Prime, Chapter 18

Miko had spoken to Jack's mother about her boy troubles with having a crush on Terrance and what to do. Though June had said what she did to get Jack's father's attention, they weren't sure if that would be such a good idea to be honest. When she'd returned to the main room he was gone and she seemed a bit disappointed. Eventually, she went home riding in Bulkhead's passenger seat before heading into the house of her host parents. Taking a deep breath she was prepared to do what June had suggested and speak to her host mother about how to deal with having a crush on someone.

"I'm back." Miko called out into the house looking around to see if her host family was home or not. She knew she scared them with her wild antics and love of monster trucks and loud music, but still, just once it'd be nice to get a simple 'welcome back' from them at some point.

"Hello Miko. Supper is almost ready " Her host father spoke up saying that the food would be ready shortly as he sat in the living room watching sports on the television. That's about all she usually got from him because they didn't really see eye to eye.

Miko wandered into the kitchen to see if her host mother was there and found her stirring up a pot of something, soup from the smell of it. She sighed before taking a deep breath not sure what to do around her host family and spoke. "Um, c-can I talk to you please Alexa?" She questioned making her host mother jump in surprise, she hadn't heard her come in.

"Oh, Miko, I didn't hear you come in. Sure, what do you wanna talk about?" She questioned trying to put on a friendly tone, but it came off to Miko as forced. She knew that she scared them and they were only keeping her around because it was good for the school's foreign exchange program.

"How do you get a crush to notice you're interested?" That, actually surprised her host mother as she heard Miko ask that. Honestly she didn't think they'd ever have a conversation like that because of how Miko likes to be a tomboy, but even tomboys can have crushes she supposed.

"Well, there's ways you could try to drop subtle hints. Flirting, expressing interested by fascial expression and body language." She explained to the young foreign exchange student about different ways to show interest in someone. "You could also try the direct approach and tell your crush outright that you like them."

"That's what Jack's mom said to.." She responded saying that she'd also talked to June Darby about her crush that she has, which made the elder woman raise an eyebrow wondering if maybe the crush was Jack.

"Well, Jack is a smart guy, I'm sure if you tried to show interest he'd get it." Miko's foreign exchange mother suggested while going back to her soup to make sure it wouldn't burn or anything.

This made Miko's eyes widen when she'd heard that the woman thought she had a crush on Jack and she made a rather disgusted look on her face. "What, Jack, Eeeuugh no. Nononononono, I'm so not crushing on Jack, he's like an older brother to me. There's a new guy in our group." She explained saying that she was crushing on the new guy instead of Jack.

"Oh, my mistake, go wash up please supper is finished, and tell Bradly that supper is ready." With that she began setting out what they would need to make their own bowls from the pot and enjoy themselves.

The rest of the night went on as usual though the regular tension between Miko and her foreign exchange family seemed to be a lot less thick than it usually is, something that Miko was grateful for, but didn't want to say outright. She'd headed off to bed once she was feeling tired and readied herself for tomorrow and hopefully talk to Terrance about her crush on him. Bulkhead had found the cd that Terry had Given Miko to listen to quite entertaining and was in his usual parking spot and after breakfast the next day Miko rushed out to join him so they could head to the base. That day had a particularly nasty heat wave and they found the guys with as little on as possible, Rafael had on a t-shirt that was gray in color and was wearing shorts. Actually, all the human boys were in shorts, though Jack was shirtless allowing people to see his muscular body and the metallic scratches on his back, the previous had healed up meaning He and Arcee must have had another long night, but you could also see the Autobot Symbol on his arm. Looking around a bit she found that Arcee seemed to enjoy the view of Jack without a shirt, but that's not what she was interested in, then she'd found Terry. Terry was over by the computers completely barefoot in a part of blue jean shorts and was shirtless allowing full view of his well toned upper body, it was clear he had chosen function over size because he wasn't jacked up like Jocks would be. Then she noticed something they hadn't taken note of before and went over to get a better look.

"Hey Terry, what's that symbol on your arm?" The girl with pink highlights questioned walking over and rubbing her hand across the symbol on the sand colored blond's right shoulder with curiosity. "I've never seen it before."

"You wouldn't believe me if I told you." He pointed out saying that she wasn't going to believe him and left it at that, though Ratchet and the others now having it pointed out were curious.

"I've never seen a symbol like that, it sort of reminds me of the symbols of the ancients, except, different somehow." The cybertronian medic stated looking at it curious and wanting to look up that symbol on the database to see if he could come up with something. "Tell us about it."

"For now, the only things you need to know is that it's a family crest." He explained clearly showing that he didn't want to talk about it and continued working on the computers. "You should be more worried about Arcee. Cybertronian pregnancies usually only last around three earth months which means she'll be due in a couple of months."

He was right, but how exactly Terry knew about this was a mystery to the others as Arcee then spoke up. "I'm fine really, we're both alright." She smiled placing her right hand on her stomach happily. "But how did you know how long a reproduction cycle for cybertronians last?"

"I've been messing with the computers all this time, you didn't think I'd access the public files on the basics of Cybertronian anatomy?" He teased finding a new blip, but marking it for later since that's not what they were supposed to be looking for.

"Anyway, Terry?" Miko began deciding to speak up now about her crush getting his attention. It looked as though he could completely understand already though she was still going to try to say it. "I, uh..."

"Save it." He spoke in response to Miko, but it wasn't a harsh tone at all, it sounded more like an understanding one to be honest. "Be ready next Saturday and we'll go out."

That was easier that she thought, maybe he could already tell the whole time she was interested in him, though this would be her first date ever, and that did make things a bit worrisome for her because she didn't know what to wear or anything. "Alright then, Saturday." She smiled before hearing Arcee say something and turned to see her rubbing her stomach with a smile.

Arcee was smiling feeling her stomach before making a surprised face and laughing a bit. "Jack honey, come over here." The Femme Cybertronian then spoke asking her lover to come over there for a moment because she needed him for something.

The Dark haired young man then went over to his pregnant lover smiling up at her. "Yes, what is it beautiful?" He questioned her as she smiled and let him feel her stomach which surprised him by what he felt, though he quickly began smiling again fairly soon. "The baby is moving."

"Really, can I feel?" Miko then questioned excitedly hearing that the baby is starting to move as Arcee began to feel embarrassed that the others seemed interested in feeling the baby moving inside her, but nodded and allowed Miko to feel as well which caused her face to light up. "Wow, it feels strange but, still exciting too." She spoke imagining being the cool aunt in the scenario despite not being actually related she and Jack had a brother/sister relationship together.

Jack smiled while Miko took her hand off of Arcee's stomach to let them have their little moment together. "Auntie Miko likes you." He spoke to the baby though they didn't know if the baby could even hear them, this made the girls giggle a bit, seeing someone as serious as Jack being silly was entertaining to say the least.

"Hey Ratchet, when mom was pregnant with my baby sister she put on weight, but Arcee doesn't look like she's gained any at all. Is that normal for Cybertronians?" Rafael questioned speaking about the fact that Arcee hadn't gained not a single pound of baby weight.

"Cybertronians don't put on weight during reproductive cycles in the human sense that you're used to, instead they consume more energon in order to compensate for the offspring." Ratchet explained to the youngest of the humans saying that instead of putting on weight she just consumes more energon.