A/N: As I mentioned before, this was my first fan fiction written a while
ago. Almost a year now. I wasn't familiar with fan fiction yet, so I made
all the chapters very short. Sorry bout that. :-)
Chapter One
*~Clarissa~*
"Come on, admit it," I urged my best friend Alexia as we headed towards Old Navy.
"Alright, alright! I like Nick!" As soon as the words had escaped from her lips, her hand flew over her mouth and her pale cheeks blushed to a bright pink. I smiled. Alexia can't keep anything from me. I know her too well.
Alexia's been my best friend since I was two. She's medium height and has pale skin and dark blonde hair. Her eyes are this odd color of green blue, with hazel-ish flecks near the center. She is kind of quiet and shy, but she has this way about her that seems to make everyone want to be friends with her.
Even though we're best friends, we don't have tons of things in common. I have dark brown hair and grayish blue eyes. My skin is kind of tan, but naturally. I'm not a lay-out-in-the-sun-for-hours type girl. I'm not shy, either, and definitely not quiet. I guess I'm kind of outgoing. My dad says I remind him of his cousin, Rachel. Always the one willing to do any suicidal stunt and always looking for a fight.
Not that I'm stupidly dare-devilish. I'm not going to go BASE jumping just for the fun of it, but I'm brave when I need to be. I also inherited a characteristic from my dad. Leadership. If I had to name a talent, it's the ability of keeping a group organized and together.
Now where were we?
"Well, you should tell him," I suggested to Alexia.
"What?"
"He's right over there, with Jamie and Shawn."
Let me explain. Nick is my 3rd cousin. He's the son of Jordan, Rachel's sister. He has brown hair and dark brown eyes. He looks a lot like my father does in pictures of him when he was our age.
His best friend is a girl named Jamie. For some reason, I always thought it was cool that they had been best friends for so long and had never had one of those "Dawson's Creek" moments where they decided they wanted to be more than friends. Which was good for Alexia, since she'd had a major crush on him since God knows when.
Jamie is somewhat short with chin length strawberry blonde hair and large, sparking green eyes. She's funny and smart and always seems to be smiling.
And then there was Shawn. ((a/n: lol I just realized that "And then there was Shawn" is the title of my all time favorite episode of Boy Meets World. I didn't even know that when I wrote this. Lol just felt like sharing that with you. Back to the story))
Shawn was always the one that was trailing behind. He was really sweet and quiet. Shy, too. He had messy blond hair and soft brown eyes. I had met my dad's friend Tobias a few times and heard stories about him from my dad. If anyone was exactly like Tobias, it was Shawn.
I have to admit something. I had this strange… I guess you would call it an attraction, towards Shawn. Not that I had a crush on him. I wouldn't call it a crush. It felt more real than that. More compelling.
"Oh my God! Do I look okay?" Alexia asked frantically.
"Alex, you look great. As always," I assured her.
"Hey guys," Jamie called when she was close enough.
"Hi, Clarissa. Hi, Alex," Nick said.
"Hey," I answered, giving Alex a nudge. She had been standing, as if hypnotized, staring a Nick.
"Oh! Hi, Nick. What's going on?" she reacted, snapping out of her trance.
"We were just gonna walk home through the construction site," Jamie answered for him.
"I don't know about this, guys. When my dad did that with his friends, he ended up in a war with mind controlling aliens," I pointed out.
Does this sound vaguely familiar yet? If not, I'll refresh your memory.
Twenty-seven years ago, my father Jake and his four friends: Rachel, Marco, Cassie, and Tobias, took a short cut home from the mall through the abandoned construction site. To make a very long story short, they got the power to morph into any animal they touched to save the world from the Yeerks, aliens that infest other beings and take over their body. They called themselves the Animorphs.
My dad and his friends defeated them, but with a great loss. My dad's cousin, Rachel, died in the Animorphs' last battle. She dies without ever seeing the free world she had fought so hard to achieve.
"Come on Clarissa, that was 27 years ago. The site isn't abandoned anymore. Elfangor's memorial is all lit up and someone's usually there putting flowers or something," Nick persuaded.
"Alright. Sure," I said nervously.
It was weird. I wasn't used to being nervous. I was usually the brave one. But this was different. I mean… the way my dad had always told me about the construction site… my friends just didn't understand what it was like for your dad to be depressed and distant all the time. I guess I kind of blamed the construction site for it. That's where it had all started…
"Don't worry, Clarissa," Shawn's soft, encouraging voice broke into my thoughts, snapping me back to reality,
"Yeah, Rissa. Any aliens come along and I'll just head to the nearest phone booth and give your dad a call," Jamie joked, smiling.
"Let's go," Nick said.
And we headed towards the construction site. Dumb or smart, good thing or bad thing? I guess you'll have to be the judge.
