Today was the day that Amanda and I were going to move into our new dorm in her college. There was just going to be the two of us, without Lana and Clara, who by the way, had their dorm situated right next to ours. We talked to Dave and Pete the previous day, just to tell them that we were going to move in, and even though we declined their help, they insisted they carried the boxes into our dorms.

It wasn't long before all of Amanda and mine's luggage had been packed and had been slowly put into Ironhide's vast trunk. The twins, after doing their share of the job, left for Diego Garcia, a secret base where the Autobots resided, and left only Ron here to help us with the last of the brown moving boxes.

As Amanda and I handed over the last of the boxes off to Ron, who put them in the back of his truck. He then locked the trunk and motioned towards us with a hand that we were about to be going. Amanda and I gave the last few hugs to her mother, Jen, and I muttered enough 'thank you's to last a lifetime for her endless hospitality.

Amanda and I got in the back of the black, leather cab of Ron's truck and I got in the back with her so that she wouldn't be alone. Ron closed the door behind him as he entered the driver's seat and turned on the truck and slowly started to roll out of the driveway.

"Can you honk one last time as a goodbye?" I asked as he pretended to push the steering wheel. The car honked and we rolled out, the house fading behind us in the distance.

"Oh, I just can't wait! We're gonna have so much fun!" Amanda squealed. I laughed with her as we started talking about girl stuff and the things we would be doing at college, but then we ended up talking about a guy she liked from college. She really liked him.

"So? Make a move." I said to her as Ron steered the truck around the parking lot to our dorm. I guess Jen told him the exact location of our college.

"I can't make the first move! He's the guy." She retorted.

"Doesn't matter. If you like him, become close friends with him and express your feelings." I told her, holding her hand.

"Okay, but I'll need your help."

"How so?"

"Well, you're going to be my wingwoman."

"Does that word even exist?"

"Well, no, but you get the point." I nodded. "Look, I am friends with him and all, so, I don't know… Uh… Maybe we could make a double date? I don't know, anything to get him to like me." She confessed with a shy shrug.

"I don't know… Well, when you become good friends with him, invite him to our dorm. Should be fun." I winked at her as her mouth grew wider.

"No! Though, I like where you're going." She and I giggled. Then Ron slowly stopped the truck and put it into Park. "We're already here?" Amanda asked Ron.

"Yes. You two go check out your dorm. I'll bring your belongings." He said as he got out of the truck. Amanda and I leapt out straight to our dorm and seeing as Amanda already knew where it was, she led the way. Ironhide was actually parked in front of it, so all we had to do was go straight into the brownish-grey building, down the long hallway and find our suite.

"Room 105?" I asked as she stopped in front of the dark, wooden door with the said golden label on it.

"Yeah, one-o-five." She repeated as she grabbed the brass doorknob and turned it and opened the door wide open. We gasped as we looked around the loft. A big bed, like Amanda's, and two smaller ones were in one big bedroom, which could be seen to the left. In front of us was the living room and kitchen and to the right was the bathroom and some extra space. "Wow." I said. It looked amazing. It was clean, not so much on stylish, but it had all the necessities we needed. Amanda went to check out the bathroom as I went to check out the bedroom. For a dorm, this looked fantastic, even though there were more beds than occupants in here, but that wasn't all that important.

Soon the whole place was scanned with detail as Ron brought some of the heavier boxes in the dorm, along with our bags. He set them on the floor and got out again to get the rest of the items. As I looked around once more, I found a huge window giving insane amounts of daylight into the apartment. The window was just behind the TV in the living room and as I got to the window and looked out, I crossed my arms.

I was looking at the parking lot in front of the suite. I could see Ron getting the rest of the boxes out and the truck locking its trunk on its own. I prayed to God nobody saw that. It wasn't that noticeable anyway, but still.

"I really like this place. Is there going to be a third party joining us? Because I saw three beds in the bedroom." I said to Amanda as she checked out the kitchen which was right next to the window.

"Dunno. Might come in handy, who knows." She said with a careless shrug, opening the fridge only to find it being empty. "We need to buy food." She stated. "You want me to go buy some bread and everything we need for sandwiches?"

