Authoress's Note: Thank you to Maj Enn, KityPryde, Riza-san, and Purplestar for reviewing. And today we have a very special announcement. My Best Friend Is An Android now officially has 50 reviews! Woot! :D If you read this chapter and review it , then I'll have even more reviews. (wink wink nudge nudge) :D This chapter is also intended to be mostly humorous. Poor Erek... :) And, I am sad to say that this story has only 16 chapters. Some of you may have known that, others may not have. But don't worry, it's going to be a series, so it's not going to be finished forever. But now I have to do the countdown thing like in the real Animorphs books. ...it's countdown time...only three more chapters til the end... :D

My Best Friend Is An Android

Chapter Fourteen: Accident-prone

(Tessa's POV)

We were at Erek's house after school that day. Supposedly working on our history project. However…

"I want to see it! I want to see this underground park of yours," I begged.

Erek looked uncomfortable. "But, Tess. The other Chee don't know that you know about us."

"Why not?" I asked.

"Because… because I haven't told them. They can't know that I let another human know about the Chee. Certain people (coughcoughMariacough) would be really angry with me."

I pouted. "But, Erek, you were really mean today," I whined in the most annoying way possible. "You should let me see this park to make up for it."

"So if I show you, you won't hold a grudge about the frog juice?" Erek asked.

I had to think about that for a moment.

"Um, no. I'll still hold it against you forever. However, I might begin to forgive you if you show me the park," I teased. "By the way, that reminds me. I still haven't completely forgiven you for the whole you-not-telling-me-you-were-an-android thing. You must give me a piece of gum if you want full forgiveness."

He raised an eyebrow. "Oh, yeah? Well maybe I still haven't forgiven you from the time you threw up on me in the fourth grade."

"Hey, that's not fair; it's not as if it was my fault!" I protested. "Cause I was already feeling a little sick and then I had to eat the school's nasty food and then they made us have PE right after lunch! I couldn't help it!"

"Well, maybe I couldn't help but squirt frog juice at you after you made such a big deal over it," Erek countered.

Hmm. He did have sort of a point there.

"Okay, how about we both just forgive each other for everything and move on," I said. Erek nodded and we shook on it.

Silence for a moment. Then…

"Um… can I still have a piece of gum?" I asked tentatively. "Cause I'm all out."

He sighed, pulled a pack of gum out of his pocket, and handed me a piece.

"Thanks," I said, shoving it in my mouth. "So…?"

Erek groaned. "All right, all right! Ugh."

We walked downstairs to the basement.

"Wow," I said, shaking my head. "Just think of all the times we must have come down here when we were in first grade or so, exploring or something. And I had no idea what was underneath this."

He smiled at me. Then the floor began to drop suddenly. About five stories down, it stopped. One wall opened to reveal a hallway. Erek and I walked through it.

"Wow!" I exclaimed again.

In front of us stretched a beautiful park. Trees, grass, flowers everywhere. A clear blue stream flowed lazily through the center. Squirrels chattered in the trees above us, bees buzzed around, and butterflies floated happily. It was filled with maybe a hundred dogs, all running around and playing in sheer joy.

And there were about five Chee, like Erek. One of them came over to us. A hologram appeared around him. It was Erek's 'father.'

"Tessa?" he asked.

I nodded and said brightly, "Hey, Mr. King!"

He turned to Erek. "She found out?"

Erek nodded slowly.

Mr. King smirked, then tried to look sympathetic as he said, "Well, make sure Maria doesn't see you- er, too late."

The other four Chee were approaching us.

"Um, I have to be somewhere else right now," Mr. King said, and took off. I didn't blame him. The Chee in the front looked seriously steamed.

"EREK!" she screeched, as her hologram (an eighty-year-old woman) snapped into place.

Erek flinched. "I know, Maria, I know!" he began, but Maria cut him off.

"How did she find out? Just please tell me it wasn't another-"

"There was a car crash," I explained. "He was crossing the street and suddenly this car came and…" I trailed off as I noticed Erek glaring at me. "What? Did I say something wrong?"

"A CAR CRASH? A CAR CRASH?" Maria exploded. "AGAIN? You moron, how many times do we all have to tell you to LOOK BOTH WAYS BEFORE YOU CROSS THE STREET?"

The other three Chee smirked a little bit. Erek looked embarrassed.

"How many accidents have you been in, Erek?" she continued. "How many times have you almost given away or actually given away the secret of the Chee? Remember Egypt? Remember the block of limestone those slaves were lowering off the pyramid when you got in the way? Do you have any idea how hard it was to cover that up? And, as I recall, you were run over by a chariot in ancient Rome, a cart in Shakespearian-era England-"

"The cart wasn't my fault," Erek interrupted. "Those kids pushed me."

"And you were hit by a train in the 1870s! Remember that?"

Erek flinched hard. He rubbed his arm. "Somewhat," he said. "I remember getting hit, but right after that everything went black. I woke up like a week later."

"And what about 1908? The Model T car came out and what did you do? Run your brand new one into a lamppost. And lately you've been even worse. Remember your previous life? The first car crash, you had to fake a head injury and live in a mental hospital for a year."

"That was actually pretty fun," Erek said.

"And then another car crash. You flipped the car completely over, Erek! You had to pretend to die. And what about when the Animorphs found out about us? You were hit by a bus! And now this?" Maria shook her head and glared at him. "You shouldn't even be allowed to pass as human, in my opinion."

Erek looked at the ground. "Sorry," he said sheepishly. "But it's not really my fault if I'm like the most accident-prone person in the world, you know."

Meanwhile, during this whole conversation, I had been cracking up so hard I could barely breathe. I rested my hand on Erek's shoulder to keep myself standing.

Erek gave me a dirty look. "Shut. Up. Or. Else."

He stepped back and I collapsed on the ground, unable to stop laughing at him. I didn't think he appreciated it very much, but oh well.

Maria glanced down at me lying on the ground, made a face like she was disgusted by Erek and me, shuddered and left. The other three Chee quickly followed her.

After a few more moments of uncontrollable laughing, I finally was able to stand up.

Erek looked at me, annoyed. "Are you quite finished?"

"Yeah," I replied, and then lowered my voice to a whisper. "Dude, she is scary."

"Tell me about it," he grumbled. "In my previous life, she was posing as my mother."

I laughed again. Erek frowned.