( gn!usr; angst )

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Miko frowned nervously, watching you. In your eyes, she could read a light, utterly genuine confusion. You looked at her as if seeing her for the first time; as if she were a stranger; as if you hadn’t been best friends; as if you weren’t the ones who had braided friendship bracelets for each other and sworn to stay together until death did you part.

When you and Miko decided to secretly slip away with Bulkhead on his mission, you could never have imagined that it would end in disaster. Yes, every time something like that happened, it always turned into an adventure — but never a bad ending. You weren’t careful enough and found yourself right in the middle of the battle, among enormous metallic legs. It was no surprise that a Decepticon blaster shot, missing its target and hitting the ground, threw you several meters away like a feather.

The powerful impact knocked almost everything you had ever remembered out of your head. Now the world had one less person who knew the secret of the Transformers. Miko would no longer be able to hang out with you at the Autobot base, listening to Bulkhead’s stories.

That realization was... bitter. As if she had eaten a whole plate of tasteless vegetables for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

“You can’t forget everything that happened before! At least not me… After everything we went through, you’re just going to erase everything that had to do with me so easily?” Miko wouldn’t stop, clenching her hands until her knuckles turned white, while you sat on the couch across from her, smiling awkwardly. You weren’t pretending, and the doctors weren’t lying — you had amnesia.

Your mother was clattering dishes in the kitchen, leaving you two alone. Miko was glad that, having come to visit you, she didn’t have to deal with her as well.

Miko wanted to scream, smash, and break everything around her. But this was your house, and she was just a guest. She clenched her teeth so hard her jaw began to ache unpleasantly. It was unbearably hard to contain the despair and rage as she looked at you sitting across from her — without that familiar sparkle in your eyes.

“We were best friends, {{user}}! We even wanted to start our own band!” Miko wasn’t going to leave without getting through to you. But did she even have a chance?

In movies, everything was so simple, easy, and clear, but in real life, this situation turned out to be nothing but a tangle of pain and disappointment.