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Chapter 1: The Exchange Student

"Hey Miley, who's that?" I asked nodding towards a kid.

"Oh that's James Adams. He's an exchange student from England." Miley answered dryly looking up from her magazine.

"England," I said. "Huh."

I don't know why but the name sounded familiar to me. I searched my brain trying to find the answer but I always seemed to come up blank.

"Lilly?" Mileys' voice came from a distance.

"Yeah?" I said snapping back to the present.

Miley rolled her eyes.

"Hey guys!" A familiar voice said.

I turned around to see Oliver grinning at me with his goofy grin that I love so much. Oh did I care to mention that I was hopeless in love with my best friend? Yeah that's right. I, Lilly Truscott, am madly in love with Oliver Oken. It's kind of sad in a way because he will never know how I feel and for good reason. It could never work out. We have been best friends forever and if we broke up it would weird out our friendship. A risk I wasn't willing to take but I know I should be.

"Hey Oliver." I said also grinning at me.

"Sup Oliver!" Miley said going back to her magazine.

"Isn't James the greatest?" He says nodding towards the group of boys that were surrounding James.

"Yeah, whatever." Miley said clearly not impressed by James.

"You gotta meet him!" Oliver said ignoring Mileys' comment.

"What? NO!" Miley protested as Oliver dragged us towards James.

"Hey James! These are the friends I was talking to you about." Oliver said

"So these are the famous friends." James said looking us up and down.

"Yeah." Oliver said smiling.

"Let me guess." James said looking at Miley. "You're Miley."

"Correct." Miley said looking impressed.

I was impressed too unless Oliver had described us to him in which case made it the complete opposite.

"Which makes you Lilly." James said turning to me.

"By process of elimination." I added.

"Of course." James said bowing.

"So James I hear you're from England." Miley said now showing a lot more interest in James now.

Don't ask me why though. Miley can do a 180 turn just like that!

"London to be exact." James said averting his gaze from me.

"Never been to London but Lilly has." Miley said nodding. "In fact her parents wanted her to go to school there for a several years."

"Why?" James said showing a lot more interest in me.

"My parents went to that same school and they wanted me too." I said starting to feel uncomfortable.

If they were ever to find out about CHERUB……

"What was the name of this school? Perhaps I know of it."

"Highly doubt it." I muttered under my breath.

"What was that?" James asked.

"Sheesh, what is it with the twenty questions? Gosh!" I said trying to change the subject with little progress.

"Cupid wasn't it?" Oliver asked looking at me.

I looked at him. So did everyone else.

"Cupid? That's the name of the baby that gets people together on Valentines' Day." I said giving him a look.

"That's right! Isn't it something like that?"

"Oliver you're thinking of my history report I had to do." I said trying to stop Oliver from digging deeper into this.

"What about Cherub? Perhaps that's what you're thinking of." James said with a grin.

My heart skipped a beat. Does he know? Could he be one? No! But then how could he know?

"Don't be ridiculous!" I said nervously.

James smiled again. I could tell he knew something was up. This was not good if my cover is blown within months of me coming back.

James opened his mouth to speak but the bell went.

YES! I said inside.

"What do you know we have PE!" I said happily.

"So do I!" James said.

Oh God no! Please don't tell me he has a similar timetable.

"And us." Miley and Oliver said together.

***

At PE……

"Okay class today we have sparring practice for self defence. Who liked to volunteer?" Miss Alcroft looked around the room.

"How about you Adams?" She said nodding at him.

"Alright Miss!" He said taking a spot next to her.

"And you're opponent shall be….." Miss Alcroft said scanning the room.

Please not me! Please not me! I silently prayed.

"Truscott, lets see what you're made of!" Miss Alcroft said gesturing for me to come up.

"Thanks a lot!" I muttered at the ceiling as I walked to stand next to James.

"Alright the rules are simple," Miss Alcroft said as me and James stood facing each other for opposite sides of the ring. "No bad injuries etc and you have to pin you're opponent to the ground for 10 seconds."

James and I nodded. I was trying to calculate what James could do and more importantly what he was capable of.

"Okay ready!" Miss Alcroft said before blowing her whistle.

James charged at me with his fist raised but I knew what he was going to do a split second before he did. I grabbed his fist and swung him round and flipping him thus making him land on his back. He was impressed, in fact everyone was.

"One!" The crowd chanted beginning the ten second countdown.

James struggled to get free but I held him still.

"Two!"

"It's useless to struggle." I whispered, my hand on his chest pinning him down while my feet and knees were on his legs also pinning him down and my hand was pinning down his wrist.

"Three!"

"You think you're so strong!" James snarled.

"Four!"

"Oh but I am!" I laughed.

"Five!"

James tried to get free again with all his might but thanks to my awesome pinning move he could hardly move.

"Six."

"You're wrong." James whispered.

"Seven."

"Am I? Am I?" I said raising my eyebrows.

"Eight!"

"If I'm so wrong then why is it I who has you pinned down and not the other way around?" I said laughing.

James didn't have an answer to that.

"Nine!"

"Any last words?" I asked

"Good fight!" He said. "Quick but good."

I nodded.

"TEN!" The crowd was cheering.

I got off James and held out my hand for him to take which he did gladly.

"You were too open." I said patting him on the back. "Your fists were swinging widely allowing me to grabbed them. You left yourself to vulnerable."

"Where have I heard that before?" I swore he muttered.

***

I was packing up the last of my stuff in the locker room. Everyone else had a chance at sparring while James and I watched. Oliver was pretty good at pinning down Miley but Miley always seemed to wiggle free and I watched (while laughing) at Oliver who continuously tried to get Miley pinned down longer than 5 seconds but Miley always seemed to get out of the situations Oliver put he into. Miley, of course, won and woundn't let Oliver hear the end of it. We were lahing at him all through the remainder of the lesson.

"Good work today!" Oliver said patting me on the back.

"Seriously Lill, where did you learn that move?" Miley said impressed.

Of course they would want to talk about my match with James. I could have seen it coming a mile away.

"Self-defence." Technically this was true, it was self-defence. What I didn't tell them is that in was for missions.

"Where? Cos I wanna learn stuff like that!" Oliver said looking eager.

"Sorry buddy." I said smirking.

Oliver walked off mumbling to himself which made me laugh.

"Okay, so, see you tomorrow?" Miley said.

I nodded.

"Cool!" Miley said walking away.

I stuff my shoes in my bag before swinging my bag on my shoulder and getting to ready to leave. Or so I thought.

Something had caught my eye. I moved towards it.

It was James' locker and it was open. I know this isn't right but I had to find a bit more about this kid. For crying out loud he knew something about CHERUB and this was a good enough reason for me.

I checked to make sure no one was around before taking a peep. Nothing was in it except for a half drunk drink bottle, sport shoes, a PE bag and a black T-shirt. I was about to shut the locker shut except for the fact that the T-shirt caught my eye. The T-shirt wasn't just any old T-shirt.

It had the CHERUB logo on the front.

A/N: So I decided to do a crossover of one of my favourite books and TV shows. I hope it will turn out okay.

Triva: CHERUB stands for Charles Henderson Espionage Research Unit B. It says so in Henderson Boys The Secret Army. Good book. I recommend it.

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