Chapter 19

Authors Note: Thank you to everybody who reviewed last chapter and to Marie Elaine Cullen for Betaing!

Disclaimer: I don't own Alex Rider and probably never will:(

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Everybody in the class seemed to be satisfied with Alex's speech. Of course, there were those few kids that were in denial, but nobody paid them much attention. Alex could hear many of the kids in the classroom talking about if the were on Alex's or Jake's side. It turned out to be about half and half. Even though everybody knew Alex did not have that much control over the situation, he hadjust knocked out Jake and somehow managed to get out of a major punishment. The class talked for a few more seconds before the teacher decided that they should get on with the rest of class.

"Okay, now that Alex is done telling you guys what really happened get back to working on your in-class assignment. You still have a good twenty minutes left and if you work diligently I bet you can get it finished."

After a moments hesitation Alex started working on his assignment. He was confused for a couple of seconds and took a few minutes to look back in his maths book. After figuring out how to do it, he was able to finish the whole worksheet well before anybody else in the class was done.

The next two days went by in a blur. Everything happened so quickly, Jake had gotten released from the hospital and Alex had caught Tom up to date on everything. Isabella's parents did not mention anything about the fight, so they probably hadn't heard about it. Although the days were fairly boring, Friday night was very interesting…

FLASH BACK

It was Friday night and Alex and Isabella had arrived home from their practices about a half an hour ago. They were not fighting, but they were not really getting along either. They had just both decided to leave each other alone.

Isabella jumped when the doorbell rang and Alex simply looked up. After a couple of seconds Isabella answered it. It ended up being two girls from her school; they were both giggling and told Isabella that they needed to catch up. Isabella thought it was kind of strange considering that they had never seen each other outside of school before, but ignored the thought. Without Jake she needed as many people on her side as possible. She was kind of offended when both of them ignored her and kept asking questions about Alex, not to mention they were constantly glancing over at him. Fifteen minutes later the doorbell rang with more girls. This pattern continued for about two more hours, before Alex got sick of it and posted a note on the door that read "ALEX IS AWAY AT A FRIENDS HOUSE!" He then ran off to Tom's house, a safe sanctuary from the fan girls.

Isabella was truly disgusted. She did not know that girls liked Alex that much. He didn't even try to get attention! At least she had the house to herself the rest of the night. Except for the girls that walked up to her front door and read the note only to walk away a couple of seconds later with disappointed looks on their faces...

END OF FLASH BACK.

The next day passed quickly, and Sunday afternoon found Alex face to face with the head of MI6.

"Alex we need to talk."

Authors Note: Sorry its short, I need to go to bed... Anyways hope you liked! So do you think that Alex should have to go on another mission or do you think that Jack should be dead? PLEASE REVIEW LIKE YOU HAVE NEVER REVIEWED BEFORE:)