A/N: Uggh! My computer has really been giving me a lot of problems and we had to reprogram it. Anyways, I'm finally back. I'm almost done with this story, so if you're getting bored with it, just please bear with me.
Disclaimer: Read the other chapters, I'm not doing this again.
Bade
Sarah told us her plan. I had to admit, it was pretty good. Almost as good as one concocted by Marco the Animorph, but then again I've noticed, and I'm sure everyone else has too, that Sarah acts a lot like Marco.
"And then we go into the bathrooms and morph into our respectable battle morphs." Sarah finished.
The plan was to have one of us in our disguise morphs go into one of the Yeerk pool entrances while the rest morph fleas, and go into the bathrooms and do what Sarah just said.
"We'll have to go deep into the ear canal in order not to be fried, but it should work." Alexandria observed.
"That's true. The big question is who will go as a human?" Hope said.
We all shifted in our seats a little bit. None of us really wanted to go as human to a Yeerk pool, but unless someone came up with a better plan that was what would have to be done. All the stares turned to me and Josh.
"What?" Josh asked.
"Ha, I have immunity!" Sarah teased.
"Huh?" I asked.
"Well," Hope said with a slight smile that could only mean trouble, "Sarah and Alexandria can't do it 'cause they were at the club and we can't risk them being noticed and there is no way I can go because of Cory so…" Hope let the sentence hang.
"Crap." Josh exclaimed, "So, who goes?"
"Two out of three." I said.
"Rock, paper, scissors!" We said at the same time. He chose paper, I chose rock.
"Let's try again." I said. Once again, I lost.
"Best three out of five," I tried.
"Sorry man, you lose. You're lucky; you get to go as a human. We're stuck as fleas." Josh said as he laid back.
"Shoot, I just remembered something from history class!" Alexandria yelled.
"What?!" Hope said in a half-panicked, half-calm voice.
"You have to be human to go through the biofilters and I don't think we can risk that."
Hope sighed after a minute, "We'll have to. We'll hide in the entry way and follow through with Sarah's plan."
We all nodded.
"What else is on the agenda?" I asked.
"Nothing really. We all have battle morphs and it's pretty easy to get a flea morph." Sarah reported.
"So, how is everybody doing?" Josh asked.
"Huh?" Alexandria asked.
"You know, lets talk about stuff other than the war. It's only been a few days, we shouldn't have forgotten how this soon." We all knew that wasn't true. Our lives had changed the second we had found out about the war. Or at least the second after time started again. Even if we weren't in hiding, our lives still would have been changed radically.
"Cory is a jerk," Hope offered.
"We know that. Why don't we talk about family?" Josh said.
"Okay. I miss my mom. She was the coolest." Sarah said with a bit of a frown.
"I wonder what my dad is doing now." Alexandria asked sadly.
"Mom is probably crying right now," I sighed.
Hope was looking down and biting her lip. Her parents thought she was dead and were being controlled by evil aliens. This probably wasn't an easy conversation for her.
I broke the sadness, "Want to play twister?"
"Why? Do you want to see my butt?" Sarah asked and then in a low whisper added, "You know how jealous Hope will be."
"Sarah, no one wants to see your butt unless they're legally blind first." Alexandria snapped. It was good to see the rivalry start up again, life is almost scary without it.
"Why do they have to be blind?" Josh wondered.
"It saves time," Alexandria added simply.
"Okay, let's not play twister." Hope decided.
"What will we do then?" Josh asked.
"Uh, maybe we should just go home." I suggested.
"That seems like the best idea. I know you were just trying to get our mind off the war, but it's a part of us now and we have to accept that." Hope told Josh.
"So, we go home." I said.
"Yup," said Sarah and the meeting broke up.
"Hey, John." Hope said on our way home (we live in the same part of town).
"Yeah Julia," I replied, careful to use her fake name.
"Do you want to, oh, I don't know, come over to my house and er, you know, get something to eat."
"Sure," I said.
"Okay, its right down this way." Hope said and walked in front of me. Even in morph, she was still beautiful.
Hope stopped in front of an apartment door and grabbed the key under the welcome mat. She put the key in and stopped for a minute.
"What is it?" I asked.
"The door is already opened. I thought they weren't going to be home for a while." She said hesitantly.
"Should we go in?" I asked.
Hope shrugged her skinny shoulders, "Why not?" She twisted the door knob and stepped inside.
"Hey Julie, didn't expect you home so soon." Said who I could only assume was Cory.
"Hi Core. I thought you were going to be at a meeting." She said nonchalantly.
"We're expecting people over for dinner. Who's your boyfriend?" he asked.
"Oh, John, he's just a friend from the adoption agency."
"Ah, hey John," he waved at me. I waved back, trying to look friendly to the Yeerk.
"So, who's coming over for dinner?" Juli- I mean, Hope asked.
"Oh, some counselors at C.A.R.E. You should really join; you'd have so much fun."
Yeah, I think having a slug in my brain is fun too. I said privately to Hope.
I thought I was the only one, she replied.
"No thanks." We both said at the same time. Cory raised an eyebrow, but quickly dropped it.
"Sorry, Johnny-boy, but this is sort of a family dinner. I'm afraid you have to leave."
Someone knocked at the door. Hope went and answered this. A man with dirty blond hair and a woman who looked surprisingly like Hope stepped inside.
"Hi Cory," said the woman.
"Hi Rachel, hi Tobias, how are you?" Cory asked back.
I saw Cory flinch slightly. Tobias and Rachel had slight sneers on their faces. And Hope…
Well, Hope, inexperienced with hiding facial expressions, looked like she was about to cry.
A/N: from now on, all the chapters belong to Hope and only Hope. I'm going to start another separate series soon which I hope you will enjoy.