I feel really guilty right now…I know I promised that I would never have a late update again, but my schedule got in the way again. You guys have NO idea how busy I was these past few weeks! First I had finals at school, then I got some horrible family news, then I had to stress over finding a dress for my school's dance, I would've made it myself since I already had a design ready for that occasion, but I would have never finished it in time…yup, like I said busy.

But now I am updating! And I will also update Every Rose Has Its Thorn (I FINALLY have some inspiration for that story!), A Mermaid Tale (Yup I'm back baby!), Petals of a Rose (I still need more prompts people! I'm running out of ideas…), I unfortunately will have to delete Entwined (I realized that what I was doing was plagiarizing even though I said I didn't own anything in the story). But on the plus side…I WILL BE STARTING A NEW FICTION! It will be called, The Book of Faces. The title is my sad attempt at humor, you'll understand once I post the story…

Well, enough of my rambling! ON with the fic!

May's POV:

"Wait!" I heard Max call after us while we were leaving his office.

"What?" we all answered as we turned around to face him.

"There will be a new person joining your spy squad. Her name is Rogers, Ella Rogers." He said gesturing to the doorway.

There stood a girl around our age, possibly a couple of years younger. She leaned against the doorway and had her arms crossed against her chest. She lifted a hand to wave at us and she smiled, then she moved one strand of midnight black hair behind her ear and adjusted her glasses.

Misty raised one of her eyebrows at Max and asked, "Why the hell do we need another spy?"

We all expected Max to answer, but instead Ella spoke up.

In a calm voice she answered, "It's quite simple really. The guys you met at the club last night weren't the whole group, one more guy was missing. And that one guy happens to be Drew Hayden's younger brother. While Drew seems to be the leader of the operation, his younger brother is the one with the most intell, and we need someone to get that info from him. That someone would be me."

I then turned to Max, "And why weren't we informed of this until now?" I asked with an accusing glare.

He sighed and once again rubbed his forehead, "Because HQ hasn't found out until now."

Leaf snorted, "And you call us inefficient."

"Hey, Ursula was in charge of Background intell! Which is another reason I should fire her…" Max muttered. "In fact…" He then pressed a button on his desk.

"Ursula?"

"Yes Boss?" Ursula answered bored.

"You're fired." Max replied.

"What!" She yelled, but we didn't hear the rest of her rant since Max cut her off at that moment.

"Well that's finally done." Max said while putting his hands behind his head and leaning against his chair.

"So, are we supposed to fill her in on the mission stats or what?" Dawn asked, albeit a little excited that she now no longer had to deal with Ursula at work.

"No need, I was already informed of your progress so far. So no need to show me the ropes, although I'm really impressed that May already has a date with her target." Ella answered with a smirk.

"What? How do you already know that? It just happened this morning?" I replied flabbergasted.

Ella shrugged.

"I took the liberty of activating the GPS features of your cellphones so that the whole team knew where each other was, I also enabled the speakers and the camera of your phones so we could record anything we might find important towards the case." Ella replied.

Leaf raised one of her eyebrows, "Stalker much?"

"Not really, more like it's part of my job now." Ella said.

"So you can just tap into our phones and watch us?" Dawn asked getting a little mad that her privacy was being abused.

"Only if it is related to the case. I'm not a stalker or anything." Ella answered with a roll of her eyes. "You guys can tap into my phone and each other's phones too; I'm not the only one that can do it. There is a new option in your phone's main menu that has the icon of a camera. Choose that and then you can tap into anyone on the team's phone."

"Are you some kind of tech wizard or what?" Misty asked.

Ella smiled, "I had top marks in stealth and technology back at the academy, it's kind of my strong suit."

I patted Ella on the back, "Glad to have you on the team." I told her.

"Pleasure to be here!" she responded with a mock salute.

"Oh crap! I still have that salon appointment!" Dawn yelled out of nowhere and she rushed out of the room.

Leaf face palmed.

"I'm going to go tell her that I still have her car keys, see you later guys!" Leaf said while exiting.

"Yeah, I have to go too. I have this reservation at Blue Hill that was nearly impossible to get. I was supposed to meet Rudy there, but as you guys know we broke up. Do any of you guys want to come with me? It was a reservation for two…" Misty asked us.

"Sorry Misty, I was going to ask Ella to help me find a dress for my date with Drew. Would you Ella?" I said while turning to Ella.

