Chapter 3: Partners
Alright, its Gym. All I had to do was survive the forty-five minutes of this class with Drift and Yorketron, and I would be a free bird. So yeah, he got attendance down, then told us once we headed outside, we needed to find a partner. One thing's for sure, Blazefire was mine. Sure, me, her and Stardust were pals, but there was no way in Primus I was getting paired up with Drift. He already makes me sick as it is. Once outside, I raced toward Blazefire before I saw her with Stardust. "Sorry Chromia.. The thought came up." She said as I growled. Ok girl, just relax all you needed to do was find someone else who you BARELY knew or hated to the spark, and maybe get along with them for the games and activities. I looked towards Yorketron's way before thinking more. Crud, he knows I don't have a parnter. I'm screwed, I'm screwed, I'm screwed BIG TIME! Unless... No Chormia, not that. You promised you wouldn't. Well, I don't have much of a choice, do I? If he tells me, I mikght start an argument, and that's the last thing I needed on my Stress List.
"Need a partner?"
The voice asked me as I quickly recognized it. Oh yeah, it was Drift, he totally read my mind. Well, seeing as thought I had no choice, I sadly nodded. "Yeah, I need a partner.. Wanna be mine?" I asked, feeling the pain go to my through as he nodded. "Just don't slow me down and we'll be good." He said to me. Excuse me? Excuse me! Slow you down? Oh heck no, not happening. I don't need this. No one cocks an attitude at me and lives to see tomorrow with a straight look on their face. "What did you just say?" I said as he looked at him. He had no emotion, nothing but a blank and serious look crossed together. "I said, don't slow me down and we'll be good. Got a problem with that Chromia?" He said to me as I fumed up once more. Oh hell no, HELL NO! This bot will not talk to me like that! How dare he say that to me! "You know what pal, your on your own, I'm sitting down in the fragging bleachers!" I say, everyone watching me with shocked looks on their faces. Blaze and Stardust even watched me sit down for the first time. Me, Chromia, actually sitting down in bleachers after I refused to work with a partner like that. Everyone just stared me, as if I had just done the most biggest thing in Autobot history. Why? Why was I forced to work with... Him?! Why him?! Why no one else. I was just grateful that Yorketron was focused with some bots before seeing the scene, seeing me sat down. "Chromia, what happened?" He asked me as I looked down, and for the first time, in many vorns, besides Turbo dying, I shed tears.
"I.. Don't need this.. I'm already stressed as it is.. That jerk will never know how I feel.." I said, explaining before he finally understood. He told me that if I survived Turbo's passing, I could survive one day with Turbo being my partner. After a few minutes of exchanging words, I finally gave in and got up, walking over to Drift. The first event was a football toss. First team to get five tosses in wins. Alright, no problem. I can toss a simple ball back and forth. "Think you can handle this without whining?" Drift asks me, getting to the other side as I smirked, giving a remark back. "No.. I think your mother can't though." I said as some of the other bots and femmes heard me, ohhing and saying things like, oh snap, she didn't!, damn, that was a BIG burn. His face them fumed up like mine did before, tossing the ball to me quickly as I caught it, smiling as I tossed it back. Everyone else did the same as I kept it going. After a few minutes, our team and Blazefire and Stardust tied with us. Alright, so far, so good. Next up was so easy. A race around the track. One person would start, and the other partner would wait for our first partner to come and tag us so we could finish the race.
Drift agreed to start off, wanting me to finish as Stardust spoke up. "Geez Chromia, you must have some death wish, speaking to Drift like that." She said as the runners at the start line went off as I shrugged, speaking up back. "I ready don't care. He doesn't embarrass me in front of my classmates and doesn't make me cry." I say, seeing our teammates approach us as they tagged us at the same time, both of us running quickly as we kept speaking. "But I mean.. That mother thing, don't you think you took it too far?" She asked, almost like the same question Jazz asked me earlier this morning when I introduced myself to Drift rudely. "As I told Jazz Stardust, I will tell you, you have not seen me go so far before, but with Drift today, I made an acception." I said as she nodded, agreeing as we both skidded, getting first place. After some more events, we got the rest of the period to ourselves as me and the girls gathered around, ready for the weekend. "So, have you guys heard about Jazz and Stargazer? They might be getting together." Blaze mentioned to us as we both nodded. "With the way Stargazer always talking about him, I'm not surprised." I said as they laughed as I did the same. Man, moments like this always cheered me up. Maybe this rest of the day wouldn't be as stressful as I thought it would be. Drift looked over at me as I looked back. We both exchanged glances before looking away from one another.
Dear Primus, he thinks he's so tough. But as I said before, I had a feeling he spelt bad news for me. But at the same time, I had a feeling that I haven't felt in a very long, long time...
I felt like I was in.. Love with him.