'And one more picture...done!' Norgan smiled at his handy work. I screamed at my Yeerk, though it was not the first time that day.

My yeerk had decided that to do his job, he'd choose someone I knew at random with a machine he made. Whoever the machine showed would be the one he would convince to join the Sharing or just to be infested first. It was basically a circle with pictures of people on the edges and a small pointer that pointed to one of the photos. He could spin it to randomly choose someone.

'I can't believe you're such a bastard! Why can't you just leave my friends alone!' I sobbed, pretending to hit things in my head.

'Well, your family is also up here... But this is my job, I have to recruit new controllers. At least this way you won't think I have it out for just you. I'm choosing random people, see?' Norgan spun the circle slowly.

'Why can't you just leave humans alone? Why don't you all just ASK who wants to be a controller, instead of just taking over?'

'You forget...you wanted to be a controller.' Norgan grinned.

'But that's the point! I WANTED to be a controller! There's others that might want to be controlled...They may not like it afterwards, but you could at least ask.' I sighed and sat down. Norgan said nothing. He walked around the circle, then pushed it into the closet.

'Look, I won't use it yet. I'm going to get in trouble if I don't recruit you humans though. So I'll be using it sooner or later.' He closed the closet. I sighed in relief, glad that I could at least prepare for the worst.

'Thanks.' I said softly.

I followed the kid around school, stalking everything he did. By the end of the day, I knew which locker he had and where he used the bathroom or water fountain most often. By the end of the day, the only thing I didn't know was his name...his memories...his personality. I sighed in my head.

'I could go talk to him.' Offered Norgan.

'NO. Don't.' I said immediately.

'Why? You sit there and complain about how you won't talk to him. I could go talk to him and you won't have to worry about what to say or anything.' Norgan turned away from the kid and walked the other way. The kid was looking at them.

I didn't answer.

'Oh, damn it!' cursed Norgan. Norgan turned around with a grunt and walked towards the kid.

'Norgan, don't! Please!' I yelled, but Norgan didn't listen. He stepped up to the kid, and, with a grin, spoke.

"Hi." He said.

'Oh, nice.' I said sarcastically. 'What an original pick up line.'

'I'm greeting him, you idiot.'

"Hello." said the kid with an eyebrow raised. "I'm Alex, if you didn't know. And you're David."

"Yeah." said Norgan.

'His name is Alex?' I asked.

'You just heard him!' replied Norgan.

'Give me a break, I'm not paying attention.' I was staring at his beautiful features. He had blond hair, I saw, with dark strands of brown, and his eyes were a deep, dark blue. I felt as if I could drown in them.

"So...what do you want?" Asked Alex. He leaned on his locker.

"Uh...I guess I was wondering if..." Norgan started, but Alex finished.

"If you and I could go out?" Alex replied with a grin. I gasped.

'He's onto us!'

'So?'

"Yeah." replied Norgan with a small, shy smile. Alex laughed and, with a grin, nodded.

'Score one for Norgan!'

'You're enjoying this...' I said.

'Yes, I am. Why not?'

'Because you're an evil alien species. And I know that you're just going to end up giving him to your friends anyways.' I scoffed. 'I can't believe this.'

"Okay then." Alex leaned up and kissed me on the cheek. "It's official. I'll see you after school. Bye now!"

'The hottest guy I know is going out with me. Me, of course, being a yeerk who knows all of my feelings and how I talk and everything.'

'So techincally it is you.'

'Don't start your yeerk philosophy with me! I don't want to hear it.'

'You're extremely bipolar.' replied Norgan. 'Just a second ago, you were all bubbly and happy...now you're mad a me.'

'But you're just going to make him a controller! Why shouldn't I be mad at you?'

'Because I could be your friend...'

'YOU? A FRIEND? Ha! That'd be like making friends with the grim reaper who just found out how to use Uzis!'

'You're very good at similes.'

'I excel in literature! So what? Not like-'

"Hey, David." One of my friends, Tim, walked up, interrupting our argument. I groaned and sat down, watching Norgan do my job.

"Oh. Hey, Tim. I didn't see you today." Norgan grinned, following Tim down to the buses.

"I saw you though. You were stalking that one kid. And you finally talked to him! What's his name?"

"Alex. We're going out." Tim was my only friend who knew I was gay. He didn't seem to care either.

"Really? That's great." Tim turned to go the other way. "I gotta go catch my bus. See ya!" Tim walked off, and Norgan turned us towards our bus.

'As I was saying...'

Norgan interuppted me. 'I don't want to hear it. I would already know if I wanted to.'

I shut myself up, watching Norgan walk. He slipped past the bus, however, and walked toward the cafeteria.

'Where are you going?'

'You're not keeping track of the days anymore? It's time for the feeding.'

'Oh.' I answered simply. I sat back with a sigh, watching the world go by on cruise control.

A/N: Woo. New chapter. Now that this's done, I'm going to do the next chapter of Once More and Never Again. After that, I'm going to begin my new story, as soon as I think of a name for it. After that, I'll be multitasking, which might mean slower updates. But not to fear! It will be done:D