Leo said his last goodbyes to his college friends before hitting the road. He had his whole week of spring break planned out and he wasn't going to waste a single moment of it. Outside waiting for him, honked an orange Chevy Trax, and the green Chevy Beat parked beside it honked even louder. When Leo was ready, he sprinted outside to satisfy the impatient twins. In the back of Leo's mind, he wondered if it was too late to borrow a friend's car for the break. Skids and Mudflap had been snooping around the campus for months now, thinking they had a right to be there, since Leo was now a sophomore in college and the appropriate age to have a car. Since the twins were not particularly favorites at NEST, they used Leo as an excuse to leave NEST and stay out of everyone's way. They appointed themselves as Leo's guardians as soon as Leo finished freshmen year.

"Yo Leo!" Skids greeted in the same tone he used when he nearly gave Leo a "heart attack" over a year ago. Ever since, Skids made it his catch phrase whenever Leo walked by.

"I know. I heard you." Leo answered. He threw his bag in the back seat.

"What's wit da cargo?" Mudflap asked.

"Yeah. What's goin' on?" Skids added.

"I told you guys I made plans to go somewhere for spring break." Leo said, sitting down in Skids' driver seat, and closing the door.

"Ya neva told us dose plans involved a road trip." Skids stated, sounding more anxious at the magic word, road trip.

"Just going to see Leanna for a couple days." Leo sighed. The twins stifled their laughs.

"Who's Leaaannnnaa?" Mudflap's teasing voice came through Skids' radio.

"She's Leo's new girly friend." Skids guessed.

"New? Mo' like first!" Mudflap laughed. Leo shook his head and grinned.

"Cut it out guys. We're just friends anyway." Skids started his engine and backed out of the parking lot. Skids drove and Leo steered. Mudflap followed behind. Leo took a glance back at Mudflap and noticed he didn't even bother to use a human holoform while driving. 'Oh well.' Leo thought and shrugged it off. He steered Skids right and turned them onto a new road. They drove out farther in the opposite direction of the college. In two hours or so, they were in the next big city over. The three didn't talk much. Skids flipped through radio stations, but didn't say a word. Leo and the twins didn't need to talk to pass the time. They were all perfectly content with just driving. Skids and Mudflap were always up for an adventure. (In their minds, the word adventure meant: the opportunity to do something exciting and go crazy.) But despite their awesome excitement, the twins started getting bored.

"Ya do know where we goin' right?" Skids asked Leo.

"Yeah. We're almost there." Leo said. Skids notice Leo's pheromone level changing rapidly. 'Sheesh! All dis just fo' a girl?' Skids thought.

It was dark when Leo parked by the curb in front of Leanna's house. He stepped out on the lawn and looked up and down the street. All the windows were dark, and there wasn't another soul in sight. He opened Skids' door and threw his luggage out on the lawn.

"Okay. You guys can transform now." Leo said. The twins transformed into their robot forms.

"Aw we goin' ta see her now?" Mudflap asked, stretching out his oversized arm.

"Not exactly." Leo explained. "One of you is going to stay parked here, and the other is going to stay on the other side of the street, so Leanna doesn't suspect that I magically drove two cars here alone in one night." The twins scowled at him. They didn't like where this was going. "Bottom line, you two won't speak one word, or move one inch unless driving. Keep a low profile, and that includes around Leanna..."

"Ya don' trust us!" the twins said in unison. At first, the synchronized voices freaked Leo out a little. But he managed to nod, to the twins' dismay. Then Leo quickly changed his mind. He realized that Skids and Mudflap were actually trying to be polite by wanting to introduce themselves to Leanna. They were also trying to be good guardians.

"No, that's not true. It's not you guys. It's Leanna. I just don't want her getting involved in the war."

"She wouldn' be in any danger wit us." Mudflap tried to reason. "'Cept if th' 'Cons found out she's out our side."

"That's th' point, stupid!" Skids interrupted, and smacked Mudflap in the back of the head.

