Chapter 2
My name is Rachel. Something about the boy, standing there with his hair flopping down towards his face a little bit and his hands in his pockets, caught my eye. He was kind of handsome. And he seemed somehow familiar.
Who exactly is "me"? Well, I'm Rachel Berenson. Tall, blonde, shopping-crazed. Nobody finds my obsession with the mall funnier than I do. I love gymnastics, but I'm too tall to be good. People say I'm pretty, but I don't know, and I don't really care. I was in Washington, D.C., on a class trip. We were at the Mall—not my kind of mall, of course, it wasn't the shoppping sort, but the famous grassy area or whatever.
I looked away as one of my good friends, Melissa Chapman, snapped her fingers in my face. "Hello?" she said. "Earth to Rachel! I know this whole history lecture is boring, but we're gonna have a pop quiz on it—my cousin told me that they did last year when she went."
"Shhhh . . ." I whispered, focusing on the boy again. "Do you see that boy? The one with the blond hair and the green Abercrombie shirt?"
"Oh my gosh wait a minute. Do you know who that is?"
"Uh-uh, who?"
"That's Tobias Fangor! You know, the son of Alan Fangor, the gazillionaire? Whose business competes with Microsoft? He is SO looking at you! Cute, isn't he?" Melissa chattered.
"Definitely," I agreed.
I couldn't shake the feeling that I knew him from somewhere. I just tried to convince myself that I had seen a picture of him in Newsweek with his father. But I didn't believe myself. Not for a second.
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Hi guys, sorry that was so short! I'm SHORT of inspiration, ha ha ha . . . actually I do sort of know where this is going, I'm just sort of getting temporary writers' block for the individual chapters . . . do you know what I mean? OK, I'm going to stop my babbling.
Almost all of you were right—Neforat and the other players made the Yeerks a symbiotic species, instead of keeping them parasitic. I said that in there, but it was easy to miss. I wanted to see how many of you caught that. Good job!
Keep on reviewing, and give me any advice you have on where you'd like this to go. Don't worry, there will definitely be much more T/R and some J/C! :-)