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Present Day,

Talullah's POV.

Glancing behind me without moving my head, I noticed Lucy creeping towards me, no doubt about to rugby tackle me.

I kept my nose buried in my book, dropping suddenly and rolling, succeeding in taking Lucy's feet from under her as she tried to stop herself from rugby tackling the wall I had been leant against seconds before.

I smirked as she collapsed, laughing, and gasping, 'How do you do that, every time?'

I pointed at myself and said 'Spy.' I don't know why I do that. I've been doing it since I was an ankle-biter, though.

I flopped down next to her, taking in her familiar features again. She's small and blonde, just like her mom, Liz Sutton. Yeah, that Liz Sutton. The one that created the new techonlogy. I don't know exactly what is is, so don't ask me. Tech never was my strong point.

Anyway, Lucy lives at Gallagher, with me. I live here with my granny, who is the headmistress, while my mom goes off and is a spy. I have asked her if I can live in our house alone, but she says it's 'not safe.'

I have no idea why, but there you go. Anyway, Lucy ended up living here because Liz- I mean, miss Sutton- teaches advanced technology here.

Lucy's dad was named Jonas, but he died soon after Lucy was concived. And my dad? I have his surname- Goode- but I have never met him.

My mom, everytime I ask about him, says he is 'missing in action, presumed dead.' And she always looks away when she says it. Anyone else would think she would be upset, but I know better. I'm a spy. I think she's lying.

Lucy broke me out of my thoughts by nudging me. 'Tally, what d'you say to going into Roseville?'

I leapt up, saying, 'just give me a minute', grabbing my bag.

Five point two six seconds later, I was dragging Lucy out the room. She laughed. 'Where's the rush?'

I snorted. 'Are you trying to tell me you're not bored off your head without the girls here?'

She nodded, but said, 'Yeah, but they're back tomorrow,'.

'Finally,' I said. It had been summer break. Four months is a long time to spend alone with no-one except my grandma, a couple of teachers and Lucy.

Not that I don't love her. I do.

Walking round Roseville got us a lot of stares. I'm not sure why. It could have been Lucy singing 'Ding Dong, the witch is dead', really loudly, me irish dancing along to it, or our appereances.

Lucy is small and blonde with curly hair making her look like an angel (hah, wait 'till you've spent an hour with her) and I am quite tall, with long reddish brown hair and scary green eyes (I think, anyway).

Or possibly the fact we were the only people under the age of fifty in the entire town. (Which was why I wasn't bothered about the singing or dancing)

Either way, we wern't exactly inconspicuos. My mom would have hated that. She dosn't like being noticed. I love it. If you get noticed in the right way, that is. If you look like a spy, that is bad. So don't go round humming Mission Impossible. But if you are singing loud or whatever, people will just think you are a hyper teenage girl, not a dangerous spy who knows how to kill you with a coat hanger.

Anyway, me and Lucy were both goofing about like crazy, when a guy came into our path. I looked at him,and Lucy stepped on my foot, putting all her (not very considerable) weight on it.

Meaning; don't you dare, he's out of bounds.

I pouted. As we go to an all girl's school, they didn't want to make it co-ed, but after an 'incident' years ago (involving my mom, incidentally) they built a new building next to ours, and Blackthorne moved in.

So we can go and see the guys any time we like, and we have some co-ed lessons. But the school rule is to not mix with other people.

'It's not school until tomorrow,' I said to Lucy quietly, and dragged her towards him.

Luckily, he saw us first, and walked over.

'Hey,' I said. 'I'm Talullah, and this is Lucy.'

'Hey', he said. 'I'm Matt. Tallulah, huh? That's unusual.'

'Yeah,' I agreed uuncomfortably. I hate it when people comment on my name. I don't know what my mom was thinking.

'So where have you been all summer? I've been around pretty much this whole summer and i've not seen you before.'

'We're at Gallagher Academy,' Lucy put in.

Matt looked interested. 'Really, I'm starting Blackthorne this semester. Isn't Gallagher like, the same school?'

'Yeah,' I agreed, glancing at my watch. 'Hey, we're going to have to go now, but we might see you soon, then?'

'Yeah,' He said. 'See you, then, Tallulah and Lucy'.

I smirked at him as Lucy pulled me away.

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