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Authors Note: I've been having a bit of a break on this thing, writing 'The Horror' and all, but assure you all that I will update at least twice a week for a few weeks. Also some mild, uh, romance in this chapter. I'm not even sure if I'll have to bump the rating on this thing.

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lilmaniac- oh, ---- I forgot about that rule. My bad! Thanks for your review.

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traycon3- yep, I've been facing some trouble with that, but I think I can keep it mild enough for it to stay PG-13. Thanks again!

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Now onto the chapter which shall simply be known as, Chapter 21!

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We soared high above the clouds. Just the two of us. I 'kindly' asked George to give us some space, so he was a few meters below us conversing with Ax. I didn't now for sure why I always tried to contradict Jake, but I simply believed that his style of leadership was too indirect. He didn't see the whole picture and that was probably his only fault. Because George and I were friends since the 6th grade, he tended to listen more to me than Jake.

Meghan, on the other hand, seemed more discreet about her thoughts on Jake. I wasn't even sure why we were so close all of a sudden. It wasn't as if we were that friendly with each other before all of this. I could understand that she was grateful that I freed her from yeerk control, but that overall that didn't account for her lovey-dovey attitude towards me. I don't think I'll ever understand girls.

Soon enough, the sun set and a beautiful horizon met my powerful bird eyes. I'll tell you one thing, you have never truly seen the beauty of a sunset if you've never seen one a few thousand feet above the earth. We decided now would be a good time to descend, and after a slight wing adjustment, we sunk below the clouds and landed in our forest clearing. Morphing was very hard on your muscles, so I honestly couldn't wait to get to bed. Then an ominous thought reached my mind. It wasn't my bed anymore. It was ours.

I had a feeling that this would get very acward in a second. We walked into the scoop. Ax was busy on his new iMac and George was flipping through channels on the T.V. I had enough action for one day so I headed to our room. After taking my t-shirt off I fell into bed. It was king size, so I made myself comfortable and closed my eyes. I was about to fall asleep when I heard the door opening. Meghan walked into the room and went to the dresser. At this point I looked away, since seeing that wouldn't exactly help my nerves. She crawled in next to me and wrapped herself in the sheets.

We were very close to each other. I could only imagine what she was thinking, and I was trying to not think what I was thinking. I shifted so I could look at the cieling. At least I could pretend that I wasn't in bed with one of the hottest girls on the planet. She moved a little, and then stared up at the cieling too.

"Hey, Michael?" she began.

"What?" I asked.

"I know a lot has happened between us in the past couple of days and- well I just want to know if this is okay with you." She explained. What the hell does that mean? How I feel about it?

"Umm, I don't quite get where you're coming from." I said benignly.

"I mean, me and you. Us." she told me.

"Oh. That. Don't you think you're rushing it a bit? I mean, this is going faster than I expected."

"Maybe. But you are okay with us sleeping with each other?"

"Yeah, I don't mind. Better with me than George." I said. She laughed.

"Okay. Good Night. I'll see you in the morning." She kissed me on the cheek and rolled to her side. I got comfortable and dozed off.

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I woke up from the birds chirping outside our window. The sun was shining through it, casting a warm glow throughout our room. When I saw that Meghan had rolled over in the middle of the night, her arm lying loosely on my chest I nearly flipped. I knew that this was, in fact, my dream come true. So why couldn't I enjoy it? I decided to just get up and make some breakfast. After sliding off the bed I walked out of the room and into the main part of the scoop. I went into the small kitchen we built and made my way to the pantry. I took out a box of cerial and took some milk out of the mini fridge. It was amazing how easy it was to find things once you were able to change into animals. This place seemed nicer than my old house.

After eating my cerial, I turned on the news. I was checking it a lot lately, seeing if anything was mentioned about us or the yeerks. After coming up with nothing I walked outside into the wilderness. The brisk morning aroma of the forest engulfed my senses. I took a short walk to my project. The others still didn't know anything about it, which was fineby me because I was certain Jake wouldn't aprove of it. With Meghan a non-controller now it seemed that it was becoming more and more crucial to finish.

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Hours later I was back in the scoop, arguing with George over who was the best at playing video games. I won, of course, after kicking his ass a couple times in Need fo Speed Underground 2, which we were able to smuggle from my old room a few nights ago. I wasn't very sure about this whole thing. I knew that in order to defeat the yeerks, we would have to take the war public, but after careful deduction, I decided that for now following Jakes orders was going well, so I needn't have to fret over it for now.

Suddenly, I heard Tobias' thought speak voice in my head.

((Guys, it's important, Jake has called a meeting. He says it's urgent.))

((We will be there shortly Tobias.)) Said Ax.

Just another normal day in the life of an Animorph.

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