CHAPTER SIX

How To Survive High School – Twin Style!

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Meg: Sunstreaker is officially banned from the author's notes.

Sunstreaker: But why!?

Meg: Because I said so! *Kicks Sunstreaker out*

Sideswipe: Does that mean I'm banned too?

Ratchet: Yes!

Emma: No!

Bianca: How long will this go on for?

Meg: FOR US LONG AS I AM RULA OF DIS FAN FIC!!!! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!! *Lightning in black-skied background*

Bumblebee: Does anyone else notice the lightning?

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Meg: This next bit is bordering on Mary-Sueness… *Hides from Mary-Sue*

Mary-Sue: YOU CAN'T ESCAPE MEH!!!!

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I let go of Bee's hand, and hurried to where the twins and Bianca were waiting for me.

As I did, the pavement just seemed to leap out at me, and I felt myself falling. Oh no. I was going to damage myself even more, and then Nenona would be suspicious!

Suddenly, I felt hands coming out at me from all angles, grabbing onto me and supporting me, stopping my fall. I blinked in surprise.

"W-what..?" I said, confused.

"Emma, what's wrong, you don't usually just trip for no good reason," Bianca was in front of me, with her hands around my waist. She, and only she, could get away with that. "Is it your injury?" She asked me, in a softer voice.

"No, I'm fine." I replied. I realised then that Sideswipe was holding onto my right arm, and Sunstreaker onto my left arm. Bee had his hands under my shoulders from the back. All four of them had stopped me from falling.

WTH??

I looked at the three in front of me in turn, and then said: "Okay, you can let go now."

Bianca was the only one that did.

"Now," I said, through gritted teeth.

Bee let go, and stepped back quickly.

"I. Said. Now." I said in a cold voice that wasn't my own.

"Primus, you two let go now." Bianca suddenly instructed, and surprisingly the twins did so.

The feelings went away, and I smiled brightly. "Okay, let's get this freak show on the road, ladies!"

"Hey!"

*

We attracted more attention walking into school then we would have if Sideswipe, Sunstreaker, Bianca and Bee had been giant robots.

Everywhere I looked, people were either staring at me, the bandage girl, or my new friends, the cool new kids.

I knew why.

The twins were…well, I can say it here, hot. And Bee was the cutest guy I had ever seen.

And my Bianca was more then a hot girl. Maybe I'm just biased, but I thought she was shining in the sun like a reborn Bella Swan when we walked into the light. Every guy in school was staring at me – and it pissed me off. I was protective of Bianca, and I had no idea why.

"We got homeroom first," Sideswipe said, as we examined their new timetables. "What's that?"

"The worst thing in the world, thank to Mr. Frecklenose." I said, rolling my eyes as we approached the classroom. I stepped inside.

"I see we're not late today!" Mr. Frecklenose told me, sneering at me.

"Too bad, you'll have to give a detention to somebody else, sir." I replied, smiling as I stepped inside. I took three steps and then turned around. My friends had not moved. They were all looking at me. I sighed. "Well come on then!" I motioned for them to come in and, as all the kids in my homeroom – and Mr. Frecklenose – watched, Bee bounded into the classroom, followed primly by Bianca, and by Sunstreaker and Sideswipe who were, well, swaggering.

CLUNK!!!! The jaws of every girl in the class hit the floor.

The boys, meanwhile, had blood noses.

Well, not really, but it felt that way.

I pointed to a seat next to the one I usually sit in: "Sit." I told Bee, and he did so. Next, I took Bianca's hand and sat her down on the other side of me.

The twins sat in front of us, and immediately turned around in their chairs and began talking to us. About what, I can't remember. I wasn't really paying attention. I was watching the class.

The girls began whispering as I stood up to do my job and water the classroom plants (we feel SO primary school).

"Does she KNOW them?"

"They're so COOL!"

"Look at the one in the yellow jacket!"

"Those twins are hot!"

I watched as Sunstreaker's eyes shifted over to where the last girl was speaking. Bianca leaned forward and grabbed Sunstreaker's hat, turning it to face the front and then pulling the bill down over his face.

"What a cool girl!" I heard one guy say.

My eyebrow twitched. They were talking about my Bia.

"She's hot!" Another said, just as I picked up the pitcher of water.

"Check out her boobs!" Another boy said. "I'd sure like to lay here!"

SMASH!!

One moment I was standing with my back to the classroom, and holding a pitcher full of water. The next the glass had shattered within my hand, sending water, shards of glass and blood splattering all over me.

I know everyone turned to look at me. I felt all their eyes on me, including four very significant pairs.

