FanFic Friday #2: The Erica POV saga continues...!
January 16,
1820 hours
Mess Hall
I’d become immune to everyone the first day I got here. They
all wanted to talk to me, but I couldn’t eavesdrop on anyone if I had a hundred
boys wanting to ask me out and a hundred girls talking about the latest spy
fashion. It was too much. I marked my claim on 4th row table 5th
from last a long time ago- close to the center table so that I could hear
everyone but far enough from it I wasn’t in the center- which would be
horrifying. Chip and his goons rushed Ben. Knowing his skills, I was antsy to
just get up, whip out my stun gun and fire some darts. But of course to keep
cover, I had to stay still so I plunged my nose even deeper into a textbook I
already memorized. Luckily Chip, being the idiot he is, was terrorizing him
about a Van De Graff thing. Morons. I mean, the knob is practically alive with
sparks. Unless you had eyesight worse than my dead great-grandpa there was no
way you couldn’t see it. Ben interested me. Gave me a lot of questions, none of
which he answered. My curiosity got the best of me and I did something that
would probably easily get any other student expelled.
January 17
0130 hours
Dormitory top floor
It wasn’t hard to change into a guy. All I had to do was put
on a low pitched voice, tuck in my hair and pull on my ski mask. I added black
mascara around my eyes just to confirm he would have no idea it was a girl so
that way even if he’d tried to figure out my identity my using my eyes, all
he’d see in the darkness was my pupils. I’d already studied his room- where his
desk and bed was, the angle of his window. As long as I kept a gun pointed at
his face and was at least a foot from the window, I was in the clear. I’d
disabled the surrounding cameras around his room as well as a few others to
make it act like it was someone from outside trying to get in. I picked the
cheap dinghy lock on the door and snuck in. I’d used one of my
no-fingerprints-left-behind spandex suits and grabbed the pistol brutally
jamming it into his face. “Rise and shine kid” I said gruffly, thinking for a
second what a guy would do. My choice was pretty easy after I saw him basically
jump onto his wall and give himself a near concussion. I laughed. “Man you
should’ve seen the look on your face. It was classic” A few seconds later,
after he pleaded to not be killed, I asked the question I’d been wanting to
know about. “Tell me about Pinwheel” “Pinwheel? What’s pinwheel?” I knew full
well the kid was clueless on the subject but I didn’t want to leave any doubt.
“You know damn well what it is. Don’t play stupid with me!” “I’m not playing! I
really am stupid” Sheesh, the kid’s
horrible He then spent about a minute stalling the crap out of me. Saying
something about being Jonathan Monkeywarts, grabbing his tennis racket, and
lots of stuttering. I pushed even further. “What…is…Pinwheel?” After more stalling he
said something somewhat useful: that It helped you circumvent a rotating
sixteen-character daisy chain. I stopped. Maybe he did know what Pinwheel- the
mysterious thing all the admins had acted like was the key to saving the
nation- was and that he was playing stupid because of the assassin. I pushed
even further. “How?” I asked expecting an answer I could memorize. But of
course the idiot had only heard those words form Chip and blubbered something
about “setting up a quadrilateral subnet matrix, then ossify the syntax and
fibrillate the coprolites” I didn’t have time to play around, especially if
anyone had decided to eavesdrop on our conversation. “I’m not an idiot” I said
firmly “and I’ve run out of patience” Time to give him a pop quiz on
self-preservation. Half a second after I raised the pistol he started swinging
his racket down like an animal. Now, I was easily the best kid in the school
when it came to one on one combat but when you’re in a tight room, you’ve got
the lower ground on the floor while some maniac is blindly swinging a piece of
metal at you, your goal isn’t to fight him off, but simply try to not get
concussed. So I went into defense mode while he was hacking away at me like I
was a fly. But he still somehow made contact with me- which wasn’t much but I
over exaggerated it to get him off my back for a few seconds. I fell to the
ground hard. Then he ran out of the room, giving me time to escape. I
stealthily hugged the wall and before anyone got out of their rooms I was gone,
down the stairs, into my dorm, as if nothing had happened. So he didn’t know
about pinwheel or cryptography at all. I figured it was time to share my
suspicions with him.
January 17
0500 hours
The box
It was probably harder to figure out where Ben was going to
be moved while his bedroom was “under investigation” than to break into the
box. I figured since he was the new kid, they’d cut him some slack and put him
in Tina’s room or something. Nope. Even I think The Box sucks which is big
news. Imagine being trapped in a cement room. And then that cement room is
guarded. Basically it’s like saying “we’re going to put you in a really ugly
room with no entertainment but some textbooks and then you have to stay in
there until we say you can leave” But I wasn’t in the box, so I wasn’t
complaining. My grandfather had told me about a secret tunnel to the box- on
one side, a 16 digit pass code was needed for a 12 inch by 12 inch 6 inch thick
slap of concrete to swing open quieter than a fly ten feet away. Still wearing
my black spandex suit, and armed with a rag I hopped in, using a cat-like ninja
stance to land quietly. I paused before I leapt on to him and stuffed a rag in
his mouth. He tried to bring up his knee but I’d already thought of that bride
so I put him in a scissor. “Take it easy I’m not here to hurt you” I hissed.
“Mmmmthmmpphffthh” he responded which could’ve meant anything from “Ok I won’t
keep fighting” to “Once you let go of me I’m going to yell and scream” but I
let him relax after he showed signs of calming down. I gave him a small threat
before I fully got off of him. “Don’t.
There are cameras in the room” I told him after he made an attempt to reach for
his bedside lamp. Quickly, I explained why he was so confused about the subject
Pinwheel (because he didn’t know what it was) why everyone thought he should’ve
known what it was (it was in his file) and after he finally figured out the
principal forced someone to put false information in his file to catch a
mole…well I explained the next unofficial step of Operation Creeping Badger to
him. It was kind of hard to make sure I didn’t blow my cover as an assassin as
a guy but when he mentioned Alexander was the worst. He was such a sham, yet
the kid still thought he was our savior. The feeling to punch him was coming
over me but I let it pass and said as monotonously as I could with a dash of
sarcasm “Yes. Alexander’s involved” He decided to change the subject which I
definitely had no problem with. I explained a lot more stuff to him. He questioned
“who exactly we’re talking about here” but I kept my composure- which would’ve
normally screamed Idiot! and calmly explained we’re basically talking about
anyone evil. I grimaced when I had to explain that Joshua had died. He was the
only person I liked here- and I was going to pop the question but had to die.
Ever since I’d been a grudge. I tried to hold back a smile but I’m all for
making progress as a spy even if it starts with you being able to use common
sense. Finally, I’d talked him up to agree on a plan to uncover the mole. Sure
it was dangerous and probably would get us expelled but I knew he’d take it. I
was sure at some point along the mission, he was going to be of use. I stuck
out my hand. He was hesitant to take it but I read his eyes and knew he was
going for it. I saw right away he had a crush for me, which was no surprise,
but I heart seemed to beat up a little faster than normal, which was weird. He
took my hand and he seemed to like the warmth and softness of it- which I made
a mental note of in case I needed to persuade him in the future. “What do we do
next?” he asked. I smiled inside. This
was going to be fun.
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