What Life Looks Like

Abby Lincoln wasn't decommissioned, and one of her first self-appointed mission was to keep her old team from turning to the bad side. Not to mention she has a tall stack of homework, a relationship with Maurice (turns to 2/5 later), and missions on top of it.

Black curls sprawled across the white sheets as Abby laid on her back. Her brown eyes scanned her dark blue notebook. The summer between eighth grade and high school had been tough. Since turning thirteen she had joined the prestigious Teens. They had only taken the best of the best. Sadly, out of everyone in her sector only she was chosen.

Now, it had been one year since her thirteenth birthday and she had been recruited. Abby had a rest to do her own missions and homework. High school, particularly honors courses, were difficult. The fourteen year old squinted at her notebook and frowned.

As much as Abby hated it, but she had added Fanny Fulbright to her list. Yet another person to keep from turning bad. Even though she focused on her team, she cared about the redhead. She knew the teens were after her former team because they were great operatives. The others were just others that she had promised. While numbuh 1 was away with the G: KND sadly still. Her list looked much like this:

Hoagie
Kuki
Wally
Fanny
Rachel

Abby had promised Rachel to keep her from turning bad. The blond haired girl had went through a lot of stress during her last couple days. Abby had told her that she would. That a good operative wouldn't go through that. That was 5 people that she had to watch on top of everything else. Mentally, she groaned and turned off her computer, which was totally immune to hackers. She had no clue what to do next other then get ready for the first day of high school.

"Come on Abby," said the soothing voice of Maurice Davis from the doorway. Abby rolled her eyes before sitting up in her bed. To tame her bed head she twisted it into a fresh braid. After years of a regular braid, she had decided to change it. Maurice turned and went back down stairs.

After she tied that off she found his old soccer jersey to put on. It was her favorite colors blue and white with the number 25 on the back. Then she found her gray leggings and black boots. She glanced hesitant at the hat sitting on her bed. She hadn't put it back on since she was transferred to the TND. She shook her head and opened the door leaving it there. Who knows? Maybe she'll put it back on later when she wasn't already in a rush.

Downstairs her dad was talking to Maurice. Her mom making waffles in the waffle iron and Cree working on her college work. A wave of nostalgia ran through Abby. They had finally caught Cree last summer. Now that the young adult had been decommissioned both girls had actually become closer. Abby still sometimes missed the fighting they would have every morning.

"Ready for the big guns? You're in high school now Abby," said Maurice, his brown eyes twinkling. They could see each other all of the time now well when permitted. They had two classes together even; web design and creative writing.

"Yea listen I gotta pick up a couple of friends. What to come with?" she asked hopefully he didn't mind. Instead of shaking his head no he was smiling.

"Of course where to first?" Both of them held hands for a minute before her dad's voice broke their connection. They dropped their hands and Cree only smirked at them before turning back to her orange juice.

"You two kids have fun at school, with the books and the pencils-"

"We know dad," said Abby. She bolted out the door grabbing her denim bag on the way out. She had shut the oak door without slamming it. They were on their way to pick up Rachel. Her house was only three blocks away from her. That is really sector W's side of town and Abby rarely ventured that way. That is until she started to become friends with Rachel.

Since the kids next door Rachel had actually changed quite a bit. She had changed from her stressed demeanor to more relaxed demeanor. After her decommissioning she hasn't been as stressed. She would even be called a little bit of a geek.

Abby rang the doorbell and the first thing she heard was yelling.

"Harvey!" screamed Rachel McKenzie to her brother. She stood wearing her long sleeve orange zip up sweater with a purple tank top. This her favorite outfit was topped with her light blue jeans and white gym shoes. Rachel was pulling her shoulder length golden colored hair into a pony tail then put her pop tart in her mouth.

Harvey M. McKenzie however was nowhere to be seen. He had probably caught up with his friends Tommy, Sonia, Lee, and Paddy. Lee, Paddy, and Sonia were still in the KND but Tommy worked alone. He got caught up in KND business more then he should have been.

Rachel only wanted to get out of the house on time. Freshman year was supposed to be exciting but she sure didn't feel that. Slowly Rachel made her way to her front door. Abby and Maurice were ready at least. She yelled a quick bye to her mom and shut the door.

"Thank you! Are we picking up Fanny?" she asked and all three headed off to the next house. They didn't have to go far to find the others. Especially when you can see Fanny from nearly a mile away. She had a shock of red hair that was noticeable.

Fanny was already next with her boyfriend Patton Drilovsky. Her arms were already around the dark haired boy. Patton stood in cameo cargo pants, a black tee, and army boots. It was Fanny that seemed to change the most since her decommissioning.

"Nice outfit Fanny," she said genuinely to her. Fanny looked pretty cute with her hair in two low messy ponytails, a green dress with a brown belt matched with converse sneakers. The dress was a nice change since she normally wore jeans and a tee shirt most of the time. Fanny rolled her eyes and turned slightly pink at this.

"Hey guys ready to start walking to school?" said the voice of Hoagie Gilligan. He briefly meet her eyes before winking at her. Abby didn't have to go looking for Hoagie. He found her and by using the same jokes from when he was a kid. Then Hoagie had brought Wally with him. It wasn't even really a mission to rekindle their friendships. It had happened naturally.

"We are already walking stupid," muttered Fanny. Patton only nudged her to keep quiet. It actually made Abby relax when Fanny insulted him. It was like they were kids again. Kuki had managed to sneak into the group.

Kuki and Wally seemed to change the most. Wally shot up to be the tallest one in the group. He normally wore his jeans and an orange t-shirt over a long sleeve white one. His long bowl cut hair remained the same but his bangs grazed his eyebrows. Kuki seemed to have mellowed out. Her long hair cut to the top of her breast and in a high ponytail. Her signature green changed to pink. A pleated pink skirt, a white blouse, and pink sweater vest and converse decorated her. If Abby had to guess she wanted to look cute and intelligent at once.

"Hey Abs," said Hoagie trying to play it cool. Abby looked at him before realizing that Cree was right about Hoagie he was pretty cute. She shook her head she had a mission to be on, plus she had a boyfriend.

That was when she saw it, the neighborhood villain crashing the park again. Looking quickly at her friends she kept walking, hopefully the kids next door would get there in time. Her job was to spy not to fight the villains. So instead she kept walking. Then they walked right by the place she had avoided.

She walked right by Nigel's old house and nobody even looked up (at least at first). The treehouse still there intact with another sector V living in it. His parents actually did pick up and leave. If Nigel had come home, he was likely with them.

Nigel had been gone for the past 6 years. The school and anybody who cared to take notice thought he had just moved back to England. Abby knew better and it hurt to know that her friends have forgotten about it and him. However, Rachel looked at his house for a moment.

"Didn't we know that guy that used to live there?" she asked hugging herself some.

"Abby doesn't think so," she said still looking. Inside was obviously some kids getting ready for the first day of school. Or at least fighting to go on the first day.

They kept walking only Abby and Rachel talked about Nigel's old house. None of the others really noticed or cared, she guessed. Instead they were already talking about graduation and prom and a bunch of things. Abby and Rachel pulled out there schedules and compared them.

So they had French IV together and the same journalism class. Other than that Rachel had more classes with Kuki then anything. All of them rounded into Warburton High School for the first day of freshman year. Emotions run high and then Abby walked in. This was her element watching all of the teens walking about and around.

Everybody parted their own way and Abby was ready for whatever hit her.