Ugh, my head was spinning, whirling with thought after thought. What had happened? Did I really just faint? Why? Where was I even? Am I on the ground? Please tell me there isn't gum on the back of my head…! I felt my chest tremble as a groan traveled up from my lungs, past my throat, and right out from between my rough lips. I felt one of my eyes garner enough energy to lift its heavy lid to peer out beyond the darkness. Almost immediately my pupil contracted as a rush of brilliant white light began to engulf my eye. Ugghh…Damn sun…Hold on…The sun wasn't this white…And it was never this close to someone's face…And it never sank this low. My eye rolled over, my other baby blue now joining it in its little journey, and spotted two bright white orbs staring back. It took my mind a little while to realize that these two orbs were in fact not the sun…but headlights. Headlights of car…! Oh crap, had I been run over? No…No…I didn't feel like I had been run over…whatever that felt like anyway. I let out a sigh to try and relax my dazed and foggy mind. As I sat up, I heard someone address me in a gruff and slightly annoyed tone.
"Finally! Next time you plan on lying on the ground for five hours, how about a little warning, huh?" I suspected this person was the driver of whomever's car was parked right next to me. However, I couldn't see them…All thanks to those high beams still pouring into my eyes. "Hey! Don't just lay there, get up already!" As if their words were strings to my limbs, I found myself complying to their rather rude order. I braced my hands behind myself and bent my knees, allowing my feet to plant themselves on solid ground. I grunted a bit as both my feet and hands pushed themselves on the asphalt beneath me, allowing the rest of my body to lift itself. Now standing I let out another sigh as I slowly turned towards the car, about to thank its driver for taking time out of their life to check up on me. However, my eyes saw no one there…Well…no one save for the one whom had caused my fainting in the first place. Yes, it was all coming back to me now…Winning the car, Sora and Kairi, the smirking man in the suit, flashing cameras, new car, coming home…All of the memories came back in a sort of whirlwind overtaking my mind. I had to place a hand against my forehead to try and halt my twirling mind. My eyes widened at the man who was still settled within the hood of my car. My mouth opened to speak, even formed a word to speak, but my head could not bring about anything to spit out. Instead, a small silence began to grow between us before the brunette decided to smash it to pieces. "So…are you going to stand out here all night, or are you gonna let me get some rest?" Only his top half was still visible to me which I was incredibly thankful for. His head was propped on one of his blue gauntleted hands whilst the other disappeared somewhere within the confines of the hood behind him.
"R-R-Rest…?" I echoed, much to the other's irritation as I soon found by his brow arching and a small scowl forming on his face.
"Yes, r-r-rest." He repeated, the agitation in his voice dripping right past his full pink lips. "If you plan on driving this car tomorrow, either you—" He was cut off by me…slamming the cover of the car down on him. I could practically feel his glare boring through the material and right through my head. I could go as far to say I heard a few curses coming from the thin barrier between us. I would apologize…but I needed a moment. With each word he continued to speak, the shock I had felt before only returned with reinforcements. Okay, Cloud…Let's just tally up what's happened today: 1) Won a car. 2) Drove new car home. 3) Open car to find naked man. 4) Naked man starts talking. There, that didn't sound too shocking, right? Right, this was all just—Oh who the hell was I kidding? I flung the hood of the car open, my fingers still gripping its edge. I was met with the deadliest glare I've ever received in my life and the worst grimace imaginable. A quick gauntlet reached out and gripped the front of my dark green sweatshirt, pulling me down as far as my taut arms would already allow. Before he could even think to say anything, I was already blurting something out.
"Whattheheckareyoudoinginmycar?"
"What?" he questioned, one of his eyebrows rising in an inquisitive fashion. I repeated what I had jumbled together. "Why do you think? I'm your engine." He said this through gritted teeth as if what he was saying was some age-old fact that he had to repeat to 200 people, twice per person.
"But…But that's not right! Engines are metal, run on oil; need to be checked every few months!" I exclaimed, a little harshly to tell the truth.
"Sorry to disappoint you." The apology had nothing but sarcasm behind it. "But whether you like it or not, I'm your engine and this car won't run on anything else but me." He held up his other gauntleted hand, a thick blue cable snaking its way from the front of his wrist and receding behind him. I followed its trail slowly with my eyes and found it connected to a sort of thin, glittering blue metal belt around the man's bare waist. It was then I noticed he was fitted into the car lying on his stomach, his legs couldn't be seen however. Unfortunately, my eyes could not stop themselves before they grazed over the two slightly tanned hills that were this man's bum. I immediately shut my eyes and when I opened them again I was greeted with the same scowling face that had been speaking to me. "So, can I get an apology for you slamming my head in?"
"I'm…sorry." I heard myself say and the grip on my sweatshirt was released just like that. I felt my arms drop from above my head to my sides, swinging back and forth a few times before coming to a rest. "It's…just a lot to…to take in right now…" The face before me made no move whatsoever to transform itself into a sort of sympathy. It was almost as if my engine expected me to know just what sort of source held the influence over the vehicle. How was I supposed to know such a thing? Well…I had been told by that Paragon Automotive representative that I now owned a car in a class of its own…but—
"Whatever." The mumble had been so quiet that I was surprised that I had heard it at all, especially with my mind skipping along with every questioning thought that entered my mind. I blinked slowly once, twice. "Just let me get some rest…" I could almost hear the faint hint of fatigue in the brunette's voice as he laid himself back down within the darkness. There was a bit of shuffling on his part before he seemed to be nestled in a position he could call comfortable. The next thing I knew, the cover of the hood of the car slammed down with neither of our hands upon it. The sight had taken me aback and I stumbled a few steps away from my car. The high beams that had been flowing into my eyes had been dammed and now before me I could spots of a sickeningly bright green and a nauseating yellow. I rubbed both of my eyes furiously as I took yet another step back from my car, groaning slightly as I did so. I let out a huff as I opened my eyes to the dark asphalt beneath my feet and spotted annoyingly familiar streaks of green and yellow passing me by.
Well…what else was there to do? Too much had happened already today and I wasn't particularly keen on the idea of letting anything else occur. Before that happened, I would be in my bed, comforter tugged way over my blond hair, and the door to the room locked. Now that I thought about it…the idea was quite tempting…And my body was just now revealing to me how tired it was. Let's see if I could get any sleep tonight...
Author's Note: Sorry for the incredibly late update and the incredibly short chapter. It's not as meaty as I would have wanted it to have been, but it does get some explaining across, if any at all that is. Chapter 3 is in the works and will hopefully be meatier and up sooner than chapter 2.