I always forget to add this in, but just in case you don't know...I still don't own any part of Transformers. Sucks, I know but that's just life. Anyway, hope you guys enjoy this chapter! Please read & review!

Later that night they finally made it upstairs to his bedroom. Sam was a little embarrassed that his girlfriend had basically had to carry him up the stairs and then change his clothes for him, but if it had to be anyone he was glad it was her. He slowly crawled into his bed and lay on his uninjured hip. Mikaela turned off the bedroom light before getting into the bed next to him.

"Do you wanna talk about your dad?"

"He was mad that I wanted to spend Thanksgiving with you and your family. I don't really know why because he knew I was going to since you were with me last year. I'm sure it was all because he was drunk, but he just got so angry. At first he tried to guilt me into going with him, saying that you had all your family here and he didn't have anyone. I told him I wanted to stay with you, and that's when it all went downhill."

"What did he do?" Sam would kill him if he hit Mikaela more than the one time.

"First he called me selfish for abandoning my family to be with "some boy." When he realized I was serious that I didn't want to leave, he started calling me a whore and that the only reason anyone would stay with me for two years is because I was just a good fuck. He said some other things, but I finally told him it was bullshit to accuse me of abandoning my family when he was the one that let himself go to prison because he didn't give a damn about anyone else and that you were more of a man than he was. That's when he slapped me and said what he did about my mom leaving," The pain was evident in her voice, but she didn't cry.

"I could kill him."

"No, don't do that Sam. It's okay. He's always been like that," Sam grew angrier that Mikaela tried to justify her dad's actions.

"Mikaela, it's not okay. He had no right to say any of that."

"I know that, but I also know that you and me, us, isn't about the sex."

"You're damn right it's not. I'm not saying the sex isn't great," Sam smiled guiltily. "If I was with you for sex, we wouldn't have waited two years before we made love for the first time. I don't need to have sex to love you. I love you because of your heart and who you are."

He pulled her flush against him and held her tight even though the movement intensified the pain in his stomach and hip. Her arms found their way around his neck and they shared a kiss before tucked her head into his neck to go to sleep. It was still relatively early for them to go to bed, but they were exhausted from all of the festivities. Sam tilted his head so that his lips were at her ear.

"Love you grease monkey," He whispered.

"Love you too ladies man," Mikaela murmured sleepily.

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The rest of the break flew by and before they knew it, Sam and Mikaela were back in Philadelphia. Classes and work quickly consumed them and they went back to rarely seeing each other except on their day off. Lately, she spent more time with Leo than with her own boyfriend. It had been a complete turnaround considering they'd been with each other the entire Thanksgiving break. After a couple weeks back, she got tired of hardly ever seeing him anymore and she and Christian went to see their boyfriends at the sports bar.

The girls headed straight for the bar where they saw a scantily clad woman shamelessly flirting with Sam. Christian rolled her eyes at the woman's antics and Mikaela sidled up to the stool next to her. Sam finally noticed they were there and gave his girlfriend an excited smile.

"He's cute, isn't he?" Mikaela asked the woman.

"Oh yeah, he definitely is," the woman agreed dreamily not knowing she was his girlfriend.

"You wanna know a little secret about him?" She leaned close like it was some big secret.

"What?"

"He's not interested," Sam chose that moment to lean across the bar and kiss her. A blush crept up the woman's neck and she scrambled away from the bar as fast as she could.

"What're you scaring away my customers for?" He asked amused.

"I don't like to share," She playfully replied.

"Careful, my girlfriend might hear you say that."

"Oh, is she here?"

"Yeah, have you seen her? She's this really hot brunette with the most amazing legs you've ever seen," Mikaela made a show of looking around and pointed at a woman sitting at a table.

"She's hot, don't you think?"

"Hmm, she's okay," Sam put his lips to her ear. "She can't compare to you."

He smirked at her as he went back to working. Mikaela and Christian hung out at the bar for a little while until they saw Tyler and Colton, a couple of guys they all partied with at Andy's house a lot, and some of their friends and went to join them. Sam watched them out of the corner of his eye. He trusted his friends not to try anything on the two ladies, but he didn't know the other four guys with them. Mikaela was like the little sister Tyler and Colton liked to pick on and she would take everything they threw at her and give it back just as good. He was making drinks for a couple at the bar when he saw one of Tyler's friends kiss Mikaela on the cheek and put an arm around her shoulder. Knowing he couldn't react to what had just happened because he was at work and the guy was a customer, Sam forced himself to look away and checked on all the other customers at the bar. He was talking to one of the bartenders when an arm reached out and pulled him away and only just noticed it was Mikaela before she kissed him hard. Her tongue ran across his bottom lip, but he couldn't push it because of where they were.

"What was that for?" He asked breathlessly.

"To prove to that guy he doesn't stand a chance," Mikaela answered. She sauntered back to the table and turned and winked at him halfway there.

