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The Sparkmate: the sparks

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Part 4: Lake parties & embarrassing songs.

--[My (Amelia's) Pov]--: The next day...

Waking up peacefully on a Saturday morning is one of the best things had in a while, no more truck sounds, no loud music from the old neighbors & no rumbling attention perverts driving their Lamborghini's in the middle of the night; To think about how peacefully and amazingly I've been dying to have a quiet sleep for some at ease that I stretched my arms to get up, took a steaming hot shower, putting on my skinny black jeans by essentially attaching the metal chain-like belt around my waist along with a long t-shirt, black ripping hole jeans, combat boots, black pearl earrings (A/N: no piercing my ears, bc it'll get your skin infected), black bead bracelet on my right wrist, a braided choky with an amethyst crystal necklace as it turns darker by the minute which I already think it's my emotion being boiling up in one stone (pretty neat, no?) & lastly, my heirloom silver square on it has an 'A' initial bracelet.

Staring at myself, I put on a bit of black lipstick while checking out my black mini-backpack: "Hm, not bad. Good thing, I don't get scolded by my mom from my dimension about my choice of style." I said to myself after painting my nails in black, when I spotted Mojo panting in front of my room; A chuckle escapes my lips and carried him to Sam's room. Placed it on top of his chairs and watched like a hawk until I notice his room is a mess that I groaned quietly and rolled my eyes before starting my clean-up routine of mine in his room by organizing his stuff: "Alright Mojo, he continues to mumble out by typing down on his computer, "I got the car, now I need the girl, I need money to take out the girl is what I need, also Amelia is known to be... how do I put it? Oh right, that means she is the excellence to my list-plan of life." After a moment of truth of his bidding from eBay's answer: "Zero bids. Great, I'm broke." He mumbled, "Y'know, mumbling isn't very gentleman-like so, I suggest you try not to overreact about impressing someone like Mikaela TOO much & just help me clean up your room which it stinks like a scrapyard." The minute I spoke out of nowhere, Sam's expression was priceless and he blushes in embarrassment before falling over the floor; Rolling his eyes by scolding me: "Can I have privacy than being spied on by you?" Shrugged at his question, I continue organizing his books and took his secret treasure chest out of its hiding spot, and began wiping the dust from in & out.

Sam & I hear Mojo sniffing a small 'achoo', we chuckle at this as I patted him on the head, "C'mon mojo, you pain kills?" Mojo (chihuahua) growls at me for mentioning the pills for his health because of the vets that were 'helpful' for him, I can already tell that for some unknown reasons he doesn't get onto a growling state with me, just a small whimper. After cleaning and organizing the place, we came downstairs ready as ever for the ride to the Lake party scene; However, Mr. Witwicky & Ms. Witwicky began to argue a bit for a second with their son and reminded not to step on the family grass only the path he's creating right now. A few minutes later, Sam brought his best friend Miles, who sat next to him as we three drove off to the Lake Party.

Time skip~ Late Afternoon...

Chilling inside the Yellow Camaro aka Bumblebee, I continue reading through my phone in the app called 'Wattpad' by scrolling down fanfic about the PUNISHER x OC by anonymous while also listening onto the conversation going to the part that Miles & Sam discuss as they both got nervous about the annoying Trent-of-an-a** coming to them: "Dude, are you sure we're invited to this party?" "Of course, Miles. he continues, "It's a Lake. Public Property." Sam told Miles, while continuously I stayed in the car since I am an antisocial type but still an extrovert. The shore of the public lake was full of hollering, disgusting, jerk & weird teens. Some swim, some are sunbathing. SAM'S CAMARO glides up into view of seeing a lot of cars parked near over thousands of popular/pervert/annoying girls & boys wearing bikini tops and swim shorts for the summer; Miles emerges sheepishly when he got out of the car by standing next to him while I did the same but, without being scared nor embarrassed. "Oh, my god! Dude, Mikaela's here.-" Exclaimed Sam, then I chipped in by cutting him off, " 'Just don't do anything weird, right? Ugh, Sam, we know that! Plus, you look good." I groan in a loud monotone voice, now returning to reading my fanfic of the PUNISHER on my iPhone 7: 'At last, we're parked, near the crowd where Sam is going to get the girl for the first time.' Shivered at the thought of the crowd made me realize my mistake from coming here, nevertheless, I still came because I didn't want to miss out on the action coming towards my way so, I ignore the fact of my dark appearance may be hilarious to others but, this is just who I am.

