Cassie

We left Jake with his parents. Tom was sitting in the stairs outside Marco's home and sighed. Marco was watching him and suddenly he exclaimed something.

"You know Tom, Jake was right, you really did act as you came from another planet yesterday" Tom looked up at him.

"We were just playing a stupid game that he didn't understand, nothing else" Rachel laughed.

"And the meaning of that game is to kill each other, is that right?"

"I just asked him what he was thinking when I said andalite" Tom suddenly smiled and looked at me. "What do you think when you hear that word Cassie?" I was ready, Jake hade told us about this. I pretended to think.

"Andalite… I think it sounds like… a kind of rock. A volcanic rock." Marco who immediately got what I tried to do continued.

"No, no, no it's a plant, which had just been affected by a big huge red and green monster bug" Rachel stared sceptically at him.

"No, I think Cassie is closer to the truth this time. By the way, what is an andalite Tom?" Tom was quiet, but Ax tried again.

"Come on, what is it? What do you think?" Rachel gave him a signal that it was time to calm down.

"You don't mean that you did this to Jake because of some stupid made-up-word, do you?"

"I don't know why I acted as I did yesterday Rachel but I will not do it again, I promise!"

Strange enough I slept quite well that night. I had no nightmares about Jake sitting alone in a corner, crying as Tom tried to hurt him. And even stranger was that Jake didn't have any nightmares.

All of us had forgiven him for telling Tom to go back to his own planet.

But it took several weeks before he dared to go back home again. And in the first time he only staid for a while with Marco and his dad.

Jake said that he wanted Tom to believe that he was scared, but he didn't really fool anyone. We knew that he still was scared that Tom would get some relapse. And I think he knew that we knew too.

It took five month before Marco started to tell jokes about all this.

Jake had only lived at his own home for two weeks then.

And it took two more weeks before Jake started to laugh at Marco's jokes about Tom running amok in his room trying to tear his neck of…

Okay, the jokes wasn't really that brutal…

I'm just happy that all this ended up as well as it did.

The end

Finally I just want to apologize for my language. I have never been any star in English, but I have really given you the best I can do. Thanks for reading.

Miripzie