Life's Games
Chapter 1
Early Monday morning a figure crept out of the apartment complex. The person stepped out onto the street in the morning light. It revealed that is was a young girl of 15. She was a bit on the short side, but the way she stood and walked said that no one should mess with her. Her eyes were an amethyst color that shined with wisdom, and energy. She had midnight blue hair that was spiked boyishly, and her clothes confirmed the fact that she really was a tomboy.
She adjusted her backpack more comfortably on her back and walked briskly, but confidently down the street. Five minutes passed with her silent footsteps, but occasionally she would look over her shoulder casually. She glanced quickly at her watch when a yell echoed right in her ear. " YO EEDEL!" The girl now known as Eedel jumped a foot in surprise and nervously turned around.
Eedel looked into the face of her friend with a glare. " Josie if you ever… EVER do that again…"
" You will what? You KNOW you can't hurt me! You may threaten me as much as you want, but you never do it… heehee… I love taking advantage of you." Josie was a light brunette with leaf green eyes, and right now her face was filled with mirth. They both started walking.
" I noticed that… You just wait until I actually do it!" Eedel smiled slightly.
" Uh huh… SURE… that will be the day… hehe… I can't see why you can clobber guys, but never hit a girl when you are a girl yourself."
" Well the fact that most girls can't take it … Girls usually fight with words not fists." Eedel said this so practically that Josie just had to roll her eyes at her friend's thoughts.
" Whatever Eedel… you keep dreaming in that little world of yours…"
" How about you eh? Every five minutes you are up in the clouds…"
" Am not."
" Are too."
" Am not."
" You just keep saying that Josie."
" Don't make it sound like I am stupid!"
" I thought you were already stupid… OOPS…Did I say that out loud?"
" EEDEL!"
" MY EARS!"
Suddenly a voice out of no where yelled, " My head! Will you girls stop squabbling!?" The two girls turned to a boy that looked to be a senior. His chestnut hair was in a long braid that stopped at his waist, and his eyes were a brilliant bright blue.
Josie glared at him and said angrily, " You stay out of this you… wait what is this thing Eedel? A female or male?"
Eedel smiled mercilessly and replied, " I really don't know… I think IT suits."
The man didn't seem to find it too funny. " I am a male! A very good-looking male to boot."
" Well someone sure has a big ego…" Josie raised her eyebrows.
Eedel sighed like a lovesick schoolgirl and said in a fake girly voice. " Oh you are just so dreamy! You looks remind me of a slobbering pig…" She stopped continuing because by now the guy was steaming. " What? Can't you take a little joke?" From what she could see no he couldn't. " Umm eh…hehe… it was all meant in good humor… you wouldn't do anything now would you?" Eedel ran and hid behind Josie. " You can get Josie first!"
" I just feel so loved…" remarked Josie dryly. " Don't take her so seriously though… She's a bit you know… LOONEY in the brain." Eedel was about to say something, but Josie just cut her off again. " So what is your name?"
He offered his hand grinning a little. " My name is Duo Maxwell, and may I have the honor of having your name?"
Josie shook his hand, and said, " Jo-
Eedel clamped her hand over Josie's mouth and said nervously, " Her name is Josephine Farwell and I am Eedeline Renora." Josie suddenly widened her eyes as if understanding. Duo scratched his head in a confused way, but nodded.
Josie finally pried Eedel's fingers off and took a deep breath. " Thanks for suffocating me… "
" No problem!"
Another voice interrupted the conversation, it was deep, authoritative, but cold, " Duo…Who are they?"
Everyone glanced over at a young man about the same age as Duo. He had dark messy brown hair, and his eyes were a deep Prussian blue. Duo replied with a goofy smile, " My fans… Heero, can't you tell they love me? This is Josephine and Eedeline."
" Love you as much as DIRT." Commented Josie.
Heero didn't say anything, but looked the two girls over in a thoughtful manner. " What is your business?"
" Oh HOLY CRAP! Josie we are going to be late for school! We aren't even half way there yet!" Eedel started panicking, she hated being late! Josie's eyes widened as she realized it also.
" Wait… what school do you guys go to?" Duo looked as if an idea was forming in his head.
" We go to Lampshire High school." Said Josie a bit hopefully.
