I looked over at the time. 8:56. I slowly got up, making sure my bed didn't creak and the floor didn't make any noise. I could hear my sire, carrier and Optimus talking downstairs. I had an opportunity and wanted to go meet one of my oldest friends out in the forest.

I made sure that I was out of the view of any windows as I climbed out of my window and jumped from the second story. I phased through the floor and bounced off the trampoline that was hidden from my creators.

I got this cheap trick from one of my old friends at school. He was wicked smart and helped me develop the technology so I could do this every night. I quietly landed on my pedes, touching my toe down first to decrease the amount of noise that I made.

I ran out into the woods, going to a large log of a fallen tree, just outside the line of sight of my backyard. I thought about the first time I went out at night to clear my processor.

~Flashback~

I was walking through the woods just trying to grasp what was wrong with me. I had spent the entire day in the medic's office, getting energon drawn and going through machines that scanned me. I wasn't very happy about it, but I also couldn't do anything about it.

I sat down on a fallen tree and vented, putting my helm in my hands. I just wanted this all to be done. I wanted to be normal, or at least, I wanted to know what was wrong with me. Why was I abnormal? Why me? Why did Primus decide when he made me the way I am that I was the one that had to be weird. Why couldn't it be someone else, with parents who are both there more often?

"Are you alright?" A voice came from behind me, startling me out of my thoughts. I slowly turned and looked behind me to see a wolf, taller than I was, staring at me with his dark blue optics. He was a slate grey color with some blue highlights to his paint. His ears were perked forward, giving off a curious nature to him.

I yelped slightly and fell back, landing on my arm which had the IV in it earlier that day. I whimpered in pain and held my arm as I sat back up.

The wolf came up to me, leaving the rabbit that he caught on the floor behind him. He nudged me gently and laid around me, as if he wanted to become a back support for me.

I hesitated and slowly leaned back. "It's alright. You can lay on me." He encouraged me. I fully laid on him and vented softly, letting my nerves go with the exhale. "Are you alright?" He asked again, his dark blue optics seeming to scan my form.

I shook my helm and looked at him. "I was poked today in my arm and it still hurts."

"Someone hurt you?" He asked, seeming concerned.

"Not on purpose." I explained, "There is something wrong with me and the medics over at the hospital can't figure anything out. I go in every week to see if I've made progress and they give me an IV to take some of my energon." I finished explaining and took my servo off my arm, moving it to hug myself.

"Sentient medical cures are so weird." He scoffed.

"How do you take care of your injuries without a hospital or doctors?" I asked, curious.

"We don't. We have healers that would come and heal the wound right up, like it was never there."

"I wish I had that." I contemplated, enjoying the back rest. "By the way, I'm Phoenix, daughter of the famous Commander Sideswipe." He chuckled

"I am Byris, oldest son of Tywin."

"B... Byr... Byri... What?" I asked, trying to pronounce his name.

He laughed. "I know it's an unusual name for you bipedal kind." He paused for a moment, "Just call me Fang."

"Why Fang?" I asked, tilting my helm. The nickname was so different than his actual one, it made me wonder where he got it from.

"It's a nickname for NightFang. A name my pack gave me."

I nodded in understanding. "Thank you Fang. I need someone to talk to. I don't have many friends."

"Why don't we do this...?" He paused until I looked up at him. "We will meet here every night, from now on and I'll be your friend you can talk to."

I nodded my head, smiling at the brilliant idea and got up. "I better head home." I stood up. " My parents might catch onto the fact I'm not there. Bye Fang!" I called as I ran off.

"Bye Phoenix."

~End Flashback~

We've been seeing each other almost every night since then. That was two years ago.

"Something on your mind Phoenix?" Fang came up behind me, startling me yet again.

"Fang!" I jumped up and he barked, liking my faceplates. I hugged his neck cables and he wrapped his helm around me, giving me a hug. "I swear, I need to get you a bell so you stop scaring me." I let go of him and relaxed yet again. "And to answer your question, kind of. My Sire came back home and he brought Optimus along with him, so it's chaos in my house right now."

Fang chucked. "I know what you mean. My mother just had a litter of pups, so we have little guys climbing all over me and my brothers." I chuckled at the image of little wolf pups climbing over Fang. We talked about ice cream flavors and school projects until I started to fall asleep. I smiled gently when I noticed this and slowly got up and hugged him again.

"I do have school tomorrow so I better head off. Sorry to cut this so short." I smiled, a hint of sorrow in my optics.

"No worries Phoenix. I will see you tomorrow evening hopefully." He got up and licked my arm gently before running off.

I smiled and nodded to myself, wanting to come back tomorrow, if I weren't dead that is. I cautiously walked back into my room and laid down.