A/N: Hey all, I hope you all enjoyed the last chapter. As I am leaving for Vacation on Monday and won't be back until that weekend, I'm going to triple post today, and then I'm going to hafta do some major typing, so maybe I'll bring my laptop with me so all I hafta do is send everything to my beta. :D I hope you all enjoy the following chapters, I'll address reviews at the end of the last chapter.

Chapter 22

Rachel

Tobias and I sat downstairs on the couch. We turned on the TV and left it on some day-time talk show. Neither of us were paying any attention to it. I was too busy studying Tobias and he was too busy pretending nothing was wrong. His cheeks were slightly flushed and his forehead had a thin sheen of sweat on him, despite the fact it was relatively cool in the house. His earlier episode on the stairs had scared me. It made me think that maybe he had been injected with the Yeerks disease and he was hiding it from me. It's not the first time he's hidden his problems from me and it probably won't be the last.

Tobias's face turned to me looked into my eyes and I noticed a tiredness behind his hazel orbs that I never noticed before.

"I'm fine." He told me again, sounding slightly annoyed.

"Stop lying to me." I said and continued to stare into his eyes. He sighed.

"Look, I know that dizzy spells don't just happen, but I feel fine now. I probably just moved wrong or something. It happens." Tobias reasoned. I stared at him skeptically. His reasoning was too logical to be true. I sighed and decided to drop the subject. Knowing it would just lead to an argument and a battle of wills that I didn't have the energy to fight at the moment. After the day before, all I wanted was to spend as much time as possible with him. It didn't have to be in any adult way, I'll take just sitting on the couch staring blankly at the TV. I was content as long as I was with him. Though the later option had crossed my mind several times; but I knew we weren't that far in our relationship. Tobias is still working on not flinching when we hold hands and I was working on being more open with him. It always seems Tobias knows exactly what to say to make my heart melt, but I never have those right words ready for him. I guess it'll all work out in the end. I glanced quickly at the clock and stood up abruptly, causing Tobias to startle.

"Sorry, oh gosh! I can't believe the time!" Tobias looked at me quizzically.

"I still have over a hour in morph…"

"No! I'm not talking about that! Jordan and Sarah will be here soon!" I panicked slightly. I could not let my sisters catch Tobias here. My mom already thought I was having sex with Jake, I don't want her to think I'm having sex with Tobias. Tobias looked at me, slightly amused, or maybe he was cringing…it's hard to tell with him.

"I can't let them see you! My mom already thinks I'm having sex with Jake…"

"WHAT?"

"long story."

"Yeah.." He muttered, trying to work out what I said in his mind.

"Come on!" I grabbed his hand and shoved him up the stairs when the front door opened. I froze.

"Rachel!" Jordan called, then saw me half way up the stairs. I prayed she didn't catch a glimpse of Tobias, or hear the stairs creak as he carefully made his way upstairs to my room. I turned around and hoped my sisters didn't notice my slight look of panic.

"Hey Jordan, how was school?" I asked, realizing my mistake as soon as I said it. Jordan looked at me skeptically.

"Since when do you care how school was?" She asked me. I shrugged.

"I can't care about my sister?" I demanded. Before she could answer, Sarah ran up to me and hugged me. "Rachel!" She yelled. Sarah was still too young to care if I acted slightly uncharacteristically with them. But Jordan, well, she could sense trouble. It was really annoying.

"What have you been up to?" She asked me.

"Just chillin." I said, which wasn't a complete lie. Jordan studied me for a moment before heading up the stairs. I really hoped Tobias was gone or hidden.

"Rachel!" Sarah called as she tugged on my jeans. I knelt down to look her in the eyes.

"yes Sarah?"

"Can you help me with my homework? It's hard." She said, looking at me with those puppy eyes she has had perfected for years.

"yes, I will. I just have to go and check on something real quick, you get started without me and I'll be back in a second." Sarah nodded enthusiastically and ran into the kitchen, her bookbag bouncing on her back.

I headed up the stairs and headed into my room and closed the door behind me.

"Tobias?" I said in a stage whisper. I glanced around to see if he had left. On my desk, my notebook was open to a fresh page with handwriting on it that was not my own.

Meet me tonight; the cliff.

I smiled in relief, knowing Tobias had left but felt slightly disappointed.

"Ra-chel!" Sarah called.

"Coming!" I yelled and left my room, thinking about tonight.