" Well what do you know… Me and Heero go there ourselves! Our first day is today! Hey Heero do you think we could give them a ride?" Heero just shrugged. " I will take that as a yes… well how do you guys feel about riding motorcycles?" Josie and Eedel looked at each other wide-eyed.
Eedel uncomfortably got onto the motorcycle behind Heero. She did not exactly like motorcycles much less having to have to hold onto a guy's waist. Her face turned bright red when she loosely wrapped her arms around his waist.
Josie seemed to have no problem as she hopped onto the motorcycle behind Duo. She was looking around in excitement. Duo laughed and yelled over to Eedel, " Eedeline! You might wanna hold on really tight to Heero because he drives… umm… how do I say this… lets just say its not a pleasant ride." Heero snorted in front of her and started the motorcycle.
" See you there in five Eedel!" Josie and Duo darted down the street.
Eedel felt her stomach drop when Heero went just as fast and even faster than Duo down the street. She quickly tightened her arms around Heero before she slipped. She could tell Heero was pretty well built and probably very dangerous. What if… Eedel shook the thought away before it came. Josie was right, she shouldn't be so suspicious. Something about Heero just told her that when her and Josie left here she would see Heero and even Duo again. It was just a hunch, but she could be wrong.
When Heero and her arrived Josie and Duo were already taking their helmets off. " Come on Eedel! We are going to be late to class!" Josie ran over to Eedel, grabbed her arm, and dragged her along before she could give Heero back his helmet. " Eedel I have a feeling we are going to get a detention…"
" So do I…" The two girls ran to class with a sullen look on their faces.
Heero and Duo were putting away their stuff as fast as they could when Duo suddenly spoke up, " You would think they would say thank you huh?" Heero said nothing, but gathered his books. " Fine don't bother saying anything. Some kind of conversationalists you are!"
" Duo…"
" So NOW you decided to talk."
" Shut up."
" Why don't you!" Duo just realized how ridiculous that sounded. Heero shook his head and started walking swiftly to class.
Josie was right when she said they were both getting detentions. Eedel had never gotten a detention before and was making a big deal out of it at break. " It will ruin my record! My perfect one at that!"
" Oh… my gosh… Its just ONE freaking detention!" Josie lowered her voice whispering, " Its not like we ever keep our old records anyway…"
" Good point…Oh… But the guilt!" Josie rolled her eyes. Eedel suddenly grew serious. " Our target is in sight…"
Josie nodded for she too saw. " He doesn't seem too shady does he?"
" Exactly… It's his job to fit in…" They were both looking at a man that was laughing with a couple of seniors. Everything about him seemed dark. His skin, eyes, clothes, and hair. " Though the dark clothes do point at something…"
" You are one to talk Eedel… always wearing navy blue and black…"
" Quiet… the device I slipped on him is picking up some of the conversation…"
" What could we get from them though if he is the only suspect?"
" The Doc said there might be more than just him… You know that a professional spy always has backup…"
" Yea… I know… we are spies ourselves…"
" Yea, but that's not all we do… You also pilot and fix mobile suits unlike me who can't even ride a bike… I on the other hand… specialize in the trade of an assassin and hacking." Eedel cursed all she heard was static.
" No good?"
" Nope… sneaky fool… Probably has some sort of magnet to stop any signals…" Eedel tried adjusting her settings. " Still no good…"
" I don't see why we can't just take him out now…"
" We will… soon… I wonder if we should still check out his apartment tonight…"
" Better now then never… The detention is going to cut our time pretty short, but we will manage. Always do…"
" Yea… I just ho-
" Shhh… Duo is coming towards us." The two girls watch him approach them silently.
Duo looked at them in a funny matter and joked, " What? No hello?"
" Hello Duo… I am sorry about not thanking you guys this morning… We would have been even later…" Josie looked apologetically at him.
" We got a stinking detention… My RECORD!" Eedel dramatically used her hands to emphasize her meaning.
" Umm… ok… It's no problem… Heero and I were quite willing. At least I was anyway." Duo grinned at Josie charmingly.
" Where is Heero anyway?" Spoke up Eedel again.
Duo scratched his head, " I don't know… He goes where ever he wants."
" He sounds very polite…" The sarcasm in Eedel's voice was evident.
" Well, I just came over to ask if you guys could show us around and perhaps eat lunch with us."
Eedel was about to say yes, but Josie interrupted her, " Sorry, we have some important matters to attend to at lunch." Josie glared at Eedel, and pulled her away saying to Duo, " We have to get back to class… the bell is about to ring."
