"I saw her." I said at lunch to Tom and Aneisha.
"Dan, are you completely sure?" Tom asked.
I stared at him. "Tom, do you really believe I would mistake Zoe?"
Tom shook his head. "No, you wouldn't."
"Look, twice in the past day. Obviously, Zoe's got some control over her body. You didn't see her. She was in pain. I could see it."
"Okay, so you saw her." Aneisha said. "What now?"
I glanced out at the road and the houses on the other side of it. "I find her."
"Zoe?" I asked as I walked through the school gates at the end of the day. I glanced around. I hadn't seen her since this morning, so I couldn't be sure whether or not she was still around. For all I knew, Mastermind could have taken over the control of her body and had taken her back to some KORPS base. Hell, for all I knew, she'd never taken back control of her body in the first place.
I crossed the road and looked up at the sky as it started raining. As water rained down, soaking my clothes, my hair, my skin and my bag, I walked down the street, scanning everything for any sign of Zoe.
As I passed an alleyway, I thought I saw auburn hair from my peripheral vision. I walked backwards, my head turned towards the alleyway. My eyes widened and I had to clench my jaw shut to stop it from dropping. I had been looking for her, but that didn't change the fact that I was shocked and amazed that I had actually found her. There, wearing wet jeans and a black tank top, was Zoe.
"Hi, Dan."
I moved forward, pushing her against the wall as my hand came to touch the side of her face. Zoe's hands moved up until they rested on my neck, one either side, rubbing the skin, covered in goose bumps. Under my hand, Zoe shivered. The tank top she was wearing was thin and soaked through and her hair was completely drenched and hanging limply on her shoulders.
"You're alive." I whispered. She looked up at me, her eyes glistening with either tears or water. The rain was pouring down so hard, I couldn't tell. They kept flickering from green to orange and back again. It must have been consuming a great deal of her strength to hold Mastermind back like she was.
"Dan, I need you to kill me."