My name is Ash I love cars, my dad was always working on cars and I learned to help him early on, my mom has pictures of me handing my dad tools while I was in diapers. Despite the fact, half the time I didn’t do much help and mostly fucked everything up, he still let me work with him. When I turned 12 I finished my first car with only a little help from my dad, it sat under a tarp until I got my license and now I barely use it. Mostly because bikes are a bit easier to park. If it has a motor I try to take it apart and figure out how it works. But sadly people aren’t like cars or bikes you can’t break them down and look at every little piece of them and figure out how to fix them. I was 15 when my dad started to get sick... I felt so helpless when his funeral came I was barely 16... All these people he hated showed up and tried to claim stuff from his will. Dad had a lot of money saved up and my mom decided to move, leaving the town I grow up in and my dad's shop I had no friends so that wasn't what bothered by that I just wanted to sit by my dad's coworkers and watch them work. We moved to a small town next to a really good engineering school, today is my first day there, I was surprised I didn’t have to wear some dumb ass uniform. I looked at myself in the mirror my black hair in my face and a dark red beanie on my head making my flippy hair look far better. I looked at my black hoodie with a white Mercedes on it and looked at my grey skinny jeans and turned away from the mirror. I grabbed my puke green backpack and headed down the stairs, “I am sorry you had to move in the middle of the year honey we just needed a fresh start yeah.” I looked to my mother who tried to act like the death of my father didn’t make her cry every single night but it did. I looked at the food she had set out “You're brother headed out without you I asked him to wake you up…” I sighed thinking of my twin brother him and I have been struggling since our father died, though he refuses to call him dad. My dad and I got al long with no problem but my brother Cole struggled to get along with my dad constantly pushing his buttons and getting in trouble going out late and even getting a girl pregnant, the poor girl ended having a misscarriage not far from her due date. I looked to my mother's fake smile and then to the food I felt a sickening feeling wash over as I thoguht about eating. “Sorry, mom, I don’t want to miss the bus.” I walked to the bus stop and ended up being alone Cole must have either decided to walk or skip most likely skip. Sighing I pulled my headphones from around my neck and over my ears putting on music I watched cars passed the only sound was the music. Waiting for the bus seemed like forever, I watched as it finally came into sight. It stopped and I climbed aboard and scanned for an empty seat, sitting down I kept my gaze to the window thinking about my next vehicle project. I felt someone tap my shoulder moving my headphones I looked to see a girl how had a tank top on and she turned to me trying to show off her chest. “So you are the new kid… You are kinda cute. So I am having a party and was wondering if you wanted to come? I know it's your first day but I think it will be a good way to leave your mark and have some fun.” I looked to her and gestured to her shirt, "Your shirt is falling." She chuckled and covered her face "You men only care about boobs it's so sad." I nearly busted out laughing, covering my mouth I turned back to the window “Sorry not that kinda guy.” I went to put my headphones back on she grabbed my arm, “So what kind of guy are you then?” She said licking her lips I looked at her annoyed “A Gay one… And I swear to god if you say. ‘Oh yeah you can be my new gay best friend’ I am going to jump out the window.” I watched as she sat dumbfounded I pulled my headphones back on and was able to have the rest of the ride quiet and unbothered. It seemed like forever before the bus finally stopped at the school and everyone poured out, like a gentleman I let everyone else out and then got out. I looked at the school and sighed having quite a lot of time before class started I stumbled around the hallway and found the engineering room. I looked to the teacher and they paused “I am a new kid.” The teacher looked at me confused “Are you the engineering teacher?” I said pulling my latest vehicle from my backpack, “Yes I am?” I showed off the remote control car I built then showed pictures of cars I had worked on. “My shop won’t be here until later this week so is it okay if I stay a few hours after school to work on my projects?” The teacher looked at me and put my his arm on my shoulders, “What is your name kiddo.” I brushed off his arm and put my things back into my bag seeing who he wasn’t going to be of any help. “Ash YellowWood.” The teacher looked at me and started to nod. “Is your Dad’s name Ben?” I nodded and the man began to laugh, “Ben and I lived next to each other growing up we used to cause a lot of