Immediately, Sam, me & Miles got out of the Bumblebee's ALT-Mode before I lean my back on the car as they (Sam & Miles) tried to assemble themselves on how to look awesome in front of others at the Lake Party; Why I haven't tagged along with them? Well, it's because lately, this arrangement between me and the blonde a**hat so-called Trent is going to bully me since I made stay for detention last week; Also, if he EVER comes any closer to me, he's going to get what I think he is going to get, the Dark warning of my own words: "Bee, I'll keep you company." I muttered, keeping my phone in my jean pocket I took out a book of mysteries for my entertainment than eavesdropping on the conversation; After the last 7 minutes have passed, the Jockers stopped throwing each other their football catch came with a demanding aura: "Hey guys, check it out!" Grabbed Sam's arm tightly before growling like an amateur towards that dumb** from coming closer to us three, Miles thought my growl was hot but I replied to him with a 'don't-even-say-that-or-I'll-kill- you' glare, he backs a few feet away from my glare; Pretending he's not afraid of me. Mentally rolled my eyes and facepalm myself, 'Swear to Primus & Unicron, that I will control my inner dark thoughts after this.' "Hey bro, That car. It's Nice. Hey." Miles stupidly takes off his hoodie, determined the look in her eyes, drops it on the grass, and starts climbing the tree.

Sam, however, at least tried to stand up for himself at Trent for disrespecting his best friend Miles for being a coward, "So, what are you guys doing here? Hey, demon." He winks at me, I harden my glare at him ever so slightly but soften it when I spotted Mikaela there, Sam as an idiot he is (A/N: No offense on the actor) averted his gaze away from her while trying to avoid any embarrassment and sigh, "Hello Mikaela, thanks for the invitation." I calmly lower my growling at Trent for NOW, since I "wouldn't" and I quote wouldn't when she smiles at me and nods: "We're gonna climb this tree. Except her, she's reading a book." Sam points at me while leaning on the tree next to him, the proximity of how much of an idiot he is; Let me say it: 78% of the idiocy coming from the script that Shia Belouf had is a lot of shitty lines...But, I'll pass it along next time. "I see that. It looks...it looks fun." "Yeah." I snort a bit at his (Sam) answer and took a glance at Trent pause for one second before pointing out a flashback of Sam trying out from one of the tryouts last year after stammering in fright of getting bullied once more, ever since he got Bumblebee; Faltered in an awkward moment for him & Mikaela mix like a real couple, embarrassed and humiliated is a no-no. "Oh No no, that...no. That wasn't a tryout. I was researching a book, I was writing." He almost got him convinced that none of it comes to life, unluckily for him, it returned: "Oh yeah?" "Yeah he did, asshat," I mumbled in a quiet voice, a good thing he doesn't clean his ears enough to hear what I just called just now: "Yeah, what's it about? Sucking at sports?" Scoffs at Sam's lame excuse of getting out of this, I read my book in amusement for only 5 minutes until I heard him laugh nervously, "No, it's about the link between the brain damage & football."Trent stops laughing and is now, giving him a stern angry look while I was having fun seeing the scene unfold in front of me.

Sam continues even though he is going to get his ass kicked in class later on, "No, it's a good book. Your friends would love it--Y'know, it's got mazes in it & *gulps* y'know um...little coloring areas sections, pop-up pictures, it's a lot of fun." "That's funny." He (Trent) said like he doesn't give 2 shits about it, and I chipped in by taking Mikaela's part (A/N: Sorry!) "Okay, okay. You know what? Stop-." He cuts me off by shoving me away from the both of them and said something I will never want to hear: "Okay Vampire slut, go back to your exorcism shit & get out of here while I talk to your nerdy brother, hmm?" A rhythm clicked into my brain causing a reaction of the painful memory of my past that I don't want to recommend out loud to but, the minute he called me a Vampire Slut, made me snap my head creepily at him that I caused him, Sam, Miles & Mikaela to back away from me inside my thoughts, saying: 'I cannot let it get to me--WAIT! I'm not in the Dorado City, I'm in L.A. so,... *smirks* Oh the hell HE DIDN'T JUST BECAME AN ARROGANT BASTARD!' "How.DARE. You." I sneered loudly in a hissing tone, Sam gulped at my reaction coming out to life and sure enough, his body went pale along with Miles & Trent:

