Chapter 7

"The other day, Jack and I caught Alex stalking us," I said as I grabbed a beer from the cooler next to Lucifer, who was reloading his clip. He looked at me with anticipation, signaling for me to continue, so I explained JJ, the tank, and how Jack had watched Alex sleeping the other night. When I brought up Jack he started laughing, and I joined him after a while because it was pretty funny, a bit later we both calmed down and I finished the story. He honestly didn't seem that phased, he looked me up and down and shook his head chuckling.

"You're so oblivious, Jack a boy. Pull!" He yelled and another skull was launched, which he shot out of the air, raining shards of bone everywhere.

"Nice shot, but what do you mean Lucifer?"

"I can't tell you, man, all I know is you need to start paying attention to Alex if you want to find out what I'm seeing, and maybe what Jack is seeing. Pull!" He yelled and another skull was launched, which she shot down again before he put his shotgun down "Now, get out of here, you're almost at your stop. Keep your eyes open, and you'll be fine, kid." I looked down at my watch and saw he was right, it was almost noon, so I ran back towards my own realm, not before hearing Lucifer yell back at me to keep my eyes open, whatever that meant. When I walked back into the tank Miguel and JJ were listening to the radio and bobbing their heads along to some pop song, when I turned the radio onto a different station, hearing a groan from JJ but a grin from Miguel.

"We've been listening to pop for an hour kid, let's listen to somethin' else, huh?" Miguel said as "Brown Eyed Girl" by Van Morrison, and I sat back in my chair and started singing along, I loved this song so much, but I could never figure out why, it just always made me happy.

"Sha la la la la la la la la la la te da, Sha la la la la la la la la la la te da, La te da~" Miguel and I sang along to the whacky lyrics and Jay danced in his seat. We arrived at the diner we arranged to meet up at and Miguel had fun trying to park the tank, and just ended up crushing a couple of cars and taking their places. We entered the diner laughing and took a seat at the back, and the same waitress from the bar was at the diner and walked over to take our drink orders, Jack and I both got Diet Cola, while everyone else just got regular, we found it sweeter. As she brought our drinks back I saw her eyeing Jay, making me chuckle and nudge Jack's shoulder. 'She's practically eye fucking him, mate' Jack said, through our mind link, laughing and trying not to spit up his drink. 'Agreed, looks like Jay found his mate.' I said and Jay drank his entire Cola at once and asked for another one from the waitress with darkened eyes. I stood up and Jack followed me outside, we sat on top of the tank and started laughing so hard that we couldn't breathe for a solid minute. We caught our breath and steadied ourselves before heading back inside and sitting back down next to Jade, who was smirking at Jay, knowing exactly what was going on. I nudged Nicki and tapped my temple twice, letting her know that I was going to talk to her over a mind link. 'Ya wanna have some fun with JJ?' I asked and she smirked, 'What kind of fun?' 'Imma plays a song you, me, Jack, and Miguel all know by heart, we're gonna sing along, just remember the eye color of the waitress if you get confused.' She looked up as the waitress brought Jack and me another diet cola, and she got the message, the waitress had brown eyes, as did Nicki. She looked over at Alex as I explained the plan to Jack and Miguel, and started smirking at us as I finished. I took out my phone and hooked it up to the stereo next to our table and played the song, "Brown Eyed Girl" By Van Morrison. As the song started Nicki glared at Jade in a 'Don't you fucking dare' sorta way, making Jade laugh, and JJ started blushing and got suddenly interested in the Diner menu. As the lyrics started, I set up my phone to record us singing to send to Miguel, his mate, Ashley, had hazel eyes, but since she always wore hoodies and jeans, they looked a darker color, so close enough to brown.

"...Laughing and a running hey, hey, Skipping and a jumping, In the misty morning fog with, Our hearts a thumpin' and you, My brown-eyed girl, You, my brown-eyed girl..." We sang and had a blast doing it, Nicki was blushing and Alex looked like she was using every ounce of self-control she had not to break out into laughter, it reached our favorite part and we all shifted, the waitress was watching and looked like she was admiring JJ, who was still blushing.

