Lockdown drops me off in the middle of town. I get out of the passengers side, even though I sat in the drivers seat.
"Meet me back here at 3:30. I'm meeting with Cemetery Wind. Don't be late." He said. I just shrug, "Fine." I grumble. Lockdown drives off to who knows where. I smile when he's out of sight.

"Like I'm gonna listen to you, yeah right!" I say under my breath. Man, I really wish I didn't wear my Star Wars pajamas. A long sleeved shirt and pants. Not the best choice of clothes in Texas. I feel like I'm walking in an oven, it's so fucking hot here!! I need some new clothes, maybe a tank top and shorts. Yeah! I need to find a clothes store, but I don't see any just yet. I walk down the street.

My bare feet are burning since I ditched my slippers on the Ship, now I really wish I hadn't. I'll find some sandals hopefully. People kept staring at my pajamas with bullet holes, it feels so weird with all those eyes on me. I finally come upon a mall.

Yes! Finally! A place with air conditioning! I walk inside and feel the cool breeze in my face. Sweet relief! I scan my surroundings and find a store called Debs. It sells clothes for kids my age only, suh-weet!

I walk inside and search for things in my size. I settle with a skintight leopard print tank top with denim short shorts. Not short enough to show my ass, but short enough.

Now time for shoes. I scan the shelves for anything breathable. Then I found a pair of golden strap sandals, and they're my size! I pick up everything I want and go to the cashier. As I'm paying for the clothes and my new sandals, you'll NEVER believe who was looking at a pair of hot pink high heels.

It was Tessa and Shane. Oh wow, I wasn't expecting them to be here.
"What do you think of these, Shane?" Tessa and shoes are a combo like no other.
"They're really bright!" Shane covers his eyes. I giggle as I walk towards the dressing room. I look back at them, Tessa kept looking at those high heels.

"You're so dramatic, Shane." She says. I giggle, but they heard me. They look at me. Uh, okay.
"Hi." Is that really all I had to say? I just embarrassed myself. Tessa smiles,

"Hi, I'm Tessa. This is my boyfriend Shane. And you are?" Oh god, my name. Do I tell her my fake name? Or my real one? I make a choice.

"My name's Sky, nice to meet you." I said. Shane smiles at me.
"You too, Sky. What's up with your clothes? They look like they've been shot a hundred times." Tessa said. How did she know?? I gotta come up with an explanation and fast. I think I got a winner.

"I had two dogs at home who loved getting into things. They got ahold of these one day while I was at school. Before I was kidnapped..." WAIT, WHAT? Why did I say that? Well, it was the truth. Tessa and Shane's eyes widen.

"What? You were kidnapped?" They ask in sync. I look around to see if there was a figure who looked like Lockdown. Nobody, thankfully.

"He rarely lets me out of his sight, I'm trying to escape him. But I'm scared he'll take me back." I'm not really scared, but I want to be as far away from him as possible. This is actually the truth, I WAS kidnapped.

"Do you guys know where an apartment complex is? I can stay at one, I got enough money." I say. Tessa shakes her head.
"No, I don't. But I got a better idea, you can come stay at my place." Tessa says. I'm surprised she said that.

"You don't have to-" Tessa cuts me off.
"No, you're coming to stay at my place. You look younger than me, how old are you?" She asks.
"Almost 17, why?" I ask. Tessa looked surprised. So many people say I look like a freshman or sophomore in high school, but I'm a junior. My school year is almost over.

"Really? You look so much younger. Anyway, I'm about to go get the hair re-dyed, wanna come?" She asks. I nod.
"Sure, but let me put these clothes on first. I want to look better than I did before. Tessa laughs.

"Okay, we'll wait for you." They walk towards the exit. I walk into the dressing room and put on my new clothes. Step 1: Get new clothes, check. Step two: Make myself look different, is underway. I walk back out and join Tessa and Shane, time to get my hair dyed. My parents will kill me with dying my hair without permission.

Time skip - 10 minutes

We walk into some place called Stacy's Color Streak. Wow, not the best name. But hey, if my changing my hair color fools Lockdown, then I'm home free. The lady at the desk looks at us and smiles,

"Tessa! Good to see you again! Who's your friend?" I look at the lady's name tag, Stacy. So she must be the owner.
"This is my...cousin, Sky. It's her first time dying her hair, can you set her up?" Tessa says to Stacy. Tessa ain't a good liar like I am.

"Sure hon! I can do that. Go sit down over there." She pointed to two chairs with bowls behind the headrests. This lady is cheery, not a bad first meeting. Unlike meeting Cemetery Wind and Lockdown. I sit down in the chair next to Tessa and I'm handed a color chart.

"Choose any color you want." Stacy says to me.
"Can I choose 2? Cuz I have two colors I wanna try." I ask. She nods.
"That's fine, it is your choice." Said Stacy. I look at all the colors, I pick my two favorite colors. Blue and Red. They've been my favorite colors since I was 5. I heard of Optimus Prime when I was 8.

"Red and Blue please, like red with blue streaks." I say. Stacy nods.
"Sounds good, now lean back so I can wash your hair." I do as I'm told. My hair is wet and soapy. Of course it would be if it's being washed.

Time skip - 1 hour

My hair is done! It's similar to Optimus' paint job. But in reverse. Optimus is mostly blue with red flames, my hair is mostly red with blue streaks. See? Reverse. Sorta. Whatever. Tessa had the underside of her hair redone a bright pink. I paid close attention to the movie, the underside of her hair was pink. We walk out of the place and meet back up with Shane. Shane looks at my hair,

"Nice colors," said Shane, "They work for you." I smile.
"Thanks Shane." I said. We walk into some other stores. I bought myself some dark sunglasses, a new pink backpack, some hair bands, and even some movie eye contact lenses. I'm surprised that they sell these in a mall. But I can't complain, they'll fool Lockdown, hopefully.

I walk into the bathroom to put my contacts in. I've never put in eye contacts before, this oughta hurt. But it doesn't, like at all. I look in the mirror, you could barely tell I'm even the same person. I put my hair in a bun to keep my hair outta my face. I walk out to show my new look to Tessa and Shane. They give me a thumbs up.

I check my iPod touch  to see what time it is. 3:50. I was supposed to meet Lockdown 20 minutes ago. But he ain't gonna recognize me, hopefully. We walk outside into the heat. Bleh... It's soooo hot... Shane kisses Tessa on the cheek.

"I gotta go babe, I'll see you in a bit." He says to Tessa. Tessa and I wave as he drove away in his race car. Then I heard that all too familiar engine rev.

I look to my left, a dark grey Lamborghini Aventador. Uh oh. Here's the true test. I look really different, just calm down. Lockdown pulls up along the curb, Tessa stopped and looked at the car. I look at him too. His holoform got out of the car.

He looked like he was in his late 30's, wore faded leather gear with fingerless gloves, and biker boots, he had black shaggy hair and bright green eyes. Wow, Lockdown has hair! Who would have thought, huh?

He looked at most of the teenage girls, including me and Tessa. He shrugs and walks inside the mall. I left my old backpack in the mall in a trash can, but I took my weapons out. I got them right here in my new backpack.

"Was that the guy who kidnapped you?" Tessa whispers. I nod.
"Yeah, let's get outta here before he comes back." I whisper back. We walk to an old rusty pickup truck, I'm assuming that it's Cade's. We climb in, Tessa starts it up, and we leave as fast as we could.