Living in Transformers Prime

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The scene begins in the dining room with Mr.Elbook and Mrs.Elbook sitting at a table with Marcus across from them. This table is small and brown; it has the shape of a circle. There are two extra empty chairs to both sides of the table. Marcus is tapping his fingers together looking at his reflection in the wooden table.

“How long is Ivy going to be ‘camping’?” Mr.Elbook asks.

Marcus looks away from his hands.

“A month.” Marcus lied.

Mrs.Elbook  puts her hands together on the table. Her eyes studied Marcus’s physical body language.

“Sweety, it’s been three days since she left.” Mrs.Elbook said, her voice sounds unconvinced by her sons’s reply. “She can’t be away from technology for that long.”

Marcus looks at his mother, quite strangely.

“Yes she can.” Marcus tells them. “I told you she ditched the car near a cliff beside the interstate.”

The parents share puzzled looks to each other, then turn their attention back to him.

“We found the car at the theater.” Mr.Elbook said. “We need to hear it from Ivy herself.”

Marcus saw the cloud shaped jet swoop by the window silently without shattering the windows. Keep acting, Marcus reassures himself, Ivy’s just applying more pressure to my lying. He clears his throat as he mentally tossed the image into the backburner for further thinking. Marcus looks to his right recalling how often Ivy lied to him.

“Check her room.” Marcus advises them. “It’s empty. She took it way before we were all awake; and I saw her bags were packed, sticking out from the trunk.”

 Mrs.Elbook gets up from the table and went down the hallway.

“She really needed a break from school.” Marcus lies to his dad. “So she forged a letter to the principal, then she emailed it to him, and decided to do one last thing before going under the radar.”

 Of course Ivy’s room is not that decorated. She had come to the house last night under the mask of darkness with a huge bag. Ivy had been driven to the house by some driver-less vehicle. The brothers were enlisted to help her pack last night when their parents were asleep. Ivy claimed to be leaving because she didn’t want to tear this family apart by Lockdown.

“Marcus, you can tell me the truth.” Mr.Elbook confides to Marcus.

Marcus raises an eyebrow, sticking to his lie.

“That she’s out camping?” Marcus asks.

Mrs.Elbooks footsteps stop at Ivy’s open door.

“No, that she’s run away.” Mr.Elbook said, shaking his head.

Tom is in his room playing video games with homework under one of his elbows. Ivy has run away, Marcus thought, but Dad won’t understand about the gigantic robots that live in Navada.

“Did Ivy tell you why she ran away?” Mr.Elbook questions him.

Apparently his dad had fallen under the impression Ivy had ran away for some reason.

“It was for our safety.” Marcus said.

“Was she specific?” Mr.Elbook asks.

“It depends on what you are thinking.” Marcus points out, pointing at his dad’s head.

Mr.Elbook’s head looms down towards his hands, his eyes briefly close and then they re-open as though he had something on his back.

“I’ve been pressuring too hard on  her to get a job.” Mr.Elbook mutters, getting up.