I just stood there, shaking.

*

I felt like a mummy.

The school nurse, who isn't as good a doctor as Ratchet, bandaged up my hand, and I walked out into the bright sunlight, feeling out of place.

"There she is!" I heard Bee's voice from across the courtyard.

"Emma, found. Beep." Bianca added in a mechanical-sounding voice.

They zeroed in on me.

"Are you okay?" Bee wanted to know.

"No," I replied grumpily. "I'm made to look like Cleopatra, minus the decaying-ness…"

"Who's Cleopatra?" Bee wondered.

"An ancient queen of Egypt." Bianca replied. "Before her untimely death, that is." She added.

But our friend couldn't get past the first part. "A queen?" Bee repeated incredulously. He looked at me. I looked at him.

"Whaaaat?" I asked, suspiciously, and then something else made me suspicious. "Hang on…where are the twins?"

Bianca paused.

"Tell. Me."

"Over there." She pointed, with a shrug like she really couldn't care less.

I looked.

I wish I hadn't.

"Why did you tell her that?" Bee asked Bianca.

"Eh…she's very persuasive…"

"You call what I did persuasive?" I said, my voice shaking with anger. Both Bia and Bee turned to look at me. My hands were shaking. "I'd call that there, right there, persuasive!"

There were about half a dozen blonde-haired, curvy-figured, short-skirt-wearing girls clinging to the twins, hanging on to their every word and…flirting with them.

I was so angry I could hardly think straight. I was angry, for some reason, at the twins, for allowing those girls to act this way around them, and I was certainly angry at those sluts!

But…the worst part was…the twins actually seemed to be enjoying it…and what guy wouldn't? These six girls were the envy of most girls in the school – and the target of every guy' affections. I had never thought too much about it…but they were so confident around guys, something I had never been in the sense of flirting with them. I had always just treated them as friendly mates, the ones that didn't hate me, so…

The twins didn't hate me…but they clearly didn't see me in the same way they saw these girls…would any guy ever see me in that way!?

Did I want one to!?

The answers were probably no and yes.

Not only that…but…

I wanted to protect the twins, from what I could see these girls were doing. They would go out with any cute guy, and then dump him in a second. Although I wondered why it would happen, I didn't want to see the twins get hurt that way. I've never had it happen to me but, believe me I've felt second best almost my whole life. It's not nice. And it would do those two good at all to feel that way, since they're so self-assured of their greatness.

Something strange welled up inside of me – anguish, although not as upsetting as I had once felt before.

But still enough for tears to escape my eyes, and I turned and fled, before B1 and B2 knew what was going on. I stumbled into the hallways, turned left and then right, bore straight, turned left again, and then disappeared into a stairwell, never to be seen again.

*

Bumblebee's P.O.V:

I watched as Bianca scolded the twins, loudly and with many kicks and punches thrown in for good measures. She could be really violent when she wanted to be, and I knew that she was worried about Em.

I was worried too. I didn't need to read her feelings to know that she was upset by what the twins had done, and I wanted to make her feel better.

As it turned out, so too did the twins.

"We'll make it up to her," Sideswipe said, standing up and wiping a trail of red-coloured energon from his nose. "We have something planned…"

"Oh no, no plans!" Bianca said.

"Oh, don't worry whitie, this is a good plan." Sunstreaker said, smiling that smile. The smile that means that he and his brother had something bad planned.

"Why am I not feeling reassured?" Bianca groaned.

"So, come on!" Sunstreaker grabbed Sideswipe's hand. "You two find the princess while we get to work!" They ran off.

"Princess?" Bianca and I said in unison.

*

We found Emma coming out of a dark and dusty stairwell, covered in something like black powder, and singing to herself.

"Please believe me, and the world deceives me! Don't stand me up, just leave me, I have fallen again, this is the end, pain redefined…"

"Uh, Emma?" Bianca said cautiously. That had sounded like an angry song.

She blinked when she saw us, and there were wet tracks of something running down her face, but then she brightened and greeted us happily.

"Hi guys!" She said, and then frowned. "Where are the twins?"

Bianca and I exchanged a glance.

Then, Bianca sighed and shrugged her shoulders as if to say 'who knows?' before taking Em's hand and leading her back outside. I took Em's other hand, because I wasn't sure how she was going to react to whatever it was the twins had done.

Once outside, Em began blinking again, and then she took a look around.

"How on…" She began, but was cut off by a shriek. A girl – one of the blondes from before – had just opened up a door, to have a water balloon drop down on her. It splashed all around her ankles, and Bianca, Em and I just stared, before turning to gaze around at the now very white-looking courtyard.

