Chapter 9: Monaco Break Part 1

Hi! I'm back with chapter 9! There will be about 1 or two chapters in-between episodes. Enjoy dis!

P.s. The Bold Parentheses are A/ns

I woke up while we were still on the road.

"Did I fall asleep?" I asked, embarrassed.

Sly chuckled. "Yup, you did. Thanks for letting me prove my point that Bentley can bore someone to sleep." I laughed at this.

"Yeah. He should have gone up against Dimitri. Bore powers, activate!" I said, putting my arms up like a flying superhero.

"Shut up guys." Bentley said, clearly annoyed, "We're almost to Monaco."

I looked at him slyly (Oh, the puns) "Oh, the place I know nothing about?" He looked at me, pissed off. "Bentley, you know I'm just joking with you. Don't take everything so seriously." Just then, we got to the safe house we were going to be staying at, and oh, I loved it.

It wasn't huge, but it was nice. 2 bedrooms (I was lucky, I got one to myself. I was a girl, duh!) one bathroom, a nice living room with some game consoles, and a good TV. (Man, they know how to LIVE) I flopped onto a bed, and just laid there, one of my legs crossed on the other, my hands behind my head.

After a few minutes of this, I stood up, and walked out of the room. The guys were all doing something. Murray and Sly were playing a fighting game named Battle Masters 5 (I just made that up).It was pretty cool, so I went over to join them.

"Sly, can I join?" I ask my cousin.

"Sure." He laughed "Knock yourself out."

I grab a controller, and sit next to my big buddy Murray.

"I bet I can beat you both in a best out of 10 match." I dared them.

"'The Murray' bets he can beat you." Murray said

"You're on!" Sly said. "Me and you, beating my cousin,"

"Nice, nice, now let's get to it!" I told them. We all chose our fighters. I was a female named Chung-sang, Murray was Houngson, and Sly was Kleidon.

"Fight!" The game said. We were all on different perspectives, all in a different starting point. We were pretty evenly matched, as Murray had taught me back in Paris. one I won, one they one, one they one, and so on. It was 4 to 4, and the winner of this round would win the bet.

"Right now." Murray stated "The Murray wishes he hadn't trained you."

"Everyone makes mistakes big man." I teased. "But this one was huge."

We tied. Somehow. I didn't even know you could tie on this game, but we did. I took them out with a roundhouse kick, just as Murray took me out with an electricity attack.

"How in the world?" I asked them.

Sly started at the screen. "I don't have any idea Jasmine, none at all." He turned to Murray. "You?" Murray shook his head.

"Wow…" I said. Shaking out of it, I asked Sly if I could take a jog.

"Ok." He said. "Just change your appearance a bit, we don't want you caught, eh?"

I agreed, and ran up to my room. I had a few other kinds of outfits other than my usual wear, and I threw on some blue bootcut jeans, and a short sleeved hoodie. I put the hood over my head and walked out.

"Is that good Sly?" I asked him.

"Good enough. Just make sure your safe." He said.

"Yeah mom, I'll be fine!" I yelled sarcastically as I ran out the door after putting on sneakers.

I heard Sly say "Hey, that's MY line." And laugh.

I walked out of the house slowly, and took in the view. It was fairly pretty, right next to the sea, no one would suspect us here. I padded along, next to the beach, taking the beautiful view of the sea in. It was lovely. I glanced at my watch, noticing that it had already been 20 minutes. Just a bit longer, and I would go back after 10 minutes. All of a sudden, I saw a small fox slam into me.

"Oh! I'm sorry! I didn't see you there!" The fox exclaimed.

"Oh, it's fine." I said kindly. I then hurriedly left the small foxes sight, who looked at me for one second, then walked away.

"Whew." I thought "That was close." I then quickly walked back to the safe house.

"What happened while I was out?" I asked as I walked in, slamming the door, then taking off my sneakers.

"Not much. Murray just owned me at Battle Masters 5." Sly pouted, which made Murray smirk.

"You shouldn't have asked the 'The Murray' to play against you!" He said.

Ignoring their goofy argument, I walked over to Bentley.

"How close are you to getting the location of the next part?" I asked Bentley

If I'm lucky, I can get the location tomorrow at the least." He answered, still typing away.

"Ok! I can deal with another day of relaxation." I said happily. I walked into my room and sat down on my bed. I looked at my bag, and took out some of the things I stole from the orphanage. A watch from Samantha the fox, David the lizard's yoyo. They are the only ones I kept because they were the most horrible to me at the orphanage.

(LINE BREAK. COUSIN TIME)

"Hey Jasmine." Sly said, slamming the door open. I glared at him "Sly! Haven't you ever heard of knocking!"

"Nope. Chivalry's dead." He said, making me laugh.

"Well, you could at least try!" I exclaimed.

"What are you doing?" Sly asked me, changing the subject.

"Nothing…" I answered quickly. He walked over and sat down on my bed.

"Whats this?" He asked me, picking up the small watch.

"Um… Well… That was the first thing I stole in the orphanage." I said to him. "It was a girl named Samantha's."

"Well, it's nice." He said, putting it on. It was a thin golden watch that ran on solar power.

"You can have it." I said "I'm never going to wear it."

"Thanks cuz." He said. At this, I hugged him. He stiffened a second, then relaxed and hugged me back. We just stayed there for a second, hugging. I looked over at his new watch to see it was 7 at night.

"What're we going to get for dinner?" I asked him. "Can we have pizza?"

"We have some heat up pizza in the freezer." Sly said. I dragged him out of my room, going to the kitchen to get pizza.

"Come on!" I exclaimed

"Ok! Ok! Just stop dragging me!" Sly exclaimed. I let go of him, and looked at my friends.

"You guys want some heat up pizza?" I asked them. Murray nodded, and Bentley said "Ok." I got to the small kitchen, and looked through the huge freezer. I found a plain cheese pizza, a pepperoni pizza, and some garlic bread.

"Time to cook!" I sang. Sly looked at me. "I took a cooking class for extra credit last year, ok?" I glared at him.

"Ok! Ok!" Sly said, raising his hands. I walked to the oven and got three pans. I sorted out the times for each, and after 16 minutes, everything was done.

"Guys! It's done!" I yelled at the three older guys. I walked to the small table and set the pizza down. Murray came in, fast and hungry and took 2 pieces of each, while Sly and I each took 2 pieces and a piece of garlic bread. Bentley was still on his computer, and I slammed his laptop lid down.

"You need to eat Bents. You haven't eaten all day." I said.

"You need to let me do my thing." He replied, opening the small laptop. I then snatched it up, closing it. "Hey!" He said angrily.

"Help me explain to Bentley why he needs to eat Sly." I asked.

"Sorry cousin, you're on your own." He replied. I stuck my tongue out at Sly, who smirked.
"What do you like Bentley?" I asked him. Instead of answering, he grabbed a plate, grumbling. "Haha! The borer is overcome by the cook!" I exclaimed, which made Murray laugh between his ravenous mouthfuls. After I ate, it was about 8, and, being tired, I went to my room and fell asleep.