Just in case you don't know, I don't own Transformers! I'd just be happy with a new Camaro even if it wasn't actually a robot in disguise :-)
Thanks to everyone who has reviewed! Hope y'all enjoy this one
The next morning, Mikaela woke up to the shower running and an empty bed. She smiled when she heard him singing off key to a song on the radio and got up to go brush her teeth. Sam immediately shut up the second she opened the bathroom door, and she bit her tongue to keep from laughing because she knew it would embarrass him. He had sang to her before and wasn't really a bad singer, but he'd told her once that he sang really bad when he first woke up and refused to let anyone hear him. How nobody heard him when he sang so loud she didn't know, but Mikaela wasn't going to say anything when she knew he was so self-conscious about it. Instead she pretended like she hadn't heard, and started brushing her teeth. When the water turned off, she caught Sam's eye in the mirror but didn't turn around.
"Hey sexy," She smiled when he blushed.
"Mornin', beautiful. Did I wake you up?"
"Of course not. What'd you wake up so early for?" Sam normally never woke up before 11 and it was barely past 9:30.
"I had to pee," Mikaela laughed. "Since you were still asleep, I figured I'd take a quick shower."
Mikaela watched him in the mirror as he walked up to her and put his arms around her waist. She tilted her head back and met his lips with hers and they shared a deep kiss. She pulled back a minute later and leaned against his chest. These were the moments she loved the most; just him and her together. Every other relationship she'd been in, she'd always felt like she had to impress the guy and do certain things or act a certain way. With Sam, she could be exactly who she was and he would love her just the same. It didn't matter if she was in her pajamas with no makeup on and her hair all over the place, he would still smile at her like she was the most gorgeous woman in the entire world. He was the first boyfriend she'd ever stayed with over night, and the first to see her first thing in the morning.
Sam kissed her forehead before walking out of the bathroom in a pair of basketball shorts. After the first time he'd used her bathroom to take a shower, Sam had made her keep some of his soap and shampoo in her bathroom because he had had to use her soap and ended up smelling like a girl. On Mikaela, he thought it was intoxicating but on him it was just plain weird.
He turned the TV on and sat on her bed when he saw her get some clothes and go back into the bathroom so she could take a shower. Since it was still early in the morning, the only shows on were cartoons and talk shows. His eyes lit up when he saw the name of a cartoon he hadn't seen since he was little and flipped to the channel to watch it. It had been his favorite show and had no idea that they still aired it. At the very least, he wasn't stuck watching some dumb talk show even if the cartoon was very obviously aimed at eight- and nine-year-old boys. Sam was so engrossed in the cartoon, he didn't realize Mikaela had come out of the shower and was standing there smiling amusedly at him.
"Sam, what on earth are you watching?"
"I was just flipping through the channels," He denied.
"Right, so that's why I've been standing here watching you for five minutes and not once did you ever change the channel?"
"Okay, okay fine. I used to love this show when I was little. I didn't even know they still aired it on TV," Sam started blushing so Mikaela walked over and kissed his cheek.
"Don't be embarrassed baby. I'm not making fun of you," He turned off the TV anyway and sat up.
"I know. That's why I love you," He smiled.
"Oh, that's why? Here I thought the whole time it was because I'm so damn sexy," Mikaela joked.
"Baby, I love you for who you are. You are damn sexy, but that doesn't make me feel the way I do about you," Sam pulled his girlfriend down into his lap. "You look good. Got a hot date?"
"As a matter of fact, I do. See, there was this strange boy I met one time and he stole my heart," Mikaela looked into his eyes. "In a forever kinda way."
"Is that so?"
"Absolutely. I hope you're okay with my heart belonging to another boy, because I love him and don't ever want to take it back."
"Trust me, baby, the last thing that strange boy would ever want to do is give it back. You're the best thing that's ever happened to him," Sam said playing along.
"You've met him?" Mikaela smiled playfully.
"I have. He thinks he's the luckiest boy in the world."
"Next time you see him, tell him I'm the lucky one, would you? No other man has ever made me feel the way he does."
"I love you, 'Kaela," Sam said softly.
"I love you too," She whispered against his lips.
Sam had just pushed his girlfriend back onto her bad and lay down next to her when they heard a knock at the door. Muttering profanities under his breath at whatever idiot was interrupting them, he moved so Mikaela could get up and answer the door.
"Hey, Mikaela, is Sam—" Leo caught sight of Sam glaring at him from the bed. "Ah, shit, I didn't mean to interrupt, bro."
