The Phoenix Files: Missing Link
Chapter 7
87 Days
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-Ben
When I woke up the next morning I couldn't stop thinking about the phone, how did it get a call? There's nothing that could have made that phone work. Literally nothing. I left the house about twenty minutes later, by then I had given up in trying to think of a way they could have gotten their phone working but as I reached the end of my lane I realised they most have modified the phone in some way, adding a kind of reception booster like a phone line built into your phone, that would give the user access to calls but only to other phones with the same modification. It would then work like an actual phone line as it would only work with phones that are connected to the same line, basically they would have to of built a wireless land line system. That's the only thing I could think of that would give the person access to make and recieve calls. I built on that idea more and more but not really getting anywhere. As I walked past the Primary school I realised that this was my first day back at school after the beating bill gave me, meaning that either every student in the school runs towards me and starts yelling out questions and idiotic remarks or they... actually no they are just gonna run up to me and yell out questions. I reached the school and headed for the quad hoping my assumption was wrong. I found a spot and sat down. Before I could actually do anything group of obnoxious and irritating idiots ran up to me and starte (as I predicted) yelling out question and...idiotic remarks, I was spot on. Well now I've got to deal with this shit all day. "Why did he attack you?!" I heard a few asked, a couple of the younger ones were yelling really idiotic things like," I totally would have beat bill up, I bet I'm tougher than you!" and "You should of hit him in the balls!" that sentence in particular made me realise that these kids really were giant douchbags. I stood up and said," Shut up, I don't want to deal with your bullshit. I was beat up by a homeless asshole woopty frickin' do. Now buh-bye." I began moving my way through the crowd as they tried to shout more questions at me, I tried my best to ignore them but it's hard to ignore what's all around you so I simply shoved my way out of the crowd. When I did get you of the crowd I noticed Luke, Jordan and Peter standing at the edge of the crowd, trying to find a way in. They turned around when they noticed that the corwd was turning around in an attempt to get some answers to their moronic questions. Suddenly a voice boomed over all the yelling, saying," AND WHAT IS GOING ON HERE?" I recognised the voice instantly, mr. Hanger. Before anyone could reply he said," Get to the hall, the head teacher has called for a special assembly." A couple kids started complaining but others just went on to the hall. I just made my way to the hall, Jordan, Luke and Peter following close behind. We made our we to the edge of a row and sat down, the others were talking about what this was about. honestly I wasn't sure if I should care or not. On one hand it was unlikely that it had anything to do with us, I mean we hadn't done anything, anything that they knew about that is. all they knew was we got lost while on one bike tracks and we were running in the direction of a ringing phone. On the other hand they could do anything, they owned phoenix and could make up any story they wanted to and then everyone would just blindly follow them. I glanced over and noticed that Peter had now started talking to Jordan about her mum. Such an attention seeker, bloody twat. Just as Peter shut up Pryor walked out onto the stage and did the classic introduction to a surprise assembly. She mentioned an "Important change in school policy" Peter then said something under his breath."Jordan Burke, Brandon Caldwell, Luke Hunter and Peter Weir. Would you four please join me on stage?" Pryor said moving her arm over in our direction. Before any of the others even budged I stood up and made my way out of the row and started walking towards the stage as the others followed. Honestly I had no clue what was going on, my mind was rushing with thoughts of what this could be about. Pryor started clapping like we were war heroes and soon enough the whole school joined in. When we reached the stage Pryor said," Thank you." and the clapping died off. Then she bounced into so crap about how 'Phoenix Highis an institution which prides itself on a well-established culture of openness' and similar idiotic, stereotypical, patriotic lies . After her speech she waved a hand in our direction saying," It is with great pleasure that I present to you your new staff-student liaison officers!" she went on explaining what we would be doing and things like this.
"This is going to be one giant pain in the ass isn't it..." I said
"If she thinks I'm actually going to go along with th-" Peter said
"Of course you are." Jordan said impatiently, "We're all going along with it. what choice do we have?"
"we should've know something like this was coming, Calvin told us he and Pryor were going to find us something 'constructive' to do with our time." Luke said
"They're trying to distract us." Jordan added in agreement," Keep us busy."
