Mikaela was on her way back from the store when she first heard the screaming. Now, while screams in Los Angeles was something she was starting to get used to, it was the words that went along with the mindless screeches that attracted her attention this time around. Things like 'giant robot' and 'transformed' reached her ears and her stomach gave a giant flip-flop. Without thinking - or perhaps because she was thinking about what the words might mean - she took off in the direction the sounds were coming from.
Down a street, through the alley of another, until she took a sharp right... and promptly came to a stumbling halt.
No way, her mind whispered as shock seemed to fill her from the top of her head to the tip of her toes. Her groceries slid from her nerveless fingers, crashing against the sidewalk beneath her feet, yet she hardly noticed. She was too busy staring at someone she was beginning to think she would never see again.
"Bumblebee?" she whispered, then realized he wasn't going to hear her over all of the yelling and general chaos taking place at his feet. This time, completely without thought, she was moving forward. Closer, closer, her voice rising to a scream of its own as she willed those around her to shut up so the Autobot would notice her presence.