"You're fine, Leo. Don't worry about it," Mikaela said reassuringly. She could tell that he was still upset about his and Christian's fight from the night before.
"You look like shit," Sam said to Leo. "Did you sleep at all or were you up all night with whatever girl you brought home?"
"No, I didn't sleep at all but it wasn't because I was with a girl," Leo said cryptically.
"Well then what were you—" Sam stopped suddenly as he remembered an earlier conversation between the two guys. "Definitely glad I didn't walk in on that. I'd have been traumatized for life."
Leo had warned his roommate about his unique way of calming himself down when he was upset or angry. As a teenager, he'd had anger management issues, and had only been able to find one way to handle the emotion in a productive way. Sam's mom would call it his "happy time" or his "special alone time" if she was there, but luckily the elder Witwicky was on the other side of the country because that would've been more awkward than the incident in Sam's room when Mikaela was hiding behind a chair right after they had met all of the Autobots. Mikaela looked back and forth between the two guys, knowing there was a silent conversation going on, but decided not to question it when she saw the pleading look on Leo's face.
"Guys, why don't we go have some fun?" Mikaela asked.
"I'm down as long as it doesn't involve alcohol. I drank enough for the three of us last night," Leo grimaced.
"You dumbass, it's not even noon yet. Of course there's not going to be alcohol," Sam said sarcastically.
"I was thinking more along the lines of go-karts and miniature golf. Something really childish to let us forget all the bullshit for a while," Sam smiled at his girlfriend's cheesy idea as he walked over to her closet to find a shirt to wear.
They all agreed on Mikaela's idea and headed out to Sam's robot car. Sam chuckled when Mikaela ran to Bee and jumped in the driver's seat before he or Leo had even made it to the car.
"And she says I'm the strange one?" He said to Leo out of the side of his mouth. Sam slid into the passenger seat after Leo got into the backseat.
Mikaela gave her boyfriend an excited smile as she turned the car on. For a woman who loved cars as much as she did, being behind the wheel of a powerful machine like Sam's Camaro was a little slice of heaven. It was impossible to tell that the only place Mikaela was truly comfortable was under the hood or behind the wheel by the way she carried herself and the confidence she exuded. Putting the car in gear, she peeled out of the parking lot and sped around the corner laughing when she saw the force throw Leo across the backseat because he hadn't been paying attention. Leo started cussing at her in Spanish, which only resulted in Mikaela laughing harder. Out of the corner of her eye, she could see that Sam was holding back laughter too. After Leo finally finished his tirade against Mikaela, she slowed down and quit driving so recklessly because she knew he'd start crying and screaming if she scared him too bad.
They got to the go-kart track half an hour later and immediately jumped into the little karts. There were several tracks closer to the college, but had decided to go to this one because it had a miniature golf course and laser tag. If they were going to spend half the day doing something they had done in elementary and middle school, Mikaela figured they may as well do it all. They raced around the track, recklessly fighting to be in the lead. Mikaela got knocked around by the guys just as much as they did to each other. She was glad Sam didn't insist on treating her like she would break if he was too rough. The couple was well known for their brutal wrestling that always seemed to turn into extremely passionate make out sessions. Their friends had seen it happen enough that they always left the room or told Sam and Mikaela to take it somewhere else when they started wrestling with each other.
Sam and Leo were so deep in concentration on keeping each other from taking the lead and winning that neither saw Mikaela fly around them until she was already well ahead of them. Leo pulled in second behind her and Sam in last. He laughed when Sam jokingly stomped his foot and started pouting because he'd been last. Mikaela joined in and started making crying noises until Sam sat down on a bench and crossed his arms over his chest.
"Don't be such a baby," She said as she sat down next to him. "Besides, as your girlfriend, don't I get a victory kiss?"
"I don't know about that. You're kinda mean," Sam smiled. Mikaela pushed him with her shoulder. She got up to walk away when Sam stood up and pulled her back to him and gave her as passionate of a kiss as he could in public. "Congratulations, baby."
"Mmm, if that's what I get for winning, I'm never losing again," Mikaela said breathlessly.
"Don't be so sure of yourself," Sam teased. "You'll be repaying the favor more than once today."
"Hey!" Leo interrupted the couple's bantering. "We're here to have fun, not sit and pout on a bench because you came in last."
