Chapter Eight
Hoagie's POV
Man, you finally think she'd shut up already, but she finds yet another thing to complain about. I wasn't really listening to her, but i could tell she was clearly ready to pop. I guess it was mainly my fault. I know I can be a jerk sometimes, especially towards 86. But my big question is why? Why her?
"Stupid mission, stuck with a stupid boy, in a stupid warehouse, with stupid…" I heard her mumble.
"Geez, Numbuh 86, you really need to calm down." I said. "You really need to relax. Try yoga or something."
"How can you relax Numbuh 2-T?" She yelled in my face. "I nearly died back there! It's best to be on our guard!"
"But you're not on your guard either! You're mumbling angry comments!"
"Ugh!"
She spun around on her heel, her back facing me. " Stupid boy."
Oh yeah. I just won an argument! I grinned so boastfully, Numbuh 86-T must've felt it on her back or something because she turned around and gave me another one of those hard glares. "What are you grinning about?" She grumbled.
I opened my mouth to say something, but I thought I saw someone ran past behind Fanny. "What?" She asked, as she turned her head over her shoulder. I gently pushed her to the side and ran past her. "Hey! Where do you think you're going?"
I ran quickly up to the spot that thing ran past. I stopped and looked around as Numbuh 86-T jogged next to me. "What are you doing?" She asked. She was following my lead and looking around too.
"I thought I saw something here." I replied. I heard her gasp.
"Do you think it was the same thing I saw behind you?"
I thought back to 10 minutes ago. Before Fanny wondered off, angry as usual, she pointed to something behind me. I raised my eyebrows. "Maybe!" I exclaimed. For some reason I was really excited. Maybe it's because some action might actually happen!
Fanny let out a small whimper. I cocked one eyebrow. I've never really seen her this scared before. "You're not… scared are you?"
Fanny didn't answer. Instead she just stood closer to me and peeped over her shoulder. "Lets just keep going." She finally said. I noticed a little tremble in her voice.
"Hey look, if you are scared there's no need to be ashamed."
She just looked at me and I looked at her back. She didn't look angry, in fact, I dunno what she looked like. I couldn't read her emotion
It looked like a mixture of anger, sad, fear and hope. I've never seen her with such a different emotion before that I started to get shivers up my spine. Before I knew what I was doing I stepped in closer leaned my head and…
Something ran between us. I stood straight again. It was so fast I didn't see what it looked like but it was hairy…
"What in the world was that?" She yelled. Then all of the sudden she stopped, her face whiter than usual, her eyes wide like she's just seen a ghost.
"What?" I asked. I turned, and I kinda wished I hadn't.
In front of us, was a whole army, of mutated giant rats.
"Oh sugar honey ice tea!" I whisper.
