CHERUB Bomb

Chapter one

Max Carter was an 11 year old boy. He was tall for his age. He had messy jet black hair, which was quite long and fell over his bright blue eyes. Max wasn't very smart for his age though, although he was apparently incredibly handsome and popular with the ladies.

Max was sitting in History one day, when Samantha Collins started mocking him. 'Oh and all the ladies absolutely love me! I'm so popular!' Samantha hated Max and Max hated her back. In a time long ago they had dated, but that relationship had ended badly, very badly. Samantha had ended up in young offenders for six months and Max grounded for a year.

Ever since then they had been living like this. Samantha teasing him, him retorting and them fighting and ending up in front of the head teachers office. But Samantha had been even more horrible recently, because Max had started dating Tiffany, her mortal enemy.

After history it was break. Max was standing around the science block with Tiffany when Samantha marched up. 'What do you want?' Max said sourly. 'I didn't come to tease you,' spat Samantha, 'I came looking for the bitch.' Max snapped.

Max grabbed Samantha and pinned her against the wall. 'Don't you dare call my girlfriend that ever again! All right? Do you understand?' he screamed in her face. Samantha suddenly grinned and freed her hand. She punched Max in the face and Max fell backwards, shocked.

But soon Max got up and ran at Samantha, who dodged him and jumped onto his back. They fell over and wrestled on the ground, whilst Tiffany ran for help. Max managed to get a hold of Samantha's face but Samantha's hand whacked his away. Samantha rolled on top of him.

The next thing that happened shocked Max down to his marrow. Samantha lent down and kissed him full on the mouth. While Samantha was distracted, Max grabbed her and got on top. Max picked her up off the ground and threw her at the science block wall. Unluckily he did this when the head teacher was walking straight towards him.

'What HELL were you thinking!' yelled the headmaster, 'You could have KILLED her!'

'I already said I'm sorry!' cried Max.

'You think sorry is enough? You think SORRY will make everything better? Well then, you can get the hell out of this school, you jumped up little shit!'

Max looked back at the school. It was a shame, he had liked this place. He turned around and started walking away. He would have to go back to the care home now, have to explain to the staff.

Max soon reached the shabby old care home, which desperately needed done up. He went up to the door and knocked. A woman came to the door, but not one he recognized. She certainly wasn't a member of staff.

'Ah Max,' she said, 'You should come in. We've just received a phone call from your old headmaster.'

Max followed her in. In the living room sat his social worker and the head of the staff at the care home. Her face looked disappointed. Disappointed in Max. He sat down.

'Now Max. I work for a very special program, which we believe you may have the certain- eh- qualities we look for. The organization is called CHERUB. We recruit child spies. You may be thinking what good are kids, well, quite a lot actually! Criminals never expect children to be spying on them! So would you be interested?'

Max nodded.

The woman smiled and the other two women came forward and grabbed his arms, restraining him. 'Sorry Max, this won't hurt a bit!' and she pulled out a syringe and stuck the needle in his arm.