Spy School Book 11

Wake Up

"Wake up Ben! Ugh. You're so lazy, wake up!"

I slowly opened my eyes and saw Erica Hale shaking me awake.

"Good morning to you too." I remarked but I was so tired that it sounded more like "goomorootoa."

"Speak English Ben." Erica told me with a frown on her face.

"Why are you waking me up so early it's 5:30 AM!" 

"We're going on our mission tomorrow morning Ben, and we don't have to atted any lesson because we apparently need to get rest. But I think we should do some research!" She snapped at me.

"Alright alright calm down." I said calmly.

"Don't tell me to calm down Benjamin Ripley." 

"I'm sorry." I said and stuck my tongue out at her.

"Stop messing with me Ben I know your weaknesses." She proudly said.

"Whatever Miss kitten post-" 

She grabbed my arm and twisted it behind my back I yelped in pain.

"Say sorry Ben."

"Ow-and I OW stop I'm sorry."

She let go and glared at me. Great I made Erica Hale upset.

"Hey I like those posters of yours." I told her reassuringly. 

"What posters? I don't have any posters, Ben." 

"Yeah yeah totally." I rolled my eyes and she glared at me even harder. "Are you mad at me?" I asked her.

"Slightly. Just don't talk about what you saw in my room understood?"

"Understood." I replied. I then realised I was only in my underwear and went bright red. Luckily I was under my covers so it wasn't like she could see anything. "Er Erica..."

"Yes Ben?"

"Can I get dressed."

"I'm not looking Ben don't worry." She grabbed her laptop and sat at my desk and started to do some research for our mission. We are planning on staying at Jessica Shangs' house to take down Joshua Hallal and Ashley Sparks. Jessica has been living in the UK ever since her Mum and Dad both went to prison. Jessica says that we can use her 1.5 million dollar private jet to fly over to the UK, Erica showed me some picture of the house we were staying in and to be honest I shouldn't even call it a house it's a MANSION.

"Ben are you dressed yet you've been getting dressed for 3 minutes." Erica asked.

"Nearly I'm just looking for a t-shirt!"

"Ugh let me get one for you." She opened my closet and stuck her hand into the back of it. "Found one." She then turned around and shoved the top in my hands... She stared at my chest and then looked away blushing.

"This one's too small." I blurted out.

"Where are all your t-shirts?" She angrily said while glaring at me

"Mike might have taken some we washed our clothes in the washing room together."

"I thought you had a good memory yet you can't even remember where you put a god damn t-shirt!" She facepalmed herself and pointed to the corner of my room "Look Ben."

I glanced over and realised that all my clothes were just in a pile in the corner of my room. "oh." I took a walk of shame over to my clothes and dug out a top and hoodie, Erica giggled at me- hold up Erica giggled? That was not a very Erica thing to do.

I then decided to lay in my bed and just stare at the ceiling, struggling to sleep.

"Struggling to sleep?" Erica asked.

"I guess." I replied.

She grabbed her laptop kicked off her shoes and then lay next to me. "If you're not gonna sleep then at least help me."

"Ugh fine but let me see the laptop screen." I wriggled right up to Erica and put my head on her shoulder, she pushed me away. "Ow!" I yelped (she pushes very aggressively).

"Maybe ask before doing that Ben."

"Can I pleas-"

"Yup." She said while also cutting me off.

For the rest of the day we did some research and played A LOT of chess (Erica has her own chess board at school, she also beat me every round).

"It's 8 PM I'm going to go to my dorm now." Erica suddenly announced.

We stood up awkwardly and I quietly said. "Goodnight."

She surprisingly hugged me and replied "Goodnight Ben." She then hopped out my window and disappeared.