Perfectly Normal Days: The Not So Fabulous Life Of Want-to-be Killjoys

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Robin's Pov~

So I know I really shouldn't be skipping a school assembly. It's usually frowned upon. The teachers have all been acting like they're half asleep today though, so it wasn't all that hard to sneak away and go sit on the back staircase.

And wait.

Aster and Ryane said they'd come join me. It was going to take them longer to get away though, they have more of a social life than I do.

They show up about five minutes later, each coming from a different direction. We had gotten good at our sneaking by now and knew how to not get caught. Which was why all three of us held falsified hallpasses.

"Want to go to the roof?" Ryane askes, dangling the key she wore in the air.

I don't know how they had managed to come across the key. They simply claimed to have been very interesting as seventh graders. The year they were in seventh grade just so happens to be the year we perfected our sneaking.

The door that goes to the roof is the same size as a window. It sits in the wall at the very top of the stairwell, about three feet from the ground. Ryane takes the key and unlocks it before hoisting herself out onto the roof. Aster follows, then I go through. Once on the roof Ryane closes the door and proceeds to relock the door. If we didn't have the key we'd be stuck on the roof now.

We walk along the roof carefully avoiding both windows and falling off. There are two parts of the roof, the door comes out on the area of the school without a second floor, making it easier for us to be seen through the windows.

We head to the end of the roof by the back doors behind the gym, overlooking the parking lot. There's three white vans parked off to the side. Each of them has a black and white logo printed on the sides.

It looks familiar.

"Hey," I hit Aster's side to get her attention, "Does that logo look familiar to you?"

"No?"

"Maybe we should go back to the gym, a little investigating never hurt anyone."

"It will if we get caught Ryane," Aster tells her.

"Don't get caught then," I say.

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The gym has windows on two sides of it. They're up along the top of the ceiling and we would use them for spying more often if they were easier to use. The only way to see in is to sit at the top of one of the ladders they have here for the janitors to use and run the risk of everyone seeing your face.

There's another way as well, it's a small highly cramped maintenance crawl space up here that was built to do work on the heaters by the ceiling. It's basically the ideal space except you can't see any of the people who are talking below you. Coincidentally, Ryane also has a key to it.

I was voted on tunnel duty. So I make my way with Aster over to the door to access the area. Aster unlocks it and lets me inside only after checking to be sure the toy earpieces work with the door closed. Yes we use little kid toy spy earpieces but they're literally the only thing we've found that works for this.

I crawl my way through the tunnel, a small keychain recorder hangs from a cord around my neck waiting for me to start recording what they were saying.

I really didn't expect to find the results we did.

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