The Stranger and Friend
Chapter 2
I do not own sorry!
Kathleen looked ahead and snickered as she saw the Porsche dealership up ahead and the signal light goes off.
Plan : Bring Sam's hopes up then crush them is a GO!
She turns in just as Sam starts saying a happy enthusiastic chant of "NO's!" in anticipation of getting a Porsche. She didn't catch what his Dad said as he drove them out of the dealership but the look on Sam's face was priceless as she let out a snort as they go the dealership of Bobby Bolivia...without the Runs Bolivia.
Kathleen remembered him very well.
She turned in and parked beside their car as they get out and she turns off her bike Sam walks over to her as his Dad goes to find the idiot who sells the cars.
"Did you see what my Dad did to me back there?" He fumed as Kathleen placed a consoling hand on his shoulder after taking off her helmet and looked him dead in the eye starting out in a low monotone.
"Sam...I saw exactly what happened and I have to tell you something..." He looked at her warily already having a slight inclining awareness of what was to come.
"...It was all my idea, your Dad loved it and pulled through so we can watch your face ... it was hilarious!" She received a sharp whack over the head from the back of his hand for that as she laughed at his misfortune.
"So now that I know who to blame for that let's move on and figure out why my Dad brought me to a place that sell's car's that are half a piece of crap."
Sam walks over to his Dad talking to a black guy with a funny hat yelling at a clown, wearing a Hawaiian shirt and making small talk with Sam's Dad.
Out of the corner of her eye she sees the Camaro ease into the used car lot and she smiles inwardly. Won't this be fun?
Kathleen walked over to the guys as he pitched to Sam and his Dad.
"...It is a mystical bond between Man and Machine, the driver don't pick the car, the car picks the driver... And who is this lovely lady?"
"Don't even think about it my ride is the bike beside the car I am only hear to support my friend and help pick the best choice of vehicle that won't die on him in a year or two."
"I can feel the love Kathleen seriously..." Sam says as they wander the lot. Kathleen knew she had her work cut out for her if he hadn't noticed the only good car in the lot aka Bumblebee so she will just have to give him a nudge.
Kathleen wandered over to the Camaro and ran her finder along the side rim of the car secretly jumping up and down. She was touching THE Bumble Bee the cutest Autobot to come to earth with all his radio trouble ,everyone loves the Bee.
She walks around the car and opens the hood. She gives a whistle of appreciation and closes it and the sound brought Sam's attention over and he takes a look at the car and opens the drivers door getting in to test it out.
You would think he would check out the engine but he goes to the interior first, bloody amateur.
"This is nice it's got racing stripes..." Sam said as the adults came over.
"yah it's got racing stripes...ait I've never seen this car before?" As the black wannabe car salesmen yelled at his clown Sam admired the car and stroked his thumb over the steering wheel's middle uncovering a red face like logo made up of blocks.
"This...I think I have seen this before...Hey Kathleen come over here for a sec!"
Kathleen came around the car to the passenger side door opened it and slid in.
"Do you recognise this logo? I think I have seen it before in your apartment..."
"Looks like one of my illustration drawings... simplified to basic shapes. Sam really, no need to read too much into it."
Sam wasn't convinced he was pretty sure it was the same but then again it was in the territory of her secrets.
Kathleen, as far back as he can remember, has always been writing and drawing things that are beyond the imagination.
He has only seen one of her drawings from the, Transformer collection, and that is of a cube with lots of detailed hieroglyphics of some sort on it, or so he thought. It was surrounded by rock and held up in machines with tiny people below it showing how massive the thing really was.
He had asked what it was and she had just smiled at him and tapped her finger on her lips in a shushing matter.
"Himitsu!" That is what she said, apparently it means secret in Japanese, dam Otaku.
So she keeps all of her finished other drawings in a book, and it is a massive book like thing, leather and bound for flair she had added bindings to it making it look like old historian books and she put on it a symbol on the front and one on the back. The Red Face that he was pretty sure was on his car wheel, and the purple one of triangles on the back. Now he wasn't suppose to see it since it was her personal really private stuff so it was only like a few years ago he saw it when she was putting it away.
He let it slide for now and continued to admire the car as she took a look around the vehicle and stroked the dash board coming away with dust.
"If we get this car, mind you it is the best one here, we are driving it through the car wash and once we get it to your place wipe it down and vacuum it up a bit, it seriously needs a wash."
Sam nodded not really paying attention to her as his father started asking the price.
"Considering the custom paint job and the semi classic nature of the vehicle...5 thousand."
