Chapter 4
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Mack-Mack-Mack-Mack-Mack
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“Oh, wow, look at that”
Daisy gasped, gesturing to an incredible 1966 Shelby 427 Cobra; it was absolutely amazing and a deep, almost midnight blue. She hurried over to it, Mack following closely behind.
“Man, look at this thing! I bet it practically flies!” She said, eyes wide,
“It is gorgeous, isn’t it? But Lola’s still better” Mack countered, with a slight smile.
They were having a great time at the show, both he and Daisy feeling like kids in a candy store. Daisy was rushing from one to the other like a kid on a sugar rush, seemingly having the time of her life. He was enjoying himself as well, though he hid his excitement a bit more.
It really was turning into a great day. As soon as they got there Bobbi had broke off from them going to find Melinda, leaving them to wander the grounds.
Mack looked up from what Daisy was still saying about the 66’ Cobra, and spotted Bobbi walking towards them with a very striking Asian woman.
She was quite beautiful; she looked like she had a bit of an edge.
Dressed in nearly all black; fairly tall motorcycle boots with kind of faded, worn black jeans tucked into the tops. She had on a kind of beat up, pretty high quality looking, black leather jacket over a deep maroon top. This girl definitely didn’t look like she’d be intimidated by anything; that actually seemed pretty promising.
Mack gave a bit of a wave, placing his hand on Daisy’s arm to get her attention.
Daisy looked up, and her eyes widened and she gasped
“May!?”
The other women looked as surprised to see her; she gave a bit of a laugh as Daisy barreled into her and grabbed her in a crushing hug.
“Oh, my god! I haven’t seen you in years!” Daisy exclaimed excitedly pulling away slightly, but still keeping her arm around her.
“Hey, kid, it’s great to see you again, you look like you’re doing good” The women said fondly, giving her another little half hug
Daisy absolutely beamed
“Umm, you guys know each other?” Bobbi asked, a bit confused
Daisy nodded enthusiastically
“Yeah! May taught a free self defense class down at the youth center. I went all the time; she was really an amazing teacher. I kind of stopped going after I got my job with you at the garage, I didn’t really need the class anymore, and I kind of just wanted to get away from that area in general, but I really missed the class. I kept meaning to go back, but I just always seemed too busy.”
“You were always a great student, and so determined. I was pretty worried when you stopped showing up, I hoped everything was okay. I even asked around, trying to see what happened, but no one really knew where you had gone. I’m so glad to know it got better for you.” She said warmly
“Yeah, I kind of just had to cut all my ties to everything there; I had to get away from all of the bad influences in my life. I’m really good now, though; I have a great job now, and really amazing friends, I’m really happy” Daisy said, happily, smiling at Mack and Bobbi.
Bobbi?
Her eyes widened
“Wait, YOU’RE who Bobbi’s dating!”
She clapped a bit; practically bouncing she was so excited
“Oh my god! That is SO awesome! I couldn’t for the life of me figure out who could get to Bobbi like that; but that makes total sense. You’re both cool, smoking hot, awesome, sexy, badasses; you’re perfect for each other!” she finished excitedly
Mack burst out laughing, the two women looking somewhere between embarrassed and flattered at the descriptions.
Mack started, still chuckling a bit
“Well, since I seem to be the odd man out here, I guess I’ll introduce myself. Hi, Alphonso Mackenzie, you can call me Mack, it’s nice to meet you”
Extending his hand to her, May took it in a firm hand shake
“It’s good to meet you, Mack, Bobbi’s told me a lot about you, and if you helped Skye, you’re okay in my book”
The name threw him for a second; he’d kind of forgot that when they’d first met Daisy had been going by a different name. She’d been trying to fit in with a kind of unusual group and, it seemed, was just trying to distance herself from her past.
After she had adjusted, got settled down and started putting down roots, she’d started going by her real name again. He’d never pushed her on it, figuring she had her own reasons.
“Actually, it’s Daisy now, I kind of went back to my real name, figured I was done trying to pretend to be someone else, you know?” she explained to May
“Good to hear, Daisy.”
She said with a smile.
“Hey, so how did you guys meet anyways?” Daisy asked, intrigued
Bobbi laughed and gave a beautiful smile
“I decided to try out her self defense class; I kind of almost kicked her ass”
May smiled and put her arm around Bobbie
“Yeah, you kind of did, but just once. I wasn’t expecting that, I got you the next time” May insisted
“I let you win” Bobbi countered
May snorted
“No you didn’t!”
“Uh, huh I did. I didn’t want to show you up in your own class, after all, well, again”
“Hey! You did NOT show me up; you just caught me off guard”
“Yeah, okay, keep telling yourself that”
They began to talk amongst themselves with Daisy interjecting and catching up with May on the last few years
Mack was about to comment on something, when his eye’s caught on a curly haired guy a bit of a ways away, going into a small tented area for guests to rest. It had some tables and benches with a few snack stands nearby. He was talking to a pretty women, who had his arm linked with hers, using the other hand to gesture wildly
He vaguely recognized the woman as Jemma, his best friend; he’d showed Mack a picture of her at one point when they’d been talking. He knew that she was Fitz’s best friend, and adopted sister.
Mack’s brain kind of stalled
That was Fitz, he was here, at the show? What was going on?
He decided to find out
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