"Now, listen here you pedazo de mierda! Either you behave nicely to these geek friends of mine or... Gripping tighter his manhood even more in disgust while taking a pocket knife out of my combat black boots pocket and pointing it right near his throat, "You will never see yourself with a wrench going up your aft, or I'LL BREAKING YOUR Precious jewels from having kids, GOT IT~?" He nods vigorously in fear at my evil smirk plastered on my white face, as my brown eyes unexpectedly & quickly yank out his collar towards me and I started saying things loud, loud enough to sound like a banshee at Trent that Sam got terrified, Mikeala crosses her arms in delight to see a lioness rising out of its cage with a simple smile & Miles stays up in the tree in tears of coming any closer; even the entire crowd from the Lake came to see what the commotion was about where I'm standing. Dropping him on the grass, he cowardly backs away from me as I inch a bit closer to him and screams like a girl by crying out loud and droves off back to wherever he goes: "Yeah, tell that one of your horny assholes to back the f*ck off!~" The evil smirk never left my face until he finally realizes that he cannot mess with me or Sam ever again so, he ran away crying like a baby towards his horny friends, the entire crowd from the Public Lake went silent for a moment, not till I took out a mini-mint bottle of antibacterial to clean my hands with it as everyone began laughing at the show I just put out earlier; Everybody began cheering for me, I wink at them with one of the most beautiful smiles my mom has taught me and smile like an Emo would do: 'Well then, my queue to leave & go back to the Yellow Camaro.' I bow like one of my first waifu Black Butler, Sebastian Michaelis would do after a good show is already done.

After the break-up between her x Trent, Sam, Miles & I smirked and we each give each other high fives when I finished cleansing my hands with anti-mint bacterial, I placed it back into my black half-ripped jean left side pocket while he (Sam) ordered his BFF to get down from the tree as the crowd quiets down about 5 minutes ago before everyone has begun to leave; We three got inside the car until the ":: Who's gonna drive you home, tonight?::" Bee sings through the radio in hopes for him to get the Mecha girl like Mikaela out for a lift as I giggle at him for encouraging the Boy, "I'm gonna drive her home tonight." Sam mumbled the song a bit out loud before telling his friend Miles, who exclaims in shock at his words of betrayal: "What? She's an evil jock concubine, man. Let her hitchhike." "She lives 10 miles from here, okay?" I pinch him, which he returned with an 'ow' sound and Sam tells him, "It's my only chance, you got to be understanding here, alright?" Rolled my own eyes, still sitting inside the backseat of Bee's ALT-MODE by patting it servo/car-seat, 'Primus, this guy is the worst ever the human friend of Sam out all of the human fictional characters is HAD TO PUT MILES AS THE RATING ZERO CUTE GUY.' mentally facepalming in an annoying tone to myself, still reading my book before hearing the funny part: "Alright, well put her in the backseat of the car next to Amelia. I'll be quiet." Sam snaps his head over his shoulder and widens his voice into a shock, "Did you just say "Put her in the back next to Amelia?" Sam asked a bit stubbornly, Miles then says, "I called Shotgun." he raises his hands in surrender and replied.

"I'm not putting her in the back. he continues, "You get out of the car." Sam protested while opening the door of the car, trying to pull his BFF out while arguing with each other until they both came to an understanding: "Dude, what happens to Bros before Hoes?" "Dude, just get out of the f*cking car, before I do it myself." I cussed at him, my aura turns dark around me, he jolts out of the car in a hurry and of course, he also left to meet with other ladies who are near the lake. "By the Allspark, he's gone, how can you be friends with him again?" I took out a strawberry gum and started chewing, Sam gives me a 'be reasonable' face as he turns his car on after we drove to get Mikaela; Who was already walking her way back home when Bee's radio began switching into a cute song, ":: Who's gonna break when you break? ::" I giggled a bit before keeping my composure in, "MIKAELA! IT'S ME SAM WITWICKY! I hope I didn't leave you stranded or anything. Are you sure? So, listen I was wondering if I could ride you home. he called out, continuing driving a bit with the car while I read my book and eavesdrop on the conversation; "What he means is that he wants us to drive you home?" I spoke, Mikaela was in deep thought before agreeing to our offer a ride home and getting in the car.

