AN: Here's the final chapter. Thank you to everyone who has put this story on their alert or favorite lists, as well as to everyone who has reviewed. I hope you guys like the ending!

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Knowing the Truth, Living a Lie

John's POV

I look up to see a furious Sarah Hart glaring back.

It seemed like forever that I just sat there, staring at her, at a loss for what to say and how to start this conversation.

"Well?" she said, anger prominent in her voice. "I left you over 15 messages! Why haven't you called back? I needed to talk to you and you just ignored me!" By now, the few people who weren't already staring at me stopped whatever they were doing to pay attention.

Sarah was really mad, and who could blame her. After watching her boyfriend almost die and finding out that he wasn't even human, then being ignored by him for the next 24 hours, she was sure to be a little on edge.

"Sarah, I'm sorry." I said sincerely, hating the way she was glaring at me. "I've just been afraid."

"Afraid?" She said skeptically, "Afraid of what?"

I sighed, beginning to speak, "I was afraid of what you would say to me when we finally did talk, of how you would react. If you don't want to be with me anymore just say it and get it over with. I can't take much more of this waiting." I said, my words tearing at my heart as I hoped with all my heart that she wouldn't break up with me. But what did I expect? Of course Sarah wouldn't want to be with me now that she knew I was an alien.

Her eyes widened at my words and then softened, "Break up with you? Now why would I do that?" she said

I stared at her for a couple of seconds, completely bewildered, before saying, "I'm an alien. I'm not human! Why would you want to be with me?"

"John," Sarah began softly, but with a sort of conviction in her voice, "when I look at you, I don't see and alien, I don't see Number Four. I see John, the boy I love." She said, her eyes begging me to believe her.

Standing up, I pulled her into a tight embrace and whispered, "I love you so much." in her ear as she held on to me tightly. I moment later, we pulled slightly away, and kissed softly, the kiss expressing all the feeling that can not be put into words. I hear catcalls and whistling and Sarah blushes as we pull apart, sitting down to eat our lunches while holding hands under the table.

The rest of the weak passes by the same. In the morning, everyone is staring. A few more people have had the courage to come up to me and thank me for saving there lives. During classes, there is less staring, but about half the time is still devoted to watching me. After school is when I can have peace in knowing that my every move is not being scrutinized by someone or another.

Sarah comes over often, and her parents seem to be okay with me being an alien. They're very fascinated by Lorien and Henri tells them stories about it when they come over for dinner on Wednesday. However, all this doesn't truly matter to me. Most of the time, I'm just so happy and relieved that Sarah finally know who I am that I don't think about much else. Not that I didn't think about her most days before she found out abut me. I should have known that my happiness wouldn't last long.

On Friday, I went to my first class and the students only glanced at me a couple of times. I hoped with everything I had that things were finally getting back to normal. After an entire weak of being stared at like I was some attraction at a zoo, people might finally be getting used to me and seeing that I really wasn't that different from them. Well, except for the superpowers and having to defend the Earth from evil aliens hellbent on slaughtering the rest of my race and destroying the world... Ya, other than that, I'm just like them.

During lunch, I sat at my usual table with Sarah and Sam, making plans for the weekend. Suddenly, girl I have never seen before stands on a table in the center of the cafeteria and everyone looks at her, shocked into silence. As far as I can tell, no one knows her. She's blond and is wearing all black.

She seems to be searching for someone or something as she stands there, looking around us before saying, "Number Four?" She has an Australian accent.

Muttering breaks out everywhere and some people on the edge of the cafeteria move closer to the doors, obviously not wanting to be trapped in here if this is another Mogadorian attack, but also too curious to leave just yet. Sarah and Sam, along with some others are staring at me, fear clearly written across their faces. In all my visions of the Mogadorians attacking Lorien, I had never once seen a female Mog. This, however, did not cause me to be any less cautious of her. In fact, I became more weary because of it.

Still sitting down, I say, "Who's asking?" drawing her attention over to me.

"Are you Number Four?" She asks, looking at me closely.

"I might be." I replied, wanting to know who she was before revealing myself to her. "I'll answer your question if you answer mine. Who are you?" I said clearly, apprehension in my voice.

"I am Number Six." At her words, there were many shocked gasps because who would have expected a small town like Paradise to hold two of the Lorien nine?

My eyes widened at the revelation. This explains the strange bond I was feeling toward her.

"So,"She said, "Are you Number Four?"

Standing up, I nodded, panic overtaking me as she hopped down from the table and started walking toward me. If she came near me, the spell would be broken and any of the Loric could be killed.

"Stop!" I said backing away from her, and she stopped 10 feet away from me, raising her eyebrow at me. "What the hell do you think you're doing? Why did you find me? If you come near me the spell will be broken, and everyone else will be able to be killed!" I exclaimed, thinking that she wasinsane if she tried to seek me out like this.

"We need to unite. It's time. I've been searching for you for over two years now. They know that we're developing our legacies and there are six of us left. They know that by the time they find all of us, we'll have developed all our legacies. They want to take over Earth before that happens." She said seriously, trying to get me to understand and trust her.

"How do you know this?" I asked quietly, "Where's your proof?" I was skeptical of her story. How could she possibly know what the Mogadorians were planning. She sighed, taking a step closer to me, but I took one back saying, "Stay away from me."

