Optimus had gone to walk out of the rec room to meet up with Charlie, but what stopped him from walking out into the halls was Xandred in his alt form racing by him. What had the mech in such a hurry? Where was a he going? Before he could try to walk out into the halls again, he was pulled back into the rec room by Ironhide, Ratchet, the twins, and Jazz.

                “Alright Optimus, spit it out- do you like Charlie?” Ironhide asked, while Sunstreaker got the door and shut it- leaning against it with his twin so Optimus wouldn’t get any ideas. “Yeah, Boss Bot, ya are always seen hangin’ around her…. Makes all of us wonda!” Jazz said, grinning at Optimus who currently looked surprised at them all.

                Optimus shook his helm, looking around at all of them. “Charlie and I are nothing but friends, I don’t… love her, like you all suppose I do. Now if you excuse me, I have to go and meet up with Charlie. Does she even know that you are all doing this?” He asked, and was going to turn around but of course they stopped him before he left.

                “Currently, Xandred is interrogating Charlie on whether she likes you or not- they won’t be back for a little while, so you probably better be getting comfy Prime.” Ratchet said, his arms cross across his chassis as he spoke. “And Xandred probably told her we were going to interrogate you, so she probably does know by now.”

                Optimus sighed and turned back around, deciding that he would stay since they would force him to stay if he tried to leave…. “Alright, I only think of Charlie as a friend.” He spoke, but he knew that he was lying to himself…. He knew the pangs of jealousy he felt when he saw her with another mech, he knew it was because of his feelings for her…

                Ironhide scoffed at his words, a smirk showing up on his faceplates as he rested his servos on his hips and looked at the leader of the Autobots. “Prime, we all see how you look at her… and how when the two of you are together, you smile and before you met her you never smiled… not unless you found an old friend you thought had died in space a long time ago.” He said, speaking about himself.

                Optimus sighed, shaking his helm and trying to fight them on this… for some unknown reason deep inside him, he didn’t want to tell them and let them know that the leader of the Autobots cares for a small human femme. He then realized that once he admitted it to them, there was no going back- once he confessed, then they would know…

                When Ironhide saw that he wasn’t going to confess, he knew he would have to play a dirty trick- and he had to be prepared to either smirk when Optimus confessed, to dodge if he tried to hit him, or… to run if the mech tried to run after him. “Well then Optimus, if you aren’t going to say you love the femme then I guess that means she is open game… she is a pretty human femme.” He spoke.

                Optimus looked up and his optics met Ironhide’s, and he hadn’t noticed he was scowling nor that he had the look of fury in his optics that made everyone around them except Ironhide flinch- the only time Optimus had ever had that look, was when Megatron had threatened to harm the humans so long ago…

                “Woah Boss Bot, Ol’ Hide is just kidding!” Sunstreaker said, rushing forwards and stepping in between the two taller mechs before they had a chance to go at each other and try to murder one another. “He isn’t serious about going after Charlie, he doesn’t like humans like that- you know that Boss Bot!”

                Optimus took a step backwards, finally realizing the trick that Ironhide had pulled… a slight smile showed on his faceplates, causing all of the mechs around him to gape at him in shock- even Ironhide, who had pulled the trick. “Old friend, you always know the tricks to pull to get me to confess…” He spoke, letting a sigh escape him.

                Before Ironhide could grin in triumph, or before the other Bots could grin that Optimus, in a way, had confessed about his feelings for Charlie- Tires were heard screeching, and the rec room door was thrown open by Xandred who looked worried and frantic at the same time. Immediately, Ratchet was by his side trying to calm him down.

                “Xandred, what’s wrong? What’s got you so frantic...?” He asked his bonded, leading him deeper inside the rec room and making him sit down in one of the Cybertronian sized seat that were all around the rec room. Of course, when Xandred started frantically speaking no one understood him at all. “Xandred, speak slowly.” Ratchet whispered, a small smile on his faceplates.

                “We were out driving and w-we met the Predacons… then suddenly, out of nowhere, Starscream was there! He just swooped in when we weren’t paying attention… and he took her! He took Charlie!” He said, raising his voice as he looked up at Ratchet. “I was protecting her, but I let her down… I let everyone down…” he whispered, and you could hear the guilt in his voice…

                Optimus walked towards Xandred slowly, and a lot of the mechs thought that the leader of the Autobots was going to punish the mech or something- but no, Optimus laid a gentle and careful servo on Xandred’s shoulder. “We will find her Xandred, no one is blaming you for this- we’ll start up the search party tomorrow, for now… go and get some rest.”

Boom- this just hit a turning point! I'm sorry for not updating, school has been in the way- I've already two research papers in psychology! TT-TT

I will try to update again next week, but no promises-

Until next time my beautiful readers!