Drive to freedom.

Author’s note: This chapter was the one that got ate by my computer, so it had to be rewritten totally. I had in mind to show the Dreads or a possible hint of them but the chapter is going longer than I had expected so it will be in the next chapter, but we will see the start of a budding romance between Lennox and Teri. You will have to see about that.

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Chapter Five.

 

Morning came all too early for Optimus, he knew it was a Saturday and it would mean a nice day to relax his sensors and get a bath from Teri. He loved listening to her talk and for the most part it would be ranting about her mother who doesn’t seem to want to let her grow up and be the woman she is to ranting about the political status of the country to the radio programs that she would listen to on the radio or on the ham radio with some ham radio operator somewhere in the states or even another trucker.

As the sun rose, his audio sensors could hear noises – yelling more like it coming from the house itself. He watched with his sensors as Teri came storming from the house in her t-shirt and pants as she flipped her mother off as she screamed at her, her mother followed her out as far as she could before she stopped and continued on yelling at Teri, to which she flipped her mother off and used some swear words as well.

Optimus knew Teri was not going to be in a good mood this morning as he watched as she pulled out of her purse her cell phone and dialed a number listening to something on the other end before hanging up. She looked at the cell phone and counted on her hand before moving towards him.

Optimus wondered what she was planning on doing as usually by now he would be getting hosed down and washed, but by how she looked, today’s plans were now thrown out.

She unlocked the driver’s side door and climbed in. She gripped the wheel tightly before she glared at the house. “I wish that I had Lennox’s number. He probably would like to go see an afternoon movie with me?”

Just as she was about to pick up her phone to call a friend, a military jeep pulled up to the gate. “Speak of the man and he appears. He must have gotten away from the base to visit me again.”

She climbed out of the cab and headed towards the gate to see Lennox standing there. “About time you showed up,”

Lennox was taken back by the angry tone in her voice. He held his hands up in I give up. “Hey, I didn’t know I was late. What’s wrong?”

“Everything!” Teri snapped off before giving a smile to him. “But I’m glad that you’re here. Wanna see a movie?”

Lennox smiled after he glanced at his watch. “I would love to but it’s like 8am in the morning.”

Teri looked at him. “I know that,”

Lennox watched as she walked away from him. He grabbed her arm with his hand and the next thing he knew, she had thrown a punch at him to which he blocked. That got a glint in his eye, as he smiled at her. “You know how to fight?”

Teri shrugged, “My younger brother and I did hand to hand combat but we mainly trained ourselves how to fight.”

Lennox started to smile. “Want to see how you go against a military trained soldier?”

Teri returned his smile and walked to where they had room to fight in. “Bring it on. Lennox,”

Lennox started off with the minor punches before he noticed that she was blocking them or dodging them and giving him punches that he was barely able to block without some trouble. Soon, they were fighting; they were trading punches and blocks. Teri smiled as she started to throw kicks and feet sweeps at Lennox. He knew she was trained but he started to input some of his military training into his attacks on her and he noticed that she was stumped on some of them but still managed to block most of the attacks.

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Optimus watched from his location as Lennox and Teri started to do hand to hand combat. Even though he had watched the members of NEST train with each other, it looked like a dance as they traded punches, dodged punches and kicks at the same time as they traded kicks. Lennox had several times kicked Teri’s feet from under her only to have her flip backwards and land on her feet before she went after him again.

It was a long time before they stopped fighting as they laid there in the pasture gazing towards the sky. From what Optimus could detect their heartbeats and breathing levels were high as they started to cool down from what they did while fighting.

Optimus turned his internal communications on in hopes that he could hear one of the others try to communicate with everyone else, but there was only silence that rang over the channel. He sadly turned it off and put it on the channels for the other truckers that would drive past. He would listen to the communications that the truckers would say over the radio. It passed the time for him since he was now stuck in truck mode for life.

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Teri glanced over at Lennox as they sat on the grass, he looked exhausted with the hour long fight that they did. “We only fought for an hour, not even enough time for the movie theatre to open up for the afternoon matinees,”

“How far is it . . . drive wise?” Lennox asked.

