Note: Sorry for my error in Chapters Five and Six. Until I saw "Remmy," I didn't know Jumba could get on the elevator to Lilo's room. I saw the episode between making the two chapters, so please excuse this error. I can't change it yet because the original document was deleted. Also, this is sadly the last chapter of It Started With a Letter, but I had a lot of fun creating it and I thank you all for your support and positive feedback. Perhaps one day I'll create some subsequels. Finally, the some of the breakfast part is based off "Poxy" THANK YOU! :D

Lilo, Stitch, "Uncle" Jumba, "Aunt" Pleakley, and I went downstairs to the living room. Nani was sitting on the couch reading. By looking at our faces, she could tell something bad had happened. "Okay, what happened?" she asked suspiciously.

Lilo looked up seriously. "Jessica knows, Nani."

"Knows what?" She glanced at Jumba and Pleakley, whose disguises had been blown. "Oh. Oh no..." Lilo nodded and climbed onto the couch. This was all confusing to me, and I was starting to get impatient.

"What is it that I know, Lilo?" I asked, a trace of that impatience rising. Lilo sighed again.

"Promise not to tell anyone else?" she said. I was starting to feel afraid, but I promised anyways. Then Lilo began, "Long before you moved here, it was just me and Nani living here. In fact, our house didn't look like this then. But then we decided to adopt Stitch from the local pound. We thought he was a dog, but when Jumba and Pleakley showed up to take him back to space, we found out the truth." The word that hit me the most was "back to space".

"Y-you mean...Stitch is really..." I stammered. Stitch revealed his extra arms, antennae, and sickles on his back. My mouth gaped again. I couldn't believe Stitch was an ALIEN!

"Stitch is an illegal genetic experiment from outer space!" Lilo declared, almost proudly.

"Experiment? What kind of crazed, wicked mind created him?" I cried. Everyone in the room looked at Jumba, who shuffled his feet uncomfortably.

He chuckled, "That would be my creation. Doctor Jumba Jookiba, former leading scientist of Galactic Defense Industries."

"Oh my Lord, you're like an extraterrestial Frankenstein!" I said, referring to the scientist, not the monster. Jumba grinned wildly. He seemed very proud.

Lilo continued, "Pleakley came along with him because he was an expert on this planet, and now we're all a big ohana."

I nodded, but then I asked, "So what's with the wig?"

Pleakley looked sheepishly at the hairpiece in his hands. "It's a disguise." I had to admit that made sense. For a brief moment I just let all that I heard sink in.

Lilo became worried at my silence. "You okay, Jessica?" she asked timidly.

I looked at her. "I'm fine, Lilo...I just can't believe all this. It doesn't feel like this should be real..." Something occured to me. "Lilo, you're not afraid I don't want to be your friend because of any of this, are you?" She looked down at her hands and nodded. I sat her on my lap like Nani might've done if I wasn't sitting between the two of them. "Oh Lilo! Even if you were an alien yourself and you had five heads I'd still want to be your friend!"

Lilo looked surprised. "Really?"

I smiled, "Of course! I like you for who you are, Lilo. You're funny, caring, fun to be around, and you have a great family that loves you with all their heart! I don't think you're weird at all, and I'd really like to be your best friend."

Lilo smiled. "Thanks, Jessica. The only reason I tell you-besides our cover's already blown-is because you're a trusted friend." I smiled and we hugged. Then she gasped, as if remembering something. "Now that she knows, she can help us catch the rest of the Stitch's cousins!" My eyes widened.

"There's MORE?" I cried. Lilo nodded.

"Just over 600," she added.

"WOAH!" I looked over at Jumba. "You really had a lot of time on your hands, didn't you?" He looked innocently up at the ceiling.

"You might be saying that," he answered, trying to hide a grin.

Lilo continued, "Remember when we got snow cones earlier today? That was one of the cousins." Ahh, alien invasion. That explained Slushy's looks. "Gantu is an alien, too. He tries to capture all of them, so he's still a big dummy." We laughed at that. "Would you be interested in helping?"

I pretended to think about it. "Hmmm...I don't know. I'll have to-ARE YOU KIDDING? OF COURSE I'LL HELP!" That made us all laugh.

...

The next morning, we were having breakfast in the kitchen. Pleakley, who was unwigged, was having a bowl of cereal.

"Why is he eating it with a fork?" I whispered to Lilo. She shrugged, and we both giggled. But when Nani was pouring water to make batter for pancakes, there was a bright ball of light that filled the room.

Lilo grinned, "Jessica, get ready to go on your first experiment catching job!"

And that is how I became a new member of Kauai's best kick-butt experimenting-catching team, making some new friends along the way.

The end.