at.
"Look, I know you're mad. But when I get yelled at, I at least like to know why."
He said to her retreating form, hoping that she'd stop. And she did, but Sideswipe was not expecting her to look so hurt.
"Let's see, just hours after you fought a monster, where you got seriously hurt and told me in essence to drive your corpse to Nevada- "
Sideswipe winced.
"Which by the way let me tell you is ILLEGAL for me to do since I don't have a license to drive nor will I have one for some time; you helped me save your life and then you draw attention to yourself and potentially hurt yourself by going insane speeds and running over spikes designed to tear apart tires!"
"I really am sorry. But I have a feeling that there's something that you aren't saying. I get you're mad at me for all of that, and you have the right to be but…why are you leaking optical lubricants?"
He said noticing that her body began to shake with silent sobs. Slowly she reached into one of the smaller pockets of her backpack and brought out a small piece of folded paper. With shaky hands, she unfolded the paper and handed it to Sideswipe who looked at it with interest. It was a picture of her! In the picture, she looked younger, and she wasn't as skinny, or as pale, but one thing stayed the same. The sad almost hopeless look in her optics was the same, only now his guide looked more hurt and afraid. It was a missing child flyer.
"So, those enforcers were after you?"
She nodded solemnly through her tears.
"Well look at that! I really did find myself a trouble maker! I don't think that Sunny or I ever got a wanted poster for the stuff we did! I think I'm a little jealous!"
He chuckled only to stop at Lilac's cries. She had crumpled to the ground and she was holding her face as she sobbed.
"Hey…I was only kidding. Please don't leak…"
He placated as he skated towards her. He took another look at the flyer this time reading what it said aloud; "Missing; Lilac Andromeda Dixon. Age; 10 years old. Has blonde/dirty blonde hair and blue eyes. Weighs 90 pounds. Missing since August 9th 2004. Last seen in Bonnieville Kentucky. $10,000 reward for her safe return. Please call the police department at (270)-339-8385 with any information regarding her safe return."
Slowly things began to make sense to Sideswipe. "They're…really looking for you. But why if they didn't like you?"
"B…be…cause if I tell some…someone what they d…did to me they could go to jail."
"So, they put a bounty on your helm in hopes of someone returning you for the credits. Is 10,000 a lot?"
"Yes…"
"But why don't you just tell the enforcers what they did? Then you wouldn't have to go back to those fraggers!"
"Because they won't believe meee!"
She wailed pathetically. Despite that she was leaking from both her optics and her olfactory sensors, which Sideswipe found to be incredibly gross, he knew that she needed comfort of some sort. He just hoped his species and hers had similar ways of showing it. Slowly he kneeled and gently picked her up before bringing her to his chassis in a gentle hug.
"Hey, easy. It's gonna be okay. I promised you that I wouldn't let them have you. I don't break promises like that." He said hoping that she'd stop leaking, and that he wouldn't wind up covered in her olfactory slime. Then something dawned on him. She risked her life, her well-being for him. She barely knew him and she went out of her way to find a way to save his life, even if it meant putting her own in danger. But why? Why do something so courageous for someone you've barely known for a day? It was then that her words finally hit him. She wasn't mad at him because he put her life in danger, she was mad at him because she cared about him. "She cares for me…but why?" he wondered. He then thought of what she may have had to go through in the last few years. "She said she was 13…so she spent 3 years all by herself, with nobot to talk to, living like a feral human, just to stay alive and functioning. I can't imagine being alone without Sunny for that long. It hurts not to have him around now. No wonder she cares about me! I'm the only one who won't rat her out for credits."
"I can't trust people. Anyone."
"Even me?"
"You…I trust you."
"But why?"
"Because you didn't go straight to the police and tell them about me. You could've, but you didn't."
"Because I need you."
"No, you don't. You can read a map. All you really have to do is follow the same line west."
He hadn't thought of that. Their maps although primitive, were very easy to read.
"Okay, maybe I don't need you like that…but it would be nice to have someone to talk to. And to help explain your culture, and to fix me when I get hurt…"
She looked up at him from where she had previously buried her face in his chest with a raised optic ridge. "Okay, for the record I don't break easily but I don't trust any other fragging humans to touch my systems."
"Really?"
"Well yeah! You did a pretty great job all things considered. And when we get to Nevada my leader and the humans there can help you get your life together!"
"No! I can't go with you to your base!"
"Why not? I won't let anyone hurt you! And I surely won't let those fraggers take you back!"
"It's not up to you Sideswipe! I legally belong to those fraggers. Until I turn 18 they are my legal guardians! Until I turn 18 I have no rights, aside from remaining silent, knowing that anything I say can and may be used in a court of law against me, the right to a lawyer before and during questioning, and the right to have a lawyer appointed to me if I can't afford one before and during questioning."
"So, we just have to get you a lawyer! That has to be easy!"
"Not really, the law isn't on my side. In Kentucky, where you found me, it is illegal to run away from home. And as such, when the cops find me, they have to take me home, back to those who hate me whether I want them to or not. If they don't take me there, or if they don't want me, then I either go to a detention center which is basically jail for kids, or a program for runaways or back to social services. There is no happy ending for me Sideswipe."
She cried softly. Sideswipe's frown deepened. "What about social services? Can't they do anything to help?"
"Do…do you remember that shelter we visited today?"
"Yeah. But what does that have to do with anything?"
"That's what it's like. I won't get adopted because I'm…too…old. I'll stay in the system until I age out. Maybe they'll put me with another foster home…but after everything that's happened…"
She whimpered out before she dissolved into more tears. He understood now. Why she was so sad, so scared to be found. If the enforcers ever caught her, she'd go back to living in an abusive home. If they didn't want her, she'd be forced to return to a system where she would sit and watch as other younger younglings got placed in loving homes. It wasn't fair.
When Sideswipe looked down to her again, ready to ask another question, he found her looking back up with half closed optics. He was startled to see the whites of her optics were now a vibrant pink almost bordering red. With a soft whimper, she closed her optics and her breathing slowed.
Sideswipe panicked, scanning her frantically while also gently poking her and shaking her. "Lilac? Wake up! WAKE UP! WA- Oh wait. Are you recharging?"
He asked as his scans came back showing that her breathing patterns matched those of when she was in recharge earlier that day. "She must have lost too many fluids! I have to get her more! …Or maybe…is she too low on fuel? She purged her tanks earlier. Fragit! I need help! But I can't take her to their medics. Not after what she said about their enforcers."
He thought mournfully as he skated back and forth in the odd pacing fashion Lilac had observed earlier. "Not to forget to mention that their enforcers are looking for me…"
He grumbled internally as he looked down at her again seeing how oddly peaceful she looked as she recharged. It was then that Sideswipe decided to make his own special promise to her. "I will never let anyone harm you again. I'm gonna get you out of trouble, and I know the others will help me when we get there. But first, I have to get us out of the trouble I caused."
He said as he gently set her down before transforming, and putting her backpack in his back seat. "Primus you're difficult to move!" he groaned as tried to maneuver a heavily sleeping Lilac into his passenger seat. Once she was inside he strapped her in and reclined her seat before silently driving off into the night.
A/N: Hello! I promise I'm still alive and that I am not leaving this story unfinished! I had literally no time this semester to write because of my heavy class load of five courses and working part time. This chapter was written slowly over months and for that I'm sorry. This next semester will be similar, but I intend to work a little less. On the bright side, I am almost done with my degree study! And this story now has the most followers out of all of my stories! I hope you are all well and that you are having a great holiday season! I look forward to hearing from you in the new year! 🎇🎉🎆
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