"I'd love to! My day job is being a fashion designer; I already have a few stores in mind!" Ella responded excitedly.

"I'm sorry Misty, I have a business meeting right after this one, and in fact it's going to start in a couple of minutes." Max looked at Misty apologetically.

"I better go anyway, those reservations weren't easy to get." Misty said with an obviously fake smile on her face.

"I'm really sorry Misty." I said while putting one of my arms around her shoulders.

"It's fine." Misty said while exiting the office room.

"I don't know Ella…Maybe I should go to the reservation with Misty…" I told her.

Ella gave me an understanding look, "You probably should…she looked pretty depressed."

But just at that moment I got a text message on my phone.

To: May

From: Drew

I forgot to say, the dress code to where we're going is super formal. Just a heads up. So, try not to look as you usually do.

I glared at the message.

To: Drew

From: May

Same to you Grasshead. No green pants… :)

I chuckled.

"Hey Ella, I think I'm going to need your help with this. I need to find a dress that will make his jaw drop and permanently stay that way." I told her with a smirk.

She rubbed her hands together and had a determined glint in her purple eyes. "Challenge accepted."

Misty's POV:

I decided to walk to the restaurant, it was only a couple blocks away, and considering the traffic right now I'd get there a whole lot faster.

I walked along the sideway, breathing in the car exhaust filled air. Suddenly someone tapped me on one of my shoulders.

"Misty is that you?" A voice asked me.

"Ash?" I asked.

"Well, this is weird…" Ash said with a laugh.

"Yup, funny seeing you here." I said with a smile.

"So uh, what exactly are you doing here?" Ash asked me.

"Well, considering this is the sidewalk, I would say that I am walking." I dead panned.

"No! I meant where are you headed, going anywhere special? I was just headed for lunch." Ash told me with a smile.

"Well, now that you mention it I was going to my reservation at the Blue Hill restaurant. It was a two person reservation, until the other person…cancelled. Would you like to join me?" I asked him kind of sheepishly.

"Lunch at a fancy restaurant with a pretty girl? Count me in!" Ash responded with a laugh and put one of his arms around my shoulders.

His comment and actions for some reason made me blush.

"Just so we're clear on this, this is not a date!" I enforced.

"Whatever you say Misty, whatever you say." Ash said with half a shrug since one of his arms was still around me.

"Oh, and one more thing." I added.

"What?" Ash asked me.

"Keep your hands to yourself." I said while taking his arm off of my shoulders.

Ash just laughed.

Dawn's POV:

Oh God! Where are my keys! If I can't find my keys I can't get into my car, and if I can't get into my car I can't drive to my salon appointment! Where are my keys!

"Dawn! I think you forgot something!" Leaf yelled while calmly walking towards me, in her outstretched hand she held the key to my car.

"Oh, right, I knew that!" I said while grabbing my keys from her hand.

"Of course you did." Leaf replied sarcastically while shaking her head.

"Just get in the car so I can go to my appointment!" I yelled at her.

"Remind me again why I agreed to go to this appointment with you?" Leaf asked me with one of her eyebrows raised.

"Because I need a second opinion on which hairstyle I should get." I responded.

"Isn't that what the stylist is for?" Leaf asked.

"Just get in the car…" I said defeated.

After finally getting Leaf in the car with a minimal amount of sarcastic comments, I sped out of the parking lot and managed to sneak into the packed traffic of the street.

"Dawn I know you're late and all, but would it kill you to slow down!" Leaf yelled at me while desperately holding on the door handle above her head.

And ironically at that moment, I crashed into the car in front of me that suddenly stopped.

May's POV:

"Ella, thank you sooo much for helping me find a dress!" I told her while we walked into her fashion design studio/main shop.

"No problem! It's my pleasure; please send me a picture of Drew's face when he finally sees you!" She responded with glee.

"I can do better than that! I give you permission to film the date by tapping into my phone; it is related to the case after all." I responded with a smile.

"I really can't wait! But before any of that happens, we have to find you a dress." Ella said while walking up to one of the many racks in her store.

"Do you have any designs in mind?" I asked her.

"I was thinking about a floor length dress that fits like a glove, I don't want to leave anything to Drew's imagination, so no poufy skirts or anything. Were you thinking about a certain color?" She asked me.