Were now on our merry way to 'drive' Mikaela far away from the blonde ex-boyfriend Trent's Lake party and return her home, Sam, me & she sat quietly inside the car for one moment until she turns to me: "So, Amelia. she continues, "Thanks for having my back out there." "No worries, girl. Besides, you deserve better than blondes like Trent." I smiled, as she smiles as well, and turns back to face the road; "So..." Sam tries to make the smooth conversation between her & him. Knowing it was going to be alright, but I still have my doubts to worry about that is pretty much going to be one of the best funny moments in all transformer's history. He coughs, swallowed his breath before responding when she cut him off guard with surprising words that just came out of her breath: "I can't believe that I'm here right now." "You can duck down if you want? I mean, It won't hurt my feelings." Sam reassures her, with a smile before looking onto the road again, "Oh no, no, no. I didn't mean here with you." "Ok." "I just meant here, like in this situation, this same situation that I'm always in. Cause, I don't know, I guess I just have a weakness for hot guys; For Tight Abs & really big arms."

She shrugs out in a bit of boredom of the conversation, "Tight abs? Sam raises an eyebrow before saying something that would sound fake out of the blue that I just & immediately facepalm with a low growl, while he puts his fingers underneath the mini-disco ball: "Well, there's a couple of new additions in the car. Like, I just put in that light on." I, on the other hand, try not to laugh at Sam's stammers during a conversation between Mikaela & him, in an attempt to win her over with his car and myself; Since I promise to keep myself quiet: "And that disco ball, & so the light reflects off the disco ball." "Oh." She responds a bit in awe/awkward silence, pretends like she is interested in the conversation but is feeling weird about talking to a geek; So, she decided to ask him: "Are you new to this school? It's your first year here?" Mikaela points out the last part to Sam, who replies in an unwieldy voice: "Oh no, no, no. he continues, "We've been in the same school since first grade." "Really?" Mikaela exclaims a bit with a very beautiful smile at Sam as I answered for him in a cool monotone tone: "Yeah, he did. He also has a secret treasure chest underneath his desk with pictures of-." Cut off by Sam, shushing me up from embarrassing him even further, chuckling at his secret: "Anyway, um...Yeah, a long time." "Well, I already know that Amelia is in the same class but you, do we have any classes together?"

Questions in surprise about him being in the same class as they both were kids, while I, on the other, had a different past than them so, secret safe & sound: 'okay Amelia! these flustered people are the ones perfect until the dark of the moon movie of TRANSFORMERS.' I sighed and close my book for a moment to listen or join into the conversation in hopes to encourage Sam to get the girl of his dream in working in the process. Until suddenly, the radio coming from Bee's ALT-MODE turns on. [Click the song on top!] Sam & Mikaela got each other flustered the minute that song came out from the radio, I shook my head to the beat of the music and continued reading " 'Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle' " as the situation has gotten a whole lot worse than me getting embarrassed for exposing my anime fangirl side.

"Oh, no-no-no. Come on! Sorry, I'm just working on kinks. Y'know, it's a new car." Sam pretends that the radio is broken so, even puts a song called: ":: Sexual healing...sexual healing~~When I get that feeling, I want some sexual healing::" Covering my ears in laughter, as I try my best not to laugh at this scene while Bee's ALT-MODE drives towards the perfect sunset spot; Also known to be a making out part I do not want to know more about: 'Pervert song in the entire world but has a nice ring to the moment. Hehe, this is going to get juicy.' I teasingly thought before I heard the car suddenly starts dying itself, "This radio is like like you know--um, it's an old radio too, so--. Look, I'm in isn't something that I, you know..." He (Sam) stuttered, Mikaela fixes her hair into a messy bun and blushed in an unimpressed face while he tries to lessen the embarrassment to go further until she finally shut him up and said, "Just pop the hood." Once they both got out of the car, being the third wheel is alright bc it won't make it uncomfortable so, "Whoa, nice headers." She spoke, with an impressed look on her eyes but continues: "You've got a high-rise double pump carburetor." The look on Sam's & my face was astounded and of course, impressed by her knowledge of cars' exterior and interior design along with the mechanical problems. 'I always wanted to see a woman fix cars and anything mechanical like this in real life, welp! It's finally happening.'