Sam shoved Leo, causing him to laugh, and the three went off in the direction of the miniature golf course. They didn't even make it through the first hole before they were all laughing hysterically at how bad each of them stunk. Mikaela had to lean on Sam because she was laughing so hard when Leo hit the ball too hard causing it to come off the ground and ricochet off a statue and hit him in the head. Fortunately, there were no little kids around to hear the multitude of obscenities that flew from his mouth.
When it was Mikaela's turn on the next hole, she smirked at Leo after he glared at her because she'd made a hole in one. Sam knew how horrible he was, so he was more than happy to stand back and watch the other two taunt each other as they played the next several holes.
"Oh, come on Leo you don't want to get beat by a girl do you?" Mikaela mocked.
"Trust me, I won't," Leo said confidently. He turned and flashed a smug grin at her when he matched her hole in one with one of his own.
"I don't know why you guys are worried about beating each other. Neither of you has the skill to beat me," Sam said with a sarcastic smirk.
"Yes, let's all bow to the master," Mikaela rolled her eyes.
"Baby, you can be my master any day," Sam whispered seductively in her ear.
"You're such a pervert Sam!" She said laughing and elbowed his stomach.
"Don't try and act all innocent sunshine. You know you love me."
"You're right. I do love you," Mikaela kissed his cheek before taking her turn so Leo wouldn't start whining.
They were on the last hole when Sam's phone rang. Looking at the screen, he saw that it was Christian. Mikaela and Leo were too engrossed in the game to notice the ringing, so he stood off to the side to answer it.
"Hello," Sam said flatly.
"Sam," He almost felt sorry for her because of how upset she sounded, but was still mad for what she'd done to Leo.
"What's up?"
"Where are you guys?"
"Playing miniature golf. Mikaela wanted to take Leo out to distract him."
"And because she didn't want to see me, huh?"
"I'm sure that's part of it but she hasn't said."
"Is Leo still mad that I didn't listen to him about Trey?" Sam scoffed in disbelief at her question.
"You really don't get it, do you?"
"Get what?" Christian asked confused.
"If you can't figure it out, I'm not going to tell you."
"What, his drunken story about how he loves me because he didn't want me to hook up with Trey? He was wasted. That was bullshit and you know it!"
"You are un-fucking-believable Christian!" Sam hung up the phone and noticed Mikaela looking at him questioningly.
"What'd she want?" His girlfriend asked softly so Leo wouldn't hear.
"She wanted to know where we were and if you and Leo were still mad. She thinks it's because she didn't listen to him about Trey."
"Sometimes Chris has to be the stupidest person I know," Mikaela said frustrated.
Leo joined them a minute later, outlandishly celebrating his win over Mikaela and Sam in their miniature golf game. Seeing his excitement, Mikaela laughed and gave him a kiss on the cheek as his reward for winning. Sam challenged Leo to another go-kart race between the two of them so they headed back to the track. Mikaela sat on a bench while the boys raced. After they finished their race, they all took turns racing each other and occasionally all three would race together again. Sam especially liked racing against his girlfriend because it meant at the end of the race one or the other would get a victory kiss. Mikaela made sure to kiss Leo's cheek each time he won, whether against her or Sam, so he wouldn't feel like a third wheel.
The trio finally made it to laser tag an hour later and wasted another hour and a half doing that. Because there were only three of them, it was always two against one so they made sure to rotate teams every time they started a new game. Mikaela was ecstatic that she was the only one to win by herself. Both guys tried to pretend they didn't know her when she started doing a ridiculous celebratory dance to rub in the fact they'd both been beaten by a girl. Leo couldn't take the humiliation any longer and picked her up and tossed her over his shoulder when she tried to do the Running Man.
"You're just jealous because you can't do it like I can," Mikaela said cockily.
"Oh yeah, we're completely jealous of your mad skills," Sam tried to be serious but the scene had him doubled over in laughter. Leo stood back amused as she lunged at him and Sam took off running in the opposite direction, zigzagging throughout the complex. He had to grab onto the fence going around the property to keep from falling to the ground in laughter when Mikaela jumped on her boyfriend's back, taking them both down. Sam's high pitched, girly shrieks floated through the air and Leo walked over to them to find that the cause of his screams was Mikaela relentlessly tickling his sides and had his arms pinned under her knees.
They were all still laughing hysterically minutes later when they collapsed onto a nearby bench after one of the workers asked them to please get up off of the ground and act responsibly or they would have to leave the premises.
PLEASE REVIEW!