"Nope, nuh uh no way not going over four." Sam's father said.
The dealer went to sam's window and told him to get out of the car.
"But I thought you said the Car pick their driver?"
"Well sometimes the car picks a driver with a cheap ass father."Kathleen really didn't catch on to the rest of what he said when Sam was forced to get out.
As he did so and closed the door of the driver side the passenger one suddenly sprang open and banged into the other car.
Kathleen was startled and instantly said, "IT WASN"T ME!" As everyone stared at the vehicle and her. She slowly got out of the car door that was now open and closed it's door making the one on the driver's side spring open whacking the dealer in the butt.
It was kind of amusing with all the Witwicky entourage having to control their faces to hide their smirks or small laughs with coughs.
"A-Are you all right?" Sam asked as he helped the man up from the ground as he waved it off and shouted for Manny to get the clown car wrench to bang out the dent that also appeared in the car beside it.
Then Bobby B was walking towards another car that he supposedly drove all the way down from Alabama when Kathleen heard the radio start in the Camero and then it goes immediately high pitch and let's out a pulse that destroyed all the windows of all the cars in the lot except...for the Camero.
Bobby B looked like armageddon came down on him as he looked around frantically this way and that to see all of his merchandise un-usable before swinging back to Sam, Mr Witwicky and Kathleen.
"FOUR THOUSAND!" He choked out to us.
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Kathleen headed home after seeing the car through the car wash she paid for as a side gift for Sam that helped make the car a lot nicer.
"You should give it a hand wash though and wax because the car wash doesn't do a good job for a full all around cleaning it is just a temporary measure. You should also check the oil and the exhaust since it is probably clogged up so it will look like the car farted out black smoke when you start it up if you don't do anything. I will ask my friend what else to do later. I am going to head home I want to draw something's before going to bed... Ciao!"
Kathleen said all of this as she had followed Sam home afterwards to say high to the Mrs. and get a free snack and some left over's she is always thrusting at her saying she never eats right, she is probably right to lazy to do otherwise, and give Sam last minute checks on his car before patting it as she started her bike after storing the Tupperware container in the storage compartment under the seat.
Kathleen looked from Sam to his car and smiled, "You got really lucky here Sam...this car has a sweet stuff under the hood. I bet there is a lot more than meets the eye with this car..." She pats the side mirror and stroked the roof with an unreadable look before grinning at Sam.
He didn't notice the slight quiver the car gave that she felt. Kathleen was secretly gleeful and her inner girl wanted to come out cooing but she was barely able to restrain herself.
"Make sure not to make TOO much of a fool of yourself in front of Michaela and the others ok?" Sam winced wondering how she knew what he was going to do after this when she started laughing at him getting her bike started. "Your easy to read Sam, I was invited to the party at the park and I am not going unlike you who wasn't invited and going so it wasn't hard to do the math. Tell Miles I say Hi and not to embarrass yourself TOO much."
At this she gunned her bike waved to the Witwicky's that were working in the garden who waved back and backed out of the drive way to drive off to her home.
"Kathleen is such a nice girl, and her bike is so totally Awesome! Why haven't you tried dating her I mean she is pretty..." Sam's Mom trailed off while petting Mojo.
"Hm probably because she knows his darkest secrets and after all... She is too good for him, no one is dating our Kathleen without my say so!" Huffed Mr Witwicky as Sam stood their shaking his head at his parents delusions with his female friend.
"You guys treat her like she is your daughter sometimes ..." Sam laughed at them before telling them, "I see her as a sister after the first week of school together she set me straight if I thought otherwise besides..."he trailed off looking off to the side as he thought of his long time crush. "...I like someone else." He whispered his parent's not quite catching what he said as he shook his head to some back down to earth and ran inside.
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Kathleen let her bike go faster once she reached the country roads and felt the wind rush through her hair as she pulled off at the place she found last year, the cliff and the tree.
She swung off the bike and kicked the kickstand down so her bike wouldn't fall over and pulled out her sketchbook and coloured pencils as she leaned against the trunk of the tree and just let go.
The tension eased as she took calming breaths she relaxed knowing she was safe and smiled peacefully.
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Kagome looked at the scenery and relaxed enjoying it as it went down and finally became dark. It would be dangerous driving on a motorcycle at night but it's not as if she hadn't done this before.
Her cell phone went off and I looked to see Michaela's name flashing before flipping it open.
"Yo..."
"TRENT IS A JERK!"
