Spark (Bumblebee Love Story)

Chapter 21

Just as he was about to tell the girls to stand out, Sam opens the door widely, looking like a wreck, covered in dirt and sweat.

"What's up?" Sam asks calmly, then gesturing to the bat Ron holds, "What's with the bat?"

Danielle looks down at her feet, ignoring Sam's acting skills.

"Who were you talking to?" Ron questions Sam.

"I'm talking to you" Sam responds back fastly.

"Why are you so sweaty and filthy?" Judy mumbles, scrunching up her nose.

"I'm a teenager, mom" Sam says, defending himself.

Danielle looks up, seeing Sam's flushed look. His face was covered with sweat and dirt, making him look like he was playing in a pile of mud outside and walked inside leaving a trail.

"We heard voices and noises, and we thought maybe you were.." Judy trails off.

"It doesn't matter what we thought," Ron interrupts Judy, "What was that light?"

He barges into Sam's room, the 3 right on his trail.

"No, what light? What?" Sam pesters Ron, "There's no light, Dad! There's no light!"

"Dad," Danielle sighs, "you got two lights in your hand, maybe that's where you're seeing the light."

"Yeah, maybe it bounced-"

"There was a light under the door" Ron insists, interrupting Sam.

"Look," Sam sighs, holding both of his hands together, "You can't...You can't just bounce into my room like that. You got to knock. You got to communicate."

Danielle stands next to Judy at the doorway, watching both male Witwicky's argue.

"We knocked five times" Ron tells Sam.

"I'm a teenager- Danny is a teenager too!" Sam insists.

"We knocked!" Judy says back.

"You didn't knock," Sam whines, "You were screaming at me, okay? This is a repression, what you're doing here. You're ruining our youth here, okay?"

"Oh for Pete's sake!" Judy yells, "You are so defensive. Were you masturbating?"

If a quarter fell on the floor, the whole house would have heard it with the immediate silence in the house. Danielle and Sam both start to turn red from embarrassment, hearing their mother's words.

"Was I...No, mom!" Sam squeaks out, raising his hands up.

"Mom!" Danielle whines.

The two teenage Witwicky's continue to grow from embarrassment, while Ron gives his wife a disapproving look. Judy holds her hands out in surrender, trying to calm down the situation.

"It's okay! It's okay!" Judy insists.

"That's a father-and-son thing, okay?" Ron says, stepping into the conversation, "Father-and-son thing. You and Danielle have your own little talks. We have our own."

"I mean," Judy starts, "You don't have to call it that word if that makes you uncomfortable. You can call it..... "Sam's happy time" or-"

"Happy time?"

"....my special alone time-"

"Stop".

"Mom!" Sam and Danielle complain in unison.

Both twins look at each other, giving  a knowing glance. Both of them are nervous. Nervous about the Autobots. Nervous about their parents. Nervous about their parents finding out about the Autobots.

"Look, I'm sorry," Judy explains, "It's just been a weird night. I've had a little bit to drink."

Ron walks towards the bathroom that connects both Sam and Danielle's bedroom together, eliciting a startled gasp from Danielle.

"No, no, Dad" Danielle tells him, following him.

"Yeah, well, we saw a light" Ron continues to insist.

Danielle catches sight of Jazz's silver paint streaking across the window as he quickly passes by. If people see Danielle, she would be white as a ghost from the sight she has seen.

"I don't know where it was...but we saw it" Ron continues to mumble, looking around the bathroom.

Just as he looks over at the bathtub with his flashlight, another earthquake happens, causing the house to shake. Ron panics, jumping into the bathtub, alerting everyone about the obvious earthquake. The 3 other Witwicky's stand in place, no longer phased by the shaking. \

"Aftershock! Aftershock! Oh, I hate these" Ron yells from the bathtub.

Danielle shakes her head at her dad, seeing Sam and Judy walk into Sam's bedroom. Sam walks into the bathroom to help Ron out of the bathtub, Judy shaking her head in disbelief at Ron's antics.

Sam helps Ron out of the bathtub, said man glancing at the window in the bathroom.

"Oh, oh, man!" Ron groans, "Man. Oh. Oh, no! Look at the yard. The yard is destroyed."

Danielle glances over at Sam, who glances at her back.

"Judy? Better call the city," Ron says to Judy, "We got a blown transformer. Power poles sparking all over the place! Oh, man. Yard's a waste. Trashed. Gone."

Ron pulls himself away from the window, walking back to the middle of Sam's bedroom, Sam following him. All of the Witwicky's stand in the center of the room, staring at each other.

"We heard you talking to somebody, Sam" Judy declares.

"I was talking to Danny" Sam lies.

"Danny was with us, Sam. Now, who is it that you were talking-"

Judy tails off, seeing Mikaela rise from her hiding spot, making the whole room grow quiet. Mikaela shuffles to put her weight on her left foot, staring at everyone.

"Hi. I'm Mikaela," Mikaela introduces herself shyly, "I'm a...I'm a friend of Sam and Danny."

Instantly Judy gives a bright giggle, before shuffling over to Mikaela, her past worries vanishing into thin air at the sight of Mikaela. Danielle walks to the nearest wall to her, leaning back on said wall, watching the scene in front of her.

"Gosh, you're gorgeous" Judy fangirls about Mikaela, "Isn't that the prettiest girl? You're even prettier than Danielle!"

Hearing this, Danielle frowns. She knew she wasn't the....prettiest girl around. She knows Mikaela is very gorgeous, just wouldn't suspect Judy to gush over Mikaela, even stating her to be prettier than Danielle.

"She can hear you talking, mom" Sam mumbles to Judy, stuffing his hands in his pockets, before hesitantly fist-bumping Ron, who held his fist out for him.

"Thank you" Mikaela says to Judy for the compliments.

"Oh-Oh my goodness! I'm so sorry you had to hear our little family discussion about-"

"Do you have my backpack?" Sam interrupts Judy.

Judy directs her attention to Sam, her attention averted from Mikaela to Sam.

"Oh, it's in the kitchen" Judy informs, walking out of the room with Ron, to give the 3 teenagers space.

Danielle processes the scene in front of her, confused about how Judy can just leave the room all of a sudden. Nonetheless, she shrugs, and walks out of her brother's bedroom, towards the kitchen.

"I hope this ends soon," Danielle thinks to herself, "Really soon".