"You got the cash?"

"Yeah, I'll be back. Though, I don't have a ride." Ron then entered the room and put the boxes down to the ground. I reckon he wouldn't like driving around Amanda to the supermarket and back.

"That's okay, I'll go with Ron." I told her. "I need someone to carry the stuff. anyway." He gave me an addled look.

"Go where?" He asked.

"To the supermarket. Maddie and I need food and I need someone to carry it here." I told him. "She's going to unpack everything and I'll get the necessities. Unless you're too busy."

"No, that's all of your belongings from the truck. There is nothing else left."

"Alright then, come." I grabbed his wrist and got out of the dorm, out of the building and into the truck, and only then I let go of his wrist. "Let's go to the nearest supermarket. We need to buy food and I'm kinda too hungry to go anywhere far away."

"Noted." He said with a single nod as he turned on the truck.

A couple of hours later…

As Ron carried most of the bags in his massive arms, I opened the door for him and we both got inside the dorm. I told him where to set the bags as I called Amanda to come help me with loading the stuff in the fridge. She came in reluctantly, clearly exhausted from moving in all the stuff, so I had to pack most of the stuff in the fridge, because she wasn't helping that much.

"Mel, I think I'm going to crash. I can't stand on my feet. I'll uh-" She yawned, although this time there wasn't a yawn chain. "See you tomorrow, 'kay?" She said sleepily and blinked a couple of times, clearly trying to keep her eyes open.

"Sure thing, Maddie. You get to pick out the bed first!" I said with bit of excitement to her.

She threw her fist up victoriously and went to the bedroom. Ron sat on the couch in front of the TV and looked outside the big window behind the TV where he could see his alt mode. It was really dark outside, I noted, as I sat down next to Ron and heard Amanda plopping down on one of the three beds. "Well, she's done for the day." I said lightly. "What time is it?"

"Around nine." He said as I put my head on his lap and sprung my legs across the rest of the couch. I yawned as he put his hand on my cheek. "You're done for the day, too." He chuckled. I shifted so I could lay on my side and I yawned again. God, I was really tired. "Let's get you to bed." He said, trying to get up, but I shook my head as I closed my eyes.

"Too tired." I mumbled.

"I'll carry you."

"Don't. Let me sleep." I said, taking his hand and putting it under my cheek.

"No, you need rest." He was a persistent one.

"I'll get rest if you keep quiet." He stood silent. "Thank you." I relaxed and tried to go to sleep, but then something wouldn't let me. That something was a sort of a tiny buzzing in my right ear. I rubbed my hand on my ear and it still didn't go away. I exhaled air from my lungs.

"Ratchet said to keep you warm." Ron calmly stated.

"Why? Why'd you even talk to him?" Did he seriously just ask him on advice how to put a girl to sleep?

"It will get you to sleep faster. Hold on." He said, moving so he could lay across the couch. He motioned his hand for me to come to him, which I did, and he pulled some sort of cloth from the couch. It was a blanket, which I didn't even know was there. Who knows how many things were here and I hadn't noticed?

He threw the blanket over both of us as I snuggled inside his arms, which were around me. "Goodnight." I said. He chuckled and kissed my forehead gently.

"Goodnight to you, too." He said as I closed my eyes and silently went to the dreamland of wonders and desires.

XxXxXxXxX

I rested for a couple of hours, but then Amanda's merciless screaming was what brought me back to java with a jerk.

"Oh my God! Melissa, ew, ew! I don't believe you!" She screamed with a grimace on her face.

I slowly came back into the real world where Amanda looked at me disbelievingly. I brought my head up from Ron shirt. "-Uh?" I muttered, blinking.

"I can't believe you slept with him!" She yelled. My eyes widened in shock as I shot up from Ron, who was underneath me and I looked down and felt myself.

"I have my clothes on." I gave her the eyebrow as I casually put my hand on his chest for stability, and I put another hand on my own chest, feeling my heart pound inside it. "Damn it Amanda, you almost gave me a heart attack." I looked around, noticing how everything was pitch dark except for the light in the living room. I got the blanket off me and I sat up while Ron's legs were behind my back. I looked to him and asked him. "What time is it?"

