Invisible String

I Think He Knows

"I have absolutely no idea where you got that idea from!" You lied and crossed your arms. Your face was starting to burn up and you tried to cool off your cheeks by covering them with your cold hands. You tried to just focus on what your day could bring you, hoping it would be normal as the main visitor's hall came into view.

The day, thankfully, went on without a hitch. You finished your exhibit, got to teach some younger kids how to tell the difference between poison ivy and "safe to touch" ferns, and finished out the day being able to walk around cleaning up any garbage you saw in the picnic areas. Now you were just waiting for Dorothy outside of the main cabin, hoping she would be there soon to pick you up.

Which when you checked your phone, you saw it was taking her a lot longer than it usually did. Worry washed over you and you thought back to your encounter with the robot cat, especially because it was starting to get dark and everyone had already left, figuring Dorothy would be on her way to get you. You hovered over the call button, trying to rationalize why she wasn't there yet.

You bit the bullet and hit the green call button, hoping for an answer. However, when it went straight to voicemail you felt yourself start to panic. You nervously bit your thumb nail as you tried to call her again, this time it told you "Call denied" as if her phone was off or dead. Anxiety rushed through your veins, and you scrolled down to Megatron's ComLink, hesitation stopping you from hitting call, you let your pride take over as you scrolled up to Hashtag's instead. It took two rings before she answered but she still did answer.

"H-hey...sis, what is up?" Hashtag said, not being able to sound anymore suspicious. You thought for a moment, all the questions you wanted to ask her disappeared. Shaking your head, you sighed and decided it wasn't worth digging into.

"I can't get ahold of your mom, I need you to tell Bumblebee or Megatron, I'm stuck here at the main office. I need someone to come and get me." Your voice sounded half worried have annoyed, but you hoped she wouldn't ask questions on why you didn't call Megatron yourself.

"Uh okay, I'll...send someone to come get you. Heart ya sis!" You heard the wheels turning in her head as she spoke, a shiver ran down your back. You took a deep breath and let out an exasperated sigh, letting your head fall into your hands as you slid down the window of the visitor's center. You hoped she would send one of her siblings or Bumblebee. You didn't know if you were ready to face your main problem right now. You didn't know if you could stomach asking him why he changed his attitude towards you. You were worried that it was Dorothy's doing, asking him to give you a chance.

Or maybe it was pity. He would know all about being stuck in a world that wasn't his own, stuck having to make friends with strangers and being ripped from everything he knew.

You sat in silence, hoping to get a call from Dorothy before the inevitable sound of helicopter blades would break the silence. The sound of a car speeding through the forest caused you to look up. Hopefully, you looked and squinted down the road looking for a glimpse of yellow or white. You couldn't have predicted what you saw instead. At first you thought it was maybe some weird circus truck, but your face fell when you saw a semi familiar face.

Hashtag herself had driven out to get you, screeching to a halt in front of you at an alarming speed. Her cargo, Starscream himself, almost falling off her hood when she stopped. You looked at the two in shock, horror, question, and then regret. The four stages of disappointment. You stood up in haste the words falling out of you.

"Hashtag! What are you doing?!" You yelled. Her door opened and you heard her voice chime out, nonchalant.

"Uh picking you up, duh. And I even brought Star so he wouldn't be alone." You were baffled at her seemingly innocence.