Lost Little Girl
Miko groaned loudly, turning in her bed at her host parents' house. It was 7am and it was time for school.
"Great," she mumbled, pulling off the covers.
Miko normally jumped out of bed and got dressed as quickly as Arcee could pop a wheelie, but today, something was off with the little Japanese girl. Her normal bubbly attitude was gone. Her stomach really hurt for some reason and she didn't know why.
Miko went to the bathroom. She turned the water on and brushed her teeth. After her teeth were clean and the morning taste was gone, she grabbed a hairbrush from the countertop. Miko started brushing her hair slowly and gently.
Normally she kept her hair in pigtails, but today she decided to leave her hair down.
Miko rubbed her stomach gently. She lifted up her nightgown to reveal a flat stomach. She looked at it carefully, but nothing was out of the ordinary.
"Huh," she said aloud.
After her morning bathroom routine, Miko went to her closet and pulled out a pair of jeans with a white off the shoulder top. The white shirt stopped right below her belly button. The jeans were low cut and showed off her hips. This outfit might have been a little mature for the young teen, but she didn't care. Today was not a regular Miko day for her.
Today was a day of change. She gave herself a once over in the mirror and like what she saw. She smiled while stomach suddenly tightened.
"Ow," said Miko. She toppled over and grabbed her stomach in pain.
"What the hell?" she asked herself. Then suddenly the pain was gone.
"This can't be normal," said the teen.
Miko descended the stairs to enter the kitchen where her host parents' were already making breakfast. She didn't have an appetite at all, so she decided to skip breakfast.
Miko didn't pay attention to the adults. She just grabbed her backpack and left the house without a word.
"Oh I don't feel good," she said. The hot sun blinded Miko, but she just grabbed her sunglasses from out of her backpack.
Out front and around the corner from the house, Bulkhead was already waiting for her. He flashed his headlights while he opened the door for Miko to jump in. Miko didn't jump in, but instead walked slowly to her Autobot.
"Morning Miko," said Bulkhead.
"Hi," she said. She closed the door waiting for Bulk to start driving. She fastened her seatbelt.
"Miko are you okay? You don't seem like yourself today," said Bulkhead.
"Drive," said Miko.
"Okay but you have to listen to this banging song that I found!" yelled Bulkhead. He sped off and jammed the radio as loud as it could go. The ear splitting sound of screaming came from the speaker along with some heavy metal background guitars.
"Ow! Bulkhead! I'm not in the mood today!" yelled Miko and she shut the speakers off to listen to a dead silence.
"Miko what's wrong with you?" asked the concerned alien.
"Nothing Bulkhead! I'm the same as ever! Now please just drive me to school otherwise I'm going to be late!" she screamed. She crossed her arms and sat back in the seat.
Bulkhead obeyed and didn't say another word. He didn't want to pry into her life, and it's not like Miko not to share anything about her life with her guardian.
Bulkhead dropped Miko off at school within 15 minutes. After he stopped Miko got out and slammed the door shut. She ignored Raf and Jack waving to her and walked into school without saying anything to anyone.
It was 2:05 when the kids got out of school for the day. Jack and Raf were waiting for Miko all day, but the girl didn't say anything to them.
"I wonder what's wrong with Miko," said Raf.
"I don't know. It's not like her to keep quiet for more than thirty seconds," said Jack. He looked down at Raf typing in his homework on his laptop.
"Did you see what she was wearing today?" asked Raf.
"Yeah I did. And a lot of other kids did too. Vice was saying how hot she looked," answered Jack.
"Personally I liked the new look. She looked prettier," said Jack.
"You think Miko is pretty?" asked Raf.
"When she dresses like that yeah," said Jack.
Neither of the two boys said another word because Arcee, Bulkhead, and Bumblebee had arrived to take their humans to the base.
Jack went over to Bulkhead.
"She's not here. She's missing and she has been acting weird all day long," he whispered to the green automobile.
"I'll try her cell," said Bulkhead. It went straight to voicemail.
"Scrap, it's off," he said.
"I'm going to see if I can find her," said Bulkhead.
Bulkhead drove off.
"He'll be fine on his own," said Arcee.
"I hope Miko is okay where ever she is," said Jack.
