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Chapter 4: They the people see

"Alex Rider" said Sal.

Everyone gasped and looked around for him. No, no, no, no, no, this can't be happening. This is my school. My sanctuary and connection to my normal, un-spy life. Alex sighed and stood up.

"Oh great, can you please step up here?" said Sal.

"I'll rather not."

"That was not a request."

"Then don't state it like one."

"JUST GET UP HERE!" Sal yelled.

Alex Walked toward the stage, taking his sweet time. He could see Sal was getting impatient, annoyed, and a little angry. Great, anger can cloud judgment, Alex thought.

"Yes," he said.

"Hey Rider, why you bring you messed-up drug deals here."

"Tell your friends to go back to the streets."

"So Alex, your former peers don't think highly of you. Now come over here," said Sal.

When Alex got there, Sal whipped out a gun and pointed it at Alex's head. Students screamed and a few teachers gasped.

"Alex, you are now on live camera for the whole the whole world to see. I sure everybody wants to know what's going on. You see here people; Alex Rider is not an ordinary schoolboy. In fact, he is a MI6 teenage sp…"

Alex Rider went into spy mode.