An Assassins World

Chapter 24

"I quit." he whispers.

"You quit?" I say in complete shock.

I'm trying to process this. He quit. There's only one thing that could mean. He quit being an Assassin, he quit working of the E.A.I.

"Yes." He replies just as quietly.
"What, why? What happened?" I was so confused. Why would he quit? Then come back?
"I... I wanted to be normal. I wanted to know what being a real teenager could feel like. I wanted to experience the life I missed out on." He explains.

He was still looking deep into my eyes. I could read his every emotion. Sadness, curiosity, disappointment and something else I couldn't quite figure out.

"So you just gave it all up and quit?"

He nods.

"What made you come back?" I ask, now I'm curious. Did he not like the teen life?

"I..." he stops. he looks like he's thinking very carefully about his answer. "They wanted me back. They called and asked me to come back because I was the only one that could do it. They said it was the only mission they would ask me to do, that right after I could go back to living my life however I wanted."

"Oh." I say. "So this was your very last mission hah? I'm sorry I messed it up." I say sadly.

"No, it's fine. I guess that means I have to go on another mission and complete it." he says with a smirk.

"So it's not your last mission? I thought you wanted to be a 'normal teenager'" I say.

"Yeah but it gets kinda...lonely." It looks like he didn't want to admit to it.

"Well if you stay here, you'll have me." I say with a kind smile. I didn't even mean to say that out loud but I did.

Rey seemed a little surprised to hear me say that but seemed to also like the idea.

"That sound like a good deal." he says.
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We were in a taxi on our way to high school again only this time, we weren't going inside that prison. Just the thought makes me shiver.

"Are you sure about this? It's not too late to back out."

"Yes I'm sure, it will be fine." I reassure him.

He's been trying to change my mind all day but it's not working at all.

We pay the taxi driver and get out. It's great timing because that's exactly when I hear the final bell indicating that school is over.
Rey and I walk over to the Parking lot where we know Jason's car is, hopefully he doesn't feel like staying in after school today.

After minuets of waiting we spot Jason strolling over to his car but he hadn't noticed us yet because he was busy talking to the chess team. When they get close Jason looks over and freezes. He's mouth wide open.

Oh right... I forgot he wasn't expecting us. I guess it was the over planning.

"Hi." I say as gently as I can and add a small wave.

"Angel! You're back!" David shouts and runs over for a hug, seconds later I'm ambushed by the whole team and their all crushing me in a group hug. For Chess players they are freakishly strong.

"Nice to see you again guys but can you please stop crushing me? I'm slowly dying here." I squirm and try to get out of their grip which is surprisingly hard to do.

I look through the little gap in the bundle o people and still see Jason frozen in the same spot. Maybe I should have warned him I was coming back. But what's the fun in that? He looks so dumbfounded. It's sort of amusing.

"Ehm...guys, let her breath." Jason finally speaks up, not very confidently and it seems like he's in some other world but at least he's talking now.

They all follow his instructions and let go of me, I don't know how he did that.

"I'm feeling really invisible right now." Rey mutters from behind me.

"Oh hi Rey." some of the chess team greet.

Even I forgot he was here.

Whilst the team is distracted, talking to Rey I walk over to Jason so I can talk to him alone.

"Hey Jay." I say.

"H-h-hi." he stutters, I think he's still in shock.

"How are you doing?" I ask, I want to start with some light conversation first.

"Eh...I.... well... I'm... okay." he can barely form a sentence.

"That's good. Hows chess club?" I ask.

"Good. We're okay. I'm okay. Are you okay?" He asks.

"I'm doing better than I was three weeks ago, that's for sure." I tell him honestly. "So yes, I am okay."

I catch a faint tear in his eyes but he takes a few deep breaths discreetly to get rid of it.

"I'm glad your okay. Where did you go? What happened?" He asks.

He's starting to get over his shock.

"I was taken to hospital, Rey stayed with me." I lie. I hate lying to him now that the mission is over, I try to avoid lying unless it's completely necessary.

"I'm so sorry Angel." he apologises and the tears start to come back into his eyes.
"It wasn't your fault, it's okay." I try my best to comfort him and rub his shoulder gently.

"Yes it was, I can't do anything right." he says and his eyes flicker to Rey then back to me. I'm not sure why.

"No it wasnt." I say firmly. "It was never your fault, it was mine. If it wasn't for you calling Rey I don't know where I'd be right now." I tell him.

"But I didn't help, I didn't help when I saw everything happening before my eyes. I didn't help." he says and his voice cracks, his tears are threatening to spill out.

I didn't realise he was so upset about it all. It makes me upset. I don't want him to feel bad about my mistake.

""I don't know who told you that but your being hard on yourself." I go in for a hug because he really looks like he could use one.

I pull back after a few seconds and whisper "You saved me." to him and gently kiss him on the cheek.

His cheeks go bright red and as he tries to avoid eye contact with me he looks right behind me and freezes. I look back to and find chess club and Rey staring at us. Rey looks a bit upset and the chess club are giving Jason a weird look.

"So who's giving us a ride to their place?" I break the silence.

"Ehm..I can. We were, going to watch some movies in the mini theatre." Jason speaks up.

"Sounds awesome."

Next thing I know everyone's on their way to Jason's house and I definitely missed them.

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I'm trying to update more often and I think it working so now there won't be a 2 month gap between updates (sorry about that) and unfortunately this story is almost over so I hope you liked it and hopefully you'll stick around for the last few chapters :) xx

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