Okay, I don't own Animorphs, or anything else recognizable in this fic. Also, I do not own any other stories that I may bring up in this fic. Such as Melethiel's 'Sugar Mice' or 'The Animorphs Characters, Your Very Own Manual' by PowerPen. I hope it's alright if I used your fics in this, if not I'll change it.

Hello, my name is Alex. I was at the arcade with Josh, my best friend, and Audrey, my sisters best friend. Alyssa, my sister, and her other friend Katherine had gone shopping while me and Josh played in the arcade, and Audrey decided she'd hang out with us instead of going shopping. Audrey just isn't that kind of girl.

Anyway, I was playing Soul Caliber 2 with Audrey and Josh watching, when I suddenly got game over.

"Hah! I told you you couldn't beat him!" Josh high fived Audrey.

"Now, why don't you let a professional show you how to play against this dude," Audrey shoved me out of the way and hit New Game. "Hey, I need a quarter."

Josh pulled one out of his pocket and inserted it. "You owe me, Audrey,"

"So? You owed me for that rude remark about me being a chick,"

"Just keep the stupid quarter."

She smiled innocently and picked her character. "First off Alex, you picked Rapheal. He's like the wimpiest ever. What you do is you pick her," She picked a chick that looked like she was from brazil. "She can kick some serious butt,"

"I'd like to see it happen," I said, then turned to Josh. "Bet you and her five dollars that she can't do it. If I loose I give both of you five bucks, but if I win you give me money. Deal?"

Josh smiled, "I up it to ten dollars, and it's a deal!" We shook hands and Audrey shook her head. "I just made an easy ten bucks."

She took out Rapheal, then Taki, then more until she made it to the boy I was trying to beat. Valdo.

She lost the first round, won the second.

"You might as well just give me my twenty dollars," I smiled. But then she...

She won.

"Ha! In your face!" She jumped up and down, then looked at me. "I'll take my ten dollars now,"

"You cheated! There's no way you could've won that without cheating!" I objected as I pulled two tens out of my wallet. I gave one to Audrey, the other to Josh. Audrey even had the nerve to hold it up to the light to make sure it wasn't counterfeit.

That's how Aly and Kat found us.

"Alex, did you make another bet against Audrey?" Aly asked as they came over, hands laden with bags from The Limited, Gap, Old Navy, and Clair's.

"Yeah, and I just lost my allowence on her and Josh. Some friends!" I accused, and then they started laughing.

"Hey Josh," We turned around and saw Josh's girlfriend, Cady, walking towards us with her friend Carman. Carman is also one of our friends from school.

"Hey Cady, hey Carman." Audrey said. "I wanna go spend my ten dollars, Carman, wanna go with me to Hot Topic?"

"Sure!" Carman agreed, black curls bouncing. They walked off, more than likely to go buy a Pirate's of the Carribbean bracelet or some other thing with crossbones.

Just then some dude, he looked familiar, came up to us. "Hey Josh, how's it goin'?"

"I'm doing all right, Tom. Oh, everyone, this is Tom Berenson, and he's my next door neighbor. Tom, that's my best friend, Alex, his sister Alyssa, her friend Katherine, and you already know Cady. Audrey and Carman just ran off." Josh introduced us, and I got bad vibes off this guy. I know, I know, what a hippy thing to say.

"You know, Josh, we could benefit from having this many new people join the Sharing, why don't you all come tonight? It's on the beach." Tom smiled, and it seemed cold. "We're having barbeque. Oh, and Jake said he'd bring his friends too."

"We'll think about it, nice to see ya Tom, but we need to bail. You know, parents and all. Plus we have to go find Audrey and Carman." Josh said and started to make his way out of the arcade, and we all followed.

"Cool, I'll see you tonight?"

"Maybe, bye!" We all hurried toward Hot Topic to find Audrey and Carman. Alyssa had a puzzled glance on her face.

"What is it Aly?"

"Berenson... it sounds so familiar... I can't place it!" She put both hands on either side of her head and pretended to rack her brain. "I need to remember... and the Sharing sounded familiar too."

Well, we walked all the way to Hot Topic and found Audrey and Carman easily. When Alyssa asked Audrey about the Sharing, Audrey gave her a dumb stare.

"How can you not remember that, Aly? When we were thirteen we couldn't shut up about it. Let me give a few hints: Does Yeerk ring a bell?"

Aly shook her head no.

"Andalite?"

"Nope, nada."

"What about the name Marco? Does that bring anything back?"

Alyssa nodded her head yes. "Yeah!" Then her face clouded. "Oh man, that was the Tom Berenson! The!!!"

Audrey went pale. "Oh crap, Aly... this is not good!"

"Look, can we just leave the mall? I'd prefer to actually make it home before having to run into that Tom dude again." I said, noticing that Josh and Cady and Carman had rushed ahead of us. "Come on, let's go!" We all ran to catch up.

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We were on our way home when I heard something come up behind me. I looked around, but saw nothing. I kept going, thinking I was getting paraniod when I heard it again. Suddenly I heard,

"Get them!" And then it all faded.