The next day came as both Chloe and Max groaned when the sun had entered their room. Rubbing her head, Max was the first to get up and change out of one of the spare pajama shirts. She went into the bathroom and took a much needed shower. Chloe meanwhile, did what she usually did and began to smoke some weed while waiting for Max to come out. After some time, Max came out with her now long brunette hair dripping. Chloe could tell that Max had brushed it in the shower by how smooth it looked but she mostly looked at Max only in a towel. Chloe looked on with interest as Max was busy looking through her clothes to notice that Chloe, who was now awake, was approaching her. Chloe wrapped her arms around her and locked Max in a kiss who was surprised. Her eyes widened at what was happening and when she figured it out, she kissed Chloe back.
"I guess you're fully awake now?" Max said in what sounded more like a statement.
"Couldn't be better." She replied, smiling.
"So what are we going to do today after yesterday?" Max asked her, brushing out her hair.
"We talk to Alana." Chloe said to her, heading to the shower.
After taking a shower and finishing getting ready, Chloe and Max headed out to find Alana. Since they had seen her last night, they figured that Alana was the best source for answers. It took awhile longer than they thought but when they finally found her, they saw that she was talking to two men they assumed was with Alana last night. After the conversation was over, Max and Chloe approached her.
"Hey Alana, what's up?" Chloe asked, casually.
"Ohh..hey Chloe, Max. I was just talking to friends." She replied.
"That's cool. Hey we saw you at the same club we were at last night." Chloe said.
"Oh, yea. My friends wanted me to meet them there." She said.
"Can we ask you something?" Max asked.
"Sure." Alana said to her.
"Is there anything that we should know about Virus besides what you told us?" Max asked, not taking her eyes off of Alana.
"No... I told you everything." She said in a hesitant tone.
"Speaking of which, you told use that you lived here all your life, right?" Chloe asked.
"Yea..What about it?" Alana asked, cocking an eyebrow.
"It's just weird to us that you've lived here all your life yet you don't know much about Virus." She finished.
"What exactly are you both accusing me of?" Alana asked.
"Nothing..Just that we feel we weren't getting the whole story." Max said.
"I told you everything that the rest of the town knows..Listen, I got to go now, I got stuff to do." Alana said to them.
Chloe and Max watched as Alana turned the corner. Both knew she was hiding something but they didn't want to fully confront Alana about it till they had solid proof. Alana got her cellphone out and as soon as no one was around or in ear shot, she contacted Virus. It was a risky move calling during the day and not even mentioning that she might be calling but this was important. When she dialed the number, it rang before she heard the voice of Virus on the other end.
"I know I'm not supposed to call but this is important. The two girls. Chloe and Max are still asking about you. What do you want me to tell them or do? I already told them that I told them everything but they're not buying it. I was never as good a liar as you are. Okay, I understand." Alana said.
Few moments later and she hung up. Still making sure no one was around, she got into a car and drove it to a small neighborhood just a couple miles away. It wasn't long before Chloe and Max followed her but they were careful not to be noticed. Every time Alana stopped, so did Chloe but she knew she had to be extra careful so she decided it was best to stay as far back as she could with losing Alana's trail. When they saw Alana stop and walk into a house that was at the end of the street, they parked to where Chloe's truck couldn't be seen and waited until they could go in.
"What do you think she's doing?" Max asked.
"Hiding shit she doesn't want anyone else to see or certain people to see." Chloe responded in a low tone.
"The only problem is, is how do we get over to that house without being seen?" Max asked her, eyeing the house.
"Well, the way I see it is, we either wait or we make our move now while Alana's busy." Chloe said.
The two decided on the latter and quickly but quietly moved their way towards the house that Alana was in. Carefully, they had made their way to the side of the house and thankfully, unseen. Chloe proceeded to move to the other side of the window they were next to as she lightly maneuvered her feet to not make any noise. Chloe breathed a sigh of relief as she and Max both looked inside and saw that they were looking into an empty bedroom but that didn't persuade them to just make their way in without first knowing where Alana was in the house. Both of them waited until they had heard what sounded like footsteps walking towards the bedroom they were looking into.
Both of them moved their heads away from the window but enough to see that the person, was Alana who had a stack of papers with her that she placed on what was a dusty dresser.
"Come on Alana, think damn it! You begged Virus for this chance and expects you not to go back with only half of the papers. Where are they!" Alana said aloud.
After another 10 minutes, Alana had finally found what she was looking for in an old shoe box.
"Finally! Virus is going to be happy about this." Alana said.
She had made sure to get all the papers and leave nothing important behind. After another minute, Max made her way towards Chloe just in time to see that Alana had driven away and turning onto another rode opposite of where she came. They made their way into the the house and walked into the exact room where they had seen Alana just moments before.
"How are we gonna find out what she's hiding in this dump?" Chloe asked.
"Simple, we get dirty." Max said, looking back at Chloe.
Alana made her way back to where Virus was. She doubled checked to make sure she had everything before presenting them. As she walked in after getting out of her car, she was greeted by the three men who she was with the night before. Even though all three of them looked like they weren't afraid of anyone, that wasn't true when it came to Virus. She grunted when she saw the three only known to her as 'Shadow Spies' because they only appeared at night which is why no one would recognize them during the day if they had gone out during the day.
"Well, well, well. If it isn't the runt Alana." One of them said to her.
"Did you actually do something right for once?" The second one said.
"Maybe she won't disappoint Virus again." The third snickered, nearly tripping Alana.
"Why don't you three get lost? Unlike you guys, I actually do stuff for Virus." She responded back.
"Tough girl aren't we know?" One said to them.
Alana said nothing but glared before walking in to talk to Virus. Alana hated those three. They only treated her like shit because she was the youngest out of all of them. She hoped that Virus would get rid of them every day. She stopped when she saw she had reached Virus's room that she used as an office.
She only had to knock once for Virus to order her to come in. Alana did and placed the papers Virus had asked her for on the desk.
"So you did manage to find them, I'm impressed." Virus said, looking them over.
"Took me awhile but I did it." Alana said in a proud tone.
"I see.." Virus trailed off.
"Why did you need these papers? She questioned.
"I just merely wanted to see if our new guests would follow you like I thought they would. The papers are nothing special nor important. You played your part well." Virus said to her.
Virus looked at the papers on the desk. The papers were nothing but old letters that had been kept for more than 5 years in the house Alana just had come back from. It was all just a game to see how far Chloe and Max would go to find out who Virus is.
