A/N: All right, I got bored and started a new chapter. Enjoy.
"Safe Place"
We headed down to the Quick Trip. Darex and Liliana were trying to walk without falling. It wasn't working very well. They kept tripping over their own feet. Liliana was tripping over pants that were a little too long. Darex's pants were falling down his waist. I had a large hole in my shirt. Needless to say we all looked like idiots. Finally we got to the QT. Darex got there first. "Hello, hel-lo. O. Hello." He sounded like such a drug addict.
"Hey there buddy. Do you need something?" The clerk eyed Darex suspiciously.
I rushed in, breathing heavily. Liliana came up behind me and collapsed on the floor. "Hi," I said, "We need a safe place."
"Oh," the clerk responded. "Follow me." He led us to a back room. "If you'll wait here someone will be here in about 15-20 minutes."
I took that time to get a good look at my two companions. They had taken refuge on the floor, after tripping over each other. Liliana was about my height, with brown hair and pale blue eyes. Her skin was pale which contrasted greatly with mine. She looked very pretty. I felt average looking at her.
I turned my head to study Darex. He was breathing heavily and his greenish blue eyes were half open. He was tall, with dirty blond hair that was kinda long in that messy sort of way. He wasn't very muscular in that bulky sort. More lanky and very lean. If I didn't know that he was an Andalite, I'd be very attracted to him.
Which reminded me. I needed to get to a phone soon and call my boyfriend, Tom. It was time for a breakup. That was a happy thought. Tom wasn't really my boyfriend. He and I started to date a few years ago, a little after the start of the attacks from the Andalite Bandits. It had started because he was a pretty high up Yeerk and I was a very high up Yeerk. We needed to keep in contact, so we decided to go out. By the time Tom got a Yeerk change, we were going steady; we decided to keep up the relationship, rather than have tons of questions asked of us. ((A/N: This was the only thing that kept Tom from being killed in the 8th book. The Yeerk change happened in the 6th.))
I'm getting off topic aren't I? Sorry. Anyway, a man from the Safe Place had just arrived. He grinned kindly at us. "Hello, I'm Mr. Detric. Who are you three?"
Darex opened his mouth to respond to the inquiry, but I cut him off before he could make a fool of himself. "Hi, I'm Tiamate. These are my friends Darien and Lillian. They can't speak very well. That's why I'd be glad to give you all the information you need." I smiled a wide, fake looking smile.
"Alright, what are your last names?"
"I'm Tiamate Komathera, and these are Lillian and Darien Alderman." I responded. I hoped that Kat wouldn't kill me too much for dragging her into this. Alderman was after all her last name.
The man smiled and asked us if we lived here locally. I told him that I had ran away from home in California about four or so weeks ago and had met them on my way here. When he inquired how someone about sixteen could drive all the way here and then come in with no car, I explained that we had hitchhiked. I felt insulted though that he called me sixteen. I was seventeen and could prove it. He then told us about the dangers of hitchhiking. I felt like I was in Health all over again.
After he calmed down, he offered to take us to the Safe Place and call our parents.
We got there soon enough. Darex and Liliana were fascinated with the car we went in. I was trying so badly to hide in the back seat or melt into a puddle. When we got there, we had to answer even more questions, like why did we run away and such. It took hours. Meanwhile more people were searching for our parents in California. What they found out was that the only living "relatives" of the "Aldermans" were Kat's parents. They also found out that I was suppose to be here. They contacted my aunt and uncle, these being people whom I have never met, and contacted Kat's parents. We spent the night at the Place, so that I could wait for Kat to arrive.
A/N: And the plot thickens... Ok, so maybe it doesn't, but hey I can dream. Please R/R. Please.