𝙷𝚞𝚗𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚛𝚜 | ʙᴜᴍʙʟᴇʙᴇᴇ

Chapter 5: Lies

With one final huff of air I turn back into the cafe and wave the girls out, the two of them giggle excitedly as they follow me, only for them to stop dead in their tracks at the sight of Bumblebee. "Is this...Really YOUR car?" The brunette of the two questions, "Umm, yeah?" I mumble. Another lie, "Well, it's more like my boyfriend's car." I add on quickly. Another lie, "Well actually, he bought the car and fixed it up then gave it to me." I continue to stumble with my story. I think the lack of sleep and constant attack on my brain is taking its toll. The two girls said nothing and I could feel myself sweating, "That is like, totally romantic!" The blonde awes. A forced smile made its way onto my lips. "Thanks." I nod weakly, quickly opening the passenger door for one of them before moving over to the driver's side.

The two girls eagerly got into the car, which I pretended to start, once everyone got settled and got their seat belt on Bumblebee turned into traffic. I made sure to keep my hands on the wheel to make it seem like I was the one driving, "So like, what's your boyfriend's name?" The blonde who took shotgun questions. My heart thumps in my chest, "Uh," I pause to swallow, my eyes shot down to the wheel when he jerked. "Bee!" I squeak, glaring at the wheel, "Your boyfriend's name is Bee?" The brunette questions. Realization struck quickly and I felt my face flare up in embarrassment. "Mmhm, but I just call him that, his actual name is Berry." I snark, spitefully making shit up about the car.

"Yikes, I get why you just call him Bee." The blonde agrees with a nod, "So if you turn here there's this really cute—" She continues but is cut off by Bumblebee taking a sharp turn. "Fuck! Bumblebee!" I snap in frustration, the nerves of keeping up these lies inside and extraterrestrial super mech is definitely getting to me. "Bumblebee?" The brunette questions as I angrily jerked the car into a parking spot and aggressively parked. "Yeah, it's what I named the car. Sorry about the sharp turn I guess -Berry- hasn't worked out how -touchy- the gears are." I sass to the car. "No probs, we'll still look hot a fuck pulling up to the party tonight in your ride." The blonde waves off as she climbs out of the car. I wait until they're both out to glare at the radio, "Stop your shit before you get into trouble." I hiss as I move to unbuckle my seatbelt. I gasp when suddenly the belt tightens and pushes me flush against the seat, "Like to— See you— Make me— Baby." the radio responded before he unlocked my seatbelt and opened the door for me.

From there me and the two other girls, who I've come to know as Jinny and Maddy, store hopped all along the street. I've thankfully convinced them we didn't need to go anywhere that wasn't within walking distance, making up yet another lie that Bumblebee can be a little unpredictable when it comes to starting up so it would be better if we didn't turn him on and off too much. Several bags of clothing later we all pile back into the car. Maddy and Jinny offered to get me ready at their place, feeling bad for me as I continuously made-up stories about my fake roommate. Bumblebee was thankfully well behaved all the way there, all eyes were drawn to us when I parked and grabbed a few things out of my shopping bags before heading up to the girl's room.

Once I got there, I already found them stripping down and putting on their makeup, the sun only now just going down and by their hurried rambling I could tell we were running behind schedule. I hurry over to the bathroom to change, I look into the bag and pull out the yellow T-shirt dress, it's a one size smaller than what I would usually get to make it fit tighter against my body. The next item is a faux leather jacket, hopefully this will give me some comfort from wearing something unusually tight. I didn't dare give up my black boots, nowhere near willing to throw all caution to the wind for this spontaneous cover story I came up with.

I slipped into the clothes before looking into the mirror, I decided to pull my hair up into a ponytail to maybe give other people the illusion that this would be considered dressing up for me. Stepping out of the bathroom I'm met with Jinny and Maddy, they squeal at the sight of me and gush about how well their advice worked. Maddy urged me to sit on her bed so she could apply some fancy eyeshadow and eyeliner to my face. At the last minute she decided on a bold red lip to seal the deal. When we're all finally deemed ready the two girls usher us out, dusk finally coming into full effect. As soon as I came into Bumblebee's sight I could hear the rumble of the engine, my face flushed and I ran to the car, hurriedly trying to make it look like I was already in the car when he started up. Thankfully the two other girls got caught up with some other people coming out of the building and are still otherwise occupied.

"Bumblebee!" I hiss down to the car, glancing up to see the girls waving goodbye to their acquaintances as they continue to walk to the car. "Babygirl what's your name—Let me buy you a drink— The whole club lookin' at her." He calls through radio followed by a recording of a wolf whistle. "I don't know what's been going with you—" I start only to cut myself off when the two girls reach the car. Maddy now taking shotgun while Jinny sits in the back. "Alright! Let's Party!" Maddy cheers, I take a deep breath and pray to god that Sam is at this fucking party.