???/FLAME POV
Oh my god. I'm suppose to live here, with these kids?! This is so not happening... I laid on the bed, trying to clear my thoughts. I had already put away my weapons so it was more comfortable to lie. I stopped midway, wait, how good are they anyway? They didn't even introduce themselves properly. I got up and exited the guest room, hoping to talk to them. When I reached the stairway, I felt a powerful aura. I looked down below into the living room. They were seated around the coffee table, each of them were holding a file. One of the girls was reading out something to them but I was too far to hear. I took this chance to observe them. They were all serious in their own ways. I could sense bloodlust in their eyes. After a few more minutes, they got up and went back to doing their own business. I quickly went back to my room, hoping that none of them realized that I was there. I opened the door and walked in, closing the door after. I jumped in surprise when I turned around. There sitting on my bed, was the boy that showed me up. "Woah!"
TAKAHIRO/2BULLET POV
"Woah!" he jumped back in surprise at the sight of me. "How did you get here so fast?" Flame questioned me. "By 'so fast' I assume you were watching our meeting?" I asked, tapping my knee. To be honest I was trying to hide my heavy breathing as I actually had to get up here at almost light speed. "Let me introduce myself. Name's 2bullet, my real name is Takahiro." I introduced myself as I motioned him to sit on the armchair opposite me. "I'm pretty sure you must have noticed already, that I'm the only guy in the group but I don't really mind. My specialty attack is bow and arrow but not just normal arrows, arrows that shock. I own tools that I use to modify whatever I can. My skills and knowledge for modifying comes from two of my favorite subjects at school. Science and Design and Technology or known as DnT. I'm also interested in IT so I'm actually a professor's assistant." I continued as Flame listened attentively.
"Let me just say this first, I'm not this outgoing at school. I prefer to be...quiet there." I say, struggling with one of the words. "And unless you like to annoy me, I won't tase you with my taser." I smiled. "What about you?" Suddenly the door slammed opened, and at the entrance stood OO9. "Ever heard of knocking?" I say. "Ever had the time to check your watch?" she replied. "It's lunch time and you two are late, everyone is half done with their food." I looked up at the clock. 1:30pm. Lunch started at 1:15pm. "Oh wow, time sure flies by when you chat. C'mon Flame, I heard we're having pasta." I got up and walked towards the door, with Flame following behind.
KATHERINE/50K POV
I watched as the three of them walked down the stairs. He looked so out of place behind OO9 and 2bullet. "Late for lunch I see." I say as I ate a mouthful of pasta. 2bullet shrugged and sat down opposite me, with Flame beside him. Phantom came up and set down plates of pasta for them. "Glad I made extra." She says as she walked back to the kitchen before coming back with drinks for everyone. She sat back at her seat, beside OO9. 2bullet immediately tucked in, but Flame just stared at the food. "What's wrong?" I ask as I take another mouthful. "You don't like it?" Flame shook his head. "No its just that its been a long time since I had homecooked food. Back in London HQ, everyone just buys, no one really had the time to cook, unless you count cup noodles." he explains. "Well here we cook, its healthier too. So you better enjoy these two weeks." I winked before going back to my meal. "Oh! By the way, come to the living room an hour after lunch. We're going to the mall." Flame nodded before finally digging in. Too bad he can't stay longer.
???/FLAME POV
I looked at myself in the mirror. Was that really me? I was dressed in a white t shirt and jeans. I had on some converse and a jacket. I also had some black punk bracelets around my right wrist and a chain around my neck. On my right earlobe I had a clip-on pierce. I found the accessories unnecessary but they insisted that it'll complete the look. "It suits you." I turned to see 2bullet leaning by the doorway. "2bul-" He cut me off. "We're friends now, no need for those names, use my real one." "Erm okay, thanks for the clothes and accessories Takahiro. My clothes would only be arriving tomorrow afternoon. But compared to me you look amazing." I say.
"What? Amazing? Nah, this is my normal dressing. And your clothes are just something I found online and they were too big for me, you can keep them if you'd like." he brushed off. He was dressed in a grey t shirt with a red checkered shirt as outer wear. He also had on beige pants and black sporty shoes. Silver bracelets were on his wrist and chains were hanging around his neck and waist. "So you ready? You were looking in the mirror for pretty long." he laughed. I picked up my bag. "Yea I'm ready. Just wasn't used to the dress code." Damn these kids have style. I followed him downstairs where the rest were waiting.
Shit, why do they dress so nice here? I feel so out. But Lily could learn somethings here. "They're down." I heard one of them say and I realized she was the one whom talked to me during lunch. I realized that only two people were there. She had on a black crop top with long sleeves that said 'NERD' across and a black mini skirt. Her glasses were rimmed with blue sparkles which matched her blue converse that had a blue sparkling star at the side. She also had a choker with the charm ying yang around her neck. "You guys are slow." the other said and it was the one whom called us down for lunch. She was wearing a white sleeveless crop top that had an alien face on it, around it were words that said 'I don't believe in humans' in caps. She also had on jean shorts that were accompanied with black short boots. A cross necklace around her neck matched the cross teal strap bracelets on her left wrist. "Let's go, Iris and Tricia are waiting outside."
We exited the mansion and walked out to the porch. Takahiro, locking the door behind him. It was a great weather, perfect for the day. I then remembered that one of them said that the other two were outside, I looked around but saw no one. "If you're looking for them they're on the roof." Takahiro pointed upwards and I followed his gaze. Sure enough, up on the roof were the two girls chatting. "Iris! Tricia! Let's go!" the girl with the nerd shirt shouted. The two of them jumped off the roof and landed with ease. "Let's go." And so everyone walked to the mall with me following behind. "Hey." I looked up to see one of the girls that were on the roof.
