Band practice was over in an hour and everybody started packing up.
"So," Aiden came up behind me, "What did you think?" I smiled and said,
"It was pretty good."
"Good?" his voice went flat, "Just good?"
"I said pretty good, Mr. Manese," I corrected him. I started laughing a little and he light punched me at the shoulder. Felix looked up from the dirty couch that stood beside the concrete stage.
"Oh," he smirked, "what do we have here?" Felix got up and slowly started walking towards us. "A little teasing are we?" Pierce heard this and looked over at us. He also gave an evil grin. Paul and Lacey just ignored us and continued whatever they were doing. Except Lacey gave me the death stare before she went back to talking to Paul. Cassey looked up from her script then went back. She seemed too concentrated in Tara.
"Hey, we didn't do nothing wrong," Aiden proclaimed.
"Oh? Nothing wrong? I see you two get along quite well," Felix locked Aiden in his arms. "Since when did you two got to," he paused trying to look for the right word, "lovey-dovey? Hmm?"
"Hey man, get offa me." Aiden struggled to get out of Felix's strong grip. I just stood there blushing my face off.
"What you look at that," hands grabbed my shoulders as they begin to slide onto them. Pierce grabbed my chin, "she's blushing." His face came closer to mine. I tried to get lose in a panic; his hand held tighter to my face. I closed my eyes thinking that he would kiss me.
"Get your hands of her Pierce." A slap was heard in the old building. Aiden was still locked up in Felix's arms. Cassey was the one who slapped Pierce. He loosened his grip and I scurried away from him. "Don't do that to a girl. You'll ruin her face." Cassey stated. Pierce's eyes were still wide, but he managed to say,
"Sorry," he said to her.
"Don't say that to me either," Cassey looked at me, "say it to her."
Pierce quickly looked down to me, "Sorry Erica." I felt awkward and didn't said anything back. Cassey quickly walked over to Felix. His eyes turned into fear. He quickly let go of Aiden and ran, but Cassey was faster. She pinned him down in no time, even though her figure is a size of a stick.
"Uncle! Uncle!" cried Felix. I started laughing. Pierce down at me. Aiden glanced, and Cassey stopped for a second. Felix was still in pain. I laughed a little longer until I noticed everyone was staring at me.
"Wha-what?" I shrinked down.
"You're pretty cute when you laugh," answered Pierce. Aiden bonked on the head, "Ouch! What was that for?"
"Just because," he answered.
"What?" Pierce rubbed his head and cheek. His face was red with frustration.
Before anymore rough housing went on Paul and Lacey came out of their corner. "Guys we should get going it's pasted 8:30. Lacey needs to be a Becca's place." Lacey grabbed his hand and showed us a fake smile.
Felix got up, "Fine, lets get going guys." We all walked out and got into, apparently Paul's moms, minivan. Good thing there was enough seats. Lacey sat up front with Paul, who was just a year older than the rest of us, and kissed him on the the cheek. Cassey and I sat in the middles seats which only two seats, and the rest of the boys sat at the back. A bit squished. All of us, in the back, started chatting and laughing. I learned many things about these people in the minivan. Cassey, Felix, and Aiden were cousins. Which shocked me because they didn't seems like close family at all, but here they're are sitting together, laughing together, like a big family reunion. Peirce have five siblings. Two older sisters, one 25 the other 19. Twins consisting two boys and a girl at the age of 11. Then the five year old Henry.
"Wow," I said, "and you're in the middle of all of it." He sighed and said,
"Yeah, but let me tell you helping the kids out in the mornings is terrible." I smiled at his comment. It must be nice to have siblings. Mom and dad couldn't have anymore kids because of the doctors fearing that she might die if she had another childbirth. They couldn't have C-section either apparently mom's side of the family tree had a bad history of childbirth and blood lost. So, it was just me and my little family.
"Do you have siblings?" Asked Aiden,
"No, no siblings,"
"Same here." He slid back into his seat. The car went silent for a couple of seconds then Felix asked,
"Where are you from?"
"I use to live not to far here, but with a lot less cars and building." I paused thinking if I would say more...What the hell, "But, when I was younger I use to live in Mission City."
"You use to live in Mission City?" Felix's eyes widen to this news, "Wer-were you at the attack?" I nodded my head and combed my finger through my hair covering the left side of my hair. Lately, in the mornings, I've noticed something in the mirror. My left eye started turning silver. You can't see it, unless you look at the very corner of my iris.
"Yeah, we survived then we moved to Chicago with my Aunt and Uncle." All of them stopped talking they knew what happened at Chicago. It only happened four years ago. "Then, the decepticons attacked, and we all know what happened after that." Cassey hugged me and for some reason tears started to fall out. I started talking again but in parts, "M-my par-parents died, and my o-other relatives."
I just started pouring out my life story in front of them. I didn't know why I guess I just bottled up these feelings, the emotions, and the loneliness for too long. Started to calm down I told them how I survived, but didn't telling them about the spark and such. Just about the savoir.
"I remember a robot, a Transformers actually,"
"What's the differences?" Interrupted Felix, "I mean between Transformers and Decepticons?"
"You don't know the differences?" Said Pierce and Aiden at the same time.
"Transformers worked with the government," started Aiden.
"And protected the Earth ever since the attack at Mission City." Our faces was interested in the knowledge in this. Not a lot of people knew that the government worked with the Transformers. I knew everything because of Ratchet's Spark in my brain, along with the vial Deceptions one. "Decepticon are the ones who attacked us, wanting something called the Allspark." Finished Pierce. The Allspark, the thing I some how make my little ones alive.
"What is the Allspark?" Asked Cassey,
"It's like this energy source, or the creator, of all Transformers or Decepticons," Aiden answered. Now that was weird, how did he knew that?
"Where did you get all of these information?" He looked at me with a look unsure if he should tell me. Aiden looked at Felix and Cassey. They both shrugged their shoulder and said,
"Tell her," at the same time.
"Jinx!" Called out Felix first. Cassey tried to move away before getting hit by Felix.
"You're so immature," Cassey started rubbing her own war wound.
"Anyways," we listened in to Aiden, "Our Uncle, Will Lennox, was in all of those attacks." My eyes started twitching out. Images, no memories, of a man in a solider suit passed through my brain. I see him talking in a ruin of a city. Everybody, I mean all of the good guys, was gathered around in a circle smiling in the destroyed city. Then I eyes I was looking in looked up to find a helicopter, and me getting on it. I shivered and went back to reality.
"No, way," said Felix
"Totally, he said that he faced a cybertronian scorpion out in a desert," Aiden confirmed. I was smiling as they continued on with their story, completely forgetting about mine. That didn't bothered me it looked like they were having fun anyways. They also told me the days they practiced at the warehouse. Fridays, Saturdays, and Wednesdays. Leaving a three day gap for me to camouflage the place. Remember what I told you about that little hole that keeps all of my alien like mechanics? I'm basically going to do this with a better scale.
Felix says that the place where all the car junk is piled up is where none of them go. Only because there is no use of going there anyways. It's also a pretty wide area. I just have to build eight little pads, four on ground and four in the air. It won't take long, then it's off to re-animating Ratchet. I just wonder how long it would take for me to rebuild him… I needed to remake him faster somehow.
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Thanks for reading! I know it's been a while I updated… I had writers block. Anyways! Please leave a review, criticism, and etc.
-Cedar Fisher