TRANSFORMERS: The Age of Extinction

New Life

 The first chapter is finally here. Although, the posting schedule might be spastic since I have work today, tomorrow and Saturday. So, I might get none posted, one or even two in these three days, I'm not sure yet.  

Yeager Farm, Texas
2017

Matsuri was laying on her bed in her room, wearing a simple pair of shorts and a muscle shirt, her cybertronian arm gleaming in the sunlight that filtered through her window, her eyes scanning the pages of her current novel. He turned the page carefully with her cybertronian arm before putting it back behind her head. She was alone in the house since Cade had gone out to buy some things and Tessa was going to high school. She must say, she was glad she never went at all. It seemed rather...useless, especially after she saw the classes Tessa was taking, even if today marks two more weeks until she graduates. Speaking of Tessa...

Matsuri perked up Cade's...guard dog... began to 'bark' and started to try and warn Tessa away. Matsuri got up, putting her beanie on and made her way down the stairs, not bothering to put her hoodie on. When she had first came to live with the two of them, she didn't want to hide her arm as it was just too hot to. So, she had told them that it was created by a friend and that it was highly advanced prostatic because she had lost her arm as a child. Luckily, they brought it without much fuss.

"Welcome home, Tess." Matsuri chirped as she got in the kitchen.

"Thanks." Tessa sighed as she laid the mail on the counter. Matsuri glanced at a specific piece of mail and noted that it had 'DENIED' in red and after reading over some of the visible words, she gave Tessa a sympathetic look.

"Do you have homework?"

"No, I'm all caught up. Though I might do some extra credit work."

Matsuri nodded slightly. "Alright. Go ahead upstairs- tell Shane I said hi."

Will do!" Tessa smiled at her before scampering away. The older girl sat at the counter and began to look through the mail, trying to waste time. Although, it was actually a few minutes later when she heard something pull in the driveway. She walked to the window, glanced out, and saw Lucas and Cade getting out their respective cars before the latter was directing a tow truck that had a flat nose on the back of it. She shook her head and walked out of the house, Tessa following.

"A truck?" Tessa asked in disbelief. "Dad, please tell me you didn't spend our money on this."

"Oh, no, don't worry," Lucas huffed. "He didn't. He spent my money. A hundred and fifty bucks of it."

"As an advance on your regular paycheck." Cade stated.

"What regular paycheck?"

"Which you will get back."

"When?"

"Never. We're broke." Tessa told Lucas as she walked towards the house.

"I knew it."

"Sweetheart, could you please not drive a wedge between employer and employee." Cade told her, making her turn back towards them.

"Hold on, I thought we were partners."

"Look, I came up short, okay? I had to buy her a prom dress. You want me to deny her a prom dress?"

"You might as well. You denied her a prom date."

"No, I offered to take her and chaperone."

"Nobody wants to go to the dance with their dad. It's weird."