The next morning there was a knock at the door. Jay opened it to find a girl with golden hair standing there. "I'm Anna," she said "I'm here to houskeep for the week." She chewed her lip thoughfully. Jay stepped aside to let her in. He frowned and followed.
"How old are you?" she smiled.
"I know, i look pretty young, Hebe's my best friend. I'm really a few hundred years old, i stopped counting at 298." She glanced atr his open mouthed face. "Eternal youth, i look 14 i know."
The rest of the group was equally suprised. Herry's thought evaporated when she tossed a box of fruit loops(do you have fruit loops in canada?). He dug right in.
Neil wandered in and jumped back then walked over to Anna. "Who invited the pro... " He never finished his sentence. Anna grabbed him by the shirt and calmly held him over her head. Not even looking up from what she was doing(which was reading a letter left for her by Athena).
"Don't get one her bad side," murmured Jay.
Later that evening Odie was tapping away on his laptop playing an online game. Anna entered holding her own laptop, sho looked over Odie's shoulder at what he was doing and settled herself opposite him on the table. Soon after that Odie gave a noise of disgust. "Did you lose?" Anna asked amused.
"Yes," he said "no one has ever beaten me before! I wonder who it was... " Anna smirked and turned her laptop around so that he could see the exact same online game on her somputer with a only difference being the character stats at the bottom of the screen and the large green letters spelling You've Won!, Odie's said Bad Luck! in large red letters.
"Don't play computer games against her, " Jay reminded him.
"You're good!" Odie said to Athena's neice.
"I often have a lot of spare time on my hands," Anna said "i've gotten quite good. Shall we do a rematch?"
"You're on!"
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They left the house for school, Neil was late finishing breakfastr. He didn't walk (to Herry's truck) and drive (in Herry's truck) with the rest of the team. By the end of the day Jay was getting worried. No-one had seen Neil at all. Atlanta was unconcerned "he probably found a pimple and is to scared to show his face." Reassured by this the others grew less concerned.
The next morning even Atlanta grew worried, she inserted her key in the door and tried to reassure herself "He's probably just at the shops or... " The six of them were greeted by Anna sweeping down the hall with a basket of clean washing. She backtracked and held a pair of silk pink boxers "who owns these?"
Odie grimaced "Probably Neil." Theresa laughed.
Anna frowned "Speaking of which has anyone seen him? At first I thought he was avoiding me out of fear but i havn't seen him at all." Jay got out his PMR
"Odie can you get a lock on his PMR, I'll try and call him." Theresa grabbed the communicator off him.
"Don't! I had a thought, Odie, you do it."
"Theresa what is it?" Jay asked.
"What if he's been kidnapped by Jeremy and them? They havn't met Odie, we can't link us to Neil, at all."
Anna took the washing away, Odie flipped open his PMR and selected Neil from the speed-dial list. It was answered on the first try. "Odie! Those crazy nutters from school kidna... " The PMR was snatched off him.
"Well well well what have we here?" Drawled Noah.
Neils PMR was passed to Jeremy who glared at Odie menacingly "blondie here talked of a girl, a girl who would... what were his words? Oh yeah" he grinned "'kick my ass,' i want you to show her to me."
"What girl?" Odie protested "It's just me and Neil!" Jeremy narrowed his eyes.
"Don't play games with me twerp!"
There was a menacing silence then Odie called "Anna!" in a quavering voice. Anna snatched the PMR off him.
"Put on Tomas," she snapped.
"How do you know his name?" Jeremy asked suspiciously. Anna grinned evilly.
"I know everything; put him on!"
Tomas was handed Neil's PMR, he scowled.
"I believe you have a crush on a girl by the name of Theresa"
"So?"
"So," Anna swung the PMR around to reveal Theresa lying motionless against the wall. "We'll do an exchange, Theresa for Neil."
"And if i refuse?"
Anna leered "the girl dies."
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