Jake's P.O.V.

My life used to be pretty normal until one Friday night at the mall. I was there with Marco and James, Marco is short, has black hair that goes down to his neck with brown eyes, is Latin American and is short. He also is also a serious class clown, every joke he's got in his book, he'l try and dish out on you. James is taller than me. His skin so tan he won't get sunburn. Has long black curly hair, and extremely developed muscles. Then you notice those pure black eyes that just want to suck you into their endless depths. and has a deep voice that just sounds so much like the beautiful musical instrument you have ever heard. He also never uses contractions and is very intelligent.

We were going toward the bathroom when we heard someone scream over the sound of blowdryers in the bathroom "hold still!". Me and James exchanged a look and rushed in there "Hey, where are you going?" Marco said to find two kids strangling and beating to death some other kid with blue eyes and straggly blond hair. The kid saw us and said. "Flee, save yourselves!" But we were was on them both in an instant. The look on his face alone told me they were going to murder him. James looked three things. 1:determined, 2:big, and 3:out for blood. He was whaling on both of them with some unknown martial art in an instant. In two minutes he had both of them unconscious. I then said, "Are you okay?" The boy then got up coughing and looked at all of us. "Thanks guys, the name's Tobias, I'd like to go home through the construction site, wanna come with?" "Sure, why not." I said. That decision that seemed crazy and stupid right now would end up saving our lives.

We were exiting the bathroom when Tobias started talking. "You do realize that people here are eventually going to discover those two dudes unconscious in there, but-" We were walking over across the entrance of the gap when Tobias saw someone among the thinning crowd. Which was thinning because it was nearing closing time. Tobias must have known this person because he said with a relieved look on his face. "Julio" then Julio ran up to us knocking several people over, assumed a kung-fu stance and said. "Think of a number between 2 and 3, not including the numbers 2 or 3." Julio said with a serious look on his face. "2.5" Tobias replied. Me, Marco, and James exchanged a look and that was when Julio face-palmed himself and very sarcastically said. "Yes ******, the number I was thinking of was the equation 2 plus 5."

"Oh really?" Kelly butted in and appearing from nowhere. "Even if it's in a joking manner 'Julio' it's still wrong to cuss, you little troll!" julio looked offended and was probably about to say something when Cassie got between them and said. "Hey guys, cool down for a minute, it's not like we're at war." But it will be that way very soon "So where are you going?" Rachel, who was also with them said. "that doesn't look like the way you normally take to the exit."

Rachel is very pretty. Although I don't think of her that way since she is my cousin. She has blond hair and blue eyes and that very clean, very wholesome look. She's one of those people who always know the right clothes to wear and how to look like they walked just right out of covergirl magazine. Cassie, well, you could say I kind of like Cassie. Now don't expect some girl who totally outclasses Rachel in every way? No, Cassie is sort of the opposite. For one thing, Cassie is real short, black usually wears jeans or a plaid shirt, or something else real casual. She's black and wears her hair short most of the time, which I like. Cassie is more quieter than Rachel, more peaceful, like she understands everything on some mystical level.

Kelly is more like a really mad mother about other people being not vulgar. As you've seen and she's got radar ears and seriously tends to eavesdrop on conservation and when someone talks seriously inappropriately she gets into a mode you want her to get out of. And swearing in front of her is a nasty mistake that she'll make you regret. Recently she and James have been in a relationship but they are still seeing if this will work. She has freckles, large green eyes, a small nose, red hair with streaks of gray (Which she dyed).

To get home from the mall we could either go the long way around, which is the safe way. Or we could cut through the abandon construction site and hope there weren't any takers lurking around in there. My mom and Dad have sworn to ground me until I'm 20 if they ever found out that I've cut through the construction site. Sometimes I think about that one last moment. When we were still ordinary, normal, humans. Ignorant of what is really going on in the world around us. Now that is a memory. innocence remembered

Hey guys, any constructive criticism will be welcome, and I promise you all that I will make this story 'very' different yet with many similarities to the original series.

-"Two bucks. Girls are such idiots sometimes. I'd have done it for a dollar."- Marco. Animorphs, Book 14 The Unknown