Lily POV
I'm Lily Brookes, normal teenager by day, Assassin by night, I know strange right, well not for me, you see my parents they were murdered by another assassin, it is a job passed down the family, but because two assassins were married they became a liability, so they had to be exterminated, I have accepted that by now, but when the other assassin came for me a put up a good enough fight, seeing as my parents always made sure I could defend myself that the assassin, whose name is Byron, took me to HQ as they call it and had me trained up, they liked me and I could do the job description easily, it was either this or they would have to get rid of me and because I was about eight at the time death scared me, now it just comes as a normality.
The whole normal teenager thing, well it's so I have an education for when I'm not fit anymore to handle the job and I have something to fall back on, it also leaves suspect behind.
I live in a small town, again lowers suspect, and go to a normal high school; Jackson High, full of all of the stereotypes and cliques that you would expect apart from one group, they're mixed of the most unusual people you could imagine, all quite pretty, but strange, everyone says its just me who think that, but that's because I pay attention to every little detail; they all have pale skin, completely blemish free; they all tense at the littlest of things; they all look like they're walking on air.
They're only a small group, but then they meet up with more immaculate people after school in flashy cars and drive off; they're Poppy; James; Thea; Eric; Mary-Lynnette; Ash; Quinn and Rashel.
They just have my suspicions, but I do shrug it off.
Right now I'm standing in front of my floor length mirror in my house, seeing as I'm now sixteen I can live alone and not at some HQ orphanage, I have a lot of money from my work and I can blend in with shadows easily; my hair is tied in a high ponytail while some of my blonde strands falling down and framing my face, my blues eyes surrounded by black mascara; I'm wearing a red vest top and black track pants, it didn't look bad on me either, the vest top showed off my hourglass figure well and the track pants did wonders for my legs, this is because today just happens to be sports day and we have to show up in appropriate clothing, I slipped on my red and black trainers before grabbing my denim satchel and running out of the door and locking it behind me.
I got into my silver mini convertible which I use for school; I have my baby a black, very fast motorbike for work. I chucked my satchel in the back and went to pick up my two best friends, who for their own safety are not allowed to find out about my job, or they'll have to be dealt with, so I'm very careful around them.
When I reach Cassie's she is already out front with Tina, Cassie is a tall slender girl with auburn hair that is cut into a bob, she is really pretty and tans easily, she also has brown-green eyes, Tina is my olive skinned friend with dark brown hair that curls down to her shoulders, she is the shortest of the trio with a nice hour glass figure and a full chest, again really pretty, her eyes are a deep pool of chocolate.
Tina is wearing her green sweats while Cassie is wearing her pink one. Tina jumps into the back of my car while Cassie occupies the passenger seat and we head to school.
"Oh my god, look at the guy dropping off Pretty People." I shook my head, the Pretty People is what Cassie calls the pale group of people, she absolutely loves talking about them, but just like I thought, the guy who was dropping them off had pale skin.
Cassie's mouth was hanging hoping in danger of unhinging and disrupting my driving, if it did fall off though I don't she would notice.
"Oh my god," I have a feeling this is going to be one holy day, and by the look on Tina's face she was thinking the same, "he's getting out, do you think he's new, I think he is he's heading to the office." Cassie was now jumping in her seat; finally I got to my space next to the guys.
The guys are the boys who hang out with us the majority of the time because we're the approachable pretty people, I don't think I'm very pretty though, I'm not ugly, I just think I'm average, maybe a bit above, but looks don't play a big part in my life, I have to admit they're good if you need to lure someone outside as to not make a seen on a job, but they aren't major.
The guys consists of; Jay, a tall well toned and tanned guy with short brown wavy hair on the top of his head, he is currently dating Cassie and he has bright green eyes; then there's Zane, he has blonde hair that is baggy and totally rugged, the girls love it and green eyes, attractive compared to a lot of guys, he's tall with a slight glow to his skin, he is also totally vain and loves flirting with all of the girls like his best mate Austin, he is very muscled and most girls love his abs, he is very tanned with black hair that spikes up with dark grey eyes to match his hair; and last but not least is Simon, he has black skin and black hair and deep milky chocolate eyes, he is very athletic, toned body and a lot of girls love him, he treats me like his baby girl and is very protective. So basically they guys are a group of male hormones who are all attractive and have all of the girls after them.
I hopped out of my car and grabbed my bag from Tina once she passed it to me, all the guys were sitting in positions on or in the car waiting for us, their car is a black BMW, typical, it's Jay's car.
They were all wearing plain, but different coloured tracks, ready for the day, I smiled at them the hopped on the bonnet of my car while Cassie made out with Jay, its morning routine and we're all used to it, Tina jumps onto Zane's lap, and played with the zipper on his jacket.
