Chapter Twenty-Five: Screw Everything, Not in The Steamy Way Either

Yeah I hate Sam because of the Carly thing. Now I'm making you hate him too :D Love ya! Another silly reminder, poll is up. We are at 51 reviews! Remember once we hit 70 A preview of up and coming stories will be posted!

The next morning, even emotionally exhausted, Mikaela was more than ready to get to painting. "Go, scram," October said at Mikaela's father when he revealed his boss had asked for him to come into work. "You guys could use the extra cash. Besides, us girls will be blasting music and shaking our asses. Not sure if you really want to see that."

He quickly retreated after that information, and left the girls to begin working. October turned a playlist on she had created last night. I Just Wanna Run by The Downtown Fiction began to play. Out of tune and not even bothering to try and get into tune, the two girls began belting the song. Mikaela's mood lifted as the song went on, and they worked on painting the piss yellow living room an eggshell white color. The more songs that played the more they belted and the better they felt.

October wasn't exactly blocking Ironhide, but neither was she paying too much attention to him. Not that he minded or anything for her good mood rubbed off on him making him feel good which also lifted her mood even more. At one point, after moving onto the kitchen which was to be a stark white color, October took a paint brush when Mikaela'ls face fell and she decided she could stand feeling gross until later.

"'Kayla," October said from behind her friend to catch the girls attention. When Mikaela turned around she got the surprise of her life. "You are to follow Lord Sauron who will be the ruler of this Middle Earth soon!" October cried out once she removed her white hand from Mikaela's face. Uruk-hai for the win!"

A war of the world battle happened after that. Paint went everywhere, it seemed, except for the walls. The only reason the battle stopped was because October demanded a pause to answer her ringing phone. "Hello?"

October's good mood instantly soured startling Ironhide who had been enjoying it. "Sam, what do you want?" She asked as she left the room to growl at him.

"Actually I wanted to tell you something. I won't be bringing you to the base anymore." he said in a slightly apologetic voice.

"What? But- why?"

"Well you see, I won't be going to the base anymore. I'm going to college," he paused and in the background October heard Carly speaking, "in Washington. As in Washington DC. Sorry, just had to let you know. Bye, oh! And one more thing. When I told the bot's they said to tell you not to come anymore. Especially Ironhide."

October's heart broke, and before Ironhide could even begin to ask why, she blocked him out. It was like that first time again, before she knew about the bond. But this blockage was twice as strong. The strength was necessary for she couldn't let him know how much he had hurt her by making Sam tell her that.

At the same time, Ironhide was about to race out of the base to figure out why his spark mate had blocked him so thoroughly and suddenly, when Sam came in. "Hey, big man. Got some news from October. She doesn't want to come anymore. Said since I'm leaving she had no reason to."

Ironhide's optics widened then narrowed. He didn't believe it. She had been too happy around him to not want to be anymore. Sam must be manipulating her like he was trying to now. "Frag it, I'm going to talk to her then."

"Ironhide," Optimus said causing the bot to stop where he was. "If October wishes not to be around us anymore than you will not force her to be."

"I will not force her to do anything she doesn't want to." He gruffly said but was stopped by his higher up again.

"You are not to leave this base with the intention of finding her either. Sam has said that she wishes not to be bothered with us, and we shall respect that wish."

Fragging Sam and his Decpticon like actions! Ironhide cursed. He slammed against the barrier between October, but got nothing. For the barrier to be this strong, it had to be made up of one emotion. A single strong emotion. He felt the wall, and knew that it was pure pain.

"What did you say to her?" Ironhide asked. His cannons whirred to life but he didn't dare raise them; he knew if he did the little 'Con he had once called a friend would be blown to oblivion.

"Stand down, Ironhide!" Optimus ordered causing the weapon specialist to become even more irate.

Jazz watched from the side, shocked at everything. October would never wish 'Hide away like that. She was always too happy to be around the cranky old bot. He just couldn't believe that Optimus would force a Mech from seeing a Femme let alone his sparkmate. Something was going on and he would get to the end of it.

October was so angry. It hurt too much so she turned it to anger. Had she really meant so little to him? The phone in her hand went sailing and it smashed against the wall. The iPhone had stood no chance of surviving. The resulting crashing sound from the device had Mikaela running in to check on her friend. After having her heart broken just last night, she recognized that as what was ailing October.

Not even questioning when she had found someone to love, or who, Mikaela took a sobbing October into her arms, and crushed the small girls face to her chest. October clenched her hands and wailed. This was why she hated people. Why she wished for everyone, except Mikaela of course, to keel over and leave her alone. They just used and hurt you. Ironhide had made her trust him, made her fall in love and give her heart up, and look where that had led her. To such heart break that had her pathetically sobbing into her best friend's boobs.

