A/N: This story was inspired by 'Despicable Wreck' by Karts of Sugar Rush. So, Margo, Edith, and Agnes decide that they've had enough of Hattie constantly abusing them and decide to leave her Hell-hole of an orphanage. They settle in with a Mechanic named Cade Skywalker, and they begin to look up to him as a father figure. Little did the girls know that running away comes with the price of getting caught in the middle of a war between the Autobots and Decepticons. Enjoy!
Margo woke up and looked at her clock, about three hours before everyone had to wake up for real. She shook Edith and Agnes awake.
"Today's the day, isn't it?" Edith asked. Margo nodded. This was it. They were running away from their abusive caretaker, Miss Hattie and never coming back again. They grabbed their already packed suitcases from underneath their beds and opened the window.
"You have the rope?" asked Margo. Edith pulled out a makeshift rope made from multi-colored bandanas. Margo took the rope from Edith and tied it to one of the bed frames.
"I'll go first. Edith, you and Agnes go last" the eldest girl whispered. Margo slid down the rope like a fire-pole and then once she got to the sidewalk, she tugged on the rope as a signal that it was okay to come down.
"Ready?" Edith asked as she put an envelope that had 'Miss Hattie' written on it in red ink. Agnes got onto Edith's back and Edith slid down the rope.
"Did you leave the note?" Margo asked.
"Yep. It's on my bed" Edith said as she let Agnes off her back.
"Good. Let's get moving. It's only a matter of time before Hattie wakes up" Margo said. The other two girls nodded in agreement and began walking away from that dreaded place.
After one hour of walking, they saw a sign. 'Pasadena City Limit' it read.
"This is it. One more step and it's the farthest away from the orphanage we've ever been" Edith said. Margo turned around and placed a hand on Edith's shoulder.
"We'll be fine, Edith. This is what our families would have wanted. To leave that prison, have a nice family without Miss Hattie ruining the picture" she said softly. Edith smiled and brushed Margo's hand off her shoulder.
"You're right. Let's keep going" Edith said. The three kept on walking.
After a few more hours, the sun was now coming up and they were entering Palm Desert.
"Dear God, this place is smoking hot" Edith said as she took off her hat and revealed her pixie-cut, sweaty blonde hair.
"Can't we cut open a cactus and drink the juice?" Agnes asked.
"No, you remember watching that one cartoon? The one where that one guy started acting all crazy because he drank cactus juice. One sip and that could be us. We'll stop for water in a mile" Margo said.
"Okay. But let's hope it's not too far. I don't think I can keep going much longer" Edith complained as she wiped the sweat away from her forehead. The threesome kept on going despite the heat.
They stopped at a gas station and saw that it had a water fountain. The girls took empty plastic bottles and filled them up. There were now a grand total of nine full water bottles, three per each sister.
"Oh thank God. I don't think I could last another minute without any water" Margo moaned in relief.
"Me too" Agnes piped in after taking a sip.
"You said it" Edith replied after drinking her first bottle in one huge sip. Margo then walked over to a magazine stand and pulled out a folded map and opened it up.
"Where are we?" Agnes asked. Margo pointed to a red star on the map.
"This is where we are. And the next town is about seventeen miles away, which is here" Margo said pointing to a black dot with a red flag about three feet away from the red star.
"What's the name of the town?" Edith asked.
"It's still in Palm Desert. It's just a suburban neighborhood. We'll find somewhere to stay when we get there" Margo said as she closed the map and put it back on the shelf.
"Let's get moving. It won't be long before the sun sets" Margo said. The two other girls nodded in agreement and kept on moving past the gas station.
The seventeen mile walk lasted about two hours long. And the sun was about to set, but the stars were showing up in the sky as well. They passed a nearby skate park, and saw something in the distance. It was a flashing, blue ball of light that kept going on and off.
"What's that?" Edith asked, cupping her hands up to her eyes like binoculars.
"I think someone's home there" Agnes said as she looked in Edith's direction.
"Let's go there" Margo said. And the three sister continued walking.
Inside where the light was coming from was a thin twenty two year old man that had slicked down brown hair that covered up some of his forehead, and pale white skin was working on a car engine in his garage. The clothes he wore was a black t-shirt that had the words 'Suicide Silence' in white letters on it. A seat-belt buckle style belt that had a Chevrolet logo on the buckle, black skinny jeans, and black converse all-stars on his feet.
"That should do it. Now to put it in" he said as he took off his welding mask and lowered the engine into the empty front of the red 1998 Jeep Wrangler.
"Okay, now it's time to put the bolts in" said the man as he took up the bolts on his hand and put them in the holes where they went to be screwed into the wall of the engine chamber. Then, using a power drill, he put the bolts in tightly and shook the engine a bit to see if it would shake, but it didn't.
"Perfect. Now to replace the battery" he said as he went over to the corner and took a new car battery out. He placed in the battery compartment and connected the wires to the right place.
