CHAPTER 2
He was eating candy. No big deal right?
Wrong.
Andalite do not have mouths, so when Ax morphs into a human (a combo between all of us Animophs, excluding me), he has the sense of taste, and, well, it can be a little overwhelming at times.
"This chocolate is sweet, eet... weeeeet, sweet!" They also do not talk with their mouths, but communicate though something called thought-speak. So mouth sounds are very… interesting with Ax.
Very interesting.
"Ax! We cannot take that, we didn't buy it," Rachel said, looking annoyed. She just wanted to go shopping.
"But it is this box. Ox. Locks? Those words sound alike. They are not locked in this box."
"Yes, but we need to pay for them, Ax," I tried to explain.
"Oh…" he looked sheepish. "Can we, um… buy some please?"
"Sure Ax," Rachel answered. She went up to the counter, and the girl there looked over at Ax as if he was crazy.
"Hi, my um… my friend," she started.
"He's an alien, huh?"
The color went out of Rachel's face. "What?"
"Foreign, right? I get a lot of those in here, they always go nuts for well, the chocolate with nuts." She smiled. I looked at her, and I seemed to know that smile from somewhere. I shook the feeling off.
"I won't charge you for the candy he ate, the show was enough, but I would recommend a few things."
"And what's that," Rachel asked with a bit of a sneer.
"Well, first you buy him lots of cheep chocolate, and second, give him this, but don't let him swallow it."
"What is that," I asked, coming over.
"It's called an alien ball. You lick or suck on it until it's gone. Should last the kid a while."
"Um, thanks," I said. She smiled again, and I got that weird feeling again.
Then, as if she read my mind, she asked, "Have we met before?"
"Um, no, I don't think so. What school do you go to?"
She told me, but it was a different one then the one I went to before I became a nothlit. Rachel gave the girl a look that said, "He is my Bird-boy! Back off or else I will stomp you with my elephant morph!" She has an elephant morph, and she likes it a lot.
"No, no, its not that I... Oh, never mind..." She rang up the chocolate and three alien balls. We wanted to keep Ax busy.
As we turned to leave, she called out to us, "Hey, um, my name is Tabitha, and um... Can I make all of you dinner?"
Ax looked at Rachel, then me and said, "Dinner? Will there be cinnamon buns, bunzzz buh nunzzz involved?"
"Yes, I could make some, if you want."
Tabitha smiled again, and since that smile seemed so familiar, I blurted out before Rachel could kick me "Yes!"