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A/N: Sorry it took so long to update that last chapter. Well as I promised this is from Kat's POV. Enjoy.

School Meet Andalites

I groaned as the buzzer that told me it was time to get up went off. I hate my internal buzzer. It is so annoying. It had been a few weeks since I had seen Tia and met Darex and Lily. Well now I had convinced my "parents" to enroll me into a public school along with the other two. What I didn't realize was that even though I had been many people behind my holograms, nothing would prepare me for what would happen today.

Standing up, I glanced at the sleeping form of Lily. She was so lucky. She got to sleep in because she was in middle school. She was enrolled as a 15-year-old, while Darex and I were 17. Like I said, lucky Andalite. I crossed over to Darex's room. He was still asleep. I debated changing my hologram to look like Visser Three and scare the "pants" off him but decided against it. Instead I kindly poked him awake. "Darex," I hissed in his ear, "time to get up. Rise and shine."

(Might I sleep for five more minutes, Mother,) Darex mumbled in his sleep.

Mother? I thought to myself, do I look like his mother or something.

"I'm not your mom, De." I told him, using the new nickname I had given him earlier this week. He looked up at me with one stalk eye and it widened to the size of a tangerine, which was shocking because his eye was about the size of a quarter.

(Forgive me Kat. I was not thinking. Is it time to rise to go to your school?)

"Hey, it's your school too. Don't forget. But yes, it's time to go to school."

He nodded and started to walk towards the bathroom. I knew what he was going to do, but I wasn't sure if there was time for it. "Hey, if you're gonna go do your ritual thing, try to make it quick." I instructed. He nodded.

I strode quickly over to my room and stood in front of my mirror. Mimicking a brush in my holographic hand, I brushed my holographic hair and fixed some clothes to wear today. After spending fifteen minutes on my hair and clothes, I knocked on the door of the bathroom. "De, hurry up. We're gonna be late."

"I am coming Kat. I simply must figure out what to do with this. This-iss-sss. Thiss. I will be ready momentarily."

"Quit playing with words, remember."

"I am sorry. It is just that the 's' sound is quite fascinating to make."

I walked down the steps, shaking my head as Darex continued to play with words and get dressed. I was sitting down to a holographic breakfast when he tripped down the steps. He looked like he had gotten dressed blindfolded in the middle of a tornado. His underwear was on his head, his pants were on one arm, his one sock was on his ear, and his other sock was on his nose. The only thing that was on right was his shirt, which was a bit small. If I were a human girl, I would probably be staring, but I am past that. I know who I want. Also, I'm not that attracted to humans. No offense to them, but they aren't my type. Anyway, I led him into the downstairs bathroom, dressed him, he ate, and we left for the bus stop, after waking Lily for her first day.

School went well for the first five minutes. When we arrived, the school had just opened. I wasn't used to hearing a bell at seven o'clock in the morning and must admit I jumped a bit, but Darex freaked out. "Relax," I hissed in his ear, "it's just the bell. Come on, we need to go to the councilor's office to get our schedules." We found the councilor's office after asking someone. The dude looked at us like we were nuts and pointed to our left. I blushed deeply. "Thanks," I mumbled, grabbing Darex's arm and drug him to the office.

After we received our schedules, we looked them over. Our first three classes were with the same person, but after third period, things got a bit mixed up. I was fairly close to all my classes, I surmised as we looked at a map, but Darex was everywhere. I hoped he didn't get too lost. Also, we had different lunches, which could be a problem. Well, we decided to make the best of it. After all, we were together for at least three periods and could track each other down if there was a problem. Poor Lily, she had to try to fend for herself.

Our first day went rather well, until fifth period. I ended up getting called down to the principal's office because of De. He had ended up accidentally causing a food fight. He wanted to talk to me to see if I could get him some new clothes and make a suggestion about how to stop it from happening again.

The principal smiled as I entered the room. "Miss Alderman, how nice to meet you; I can't thank you enough for coming down here. I would like to talk about your cousin. He is such a nice boy, but I think he has a bit of a discipline problem." I glanced over at Darex, who looked as if he wanted nothing better than to sink into his chair. The principal smiled as he said his next words. "That is why I would like to suggest that you consider the Sharing. It has an excellent program for all students. It is also a great way to 'hang out' with family. I think that it is in your best interest if you and your family members join up." There was something about his smile that really wigged me out.

"I'll look into it." I smiled, "What do you want me to do about Darien for now?"

"We'll let him go to his last period; now run along. The bell just rang and you don't want to be late for class do you?"

We left him and his creepy smile. "Come on De, we need to get you to a bathroom and get you cleaned off."

"That would be wise, w-wise-se. Wise."

"Stop it! Go to class and then ask the teacher for a pass to the bathroom. They should let you go."

Thankfully, we made it through school without anymore interruptions. But, now we had a problem. The principal wanted us to check out the Sharing, which meant he probably was a Controller and would probably be there. I just didn't want to lead Darex and Lily into anything dangerous. Or that could turn them into Controllers. We don't need Andalite Controllers running around who could potentially harm me, Tia, or anyone else who stood in there way. Darex, Lily, and Tia hadn't told me all, but what I had surmised was that the Yeerks already had one Andalite host and didn't need two more.

I flagged Darex down as I entered the bus. He sat down next to me and we rode home.

We still had to wait another two hours till Lily got out home and we could go and visit a friend of mine. I just hoped that he was still functioning properly. I needed a repair job anyway.

A/N: Hope you like this next chapter. I will hopefully be updating soon, liketoday. I hope.