Chapter 5
Back To School
"Alex, you've got to reconsider." Jack was shouting at me.
"Jack there is nothing to consider. If I do this mission you won't have to work as hard to support me. I won't have to come home to an empty house or leave from an empty house. I don't want the same thing that happened to me and Ian to happen to you and me. I never saw Ian except for those small occasions. I refuse to do that again except this time there won't be anyone there to help me out." Couldn't she see? I don't want to be alone. Maybe she just doesn't get it. Nobody gets it.
"But if something goes wrong, we won't be spending any time together and I will have to come home to an empty house."
"Well if something goes wrong on the road we could get in a crash. Or what about a fire?"
Jack had nothing to say to that. She just turned around and walked upstairs as if it hurt. I hated the fact that I said what I said, but it needed to be said. She would never understand.
I went to my room to get ready for school, knowing that after school I would go to the bank to learn Arabic for 2 hours, then I would start learning more about spying stuff (length of time is unknown to me).
As soon as I was ready I headed off to school. When I arrived at the entrance to Brookland, all heads turned to face me and as I walked towards the building I could hear a lot of my fellow students whispering.
I made a quick stop by my locker, where Tom ran up to me.
"So what are you going to tell them, because you obviously can't tell them the truth?" tome asked with a sly grin on his face.
"You will see," I said mischievously.
I got my books and walked with Tom to class. We talked about random things, and I noticed many students staring, then pointing, and whispering something to the person next to them. It was going to be a long day. As I approached the classroom for my first class, I could hear the students inside. However, when I entered the room, everyone suddenly went quiet. All eyes were on me (including the teacher's) as I walked to my desk. Tom sat down in his respective desk (right next to mine).
The bell rang and everyone broke out of their trance and sat down in their desk. Then there resumed their trance and stared at me until someone spoke up.
"Alex, what you did several days ago was brilliant. How did you do it?"
"I don't know what you are talking about."
"About the entire, SAVING THE ENTIRE SCHOOL!"
"Oh, that." But before I could continue I was interrupted.
"What do you mean by 'Oh, that.' I mean what you did was bloody amazing!"
"I didn't do anything. I only helped all them adults by doing what I was told!"
"Which was more that anybody else did!"
Someone else spoke up.
"Alex? Why did they choose you?"
"My dad and uncle both spent some time in the military before getting boring desk jobs. They kept in tough with some old acquaintances. After my dad died they helped me and Ian out a lot. After Ian did I met with the lady, who had also been in the military before taking a job at the bank, at the request of one of Ian's friends. So yesterday she put what she had learned in the military to good use. And we called the friend who had introduced us. And the rest was history."
The entire class obviously believed it.
"Still Alex, you are a hero."
"I can see I won't change you minds. So, whatever."
That managed to end the conversation. News seemed to travel around the school fast because by third period no questions were asked.
After school I went to the bank to learn Arabic and other useful things. There were 3 weeks left of school and 4 weeks left before I leave, so I had to learn fast.