"Hey Baby Girl, what you been up to?" Simon asked from the bonnet of Jay's car.
"Nothing, what you been up to?" I asked again, smirking 'cause I know what he's been up to, shamelessly flirting with innocent girls that get caught up in his eyes, he smirked right back and leaned down further so he was resting on his elbows.
"There's a new dude today."
"There's a new donkeys arse?" I asked coyly.
"Yep, he's cousins or something with Redfern, he's here just in time for sports day, I wonder what he's good at?"
"You'll find out soon enough, here comes Miss Mayson." Miss Mayson is our sports coach; she comes out early to set up the field, she usually picks a group of people to help and is right now heading over to us. "Everyone split," I joked when I saw the looks on their faces as soon as they registered what was happening.
"Ahh children would be so kind as to help me set up the field."
"Sure Miss," we all said in unison, she nodded her head in thanks. I jumped off of my bonnet and skipped my way over to the sports shed, the others trailing behind, I smirked at them as I got the javelins and walked up the field, past the cheerleaders, the geeks, the jocks, and the Pretty People, Austin caught up with me just before I past them, over protective fool, he had the other three javelins, total of five, I grinned at him when we walked past.
I may be an assassin, but I do have a normal teenage life-ish, but I am committed to my job when it is needed.
I winked at him then skipped forwards again; he shook his head at me and followed with a pace.
When we were at the end of the field where athletics took place I plopped them down and headed back to the shed again, passing my friends on the way, they were carrying cones and other equipments. When I passed the Pretty People I noticed them looking at me weirdly, I raised a questioning eyebrow which made them turn away from me, I had to hide a light laugh and head back to the shed.
Next we had to get out the marker ropes, our school does some pretty brutal sports for sports day, fighting, or self defence is one of them, we have the marked ropes as a boundary line, if you step out or are down for more than five seconds you lose. We don't even get to choose the sports we do today, they pick for us and we do them.
We also play team games like football, basketball and rounders; it's all really fun, one of the best days of the year.
I scooped the boundary ropes up in my arms and headed to the closer end of the field to set them up.
Once I got to the field I saw TJ standing there, he is the main moron of the school, he thinks he is everything and he has to get whatever he wants, and right now he has some fixation with me, "Hey Lily."
I put on a smile and said 'hi' back before turning back to my work of setting up the posts. He knelt down to help me, see he turns on the charm and once you're his it is immediately off, he did that to Tina, luckily she pulled out before they went too far, he then started making up stories about how she was frigid, of course Zane went up and punched him then, the guys don't say anything when he talks to me unless I say they can, but if he goes too far there will be trouble.
"So how's Tina?" he asked with curiosity.
"Why do you care?"
"I was wondering if she put out yet." He asked with an evil smile plastered on his lips, it caused me to snarl under my breath, I hate him, especially when he's like this.
"I don't how that has anything to do with you." I sated bluntly, before going to the next post.
"Well it is, because she bucked out last minute with me, the frigid slut," and I lost it, I stood straight up, catching people closer to us' attention, so basically the Pretty People, I marched straight over to where he was kneeling and pulled him up by the collar of his polo shirt, he looked slightly scared at me before regaining his composure.
The reason is everyone sees me as the innocent one, but they have seen me lose control once when this idiot said something bad about my friends, so I'm innocent with protectiveness embedded in. this means everyone who is watching knows he's been a complete wanker about my friends, just not which one.
"Don't you dare talk about her like that," I sneered, but I think he remembers the time I did lose my temper it took three people to get me away from him that time seeing as he was responsible, he also knows my friends won't do that to stop me and his posse are down the other end of the school parking lot, so the only hope he has is a teacher coming out or the Pretty People intervening.
"Yeah, what are you going to do about it, you're just a cheap ugly slag."
"You're only saying that because you can't have me, get over yourself."
"Tina's a slutty little, slut, slut." He kept on chanting, I was so close to punching that snide little smirk from his face then a cold hand was on my shoulder, I turned around to see Quinn, oh great one of the Pretty People would come and stop me, well that ruins my fun, I could also see James, Ash, Eric and the new kid behind him, there for back up if need, while the girls looked at me pleading.
Quinn then spoke up seeing my attention was now on them and I was slightly calmer, "he's not worth it, leave him, everyone know he's a jerk."
Taking a deep breath I nodded and let go of his collar, Quinn let go of my shoulder as well and turned back to his friends before nodding.
"Slutty little, slut, slu…" Before anyone could react I had turned back around and punched him so hard in the face it was pink almost immediately, his nose had a little drop of blood on it and this really shocked everyone because no one thinks I can throw a punch, they don't even let me try. "You little bitch" he cried to me while clutching his face and scooting away on the floor, then the next moment there were strong arms around my waist pulling me back from the commotion and they weren't my friends because I could see my friends up the field with video cameras and phones out laughing at what they had recorded.
