Street Rat ( Transformers Love Story)

Chapter 2

I'm in the process of making through another miserable day. That nightmare still haunts my mind. It happened so long ago, but it seems to get worse every day. I am actually starting to feel the heat of the fire and the struggle to breathe from the smoke. Heck! I even check my arms and legs for burns! I just want to scream at this world and say, " Why! Why do you torture me this way?! Is it so terrible for me to ask that this constant pain in my heart to go away?! Why must I suffer?!" Sometimes I wish I could just die, but I for some reason I can't do it. I tried and tried, but I always fail. It wasn't fear or cowardness that keeps me from doing it. No, it was something else. Hope perhaps? That's the only thing I could think of. Hope that maybe my life might be worth living. That I could really find happiness.But,for now, I need to keep living my life as it is right now.

Let's see, I haven't eaten in 3 days..... Guess I better get some food. I check my pockets to see if there was any cash left from the other day. I pull out a dollar and a dime..... That's not enough, at least not enough to fill my stomach with something good.

I close my eyes and sighed, knowing what I have to do. I hate myself for doing this. I look around to see if anybody was near. Let's see.... little old lady with grandchildren, no way, man walking on crutches, definitely not!, teenage boy walking with a crazy haired chick.....perfect. All he probably has in his wallet is cash and a license. If he had a credit card or something like that I was going to destroy it anyways. I don't use credit cards. The reason is that I only need food. I don't want to make somebody go bankrupt. I am not going to stoop down to that level.

I place my hood over my head and start walking towards them. As I walk closer I could start to hear their conversation.

"Dude! That concert the other night was sick! I can't believe Raph missed it!" the girl said with a Japanese accent.

The boy with the black hair answered her. " Miko, I'm not sure if Raph is into that. Crowded stadium with thousands of people screaming to the top of their lungs and to top that all off, the music that makes your ears bleed."

Miko bit her lip and looked up, thinking." Yaaaa, maybe not."

I am finally close enough to where I can 'accidentally' bump into the guy. We both stumble into each other and I caught his arm before he could fall. " Oh! I am so sorry! I am such a klutz!"

He chuckled. " No, it's fine. I wasn't looking either."

I laugh a bit and quickly sneaked my fingers into his pocket and quickly pulled out his wallet.

He finally regained his balance and smiled. " You have a good day."

I returned the smile and waved. " You too."

I started to continue to walk, but I could see out of the corner of my eye that Miko chick pointing at me. " Jack! She has your wallet!"

I look down at my hoodie pocket and see that the wallet was sticking out. Crap!

Jack's eyes widen and places his hand on his pocket. " Hey!"

Right at that second I made a run for it. My heart was pounding out of my chest and my throat began to burn. This was the first time ever that I was caught! I was always careful! Why did I have to be so careless?! Stupid!Stupid!Stupid!

I could see out of the corner of my eye that they were starting to catch up. I needed to lose them and fast. I ran over to the sidewalk and knocked over a couple of trash cans. Jack hopped over them and stumbled a bit. Miko attempted to jump over but her left foot didn't make it over. She stumbled to the ground and landed on her stomach groaning.