The Prank Chapter Four

Authors Note: Thanks to Marie Elaine Cullen for Betaing. Also thank you so much to everybody for giving me great ideas:)

Disclaimer: I don't own Alex Rider and probably never will:(

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The sky was pitch black and the glistening snow covered the ground. All Alex could see was his breath and the flurry of snow flakes in front of him. It took all of his will power not to turn around and go back home. Jack would gladly let him stay, after all, he had just returned from his mission yesterday. They could be sitting in front of the fire place drinking hot chocolate and watching movies.

He couldn't though. The emails, he needed a distraction. It was gnawing away at his mind. Not that school would help much, but at least it would bring a little bit of normalcy into his day. He decided that he was going to MI6 first thing in the morning if he did not figure anything else out...

For some reason he felt that more was going on than what was said in the email. He had a strange thought that another party was involved, but he ignored it.

A couple of minutes later, the snow covered school came into view. If it kept snowing like this hopefully they would get out of school early. He doubted that would happen though, the city was pretty good about clearing out the snow quickly and efficiently.

Alex pulled his hood over his head as he entered the school, in hopes of not being spotted. He often wished that his life had not come to this. He knew that if he really wanted to, he could easily make friends and become 'popular'. After all, half the girls in the school were already drooling over him (which he found really odd, considering he was the 'druggie' and currently had one friend).

The hallways were complete chaos with kids swarming through it; some were throwing footballs, while others were kissing, screaming, running, doing cartwheels, and anything else you could imagine.

Anyways,in the noisy hallways Alex did a good job of staying concealed, until he reached his locker. That's when the first person spotted him. He thought he was safe until some annoying kid screamed "Druggies Back!"Alex could have punched him, but instead he calmly collected his books and headed towards his classroom.

The hallways suddenly became completely silent and all eyes were glued on him. Rumors started flying around wildly. Most of the kids were wondering why he hadn't hurt the kid. Did they really think he was that dangerous?

He immediately regretted the thought, as images of past missions came rushing into his mind. There were more people that he injured than he could even count... He guessed that he was that dangerous...

Alex's first two classes went by extremely fast. He spent most of his time staring absentmindedly at the chalkboard, oblivious to all the whispering and stares. Even though Alex was gone so much, he still managed to get A's and B's. He was a smart boy and understood almost all of the material without paying attention. That's why so many of the teachers got so upset about his absences, before his uncle died he had such a promising future... But he supposed that what they didn't know wouldn't hurt them right?

After his first two classes, he headed to lunch. He got his food and searched for Tom in the big cafeteria. After a few seconds he spotted the short kid, with spiky black hair and green eyes that reminded Alex of a cat. He was sitting with a few of the other kids from the soccer team. Alex headed over to the table and took the empty seat next to Tom. The other kids got quiet, clearly unhappy that Alex was there. Tom however was the opposite and got all hyper like he always did the day after Alex got back from a mission. Their eyes met briefly, giving the signal that Alex would explain everything later.

After a few minutes there lunch table regained conversation and the kids started talking again, all the previous tension almost gone. The kids asked where Alex had been and he told them that he had fallen ill again. They played along, but Alex could tell that they didn't buy it. Anybody who did, would have to be an idiot... Even though he didn't want to admit it a druggie did fit his descriptions right now. His eyes were glossy and had bags under them. Even though the his clothes covered a majority of his injuries some were still clearly visible, and he was struggling just to keep his eyes open.

Alex snapped back into reality when he heard his name and the word email in the same sentence. At first he thought that it came from his table, but then he realized it came from behind him. He wanted to see who was at the table, but it would be to obvious if he turned around. After trying to pick up little more parts of their conversation he found out that the voices belonged to Max, Sam, and Jake; the three most cocky kids in the school.

All the parts suddenly fit together. They were the one's who sent the bloody email! No organization would have been stupid enough to do that. There was little information to go off of, but it was enough. He was going to follow them home from school and confirm it, better safe than sorry.

Alex was overwhelmed with relief. He felt so stupid though, it was a freaking prank! MI6 would have been furious if they went to stop 'Scorpia' and found three teenage kids instead.

Alex was so lost in his thoughts, that he didn't even realize when the bell to release lunch rang, until a few seconds after.

The rest of the day went by in a blur. All Alex thought about was the stupid prank and before he knew it he was following the boys home from school, being careful not to be seen. The snow covering the ground just made it ten times harder.

All of the boys entered one house, just as Alex had suspected. Just as they were about to shut the door Alex stopped it and entered with the boys. Alex thought that they were to shocked to speak, but it could have been fear holding them back.

Alex was about to speak, when he heard a car entering the drive way. He turned around to take a glance of the car and chills went down his spine.

He gaped in surprise, but perhaps he shouldn't have...

Scorpia was here.

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