"Witwicky!" Sam turned to see his boss, Rico, watching him and walked over to him.

"Yes sir?"

"You can't be making out with your girlfriend while you're working, but I can't say I blame you because she's one gorgeous lady," Rico smiled and looked down at his watch. "You've only got an hour or so left, why don't you take off? Derek can handle it from here."

"Thanks Rico. I owe you one!"

Sam wasted little time in clocking out and making his way over to where his girlfriend was. This time her back was to him and she didn't see him as he stopped behind her.

"What do you say you leave all these boys here and come home with me?" He whispered huskily into her ear. Mikaela spun around ready to attack but smiled happily when she realized it was her boyfriend.

"Rico told me I couldn't make out with my gorgeous girlfriend at work and let me go early," Sam said and Mikaela started to get up when the guy who had kissed her cheek earlier spoke up.

"Hey man, sorry for your bad luck, but your girl's goin' home with me tonight. She said she needed a real man," The guy smirked cockily. Colton hissed at him to shut up, but nobody else at the table even moved.

"Justin, I wouldn't go home with you if I was single and drunk," Mikaela said sarcastically. "And Sam is more of a man than you could ever be in your wildest dreams."

"You're gonna let her fight your battles for you?" Justin called out as they were walking away, causing people at other tables to turn around and watch them.

"Trust me, I can fight my own battles, but when the sexiest woman on campus publicly admits you don't stand a chance in hell? There's nothing I can say to top that," Sam left the guy sputtering in anger and embarrassment.

Mikaela rode back to the house with him since she'd given her keys to Christian so she could leave after saying bye to Leo. She went to her room to change into pajamas before joining Sam in his room where she heard him in the shower. When he came out of the bathroom, she was curled up in the middle of his bed watching Annapolis.

"You're not mad about him flirting with me and what he said when we left, are you?" She asked when he got in bed.

"No, of course not. I know I'm the only man you're going home with."

"Who would've thought Sam Witwicky, the strangest boy I ever met, would be the only man to take me home?"

"Baby, I used to think about taking you home all the time before the day you got in my car," He flirted.

"Sam!" Mikaela laughed.

"You were hot," He said sheepishly.

"Were?" She raised an eyebrow.

"Yes. You were hot back then, but that was a purely physical attraction. Now, you're gorgeous because I know you. I still think you're hot, but you're so much more."

"I always did have a weakness for hot guys with tight abs and big arms," She put her hand on Sam's bare stomach. He turned so that he was halfway on top of her and she lifted her head to kiss him. Her tongue ran across his lip again and this time he didn't hesitate to deepen their kiss. Mikaela snaked an arm around the back of his neck and pulled his head down closer to hers. His body was shaking as he fought to keep control. Rather than sexual and lust driven, he wanted to keep the kiss tender and loving. It was his way of reminding his girlfriend that he cared about more than the physical attraction between them after their verbal sparring with the guy from the sports bar. Mikaela smiled into his kiss when Sam began tracing lazy patterns on her stomach.

"Hey guys, I got Andy to buy us some beer and a bottle of vodka," Leo called as he came down the stairs and stopped when he noticed Sam and Mikaela were preoccupied. "Ah, crap sorry. I should really learn to knock."

"We'll be up in a minute," Mikaela said. Sam grabbed a shirt from the closet and then they went up the stairs to join their two roommates in the kitchen.

The four of them usually sat around playing drinking games when they drank at home and that night was no different. They started with a card game called spoons that wasn't actually a drinking game, but still fun all the same. It tended to get pretty violent with spoons flying all over, so it had to be one of the first games they played while they were still sober. Sam had an application on his iPhone that listed a bunch of different drinking games and they usually picked at random and played several different ones. Some were sexual in nature while others were just silly.

When it was Christian's turn to pick the game, instead of reaching for Sam's phone to find one, she decided they were going to play "I have never". They had all played it at Andy's house with a big group of people, but never just the four of them. The questions started off relatively easy with things they had all done at some point or another. It was a way to get them all drinking a little more because the good questions always came when inhibitions had been lowered.

"I have never had sex with someone when my parents were home," Leo said. Sam and Mikaela looked at each other as they both remembered Thanksgiving break and took a drink, but neither Leo nor Christian moved. They went around four or five more times, and were all starting to get buzzed from the alcohol.

"I have never hooked up with another girl," Mikaela smirked and to the guys' surprise, Christian lifted the cup to her mouth and took a drink. She sent Mikaela a dirty look to which Mikaela just smiled innocently.

"I have never cheated on someone with an ex," Christian slapped a hand over her mouth and her eyes widened in horror as Mikaela visibly paled. Sam looked back and forth between the two with a feeling of dread in his stomach. With a hard look at the other woman, Mikaela downed the drink she had just made and slammed the cup on the table before walking out of the kitchen.