Chapter 2: Spreading
The next day, the incident last night was spreading like a wildfire! Just this morning, I watched the morning news as usual and there it was, footage of the robbery. The robbery just happened the night before and it was in the news the next morning, well that was fast! I never knew the shop had a surveillance camera but I have to admit, the footage was surprisingly clear. It felt awkward to watch myself in the news, but I looked good, those it seems like minutes of making decisions looked like seconds in the footage. What made the situation more awkward is that my parents were watching the news with me too. They paid the robbery news extra attention and made annoying theories. I just hope they are not keen to find out what I did the night before. What made the situation even more awkward is that the news labelled me as the "sunnies girl", to my opinion that name was really lame.
Later that day, I went online and it was everywhere. In YouTube, someone uploaded the footage this morning and in the afternoon it already has 500,000 views! In Facebook, my newsfeed is flooded with the same thing. I have to admit, it's weird to see myself all over the Internet and it's also weird to see my friends updating statuses about me. But it was the same when Kick-Ass and Hit Girl made their first appearance; The Internet flooded with news about them.
The following Monday morning, I walked to school with my neighbour, Ryan as usual. He lives just opposite my apartment, he moved in in the first year of high school and we started walking to school and from school ever since. He has short brown hair, brown eyes and features that kind of reminded me of Johnny Depp. He was the one I saw in the shop when the robbery happened. He was chatting excitedly about it, he is a comic book fan and he said it was "awesome" he got to witness it. To my relief, that obviously showed he was not traumatized or anything. In school, everyone was talking about it. I guess all the hype was because the shop is near my school and there was a theory saying that "Sunnies girl" goes to my school.
That morning, I had first period free with my best friend, Lisa Abey. She is my best friend of 8 years. Many people in school said we were like the "Unbreakable Duo", because we are very close. She has long blonde hair, naturally curly, brown eyes and a loud personality to match. She has pretty features which made boys chase after her. But she is a good friend and I'm glad to have her as my best friend. That morning, I saw her next to my locker unloading books from her locker. We greeted and I opened my locker. A big neon yellow post-it with the word "STUDY!" written with red marker greeted me; I find it oddly helpful when I needed motivation. I took my books and we walked to the library. We found a place to sit and I started practicing my math because it's "Mathematics Monday" according to my study plan.
Lisa has that annoyed frown on her face, that's not a surprise because it happens every Monday, she hates Mondays. But what surprised me was that she was unusually quiet that day, she usually whines about how Mondays should not exist.
" Maddie, do you know who "Sunnies girl" is?" Lisa's voice interrupted my thoughts.
I didn't know that question has the power to make my heart to race so violently. Okay, I know most of you will say: just lie. But I just can't lie to my best friend and she has the right to know about it too-
" Is it you?" She said, interrupting my thought again. Somehow, I can't read her expression. I didn't know if she was excited or being sarcastic.