"Sha la la la la la la la la la la te da, Sha la la la la la la la la la la te da, La te da." We sang and started laughing when the song ended Nicki looked like a fire hydrant, and JJ looked like he was ready to die of embarrassment. Alex was hugging her gut laughing, Dylan and Mark were still driving because they said they would eat later, and that they would meet us at the hotel we planned on staying the night tonight, and the waitress looked like she was planning something. The waitress walked over and took our orders, I got a hash, and Jack got a steak, with everyone else getting either a burger, or a sammich, and pressed play on the radio at our booth. "¡Viva La Gloria!" By Green Day started playing, and Jack started bobbing his head, we both loved this song, so I joined him, and when it got to the later section of the song we were playing air guitar because we were too lazy to grab our actual guitars.

"Gloria~ Where are you, Gloria?" We sang along, surprisingly, Jay was also singing and by the end of the song everyone was singing along.

"So Gloria~ Send out your messenger, the light that shadows in the night, Gloria~ where's your undying love? Tell me the story of your life, Your life~" We finished the song laughing and smiling like a bunch of idiots, we calmed down and the waitress came by with our food and said that we were her favorite table and that the chef was doubled over laughing in the kitchen. I thanked her and dug into my hash, and Jack threw his steak into the air and caught it in his mouth, jaw unhinged, and started devouring it, making everyone but Alex cringe at the grossness of it. I laughed and continued eating my hash, and noticed that the waitress had started eye fucking JJ again, making me laugh and almost spit out my food. Twenty minutes later, we had finished our food and were leaving the Diner, JJ was using the restroom, and Alex was getting directions to a gas station when a few cop cars pulled into the parking lot, about twenty or so cops got out and surrounded us.

"Sir, is this your tank?" The chief asked me, making me smirk and walk forward until I was right in front of him.

"Yep, got a problem with it?" I asked while shifting, making the cops all back up a good yard except the chief, I'll give him credit, he had some balls.

"Yeah, I do, it's stolen from the military, meaning it's not yours," I smirked, fully shifted, and leaned down to try and intimidate him.

"And what are you gonna do about it, punk? Hmm?"

"Light em' up, boys!" He yelled and the cops behind him started shooting at us and the diner, getting Alex and JJ to walk out shifted and ready to fight, I signaled for everyone to get in their assigned vehicles, I'd buy them time to get on the road and catch up with them as soon as I could. They all loaded up as I charged at the chief, getting everyone to shoot at me, and started driving away as I grabbed the chief and threw him onto Miguel's path, crushing him under the weight of the tank. I laughed and grabbed a car from the parking lot and threw it at the cops, hitting half of them and killing them instantly, I didn't care enough to kill the rest of them so I whistled for my bike and rode off to follow them. I caught up with Miguel, jumped onto the tank, and climbed inside, only to see JJ blushing and Miguel poking fun at the guy. I took a seat in my chair and asked Miguel what he was doing.

"We were right about the waitress, she's JJ's mate."

"SHUT UP!" JJ yelled from inside his hoodie, and I started laughing, I mean I wasn't any better, in fact, if the same thing happened to me I'd probably be blushing more, but he didn't need to know that. I laid back in my chair and cracked open a can of cola, only to be interrupted by the entire tank shaking like an earthquake was happening, "Ummm, what was that?"

"I don't know, I'll go find out," I said and climbed outside of the tank, only to see an armored chopper following us, with a soldier sitting inside aiming a rocket launcher at us, "So, that's what happened," I said and re-entered the tank, taking the gunners seat.

"What's going on up there, Jake?"

"Armored chopper, RPG, Military," I said and readied my shot at the back rotor, and as I saw the soldier firing the RPG again, I took the shot. It hit but we were hit too, something told me that we were extremely lucky, but I didn't care because the chopper was going down.

"You get em'?!"

"Yeah, we're in the clear, for now at least."

"Good, I wanna keep this tank intact so I can work on it when we get back," Miguel said and turned on some music from his phone, Van Morrison's classic was the first to play and we sang along, making Jay pull up his hoodie in embarrassment again. We were driving for another nine hours so I decided to do something fun, I told Miguel that I would catch up with him sooner or later. I climbed out of the tank and whistled, down the road came my motorcycle roaring, I was gonna have some fun.