“About 20 miles from here, but if we wanted to go to Osage Beach, where there’s other restaurants located at and other stores are at, that’s at least 35 miles from here,” Teri replied.

“That would take us about . . .,”

“Fifty minutes to get there.” Teri stated. “We could go there and have lunch before we go check out what movies are playing?”

Lennox smiled. “That would be good.” He laid down on the grass as he turned his head to look at her, his arms was behind his head. His nose wrinkled at the smell he was putting off as he placed his arms back down to his side. “Maybe a shower would be good first.”

Teri chuckled. “Yeah, we both need it. We stink,” as she got up and held her hand out to him to help him up.

Lennox took the offered hand and yanked her down flipping himself over to where he was over her, with a smirk on his face started to lean down.

“Teri!” cried a voice coming from the house.

Teri used the chance to slip from under Lennox and looked over at the house. “Yes dad?”

“Is everything okay?” Charles asked.

“Yes, dad, we’ll be coming in shortly to take showers,” Teri said, as her father waved as he headed back in. “I guess I better get the towels and the spare shampoo and conditioner for you.”

“I didn’t expect to be fighting anyone at this hour and going out to a movie later with a pretty young lady,” Lennox replied.

“Pretty, who, me? Nah, the heat must have gotten to your head, Lennox, I’m not pretty at all,” Teri said, as she looked at him as she started to head for the house.

Lennox watched as Teri walked ahead of him, shaking his head as he followed her.

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Optimus watched from his spot as Teri and Lennox headed into the house, he wondered why Lennox shook his head as he followed her within. ‘Could he be trying to court his owner?’ Optimus wondered, as he watched as Lennox disappeared within the house.

He knew he would be able to ask him later when he came to visit him tonight, but for now he would remain silent.

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Teri grabbed three towels and a small bag as she led Lennox upstairs. “The bathroom is here.” She opened a door revealing a guest bedroom and she headed past the bed towards another room. “You can use this shower, my shower is in with my parent’s bathroom.”

“So you don’t use this one?” Lennox asked.

“Nope, it is used for guests only. My room is at the end of the hallway, I always use my folks’ shower since my mom and I use the same hair stuff.” Teri said. As she headed off to her bedroom.

About forty minutes later, both were sitting in the kitchen having a cup of coffee with Teri’s dad, discussing their day’s plans. Charles looked at Teri and then to Lennox. “So you two are planning on going to see a movie later on?”

“Yes sir,” Lennox replied. “Maybe lunch or dinner before or afterwards,”

“Why don’t you make it a double header?” Charles suggested. “It would be good for you both,”

“Dad!” Teri cried out.

“I’m serious here, a double header will make the day go longer,”

“Or more like the date, dad?” Teri replied, eyeing her father. All he could do was smile. “Well, what do you think, Lennox?”

Lennox looked at her and then to her father. “Sure, a double header sounds like fun. We’ll figure out which two movies we’ll see when we get there, okay?”

Teri nodded as she picked up her coffee mug and rinsed it out. “We should get going, if we get there too early for the movie, we can always go look at some music at the music store,”

“That sounds like a good idea, considering I haven’t got any new CDs in a while,” Lennox replied, as they started to head for the garage door.

They headed for Lennox’s jeep and drove towards Osage Beach. When they got to the Outlet Mall and parked. Teri checked the time for Captain America and another movie, needless to state, they were not going to be playing for another hour. So, they headed to the music store and started to browse the CD racks for their favorite music.

Teri had got her favorite music ranging from Def Leppard, Bon Jovi to movie soundtracks of some of the movies that she liked. She went to Lennox and saw him with a varied range of music from Elvis to The Beatles and then some of the newer music. “Lady Gaga?”

Lennox glanced at her. “Yeah, some of her songs are really good. You got yours ready to go?” He glanced at his watch. “We need to buy these and get them in the jeep and head for the theatre, we’re about to miss the movie’s start.”

Teri nodded as they went to the checkout and bought their CDs and headed to the jeep and hid them under their seats, before they hurried over to the theatre and got two tickets for couple movies, walked in and got a tub of popcorn, seasoned it with some white cheddar seasonings before heading into the theatre and found their seats.



TBC . . .