"Four thirteen in the morning." Ron replied, shifting himself so that he could be comfortable.

"Amanda, for God's sake, why are you screaming in four in morning?"

"There was this buzzing sound and I went to the kitchen thinking it was the fridge and then I find you two together on the couch and what was I supposed to think?!"

"Dear God, Amanda, would you really think that?! Despite being yourself, you still amaze me with your stupidity."

"Hush girl." She mocked. I rolled my eyes and stopped mid-rolling them.

"Did you say you heard a buzzing sound?" I asked, addled.

"Yeah. Why?"

"Ron, do you hear it, too? I can hear it now also." I said as the sound was very slowly starting to intensify. Kind of like a plane when it was pummeling through the sound barrier.

"Yes." He got up and went to the window, looking outside and upwards. "It's a meteor." He stated.

"Is it gonna crash here?" Amanda asked.

Ron answered. "It's going to crash right through this very window if Melissa doesn't take Amanda someplace safe." He gave me look clearly saying 'she can't see my real form' which I immediately understood.

"Come on Amanda, we have to get out of here." I grabbed her by the wrist.

"Wait, are you serious?" She asked with wide eyes.

I continued, undeterred. "Let's go to the bedroom, there should be something in there you haven't uh, moved." I said, rushing over to the bedroom.

"Is it really going to crash? Into our window?"

"Ron said so." I shrugged. But I think he was just being overdramatic about it.

"If Ron told you to jump off a bridge, would you do it?"

"No Amanda. I'm not stupid." I gave her a look.

"Just checking. Seriously though, you guys became so close in so little time. How'd you do it?"

"Little time?" I repeated and the I heard a huge 'thud' sound. I could even feel the vibrations of impact as it impacted something metal. The sound was the same like that of a ball had been thrown being caught into somebody's arms and chest, followed by screeching metal. "What was that?!" Amanda almost got a heart attack as, without doubt, everybody on campus heard the sound. It was so loud.

"Whatever it is, Ron's got it covered." I assured, keeping her down with my hands. Did he just catch a meteor with his bare hands?

"Melissa, did you not hear it? It was metal on metal! Maybe it crashed into our dorm!"

"Our dorm's made of concrete, Amanda, don't be ridiculous." I lied, but then heard Ron calling my name from the outside. "Stay here and don't go outside. I'll be back in a mo." She gave frantic nods as I leapt out of the bedroom and straight outside the dorm. I saw Ironhide in his bipedal form, holding a metal ball in his hand. It looked more like a pod rather than a ball, considering its oval shape.

"Good, you're here." Ironhide said.

"Get into your truck mode! People are awake!" I urged. He transformed and opened the door of the back of his cab for me. I got to it and saw a very small metal pod, almost exactly like the one Sunstreaker arrived in, just this one was a whole lot smaller. Ron's holoform appeared on the other side of the cab, making the pod stand in between us.

"Who's this?" I asked. He shrugged, but I could see he was tense.

"Move to the front. It could be a danger." The pod started to transform as I quickly moved to the front and peeked over the seat passenger seat. A small bluish robot with dark blue eyes emerged from it and Ron eyed it carefully. It actually had a deformed face and was... deformed in every aspect. One part of his body was larger than the other and he actually reminded me of the Hunchback of Notre Dame.

"What is your designation?" Ron questioned him.

"Wut? Oh, I'm Brains." He surrendered his arms up as his hair shot up. He has hair? He had little blue thin hair strings sticking from his head. A small bolt went through it as he started to… smoke? From overheating? "Damn, she's hot." He said as he eyed my face and then Ron punched him. Because I didn't expect the sudden movement, I flinched behind the seat. I wouldn't want to be in Brains's place. Not with an angry, overprotective Ron.

"Ron, don't kill him." I had to defend the poor thing, otherwise he'd become scrap metal, if not worse. "He's not a threat." I think.

"What are you doing here?" Ron quickly and harshly asked.

"Me? Jus' crash lande' a mo ago. Hey, you wanna know where I've been? I've been wanderin' all over the solar system. Saw many things! I can tell you 'bout the planets, there's the Sun, the Moon, Saturn, Ju-"

"Get the frag out of my alt mode." Ron tiredly said, pinching the bridge of his nose.