"You better be careful around them Duo…" Heero had somehow appeared next to him.
" Oh come on Heero… they are just little girls… What can they do?" Duo laughed at his friend's suspicious behavior. Heero didn't reply, but he watched the girls walk away with keen interest directed toward Eedel. Duo noticed his gaze, and nudged his friend. " Have a thing for that tomboy one eh?"
Heero just kept silent. He couldn't shake off the feeling that he had seen her before. If they had met before, it was not in good terms. He ran his fingers through his hair and walked to his next class.
Josie took something out of her pocket. It was a folded piece of paper that looked as if it was recently folded. " Here is the e-mail I received last night. It has our mission, I already read through it."
Eedel nodded and took the piece of paper, " Just remember to be careful when you make copies of stuff as important as this. We can't let anyone get his or her hands on it. If they do… you know the drill." She laid the paper out on the grass. They were sitting under a tree in the lunch area far off from where most of the kids were sitting. " So we keep watching this guy right? Since we are going to break into his apartment this afternoon… we should be able to find information him easily… So the Doc wants us to find out who he is working for?"
" Yep, its an easy assignment, but I have a feeling there is more to it…" Josie picked at some grass.
" Doc always did have a knack for leaving out important bits of information… Something about that old woman I extremely hate…"
" She says she is trying to protect us from the truth… But I wonder if she realized that we can take care ourselves now…"
" I guess not… all I know is that I follow orders… If the orders don't fit my style then I don't do them. I will not be doing anything foolish."
" Eedel… Sometimes I think you take this job too seriously…"
" If you want to accomplish your purpose… you need to be serious…"
" But what about when this war is over?"
" How do you know if it will ever be over?"
" You already that where anything starts… there is always an end…"
" Yea… But that's only if we survive through this…"
" We will survive… Get married, settle down, and grow to be old ladies."
" I don't know about the married part, but yea… I do want to live through my whole life."
" If we both don't get married then we can be old maids together!" Josie exclaimed this with such seriousness that Eedel burst out laughing. " Hey don't laugh at me!" Josie threw the grass she picked into Eedel's face.
" All right that's it!" They both started having a grass fight, and were giggling uncontrollably. " AGH! I am giggling!" Eedel clamped her hand over her mouth, but couldn't stop the grin that slipped on her face.
" You have to act like a girl SOME day Eedel!" Eedel made a disgusted face.
The two girls walked out of the classroom they were having detention in, and started down the hallway. Eedel spoke up first careful to keep her voice low, " You have the equipment?"
" Yep… the weapons too…hehe…" An evil look was on Josie's face.
" And I thought I was attached to my weapons…" mumbled Eedel. Actually she was really attached to her knives and sword. She loved that cool feeling of the medal against her skin. There were other rather gruesome reasons, but those should be left unsaid.
" Hey I just remembered something… How will we sneak in if he is home?"
" Well Josie you should already know that I thought of that. He is going to be out with his friends somewhere."
" I have a feeling they are up to no good… maybe we should follow him instead."
" Yea I had that same feeling, but we have to get the information!"
" Hey Eedel how about this… I follow him since I am better at spying than you are. Besides you are the hacker in this group not me."
" Thank you I think… Well fine if that's what you think is best… I trust your judgement. You better hurry and catch up with him then." Eedel switched backpacks with Josie so that now Eedel had the equipment. " Josie… inside is a pistol… be careful ok?"
" I am always careful!" Josie waved bye running outside to the front of the school. Eedel left the school by another direction. Someone followed closely behind Eedel with practiced silence.
Eedel walked slowly at first to follow the directions on the piece of paper that Josie handed her earlier, but then picked up her pace. Her muscles were tense as she looked around for any sign of someone following her. She found none, but something kept bugging her to look harder. Just to make sure again she turned sharply at the corner of a street into a small alley. She leaned her back against the wall of a brick building waiting for steps to appear. Her eyes widened as she did hear them, they were light, but she could pick them up with her sharp ears. She reached to the inside of the backpack and took out where she knew Josie would put Eedel's dagger. She heard the footsteps coming closer, and finally they just suddenly stopped. Confusion clouded her mind. Why did the person stop? She moved closer to the entrance of the alley when unexpectedly the feeling of a gun touched the top of her head before she could look up.
End of Chapter 1