p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="7905b53c19d04f3d4b82ce9083610b6d"em style="box-sizing: border-box;"Last time on The 5th Wave: The Life We Have: Cassie and Evan are engaged and Evan knows something that Cassie doesn't. He knows the truth. Ringer is up to something, and Cassie and Evan think that Ringer is close to finding out their little secret. Let's hope that we find out what Evan knows./em/p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="afb355df3ec36319ec43fd479dd2cf17" "Well, you know how I hate when people know something that I don't. Ben does it to me every day, you know," I say and then pretend to act dramatically and dramatically sob, "I don't think I can handle it anymore." He laughs and I giggle. /p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="455dd477f1de1132a666e89f2622d354" We get downstairs and he tells us the truth. /p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="792cd0e1f1a07934200f6470194ffe65" "I know the truth about the dead. They aren't really dead. The men and women were put into Preservation Units down at the base. All we have to do is wake them up. Every Other is really dead now but the preservation unit remains, protected, no harm. I know it's hard to believe but the base still stands." He says and I look up at him, him looking down at me and me, again crying into him. "Babe, your friends, your mom, and dad, are alive. We can fix this, we can do what we want to do and have them with us." He whispers to me soft enough that no one can hear./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="4bb510eebfad47272917768f656a2cc1" "Does that mean that I'll be able to see my mom and dad again?"/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="8c3a33dd750332078780f6342c3c3cd1" "Yeah, it does and they will be happy to see you, alive and healthy," Evan says./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="9a7c0ffcda1ee4963610d3763de23bb3" "Will they be healthy too?" Sam asks Evan while going up to hug him./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="2bdc58582b077a5580e8f6d49b4e04ca" "Yeah, buddy, they will," I say crouching down to him and kissing him on the forehead. I hug Evan as hard as I can, go up to get my hat and gun and bag. Then come back downstairs to leave and get Lizbeth, mom, and dad. The first time they will meet my Evan, first time I will be able to introduce him as my fiancee. We leave and find our families./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="e68b3fb8b70ecdd39bab710edb38150c" "Cassie? Ben, Sam?" Lizbeth says surprised./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="65115edd7d9ce5d1f2159bf4bb84ec1f" "Oh my god. Who. Is this. gorgeous guy?" She asks me./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="407fb73f8bd1c05a03b8e55f1ec19ed9" "Hello I'm Evan Walker, I'm Cassie's boyfriend. Nice to meet you. You must be Cassie's friend." He says./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="5bdc15f0ebd448ec280f2b84c10ea370" "Little Cassie of all people, has a boyfriend that's not Ben Parish." She says. Luckily Ben left to find his parents./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="581ba6b2812eb51754bca449a75a9533""We're engaged," I say. Mom, dad, and Sam stand up and hug us. Hard. Lizbeth waits and then comes to hug me and then pat Evan on the shoulder./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="37ab8bb9305ff255587e3663c3a80e87" "I'm happy for you two." She says./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="3e4a37263e7bcc277bf706c1f35d684f" "You must keep it secret. Ben and Evan and I aren't on great terms." I say to them all./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="f61c7185551cdab0cd70298871ab4f16"I follow him. I run over to him and grab a hold of his hand. "I thought you would follow me." He says grinning like a child. /p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="afb355df3ec36319ec43fd479dd2cf17" "Well, you know how I hate when people know something that I don't. Ben does it to me every day, you know," I say and then pretend to act dramatically and dramatically sob, "I don't think I can handle it anymore." He laughs and I giggle. /p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="455dd477f1de1132a666e89f2622d354" We get downstairs and he tells us the truth. /p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="792cd0e1f1a07934200f6470194ffe65" "I know the truth about the dead. They aren't really dead. The men and women were put into Preservation Units down at the base. All we have to do is wake them up. Every Other is really dead now but the preservation unit remains, protected, no harm. I know it's hard to believe but the base still stands." He says and I look up at him, him looking down at me and me, again crying into him. "Babe, your friends, your mom, and dad, are alive. We can fix this, we can do what we want to do and have them with us." He whispers to me soft enough that no one can hear./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="508ee1f1c7cfe220d4928da6edf59d21" "Zombie?" Sam asks Ben./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="1242bf1fe28850285b5b825c4c7b798d" "Yeah, kid?" /p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="4bb510eebfad47272917768f656a2cc1" "Does that mean that I'll be able to see my mom and dad again?"/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="8c3a33dd750332078780f6342c3c3cd1" "Yeah, it does and they will be happy to see you, alive and healthy," Evan says./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="9a7c0ffcda1ee4963610d3763de23bb3" "Will they be healthy too?" Sam asks Evan while going up to hug him./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="2bdc58582b077a5580e8f6d49b4e04ca" "Yeah, buddy, they will," I say crouching down to him and kissing him on the forehead. I hug Evan as hard as I can, go up to get my hat and gun and bag. Then come back downstairs to leave and get Lizbeth, mom, and dad. The first time they will meet my Evan, first time I will be able to introduce him as my fiancee. We leave and find our families./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="1ece6cbd0438384752fd87f5d9d1661e" "Evan, does that mean that your family and your ex- girlfriend will be alive too?" I ask him./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="997e97394ce2f2b865949ff053aef8c1" "No, it's really the people who died after the first wave that was saved." He says as he grabs my hand when we get to the base as he punches in the code to get in./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="e68b3fb8b70ecdd39bab710edb38150c" "Cassie? Ben, Sam?" Lizbeth says surprised./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="9d637ebb6ea52558a9a69a6e89dc0653" "In the flesh." We all say in unison./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="65115edd7d9ce5d1f2159bf4bb84ec1f" "Oh my god. Who. Is this. gorgeous guy?" She asks me./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="407fb73f8bd1c05a03b8e55f1ec19ed9" "Hello I'm Evan Walker, I'm Cassie's boyfriend. Nice to meet you. You must be Cassie's friend." He says./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="5bdc15f0ebd448ec280f2b84c10ea370" "Little Cassie of all people, has a boyfriend that's not Ben Parish." She says. Luckily Ben left to find his parents./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="52717d5894c201098e5d208da4d66394" "Mom, dad?" Sam says running to them./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="3537f5238bbc5d3d5a5218e505a1c033" We explain all that happened in every detail that happened even Evan and me and when no one but Sam, Lizbeth, Evan, mom, dad and I were around, we told them the good news./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="581ba6b2812eb51754bca449a75a9533""We're engaged," I say. Mom, dad, and Sam stand up and hug us. Hard. Lizbeth waits and then comes to hug me and then pat Evan on the shoulder./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="37ab8bb9305ff255587e3663c3a80e87" "I'm happy for you two." She says./p
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