"Guys! Guys!" Leo intruded before Skids and Mudflap could start a fight. They both looked down at him. "Leanna's really important to me. Promise you won't mess this up for me. And promise if something happens to her, you'll defend her with your lives, like I hope you would for me." As Leo spoke, the twins' attention was directed behind him. The tiny house's door pushed open. A young woman stood at the doorway, folding her arms. Her short brunet hair curled around her ears. She wore a salmon colored camisole with red sweat pants and pink fuzzy slippers. Her hazel clear eyes seemed to be looking straight at Skids and Mudflap. But she wasn't fazed by the Autobots at all.

"Leo? Is that you?" the girl called. Leo turned around and saw her. He ran to her and took her hand.

"Did you miss me, Beautiful?" He greeted. The girl, Leanna, wrapped her arms around Leo's neck and puckered her lips expectantly. Leo leaned closer to her to complete the passionate kiss. Meanwhile, the twins stood in the background awkwardly.

"Jus' friends?" Mudflap pointed out

"That's one intense 'friendship'." Skids agreed. Suddenly Leanna perked up and looked in the twins' direction again.

"Leo, who was that?" Leanna asked worriedly. Leo glared at the twins and mouthed 'Zip it!' to them. Skids and Mudflap looked at each other with confusion.

"No one's there Leanna." Leo lied. "C'mon. Let's go inside." Leanna looked away from the twins, and leaned on Leo's side as he walked to the house. Once Leanna was inside, Leo slipped back outside to grab his luggage. He looked at the twins' dumbfound faces. "So what do you think?" He asked, picking one bag off the lawn.

"She's hot. I'll give her dat." Mudflap said honestly.

"What's wrong wit her?" Skids questioned, as if Leanna was a mutated creature.

"She's blind." Leo told them. He felt like Skids insulted him more than Leanna. "We're in the same school. She just takes all of her classes online. We met online on the school's live chat room." The twins each raised an optic ridge at the words, chat room. "It was meant to be a study tool. But students started using it for a lot more than studying with their classmates. So before the chat room got shut down, I got Leanna's email address. We got to know each other beyond school subjects, and here we are..."

"Madly in love?" Mudflap finished.

"Friends! Just friends." Leo corrected. Mudflap rolled his optics. "Denial" Mudflap said to Skids, through their twin bond.

"How's she use a computer if she's blind?" Skids asked, not paying attention to Mudflap.

"The computer reads the screen for her." Leo answered. Leanna's shadow showed at the window, waiting for Leo. "I gotta go. Please just do what I asked. Stay on opposite sides of the street, so Leanna doesn't suspect anything. And stay quiet!"

"Doesn't matter, man. She won't know two cars fro' one." Skids disagreed.

"She can still detect you. She can sense where you're standing, or parking." The twins stared at Leo.

"She's psychic o' somethin'?" Mudflap asked.

"No. She just uses her other senses to see." Leo tried to explain. "Anyway. Please keep a low profile guys. I want her safe."

"Ya can count on us." Skids said. Leo hauled his luggage into Leanna's house and left the twins outside. The twins nodded and separated themselves as Leo requested. Mudflap stayed near the house, and Skids drove to the curb across the road. Inside, Leo and Leanna sat on the couch and talked for hours. They hadn't talked in months, and Leanna had a million things to tell Leo. Leo mostly just listened. All of the exciting things that he'd done recently involved the Autobots, and he couldn't talk about them. Leanna chose a movie for them to watch. She said her mother explained the movie to her enough times that she could understand what was happening on the screen without seeing it. Leo and Leanna watched and listened to the movie for about twenty minutes. But by the time the plot just started to dramatically build, Leo and Leanna were both sound asleep on the couch.

Meanwhile, someone else's sleep wasn't nearly as peaceful as Leo's and Leanna's. Mudflap's tires restlessly turned back and forth. He began to make tiny noises of distress in his recharge. He desperately whined, but Skids didn't hear a thing. Skids slept soundly through it all, and unintentionally left Mudflap to fend for himself in his worst nightmares.