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Chapter 10- the team

The men on the monitor were succeeding to break into the school. There were a good ten of them all with guns.

'At least we know these two.' Gus pointed to the two men that had chased me earlier. 'But now of curse we're kinda trapped in here with them.'

'Yhea.' I muttered looking round the other monitors, how they could follow us so easily. We didn't even talk about coming to school. We just followed Gretchen. But how could they have known?

'Gus, take all of the little gadgets things you gave us and put them on the floor.' I said already taking the head peace and button from my jacket.

'Yes.' Gretchen muttered. 'The microwaves emitting from the devices would possibly be tracked.' Gretchen took hers off inspecting the small item.

'Well so much for that.' TJ threw his ear peace at Gus. 'So they probably know exactly where we are.' we all stared at the locker door waiting. This was just going from bad to worse. I was expecting armed men to march in any moment- kill my friends and possibly me if not I'd be ready for the agonising torture that was certainly awaiting me.

'no necessarily .' Gretchen sighed looking round. 'They could just know we're in the school. I doubt that these are that useless.' she tossed her ear peace at Gus. 'They just know we're in the school...probably.' I nodded looking back to the monitors. They were still just picking the lock. They weren't very skilled after all.

'Well that seems more likely.' I groaned walking to the couch in the centre of the room lying down. I really hate thinking this much about all this. There was way too much stress.

'So should we just stay here till they give up?' Vince asked to Gretchen.

'Yes. I can see no other way to keep us all safe.' she continued to talk about why this was safe but I had already spaced out. I knew this was our safest option...but I really didn't want to do this. My family was still with those creeps and I had no idea what was going on. They could be dead for all I knew.

'Spinelli, what do you think?' TJ was closest to me looking stern. I frowned sitting up right. 'Stay here or fight our way out to get help?'

'Neither.' I muttered rubbing my head.

'What?' Mikey joined TJ's frowning at me. I looked at them both a little confused, I really shouldn't have spaced out while they were talking.

'We don't know when this will die down but if this goes on past the weekend some innocent people will get involved, more innocent people I mean. You lot aren't even meant to be here.' I pointed to everyone. 'And we're pretty stuck on the help front. No one is there to help us. Even if you do find someone to help us we don't have a good chance at fighting those guys.' I ran my hands through my hair biting my lip. I knew what I was about to say was going to sound stupid. 'But I want to take down those guys. They've taken my family and fucked up my weekend, I want them gone and fast...' I trailed off looking away.

'So what are you saying?' Vince moved forward. 'You want to run along the corridors knocking these guys out?'

'No, I don't know. Maybe...' I groaned. 'No, I want to get my family back and since we're on our own all I can think of is getting captured and fighting them from the inside. Maybe you lot could go to Gus's Dad and ask for help...if not then you should forget about me.'

'NO.' they glared at me.

'That's a stupid thing to say.' Gretchen moved to my side. 'And forget about getting caught. We'll come up with another plan.' I snorted looking away.

'Like what? We're a bunch of kids. The man in the suit said so. We can't make demands or anything.' I stared at the man in the monitor. The man we had left on the ground left me with one hell of an impression. I really didn't like this.

'Yet.' TJ muttered. I looked back at him, his hand was resting on his chin as he thought. 'At the moment they're in the higher position. They have weapons, hostages and think their opponents are just kids.'

'But we are just kids.' Vince raised his voice. 'What the hell are we meant to do to them? Squirt soda over them? Cover them in ketchup? It's not the fourth grade anymore. They could kill us.'

'It worked before.' he smirked back at him. 'What I'm on about is that we have the chance to now change that. We're strong.' he nodded to Mikey. 'We've got to brains.' he gestured to Gretchen and Gus. 'We could change the table and make them have to listen to our demands. Show that we're not just kids.' he looked to me. 'They're in our playground here. And with all our skills we can take them. Make them listen then take them down.' I felt myself get drawn in by him. Whatever he says, people just follow without thinking even if he was talking absolute bullshit. A grinned chuckling slightly turning back to the monitor.

'Fine. Well shell we vote? Stay and fight?' I raised my hand as did TJ and Mikey. Gretchen raised her nobly as did Gus who now just looked just as taken in and excited as I felt. I looked at Vince. He looked round tabbing his foot.

'This is crazy.' he growled at TJ before looking at me. 'Why did you have to get into this kind of trouble with him. Him of all people, you've given me no choice but to stay and make sure he doesn't go killing you.' I smiled as my team formed. Gus, the expert on military operations and all that secret stuff most have the right mind to stay away from. Mikey, the solid wall and perfect defence. Gretchen, the brains who sees everything while bringing logic and reason to the group. Vince, the top athlete and with his speed no one could really chase him. TJ the bullshitting talker and man with the plan... then there was me, the bad ass tough girl. It was like the group was back.

'but I'm so not going to stick around in this tiny room with you.' TJ snorted heading to the door. I sighed taking a seat on the couch. Well it was almost like having the group back.