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Chapter 7
Marco's POV
I was stupid. Stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid. And just for good measure, stupid. Yeah, I get told I'm stupid by Rachel all the time, but she lies, now I was admitting my own stupidity. And that was stupid. Okay, maybe I should back up a bit and explain. The day after I confessed to Jake that I had an itty bitty crush on Arianna, I had the overwhelming urge to follow them home. So I did as an Animorph does best, I morphed. I morphed osprey and watched Jake wait for Arianna. It wasn't long before she came around the corner and Jakes face lit up. That was all fine, I'd thought maybe Jake wanted to do something about the mounting pile of homework we all have. What happened next was far from 'all fine'. He kissed her. Jake kissed Arianna. Jake as in my best buddy Jake, kissed Arianna, the chick that I had a huge, I mean teeny weeny crush on. He knew I liked her, but he never told me about this, he couldn't say that this was a one off thing because it all looked so routine. Jake was cheating on Cassie, but who could blame him, anyone would choose Rhi over Cassie. But that's beside the point. I flew home, I really didn't need to see anymore. So today was the day I decided to ask him about it.
"So Jake, you and Rhi hey?"
"Whatdya mean?"
"You know what I mean Jake."
"No, I don't."
"I saw you kiss her."
"Well…umm… err…umm…yeah I might of once or twice…"
"Or maybe a hell of a lot more. Is that why you were so quick to let her join?"
He hung his head in resignation "Yeah."
"I thought you liked Cassie."
"Well…yeah, kinda maybe."
"Doesn't that mean that I automatically get Arianna?"
"That's how it works in the movies Marco, you watch way too many movies."
I glanced around, "Our lives are one big sci-fi, Jake. We fight aliens, we are friends with a few aliens. We turn into animals to try and squish the aliens who shoot us with their laser beams and fly around in their spaceships. Is that enough resemblance to a movie?"
"Fine, I'll back off."
"Good, otherwise I might have to use the force, or maybe pull out my light sabre." I grabbed a stick out of a garden bed and did my best attempt of a light sabre noise. "Zzmmp"
Jake looked at me for a while, grinned and picked up his own "light sabre". We fought with our "light sabres" until we got to Cassie's where Jake dropped his stick and walked in doing his mature and important act. Mature…sounds like manure. Mature manure Jake, interesting. I settled in to listen to Jake prattle on about something or other, oh yeah, a battle plan for some fight we were planning on starting. I looked at Arianna who rolled her eyes. I looked away and smirked, she just couldn't resist the Marco charm. I vaguely listened to what Jake was saying. Something about a quick fight and no hanging around.
"Yeah and not getting a yeerk shoved in your head." Arianna added.
(The yeerk is not 'shoved' in your head, Arianna. Your head is 'shoved' under water and the yeerk squeezes into your ear) Ax explained.
"Oh shut up Andilite." She snapped.
I exchanged glances with Jake and Rachel.
"Rhi, that's not any Andilite, that's your good old uncle Ax."
"You're not funny Marco, you're absolutely pathetic." Arianna said, getting up and slapping me across the face.
I watched as she sat back down and ran her fingers through her hair, then clawed at her head for a split second, with a look of hatred. I had a really bad feeling. No, actually I had a really, really bad feeling about this.
"Whoa, Rhi, I know you like the whole Andilite kissing thing, but seriously, a peck on the cheek doesn't need to be so hard and painful." I said, feeling around behind me for the lump of 2 by 4 I knew was behind me.
"Marco, shut up!" she screamed "I swear to God in about a minute I am going to morph something and rip you into tiny little shreds. Unless you leave now and go somewhere where I, or anyone else for that matter, will have to lay eyes on you again!"
Then Cassie stepped in. "I think you need to calm down, Arianna. Marcos just baiting you, ignore him."
Arianna rounded on her, "I think you need to shut up and keep your fat nose out of other peoples business, oh so perfect Animorph!"
Cassie backed away, looking a little scared, who could blame her, Arianna was absolutely insane, or out of sane, at the moment. She turned back to start yelling at me again as I pulled out the lump of 2 by 4 and hit her over the head. Hard. She fell on to the floor unconscious as everyone looked at me in shock.
"Sorry about that Rhi. I said to the unconscious body on the floor.
(What the fuck was that for?)
"Well Tobias, your dear little sister has a slug living in her head. Now I think maybe we should move her from here and tie her up at the scoop."
"And how are we going to get her there, genius?" Rachel sneered.
She had a point, I hadn't thought that far ahead, but I wasn't about to admit it.
"We'll carry her of course."
"All the way to the scoop?" Jake asked sceptically.
"We can go into the woods a bit and then I can play King Kong, saving the damsel in distress."
Ax morphed human for the walk and I gave him the wood, just in case. I picked up Arianna easily and tried to ignore the flip-flops that my stomach were going on in my stomach, maybe they were called belly flops…who knows. We walked a few hundred meters into the dense trees and I put Arianna down. I watched Ax dimorph and morphed gorilla. Picked Arianna up again, it was a lot easier than before. When we got to the scoop, Jake tied Rhi up to a tree then he and Cassie went in search of Erek so we could get one of the Chee to pose as Arianna for a few days while she was being de-yeerked. Rachel went home Ax went to eat and Tobias went to catch some mice. Arianna started to stir so I grabbed the bit of wood that Ax had left behind and hit her over the head again. I'm pretty sure I lost any chance of Arianna ever liking me. God I'm stupid.
A/N: just one question for you all, are my Marco chapters alright? I dont know, Elliroc, dont answer cause your the one that made me ask! lol please review lotsly