Chapter 1 Best Day of My Life
It was a beautiful day. I mean literally and figuratively. The sky was picture perfect – white cloud, blue sky. And it was end of school where I really looked forward to the school prom.
There was this girl Summer I had a crush on. She had dark wavy hair, olive skin, and beautiful eyes - beautiful and intelligent. We have been neighbors since we were 5 and been hanging out a lot since then. The stereotypes in Hollywood are totally wrong. She was what people would call hot but we loved to talk about geeky stuff all the time. She could have totally picked any guy she wanted to go to the prom but luckily, we had the longest history.
I borrowed my dad's Chevrolet Camaro and was giving it a good wash. It was a yellow Camaro with black stripes. Dad and I liked to call it Bumblebee. I've always loved Bumblebee. It was a pretty beat-up car by then but dad and I had a lot of great time going on a ride in it. I was humming along "The Best Day of My Life" while washing the car and I almost got late to pick Summer up. So I grabbed my suit and basically drove next door to meet Summer.
Summer was beautiful. But I did not know she could be really gorgeous dressing up. She wore this little black dress where it was not flashy at all but really classy. You wouldn't believe she was just a high school student. She looked more like a model. I let her on the Bumblebee and headed out.
Maybe because both of us were a bit shy and weren't used to that atmosphere, we were pretty quiet in the car. The usual short ride seemed really long that day. We finally reached the stretch where I had to transform Bumblebee into a robot to walk over the worn down part of the highway. Since my father was a kid, the politicians have been trying to fix the infrastructure of this country. But the politics has become so partisan that really nothing could be done. Basically one party was elected to power and all the other party did was to make sure the party in power could do nothing. So the private sector took things into their own hands to create these Transformers. Like Bumblebee, cars were made to transform into robots to navigate these worn down roads.
I always like the scene where all these cars transformed into robots and marched forward. While mesmerized at the scene, I was woken up by loud roars of two angry F-22's passing by. Just when Summer and I were wondering what was going on, we saw a B-2 in the distance and a lot of explosions ahead. It seemed really surreal but it looked like the crazy B-2 was carpet bombing towards us!
All the robots panic and tried to get away from the road. I was almost at the edge of the road when I thought we might not have enough time to make it out. Just when I was losing hope, I got rammed by something and got knocked way away from the crowd. Before I passed out, I saw this giant truck transformer, whom I thought was the one who saved us by knocking Bumblebee away from the explosion. And from this point on, life seemed to go downhill from there…