"TP'd," Em muttered. She let go of our hands and wandered forward. "Oldest trick in the book…" She walked forward a few more paces and then turned around to face us. "Guys…"

"It wasn't us!" I exclaimed, throwing my hands up in the air…and breaking a piece of wire that had been set up above us just so.

"You didn't…" Was all Bianca had time to murmur, before two more water balloons came flying at us, hitting us on the heads and splattering us with…green water?

"What the…SIDESWIPE!! SUNSTREAKER!!" Bianca yelled, forgetting to use their pretend names but, it didn't matter, because suddenly water balloons were cascading down around everyone and everything – except for Em, who was standing clean and dry in the middle of the courtyard, with a shocked expression on her face.

Some of the balloons were clear, some were filled with coloured liquid, but it didn't matter because soon Mr. Frecklenose came storming out, demanding to know what was going on.

You could almost hear the twins saying: "Now!" And, suddenly, Mr. Frecklenose was covered from head to foot with some sort of sticky substance that the humans called glue. But, it didn't stop there, because along with all of the water balloons, the twins had managed to snag a pillow from somewhere, and soon Mr. Frecklenose was covered with feathers.

He looked ridiculous, but I had to not laugh, otherwise I'd be in trouble.

Mr. Frecklenose looked around in shock, and then said: "IF I EVER FIND OUT WHO DID THIS…" Then, he spotted Em, the only clean and dry one in the yard. "Aha! I KNEW it was…"

SPLASH!!!!

Emma suddenly found herself covered with green water, and glittery dust of some description. She stood there, utterly soaked, her bandages, clothes and soft skin covered with sparkly green stuff…and then she started laughing. She had to hold her sides as her musical laughter rang out through the courtyard, and it set my spark alight, making me want to join in – and so I did. Bianca soon joined in, and the twins could be heard laughing from whatever strategic point they had placed themselves in.

And, I knew then that the twins had succeeded in what they had set out to do – which was to cheer Em up.

Which they had.

Unfortunately, Ratchet didn't see it that way…

*

We arrived at the base after school, after having been cleaned up properly, or so we thought. The twin were super happy about having cheered up little old me, although I assured them that I hadn't been upset with them in the slightest (an outright lie, I'll admit).

As we walked into the base, with me riding on Bia's shoulder, Ratchet came out, looking annoyed at something.

"I just heard about something that went on at your school, kid," He said to me, and I blinked and did my best to look innocent. "Not, correct me if I'm wrong…but did I wrap green bandages around your head? No?"

I realised that my head bandages must still be dyed green, and I gasped. "Oh…slag…" I whispered.

Ratchet was looking at the twins, danger flashing in his optics.

Bia looked over at the twins. "Run. Now." She told them, and they did, with Ratchet right behind them, throwing sharp, pointy objects at them and cursing in Cybertronian.

Bia, Bee and I watched them as they ran out of the room, and then Bee turned to us.

"Did Cleopatra ever wear green bandages, Em?" He asked me.

I shook my head happily. "Nope, she probably didn't, even when she was alive. So, I'm not dead yet."

"No, of course not!" Bianca said a little too quickly, but I just rolled my eyes.

"Also, since the twins have been suspended for two days…" Bianca went on, quietly, but not quietly enough.

"WHAT!!??" Ratchet yelled from another room, and there was a tremendous crash, and a small-scale explosion, followed by a lot of yelling.

I blinked. Who ever said my life was boring?

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Emma: Does anybody else but me think that this story is getting complicated?

Bianca: Yes.

Sideswipe: No way! It's just getting interesting! I wonder if I can hook up with one of those hot girls…

Emma: *Glares*

Sideswipe: Or maybe not.

Bianca: No.

Meg: I hope people will continue to R&R. I'll be introducing a couple of OCC's soon, and I might need ideas. MIGHT, I said, I didn't say DEFINITELY.

Ratchet: Just so long as they aren't anything like those slaggin' twins.

Sunstreaker: (Not allowed back in the author's note) Hang on, how come the medic of doom gets to be in the author's note, but I can't!?

Meg: Because we like him better.

Sunstreaker: (Still not here!) Oh.

Meg: Now, I would like to thank the following people –

Autobot Alythia – Watch out for her upcoming OCC in this fic!

Duvet – I hope you follow the plot now! :)

Jesus Luvs Everyone – Loves Chapter 5!

Meg: So, that's everyone so far! Keep the comments coming peoples, and you may just get a big thankyou from yours truly!!