![]() We were playing video games and hanging out at this cool store that sells comic books and stuff. Normal, that is, until one Friday night at the mall. Tobias then began to see Jake as his friend and followed him around. Jake told the two bullies to stop, which they complied with. One day, Jake walked into the bathroom and saw two bullies tormenting a boy named Tobias by hoisting him above a toilet and giving him a swirlie. Jake decided to try out for his school's basketball team in an attempt to mend that relationship as well as follow in Tom's footsteps, as Tom had been a basketball legend at their middle school. Īround the time he started junior high, also known as middle school, Jake found his relationship with Tom waning, with Tom spending more time at a club called The Sharing. Jake found Rachel to be very pretty, although he did not like entertaining that train of thought as she was his cousin. As Rachel was Cassie's best friend, Jake and Rachel began to see more of each other. In 1996, when they were twelve, their friendship was strong enough that he was invited to her family's Thanksgiving, where her great-grandmother spoke to him about their family's Civil War history. Jake soon developed a crush on a girl named Cassie, and while he occasionally sat next to her on the bus as well as during classes and assemblies, he never revealed his feelings to her. Although he was tall, Tom nicknamed him "midget" as he was still shorter than him. Jake was quite tall and well-built for his age, and was described as having broad shoulders and looking two years older. While in school, Jake once scored twenty-four points in a single basketball game, leading him to name his online chat ID as "Bball24." In 1995, Jake was there for his friend when Marco's mother Eva was reported to have died in a boating accident. Jake is the one guy out of a thousand who really does care about who you are, not what you look like." ― Cassie and Rachel Believe me, he doesn't know you're black. "Do you think he's okay with me being African-American and all?" Jake also had another paternal cousin named Saddler who lived in another town, whom Jake did not like as Saddler was the type to break stuff and blame the destruction on Jake. Rachel's mother Naomi eventual divorce from his Uncle Dan also led to Jake not interacting much with Rachel's younger sisters. Despite knowing of one another all their lives, even being the same age and attending the same school, Jake and Rachel were not close, and their families did not often interact. Jake also had a paternal cousin named Rachel, who was the daughter of his father's brother, Dan. Jake occasionally went to The Gardens, an amusement park-zoo with rollercoasters with a very expensive admission fee. In 1993, when they were nine, they had a blueberry pie-eating contest that ended with Jake throwing up. Jake and Marco often played video games and had comic book superhero debates. Jake spent time at Marco's house and met Marco's parents. While he was quite young, Jake met Marco, a boy who lived in the same neighborhood and attended the same school as him, and the pair became best friends. He was also close to his maternal great-grandfather, Grandpa G, a World War II veteran whom Jake admired. Jake was raised Jewish, with dinners as a family involving prayers and no television. His father was a pediatrician and his mother was a writer, and they lived in a well-off neighborhood in Southern California. The younger brother of Tom, the brothers were close and they often played basketball together. Jake Berenson was born in 1984 to Jean and Steve Berenson. 3 Relationships with the other Animorphs.
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