A/N Ah! I was so surprised to get a review...Thanks! I know my formatting is weird but my computer is messed up so I don't really want to download anything right now. Well here's chapter two, enjoy! Please review! Oh and sorry if the font is big..

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"Find the square root of what now? Oh yeah, 26. Ok so first multiply the number by itself, then add the square root and you get...no! Ugh! I HATE math!" Rachel griped to herself.
She had been working on the same stupid problem for ten minutes and she wasn't getting any of it. Algebra was definitely not her favorite subject. But then again, neither was English, or Science, or...well she didn't seem to like anything in school these days. It wasn't because she wasn't smart, she had won the Packard award in spite of everything. But the war with the Yeerks had taken its toll on her. Lately, it's been all she ever thought about.
I have to save the world from freaking mind-controlling aliens! She thought bitterly to herself. Can you blame me if I don't really care about Math right now?
Not to mention there was no way she could tell her mom about why her grades were slipping.
Oh yeah like that would go well. She thought "Hey mom, I got a C in science because I'm in the process of fighting an alien race..." Yeah, right.
 A tap on her window interrupted her thoughts. Tobias! She tried not to seem too excited as she dumped her book to the side and got off the bed.
"Hey." Rachel said to the faint outline of a red-tailed hawk. She opened up the window and he came fluttering in.
Hey. he said. What's up?
"Nothing. Just trying to figure out some impossible problems." She rolled her eyes. "Do you know anything about square roots?"
Probably. He replied. There's some killer thermals over by the park, and a ton of kids hang out there. A lot of them do their homework and I've got nothing else to do but watch.
She smiled. "Do you ever try to help them?"
I've had to refrain myself a couple times. He laughed. Especially when I know that they're doing it wrong.
"It must be pretty boring though," she said softly. "I mean who else would say they read math problems for fun?"
Oh it's not just math problems. People are reading all over there. I've read some great chapters lately. He joked.
Rachel gave him a smile, but it looked more like a frown. He sighed.
Look Rachel, it's not exactly a piece of cake, but what other kid could say he can fly? You know how amazing it is, you've been up there with me. There's no way I would ever give that up. He paused and looked at her, his fierce predator's eyes meeting her equally fierce blue eyes. At least for now, ok?
"I guess." She said skeptically.
There was a slight awkward pause where both of them just looked at each other. The wind softly breezed in, making Rachel's hair shift away from her face, and ruffling Tobias' feathers.
Well what are we standing around here for? He said, forcing his voice to be light. Let's do some math!
"Yeah, yeah ok. Let's." Said Rachel, plastering a big smile on her face.
She shut the window, made her way to the bed and sunk down on the mattress. Tobias flew over to a lamp hanging over her head, and perched on it. Even though it seemed like he was far away, his hawk vision was able to see the individual threads in her comforter. Rachel picked up her math book, and turned to the page her notebook had been in.
"Ok," she sighed. "Let's get down to business. I need to figure out how to-."
Oh you're just doing that? He interrupted, looking at her notes.That's easy!
"Oh thanks." She grumbled. "I really appreciate your modesty."
He scoffed. Oh be quiet. It's really simple. Just listen.
For the next ten minutes he tried to explain what he called a "relatively effortless" problem. Unfortunately, it wasn't so effortless to Rachel.
"Ugh! I'm right back where I started. No, actually I'm behind where I started. You're explanation has caused a dumbering!
I don't think that's a word Rachel.
"See!?"
Look, just calm down ok, I mean-
"No! Don't tell me to calm down," She said frustratingly. "There's no way I'm going to be able to get this by you telling me. I wish you could show me or something but I don't think you can write with your talons!"
I could morph. He offered. Human, obviously.
"I don't want to make you morph." She said quietly, looking down.
You wouldn't be. Look, it's not that big of a deal. he said, flapping to the ground and beginning to morph. Plus you're right. Most people learn better by being showed how to solve something, not told. They've done studies on-
His thought speak stopped immediately when he was done morphing. Now he was fully boy, no longer a hawk. His dirty blonde hair hung over his dreamy eyes. Sometimes, when Rachel looked into those eyes, she wished that he were just a normal boy, normal enough for her standards anyways. But he had been a normal boy, long before this all happened, and she probably wouldn't have given him the time of day. So what changed?
"Guess I need a haircut." He said, shaking the hair from his face.