Speaking of which, she pulled away and apologized for her outburst. "Wanna talk about it?" Mikaela asked.

"No." October said bluntly and then led Mikaela into the kitchen to get back to work cleaning and finishing painting. Half an hour passed before she spat it out, "why does everyone just suck? They use you and then spit you out. It's like they like giving you something to look forward to, then enjoy taking any hope you had left and tossing you out into the world. By then you're so pathetic that even the world doesn't want to chew you up."

To say that October wanted to die, in a way that didn't actually involve death, was an understatement.

"I- who?"

"It doesn't matter who he was. Why did he have to do it though? I never did anything but love him. Sure I had a few moods, but he and I got over it. We were moving forward. Or so I thought."

Mikaela listened as October ranted about whoever it was that hurt her. What confused her most was that she couldn't figure out who October was talking about. Obviously their relationship was still new, so that narrowed it down to people she had been with recently. But think and think as she might Mikaela could only remember October hanging around with the 'bot's recently- no? October wouldn't have-? With a bot?Actually, it fit so well that she nearly hit herself.

The bots were always, for the most part except for a select few, nice to human's. Nicer than most humans were to each other. With how reserved October was, it was so unlikely to have been a human guy she would give her heart to that Mikaela had actually pitied her friend a lot, thinking that she would be forever alone. A bot would actually make the perfect guy for October.

Now to figure out which one. October ranted on, not noticing her friend had not only stopped replying but had stopped working too. So the twin terrors were out. Mikaela had heard of that story. Wheeljack was way too new, and Wheelie disturbed Mikaela so he had to disturb October too. Brains and Wheelie were almost attached at the hip so that knocked him off too. Skids and Mudflap were way too volatile and would make the slightly skittish girl run and hide. Trigger happy Ironhide was going to be knocked off the list, but Mikaela remembered that October had called him a friend once or twice. It could be Bee too, due to having been friends with him first.

Optimus, while kind and caring, held an intimidating air about him that Mikaela was greatly aware of. October would end up freezing if he ever looked in her direction, so while he was moved to the unlikely list, with Ironhide, he was not completely knocked off. Who were the two other newish bots? Mirror or Image or something like that. Then there was J- Jo- someone, similar to Jazz in name. Those two were pushed to the same list as most of the bots. If it had been them, October would have mentioned their name a time or two, and Mikaela would have remembered.

As loud and 'gangsta' like as Jazz was, Mikaela knew how kind and caring that bot was so he was pushed to the unlikely list. Who was left? Ratchet? Pfft! Please, that bot did not have a kind or loving bolt in him. He was as likely as either set of twins.

Okay who was on the two possible lists? Bee was the only likely one. Then there was Ironhide, Jazz, Optimus, and- actually that was it.

"So who is it?" Mikaela asked, taking note that an hour had passed and October was still mumbling, though more to herself now, about this mystery person. "I've narrowed it down. Bee is the most likely, with Jazz next. Optimus is also a candidate. While I regret to add this bot, I have to; though i'm leaning more towards it being eighty percent not him and twenty percent chance it is. Ironhide."

October sputtered and made several sounds that were close to either auto, bot or autobot.

"Well? Spit it out? It has to be one of those four. You detest most human contact, let alone human men, and you've hung around these guys enough that you are comfortable with them."

"Who were you betting it was? And the least likely again?" October gave in.

"Okay so I think Bee. He's nice kind and shy, kinda like you. Then is Jazz. While he has a tendency to be loud and obnoxious at times, it mostly a facade, and he is pretty sweet once you get to know him. Optimus made it because he's one of the kindest and most understanding of bots. The Ironhide made it only because i know you said you were friends a month or so ago."

"Going by the logic I see in the guys you picked, why not Ratchet? I know I said he was a friend back when I met him."

"Please, that bot doesn't have a loving bolt in him. No matter how much he loves his friends it just isn't in him to be in love with someone." Both girls snorted.

"Too true. I'll give you a night to think over your list again then I'll tell you. I've apparently got nothing to do tomorrow, so if you'll have me I'll stay."

"It's getting late anyway, and dad will be home soon-" speak of the devil. In he came with box of pizza. Half pepperoni half cheesless. When Mikaela had written him in jail she had told him so much about October, he considered the girl a second child and he knew she hated cheese. Odd but true.

"I had a feeling you were still going to be here. Nice job on the living room. Kitchen is slightly messy, but the walls are done, so I'm happy." He set the pizza down and noticed that neither girl dug in. Something was up.

Before he could utter a word the girl began laughing hysterically. Did Mikaela call it or what? Their pain was still there, but at least they knew they could still laugh.