"Yeah makes sense, can't go out saving the world if we're stuck in Pryor's office. Plus, it gives her the perfect to keep an eye on... What's the matter?" Peter said, him saying that made me look at Jordan, she had shut her eyes and had her hands on her temples. "Nothing, Just a headache." She replied. " Are you sure?" Peter replied," Do you want some water." I wonder if anyone could get it into his head that Jordan has no interest in him. Jordan gave him a look that said 'just stop trying' well that what I thought it meant. We reached the science room and sat down pretty soon Peter got into an argument with Michael, Cathryn and Tank. I didn't care for his stupid grudges. When we got out of classes we got bombed by questions from this freckled girl and a bunch of her friends. Eventually Jordan managed to get them to leave. That was just the start, all day morons came up to us and made retarded comments and few actually had questions... At the end of the day we were about to leave when the vice principle came up behind and Peter almost blew up at her, but she just ignored it and told us that our first 'meeting' with Pryor was tommorow morning. Peter (yet again) asked Jordan if he could walk her home and was rejected, yet again. Peter walked off and I couldn't help but smirk, I turned and saw that Luke had left already. Jordan started heading in the direction of her house, I followed after her, well not followed, my house was the on the lane, road, street or whatever the hell people call them here, next to hers. I caught up with her deciding to start what I assumed would be a 'casual' coversation." I'm not the only one who wants to throttle Peter right?" I said looking forward," Far from it, trust me." Jordan replied almost instantly. I smirked a little," What do you actually think of him anyway? If you don't mind me asking." I asked actually wondering what her answer could be." I hate him, all he ever does is try to impress me. I mean what does it take to get into his head that I have no interest in him!" She replied glancing over at me for a second," He thinks he's some sort of god of love, you should bloody see that twat, half the time when your not looking he makes gestures of putting his arm around you. He pisses me off so much." I replied looking at the ground and thinking back to when Jordan first arrived, he was instantly in love with her trying to get closer to her, moron. I looked at Jordan, she was smiling, this was new Jordan hardly ever smiles," The way your talking I could swear you were defending me." She said nearly laughing, this was so out of character for Jordan." Well no, not defending you, I mean you can defend yourself pretty damn well from what I've seen. I really just get pissed at the way he acts around you and talks about you behind your back. He acts as if you want to marry him. Hell it's basically all he ever talks about, not that I tend to talk to him, but I hear him speaking to Luke a lot. What I'm trying to say is that although I stand up for you it would make more sense to say that I stand beside you more than anything." I said with a serious look on my face and it went silent for a while...
Jordan's P.O.V
I wasn't used to Brandon being open like this and the way I was acting definatly wasn't me, but that happened a lot around Brandon I mean what he just said did make a lot of sense I thought back to when I was crying into his shoulder in the park before Bill attacked him, then to Brandon speaking to me at my house the look Peter was giving him while he was talking to me made me want to punch him. Thinking back to all those moments where he's helped me with Peter, but like he said he wasn't standing up for me he was standing with me and I liked that. When a boy stood up for me it would piss me off I can fight my own fights, Brandon knew that. He really does understand me. I shouldn't be thinking of this stuff we're fighting to save the world and I'm thinking about my feelings but I can't help it they are so overwhelming I need to think about it, talk about it. I remembered what he told me 'The more you let you emotions out the more you can control them.' He was right but it was just so out of character for me. I wondered if he felt the same but I kept on saying in my head ,' stop thinking about it.' over and over.
Brandon's P.O.V
During the silence I kept on thinking about whether or not I should tell her about how I feel. But me being me I just though, 'SHUT UP AND TELL HER, dumbass'...
"Jordan, look I know how wierd this is and I now it's literally the worst possible time to be like this but. I don't really know how to describe it but when I spoke to you in your house, at the park before Bill attacked me and all those other times, I always got the same wierd out of character feeling. I mean I've never spoke to anybody the way I did in those times I'm not usually concered about people as much as I am when I speak to you, I never opened up to anyone the way I did to you." I said looking at her feeling relieved but depressed, and I realised that I felt the same way I do around her when I was talking to her at her house and the park. "I'm actually feeling that way now, I know it's really stupid for me to feel like this when we are trying to save the world. But I just can't help feeling this way and hey. I just had to follow my own advice and let my feelings out. That sounded so stupid, I didn't mean it that way..." I looked away from her and stared at the ground I felt so stupid, damn it I made it sound like it was out of some movie, damn it. I made the one moment I wanted to be as serious as possible look like a retarded movie clip. I looked over at Jordan she was smilling, her eyes looked watery. I was about to ask her if she was alright but she practically jumped into me, hugging me for a few seconds before moving her arms around my neck and I suddenly felt her lips gently connect with mine, I wrapped my arms around her waist and I felt her move forward slightly closer to me. It felt like forever but it was probably only a few seconds, as our lips parted I felt her head rest against mine," I'm glad we feel the same." she whispered and we parted and I then noticed that we were at her lane. "Guess I'll see you tommorrow then... " I said feeling confused, amazed and just filled with joy... Jordan smiled and headed to her house. I turned and headed to the next lane where my house was.
Jordan's P.O.V
I couldn't believe I kissed him that was not Jordan out there that was someone else not me, I'm not like that, I don't smile that much, I don't kiss boys and I definatly don't hug. But it felt like some new part of my personality rose from the depths of my mind and took over after the words Brandon said. I felt angry yet happy, I didn't like this part of me that had arisen not now not while my mom's pregnant and the world is going to end. I can't be falling for a boy now even though it's Brandon, he was nice, he always seemed to know what to say, he understood me and the seriousness of all this but even then it is a weakness that I cannot risk. but I can't just ignore the feelings I'm getting, how am I going to deal with this?...
I know this probably feels way to early for them to be getting together, and honestly I didn't have it planned at all, but I did see this and it did take a lot of thinking but personally I think I pulled it off. Anyway do you think that was a good idea give me a rating from 1-10 in the comments to let me know if I made the right choice and do you like that I added in the P.O.V of another character (rate that 1-10 aswell plz) and do you think I did a good job at portraying Jordan's personality (finally rate this 1-10 plz) I really hope you enjoyed this one, especially the end because a hell of a lot of work went into that XD thanks for reading this far guys :D
-Ben