Hi, surprise update! I've been itching to post this chapter, and the others. I' really am sorry for not yet posting the sequels. Seriously, you can yell at me to get them out. Check out my poll, it's about my posting priorities.

Hope you like it. =.)


"We're here." I said, looking over at Leo. It was three thirty and we had just spent most of the drive back to the collage in silence. We weren't avoiding conversation, everyone just had things on their mind.

"Oh, great. I need to finish that power point." Leo rushed out. I stepped out.

"See yeah Bee." I said before hurrying after my roommate. "You had homework? What, didn't you do it at the base?" I ran after him.

"Didn't have time." he plopped down in front of the computer as soon as I entered the room.

"Didn't have time, or didn't want to do it?" he ignored me and I continued. "You better do it next time. Bee gets on my case enough when we're here and I don't do my work. I don't dare go to the base to have them all badgering me about my studies."

"You know, I was thinking." he didn't turn to face me as I sat on my bed, grabbing a book from the bed side table. "Maybe I should just stay here next time. Yeah know, to get caught up on my work. I still haven't finished that essay our astronomy teacher gave us for missing school to 'vacation' in Egypt." He pulled up the appropriate website and I looked over the book, I don't even know what it's about.

"I thought you liked the Autobots." I said, seeing through his excuse.

"I do. I just need to get caught up." I rolled my eyes at the obvious lie. I seen his finished essay under his bed before we left. He stuffed it under with a few other books and papers when he was trying to find the stuff he wanted to bring to the base.

"Whatever. Your loss." I lifter the book again and realized what it was. City of Ember. I sighed and set it down, why does Leo get all these wired books? He doesn't even read.

I rolled over and sat up, looking outside. Bee was gone, probably out for a joy ride or something. Can't blame him. IT's probably more boring out there than in here.

I glanced at the majority of the room, there were still a few symbols on the walls and on the T.V. No, I think there's less to do in here.

I sighed and looked over to the clock, class start back up tomorrow and I already had all my work done. It was only three forty-five and way too early for bed.

"What are you doing?" Leo asked.

"What?" I looked up.

"Don't you have anything to do?"

"No, but you do." I eyed the computer to see his PowerPoint over whatever it was (I couldn't see from here) already half finished.

"Right." he turned back to it. I stood up and walked toward the door.

"I'm headed to the library." I said, not waiting for a response. I headed toward the library to find it silent. It seemed so normal, yet this school doesn't hold anything I can't find out through alternative sources. This collage was normal. But I wasn't. Not me, not my friends, not my ex. Nothing about my life was normal, that's why the library was so foreign and unfamiliar to me. I was uneasy not being surrounded by giant alien robots, cars that were obviously not cars, or men in army outfits.

I paused a moment, deciding on where to go. I then started toward the fiction with a smirk. This place should have something on Egypt and aliens.

After a while, I decided to grab something to eat, I found a vending machine. I didn't want to go out.

"What'd ya bring me?" Leo asked, on some site or another with alien conspiracies.

"Nothing." I said, opening the Kit-Kat bar.

"That's rude." he muttered, turning back to the screen. I heard a car enter the parking lot and I glanced out my window to see Bee pulling into his usual parking spot. I could see something in the backseat, but I shrugged it off. After a moment, my phone went off.

"Who is it? Mikayla?" I looked at him strangely, had he been at the base all that time and not realized Mikayla wanted nothing to do with me?

"No, Bee." I opened it to see a picture of a yellow '07 Camaro indicating he's sent me a text.

I know your habits. You need real food.

I sighed and sent: I'm not that hungry

I got a pizza, so you have something for later too

I sighed again and gave in. The word was too tempting. He knew I wouldn't eat real food for a while until I got tired of junk food or got hungry enough, he also knew how stubborn I could get. Pepperoni pizza was my weakness. I can't let such a beautiful thing go to waste! I walked back out the door without saying anything and Leo quickly clicked a new tab as I left. I knew it wasn't that site he had, the one about the 'bots, so I didn't care.

I went back to Bee and he opened the back door.

"How'd you get this? You didn't rob the place, did you?"

"No, I took the liberty of using your account." I groaned. I didn't want the thing in the first place, now I'm paying for it?

"How much was it?" I asked, he didn't head to that expensive place, did he? I was saving for something expensive.

"The cheap one. I do value my life you know." he accused. "Why are you saving so much money anyway?"

"I want to get a new shiny '09 Camaro. I might go for silver this time." I teased. He revved his engine and I laughed. "I'm not telling you yet."

"I don't appreciate surprises." he grumbled. I smiled and bit into a slice, pretty good.

"Not when you're on the receiving end." I shook my head. "I'm going back inside. See you later Bee." he shut the door and turned off the engine.

"Goodbye Sam." he said evenly, probably wondering about this 'surprise'. Sorry, you're going to have to wait. I turned and walked off, taking another bite of my slice.

I sat on my bed, ignoring Leo's wishful glances at my pizza. It was so boring here. It felt like I was vacation from a house I loved. I didn't belong here, and I knew it. I knew I could leave at any time, and go home, but for some reason I didn't. I briefly wondered what kept me here. Leo?

I glanced at my roommate, no. No way. Was it the learning experience? Ha, that's funny. Maybe it was something at the base.

Conferences. Defiantly. I could avoid those meetings for at least a few more months when the excitement died down and I wouldn't be called up on being ambassador of the Autobots at random points in time. Yeah, that's my plan.

The thing was, they can still pull me out of collage for short periods of time. I just hope they don't find out where I go to school.

"dude, can I have some of that?" Leo asked finally. I looked up at him, taking a bit out of the fourth slice. I set it down and wiped my fingers off.

"Why? I need the nutrition. I'm a growing boy."

"So am I." he objected.

"I'll give you some if you hand over computer access for a month." He glared at me and turned back to the computer. I smiled and continued with my food. I left one lice for Leo, I wasn't that cruel. I tossed the box to him and pulled out my book, one titled 'myths of the universe'. I thought it sounded interesting, but so far all it is are the different stories behind constellations.

I sighed and threw the book on my back at the end of my bed after a while. It was finally nine and I decided to turn in for the night. Boring and normal really wasn't doing me any good. I lived through the middle of two major battles between two groups of giant alien robots. I normally live, though technically my place of legal residence is still my mom and dad's house, at a military base with a bunch of those alien robots. I wasn't home, but home could wait a month or two, right?


Sorry it was so boring. I thought it should come off as such. After all he's gone through, I feel it's the normal and boring that should freak him out. I'm still trying to figure out how to get something into here and to the battle in 'the fallen scout'.

I will try to get things going again, but bare with me here for a while. Hopefully I'm going to be able to build up to the battle pretty soon here, but it's too soon. I want at least a year to pass, so there will be a time skip eventually.

R&R