Disclaimer: I do not own the Host, Stephanie Meyer does.

Chapter 18:

DPOV:

"So in conclusion, if we do anything against them we get killed." What was this? Some alien sanctuary. I had listened long enough to Alex. We couldn't stay here anymore. What was I thinking? Just being here a week was like…I don't know having family again. Seeing someone else besides Amy, Sandra and Alex and being able to talk to other people was great feeling.

Then we heard Jamie coming down the hall

"Amy…Amy we're making cookies. You want to come?"

"I'll be right there Jamie." Amy flushed pink. So now she had a friend (boyfriend). "Um…I'll talk with you later about this Alex." Alex glared at her for skipping out on important discussion before she skipped out of the room.

"So what if there are aliens here?" asked Sandra surprising us all. "I'm staying. I've known there were souls here since our second day."

"What? How did you find out?" blurted out Alex, angrily "And how come you didn't tell us?"

"It's amazing what you can find out when you're nice to people." Replied Sandra saucily. "I've even talked to one of them as I worked in the kitchen. She's quite nice actually, Wanda is."

"Wanda? Whatever you said to her I don't care but how come you didn't tell us?" Alex was angry now. "Sandra, Maria is dead because of them!"

"DON'T YOU DARE TALK ABOUT MY MOTHER!" she said tears in her eyes and giving him the death glare. "You don't think I know! She was my mother. My father is gone too taken over by one of them. I know the aliens here could be some one's daughter or sister. You don't think that I know that! But they feel pain too Alex! They feel pain too! They have lives and I've listen to them talk. They know they were wrong to come to this planet and it wasn't there fault that they are the way they are."

"Sandra. Listen…what they've done…"

Then he slapped him which surprised us all a great deal. Sandra was a usually non-violent person.

"No Alex, you listen. I've found my home here and I'm staying. The souls are part of my home too."

She stormed out of the room. I knew better than to fallow her. She would come back and want me, cry on me.

"So I guess that means you're staying too?" asked Alex his eyes trained on me. Stay in the caves? With Sandra? Yes of course. How could I be with out her?

"Yeah. Why aren't you?"

"I don't know." What was happening to our family?

A/N: Question, comments or concerns? REVIEW! Okay so this chapter shows tension in the family. Everyone has different ideas about the future and no one really knows what going to happen. Sandra wants to finally be in one place and stay in the caves, which also means Dan, will stay as well.

Alex can't stand being in the caves and having life decided for him and wants to be on the move but is unwilling to separate from Dan. Amy wants to stay we Jamie, but can't stand being away from Alex.

What will happen? Come to think of it…even I don't know. Well I do (knida).