Chapter Eleven:
Stephen and Jedikiah spent a few minutes talking to Marla, while John showed Charlotte his room, trying to keep the girl away from the conversation incase it got heated. Marla had seemed cool with him staying, but another kid who was a lot younger might be a different story.
Stephen joined them after a few minutes with a smile.
"You can stay," Stephen told Charlotte, with the girl smiling in response. "Just where that's the question," Stephen added looking at his room.
"Ever shared a bed?" John asked Stephen. "I never had a bed to myself before Jedikiah found me, so I'm used to sharing. Charlotte can have my bed." John explained.
"Sure, Luca used to jump into my bed after nightmares when he was little." Stephen said with an easy smile. "Sound good Charlotte?"
Charlotte looked at them both in disbelief but hesitantly nodded. She walked over and sat on the bed as Jedikiah walked in.
"You going to be staying in here?" Jedikiah asked. Charlotte nodded. "Hope you can stand Stephen's snoring then" Jedikiah replied with a smile, causing Charlotte to giggle as Stephens jaw dropped in shock and John started laughing.
The next morning Charlotte made her way with Stephen and John the next morning to ULTRA with fear. They were each holding one of her hands, and John was muttering reassurances while Stephen was glaring at the other agents, informing them that Charlotte was off limits. When they entered Jedikiah's office, they all froze. Somehow overnight two opaque glass walls had appeared sectioning off a corner of Jedikiah's office. One of them had a door.
"Your new classroom, I figured you and John would both want to be close to each other." Jedikiah explained. He froze though as Charlotte hugged him and due to the fact that John and Stephen had hands on her shoulder they both staggered towards them, though while John found his footing Stephen tripped and fell onto Jedikiah and Charlotte, causing all three to tumble onto the floor.
John began laughing loudly at the sight, with Charlotte joining in. Stephen just looked embarrassingly at the ground, while Jedikiah chuckled slightly, stood up and gave Charlotte a helping hand. He left Stephen on the ground, as he was busy putting John in a headlock and messing up his carefully gelled hair.