"She'll probably be back at base with Bulkhead before we get there," said Arcee as she too drove off with Bumblebee.
"I hope you're right Arcee," said Jack. He put his helmet on while Arcee revved her engine.
Miko didn't stay with the nurse long. She had escaped school earlier in the day. She had taken a walk in the sun. Miko found herself walking down an alleyway all alone. She suddenly felt some tears coming on. Her heart was breaking and she didn't know why.
"Why am I crying?" she asked, wiping the tears from her eyes. She sat down on the cement, pulling her knees to her chest, while the tears continued to fall freely.
With the tears that came pouring from her eyes, her stomach had begun growling again. Miko stood up.
"WHAT THE FUCK IS HAPPENENING TO ME?!" she yelled as she punched the brick wall. It happened with such force, Miko's knuckles started bleeding.
"Damn it!" she screamed again.
Miko hadn't eaten anything all day and still felt as sick as she did that morning.
It wasn't the stomach bug. She had gone to the nurse and drank some Ginger Ale that the nurse had in the cooler. She kept that down no problem.
"What is going on with me? I feel sick and yet I'm not sick. My stomach won't shut up with this gurgling. I have a bad attitude and mood swings. What is this?" she asked herself.
Then it clicked in her mind all of a sudden like a hit of lightning.
"No way!" said Miko. Her eyes went wide.
She grabbed her backpack and ran to the nearest store.
"Where is your bathroom?" asked Miko.
"Around the corner to the left," said the sales clerk.
Miko ran to the bathroom and locked herself in the stall. She unzipped her jeans. Then she saw it. Her underpants were all red from the blood that had begun flowing. It was her period and it was her first.
"This can't be happening," said Miko.
She immediately stacked up on toilet paper. She had to get home and she had to get home as soon as possible. She stashed the paper and zipped up her jeans. The blood hadn't stained the jeans yet.
"Why didn't I stick out the nurse's station a little longer?" she asked herself. She brushed her hair out of her face while she hurried out the stall.
Miko ran out of the store and didn't stop running.
It was already getting dark out and Miko had run out of breath. She was in such a hurry that she didn't realize that she had dropped her cell phone in the stall and couldn't call Bulkhead or the base to pick her up.
"My cell," she said. She checked her pockets and it wasn't there.
Miko stopped in her tracks in the alley that she knew. She took off her backpack and searched in there too. She was so concentrated on finding her phone that she didn't see a red muscle car pull in behind her.
Miko gave up looking for her phone. She stood up and sighed.
"Well look what I found," said a voice from behind Miko. Miko gasped and turned around slowly.
She screamed like a little girl.
"Knock Out," said Miko. Her voice was shaky and she was scared.
Knock Out drove closer to Miko. He flashed his high beams at her. Miko couldn't run. She couldn't outrun a car.
"What do you want?" asked Miko. She backed up until her back hit a brick wall. She had nowhere to go.
"Where's Bulkhead?" asked Knock Out.
"I don't know," said Miko.
Knock Out transformed into his Decepticon mode. He kneeled down to Miko's face. His red optics looked right into her eyes.
"I won't ask again little girl," said Knock Out. His voice and demeanor were menacing, but Miko stood up to the Decepticon.
"I'm telling you the truth and even if I did know, I wouldn't tell you," said Miko. She spit at him.
"Watch the paint," said Knock Out.
"For you to be all alone out here isn't something that happens every day. And it's not like that Bot to lose his pet," said Knock Out.
That made Miko angry.
"Fuck you," said Miko.
"Such language for a human," said Knock Out. Next thing Miko knew she was in his hand, way up off the ground. Her backpack had been left on the cement. Miko screamed.
"You're coming with me," said Knock Out.
Miko tried to pry open his hand or at least to get his grip to loosen up, but it was pointless.
"It won't work! Bulk will have your spark for this!" said Miko. She banged her fists on Knock Out's hand.
"He won't try anything while I have you," said Knock Out.
Knock Out threw Miko into the air while he changed into his car counterpart. Miko landed in the passenger seat. Before she could even reach the door handle, the seatbelt trapped her, holding her tight against the seat.
Knock Out took off into the night with Miko in tow unaware of Miko's little problem.