Chapter 12

After that, we had to go back to normal life but had to try and search for him at the same time so Ziva insisted that we all had to wear these special earrings with an

ear piece hidden inside them so that we could get updates on the search (Mcgee invented it) but the only problem was that I haven't got my ears pierced yet…. "well,

the time has come earlier than I was expecting!" Eilidh chuckled, I sighed and Ziva looked at Eilidh, "what do you mean?" "well, when Maddy turns 16, I was going to

drag her in to Claires to get her ears pierced, " Eilidh explained grinning, "Who is Claire and why does she pierce peoples ears?" Ziva asked looking confused, me and

Eilidh both laughed, "No Ziva…Claires is the name of the shop," "ah," Ziva said slowly nodding her head. Eilidh glanced at me again grinning , "we will have to drag her

in Ziva, look shes scared!" "no I'm not!" I exclaimed, "I just well…don't like the look of the stuff they use and…" Ziva and Eilidh just looked at each other and I heard

Ziva whisper to Eilidh that 'she would take care of it' and I raised my eyebrows questioningly as Ziva smiled and said, "Maddy, It is I who will take you in to this Claires

shop to get your ears pierced," "what if I try to run away?" I half joked but half meant it, I sometimes want to do stuff and then I don't want to do it at the last minute!

"do not worry about that, I will make sure that you do not do anything of the sort," she replied and winked at Eilidh, Eilidh and Ziva obviously had some sort of secret

plan going on….. We agreed that I would meet Ziva and Eilidh in the town on Sunday at 2 and Ziva would take/drag me in to the Claires shop, I usually go into town

with Eilidh on a Sunday so it didn't matter really! anyway the next day, when my dad dropped me off in the town, I looked around for them but I could not find them

anywhere! "that's odd…they said that they would be here," I thought to myself confused, then Eilidh texted me to say that she would be a little bit late because the

traffic was really bad where she stays so I was a bit more updated now, but where was Ziva?

Maybe she would be a little late too….i sat on the seat which is in the middle of the mall waiting for them to turn up. A minute or so later, I thought I saw someone

lurking behind the plastic horse and arcade game which was in the corner, it looked like just a dark shadow at first, maybe of someone standing in the distance….but

when I saw the outline of her long brown curly hair and then her beady brown eyes were staring at some guy who was in the bag store! "Ziva, what the hell are you

doing?" I asked her, she turned around and faced her eyes on me, "I am spying on that guy…he looks a bit dodgy," "why?" I asked, still confused, "I do not know, I

just feel the need to spy on him y'know," Ziva merely shrugged and didn't let me reply as he went off in the direction of the north exit door and she followed him much

to my dismay, "ZIVA! WHERE ARE YOU GOING? COME BACK!" I yelled but she ran off so fast that I couldn't even see her anymore! "and that's when the ninja skills kick

in…." I thought to myself sighing, but at least it would put her off getting my ears pierced! Just then, Eilidh appeared, "sorry I was late, the traffic was right up to the

end of the street," she said sounding annoyed, "anyway I'm here now," she looked behind me, "so I see that you haven't found Ziva yet?" "well I have, but she ran off

because she was spying on this guy…said that he looked 'dodgy'," I explained, "has she just forgotten about our plan or something?" Eilidh sighed, she looked at her

watch, I shrugged, "possibly," then suddenly, both our phones went off and they were from the same number…..Zivas!

"Hey Ziva….WHERE THE HELL ARE YOU?" Eilidh exclaimed down the phone, obviously more eager to do this than me, "I do not actually know, I am in some park," Ziva's

voice came through Eilidhs phone, "where did the guy go?" I asked, "he ran off in the direction of the bridge and ran up the hill next to it so I chased him but then he

disappeared," Ziva explained. "Ah," answered Eilidh, "can you come back now? We really need to get to Claires!" I sighed, she wasn't gonna let this go was she? "he

is nowhere to be seen now so I think I can," said Ziva, sighing as well for her own reasons, "can you come and get me though? because I am lost," we said yes and

we walked to the park and we found her sitting on one of the swings. "I nearly had him!" she exclaimed, clearly agitated and she then looked at me, "oh yes I had

nearly forgotten, off to Claires we go!" Eilidh grinned as she grabbed both of my arms this time and began to drag me from the park and down the hill much to my

protests, she paused to look out at the river which was at the bottom of the hill and Eilidh joked, "if there's any trouble with her Ziva, your welcome to just throw her in

there!" I glared at Eilidh and Ziva just laughed, "I am sure that we will not have any problems…right Maddy?" I sighed and gave a little nod, well I wasn't gonna have

any say in this was i? She continued to drag me right down the town and her grip on me was actually so tight it was hurting my arms by the time we got to Claires!

"can you let go now Ziva? I promise I won't run away," I pleaded but she still kept my grip on me, "I am sorry but I cannot afford to risk that," Ziva smiled and I

groaned as she went to the nearest woman still with me attached to her and asked for someone to 'pierce my ears' and 'preferably Claire if she is in today ' I tried not

to laugh when the woman said that there was no one called Claire that works in the shop, but grew nervous again when she got someone. I was instructed to sit in a

chair in the corner and wait till they came with a machine, "oh my god, they have a machine?" I exclaimed at Ziva, who only shrugged and said, "it will not be that bad,"

"how do you know that? when did you get your ears pierced?" "when I was little and I pierced them myself….with some sort of lethal weapon probably," she replied, "I

could've guessed that," I laughed. Then suddenly this guy appeared with some sort of machine that looked like a gun, I held my breath as it came towards me slowly

and I was worried, Ziva strangely looked worried too as she kept looking to the man then the machine gun thing and then back to the man with a suspicious face! So

much so that the guy began to notice too…. "is there something wrong madam? I can assure you that she will be perfectly fine," he said to her, "what type of…machine

is that?" she asked, "oh, it is like a gun but it isn't if you know what I mean," he shrugged and got back to his work, Ziva still didn't look sure and then we finally both

got it…. The guy looked familiar, so familiar that it was scary to Saleem's brother that tried to kill us all and then went missing. Something,two things actually,were now

lodged into both my ears and it did not feel right, they felt cold and smooth and dangerous….and then something clicked and I took one last look at the guy's face then I

realised exactly who it was! I looked at Ziva who had that look in her eyes that simply said 'run.'

And if you lot didn't get it, then basically the guy that Ziva was chasing is the same guy who is in the shop...so its him! xD

big finale coming up soon and its gonna be a good one :D