The Day Before We Met

Dropped Guard

"How'd I do?" Hannah asked me as soon as she walked off stage.

"I um, great as always." I didn't really know how to compliment someone. That isn't something that is necessarily taught in Sentinel training.

"Good! This one was fun. The fans were super interactive this time." Hannah grabbed onto the lip of my armor after she took off her equipment and thanked a few people.

"Coms to Sentinel Ajax." I slowly led the way to her dressing room.

"You are green. Keenan is just outside the exit and will walk with you to the bus when Hannah is ready to go." Ajax didn't even let me speak before cutting the coms. Someone is busy.

"Let's go. Ajax said it's clear." I picked up the pace and Hannah was close to jogging to try and keep up.

"Can you slow down just a tad? I don't have long legs like you do. I'm short." Hannah asked me after a bit.

"Only a little." I looked behind me just to make sure it was okay to slow down.

"Thank you." She let out a sigh of relief. "Do you want to watch a movie when we get back on the bus?"

"I haven't watched a movie in a very long time." It was true. It's been months. My team rarely has time to do anything, and when we do we train or sleep.

"We're watching a movie then." She shrugged and tried to walk into her dressing room first.

"Hannah, I look first and then you can go in." I stuck my arm out and looked down at her.

"Right, sorry. I forgot." She clasped her hands together in front of her and waited for me to search the room.

I did a quick scan, not wanting to stay in the open hallway any longer, and let her in.

"What color is your hair?" Hannah asked me out of the blue.

"No no no, I already told you my eye color. That's more than what you should know." I put my hands on my hips.

"I'll get it out of you eventually." She smiled over at me as she went behind the curtain to get changed and ready to go back to the bus.

"Coms from Sentinel Ajax."

"Put him through." I rolled my eyes. If it isn't an all clear it's something stupid.

"Zander put a hole in the fence in the back because he got stuck in it when he tried to jump over it, so if you see it, that's why." Ajax sighed. "It's all clear and we're ready whenever you are. We have to hit the road here soon."

I shook my head and tried not to laugh. Zander can be an idiot. "I'll let you know when we're about to walk out of the backdoors and to the bus."

Ajax cut the coms and by then Hannah was changed and almost done wiping her makeup off.

"We're good to head out to the bus whenever you are ready." I waited for her to finish wiping her dace and grabbing her things.

"Let's go!" Hannah shoved all of her things in her bag and followed me out of the door with her free hand holding onto the lip of my armor.

We met everyone on the bus and Ajax offered to drive since Zander hadn't slept much in the past few days.

Keenan on the other hand decided to work on their armor, and her being the perfectionist she is, it'll take her awhile.

"What kind of movie do you want to watch?" Hannah asked me as she turned on the tv and got ready to go through the millions of movies available.

"Pick one of your all time favorites." I shrugged and got comfortable.