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xx Rioteer
Wanted
Chapter Two: The Sky Blue House
"Why I have to dress up?" Cammie whined as she stuffed yet another expensive casual dress and shirt into her suitcases next to the heels she feared would break her neck before one of her opponents could.
Macey huffed as she stuffed a plain black shirt, black shorts, and black shoes into her suitcase. "At least you don't have to be the girl who dresses with no color."
"Both of you stop complaining!" Bex yelled. Easy for her to say, Cammie thought, she gets to dress in whatever she wants. Then she mentally scolded herself because she sounded so childishly jealous.
"I agree with Bex, thought I wouldn't have said it quite so aggressively," Liz added as she neatly folded her shirts and set them on top of her shorts. "I think the point of this mission is to get us out of our comfort zone and start using what we've been taught."
Cammie and Macey both scowled at her, but they knew she was right so they didn't say a word. Bex, however, had been bothered ever since she found out that there was no purpose to this mission. She knew the CIA, M16, KGB, all of the country spy agencies didn't do things just to do them. Something wasn't right and she knew her parents would tell her not to ignore that feeling, that it could save her life. They'd told her a million times before. She decided not to say anything; not yet anyway, but her doubt was filed into the back of her mind about this mission.
"We should get some shut eye," Cammie said as she zipped up her suitcase. "We have to leave early in the morning."
Of course, she was ignored. Cammie sighed and shook her head as she watched her friends sort through their dressers and closet for suitable clothes. Luckily, they weren't arguing so Cammmie set her suitcase under her bed, climbed into bed, turned off her nightstand light, and fell asleep wondering if she wasn't required to do her COW homework.
When morning came, Macey, Liz, and Bex weren't ready to leave, let alone leave the bed, but Cammie was already up, showered and dressed. By 5:30, she knew it was time to wake them up. From experience, she knew the simple shake of a shoulder and whisper to wake up wasn't going to work with her best friends, so she grabbed the blow horn.
She plugged her ears before pressing the button. Her friends immediately jerked awake, rolling accidentally off the bed. Bex muttered a string of curse words in seven different languages while Macey was shielding her face from the light with the pillow. Liz blinked through her blurry, sleepy eyes and squinted at her clock (because it was too early for her internal clock to even be working). She then proceeded to scream as she realized she had only thirty minutes to get herself showered and dress then double check that she had everything she needed, plus stop by the labs to get whatever gadgets they need.
Bex and Macey winced when Liz screamed and looked up to see Liz was scrambling to untangle herself from her blankets. It was quite the hilarious sight.
"Girls," Cammie smiled innocently at Bex and Macey. "You have twenty nine minutes and thirty eight seconds to get ready to go."
That got them up and running. They fought for the bathroom and Bex won for two reasons. One, she was much stronger than Macey. Two, Macey still had to gather her bazillion bathroom soaps and lotions. Cammie just shook her head as Liz didn't even try to fight, instead choosing to go knock on one of the other girls rooms. Smart girl.
At six, the girl were on the roof of Gallagher Academy rolling their suitcases towards the helicopter that would take them to Denver, Colorado. It was a large helicopter and they secured their suitcases in before turning to Headmistress Morgan and Solomon.
"I hope you have a nice trip, kiddo," Cammie mom kissed her forehead. "You're going to do fine."
Cammie's nerves were squashed with her moms words and she smiled brightly at the older spy.
"Don't get too cocky," Solomon added, noting the confidence not only on Cammie's face, but Bex, Macey, and Liz's face. Confidence leads to cockiness and cockiness kills a spy. "Stay on your guard and stick to your covers. And don't kill each other over rooms. You're sharing."
The girls noted his words, knowing what Solomon said came straight from personal experience and expertise. Headmistress Morgan ushered the girls into the helicopter and Solomon nodded at the pilot to go. They quickly buckled as the helicopter started up. It was only a few minutes and then Gallagher Academy was out of sight.
When they arrived at their two story, sky blue house after a taxi ride, they were tired. Not in a way where they had worked themselves, but in a way where they hadn't done anything for so long that they thought they were tired. Macey immediately plopped herself onto the couch when she got inside while Liz set her suitcases next to the door and went upstairs to inspect the rooms. Bex drifted off to the kitchen to see if it needed stocking while Cammie went to check out the view they had of the beach.
Liz trudged back downstairs five minutes later. She came back frowning and when Cammie asked for her to elaborate, Liz said, "Their are four rooms."
"So? One for each of us," Macey shrugged, sitting up.
"No..." Liz trailed off, her eyes glazed over as she thought of the different possibilities of the room problem. "Remember what Solomon said? We're sharing."
"What if he made a mistake?" Bex suggested, but even she didn't sound convinced. They knew Solomon doesn't make silly mistakes. All four girls narrowed their eyes as their minds processed what Liz had found.
"So there will be more people?" Cammie frowned. "Why didn't my Mom mentioned this?"
"Surprise," Macey said bluntly. "Parents do that."
Bex stood, already making her way to her suitcase. "I think we should set up surveillance."
"What for?" Liz asked, following her.
"We don't know these people!" Bex exclaimed, searching in her bag for the tiny, micro size cameras that were hooked up to Liz's computer. "Who knows what they'll do? We should put up cameras until we know we can trust and rely on them."
The other three girls didn't have anything to argue with so while Macey and Cammie dragged their bags up to a room, Bex and Liz set up surveillance in the other two rooms. Macey would be sharing with Bex while Liz and Cammie would be sharing.
Bex and Liz placed a camera in every corner of the rooms. The girls claimed one bathroom (it was three bathroom house, but one bathroom was downstairs while all the bedrooms were placed upstairs) so Liz and Bex put up not a camera but a sound device (a camera would be gross). When they finished, they left the room untouched and joined Macey and Cammie in unpacking.
{Denver, Colorado Airport}
"I hate airplanes," Grant muttered to Zach as they waited for their suitcases to come down the conveyor belt.
Zach just smirked and shook his head at his friend. Frankly, Zach didn't even want to be here. He had already been on a long mission over the summer for his school and Zach didn't feel like another one, but Grant hadn't been on a mission in a year and he insisted. Jonas didn't mind and Nick tagged along. Zach just didn't see the point of this mission. It was supposedly a practice mission, but why would he need to practice being a foreign kid from England?
It was already nine at night. All four of them were tired and just wanted to get to the house they were to stay at. Nick caught a taxi and they loaded up their suitcases. They gave the address they were given from memory and after a fifteen minute drive over the highway, they reached a sky blue, two story house.
Maybe it was because there were no lights on or maybe it was because they were all tired, but they hadn't heard the television inside the house when Zach opened it with the key. When he stepped over the threshold, there was a beeping sound then a buzzing sound. They didn't notice until too late the strong sleeping gas coming out of the lights.
The boys could already feel their legs and arms falling asleep and then their eyelids were dropping shut. The last thing they heard before falling to the ground unconscious was a cry of, "Oopsie daisy!"
I skipped around a lot with the girls so I hope that didn't confuse you. And I told you the boys would be added, even if they were a small part at the end. What do you think of the surveillance the girls set up? That's going to make things interesting. ;D Don't forget to drop me a review!
xx Rioteer