Rachel
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"Something that's gonna rock your world," said Tobias
"Rock my world?" I asked incredulously. "Doesn't that sound a little corny?"
"Well…" he pondered. "It sort of does-but it will. "
"Well, what is it?" I asked him.
"I did it. I did what the andalite said, and I morphed into my cat."
There was total silence for at least a full 20 seconds. I didn't want to think about the construction site, because I had just witnessed a gruesome death, and I barely even got out there alive.
Tobias started to explain about his morphing experience, but then I stopped him. A strange feeling had just washed over me, it told me that not to talk on the phone about this.
"Um…Tobias, I don't feel like talking about this right now. Let's all meet up at Cassie's tomorrow at around noon with everyone including those 2 jerks, Allen and Colin," I said.
"Yeah, fine," he said sounding surprised. "But, I don't know where she lives."
"Don't worry I'll show you, we'll walk together," I told him.
"Okay," he said nervously, "I'll see you tomorrow." And then he hanged up.
After that I called Cassie to see if we could all meet up at her house. She said ok, but we had to hang outside because she had some chores to do. Next I had to call Allen because I knew if Allen came, then his sneaky little friend would come too. I looked his last name up in the phone book, found it, and then dialed the number.
Allen picked up the phone, "What do you want?"
"It's me Rachel."
"I knew you would call me, I know you like me, so you wanna catch a movie or something?" he said in a very cocky voice.
I couldn't believe this guy. I angry and disgusted that this guy even thought that I would go out with him. I was going to shout my brains out to this jock, but then I realized that it wouldn't make him go with us to Cassie's barn, and besides I still had that weird feeling that I shouldn't reveal anything about the andalite.
I put on a fake ditzy voice, "Sure, but let's meet up at Cassie's Barn. Bring Colin too."
"Who's Cassie? And why should I bring Colin. It's just gonna be you and me, not many girls have had the pleasure to be with me you know."
I struggled not to show my anger and frustration and tried not to think what I was about to say. "Cassie's the girl who was with me tonight, she lives in the barn a mile from here. Bring Colin, so it could be like a double date, but don't tell him that."
"Oh, okay. I'll bring him. I always knew that Cassandra girl was desperate.
That did it. NO ONE disses my best friend "Listen you fuc-" I began, but then he hung up.
I decided to go to sleep after that to shake it off. The next day I walked to Tobias' house. When I arrived, his Uncle kept yelling at me for no reason. It took Tobias 10 minutes to come out because he had to calm his uncle down. Then we started walking silently together towards Cassie's house.
"So, are you going to tell me about your morphing experience?" I asked breaking the silence.
"Shouldn't we wait till we get to Cassie's house?" he asked.
"Well I'm sort of anxious to know," I replied.
A dreamy look washed over his face, his eagerness barely concealed. "It was soooo cool. It didn't hurt or anything. I was petting him, and thinking about the andalite and everything. So, there I was, just sitting on my bed, thinking about it. Concentrating. Thinking about becoming my Dude. I looked down at my hand." He grinned at me. "Do you know what I saw?"
I shook my head slowly. "I don't know."
"I had fur, and the real Dude clawed me up pretty good, that I had to put him out side."
This was getting weird. I still couldn't believe he turned into his cat, but the look in his eyes were bursting with enthusiasm.
"I kept concentrating on changing," Tobias said," And soon I was fully cat. You have no idea what it's like. Being a cat is so…it's hard to describe. You're strong, agile, and energetic! All this coiled up power. I jumped onto my dresser, it was only 3 feet high but to a cat it's jumping 30 feet up!"
He stopped suddenly and looked at me. "You don't believe me, do you?"
"Well…." I began.
"But it is true, and you know it," he interrupted. "All of it is true, the morphing, the andalite, the invasion. And we are the only ones who could stop it. We were given a gift, and I don't know about you, but I'm going to use it like the andalite hoped we would."
We kept walking, after full 10 minutes of silence; Tobias broke it by asking me a question.
"How'd you convince Allen and Colin to come along?"
I winced, not really sure I wanted Tobias to know the answer. "I sort of lied to Allen saying that I wanted to have a date with him, and that he would meet us at Cassie's house. It was the only way, because jerks like those kids wouldn't have come if I told him we were having a council of war."
"That was the hardest thing for me to do. It was hard to go to sleep thinking about it because I was scared of having nightmares about it. And when I woke up I had to shower at least 5 times," I said.
"Allen? That's just nasty," said Tobias with a disgusted look on his face. "Do you think that they would join the fight if we told them about the morphing powers? Do you think they should be trusted?"
"No, of course not," I said bluntly. "It's just that, even if we do fight against this invasion then we'd need all the help we can get."
We finally arrived at Cassie's house, she said she would meet us outside but she wasn't there. We walked towards her barn just waiting for a couple of minutes when we saw a horse gallop across the green. Its black mane was flying in the warm breeze. I didn't see any rider.
The horse slowed, trotting closer, and suddenly I had a strange feeling about the horse. The horse began to melt. The brown eyes became slightly smaller. The long muzzle became a human mouth. It smiled at us.
"Hey kids," it said in Cassie's voice.
A/N: Okay, okay. This chapter had nothing to do with the story, but it just showed the developing relationship between Rachel and Tobias. I'm not a romance writer, I like action as much as the next guy, but I had to do something. This chapter is basically not one of my favourites, but the next one should be better. This story should be finished before July because I'm only going up till chapter 12 but I'm not sure because I also have to work on "The Confrontation". So, anywayz see you in the next chapter!!!!
p.s. Maybe some familiar characters might appear. Hmmmmmm.