Sorry for the long wait everyone. I barely had time to do this chapter thus the shortness of it. There was quite a bit of damage to clear up because of the hurricane. And yes, I put the hurricane in the story. I wondered what it might be like for a little child to have to experience their first hurricane. Hurricane Dolly was my first hurricane ever which was pretty cool to watch. Though I hated it when the electricity went out. Since the hurricane hit here in Texas, I guess it's safe to assume that Rhodey lives somewhere in Texas. I promise that once I get the time my next chapter will be longer. Enjoy!
Rhodey woke up to the sound of hammering. Her neighbors and her family were boarding up their windows and she wondered what was going on. Instead of going down stairs to ask, she turned on her TV and switched to the weather channel where warnings were flashing, telling everyone to prepare for the hurricane heading their way. Hearing this gave Rhodey a sick feeling in her stomach, she hated storms.
She kept listening as the reporter said that tornadoes were imminent and went on to explain that the hurricane, previously only a tropical storm, was a category 1, but was edging very close to becoming a category 2. The hurricane was named Dolly and Rhodey and her family was in the path of it.
Hotshot and the others were on the bed with her, watching the news. Hotshot looked up at her and saw her worried look.
"What's wrong? What are they talking about?" he asked
"They're saying that a hurricane is coming" she began explaining, "A hurricane is a storm that can cause a lot of destruction. There are five different categories, category five being the strongest and most destructive. We are gonna get a category one, which is the smallest, but still pretty strong. Though right now they're saying it might become a category two. I've never been through a hurricane before, but I've seen news reports and they look pretty scary."
"Oh, wow. It does sound scary. What are your parents doing?"
"They're boarding the windows so that they don't blow in. We also might lose power some time during the storm. I just hope it doesn't flood."
Rhodey looked out the window and watched as everyone ran around, preparing for hurricane Dolly. I hope everything will be alright. She was already thinking of what could happen because of the storm and worriedly looked at her friends and her dinosaurs. She didn't want anything to happen to them.
The hurricane would make landfall tomorrow and her family was getting ready as fast as they could.
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Rhodey was walking through the halls of her school to her next class. Of course, as usual, she had brought one of her toys. Since she didn't want to risk bringing her dinosaurs to school, she could only take her transformers to school and had decided to bring titanium Starscream. Every now and then, she would allow him to look out her backpack and take a peak around the school as long as nobody saw him.
She made it to Math class just as the bell rang and went to take her seat. As much as she wanted to listen to her teacher, she couldn't quit worrying about the coming storm. How much damage would it cause? Would something happen to the house? What would happen to her friends? Her stomach kept churning as she kept imagining what could happen and the fact that tornadoes could strike did not help.
She forced herself to stop thinking of these things and to pay attention. She didn't notice Starscream peaking out of her backpack, revealing himself a little too much as he did. Starscream looked around until his optics came into contact with another student's who was looking at him with wide eyes. As surprised as the boy was, he didn't seem as shocked or freaked out as Starscream would have expected.
As soon as Starscream had seen the boy, he froze for just a second then dove straight back into the bag. Oh, slag. I'm in so much trouble when Rhodey finds out he thought to himself, What were you thinking you moron? Stupid, stupid. By now he was mentally kicking himself at his mistake and even hitting his head against the books in Rhodey's bag.
Rhodey looked down at her bag when she heard small knocking sounds. What is he doing in there? She kicked her bag a little to get him to settle down a bit and nearly jumped out of her seat when she heard a not too quiet yelp come from the bag. Oh man she thought as everyone looked at her. She laughed nervously.
The boy sitting next to her looked amused. He knew she wasn't the one who yelped and found the whole situation hilarious and was desperately trying not to laugh.
The teacher shook her head and went back to teaching. I'm surrounded by hooligans. The bell rang and she couldn't have been any more grateful.
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Rhodey was putting books in her locker when Starscream popped his head out of the backpack with a smile that said 'I'm so slagged.'
"What were you doing in there?" she asked quietly
"Can't a bot hit his head against books every once in awhile?" he asked
"Why would you hit your head against a book?"
For being an idiot "To…uh... clear my head, yeah that works. I needed to clear my head" he said. Oh Primus! How much more pathetic could that have been?
"To clear your head. Star, you and I both know that was a sorry excuse. What really happened?"
"Well… somekidsawmewhenIlookedoutyourbackpackinmathclass!"
Rhodey blinked. "Okay, say again, but this time slower. You're not Blurr!"
He sighed. "Some kid saw me when I looked out your backpack in math class"
"See now wasn't that ea- WHAT?!" she looked around and yet again everyone was staring at her. Not again "What? Ya'll look like you've never seen a girl yell before." She said before she walked away. Quickly.
The boy had seen the whole thing, but this time couldn't hold his laughter in. This was too good. He had to meet this girl, she seemed very interesting. Wonder why I never noticed her before?
The lunch bell rang at that moment and he made his way to the cafeteria with every intention to sit with and introduce himself to the girl and her 'friend.' He smiled as he started walking. This was going to be interesting.
Dun dun dun. LOL. Someone knows! What's the kid gonna do once he meets Rhodey? Who knows! I haven't gotten that far yet!
Anyway, earlier on, when I first started writing this story, someone asked if I was going to have romance in the story. Well, I thought about it when this story was just starting to form itself in my head. I would like to, but I've never written romance before and I don't wanna mess up. If anyone has any suggestions or requests, then don't be shy! Tell me. I could use the help once I get that far. I don't know what chapter the romance will begin, but I'm working on it.
I love Starscream, but I figured that he'd be the type to not think of the consequences of 'taking a peak.' Know what I mean? Hope ya'll enjoyed! Until next time!
