A New Age, A New Team
Chapter 25: Traitorous Secrets

The soft thuds of Tonya's skate shoes softly echoed down the long hallway of the girls dorms as she walked towards another long hallway that led to the front staircase of the school. Her black dreadlocks were left down and tousled about her head, while she was dressed in sweats and a black hoodie. Her green eyes still were tired from just waking up, even though it was the afternoon.

She turned around the corner and headed down the long hallway to the front of the mansion and connected the boys and girls dorms together. She let out a small yawn and stuffed her hands into the front pouch of her hoodie. Her eyes narrowed as the bright sunlight washed over her when she came to the balcony that overlooked the front foyer and split off to the sides for the dual staircase. Damn sun. She thought bitterly in her British accent.

She quietly began to walk down one of the two staircases, when she noticed Lyndsey (Caution) with a camera. Tonya paused near the top of the stairs and followed Lyndsey around the foyer with her eyes. What is she doing? Tonya thought in annoyance until she saw Lyndsey put the camera to her eye and take a picture of the staircase.

When Lyndsey pulled the camera away from her eye, she stared up at Tonya on the staircase. Both of their eyes locked on one another, but for different reasons. Tonya's green eyes narrowed as she stared down at Lyndsey, while Lyndsey's brown eyes stared back in confusion as to why Tonya was staring at her. Lyndsey torn her eyes away from Tonya and walked through a hallway underneath the staircase towards the larger foyer area that led to different parts of the mansion.

Tonya slowly made her way down the wooden stairs as her green eyes shifted from side-to-side. Why was she taking pictures?

"Lyndsey Tyler. Caution… Access granted." A mechanic voice echoed through the tiled hallway as a large metal door with a large X on it opened. Lyndsey looked over her shoulder, which was covered in a black denim jacket, before she slipped through the doors into the large empty danger room.

Slowly lights began to flick on throughout the plain metal room as she headed towards the center of the room, where a large tower was positioned. She tapped her van shoes on the metal ground as a red beam scanned over her brown eyes before letting her enter the tower. "Welcome Lyndsey Tyler." Another mechanic voice said as the elevator doors opened to her.

"Why thank you." She mocked in her Australian accent before the doors closed behind her to the elevator.

Lyndsey's brown eyes stared at the closed metal doors before her, until a soft chime sounded and the doors opened to a large control panel area. Her eyes shifted from side-to-side as the lights flickered on throughout the control panel area and she made her way across the to a large chair. She gracefully sat down in the chair and scooted closer to the control panel. Perfect. She thought as she positioned her fingers on the keyboard.

Her fingers clicked across the plastic keys as different screens popped up before her. Her brown eyes flicked back and forth between the different screens as she looked for something in specific. "Where is it…?" She asked absentmindedly as she continued to search until she quit typing. "Found you." She smirked deviously as she stared at a file on the screen, which contained different documents about the people who lived in the mansion along with a mansion blueprint.

Lyndsey reached inside of her black denim jacket and pulled out a single CD case. She quietly opened it and placed it in the CD drive and after a couple minutes of typing on the keyboard, the files began to copy onto the CD.

Tonya shielded her green eyes momentarily as she walked outside to the side of the mansion where the lush garden was. She wasn't much of one for the garden or outside. She slowly walked around the garden in hopes of finding who she was looking for. Usually she's out here… She thought before Linx came into view, under the shade of a large tree.

Linx's two different colored hazel eyes were closed and her short black hair, with the bright red highlights underneath, was slightly flipped out. She was wearing jeans and a large plain black t-shirt that hung off of one of her shoulders. She was meditating quiet under the tree without making a noise. It was her afternoon ritual in order to control the voices of the dead so that she doesn't go insane.

"Um, Linx?" Tonya said as she slowly walked closer towards the older girl.

Linx opened her light hazel right eye, which had three birthmarks in the shape of a triangle about an inch below it, but she kept her left eye closed. She closed her eyes once again and then slowly opened both of her eyes to look at Tonya. "Yes?" She asked calmly.

Tonya walked closer to Linx and then slowly sat down in front of her. "I need to ask you something." She said softly in her British accent.

Linx thought for a moment and then nodded, "Alright, what is it?"

"Okay," Tonya took a deep breath in, What's the best way to phrase this? She thought before starting to speak. "I found out some information that I probably shouldn't have found out." She said as her green eyes looked at Linx and occasionally would glance to either side of her. "Nevertheless, I found it out. However, the information I found out pertains to a friend and if I tell this friend what I found out, she'll not only be hurt, but it could cause serious problems for the team." Tonya sighed as her green eyes looked into Linx's two different colored eyes.

"You want me to tell you what you should do, right?" Linx asked coyly. Tonya took a deep breath in and nodded her head slowly. She hated asking others for help, but in a situation this delicate she didn't know what to do. "Tell your friend." She said bluntly.

"What?" Tonya was caught off guard with how quick it took Linx to answer her problem that had been bothering Tonya all night and day.

"Tell your friend," Linx repeated.

"But it's going to hurt her." Tonya protested.

Linx kept calm, even though Tonya was starting to act out. "She'll find out someday, and it'll hurt a lot more for her to know that you never told her."

"But what about that team?"

"What about us?" Linx shrugged. "We're a team. The true members aren't going anywhere." She reminded her.

Tonya looked down at the ground and noticed a little ladybug crawling on a blade of grass. She fell in a trance as she watched the tiny creature crawl along the grass without any certain direction. It didn't have a care in the world. The little creature flapped it's wings a couple of times and then took flight into the air. Tonya blinked her eyes and looked up at Linx, "Alright." She sighed in defeat.

"Was that all?" Linx asked with a soft smile.

Tonya absentmindedly looked down at the ground and gave a slow nod, "Yeah."

Linx gave one small nod and then closed her eyes once again to go back to her meditating. Tonya looked up at Linx and then quietly got up to leave. She stuck her hands within the small front pouch to her hoodie as she walked. "Oh Tonya," Linx said aloud, but didn't open her eyes. Tonya halfway turned around and looked at the older girl, though she didn't say anything. "It's never good to suppress your feelings." She smirked.

Tonya raised her pierced eyebrow at Linx for a moment before turning around once again and heading back towards the mansion. I don't suppress my feelings. Tonya thought before she looked up at saw Sean and Grace walking towards her holding hands. She quietly stepped off to the side of them and continued heading in the opposite direction of the couple.

When she reached the door that led back into the mansion, she quietly placed her hand on the doorknob and pulled the door open. She placed one of feet inside the doorway, but instead of going inside right away, she paused. Her green eyes looked over her shoulder at Sean, as he laughed with Grace in happiness. She slowly blinked her eyes away from them and stepped through the doorway to let the door close behind her.