"And some pants." Rachel said, suppressing a laugh.
Tobias looked down. He was completely naked, other than a pair of old superman boxers, his morphing outfit. He remembered when he put them on, right before the battle that trapped him in a hawk's body almost forever. They were supposed to be his lucky boxers.
"Oops, sorry." He said, turning red, and wrapping his arms around himself.
"Nah, don't worry about it." She laughed. "I think Jake left some old clothes here the last time he stayed over."
She went over to her bottom drawer and dug around. Sure enough, she pulled out a pair of jeans and a gray tee shirt.
Rachel wrinkled her nose. "They're kind of out of date, but I guess they'll do." She threw them over to him.
Tobias smirked. "No Rachel, I can't wear these." He mocked a gasp. "Gray! That will never go with my eyes!"
"Ha, funny boy," she said. "If you want, I'll just take those back and you can sit in your underwear."
"For the sake of my body temperature, I guess I can deal." he joked
"Please do." Rachel said primly. "Ok now back to math."
She sidled up to the bed and sat next to him. She was about to pick up her book, but then noticed that he had goose bumps on his arms and was shivering slightly.
"You cold?" She asked.
"Yeah, a little." He admitted. "It's been awhile since of been in human morph."
She reached down a pulled up an afghan from the ground, throwing it on their legs.
"Their," she said. "Is that ok?"
"Yeah," he said, moving a tad closer to her until their knees were touching. If Rachel noticed, she didn't say anything.
They worked on math for a while, relishing their time together. It was nice to have these quiet moments, when they weren't worrying about their next mission. Tobias caught himself looking at Rachel while she was working on a particularly trying problem. Her face was set on concentration mode, and she bit her lip while she calculated some numbers. He took in her gorgeous blonde hair, and her stunning body. Everything about her was perfect, she was the entire package. Tobias remembered the time when she told him that some guy asked her out but she turned him down. In all actuality, it probably had happened more then once, so why had she turned them down? Did she really care about Tobias? In all his dreams, he never thought that he would be sitting with the most popular girl in school, in her room, on her bed even!
I bet guys would kill to be where I am right now. He thought to himself. But maybe that's why Rachel lets me come over here. Maybe she thinks I won't be one of those guys who will go after her.
 It was too much to think about. Finally, Tobias realized Rachel was talking to him and snapped out of his thoughts.
"Hello? Is Tobias in there?" She asked, waving her hands over his face.
"What?"
"You were staring at me." She said simply.
"Oh, sorry." He said, shaking his head. "It's a hawk thing."
"Right." She said, smiling. "Anyways, I finished my math. It's really easy now that I get it."
"See, I told you." He teased.
"Yeah, well thanks." She said, and leaned over and kissed him on the cheek then bent down and gathered her books up. He couldn't help himself. He broke into the goofiest grin and tried to suppress the urge to jump for joy. He knew it wasn't that big of a deal. It was just a friendly kiss on the cheek, right? The thought that Rachel liked him as more then a friend was killing him. He had to get out of there before he did something stupid like profess his undying love to her or something. He glanced at the clock. It was late.
"Hey," he said. "It's been really fun, but I'm getting tired and I only have about fifteen minutes left in my morph."
"Okay," she said, looking up. "Thanks again."
"Yeah no problem." He replied, then looked down and realized that he still had Jake's old clothes on. He started to take the shirt off and was stopped by Rachel.
"Whoa, what are you doing there Tobias?"
"I'm stripping for you obviously." She gave him a look, and he rolled his eyes. "I'm giving back the shirt, duh"
"Oh." She said. "Well then, proceed."
He snorted, and took the shirt off the rest of the way. Then he unbuckled his pants and took them off too. Before Rachel could say anything, he immediately started demorphing back to hawk. When he was done he flew up to her desk and waited there until Rachel got up and opened the window."
"I'll see you tomorrow, k?"
Yeah, see you tomorrow. Sweet dreams. And with that, he flew out the window and into the night.
She closed the window and yawned. It had been a good night. But of course any night spent with Tobias was good. She smiled as she remembered his "morphing outfit."
"I should have made him stay in his underwear," she said to herself, still smiling.
Then she packed up her things, and got ready for bed. That night she didn't really sleep, but slipped in and out of the planes of consciousness, thinking of Tobias, and realized she had the strangest desire to cut his hair.