"You should go see it. I like the solar system, much different than our ow-" I heard a groan from Ron and the poor fella didn't even get to finish his sentence for Ron had already kicked him with his foot out of the truck.

"Why'd ya throw me? I'm just a 'Bot lookin' for a home!" He secretly pleaded for us to take him back inside.

Ironhide shut the door so he didn't listen to him anymore. "What are we going to do with him? We can't just leave him here. And uncle and the base are too far away for you to simply go and take him there." I said.

"I just checked in with Optimus and he says Brains is an ally. I trust Prime, but not this Brains he claims to be. Come, let's take care of him." He said, getting out of the truck as I did the same. I saw the navy blue bot sitting on the ground, all disenchanted, and I picked him up like a baby.

"Hi Brains." I said in a sweet voice, smiling at him. "What are you doing here on planet Earth? And are you okay? I promise Ron didn't mean to hurt you." I snuggled him, but he suddenly groped my breast. "AAAH!" I shrieked and let go of him as he fell down to the ground.

"What is it?" Ron came to my side as people also came out of their dorms.

"Pervert!" I screamed at Brains, who transformed into a form of a black, sleek laptop as people gathered around ever so slowly. Ron came stomping over him, but I held his arm so he wouldn't destroy the 'Bot. "No, come on. Let's get you out of here, people are going to think you were harassing me." I said as Ron picked him up from the ground with one hand and we ran for the dorm.

Amanda obviously waited by the door, because when I barged in, I managed to hit her face-flat with the door. "Amanda!" I came to her side in less than a second. "Are you okay? Gosh, I'm so sorry! I didn't mean to, honest!" She put her hand to her nose and it was bleeding a bit. "Let me get you some tissues before you die from blood loss." I laughed, trying to bring up the sunny side of the situation as she chuckled.

"Ever being the jokester." Amanda said as I handed her a tissue from the bathroom which she used to stuff up her nose. I stuffed a tissue up mine, just for the love of it. We looked somewhat similar to elephants. We started to laugh as Amanda held her head back, so that the bleeding would stop.

Suddenly a loud 'crack' could be hard as Ron slammed the laptop aka Brains into the floor. "Oops." He sarcastically said.

"You'll kill him." I said.

"He won't die that soon, will you?" He glared at the laptop.

I cleared my throat. "…Ron." I said as I hoped he got the hint. Amanda was present and glaring at a laptop was as weird as it got. Ron just shrugged as he picked up the laptop from the floor and put it onto the table and just stood there. I knew he was explaining something to Brains through the comlink, but Amanda shouldn't be a part of the alien war.

"What's with him?" Amanda asked. "He's weird."

I got a bit angry. I wouldn't tolerate anybody calling Ron weird. "He's not weird Amanda, you ar-" I stopped midsentence."…are okay? Are you okay?" I quickly said. God, I almost insulted her.

"Fine, but I think the nosebleed stopped." She slowly started to pick the tissues from her nose as I did the same, trying not to look at her bloody end of it.

"You've had quite the adventure tonight, so go to sleep. We both got class in the morning." I said as I walked her to the bedroom. She took one of the smaller beds, it was unmade so she laid back on it. Soon she drifted off to sleep as I yawned. I got back to Ron in the living room, who was monitoring the laptop version of Brains. "Look Brains, you can't be seen. Amanda can't see you. Under no circumstances are you to be seen by humans. Understood?"

The laptop stood silent. Ron smacked it with his fist when he didn't reply. "Yow! Yeah, babe, got it." He said as he got another smack from Ron. "Okay, look I'm sorry! No transforming in front of the blonde chick!"

"He learned his lesson. In case he forgot it, I'll be here to teach him again." Ron growled. I yawned again. I couldn't bother with this at five in the morning.

"I'm gonna go to bed. You deal with him, and I'll see you in the morning." I quickly said as I went back into the bedroom and got on the biggest bed. I just plopped myself down on it and closed my eyes.

Of all things that could happen, all I needed now was an alien crashing in front of my dorm. Just great. And he's a pervert, at that. Disgusting.