I shuffled my feet, nervous. I still hadn't dealt with my feelings for him, but I knew that they were strong, since my heart was beating a mile a minute.

Sam rubbed the back of his neck, like he didn't know what to say either or at least how to start.

"Marissa, I want you to know that I…feel…t-the…same way," he finally said, breathing out the last two words. I blinked, as I wasn't sure that I heard him right…

"You what?"

Sam sighed, and then grabbed a fistful of my hair to pull my lips to his. I froze, in shock, but then I melted against his touch. His lips were soft, and unsure, since this was his first kiss as well as mine, but it just felt so right, like nothing else mattered anymore except me and him.

That was when I realized that maybe I really was…

Suddenly, we heard voices, and we broke apart, both of our faces flustered. Sam intertwined my hand with his and led the way toward the cafeteria, grinning like an idiot. I playfully punched him in the shoulder, as we still had to find John and Sarah, and dodge lethal, ugly aliens.

Sam barged through the cafeteria doors, dragging me along with him, and a bright light shone in our faces. Sam put up his hands, and I hovered behind him.

The light dimmed and John yelled, "Sam, Marissa, what are you guys doing here?"

"John, something flew out of the truck and your dog just shape-shifted into one of them. Sam thought it was gonna eat us!" I shot back. Sam glared at me, and I smirked.

I noticed that there was another girl standing on the other side of John, who also had long blond hair, but had blue eyes like John did. She had an annoyed expression on her face, but seemed like she kicked butt and took a lot of names. However, Sarah looked scared to death, and a little pissed off, like she was jealous or something…

"Look, here's your rock," Sam said as he threw it at John.

John caught it, surprised, and the blond girl rolled her eyes, and asked, "Who is this tool?"

I glared and snapped, "Sam's not a tool. He's my boyfriend, and I'm number five. Who are you?"

"Number six," she shot back, amused and agitated.

"Guys, focus. What flew out out of truck-"John started to ask, but then one of the monsters flew through the window, and all of us jumped out of the way. Tables, papers, and chairs flew everywhere. I couldn't see as I had been thrown under a table, but I reached out for a hand, and Sam helped me up.

John ushered Sam and Sarah through the back doors, and I urged Sam to go ahead as he would be safer there. Some of Mogadorians had found us and began shooting red beams of light at us. John and I dodged as many as we could, but then the monster roared as it began freeing itself from the entangled mess of chairs and tables.

John caught some of the beams that flew our way, and I quickly glanced between the monster and him. He nodded, to say that he would cover me.

I yelled, "C'mon!" and ran out into the hallway, urging it to come after me. I slammed into some lockers as the monster crashed through the wall, in predator mode, and I was the prey. I kept running as fast as I could, my blond hair flying everywhere.

I felt powerful, and terrified at the same time. Then, I got an idea. To slow it down, I used as much force as I could and the lockers nearby slammed against the monster. It bared its sharp teeth at me, determined to not let me prevent it from stopping it from killing me.

It grabbed one of the lockers and threw it in my direction, but I jumped over it and landed on my back. I noticed two sharp claws aiming for me, but I slithered away as much as I could. I was beginning to feel super-tired, but I couldn't give up.

The monster managed to grab me, and slam my body against the hard tile. I felt the pain shoot up my backside, and felt blood running down the side of my face. I knew that this was the time I would die…

All of a sudden, a huge weight was lifted off of me, and there were the most menacing and painful growls and snarls I had ever heard.

I turned over on my stomach and saw three large figures in the far corner of the hallway. The two figures that had come to my rescue, resembled a dog and a rat…Oh my gosh, Bernie and Rudolph!

I pulled myself off of the ground, and examined the full extent of the scene before me for a brief moment. Bernie and Rudolph were attempting to fight off the monster that was trying to overpower them. That's when I realized that they were protecting John and me from the monsters that the Mogadorians had sent to kill us.

"Good boys," I smiled before running off in the opposite direction.

Xxxx

It took me a while but I finally found the others in one of the abandoned hallways on the main floor. Sam smiled, relieved, and engulfed me in a tight hug.

Six rolled her eyes at us, and John and Sarah smiled a little. "I'm fine, so let's just get out of here please," I whimpered as Sam wiped the blood off of my face with his bare hand.

John nodded, and Sarah took the lead. Sam picked something up off of the floor and carried it with his free arm, since his other arm was supporting me.

I glared at him when I realized what it was. "You brought a gun? Really, Sam?"

He shrugged guiltily, but excited, "What? It might come in handy. Plus, you're too injured to protect yourself. That's supposed to be my job."

I rolled my eyes at him, as Sarah opened a door for us on the other side of the auditorium. Then, we all took off running down the dark hallway onto the stadium grounds.

We all paused when we heard a loud growl behind us. The other's turned around, but I already knew what it was. "Run!" I yelled.

On cue, we took off again, but then more red beams began flying at us. One of them made a big pothole right in front of John's feet, and he tried to absorb as many as he could to keep us (well, mostly Sarah) from getting hurt.

Just in time, John absorbed a beam was aiming straight for Sarah's face. "Take them back to the tunnel!" John barked at Sam. I shook my head, as I didn't want to leave John and Six to fight, since it was my war, too.

John glared at me in an authoritive way, and I grabbed Sarah's hand as we headed back toward the tunnel. A Mogadorian ran out of the front doors, and Sam screamed, "Holy Shi-" before blasting it to pieces with his gun.

Sarah and I stared at him, astonished. He grinned happily and shrugged, "What? I play a lot of Xbox."

I laughed with him, and so did Sarah. However, our laughter was silenced when two more Mogadorians appeared. I was so sick of these guys, that I just let the anger build up. Thunder began to rumble outside, and Sam shuffled Sarah behind him. But I stepped forward, pissed off, my back sore, but unafraid.

The Mogadorians grinned, thinking that I was surrendering myself to my demise, and aimed their guns at me. I smiled a devilish smile back, and felt the electricity in my body rise to a lethal level. The Mogadorians hesitated, unsure of my next move.

"Goodbye," I whispered, before I released the electricity into their bodies, and soon they were mere ashes.

I smiled and collapsed onto the ground from exhaustion. Sam dropped the gun, and bent down beside me. We could still hear the fight going on outside, and I wasn't sure who was winning or losing.

The ground began to shake and I heard Six scream. Sarah ducked and Sam hovered over my body to protect me from the flying glass and fire that had emerged from outside.

Then, there was silence. Sarah, Sam and I looked at each other, and they helped me off of the ground. We steadily walked outside and gasped as the whole stadium and some of the school had been blown up. Specks of debris and ash, and smoke were everywhere making it difficult to see.

Sarah started grinning and that's when we saw John and Six emerging from the smoke cloud, smiles written on their faces.

AN: So yeah, there is one last chapter left in this story. I thought that this story would be a little longer, but oh well. I was really unsure of where to put the kiss, so I placed it before the battle instead so that we would have a happy moment before all hell broke loose. I am really proud of this story and really happy that a lot of people have read it and like it so far. Thanks for all of the great reviews/fav & story alerts! I have an few ideas for a sequel to this, that would go along with some of the storylines of the second book, but I might get a little more creative with it. But I won't write it if no one is gonna read it, so in your review tell me what you think! XOXO