Took a peek at her staring at Bee's ALT-MODE face being revealed by a stunning woman model like Mikaela; Back home, I can whistle at the view but since I'm not logically in MY home then that means I cannot completely fangirl or squeal out loud. Back to the scene, "That's...very impressive, Sam." "Double-pump?" Sam questioned, almost a tad nervous in not to think she's too hot at the moment for now, "It squirts the fuel in, so you can go faster." This is where I come a bit closer to the dashboard by only whispering an 'oh interesting to know,' tone but not a tone that can make you believe it's not useful when you can tell this good advice in case, you want to save cybertronian's life; "I like to go faster." He breathed out, eyeing the view of her sexy curves along her abdomen, I roll myself back onto the backseat and decided to wait until she explains to Sam about Bee's head protected under the hood of the Yellow Camaro: "And it looks like your distributor's cap is a little loose." She grabs onto the distributor cap and tries a bit of a twist after continuing her point of view on the engine where Bumblebee's helm was connected to the wires of his circuits and you couldn't believe it if I said this but, from what I've seen it from fanfics & audiobooks; Totally can feel someone being turned one by just holding someone's wires kind of hard to believe that Bee was shivering his entire ALT-MODE while I felt the vibrate of his radio going haywire: "Hold on a nano-click, Bee. I continue to whisper, "Did you just shiver?" I look to meet with the rearview mirror where his optics have been connected to his optics/eyes and uses it in a slight nod answer. I giggled.

Not gonna lie but, I envy him sometimes because usually there are a lot of things a cybertronian can do on which humans, however, this is another case I will discuss later on one of the next adventures so, let's continue: "Yeah? How'd you know that?" Mikaela paused for a second before answering him, with a nice smile, "Um...my dad, she turns to look at Sam and continues, "He was a real grease monkey, he taught me all this stuff. I could...take it all apart, clean it & put it back together." Astounded and surprised by her acknowledgment of machinery, Sam pretends he's in the friendzone until spoke, "That's weird. I just wouldn't peg you for mechanical." Nods at her entire body, roll his eyes in a turned-on way, and quietly breaths out an 'Oh my god' voice and blows in his arm onto the hood, gives me the eyes that say 'talk-to-her-for-me' or 'help me glance; In which I shook my head before laying down on the backseat, 'Seriously, I'm tired and I should probably get an air conditioner for this' I thought before I close my eyes but sleeping just a little bit. The conversation between Mikaela & Sam ended up badly, causing her to walk away from us, took a peek at this once more before I could say anything when I, grasp her wrist gently to Mikaela: "Hey, I'll see ya later?" "See ya later...in text hour." I smiled with a wave of goodbye and watched her walking a few steps away from Bee's ALT-MODE until I heard Sam running to his front seat while chanting, "Oh God, no no no no-no-no. Come on, please. Please, you gotta work with me now." "Would you stop chanting like the Maharajah, Sam? I swear you are going to make him hate you for hitting the dashboard of where he turns on the radio. And just...fragging pray."

I hissed at him, fearlessly Sam swallowed his breath but continues doing it, "Please don't let her walk away, he prays under his breath and continues, "Come on (X3), please please." Then suddenly, with his wish coming true, the radio plays the song as Sam immediately calls Mikaela over to get in the Camaro:

"HEY, WAIT!" Sam shouted, and before he knew it, Mikaela smiles brightly at the car being revived once more and got in the car next to him; While I tried to sing the song from the radio in which I failed to sing it properly. Primus, I wish it had some lyric videos!

After driving Mikaela home...