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A/N: It's kinda funny, looking back at this story. I think even though it's my first, it was my fav. Well, tied with me and my friend's Jurassic Park fic. Can you believe that thing got 60 sumthin reviews? I can't! lol. Anyway, please review this. It only got like 10 the first time I out it up. Thanx! :-)
Chapter One
*~Clarissa~*
"Come on, admit it," I urged my best friend Alexia as we headed towards Old Navy.
"Alright, alright! I like Nick!" As soon as the words had escaped from her lips, her hand flew over her mouth and her pale cheeks blushed to a bright pink. I smiled. Alexia can't keep anything from me. I know her too well.
Alexia's been my best friend since I was two. She's medium height and has pale skin and dark blonde hair. Her eyes are this odd color of green blue, with hazel-ish flecks near the center. She is kind of quiet and shy, but she has this way about her that seems to make everyone want to be friends with her.
Even though we're best friends, we don't have tons of things in common. I have dark brown hair and grayish blue eyes. My skin is kind of tan, but naturally. I'm not a lay-out-in-the-sun-for-hours type girl. I'm not shy, either, and definitely not quiet. I guess I'm kind of outgoing. My dad says I remind him of his cousin, Rachel. Always the one willing to do any suicidal stunt and always looking for a fight.
Not that I'm stupidly dare-devilish. I'm not going to go BASE jumping just for the fun of it, but I'm brave when I need to be. I also inherited a characteristic from my dad. Leadership. If I had to name a talent, it's the ability of keeping a group organized and together.
Now where were we?
"Well, you should tell him," I suggested to Alexia.
"What?"
"He's right over there, with Jamie and Shawn."
Let me explain. Nick is my 3rd cousin. He's the son of Jordan, Rachel's sister. He has brown hair and dark brown eyes. He looks a lot like my father does in pictures of him when he was our age.
His best friend is a girl named Jamie. For some reason, I always thought it was cool that they had been best friends for so long and had never had one of those "Dawson's Creek" moments where they decided they wanted to be more than friends. Which was good for Alexia, since she'd had a major crush on him since God knows when.
Jamie is somewhat short with chin length strawberry blonde hair and large, sparking green eyes. She's funny and smart and always seems to be smiling.
And then there was Shawn. ((a/n: lol I just realized that "And then there was Shawn" is the title of my all time favorite episode of Boy Meets World. I didn't even know that when I wrote this. Lol just felt like sharing that with you. Back to the story))
Shawn was always the one that was trailing behind. He was really sweet and quiet. Shy, too. He had messy blond hair and soft brown eyes. I had met my dad's friend Tobias a few times and heard stories about him from my dad. If anyone was exactly like Tobias, it was Shawn.
I have to admit something. I had this strange… I guess you would call it an attraction, towards Shawn. Not that I had a crush on him. I wouldn't call it a crush. It felt more real than that. More compelling.
"Oh my God! Do I look okay?" Alexia asked frantically.
"Alex, you look great. As always," I assured her.
"Hey guys," Jamie called when she was close enough.
"Hi, Clarissa. Hi, Alex," Nick said.
"Hey," I answered, giving Alex a nudge. She had been standing, as if hypnotized, staring a Nick.
"Oh! Hi, Nick. What's going on?" she reacted, snapping out of her trance.
"We were just gonna walk home through the construction site," Jamie answered for him.
"I don't know about this, guys. When my dad did that with his friends, he ended up in a war with mind controlling aliens," I pointed out.
Does this sound vaguely familiar yet? If not, I'll refresh your memory.
Twenty-seven years ago, my father Jake and his four friends: Rachel, Marco, Cassie, and Tobias, took a short cut home from the mall through the abandoned construction site. To make a very long story short, they got the power to morph into any animal they touched to save the world from the Yeerks, aliens that infest other beings and take over their body. They called themselves the Animorphs.
My dad and his friends defeated them, but with a great loss. My dad's cousin, Rachel, died in the Animorphs' last battle. She dies without ever seeing the free world she had fought so hard to achieve.
"Come on Clarissa, that was 27 years ago. The site isn't abandoned anymore. Elfangor's memorial is all lit up and someone's usually there putting flowers or something," Nick persuaded.
"Alright. Sure," I said nervously.
It was weird. I wasn't used to being nervous. I was usually the brave one. But this was different. I mean… the way my dad had always told me about the construction site… my friends just didn't understand what it was like for your dad to be depressed and distant all the time. I guess I kind of blamed the construction site for it. That's where it had all started…
"Don't worry, Clarissa," Shawn's soft, encouraging voice broke into my thoughts, snapping me back to reality,
"Yeah, Rissa. Any aliens come along and I'll just head to the nearest phone booth and give your dad a call," Jamie joked, smiling.
"Let's go," Nick said.
And we headed towards the construction site. Dumb or smart, good thing or bad thing? I guess you'll have to be the judge.
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A/N: It's kinda funny, looking back at this story. I think even though it's my first, it was my fav. Well, tied with me and my friend's Jurassic Park fic. Can you believe that thing got 60 sumthin reviews? I can't! lol. Anyway, please review this. It only got like 10 the first time I out it up. Thanx! :-)