trouble, I remember you, I saw you when you were just a baby he said he wanted to move to a better town to raise ya up… How is he doing?” I clutched the strap of my backpack as I put it on. “He is fine.” I started to leave and the teacher called out to me “Hey Ash let him know I will be calling him later.” I paused at the door, “Good luck getting him to answer.” His laughing stopped, “Why…” I turned to him and looked him straight in the eye. “He is dead been almost a year” I turned back to the door and opened it going out into the hallway I went to the front office and asked for the list of my classes. I got the list and bolted outnot wanting to be lead around by some popular kid or some teacher's pet. I walked down the halls and met each of my teachers, the day dragged on and some of the teachers pulled me aside and tried to get me to talk about my dad having been told by the other teacher, but I pushed each of them away and when the end of the day finally came I walked home instead of the bus. I walked past a junkyard and decided to dig through it, looking over the metal and seeing that it was more of a local dump site. I felt the excitement rise up as I looked over the metal and knew what I was going to make next. I heard a truck come over and watched as someone dumped a dishwasher from the bed of their truck. I heard the man go to start his truck up again and it didn’t start, I crept out of the metal and gestured for the man to come out. “You got a toolbox?” I said lifting the hood of the car and taking off my hoodie and throwing it on my backpack. I looked over the car and began to check the oil as the man got out adn walked to me “You are quite skinny,” He said gesturing to my wrist bones and shoulder bones that poked out wearing a tank top wasn’t something I did regularly. “Have you been eating?” He said passing me the toolbox I saw an ID tag on his shirt realizing he was a doctor I sighed opening the box. “Not since my Dad died,” I began to check the normal things like oil and then I looked to the battery and sighed looking to the date. “No wonder, really almost 10 years you haven’t change your car battery.” I shook my head and he stood dumbfounded, “I doubt we will be able to get this to start but I saw a similar truck over there we might get lucky.” He rubbed his head “Don’t get all worked up you might pass out.” He said gesturing for me to sit down I scoffed and headed toward the truck passing a few other broken and torn cars. “So um if we do find a good battery then do I still have to go in and get my car looked at?” I looked at him and sighed “You are a doctor right? Shouldn’t you have loads of cash?” He rubbed his neck and chuckled “Yeah but they always rip me off cause I don’t know what I am doing.” I popped the hood and looked to the car pulling the battery from the truck I carried it to the other truck. The doctor took it from my grasp watching as I struggled to carry it, “I can give it a deeper look when my shop gets here.” I said taking the battery back and glaring the doctor down despite the major height difference. “Your shop?” I nodded and set down the battery and put the old one next to it and made sure they were the same type before putting it in. “Yeah I like to work on cars and stuff, I moved here for the really good engineering school today was my first day.” I said as I lifted the new battery up and set it in place. “Oh, congrats I hear that twice a year a handful of the best students with the highest score gets to go to the military base to check out their robots and stuff.” I nodded and gestured for him to start it up he turned it on and the laughed turning it back off he got out and shook my hand. “So how much do I owe you for your help, Mister?…” I waved my hand as he pulled out his wallet “it’s Ash and since your hot, you are free to get your truck checked out any time free of charge. Mister?.” He chuckled and put his wallet in his pocket and pulled out his phone “Connor… could we exchange numbers so you can let me know when that shop comes in?” I nodded and gave him my number. “Want me to drive you home so in case it breaks down again you can help me?” I chuckled and shook my head as I got into his car putting on my seat belt and hoodie and clutching my bag I looked at him. His dark brown hair looking shiny and fluffy he had a bit of scruff on his chin but it was hot and his body looked fit, his eyes were blue and his hands look like they would fit around mine perfectly as well as some other body parts that will be left unnamed. “So you a butt pirate?” I said looking to him he broke out laughing, “I don’t think I have ever been asked like that… Yes shorta, I am bi. And you?” I nodded and he looked back to the road. “How old are you?” I sighed and waved my hand “I swear to god if you kick me out of the car I am never going to look at your car.” I said knowing how scared men in their 20’s were when a teen was looking for a relationship in them. “I won’t…” I sighed and clutched my heart hoping to