Chapter 17

Echo POV

"There it is." Robbie says showing us the old convertible car.

"There she is." Beck corrects looking at Robbie.

"Oh right, cars are called she." Robbie says as I walk to the car opening the door and taking a seat on the drivers seat.

"Not just cars." Beck says placing his tool box down.

"Not just cars?" Robbie asked.

"Also boats, airplanes, my uncle Barbara." Beck says making me chuckle.

"Ok so you think you can fix my car?" Robbie asks.

"Pop the hood." Beck says as I stay where I am waiting to see if Robbie knew what Beck meant.

"Right, the hood." Robbie says while placing Rex behind me.

"Um, ok." Robbie says walking past the drivers door to the front of the car.

"Popping the hood." Oh god, I'm not a guy and I don't know much about them but I do know how to pop the hood.

"Time to pop the.. hood?" Robbie asks making me chuckle.

"I'll do it." I say pulling on the little handle and the hood opened while Beck walks to the front of the car while I get out of it walking to him.

"Ah, yeah, teamwork." Robbie says raising his hand for a high five and I shake my head as Beck looked at him annoyed in a way.

"Cut him some slack babe." I say hugging Beck from behind as he just sighs and start working on the car as Robbie and I watch him. Beck sometimes asked me to hand him a tool and I did as told leaning on the car next to the tool box.

"So how do you know what each of these thing are?" Robbie asks me.

"I've watched him work on cars enough times to know." I answer before Beck closes the hood.

"We'll continue tomorrow we have to head to Tori's for the film." Beck says.

"Right. Let's go then."

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"Hey what time is it?" Tori asks as me and Beck place some wood tings on the floor and I take out my phone.

"Uh, almost 9." I say.

"I need to be home for bed at 10:30 can we please get started?" Robbie asks.

"Without a director?" Andre asks.

"Yeah where's Dale? He was suppose to be here at 7." Tori says and Beck takes my hand to lead me somewhere to help him.

"Beck!" We hear Tori call and we walked towards her so that she could see us.

"Yeah?" He asks.

"Let me have you on the couch." She says.

"Hey!" I say as in 'I'm right here!' way.

"For the shot." Tori says making Beck chuckle shaking his head but does as told just as we hear something crash up stairs.

"My bad!" A kid called.

"You know yelling 'My bad!' doesn't make it ok!" Tori yells.

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"So what do you think's wrong with it?" Robbie asks causing me and Beck to look at each other then at him.

"Stuff." Beck answers.

"I knew it!" I shake my head with a silent chuckle at his answer before my eyes land on three girls.. awesome.

"Hey Beck. Whatcha doing? Working on a car?" I roll my eyes.

"Congrats you know what a car is." I say sarcastically as the girls glared.

"Yeah pretty much." Beck says as if ignoring what I just said.

"Yup, we're just working on my car here. Me and Beck a little uh, car work." Robbie says just as my phone dings and I take it out reading the text chuckling. Liv had made a chat for all 6 of us and they send the funniest and weirdest things ever speaking about random things.

"Hey Beck, is it ok if we watch?" My eyes move away from my phone and at them raising a brow.

"Uh." Beck says looking at me.

"Sure you can watch us work on my car." Robbie says as I glare at him.

"You do know I'm right here don't you?" I ask.

"Don't be so conceded, Echo." I look at Robbie eyes widen and lips sealed.

"Excuse me?" I ask taking a step forward causing Beck to take hold my waist.

"Ok, babe calm down. Just let the girls stay." Beck says and I roll my eyes.

"Whatever." I say looking back at my phone to see I had a text from Evan, not on the chat. I tilt my head before opening the message and read it.

'Hey can I ask you something?' It said and I just decided to replay now curious.

'You already did but go right ahead.' I text back and in seconds my phone rings again.

'Ok so I know this is going to sound a bit weird but can you sing?' He asks causing me to tilt my head again confused yet again.

'I can, but why the question?' I ask.

'Well I have a music project and honestly I don't like any girls in my class to sing the song so I don't know why you came to mind? Maybe cause you're from L.A. but can you send me a recording of you singing and see if I could use you?' Well this conversation just turned weird.

'Why don't you want any of the girls in your class to sing it?' I text back.

'Cause we would end up doing something else instead of work.' I roll my eyes.

'You're such a guy.' I text back.

'Well I don't have tits.' I chuckle at the comment and look in my phone for a recording of me singing finding one and sending it. I place my phone back in my pocket and look at Beck who was still working on the car and a minute later my phone dinged again.

'You have an amazing voice.' He texts.

'Thanks. So what is this song you have to do?' I ask.

'It's sorta suppose to be a duet so I asked the teacher if I could use someone that wasn't in my school and thankfully she said yes.' He says before a second message came.

'It's suppose to be sorta like a romance song but I really don't know anything about love.' He says making me chuckle.

'Well I guess I can help you but if I do it's gotta be a bit late at night since I have a class project as well. We're making a small film and before that I have to keep an eye on my boyfriend who's being ogled by some girls while he works in a car.' I say.

'Sure that's cool.' He says before sending another text.

'And in all honesty you're probably way hotter than any of them so don't worry.' I smile at the text and send a 'thanks, talk to you later.' before putting the phone back in my pocket.

"Who were you texting?" Beck asks.

"No one, are you done for the day?" I ask and he nods.