"Back home, my friend Marco made great Mexican food, but I only had it once. Mostly, if we all hung out, we went to the food court in the mall."

I didn't talk much about my life outside of Darrow, and I wondered if Jack would push. He was pretty good about it, normally. There was a part of me that wanted him to, though. I hadn't had much of a need to use my morphing powers for fighting the Yeerks, maybe, but that lack of jeopardy also made me start to feel a little stir crazy. I had this secret, and nobody to talk about it with!

"So, either way, this is gonna be an experience for me!" I concluded.