A/N - Disclaimer - I don't own M.I High
Chap 1 - The real Daisy
Loneliness was the one emotion she did feel as she walked through the empty halls of her vast house that was more like a mansion in size. Once again she was left alone, her parents having left on a business meeting and wouldn't be back for god knows how long. But then again the house felt just as empty and silent when they were home. They never showed her any affection or any sign that they cared, she knew deep down they did love her but they did not show it to say the least. In less than a week the summer holidays would start and she would be just as lonely as ever sitting in her room in silence trying to entertain herself. This was what she did every summer holidays. But now that she was a spy for M.I 9 she hoped that maybe her friends would want to hang out or maybe they would get a new mission during the holidays and that way she would get to see them anyway.
She hated this feeling. The feeling that no matter where she went she didn't fit in. At home she put on the face of a perfect daughter, did what she was told when she was told, didn't talk back, sat politely in silence if she had to attend a function with her parents, to her parents she was the perfect daughter down to the last detail. Even at school she had to put on a face to fit in. When she had started at M.I high she had really wanted everyone to see the real her but soon she found out that even in school she would have to act like someone she wasn't. A stuck up girly girl, it wasn't what she had wanted but to fit in you either have to be a rebel, extremely cool or a girly girl. She had chosen the easies one of the three to pull off. And then she had become a spy she had hoped that maybe she would be able to be the real her there but then if her two partners found out that it was all an act then people might find out and she would be screwed. So even as a spy she kept the girly girl act going hoping no one would expect anything.
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"So are you going to the end of school dance on Friday?" Rose asked Daisy
The three spy's were all sitting in M.I 9's headquarters hidden under the school. They were waiting for Lenny to arrive he had called them here but hadn't been here when they came in.
"Yea I guess" Daisy said not sounding very enthusiastic at all
"What's your problem normally you would be squealing you head off because there was a dance" Blane said looking over his shoulder to look at her from where he had been reading a magazine
"Well I'm sorry that I don't live up to your expectations, cant I have one day where I don't have to act like all the girly girls in this school. For once cant I just be Daisy" Daisy snapped standing up from where she had been sitting
Blaine turned around in his chair while putting his magazine down and looked at her confused. He was shocked when he saw the hurt that was plastered all over her face. He suddenly regretted his words.
"Daisy I didn't mean" Blaine started to try and say something but stopped when he saw a tear slide down her cheek
"I have to act for everyone, for my parents I act like the perfect daughter that doesn't have a brain and does everything she is told, to fit into this school I have had to act like a stuck up girly girl, even being a spy I don't show the real Daisy and when I try and let her out people look at me weird tell me to go back to how I was acting before because the real Daisy doesn't fit in. Well I have had enough" Daisy was really crying now.
She turned and started to walk to the elevator that would take her back up to the school.
Blane jumped from his seat and took a few steps forward ready to go after her but was stopped by Rose.
"Let her go cool off then go talk to her she hasn't had a very good day" Rose said grabbing his wrist stopping his from going any further
He watched as the lift doors started to close. Their eyes locked he could see the sadness that was consumed in her eyes. And then the doors shut and she was gone.
"Daisy" Blane whispered not knowing what he had done
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Daisy ran out of the janitors closet to crash into a body. Looking up she saw Lenny who was looking confused and worried at her.
"Daisy?" He asked but she just shock her head as more tears fell and she pushed passed him and continued to run away.
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"What's going on?"
Blane and Rose heard Lenny's voice asked firmly. It wasn't often that he would use that tone but when he did they knew he was serious. They turned around from where they had been talking about what just happened to see the man walking up to them.
"Daisy isn't having a very good day and then Blane said something and it pushed her over the edge and she started to yell and then ran away crying" Rose explained
"And why isn't she having a good day" Lenny asked
"Well I found her earlier today in the bathrooms crying, she had pretended she wasn't and tried to change the subject but I pushed her until she gave up and told me. She is sick of acting like someone she's not, at home she puts on the perfect daughter act that her parents want to see, at home she is lonely because her parents are never home and when they are its like they aren't because its like they pretend she's not there. Then at school she acts like a stuck up girly girl to fit in with people and even when she is here with us she keeps that act going because she was afraid that we would tell people. Its getting to much for her and I guess she finally broke" Rose explained
They all just stood there in silence not knowing what else to say.
"I'm going after her" Blane finally broke the silence before he turned and ran into the elevator.
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He wasn't sure where she would be so he started to look anywhere he thought she might go. It had taken him a long twenty minutes but finally he found her. Well actually he heard her. He had walked out into the empty court yard ready to give up thinking she might have left the school. But then he heard it, quiet almost undetectable sobs coming from behind the large tree that sat in the middle of the court yard.
Slowly he made his way over to her trying to make as little noise as possible so he didn't scare her away.
"Daisy" He said softly as he knelt down beside her
She was leaning against the trunk of the tree her knees pulled up to her chest her arms hugging her legs and her head on her knees while her dead straight golden brown hair fell down around her.
"What do you want" A muffled voice came with a few more sobs
"I want to say I'm sorry" Blane said "I didn't mean to upset you"
This made her lift her head slowly and giving him a questioning gaze. Blane couldn't help but notice that she looked awful not like her usually self.
Her mascara and eyeliner were running mixing in with her tears, her face was flushed and her eyes were blood shot.
"I just want someone to see me for me" Daisy whispered only loud enough for him to just hear
"I would like to be that person" Blane whispered back making her eyes go wide
"Really" Daisy asked
"Be my date to the dance" Blane said standing up and holding a hand out for her
She couldn't help but smile slowly placing her hand in his bigger on she noticed how perfectly it fit there. She let herself be pulled up so she was standing much closer to him than she ever had.
"Id love to" Daisy whispered before she did something that shocked him
She hugged him.
So this was the real Daisy, he couldn't help but think he liked this one better than all her fake ones. He hugged her back squeezing her tightly hoping that this would be enough to show her how he really felt, they had both had so many chances to tell the other but every time they hadn't they had lied or denied it. But he hoped that this said all those unsaid words.
"Come on lets get back" Blane said grabbing her hand as they started to walk back to the janitors closet to go back down to headquarters.
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"Daisy" Rose said hugging her but then noticed what she was doing and was about to pull away but stopped when Daisy started to hug her back.
Before they had been friends but neither actually showed the other how much they considered the other a friend. Daisy was going to change this.
From today on she was going to be the real Daisy around her closest friends.
"I have always considered you one of my best friends your like the sister I never had" Daisy whispered to her as they hugged
"Same here" Rose agreed as they let go and turned to face Lenny
"Here wipe your eyes, your mascara has run" Rose whispered to her handing her a tissue that she eagerly took whispering a thank you.
"Ok now that we are all here I would like to inform you of your new mission. A week ago we got word that someone is going to try and steal a priceless artifact at the museum of lost wonders. We were told that the thief will be attending a ball that the owner of the building is holding in the main foyer of the museum. Blane, Daisy you two will be attend the ball and while Rose you will be going up to the security room in the museum to watch and inform them of any suspicious behaviour that they can not see. The ball is in a week from this Friday, be prepared and good luck" Lenny said handing them all sheets of paper that were invitations to the ball.
"Dismissed" Lenny said they all took that as their moment to leave.
Quickly they all turned around and walked to the elevator, when inside Rose couldn't help but notice her two friends were blushing and having trouble looking at each other. Smiling to herself she was glad the two had finally admitted their feelings. She had been starting to get annoyed with them hiding their emotions with constant bickering.