"Hello?" a voice called out. The man jumped in fright and hit his head on the hood of the car.
"OW!" God Dang it!" shouted the man in pain. He then looked around to see the girls.
"Oh my Gosh. Are you okay?" Margo asked.
"I'm fine. I just need some pain-killers and an ice-pack, that's all" he said.
"So, this is where the light was coming from?" Agnes asked.
"Light, what light?" asked the man as he walked over to the younger girl.
"The big blue light that came from your garage" Agnes answered.
"You must have seen my welding torch. I was working on a new engine" the man said as he walked back to the jeep and closed the hood.
"This is your car?" asked Edith.
"No, THAT'S my car" he said, pointing to a dark gray Lexus RX 350.
"Then who's car is this?" asked Margo as she examined the jeep from a distance.
"It's my client's. I fix cars for a living. And it's a working from home sort of thing" said the man as he walked over to a coat hanger in the other corner of the garage to put on a dark blue cardigan and button it up to his abdominal region.
"That's so cool" Edith said as she looked at the Jeep.
"What's your name?" Agnes asked.
"Cade, Cade Skywalker" he said, introducing himself.
"It's nice to meet you, Cade. I'm Margo, the one with the pink wool hat on is Edith, and the one with the little pony-tail is Agnes" Margo said, introducing herself and her sisters.
"Why are you here? Shouldn't you be home with your parents or something?" Cade asked. The girls looked down with guilt.
"We're orphans. And we ran away from the orphanage" Margo explained. Cade got on one knee and looked at Edith.
"Why would you do that?" asked Cade.
"The care-taker was abusive. She made us tend to every single stupid whim she could think of. And she abuses us" Edith said. Now Cade knew how severe this situation was.
"So you ran away to escape?" Cade asked Edith. She only nodded.
"Tell you what. How about you guys stay here with me?" Cade offered. The girls' eyes lit up with hope.
"Really?" Agnes asked.
"Yeah, it gets pretty lonely. Why not have some company to share my life with?" Cade said as he went over to the garage and opened up the door to the inside of the house. The girls ran inside with their suitcases in hand and Cade closed the garage door.
"You have a very lovely home" Margo said, admiring the inside structure. It was a three story house in a suburban neighborhood.
"Thank you" Cade said. Edith looked out the sliding glass door to see cars lined up horizontally.
"What about these cars? Are they your clients' cars?" asked Edith.
"No, those are mine. I not only fix cars, I collect cars. It's kind of a hobby I got into when I got my license for the first time" Cade said as he opened the door and let the girls outside to let the girls see them all.
"Wow. This is like Heaven for car lovers" said Margo as she walked over to a green and brown camouflage pick-up truck and placed a hand on the hood. Edith went over to an old blue 1980 Rolls-Royce Silver shadow and opened the door to see amazing restored leather interior.
"I fix them up in my spare time. And whenever there's someone interested in a car. I sell them for money" Cade said as he walked over to the black Hummer H2 that had a custom bumper with six lights on the front and a wench.
"How do you make enough money to afford all these cars?" Margo asked as she looked at the driver's seat of the pick-up truck.
"I fix cars for clients. And I have a You-Tube channel where I show people how to fix certain problems with cars and You-Tube pays me to do it" Cade said as he walked over to the car Margo was at.
"If you want, I could use some assistants for fixing the cars if you wanted to" Cade offered.
"I will! I LOVE cars. My dad was a car fanatic like you" Edith said. Cade just giggled and spoke.
"You're hired then" said Cade. Edith whispered 'Yes'. And did a little fist bump that was gentle so she wouldn't hit the roof of the Rolls-Royce.
"Come on, I ordered Pizza not to long ago" Cade said as he walked inside. The girls then followed Cade inside the house and shut the door.
After dinner, and some TV, the girls were given a room to share by Cade.
"I hope you don't mind sharing a bed. It's only until I get two more beds" Cade apologized as he walked into the room wearing his 'South Park' pajama bottoms, and a black T-shirt with Cartman dressed as a cop and in white letters below it said 'Respect my Authoritah!'.
"It's no problem at all. Thanks, Cade" Margo said.
"No problem at all, squirt" Cade said before shutting the door and turning off the lights, letting the girls drift off into a peaceful slumber. The girls smiled knowing that now they were free from Miss Hattie and they had finally found a place to call haven, to call home.
A/N: How was that? So the girls found a new home and he's twenty two. Picture Cade to look like Shane Dawson from You-Tube. And Cade is a car lover, just like my dad. (Keep in mind that Cade Skywalker is NOT based off Cade Yeager from 'Transformers 4: Age of Extinction and is my original OC for this story and for this story specifically). I also wanna thank 'Karts of Sugar Rush' for giving me her blessing to do this story that was inspired by one of her stories. YOU ROCK! Anyways, more to come in the next update. Please review, thanks!