Just one touch

Chapter Three

"Kent, what's that? On your arm?" Scott looked to his colleague. Kent, Scott and Todd just finished their lunch and they were walking into the Control Room, when Scott spotted something on Kent's arm. "Is that a number?"

"Why?" Kent asked and he looked to Scott.

"Is that a number of that new girl?" Todd asked and he looked to Kent.

"It's just a number of a friend of mine. " Kent said.

"Sure…" both men said.

"Really, don't you guys have anything else to think about today?" Eliza sighed as she passed the three men.

"Kent scored the phone number of the new girl." Scott said.

"On her very first day!" Todd finished with a smile.

Eliza looked from them to Kent. "Really?" she asked.

"Well…" Kent started as Ray walked to them.

"You just had lunch, guys. It's time to get back to work again." he said.

"Yes sir." Eliza, Kent, Scott and Todd said and they walked to their places.

"Kent." Ray said and Kent stood still.

"Yes, sir?"

"Don't do anything stupid when you're alone with agent Smith." Ray said with a little smile.

Kent smiled. "No, sir. I won't." he said. I wouldn't even dare

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Kent was waiting at a table in a local bar, not far from the U.Z.Z. base. He and Delilah would meet each other here after their shift.

It was quiet. It was too early to go for a drink, especially for those who had a family. The agents of U.Z.Z. almost never came here. Only when it was a real quiet day, without any training and without any missions. Today the most agents had field training, so they went home feeling too exhausted to do something after work.

"Hey!" sounded and Kent looked up.

"Hey." he said when he saw Delilah walking up to him, with two glasses of beer in her hands. "I see that you already got us some drinks."

"Just to celebrate it that we're back together again." Delilah said with a smile and she sat down at Kent's table.

"So, how are you?" Kent asked.

Delilah smiled a little bit. "I'm fine, now I know where you were. We haven't speak for a long time."

Kent sighed. "I wanted to tell it to you guys, but…well…you know…"

"Her orders, I understand."

"Do you remember the days at the T.H.E.M. base? Are you still friends…"

"With Green Three and Red Nine? Yep." Delilah said with a smile. "For how long were we friends before you left?"

"I believe it was six months."

"And now you're working as a secret double agent for…what, two years?"

"Two and a half years, to be precisely." Kent looked to Delilah. "Did I miss much in those years?"

"Let me see, Green Three is now one of the best chefs of T.H.E.M. and Red Nine is… still himself."

"So, not much, eh?" Kent said, laughing a little bit.

"Nope." Delilah looked to him.

"What is it?" Kent asked.

"It's just…You didn't change much. Even thought you got yourself into one of the highest ranks at T.H.E.M."

Kent sighed. "It's hard to be a double agent." he started. "I had to leave my friends at T.H.E.M. behind to spy for Doctor Doctor at U.Z.Z. But in a short time, I made friends at U.Z.Z. as well. So, I'm…well."

"So you are betraying your friends as well." Delilah said and Kent nodded. "And you can't tell Doctor Doctor that you want to quit that." she whispered.

Kent looked into his glass. "It's hard, but someone has to do it, I guess."

Delilah placed her hand onto Kent's hand. "It'll be alright." she looked into Kent's eyes. "How did you end up in Ray's team anyway?"

"Doctor Doctor sent me to every comic and game convention, so someone from U.Z.Z. would see me and ask me to work for them. Since I love both comics and games, I didn't really mind it."

"So at one of those conventions, Ray asked you to join U.Z.Z."

Kent nodded and he smiled a little bit. "It took more than visiting ten conventions before he asked me." he laughed and Delilah smiled. "But how did you end up there?"

Delilah gave him a little smile. "Same as you actually. Only Doctor Doctor had to send me to just one convention. Ray saw me on that convention and that's how I ended up there. Do you still love race games?"

"I still love them, but I don't have much time anymore to play them. Sometimes I play them with the guys of Ray's team, but not much." Kent answered. "Delilah, you said that you are at U.Z.Z. because of Doctor Doctor's orders. Are you here to check up on me?"

"No, no. According to Doctor Doctor 'her' double agent does a wonderful job at U.Z.Z. And besides, I didn't even know that you were a secret double agent."

"That's true, but why…?"

"I'm sorry, Kent, but I can't say a thing about my mission." Delilah looked to Kent. "I'm really sorry."

Kent gave her a little smile. "It's alright. I understand it."

"Can we talk about something else?" Delilah asked and Kent chuckled a little bit.

"Of course." he said. "Are you still saving up money for your dream?"

"So you still remember it." Delilah laughed. "Yes, I'm still saving money to start my own flower shop." Delilah started to work at T.H.E.M. because she needed money to make her dream come true. To have her own flower shop. She always loved flowers and she heard that the pay at T.H.E.M. was good, so she joined T.H.E.M. One night, she and Kent had to guard the T.H.E.M. base, she told him about her dream. He didn't laugh, as she expected it, but he liked it.

"I promised that I would buy some flowers for my mother when you opened your shop." Kent said with a smile. It looked like he was reading her mind. That was the first thing he said when she told about the flower shop.

"You know," Delilah laughed. "now I'm working for both T.H.E.M. and U.Z.Z., I make even more money that I can save up for my shop."

Kent laughed. "I know, it pays really well to be an agent at both U.Z.Z. and T.H.E.M."

Delilah sighed. "It won't take long before I have enough money to live my dream. And when that day arrive, I'll quit and I'll open my shop."

"And when you need any help, you know you can call me." Kent said and Delilah chuckled.

She grabbed her glass and Kent

followed her move. "To our friendship." they said as the clinked their glasses together. And to our dreams