Find Me (You Saved Me Series Book 3)

You were my best friend

A black SUV with limo tint windows had pulled up to the house. The one she has watched her brother get out of many times since she came home. She always wonders where he got it. As she recalled, he drove a beat up old Dodge single cab. Not this shiny new thing parked in front of her. The man she was so close to for most of her life, gets out and pulls a pack over his shoulder. She stays put by the shop, watching as he runs a hand through his dark brown hair and walks up the white steps of the house. He doesn't notice her as he walks through the door.

He has tried to talk to her many times since she came home, but she can't bring herself to talk back. As far as she knows, he's a traitor too. He helped their father with the killing of her siblings, the torture of the cybertronians. He is part of the problem that she now needs to eliminate. First she has to find out why.

It took her a while to decide to go back to the house. A monster is lurking inside and she is unsure she wants to deal with it right now. She can see him moving around in the kitchen, acting normal, like nothing is wrong. She slowly opens the front door and it gives a loud creak giving away her position. The man's head snaps to her and they lock eyes. His are soft and warm, happy to see her. While hers are shooting daggers, not buying his act.

"Hey Shelby. Where were you?" He wonders looking back into the fridge.

"Wouldn't you like to know." She spits out.

She watches his shoulder fall back. Clearly tired of the accusations. Though he has been taking it better than their father. At least it's what he shows or chooses to show. He looks up and rolls his eyes at her.

"We going to continue this?" With a drink in hand he closes the refrigerator, leaning against it, looking over at her.

"Until you or that monster fess up. I know you were apart of the plans. You helped him." She walks up to him, her defenses up.

"We didn't do anything. When will you start to believe that? I barely was with our dad while you were in that coma. I was to damn worried about you. I was hoping for a happy reunion when you returned to us, but this. This is ridiculous. You need to get out of your fantasy, Shelby. Come back to us. It hurts the way you look at us. Especially me. We used to be so close." He went off. Raising his voice, but towards the end, got quiet. He leaned to touch his sister's face. Caress it the way he used to when she was scared or upset. But she flinched back. Rearing away from him. Her back hitting the dining table.

"Don't you dare touch me." She sneered.

"Baby sis?" He quietly questioned. Hurt prominent in his baby blues. The ones that matched hers.

They stood in silence. The tension in the room only rising the more angry she got. She could feel his pain for the way she is acting, but to her he's all a lie. He will never be the older brother she loved to play with as children. He will never be the one who comforted her on the days she came home crying. But he breaks the silence by singing a few lines of a song that had become theirs. One she would never forget in times of hardship. One she shared with a giant alien, who she fell head over heels for.

"I can see every tear you've cried, Like an ocean in your eyes, All the pain and the scars have left you cold, I can see all the fears you face, Through a storm that never goes away, Don't believe all the lies that you've been told." His voice cracks as the words are sung. But he is stopped and lets out a groan as he lands on the floor.

She shoved him hard in the stomach. Rage steaming from her. Her hands clenched in fists, as she looks over this man. She begins to shake from the frustration and anger. It was their song, he sang it only for her when she was upset, but hearing it from him now only reminded her of something she lost. A painful reminder that he might have never been real. Brandon looks up at her in shock. Jaw dropped staring at his little sister. Unsure of what made her snap and shove him over.

"I never want to hear you sing that again. You have no right to it anymore." With the venom in those words, she stung him and left him laying there.

Her feet moved fast and she ran. She continued to run as far as she could. She didn't go towards the woods she headed to the road. She doesn't know where shes gonna go, as long as it's not there. Tears threaten to breach as she sprints down the vacant road. The light of the moon being the only thing to light her path. Just enough to see what's ahead of her. Sweat begins to glide down her forehead, her hair beginning to stick to her face. It's a warm night, but she keeps running. No plans of stopping.

Lights shine ahead of her, blinding her the closer it gets. She slows to a walk and puts a hand over her eyes to shield them. The vehicle slows to down as it gets nearer. Her heartbeat stays at a fast past, but not just from adrenaline pumping through her veins. Fear comes over her as the car passes then turns around. She begins to Sprint again. Not seeing the car for who it was and not caring.

The car keeps pace with her. It isn't until she starts to hear beeping from the car, she slows to a walk, then she stops. She notices the black and yellow pain job of the sport car. One she recognizes but doesn't believe that is in front of her. It can't be. It continues to beep and whir in excitement at her. She can't believe this is happening. She knew it was real. One of them is right in front of her.

"Bumblebee?" She takes a step towards him. Hand reaching out.

He rolls forward and bumps into he hand. Settling down on his wheels in her touch.

"How did you find me? I was told none of you were real. That none of what happened happened. Where have you been? Where are the others?" She spouted out question after question.

Bee opened his passenger side door. She didn't hesitate to jump in. The two drive off. She had no idea where Bee was taking her, but as long as it was to the others, it didn't matter to her.