Another long and boring day at school. A lot of people think that if you have depression you're always sad, but it's more like you're running on empty.

My name is Katie. I have social anxiety, depression, and ADHD. I know my life isn't the worst it could be and that some people have it a lot worse. I've been in the Transformers fandom for a while. If you're a fangirl like me, you can't go a day without daydreaming about your fandom. I basically live in my imagination. Reality can be so boring. No adventure, no risk, it's just boring. My life is repetitive.

As I was sulking on the couch, my dog Blue came up and licked my face. I hugged her tight and buried my face in her scruffy fur.

"How's my scruff muffin?" I said, "Boring sitting in the crate all day huh?"

For a few minutes I just sat there giving her lots of pets while she leaned forward and tried to lick my face.

"Oh shoot!" I exclaimed, "I gotta feed Charlie!"

I rushed out to the shed and went to the freezer. I pulled out a frozen mouse by the tail. I prefer to feed my snake frozen mice because live mice can actually kill snakes.

I went into the kitchen and put the mouse in the microwave.

After it was done warming up I went into my room where the enclosure was in the corner.

I opened the cage and pulled him out from under a rock.

Charlie is such a boop noodle. He has the cutest puppy face.

I dangled the mouse in front of his head so he could see it.

After a moment he lunged at it and snapped his jaws closed on it and began eating it.

I closed the cage and went over to my dresser. I picked up an Optimus Prime action figure. He didn't transform but it was a good model.

I set it down again and went into the living room.

"Alexa, play Weightless by Marconi Union", I said.

"Weightless, by Marconi Union", it replied.

I settled down on the couch and decided to write some fanfiction.

An hour passed before I heard keys jingling in the lock of the back door. I went and looked and it was my dad, so I went back to the couch.

I sat down again and brushed my curly blonde hair out of my face.

"Hey Katie", he said.

"Hey", I replied.

"How was your day?"

"Good."

"Any homework?"

"Nope."

"How do you never have homework?"

I shrugged.

He went to the couch to put on a DD game some people are playing on the TV and do his work.

I continued to write until the DD started to annoy me.

I went to my room and turned the TV on in there. I put on Transformers Prime and took Charlie out of his cage and set him in my lap on the bed.

I continued to write while the show was playing in the background.

I looked up to the TV just in time to see one of Starscream's hilarious faces. I smiled and chuckled a bit. Gosh I love TFP.

All of a sudden the lights went out. Usually the electricity would go out for at most a minute when there's not a storm or anything.

But they didn't turn back on.

"Dad?" I called.

No answer.

"Dad!" I called again.

Nothing.

I put Charlie back in his cage and went to the living room.

He wasn't there.

Everything was silent.

It was cloudy outside. There was no wind.

Just silence.

I looked everywhere my dad could be.

Nowhere in the house.

I decided to call him.

I heard his phone ring. I went to the living room. His phone was on the couch where he was sitting earlier.

"Blue?" I called.

The clank of claws against wood approached as she came around the corner.

I went to hug her for comfort. She licked my face.

I was getting really creeped out at this point, and my parents never prank me.

Optimus' words rang through my head.

The center of the storm is always still.

Right, of course.

I closed my eyes and tried to steady my breathing. I calmed my mind and tried to focus.

Blue dropped from under me and I fell.

I looked around for her but she wasn't anywhere.

I went to my room to check on Charlie.

I scowered under every rock in his enclosure.

Nothing.

The deafening silence was creepy.

I could only hear my breathing.

I started to have a panic attack. I sat down on the floor and tried to calm down. I was light headed and it was hard to breathe.

Then everything began to rattle. It started out small, but then it grew.

Earthquakes don't happen in this state. They never happen here! There's not even a fault line!

I ran to the doorway and clutched the frame. I closed my eyes and gritted my teeth, hoping it would be over soon or it was just a dream.

There was a strange and familiar sound. It sounded like...

A ground bridge opening.

But there's no way it could be. Could it?

Just as I saw the Optimus figure fall from the dresser, I saw a bright green light under me.

Then everything went black.