Spy School - Nemesis [1]

18: Aftermath

The Queen Anne

Deck 7

Suite 28

April 28

1900 hours

My dreams were plagued with worries.

Murray would fall backwards as his last words echoed in my mind.

"RIPLEY!"

Splat.

Erica would be fighting me, angry tears running down her face.

"You killed Joshua, and had no regrets. I thought we were friends!" she would scream.

I tried to argue that I wasn't the one who caused his fall, but no words came out of my mouth.

The person who I somehow knew was the director of FSA would shift into Ms. E, and then Agent Durkee, cackling evilly.

Trixie would fall as Murray cut the zipline.

Cyrus fell into the ocean.

Splash.

Three minutes passed.

He didn't surface.

Mike got shot by Adan.

His shirt was bloodier than the one in the museum.

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I woke up, gasping for breath, sweat flowing down my face. I was in a strange room I didn't remember being in.

I carefully opened the door and found myself in the Mogilevsky's hallway in their suite.

"Ben!" Eric exclaimed. "I'm so glad to see you are awake. Come, everyone else is in the kitchen eating dinner," he ushered my towards a door.

The door opened and Eric and I wordlessly sat down at the table.

Calm down, I told myself. They're all here.

Mike, Erica, Trixie, Elizabeth, Cyrus, the Moglivskys, Eric.

They were all there, with me in the awkward silence.

"So," Cyrus broke the ice, "we questioned Adan." he gestured towards the door that had a paper taped to it that said, "Interrogation Room: DO NOT ENTER".

"Apart from finding out that the captain of this ship was corrupt, which we already knew," Cyrus continued, "I was able to find out that Adan has a girlfriend. A girlfriend who was much higher in SKITTLES-" Cyrus frowned at the childish name "-than Adan was. We also found out she goes to your old middle school," Cyrus said, looking at me.

"She has valuable information, possibly the new leader, and SKITTLES will still remain unless find her."

Cyrus looked at each of us.

"What do you say?"

I took a deep breath.

"Yes."

330 words. Don't judge me xD