Fans of the Animorphs

I agree that the ball was in Jake's court and that Cassie didn't want things to end with him (I mean look at that line where she laments that a year had passed and they weren't together), but I can't really be mad at Jake, the poor guy had PTSD/trauma and so much guilt, he couldn't help closing off like that, sadly. They are a pairing that is an example of two people who in the right time and place would be together, but whom outside tragic circumstances (the war, what Jake had to do in it) forced apart.