Alia was quite relieved that Jace was gone, but she felt quite bored sitting in the house doing nothing.
School was starting in a couple weeks, and unlike most people, Alia was looking forward to it. It was probably because she was bored of sitting in a house all day. She was entering 8th grade, and was in the last year of middle school.
At around 3pm, Alia got a text from an unknown number.
Hey there It said.
Alia was worried she had a stalker after her. Who is this? She sent back.
dont tell me you forgot already
Actor boy?
It was a while until he answered. yup
Is everything okay? Alia asked.
yeah everything's fine. just met with my agent and were about to start filming again.
Nice. When did you land?
2 hrs ago
So in two hours, you got another phone?
pretty much
How did others react the your disappearance?
i told them i was sick
And the scars?
used makeup to cover it up
Why is it that I have good grammar while texting and you can't even put a period at the end of a sentence?
Is this better?
Yes.
It's just a habit.
It's probably the habit of all actors.
There's the Alia I remember. With a wink emoji.
Go do your actor stuff.
k bye
GRAMMAR!
Sorry. We can't all be perfect. And that isn't grammar, it's text language.
Still.
Ok Alia, bye.
Bye actor boy.
Alia stared at her iPad for a while. She needed to save his number, but her parents checked her messages every day. The idea of her talking to a boy was forbidden in the house. If her mom or dad found out she had a boy's contact on her iPad, she's erase it and never let her out of the house again. And Alia did not want to be grounded for life.
Alia remembered the time she told her dad about Robert.
When she was 12, Alia had so much hair on her upper lip, that everyone was teasing her for having a mustache. Trevor, 8 at the time, had accused her of "secretly being a boy" which was messed up in so many ways. Alia was pretty sure she wasn't a transgender.
Alia had that mustache for so long, she named him Robert. Her mom's reaction was okay with that, but her dad's? Not as calm.
One day, she went up to her dad to tell him about Robert.
"Do you know who Robert is?"
"Who?"
"Robert. I've known him for a long time."
"Ally, who is this Robert guy?"
"He's very close to me."
Alia's dad was starting to get angry. "Who is Robert?!"
"I spend so much time with him. I'm always with him, and you can't tell me you haven't noticed. You mentioned him to me before."
Now, Thomas Collins was confused. "I have?"
"Sure you have. Would you like me to formally introduce him to you?"
"Yes I would." he said sternly. "When can I meet this 'Robert'?."
"Right now, if you'd like."
"What do you mean?" He said, almost exploding. "Is he in your room?!" he yelled.
"No, dad. Dad, meet Robert."
He was more confused then he already was. "Where is he?"
"Right here." and she pointed to her face. "Meet Robert."
He looked at her face for a while. "Alia?"
"Yeah?"
"Is Robert a facial feature?"
"Yeah. He's my mustache." Alia said embarrassed, looking at the ground.
"Why did you name him-it." he said correcting himself.
"Everyone was teasing me about it, and I thought it would make me feel better if I made a joke out of it."
"Ally, you know you could have asked your mom or me to get wax strips for you."
"That would be too awkward."
"And this wasn't?" Both of them had a small laugh at this. Next time I go to the store, I'll get you wax strips, okay?"
"Okay dad."
Within a week, Robert was gone, and no one teased Alia anymore.
Not wanting her dad to freak out or for her to get in trouble, she saved the number under the name Jackie Nelson.
Alia was feeling tired from not sleeping in two days, so she felt it may be a good idea to take a nap.
"Mom!" She called out, "I'm going upstairs to take a nap. Don't wake me up until at least 7:30."
She heard a voice from the laundry room. "Okay sweetie."
Alia woke up at 8:30. Her mom had come in to her room at around 7:45, but Alia was so sleep deprived that she didn't wake up.
When she went downstairs, she found her dad with the news on the TV at full volume.
"Here we are near the Golden Gate Bridge, where citizens are being evacuated as quickly as possible because of a group of armed men. The 10 or so men on the bridge all have firearms, making it difficult for the police to approach. But it was not long until Captain Man and his sidekick Kid Danger showed up."
"But the men were prepared. They tied both of them up to the bridge, which they plan to destroy with a bomb. Every policeman entering the area was shot, and no more continue to approach. There is no one to stop them from destroying one of our country's most popular bridges. Next up, the presidential election-" the TV was cut off by Alia's dad turning the system off.
"Can you believe it, Mary?" Alia's dad said to Mary Collins, Alia's mom. "They're going to destroy the largest bridge in North America!"
"I can't imagine why they would do such a thing."
"And, Captain Man and Kid Danger are tied up."
Sometimes Alia forgot that the concept of Captain Man and Kid Danger in Henry Danger were based on the real people.
Alia was slowly formulating a plan in her head. First, she had to get her parents to thinking that she was going to sleep after just waking up and not eating dinner.
"Mom, Dad, I'm really tired. Can I just go back to sleep?"
Her parents looked at each other, then looked back at her.
"Don't you want dinner?"
"I'm still full from the tacos at lunch. And I'm just too tired to eat."
"If you say so. Goodnight Li."
"Night Dad. Night Mom." Then Alia ran upstairs and closed the door to her room.
She looked into her closet and went straight to the left corner, which was the exact spot her mom never looked at. She pulled out an outfit that she sewed herself one night from old clothes. It attracted some attention, but hopefully not a lot. Alia changed into the clothes that were on the bed in front of her.
With it was a mask that covers the same parts of the face that Captain Man and Kid Danger's does. She had popped in some contacts she bought (without her parents approval) and tied her hair up in a high ponytail. As part of the disguise, she put a wide hat and carried a few empty boxes of Girl Scout cookies.
She opened her window to get out of there like she was going on patrol somewhere, but this time, she decided not to use shapeshifting in favor of something quicker, mist. She could temporarily convert herself to mist and perform a sort of water teleportation, but it took up a lot of concentration and energy. Alia decided that if she was going to go through with this, she'd better try as hard as she could to make it work.
Alia solidified behind a car on the bridge. Brace yourself Alia, she thought, this is either gonna end up great or terrible, better keep hoping. With that she walked into the danger zone.
A/N
i know this chapter is short and crappy. It's meant to be a transitional chapter, cause I didn't think it would feel right to put the next chapter into this one.
also, I'm a really slow updater and it can take up to a week for the next chapter. Sorry to keep you guys waiting for so long.
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