"I'm not going to touch you." She said, "I'm just going to show you how I know the Mogadorians' plan. And all of a sudden, the entire cafeteria goes dark and I hear screams from some of the surrounding people as I desperately try to see through the darkness, my shock making me forget for a moment about my hands.

But slowly, small lights seem to come on at irregular spaces everywhere. Everyone in the room is soon illuminated by a soft glow from all around. Number Six has not taken a step toward me. Her eyes are closed in concentration and I realize that she's making this happen. The lights suddenly blur around us as one light comes closer, becomng larger and lager until I realize that its a star. Number Six is making the universe unfold before us.

I start to see planets come closer to us until one is right next to Six. At first I think it's Earth, but with a closer look, I recognise it as Lorien. Six opens her eyes and looks at me sadly.

"Lorien, ten years ago." She says, looking at it.

"Wh-" I begin to say, but Six cuts me off.

"Just watch." She replies.

Nothing happens at first except Lorien rotates slowly, but in a few seconds, I see large spacecrafts coming toward the planet. There are dozens of them, a whole fleet. They surround Lorien and about a minute later, explosions can be seen going off all around the planet. It was dying. I closed my eyes on anger and grief.

"Why are you showing me this?" I whisper, refusing to look at the dying planet, "I've seen this before, why are you showing me this now?"

"You'll understand in a few minutes." She said, watching the attack sadly, "And there we go." Six nodded her head toward the spacecraft with the tail of blue energy trailing behind it.

Suddenly Lorien became smaller and smaller as the lights blurred around us once again, and a few seconds later, we came upon a planet looking just like Lorien, but I knew that this was Earth.

"This is what's happening right now." She said indicating the four spacecrafts that were circling Earth. "Don't you see?" She exclaimed as the cafeteria lights came back on and Earth faded away into nothing, "It started just like this on Lorien! They gathered their ships and surrounded the planet, waiting a couple of months before attacking. They're doing it again Four. You know what happened to our people and our planet. We can't let it happen here too. We need to unite." She finished, looking at me expectantly.

I looked back at Six, her determination reflected in my own face. But then a thought struck me. Remembering the note I read while rescuing Henri from his kidnappers, I said, "They're trailing seven. And nine is being tracked too. If we unite, they could kill them."

Six looks concerned at this before saying, "I hope they can handle themselves because uniting is our only option. If we can get to seven and nine before the Mogs, we can help them. The Mogs won't know that the spell has been broken so they'll have no reason to attack them. It's the only way." She finished, and I nodded, taking a few steps toward her.

She walked the rest of the way toward me and we both stuck our hands out, putting out palms together. Our hands seemed to be stuck together for a couple of seconds as the spell broke, and then it was over. Any one of us could be killed now.

"Do you have a Cepan?" Six asked and I looked and her in confusion.

"Of course, don't you?" I said.

Six looked down for a moment before meeting my eyes and saying, "No."

Realization dawned on me and I looked at her sadly, "I'm sorry." I said, not knowing what else to tell her.

"It's in the past." She replied, "I'll get my revenge on them." I could see the fire in her eyes and didn't doubt her at all. She would kill any Mogadorian that got in her way. "Let's go." She said, "We have to start moving if we want to get to seven and nine in time."

At her words, I realised that I would have to leave Paradise, Ohio. I would have to leave my home. I knew it would happen one day, but I never tried to think of it to much. Now that I have to leave, all the painful thoughts that I've been ignoring since coming to Paradise bubbled up to the front of my mind. I have to leave Sam, the only real friend I've ever had. Even worse, I have to leave Sarah. Sarah, the one girl that I've ever loved, and the only girl I ever will love. I feel like something is squeezing my heart and twisting my gut as I come up to Sam and Sarah.

"John," Sam says, pain evident in his eyes, "be safe out their. I'm really gonna miss you." At this, he hugs me and I hug back, wishing I didn't have to leave. He lets go of me a second later and says, "Go kick some Mogadorian butt okay?" A small smile appears on his face as I nod. Sarah steps toward me, tears shining in her eyes.

"I'm so sorry I have to leave Sarah." I say and she takes a shuddering breath, hugging me as tight as she can. "I wish I could stay like this forever." I whisper into her ear as I rest my head on her shoulder and she finally lets her tears run down her face, my shirt soaking them up. I hold her for a long time before she pulls back and takes my face in her hands.

"I love you John. Never forget that." Her eyes burned with such conviction and sadness that I couldn't take it anymore and crushed my lips to hers in a slow, but passionate kiss.

When we pulled apart, I leaned my forehead on hers, breathing heavily and looking deeply into her eyes. "I love you too Sarah." I say, "I always will. And when this is over, when the Mogadorians are gone, I'll come back for you. I will always come back for you, I promise." I said; I would make sure that I saw her again one day. I had to keep that hope with me or I wouldn't be able to take the pain. "Bye beautiful." I said one last time.

She pulled my face closer and kissed me hard and quick, "Bye handsome." More tears ran down her face as I let go of her and stepped away.

Six was by the doors of the cafeteria, not wanting to intrude on my goodbyes. I took one last glance at Sam and Sarah, then started to walk toward Six, not looking back. I showed Six the way to my home and once everything was explained to Henri, we packed up and were on the road within an hour. I didn't know where we were going, but wherever it was, I was ready to face my destiny.

AN: So there it is! The last chapter of Knowing the Truth, Living a Lie. I hope you guys liked the story and I want to thank everyone who took the time to read through it. Tell me what you thought? ~Oreny19