Twisted, Twisted, Shooting Stars

Piece

The magical wheel he had was still half-finished, its cannibalized frame stuck together with wires and mismatched colors of the outer covering, still missing so many pieces.

"Hey, grab me the wrench."

"Big, medium, small, or tiny?"

"Small."

Jonah tossed the wrench over the magical wheel and Jake caught it in mid-air. The redhead grinned while the other just rolled his eyes, ducking his head to hide his own smile. Jake worked to repair the remaining bolts. On the other side of the frame, he could hear Jonah humming as he sprayed the blueish-green color to the mismatched exterior. Jonah knew nothing about machines, but he wanted to help as much as he could and coloring was pretty easy for him.

"Hey, maybe we can do a test drive after this," Jonah said, leaning from across. "Maybe we can even play a card game on it. You know, like UNO on magical wheels."

Jake lifted his head, staring at Jonah with a raised eyebrow. Yep, there goes his brain. "You can't play card game on magical wheels. You'll crash."

Jonah laughed. "Who knows? We can even start a movement! Club Card Fight on Magical Wheels!"

"No. Just no."

He heard Jonah laughed again which made him rolled his eyes. But to be honest, Jake was secretly grateful for having another person to work with. Ever since their first meeting with the bullies, Jake couldn't seem to get rid of the other boy. What even worse was that the boy's father is his mom's boss. Now, there was no way he could run away from him!

But, after days of listening to him babbling nonsense, his voice filling the empty junkyard instead of the usual wind whistling through the metals and broken furniture, Jake slowly accepted the change. Jonah's presence might be a bit overwhelming, but he started to open up slowly.

And of course, he couldn't forget THAT moment.

"Remember. You can't tell anyone. Okay?" Jake hissed. Jonah responded by pretending to zip his lips and threw away the key. Ignoring the childish gesture, Jake reached to pull the metal sheet back and reveal a small cave of trash he built by hollowing out the space and supporting it with scraps of metal. He heard Jonah gasp, catching a glimpse of his eyes widening.

"Jake!" Jonah smiled so widely, eyes focusing on the half-finished magical wheel. "This is so cool!"

That was probably the best thing Jake had ever heard in his life.