Chapter 398: Pushing

"Hi, Mikaela..."

After class, Mikaela had just walked out of the classroom when she was called out by a voice from behind.

That familiar voice made her stop in her tracks instantly; she pursed her lips slightly and took a light breath. Her face shifted from irritation to impatience and then to a smile in an instant. After Mikaela perfectly demonstrated what is known as a woman's face-changing skill, she slowly turned around and greeted the person who had called her with a smile.

"Hi, Sam!"

The person who had just called out to her was none other than Mikaela's current boyfriend—Sam.

More than half a year ago, because the two of them had gone through a journey to save the world together, the excitement had accelerated their hormone secretion, and they also had secrets they needed to protect together.

Thus, the two people who were originally just ordinary neighbors and classmates, and who didn't usually interact much, established a boyfriend-girlfriend relationship not long after returning home from Las Vegas.

It's just that...

"Hi, Mikaela..."

Sam was carrying a thick stack of books, panting as he jogged up to her, and asked with a smile, "How did you do on the test just now?"

"This guy!"

Mikaela couldn't help but want to roll her eyes at her boyfriend. After dating for more than half a year, she was now very certain that Sam was a typical case of high intelligence and low emotional intelligence.

"Sam..." She took a breath, calming the rise and fall of her chest, "You should know, I've never gotten higher than a B!"

"Uh!"

The smile on Sam's face stalled, and he turned his head to the side in some embarrassment, trying to alleviate the awkwardness caused by his lack of emotional intelligence.

It was indeed as Mikaela said; she was not the type of girl with excellent grades, and the reason she was able to get into this high school in the first place was that she had barely passed the minimum threshold.

Moreover, unlike Sam, who was somewhat of a nerd, in the two-plus years since high school, Mikaela, who was very outstanding in both appearance and figure, had always been the object of pursuit by the boys around her who were in the stage of excessive hormone secretion.

Therefore, her grades in school were very poor, basically all below a C, and most of them were marked with red lines.

Mikaela looked at him with a smile, though some unavoidable, hidden anxiety appeared in her eyes.

After the two officially started dating, although she quickly felt that her new boyfriend Sam was far less adept at sweet talk and creating romance than the boys who had pursued her in the past, he was indeed a knowledgeable, magical boy who was far beyond his peers and very charming.

In Sam's home, a Mechanical Life from outer space who called himself 'Bumblebee' had been disguising himself as his sports car to protect Sam by his side.

Although Mikaela's contact with Bumblebee was far less than her boyfriend's, she was still very curious about these mechanical warriors who had once performed amazingly in Las Vegas.

But precisely because of this, this girl, who came from a single-parent family and was far more mature than girls of her age, didn't know when it started, but a sense of crisis that made her restless had grown in her heart.

Sam was becoming more and more outstanding. He used to be a famous nerd in class, with grades basically all above a B, and some subjects could even reach an A.

Then, after the new semester started, his performance won the praise of many teachers in the school. In the first semester of his senior year, Sam got excellent grades in all subjects, basically locking in an admission spot at a certain national university in advance.

If he could maintain his current state in the second semester, even without a school recommendation, Sam would have a chance to get into an Ivy League school based on his own grades alone, and from then on, reach the pinnacle of his life.

Under these circumstances, even Mikaela, who had been very confident in her figure and beauty for a long time, couldn't help but develop an emotion called 'inferiority'.

Her grades were poor, her family conditions were not good, and her father even had a criminal record for stealing cars. Although Sam had once personally asked the Defense Minister, whom he had met once, to help her wipe away her father's past criminal record, none of this could stop one fact: Mikaela had keenly sensed something her idiot boyfriend hadn't noticed yet—how much longer their sweetness could last.

"Sorry..."

Although Sam's emotional intelligence was not high, he was not an idiot after all.

His mouth opened and closed, and he soon seemed to think of something, saying to Mikaela with a smile: "The test is over, how about we find some time to go out and relax?"

Mikaela shrugged with a smile, "Sam, you know, my dad just opened a repair shop recently, and I have to go help out in my spare time!"

Seeing the undisguised disappointment on her boyfriend's face, she thought for a moment before saying: "... However, if it's next weekend, I should have time."

"Then it's a deal!" Sam agreed without hesitation, "... Uh, I remembered, my cousin has a cabin by the lake in Aige Town, why don't we go there then!"

"Okay!"

Mikaela agreed with a smile, and the two walked to the private lockers inside the school building, chatting and laughing.

Similar to Japan, the vast majority of schools in Europe and America set up private lockers for students to store personal items.

It's just that, in Japan, besides lockers set up in the gymnasium, the lockers in the school building are for students to store their shoes; while the private lockers provided to students by most European and American schools are used to store books and other items.

The school where Mikaela and the others were prohibited students from using electronic products during class, so although students were allowed to bring mobile phones into the school, they needed to store them in their private lockers during class.

School was over, and Sam and the others came to the lockers not only to put away some books they didn't intend to take home, but also to retrieve their mobile phones.

"Today is the seventeenth, right?"

Arriving at her locker, Mikaela suddenly asked her boyfriend Sam with a slightly strange expression, as if she had thought of something.

"Yeah!"

Hearing this, Sam answered her affirmatively, and at the same time, his expression also became strange.

After the two looked at each other, Mikaela took the locker key out of her pocket, took a light breath while holding it: "Then, I'm going to open it!"

"Wait a second..."

Seeing that she was about to insert the key into the locker's keyhole, Sam suddenly called out to her and stepped forward to the locker.

"Let me do it!"

Mikaela looked at him, smiled and withdrew her fingers from the key, nodded, and took a step back.

Sam took a deep breath. Having some Native American ancestry in his lineage, his skin now looked slightly brownish-red due to his nervous mood.

He reached out and quickly grasped the key, then looked at Mikaela, gave his girlfriend, who was looking at him with concern, a reassuring look, and twisted the locker open.

"Squeak!"

The somewhat rusty alloy door made a harsh metallic sound the moment it was opened.

However, no one paid attention to it, because the moment the locker door was opened, both of their gazes fell on a brand-new Nokia mobile phone inside.

"N78!"

Mikaela's eyes lit up. Like the vast majority of American girls, she paid close attention to fashion and those luxury goods she couldn't afford, so naturally, she knew how popular this hit mobile phone, which had just been released by the world mobile phone giant Nokia last month, was right now.

What a pity!

Her eyes quickly dimmed again, because her boyfriend Sam skillfully took the phone in front of them and flipped it to the back of the device.

The next moment, a pattern that Mikaela and Sam were all too familiar with appeared in their eyes.

"Decepticon!"