Chapter Three
Cammie's POV
"Rose, this is Cameron Morgan, Macey McHenry, Elizabeth Sutton, Rebecca Baxter and their teacher, Joe Solomon. Please treat them well." A colored lady introduced us. The girl that was standing in front of us smiled and waved.
"Hi! I'm Rose Gupta. Welcome to St Hope's." The girl said cheerfully. We looked up at Mr. Solomon, wondering whether we should introduce ourselves. He nodded his approval.
"Hey. My name's Cameron Morgan, but people call me Cammie or Cam." I said, stepping forward. I took in everything about her whist the others introduced themselves.
"I'm Rebecca Baxter, but you'll call me Bex if you know what's good for you." Bex said, also stepping forward, her voice back in her native accent.
"My name's Elizabeth Sutton, but please call me Liz" Liz said.
"Macey McHenry. Mace or Macey" Macey said, with her diamond nose stud in place, high-laced combat boots and an evil expression. Apparently, she could not string together a full sentence. She could at least try to act nice and normal.
"Cool. Umm... this way... are you really staying with the Baxter's? As in the M.I.6 Baxter's?" The girl, Rose, blurted out. We froze.
I remembered back to a Cove-Ops lesson on lying – they have to be based on truth and you have to believe them for it to be a good lie. I replied as best as I could without freaking out, beside me Liz looked as though she was going to pass out at any second. "...No... We're staying with Bex and her parents. They're pharmacists." I said slowly, hoping the lie was good. It must've been because Macey made a signal with her fingers to tell me that her truth ring didn't vibrate. I think I visibly relaxed.
"Oh, so that's why you sound English then, Rebec – Bex" Rose stopped herself just in time with a warning glance from Macey.
Suddenly, Rose's pencil eraser started to flash and quietly beep. This got me interested, "Oh... what's that? Neat pencil, Gupta!" I exclaimed. Now it was Rose's turn to freeze.
"She's paying you a compliment" Liz whispered to Rose before turning a 360 on her heel.
"Oh, err, thanks. Um... I've got to go now; will you four be alright finding your own way to English?" Rose asked us, since Mr. Solomon had left at the school gates.
"Can't we come with you?" I asked.
"Err, no Cameron, you can't. It's very important stuff." She replied. I didn't take to well to that.
"Firstly, my name is Cammie, second, why not, and third, we have more important stuff to do but we're still here" I said, my voice now completely serious and menacing.
"Oh, look! It's Mr. Solomon!" Rose said. We turned towards the window that Rose had pointed to. I can't believe we fell for that. She ran off away from us.
Now, what with us being spies and all, we instinctively tailed her. Because we do come from a spy school, we split up and kept in communication over the comms units. Bex and I followed Rose directly, whilst Liz and Mace went around the back just in case, and then they would cut her off.
We stopped just outside of a store cupboard. "Peacock, Bookworm, we've cornered visual. I repeat, we have cornered visual. We have a lead." I spoke into the comms. This was it – we were going to catch her!
We opened the cupboard door to find... nothing. "Peacock, Bookworm, we've lost visual." A simple tail and we couldn't even do that.
As Bex and I were stood in the cupboard, a man opened the door and stared at us in disbelief. "What are you two doing in here?" He asked.
"Erm... we...err... we got lost." Bex said. That was when I noticed the broom.
Most people would think that a lever is obvious, but to most, they are actually very hard to spot, but for me – who had been a spy-in-training for three years, noticed it straight away. "What does this do?" I asked, pulling it.
With a sharp whoosh, we dropped down, as if we were in an elevator. When I looked around, the man was no longer in his 'care-taker' clothes, but he was in a black suit. Something wasn't quite normal with this school. The doors opened and we stepped out into a place that reminded me of the sub-levels.
"Ah" the man said.