Another kind of short chapter. I just wanted to add more joy and happiness like this to the story. Hope you like that idea! Please review!
You know, some people say that girls should find a man who doesn't call them hot, but calls them beautiful. Who doesn't cry when you walk away from him, but dies inside. And someone who doesn't want to be with them forever, but someone who needs to be with them forever.
And I realized that I had that man, and I had found him without even looking. My old boyfriend, Josh, if you remember, might have done all of these things. But there is an even bigger thing that you need in your perfect other half and that is that they need to accept you for who you are. Josh couldn't do that. But Zach, he accepted every part of me, good and bad, with open arms. And that was what I needed. And that was what I had.
After my attempt of suicide, Zach had brought me down stairs after we kissed for what seemed like hours on the rooftop. It had still been very early in the morning so we got rid of all my goodbye notes before anybody could read them. We had just played some card games and talked in his room. It had seemed that in some way, Zach had to be touching me at all times. Anywhere from his arms around my waist, to just his foot touching mine.
I guess I should have been paying more attention to my CovOps class in sub-level 3, but no matter how hard I tried, my mined roamed. But spies learn early on to half-listen.
"Miss Morgan, tell my the fifth element used in this mission." Mr. Solomon boomed at me. And he was not asking, he was telling. Even though he was as close to a father as I had he was still my teacher. I paused, trying to remember what I had been half-listening to. I kept my gaze straight, not giving any part of me away.
"Controlled hypnosis." I answered. Mr. Solomon nodded.
"Good, Cameron." He went on, "controlled hypnosis is very dangerous, but when used right very, very useful. It is ow many spies and killers get people to talk, but also gain helpers…" I started to zone out again but forced myself to listen. After about 5 minutes, something caught my ears.
"We are going to play a little game today in the town. There will be two leaders, picked at random, and they will try to collect followers. Since none of you are qualified to hypnotize each other, we will play in a simpler way. The leaders will have to try to stick five stickers of their color on the other students one at a time. The two leaders will be competing against each other to get the most stickers on the most people. Now remember, if you are not a leader, be resistant. If you see a leader anywhere near you, get out of that area. You goal will be to not get five stickers on you. Once you do get five stickers, you will come to base. We will see which team you have more stickers of, and you become part of their team. You then will become hypnotized, and start placing stickers on people for you team. The last person standing wins." I instantly got excited. Mr. Solomon still was talking, "I have placed every bodies names on a slip of paper," he gestured to a bowl full of names. He reached his hand in and pulled two slips of paper from the bottom.
"Our leaders are…Miss Sutton and Mr. Goode."
Go. Freakin'. Figure. My jaw hit the floor. One of my best friends and my boyfriend, of course. I heard Liz shriek and she looked terrified. Lets just say Lizzy is a tad (a lot) better with computers and books than actual field work. We even begged her to take CovOps, so we will see how this goes. Zach, on the other hand, was beaming with excitement, aimed right at me. I just rolled my eyes at him. Liz's hand shot in the air. But Mr. Solomon answered her question without even calling on her.
"No, there is not swapping leaders. Our leaders are Elizabeth and Zachary and it will remain that way." Liz slowly brought he arm back down. "Now everybody pack up, we leave immediately." He said. This was going to be so fun.