ya...sorry its such a long story...i don't really know how to write a short one! lol...enjoy
All was arranged, except one thing. Jaden, seeing that she still had about forty-five minutes left until the class, she jogged back to the Apprentice Equipment Supply Office, and smiled kindly at the secretary inside and said, "I was wondering if you could help me."
"What do you need, Agent?" the woman asked, giving a perky smile, that Jaden couldn't help but notice, that looked totally fake.
"Well, I have an idea for the Apprentice Class I'm teaching tonight, but I need an Apprentice uniform to be able to do it. Do you think I'd be able borrow one for the evening?"
"Um…" the secretary said, biting her lip, "it should be okay, but I'll have to rent it out to you." She got to her feet, and walked over to a filing cabinet and extracted a form. "It was only for tonight, right?"
"Yes," Jaden replied, nodding her head, taking the rental form, filling it out and returning it with a "Thank you, very much."
The woman's eyes grew large behind her thick lense glasses as she read Jaden's name. "Well, Agent Korr," the woman said, her voice now full of warmth, "lets go try on a uniform, shall we?"
She led Jaden into a back room, full of clothes, took some from the shelves, and handed them to her, pointing to a changing room. Jaden shed all her Agent's gear, and pulled on the Apprentice's outfit.
She surveyed herself in the mirror; she looked exactly like an Apprentice. Perfect. With a very generous thanks to the secretary, who stated that she had been "happy to oblige lending out the uniform to such an esteemed Agent," and strode out into the hall. Things should work out perfectly!
She hurried to her class, keeping her head down, lest someone recognize her, and when she reached the room, she was pleased to see about ten people already there, waiting obediently until someone came to open the door. Tom Green arrived about three minutes later, unlocked the door, and let the students in. He and Jaden avoided the other's eye, lest their collaborations be discovered.
Jaden dropped into a seat in the large amphitheater that was about four rows back from the front. The class was small, but not so small that someone couldn't pass her over as a former Trainee of another Academy. A hansom young man of about 18 dropped into the seat beside her. He extended his hand and said, "I'm Nick."
Jaden smiled, returned the handshake saying, "Kayla...So, what Academy are you from Nick?"
"Me? Well, I'm from McClain Memorial. You?"
"Denison Commemorative." She answered, lying smoothly.
"Cool," he said, nodding his head, "my cousin went there."
"Really?" Jaden said, faking interest, "what's his name?"
"Her name is Carol-Lee," he replied.
"Ah, I remember Carol-Lee, she's a very nice girl." Jaden said, adding a smile as if she was reminiscing.
Just as Nick was about to reply, Green spoke up saying, "Apprentices, good evening! Unfortunately, the regular teacher of this coarse is ill, so another has filled her place. Let it be known that there are two imposters in this room…"he paused to let the murmurs of curiosity dull back down, "…I am one of these imposters, the other one is your teacher. You have until the end of class to find this charlatan…begin." Upon saying this, the room erupted with a din of excited teenagers.
Nick turned to Jaden and said, "who do you think it is?"
Jaden made a gesture of uncertainty, and said, "I dunno…but I'd like to know how some old fart is disguising himself among us."
"Maybe it's a younger guy." He suggested.
"I guess," Jaden replied with a shrug of indifference.
"How about that guy?" Nick said, gesturing to an older looking teen sitting up at the back, the only one not animatedly talking with anyone else, "he looks like he's older than us by a couple of years."
"Ya, you're right." Jaden said, "Maybe you should say something to the teacher."
"But we don't even know who the teacher is!" Nick said, sounding exasperated.
"Well, I meant the guy who's standing at the front of the room"
"Oh," Nick said, blushing slightly, "good plan. I'll go do that." He got to his feet and swaggered down to the front of the class, the Apprentices he passed falling silent, and when he reached Green's desk, he said, in a voice loud enough for the whole class to hear, "I think that that man, sitting in the back is the real teacher!" and he pointed to him. Green smiled ruefully, and got to his feet, leaning on the desk on his finger tips and asked the man at the back, "are you the teacher, young man?"
The man looked around, as if unsure that he was being addressed, then looked back, eyes wide and shook his head.
Green looked back at Nick and said, "there you have it Apprentice, take your seat."
A girl across the room stood up and cried, "I think its him, because he pointed out someone else to throw suspicion off himself!"
Nick looked shocked and said, "I assure you that I am not the teacher."
The class continued on for another half an hour, with accusations thrown back and forth, none of them true, until finally, the young man first accused got to his feet, and yelled at the class to shut up. Everyone, shocked to hear him talk for the first time, turned to stare at him. He looked around at them all and stated, "why don't we just break up into our graduating classes, then we'd be able to single out the person immediately." Green looked up at the young man and smiled, "that is a wonderful idea."
A girl stood up and cried, "all graduates from McClain Memorial over here!"
Another one stood and shouted "Aphrodin over here!"
A young man stood up and yelled, "Kazinyall here"
And a pair of twin girls and a boy who looked close to the same stood up and yelled in unison, "Denison!"
In less than three minutes, the four schools were broken up. Jaden had managed to slip into the group from Aphrodin, and she simply hunched in the back of the group. Finally, a girl, about a year or so older than Jaden, turned and said, "who are you? I've never see you before." As everyone turned to look at Jaden, she pulled out a stun gun, and put it to the identifier's forehead. Jaden smiled pleasantly, saying, "Congratulations class, you have all…" she paused, the smile on her face held for a moment, then it slipped away to a glare, "…died!"
She walked down to the front of the class and said in an undertone, "thank you Tom, we're even now!" she turned back to her class and said, in a dangerous voice, "that was terrible! If I was a Vampire or an assassin, I could have killed at least two of you in the time it took for you to figure out who I was!"
She paused again, as she saw all her pupils flinch, and then continued saying, "this lesson, all of you have failed, except for the young man who was first accused, he passes, because he thought the matter through, instead of calling out useless accusations! My name is Jaden Korr, perhaps you know that name."
There was a sort of shocked silence, which broke into one large conversation, and Jaden could tell they were all beating themselves up for not recognizing her. She decided that to make herself look more official, she took off the Apprentice's Over-robe she was wearing, and draped it over the back of her chair. She then settled into the chair, pressed her fingertips together before her, and sat back, waiting for the clamor to subside. The noise quieted down quite quickly.
"It seems that we need to work on identifying imposters and assassins," she said, calmly, straightforwardly, as if she were talking about nothing important. "I am most disappointed," she stated as she rose to her feet and walked over to the note-board, "here are the main things you look for, when trying to identify an imposter…" as Jaden began to write the points on the board, and her students scrambled to find note paper, a thought crossed her mind, this is harder than I thought it would be…
