I thought I'd be nice and not make you guys wait any longer for an update after the little cliffy I left you with on the last chapter...

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Sam caught the look of regret on Christian's face and took off after his girlfriend. He found her staring off into space on the steps of the back porch. Neither said a word as he sat down next to her but didn't touch her. Just as he was about to ask what Christian was talking about Mikaela started talking.

"Do you remember when you went with your parents to a cousin's wedding a couple of months after we started dating?"

"Yeah, that's when Paul and Amanda got married."

"There was this big party for Will Light's birthday. All of my old friends kept begging me to go, and I wasn't going to but you were gone and there was nothing else to do. I figured I'd go for a couple hours and then go back home."

"What happened?"

"Trent and I started hanging out. It was a bad idea and I knew it, but he wasn't flirting with me or anything. He was acting like I was one of the guys, so I didn't think anything of it. Next thing I know, we're both completely wasted and Trent had to pee but Tara Murphy was throwing up in the bathroom so we went outside around the house. All of a sudden he's kissing me and I'm kissing back."

"You made out with Trent when I was out of town?"

"We ended up in one of Will's guest bedrooms after that, and I slept with him. I didn't mean to, and I didn't want to, but it happened and I can't change it no matter how bad I want to."

"You fucked Trent when I was out of town?"

"Sam, it was an accident. I haven't talked to him since then," Mikaela looked over at Sam and saw the anger and disbelief on his face.

"That was almost two years ago, and you never said a word?" Sam asked angrily. "Worse than that, you lied to me! You've let me go on all this time thinking I'm the only guy you've ever been with, but come to find out you had sex with your ex when we were dating!"

"I knew it would hurt you, and it was a one-time accident. It didn't happen before that, and it hasn't happened since!"

"You know what's ironic? At the same time you were fucking Trent, I was drunk off my ass at the wedding party. There was this girl there, she was a friend of the bride, and the whole night she was trying to hook up with me. Do you know what I told her? I told her I had this amazing girlfriend at home who I was absolutely crazy about."

"Sam, I'm sorry," Mikaela said in anguish.

"I'm out of here," Sam stood up and went back inside the house. Christian and Leo had disappeared to give them privacy. Mikaela followed him out the front door to the driveway.

"Sam, wait!" She pleaded.

"I can't be here right now."

"You can't leave like this. You've had way too much to drink and you're pissed off. Don't put your whole life at risk because I made a fucked up choice. I know I've fucked everything up and I know you probably hate me, but please just stay here."

"Look, Mikaela, I love you but I can't look at you right now," He moved to open the driver side door.

"If you really love me, you won't leave like this," She knew it was a low blow, but was willing to do whatever it took to keep him from leaving.

"If I really love you? You cheat on me and lie to me for two years, and then have the nerve to question my love for you?" Sam scoffed and Mikaela recoiled at his cold eyes and bitter tone. He used the opportunity to get in the car and back out of the driveway before she could try to stop him again.

Sam knew he was in no state to drive and asked Bee to take control and drive for him. When Bee asked him what his destination was, he instructed his guardian to get on the highway and just drive. His mind wandered to the weekend of his cousin's wedding. The whole time he'd been gone, Mikaela had been the only thing on his mind but little did he know that while he was thinking about how much he wanted to see his girlfriend, she was sleeping with her ex boyfriend. He had called her first thing the morning after the wedding party, and he remembered how distant she'd been. At the time, Sam assumed she was just tired. Mikaela told him she just missed him when he asked her if anything was wrong. That was the first of many lies to come. Bitterly, Sam wondered if she'd still been in bed with Trent when he'd called.

More than anything, Sam was upset that she hadn't trusted him enough, hadn't trusted in them enough, to come to him before now. It was obvious she hadn't even planned to tell him since it had taken a drunken slip of the tongue by Christian before Mikaela had admitted it to him. He still would've been mad that she cheated on him, but he could understand because he had almost done the same thing. The girl at the wedding had been good looking and he'd been really inebriated. The temptation had almost been too much to handle, but even drunk he still thought about her constantly and that had kept his hormones in check. Maybe that's why her revelation hurt him so bad. They'd both been in the same type of situation. Thoughts of her had kept Sam from making a mistake but he had evidently been the furthest thing from her mind.

This was the first time Sam doubted Mikaela's love for him. The incident had occurred so long ago that he couldn't tell anymore what was real and what she had lied about. It had obviously been easy for her to lie about Sam being her first, how was he to know she wasn't lying about loving him? That thought was the hardest for him to deal with out of the whole situation. Every time she said she loved him, he had believed it wholeheartedly. He'd known Mikaela loved him the day he left for college the first time when she had wanted so badly for him to say it first, but now his faith was shaken.

Sam lost all track of time because he was so distracted. He knew they'd been driving for a long time, but he wasn't sure what time he'd taken off and he never looked at the clock in the car. Bee had stayed silent the entire ride, and Sam was thankful for it. As much as he loved Bee's random song snippets, he was in no mood to hear them tonight and he didn't want to take out his anger on his guardian. Where he and Mikaela would go from here, he didn't know. His love for her hadn't wavered a single iota, but Sam didn't know if he could trust her again.

Bumblebee was worried about his charge. The boy hadn't moved a muscle since he stopped driving. It was obvious how far they'd driven away from Philadelphia, but Sam had instructed Bee to drive and that's what the Autobot had done. Bee did a quick scan over Sam and realized he had dozed off. Whatever the fleshling was running from, Sam was stubborn enough that they would end up back in California before he told Bee to stop. It didn't really matter what Bee did because either way someone would be upset with him. Sam would be upset when he realized Bee had taken him home, but Mikaela would be furious if they ended up thousands of miles away. In all honesty, Bee was more afraid of Mikaela than Sam even though he was a Transformer and could squash them with one step if he so chose; not to mention that Mikaela was already going to be mad at him considering Bee had driven Sam six hours west of Philadelphia and it would be another six hours before they got back. When they reached the state line, he knew it was time to turn around and go home.

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Mikaela had been worried when she woke up that morning to find Sam and Bee still hadn't returned. She had tried to call him, but realized it was a futile effort when she heard his phone ringing in the kitchen where he'd left it the night before. Christian and Leo had class that morning so Mikaela had been alone since getting up. Christian had tried to stay home with her, but Mikaela had assured the other woman that she was okay and not mad that Christian had let her secret out.

She was watching TV in the living room when the front door opened and Sam walked in early in the afternoon. Their eyes met from across the room and Mikaela started to say something but stopped when his face hardened and he went to his room without saying a word. This time she didn't follow him, knowing he'd only run away again and she would rather he avoid her at home than to take off to God knows where.

It was a week before either spoke again. Mikaela's psychology class was that morning and she couldn't find her book. She'd searched the entire house to no avail, and knew she had no choice but to ask Sam. He was coming out of the bathroom and she almost tripped at the bottom of the stairs at the sight of him in a towel. It wasn't anything she hadn't already seen many times, but she was already nervous enough about talking to him and hadn't expected to find him half naked.

"Sorry, I didn't know you were in the shower."

"It's fine," Sam said tonelessly without looking at her.

"Have you seen my psych book? I've looked everywhere upstairs and can't find it."

"I think it's on the desk," Mikaela found it on the desk and turned back to see him watching her until he realized he'd been caught and averted his eyes.

"Sam," She hated the pitiful way she'd said his name.

"What?"

"Where do we go from here?"

"I don't know," was his honest answer. "I think it's best if we take a break right now."