IRIS/PHANTOM POV
"Hey." I greeted him, matching his pace of walk. "I don't think I've-no, we haven't introduced ourselves yet, well except the time I warned you and I'm pretty sure kahi has already warmed up to you." He looked at me with blank eyes, looking slightly confused. "For now, call me Iris. That's Katherine, Jennifer, Tricia, and of course, Takahiro." I pointed to them one by one, introducing our real names. He nodded as a reply. "So...what's your name?" All heads turned to look at Flame. "I'm Vince." "Well nice to meet you Vince. Let's have a nice two weeks together," I held out my hand to welcome him. He hesitate at first, but slowly, he shook my hand. "How bout some Starbucks?" "Sure." he replied. We walked down the streets and got to the mall.
We were chatting casually till I saw a sight that had just ruined our day. I put up my hand which signaled them to stop walking. "Icky emergency people. It's the Icky Three." All eyes followed my gaze which rested upon 3 figures walking towards us. They were the Icky Girls, at least that's what we call them, they think they're always better than others without sparing a thought for their feelings. Just because of their try too hard figures and overdone make up with clothes two sizes too small. All they even eat is salad and water. Otherwise they work themselves to the bone for any other "extra fat" in foods other than salad. I don't even know why people socialize with them.
"Who are they?" Vince asked. "People you shouldn't get involve with, make sure you stay with us at all times." Takahiro sneered. "Let's walk the other way around." Katherine say as we all turned around.
TRICIA/TRIXIE POV
I looked around our table, everyone was enjoying their Starbucks as we talked and laughed. If only time could stand still like this... "..ri..tri...TRI." I felt my eardrums scream. "Ow! What what?" I jump in my chair. "We're heading to the sports store. You gonna get up or what?" Jennifer was directly infront of me. Everyone had already got up. "Sorry, I spaced out." I say as I got up and we started walking towards the sports section.
I look upon the shelves of running shoes, that is way too many to try in one day. I was sitting with Katherine by the chair. I had paid for mine long ago but Katherine insists on trying on as many as she can to find the perfect one for jumping off roofs and landing smoothly, her words not mine. I sighed, "Kat, are you done yet? It's 3:45 and we're suppose to meet at 4:15. Even the others are done with their own shopping." "Yea just give me a sec," suddenly she gasped, "I found it! This is perfect! C'mon, let's go." She was holding up a pair of purple running shoes with neon straps. "But that looks like your other pair." I state. "No, the other pair is blue and this is purple with 65 percent more friction." she protests. "And I'll just get kahi to add in the other 35 percent and jumping boost, with rubber soles for more friction when landing but the front will have a smooth sole instead for less friction when I run and land." Katherine excitedly explains as the both of us headed to the cafe that we promised to meet everyone at.
"Hi my name is Emily, may I be of service?" a cheery girl wearing her waitress uniform, greeted us at the doorway. "Yes, our friends are already at a table and we'd like to join them." Katherine replied. "Ahh, you must be the ones, this way please." She led us to the back of the cafe and stopped at a booth. There we saw the others, we thanked her before proceeding. "Oh look, the other losers arrived. Looks like the gang's all here."
The two of us turned around, and saw the Icky Three. "Ew, why are you here?" I whined. "Tri, ignore them." "But Jen..." I started to protest. "Ignore them." Jennifer said, slowly this time, emphasizing the 'ignore' and giving me the 'eye'. "...yes." I sighed in annoyance before replying. "Emily!" Iris called out, raising her hand to signal her to take our order. "We'll have one green tea, one orange juice, two coke, two chocolate drinks, we'll order our food later." Emily jotted down our orders before heading to the kitchen. "Coming right up!" After a few minutes, she returned with our drinks. "Here you go!" she said before tending to another table.
"Urgh, that cheery girl is so yuck." said Emma, one of the three. "I bet on the inside she wants to be a real model, like us." Kelia commented while flipping her hair. "Totally, if she's jealous then green is soo her colour." laughed Betty. I clicked my tongue in annoyance. They kept exchanging insults with too high pitch laughs. I couldn't take it anymore, I stood up, but suddenly I felt something cold brush against my cheek. "Ahh!" I turned and saw a butter knife stuck on the wall beside the Icky Three and a little bit of their hair was on the table, their faces were utter shock. I turn the other way and notice that Iris had just thrown the butter knife at them and is sipping her drink as if nothing happened. I awkwardly sat back down. Suddenly my phone buzzed, or should I say the booth did. I jumped a little before reaching into my back pocket to take out my phone. It was about 'that' mission.
JENNIFER/OO9 POV
My phone buzzed in my hand. It was a message of 'that' mission. "Guys?" We all shared a look. "We don't even need a guess." Takahiro states. "It's been broken through!" Tricia's words were alarmed. "Ding. You know what that means." Katherine says as everyone stood up. Iris raised up her hand, "Bill please."
We ran out of the cafe after paying but I noticed in the corner of my eye, that Tricia looked proud and relieved at the same time. I chose to pretend I didn't saw it and ran a little faster. "So...what's this?" Vince asked. "Plan B." I answered. "What happened to plan A?" "Sank like the Titanic." We ran all the way home, not losing breaths as we were very trained in fitness. All of us quickly changed into our assassination clothes and grabbed our weapons before heading up to the roof. "I'll go through the details as we get to the helicopter." Iris say as she jumped roof after roof with us following behind. The city was slowly covered in a orange blue hue as the sun set.
AUTHOR'S NOTE:
Hi readers, I am so sorry for late update. Writers block has been a bigger pest than usual, and my "manager" keeps pushing me to finish it. And I promised a friend I would release it by Friday night. Ding! Success! It's 11:50pm, just made it. :) Now for homework ;(