Shadow Killer

Chapter 18 = Umbrella War Or Not

The next day at school, we knew that to put our plan into action, we had to talk to Victoria and get her to follow us without telling her that we wanted her to follow us.

"Hey Victoria, what's up with the latest enemy-boredom?" Hanna said, we all just stared at her.

"That's not a word, Hanna, or a phrase." Victoria said.

"Sometimes," Hanna said, "you need to make up words or phrases to describe some people. I'm talking about you and I asked you a question, didn't I?"

"Oh you know-" Victoria started.

"Actually, Victoria, we don't know." Miranda and I giggled.

Victoria gave us a warning look and said, "You know, having fun. I'm awesome, optimistic, ecstatic, amazing, now I'm getting tired of describing myself. I'm all of that so nothing can ever bring me down. What about you?"

"Awesome," Hanna said, "My dad's driver is taking us to the beach so we're stopping but the umbrella shop to get a few for ourselves. We would ask you to come with us but you have the enemy-boredom disease."

"That's not a word-"

"I know," Hanna snapped, "we should be on our way."

"Yeah, who's stopping you?"

"You! You're in our way."

"Oops, sorry." She said and stepped aside.

"Do we have a plan B, Hanna?" I asked in a whisper.

"Yeah," she said, "it's to do plan A again and again and-"

"Yeah we get it Hanna." All three of us said together. We left the school and went to the umbrella shop in Hanna's dad's car. The driver drove fast so we made him slow down because Victoria and Claire were probably following us on foot. Claire was way behind us and was hopefully following Victoria who was following us. Otherwise she would have called us by now and told us that Victoria wasn't following us.

"It's working!" Hanna whispered.

"Are you happy that I'm probably going to get stabbed in the back with an umbrella?" I asked.

"No, well, I'm happy that we're going to finally bring Victoria down!" Hanna squeezed me.

When we reached the shop, we slowly went into it. Nothing happened. We took our time to decide which umbrella, thinking that maybe Claire and Victoria were behind.

After a little while we decided that Victoria and Claire weren't really following us and only God knew where they were so we didn't waste any more time and bought four umbrellas just in case they were lingering around the shop, waiting to strike.

As we were getting out of the shop, I heard a whizzing sound, Hanna and Miranda yelling, "Alex, no!" and a sharp piercing pain after which everything went black.