I found Derek staring at the damage in the office lost in his thoughts. I touched his arm lightly trying not to move my still throbbing right arm. "Hey." I murmured keeping my voice low so no one would here us.
He jumped slightly and moved from my touch before muttering "hi".
I gazed around the basically destroyed room. There was debris everywhere. The computer screen was in half, (I don't know how they managed that), books were randomly throughout the room, pieces of insulation and drywall covered most space, and there were gaping holes randomly in the walls.
"Wow." I whispered forgetting he was standing a foot away from me.
He grunted in response and headed to the study; I followed him through the door with a hole about Liam's size and stepped down the steps. Blood showered the steps and the door, not to mention half of what was upstairs.
As I followed him I wondered aloud. "So are you okay?"
"Yeah." He mumbled quietly as he stepped onto the landing.
"So am I only going to get one syllable words? I thought we were past that." I said sighing.
"Yeah we are." He answered gruffly moving a piece of dry wall out of our way.
"So what's on your mind?" I asked tripping slightly over a piece of debris.
"Nothing." He muttered looking throughout the room for something particular.
"Well then what are you looking for?" I asked hopping over a small pool of blood trying not to grimace.
"The body." He mumbled nonchalantly while picking up debris over where it should have sat.
I sputtered. "W why?" I demanded almost falling on my face trying to get to him.
"I wanted to-" He lifted the board and the body was gone. I gasped. B but how?
"What the Hell?" He asked to himself more than directed to me. I stood there for a moment my hand over my mouth in pure awe. How could this happen?
Derek glanced up. "Uh... Andrew probably moved it so we didn't have to look at it." I looked up at him folding my arms across my chest letting him know he and I both knew that's not what happened.
"Did you need something?" He asked turning his back to me.
"Yeah. I have a question."
"What?" He mumbled not caring but to lost in his thoughts to tell me he didn't care.
"Well, It's about the um guests."
His head snapped up. "What about them?"
"They just make me feel uncomfortable and that Taylor kid gives me the creeps. But I mean I may just be acting paranoid or something like that-"
"No you're right I feel like that to. I just can't imagine what they would be doing here if they didn't want to take down the Edison Group."
I nodded. "Me too. They make me feel weird and I just have a rally bad feeling about them."
Derek started to say something but Simon's voice came down the steps. "Hey you guys down here?"
I looked at Derek before calling, "Yeah we'll be right up." and looked back at him. We're not done. I mouthed and stepped over the debris trying to go up the steps.
I looked at Derek from the top. "You coming?"
"I'll be up in a sec." He mumbled losing himself in his thoughts again.
I stepped through the door way as soon as Simon, Taylor, and Tori came into the office.
"What were you and wolf boy doing down there?" Tori asked her voice wrinkling in disgust.
"Nothing." I said though my face heated even though I knew we weren't doing anything.
She snorted clearly not believing me in the least bit. Simon glared at Tori then looked back at me a smile growing on his face.
"Taylor was telling me a really funny story, but anyway Andrew wants to see us all in the dining room right now."
"OK." I said glancing back at the stairs trying to see if Derek was coming up. There was no shadowy figure or anything so I followed them to the dining room to see what Andrew could possibly want this time.
"I'm guessing," He says after we all sat down and Derek finally joined us. "that you are all very tired so I'll make this quick for everyone." He said looking discreetly at our end of the table. "We are going to have more people here. More grown-ups per say and we wanted to let you know that these couple of weeks are going to be excruciatingly painful."
We all groaned there was never going o be time to be real teenagers. And the days I was a real teenager I didn't value each and every "normal" day I had to live but know I'd give anything to have those days back.
"But we haven't decided if you need to come with us." My mouth hung slack. How could they not let us help? We have done nothing but help. But aren't you the one who brought Liam and Ramon here destroying the office and the study? Yes. Aren't you the ones who need to destroy the Edison Group? Well yeah. So you haven't really helped you've caused more trouble than anything.
I knew my conscious was right but it was truly hard to believe that I was nothing but a nuisance to these people and that they were much better off without us there. But really? We probably weren't going on that rescue mission from the beginning we were nothing but a convenience.
It made me angry and hurt more than anything. We'd tried to help it wasn't our fault danger was always on our trail.
"But we will still have you train because it may be useful one day." Andrew said as my brain slowly returned to the discussion at hand.
This is going to be quite fun.
I know it's been a while but I've been sick, had soccer, school, friends, family, and a major writer's block but here's this chapter hope you like it! Make sure to review and add criticism is always appreciated! I'd like to say thanks to my regular readers! You know who you are and I'd like to let everyone know why Chloe doesn't exactly have the same personality as in the book. Most of the time when I'm writing a character I make her me, She says what I'd say and does what I'd do. I've tried to keep her kind of close to the book as I can but I've strayed a lot especially with the smart Alec comments (totally me). I'm sorry if you wish her personality was how it was in the book but that's just how I right. Well thanks again I'll post more soon!!