Then they turned the camera on me and laughed even harder at what was going on, I managed a meek wave and salute to the camera before I disappeared behind a car and was sat on the bonnet facing a load of shaking heads and smirks, the Pretty People. See since they started here I have stuck up for them and them me, we've just been allies, simple, but now some of them looked truly shocked at my actions.
"What? Everyone needs a good slap every now and then and anyway a little pain never hurt anybody." I said while shrugging my shoulders. This caused Ash and Quinn to burst into laughter.
James spoke up, "you do realize that last comment contradicts itself right?"
"Yup, I figured that after I said it."
"Okay kids, line up in your groups and we'll start sports day." Miss Mayson bellowed from somewhere in the car park.
"Well that's my cue to go, bye," I chirped while hopping up and running past them onto the field, I stood by my friends and smiled when they winked at me.
The sport I was assigned was running track for ten minutes and gymnastics; well track went good, I started off fast and kept up the pace therefore winning by ages, I was at least half way round further than the person in second. In gymnastics we were given many different things to do like cartwheels; splits; rolls; for some reason the worm; round offs; handstands and also front and back flips, the back flips is where most struggled seeing as we only started them the other week, but I did fine, heheheee, extra training.
Then we had lunch and then there was more, two of the Pretty People were going against each other in an open fight, where you use whatever you can to beat the other, it was the new kid and Ash, they grinned at each other, the new kid, if I remember correctly is called Adrian White-Ash Redfern.
When they started it was quite funny to watch, I was sat on the ground letting the sun beat on my skin, warmth spreading though my pores; they circled each other first daring the other to make the first move, eventually Ash did, he tried to land a punch on Adrian, he dodged and kicked Ash's legs from beneath him, Ash then jumped up and kicked Adrian across the jaw, he flipped behind Ash and kicked him in the back of the knees before grabbing his wrists in a deadlock, placing a knee on his back so he was immobile, after five seconds Ash was out and they got up laughing.
Then I got a buzz from my pager, I sighed, grabbed it out of my bag and looked at it; mass murderer, near your school, 8 o'clock, outside town hall, death no matter what, identified by dragon tattoo on side of face.
"What is that about?" Simon asked, looking over at my annoyed expression.
"I can't make it to the party tonight, sorry, work emergency." It's Friday and we always have movie night on Friday's but when work calls I got to go.
"That's a shame," Cassie grumbled while I put the pager back in my bag.
07:58pm
My hair is tied completely up behind my head, I'm in all black so I blend in with the shadows that the town hall casts over me, there are two pistols strapped to my hip while a dagger is slipped in my boot, that is all I should need tonight.
My breathing quietened as a black Audi R8 pulled up, then a garage door opens revealing a man with stubble and a dragon tattoo on the side of his face, he's passing a box over to the other man in the car.
As soon as the car tried to drive away my gun comes out and shoots the tire, oh I'm so glad I muffled the end so it won't shock anyone, instinct takes over as I creep out of the shadows and see the car driver pull something out of the box, a crosmon shotgun out of it and aims into the shadows, I quickly take him out with one simple shot and head for the man with the tattoo, he gets out another gun and aims straight for me, I take it my cover is blown, adrenaline rushes through my blood stream as we pull triggers at the same time, mine goes in his temple causing immediate death while his goes into my thigh and tears the skin.
"SCHEIßE!" My body cries out along with my lips, the searing pain of my flesh tearing is like a million pins being stabbed in to deepen the other periodically, just enough time to make the pain new.
I look down at the pool of blood circling me before ripping my top and using it as a tourniquet, my hands go there to place more pressure on before I pull myself up and head over to the body, I grabbed his collar and pull him to the car and chuck him in the back, time to make evidence, I close the garage door and lock it with the key from the dead dudes coat pocket.
I push the car closer to the nearby tree, just close enough so it looks like it crashed and rebounded before opening up the petrol tank and putting another torn piece of my top in there so it reaches the fuel and there is a tip hanging out of the side, then I light a match and setting the end on fire before running away and getting onto my motorbike and racing off, just hearing the deafening explosion of gas and the golden glow illuminating the road in front of me as I disappear into the night like nothing ever happened.
Once I got home I hobbled all the way to my bathroom to pull out the antibiotics and bandages, my leg may have been shot, but it wasn't too deep so I don't need to go to the hospital for it, just clean it, wrap it up and take a load of antibiotics.
The cleaning did sting a bit as it worked but then it numbed and I am now able to go to my bed and collapse which is exactly what I did and I fell asleep momentarily.