...cricket...no seriously the crickets were already going off around Kagome.
"...What happened now?" This was not new she always blew up around guys who say the wrong thing to her especially when doubting her intelligence or her knowledge of anything that uses wheels. It was a problem she will always have because Michaela's hot and no one will take her seriously. She had a weakness for hot guys but seriously what girl doesn't have them?
"I just asked Trent if he would let me drive this time his truck and he went on about me messing up his friggen Wheels! I know more about them than he does and he would more likely mess them up than me! So I told him I was so totally not his little bunny and shoved off."
Wait a minute...if that was true then she would have had to walk back home, she lived like ten miles from where the party was going to be at.
"Michaela! Why didn't you call me I could have given you a ride and we can bitch about men together over some sinfully good but really fattening junk food! Please tell me you didn't walk home..."
"No...funny thing actually, the boy Sam Witwicky gave me a lift although his car broke down about half way ...Really Nice Engine it was freaking unreal it's got double headers...and the car was iffy with the radio I would swear Sam was doing it if he weren't stuttering the whole time..."
"...Michaela you amaze me sometimes. That was Sam, he's my other friend, I was helping with his family finding his first car...remember? You seriously do have selective memory, you have been hanging with the jock crowd way too much and need to just relax and do what you want for a change. People have a new name for people dating Jocks I found amusing if it weren't for the fact you were also my friend and dating one...evil Jock Concubines."
"... ... ... Great now I feel so much better for dumping him now, I asked Sam though a question when we arrived at my place."
"Hmmm ya what question?"
"Do you think I am shallow?"
"... aww Michalea your not shallow your in an opportune situation and taking advantage of what life has been given to you, your body is I will admit very H to the O to the T and can make any guy drool. This is because though you work hard as a mechanic so you work out with all the heavy lifting. People are only shallow if they care only for themselves regardless of any situation even if they are in the opportune situation to help and let's say save some one's life and do not. You would help someone, I know that and have seen it before. Now what did Sam say."
"Thanks Kathleen I really needed to hear that, Sam's answer was much shorter though, he said there was "More to you than meets the eye.""
"...cute vague but cute, why are you asking me all of these questions about Sam suddenly hmmm?"
Kathleen was enjoying this leaning against the tree enjoying the bright sky filled with the glowing moon and the stars. None of the bugs were biting and the tranquil sound of her iPod music coming through headphones left on the ground was a nice low backdrop.
"Mmmmm nothing...maybe nothing, I'm not entirely sure..."
Kathleen could hear mumbling under her breath as she was moving about on her bed she would her the squeaks of her shifting her position.
"RRRiiiigggghhhhtttt...you are curious about him now. Well if you have any questions feel free to ask I have been good friends with him for a couple of years now so I pretty much no everything about him. Parents are funny especially his mother when she drinks, god that woman makes me laugh. His father shares my ...unique sense of humour."
"I fear for the boy between you and his dad I shudder at the thought."
"Harr harr, anyways what did you think of the car I picked out for him? It was at Bobby Bolivas that place that sells shit usually."
"Really? You found that beautiful piece of art there? How in the world did he get that...That Camero was the best car they put out in the 19..." Kathleen didn't really catch the rest of what she said because of her battery beeping warning her of the battery power.
"Listen I have got to go catch you tomorrow."
"Yah don't stay out in the dark to long I worry about you."
"Thanks Good night."
Kathleen sighed as she ended the phone call and looked down at the drawing she had made to added to her ever massive collection with Bumblebee standing in his bipedal form shining a light up into the clouds and sky by the water tower of the autobot symbol.
Kathleen looks up at the sky and sure enough the symbol came to life there in the clouds far away from where she was.
"There he goes...and soon I will as well."
Kathleen knew she was weird, very VERY weird and misplaced in this world. She could see things all the time. Her awareness of the things around her was beyond any level of comprehension. She was a seer, the last of her kind and her allegiance is to ...well a higher authority.
It was like she knew each and every one of the Autobots personally like a TV show and a avid watcher of her favourite characters.
Now all she had to prove her insanity was her drawings, sketches, knowledge of the truth. But how will she use this power is up to her, and her alone.
Kathleen got up from the ground with a snap of her bones and stretched out the aches as she packed up and hopped on her bike to drive off into the night towards her apartment setting up for the arrival she will have eventually to deal with tomorrow night.
This should prove interesting, should she wait for Sam to come to her panicing adn asking for the glasses back or will she go meet Michaela for lunch and be dragged into it.
Hmm decisions decisions.