Not Gone

Chapter 22

****Flashback begins*****

I heard the doorbell ring and I ran downstairs.

"I got it!" I yelled as I reached them bottom of the stairs but my mom was already opening the door.

"Hello!" she said to the person. I looked over her shoulder and saw it was Brendan. I thought I was supposed to meet him at headquarters to plan and train for a mission but obviously he decided to pick me up for some reason.

"Hi, Mrs.Goldberg!" he said.

"O, mom this is Brendan, Brendan this is my mom." I said with a smile on my face because I knew she would be kind of mad at me that I had never told her about one of my new friends. Well, work-related friend.

"Hi, friend of Britney." she said gritting her teeth and staring at me.

"Hi, Brendan!" my dad said scaring me because I didn't know he was behind me.

"Oh, so you know about this boy and you don't even tell me!" my mom said to my dad.

I could tell they were about to get into a heated argument so I pushed past my mom and went outside with Brendan.

I closed the door behind me as I heard my mom scream "ANY MORE SECRETS YOU ARE KEEPING FROM ME!! I AM SO OVER YOU AND MY DAUGHTER LYING TO ME!!! WHY DO I STILL PUT UP WITH THAT MONEY WASTING BITCH OF A DAUGHTER AND YOU!!"

She kept screaming but I couldn't take any more of it. I started running towards his car.

"Britney, I'm sure she didn't mean it." Brendan said catching up to me.

"Honestly, it's ok. They've been arguing for the past month since I've agreed to do this thing." I said. This thing, meaning my agent training.

"Does your mom know about it?" he asked as we both got in the car.

"No, of course not but she gets mad because we are both gone all the time even though she doesn't get home until nine or ten."

"That sucks." Brendan said as he turned on his car.

We pulled out of the driveway and started driving.

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As we neared the regular exit to headquarters, Brendan veered to the left instead of right.

"Where are we going?" I asked. "Aren't we supposed to go for training?"

"Change of plans. Mr.Wilson said that we needed to do this mission a week earlier because the government moved the institution day to April 1st." Brendan said as we passed the exit.

"Oh." I said and sat the rest of the ride in silence.

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When we entered Lab 56 in headquarters, aka the map room, the 3D map was still spread across the table.

"Glad you could come!" Mr.Wilson said startling me as he patted my shoulder. For some weird reason, he made shivers run down my spine.

"Ya." I said passing him quickly to stand next to Brendan. I kind of bumped into him and he caught me. I smiled at him and stood up brushing his arms of me. I folded my arms and listened to what Mr.Wilson was saying about the mission.