actually be able to have a relationship with someone. “I am 16 almost 17…” I closed my eyes and I felt the car stop I opened my eyes to see a red light I looked to Connor to see him making a funny face. I burst out laughing and he did too “Who cares about all of that age stuff honestly I think if a kid wants to date an older person fucking let them. Adults have learned to know when to stop while teens are a fucking horny runaway train.” I agreed with him and he went on to talk about himself, which was nice I enjoyed listening. I like people who talk so Idon't have to. “I didn’t know my parents my grandma took care of me … She is why I wanted to be a doctor when she started getting worse all of these people I didn’t know we're coming in and out trying to talk to her about her health.” I looked to Connor and he sighed “What happened to your dad?” I clutched my backpack strap, “Acute Myelomonocytic Leukemia. The doctor told him he had a 24 percentage chance of living through it.” I looked out the window, “Quite the memory you got there. Did he work a lot?” I nodded and cleared my throat. “Yeah, he and I worked together fixing vehicles.” We rolled up to my house and he stopped at the driveway, “This it?” I nodded and he tapped my chest “Would your dad have been proud of you for fixing my truck?” I thought of how my dad would rub my head when I told him about a project I had finished and that smile he would give me “Yeah he would pat my head and he would say ‘you are just like your old man’ then he would tell me to go wash up” I felt tears come down my face and I frantically wiped them away Connor touched my hands “it’s okay to cry kiddo.” He rubbed my head and smiled closing his eyes, “please don’t make me cry.” He said chuckling, I chuckled and moved the hair out of the way of my eyes. “You have red eyes?!” I nodded and he wiped away the tears “really fitting with your name.” I nodded I watched as my mom got out of the house and I sighed “that’s my mom…” he sucked his teeth and looked to me “Is she gonna freak?” I shook my head “She knows I am gay and I dated an older guy a while back and she was cool.” I jumped out of the truck and my mom looked at me and Connor got out, “Hey Honey your shop got here early I set it up the way you like it...” Connor shook my mom’s hand “ma’am your son is truly a lifesaver my truck broke down he ran right over and helped me.” My mom looked at him and smiled and ushered him inside “You must be thirsty being out in the sun.” I facepalmed and my mom got him something to drink and sat him down and leaned over to me, “look at you picking up boys your first day of school.” I chuckled and brushed her away she went on to talk to Connor about him being a doctor, “The job is rough but I like to help people… I do get sick really easily because of it. But I get to see people coem together and not gonna lie Iam one of the doctors that cries the most” My mother then went on to ask him more questions, “I don’t work that often actually I work 3 days a week in the ER close to here.” I finally stepped in after I left like it was too much, “Anyway mom you said my shop got here, so Connor why don’t you go ahead and bring your truck in the garage.” Connor stood and went outside I went to the garage. “He is quite the looker how old is he?” I ushered her away “Yeah I know he is hot why do you think I told him I would check out his car for free?” I ushered her away from my space and looked out to the huge garage I got, Dad left so much money so when we moved we also did some work on the house before we moved into it. Making the garage huge was so worth it! I opened the huge garage door and watched as Connor backed into the garage. Turning off the car I got the jacks and stuff set up and took off my hoodie and locked the door leading into the house, not wanting my mom to see my bony body. Turning on the floodlights and adjusting them to the levels I needed I got Connor a cup of water. “You can go back inside if you want.” I said as I laid down on my car creeper and rolled under the car and checked for leaks and such. “What did the bee say to the sushi?” I rolled back out and looked to Connor confused “I don’t know?” Connor started laughing as he kept the answer to himself and I sat confused as he tried to contain his laughter “Wasabi!!!” His laughter broke out and sent me laughing too “get it cause it sounds like ‘what’s up bee’ Oh my god I am horrible.” I nodded and he gave more horrible jokes but his laugh seemed to dig deep and grab something... I finished checking out his car but acted like I was working on something but Connor saw right through me. “If you don't want me to leave we can work on a car project together.” I looked at him and chuckled “You don’t know anything about cars.” He chuckled “Yeah but I am a Doctor,” He gestured to himself “so?” I said If to him putting my hoodie back on and unlocking the way back inside the house. “So what I say goes.”
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