Chapter 1
She looked at her watch. Three thirty. Time to roll. She knew she would at least need fifteen minutes to get the gear and another 10 to grab the girls coffee before returning to home base in time.
Even though she had already done this many times before, and practiced it in abandoned warehouses where Alex had built her security systems to practice on, she felt that adrenaline feeling she loved and longed for so often rush through her again.
She felt her heart rate rise as she entered the garage.
"Calm down Aya" she told herself as she exhaled deeply, before going deeper into the shop.
She settled in line behind an old lady for whom it clearly seemed like the first time in a garage surrounded by mechanical parts.
The line moved slowly. Too slowly. Then again, anything under 30 miles per hour seemed like an eternity to her because of the ADHD.
Finally, after around five minutes of hearing the old lady complaining about her car constantly being either a freezer or a fully heated oven, that turned out to be a misuse of the air conditioning. And after the mechanic was finally able to teach her how to use it, it was her turn.
Aya heard the mechanic mutter under his breath while placing the money from the lady in the cash register.
He looked about her age, maybe a year older tops and had that nonchalant look 18 year olds always had that screamed "I'm finally an adult look at me being responsible-OH MY GOD WHAT AM I DOING WITH MY LIFE? Oh wait I don't care..."
She sighed and came forward
"Hello I'm looking for a carburetor compatible with a 2000 horsepower motor?"
He was still looking at the register as he pointed her to the direction where she would find the parts she needed.
Wow, she thought, this is gonna be easier than I thought!
She grabbed what she needed, with the silence and precision that came naturally to her in spite of her ADHD and left.
Three forty five. She smirked to herself, dropped the gear in her bag and went to the coffee shop.
Ever since she was little, Aya had been able to slither in anywhere she wanted to, a gift she employed often when there were long lines at coffee places. She entered naturally through the employee's door, put on an apron casually and got her three frozen lattes, one of them chocolate flavor with nutmeg and caramel on top and the other two hazelnut with extra whipped cream and chocolate shavings.
She then left, once again unnoticed, and directed herself to the NYBS, New York Boarding School. She went around the building so that she was at the back of the school, and entered from there. When she had first gotten there it had astonished her how a building this big could be right in the middle of New York. She had then learnt every hallway, room, even discovered a few passages leading to abandoned storage rooms, like the one they had established their home base in, but way smaller. The back entrance was the best way in for the teachers not to see you and she, Alex and Kaya had been getting in and out from there ever since she had found that out.
She went up the stairs to the last floor and moved one of the big paintings that decorated the walls to reveal a door.
She took out her key, opened the passage, and disappeared as she close the door behind her, letting the painting fall back into place.
"I got it!" She called out "And drinks!"