Sam felt thrilled than excited because he's making progress to have her as his girlfriend at the end of the first movie and it was going well, me, however, grinned at this while pretending to sleep peacefully on the backseat and drool (A/N: yes I drool in my sleep, but you know what? Idc at least I don't have to close my mouth while holding in my breath in the entire ride inside a car) Which, of course, I murmured a "sorry Bee" to him when I apologized about drooling over his servo, who use radio singing ":: Shawty, I don't mind at all::". A sigh of relief escaped my lips, as I earned two looks of confusion by her & Sam as she (Mikaela) coughed and spoke, "I had fun. So, y'know, thanks for listening." "Oh yeah, yeah." "You...you think I'm shallow?" She asked nervously on which cause him to stutter, "I think you're...no, no, no, of course not! he coughed a bit and went into a serious tone: "I think there's more to it than meets the eye for you." Astounded by his words, I stared at Sam quietly in shock before realizing that he was right about his words, there will always be someone who can see the real you even if you cover it up with something that doesn't match your personality; You just have to be yourself. Mikaela seemed relaxed with us, nods in agreement, and began to smile at him, "Okay." "Yeah." Awkward feelings rose in the air, none of them talk including me, "Alright, see you at school...Oh & Amelia, right?" "Yeah, what is it?" "Do you mind hanging out with me & my friends at Burger King's?" She asked, who turns over her shoulder and waited for my answer.

Sam, on the other hand, also turns over his shoulder and eagerly gives me the please-say-yes eyes, even though I don't want to go this allowed me an opportunity to ride on her mini moped along with her giving me a ride; In the center of my mind, came to a clip of Barricade chasing me down like a real DECEPTICON Cop. This made me squeal inside my head, 'Imagine Optimus Prime in this situation, he'll be kicking his AFT in a matter of minutes.' I rationally blushed like a tomato when I thought of his muscular cybertronian body rescuing and fighting all of the bots with his shining armor, swords, and including his holo form from one of the fanfics of TF pictures came into my brain almost feeling my heartache about his voice being real; Luckily Sam & Mikaela didn't see it because if not they'll be wondering if I didn't want to, "It's alright, you don't need to force yourself-" Immediately change the topic in my head by saying inside my thoughts: 'Oh what the hell! Might as well join the burger joint!' "It's not that, Mikaela. I continue, "Sure, I don't mind. Since I'm abnormal from the barbie like girls, you would be uncomfortable with them." I haven't gone in a hangout since I came into this dimension. Till I got pulled out of the car near the front seat of where Mikaela is sitting; Which in this case, surprised me even more because I'm now getting hugged by Mikaela a.k.a Megan Fox, I mean sure in the movie, I was chilled but this is real life dimension I could have been jumping up & down while squealing she is awesome and smiles at me before saying:

"Thank you for being a true friend, Amelia." "No problem! Text ya later!" I happily shouted to my new-founded best friend and turn to Sam, who was flabbergasted over the moon about knowing I have her number AND Got a hangout invitation on a Saturday morning; That is until his smile turned into a frown when he thought his words were lame, but I was the opposite: "That was stupid." He mumbled, " 'There's more to it than meets the eye with you'? Wasn't stupid, Sam." I gently encourage him, as I tried cheering him up, he starts driving the Yellow Camaro and I continue, "It sounded wise like a sci-fi-robot leader would say to a female." Suddenly, I get hit on the dashboard while Sam paused the brakes from driving the car back to his house, Sam snaps around to face me and saw me hop on the front seat where Mikaela sat on earlier and sat down, "How would you know? She only sees me as a great listener." "Great listeners are one of the most gentleman-like manners in the universe, I listen to your problems & you listened to mine. Love is stronger, it is." I pointed out, he snorts and continues driving again, "You just mixed Master Yoda with your words of positivity, didn't you?" The moment he said it I couldn't help but feel my shoulders shake in a vibrating way that my giggles & snorts turn into laughs, I laugh so hard that tears began to fall from my face. "However, I'm glad you came & didn't make things awkward for me & Mikaela." "No problem, it's what siblings or friends do in a way of saying."

Once we got back to his house, I informed Sam that I wanted to jump-scare his parents via using one of my ASMR sounds on them, while he screams about me turning into a zombie; And their reactions were priceless, they both scolded me in the end and warn to never do that again, Sam left and gone to his room, probably excited about the amazing ride he did with Mikaela and me getting a hangout with Megan Fox as Mikaela on Saturday is seriously blowing his mind into pieces. Changing into my Yin & Yan pajamas, I brushed my teeth while listening to the "Faraway" by Nickelback amv of Ship name of AVP (Scar x Lex), and afterward, I got into my bed and continue to listen to others songs until I fell asleep.

---To be continued---