"Well, I'm leaning towards red…" I said with a sheepish smile.

"I have a feeling that you where that color way too often…" She responded while pointing at my red tie.

"Guilty as charged." I replied with a shrug.

"Have you ever thought about wearing royal blue?" Ella suddenly asked me as if she had an epiphany.

"No, why?" I asked a little confused.

"Royal Blue would really bring out your eyes, and your chestnut brown hair would go really well with that color too." Ella told me with a knowing look in her eyes.

"Well, you're the expert so I'm not going to argue." I told her with a smile.

"I've got it!" she said suddenly with an excited look in her eyes. She grabbed my hand and took me upstairs which I think is her private design studio.

"Ella whatever you're thinking, it better be good!" I yelled while I was being whisked away.

Misty's POV:

"So after all that was finally over, we all crashed at my place. And that was the last time I ever ate pickles." Ash ended with a laugh.

I was laughing so hard tears were coming out of my eyes, I was grabbing my stomach, and to top it all off the other patrons of the restaurant were looking at me like I suddenly grew ten heads.

"Misty is it just me, or is the rest of the restaurant staring at us?" Ash asked only just now noticing the other customers.

"It's not just you; I think I was laughing way too hard." I told him while wiping a final tear from my eye.

"But I love your laugh Misty," Ash said with a smile "And you have to admit, that story is so funny it's almost ridiculous."

"I can truthfully say this, I have never heard of someone eating pickles in a zoo and then being ambushed by a stampede of monkeys all trying to get some of the pickles. Did they seriously rip some of your hair off?" I asked Ash trying to contain my laughter.

Ash chuckled and took off his hat; he leaned over the table and pointed to a patch of thin hair on the top of his head.

"It's still growing." He said with a chuckle.

"Wait till I tell this story to the girls!" I told him.

"Are you going to tell them everything I tell you?" he asked with a goofy grin.

"No," I said lying through my teeth "Only the really funny stories like that last one you told me!" I said laughing.

"Well, you can choose if you tell them about this." He told me.

"What do you mean-!" I tried to say, but that was when he kissed me.

Leaf's POV:

While Dawn was yelling her head off at the car we just crashed into (something along the lines of "What kind of idiot just stops in the middle of driving!" and "Whoever that is, is sooo going to be paying for my missed appointment!") I was just shaking my head at her, I knew something like this was going to happen someday, and that someday just happened to be today.

"Hey Dawn?" I asked her.

"What!" She asked me with a glare that could kill.

"Instead of killing my ears, don't you think you should be trying to kill the person we just crashed into?" I asked her.

"Why would I do that? I'm almost already on probation, if I killed one more person I would definitely be on probation." She responded with a confused look on her face.

"I didn't mean that literally, I meant that I would much rather you yell at them than at my ears." I said with a shake of my head.

"Fine, let's get out and see what kind of idiots brake in the middle of the road!" Dawn started to rant again.

And to our surprise when we got outside, we were met by a plumhead and a spikehead.

"Paul?"

"Dawn?"

"Gary?"

"Leaf? Whoa, small world."

"Gary…"

"Yes Paul?"

"Shut up."

Ella's POV:

I rushed to a covered mannequin in the corner of my private design studio.

"May come over here!" I yelled over to her.

"I'm coming! I'm coming!" She said while trying to catch up to me.

"What I have under this tarp, is one of the newest designs of my spring collection. It is my masterpiece if I do say so myself." I told her with a smug smile.

"Someone's humble." May said with a playful eye roll.

"It comes with being a snooty fashion designer." I responded with a smile and a shrug.

"Well are you going to show me the design?" May asked.

And with that I took off the tarp, and for once in her life, I think May was speechless.

To be continued…

Me: Sooo how was it?

May: *Reads over chapter* so…many…cliffhangers! You are too mean to your readers, you know that?

Me: *Shrugs* so I've been told. Is it just me, or is this sounding like a soap opera from TV. or what? You know, this was originally going to be a one-shot without so many plotlines and details…

May: *Both eyebrows rise* really?

Me: *Nods* yes, really. I'm weird like that.

Suddenly Edward Cullen crashes in through a random window that randomly popped out of nowhere.

Edward: HONEY I'M HOMO!

Me: I KNEW IT!

(That last part wasn't meant to insult any twi-hards (aka twilight fans); I just thought it would be funny.)