Hidden in plain sight

Decisions and regrets

After calming my sibling down I had decided to go take a shower and sleep all the while thinking about the proposition.
Next day 6:40 am
I had finally made the choice. I woke up and got ready. I make my way to the kitchen to make myself a cup of coffee and some toast and I notice him there, drinking a cup of tea. "Hi sir" I say, he sighs and responds to me "Hi Oliver, how are you doing?" "I'm doing good, what about you James?" "I'm doing well, just tired." We stand there in a comfortable silence as I make my coffee and toast.

After a little while he says "Hey Oliver, have you made your decision?" "Hm? Oh, yes I have sir, I chose to go on the mission, when can I get the tracker?" "You can get it whenever you want to, and thank you for accepting the mission Oliver." "Okay sir" I leave the kitchen with my toast and coffee, heading to the Infirmary to get the tracker. As I walk into the infirmary I greet Mark, he is the head doctor there.

"Hey Mark, the boss needs me to get a tracker implanted. Can you do that for me?" He replied as such "Sure Olive' come on". He told me to sit on the bed as she went to get the scalpel, tracker, alcohol wipe, bandages, and gloves. (TW? if you don't wanna read this go to the lightbulbs) As he puts the gloves on I brace myself and start eating my toast to distract myself, I've never liked being cut, even by accident. She carefully cleans the area on my wrist where she was going to place the tracker and cuts my wrist slowly, the cut is shallow as he doesn't want a scar to form there. I wince from the pain of the cut, he checks the tracker to make sure it is clean and inserts it into my skin carefully. Because the cut is shallow he doesn't have to sew it shut and just spreads a numbing cream on my wrist, and wraps it in bandages "That should be healed by tonight". "Kay' thanks Mark, bye," I replied "Bye Oliver!"

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'I guess I have some time to waste until tonight, what should i do'  'Aha! I know what to do!' I walked to my brother's room, tossing the empty coffee cup in the trash, he had not left his room, and I knocked and ran to hide around the corner as he opened his door "Anyone there?" my brother walked out of his room, confusion evident in his voice, and seeing no one there he stepped back and shut the door. I waited a few minutes and repeated the process, deciding to be a menace to Jeremy.

He started getting annoyed, the 4th time I tricked him he yelled, "i swear to god! Whoever is there, quit it!" I peeked my head around the wall with an amused face and he sees me, looking annoyed and not at all surprised I was doing it "Really? I'm tired, it's, what, 7 AM(?) and you decided I would be good to mess with?" I just snickered and nodded. He looks at me with a bored and amused face before running at me, I squeak before turning around and booking it out of there, him hot on my tracks. We had been running for about five minutes when I looked over my shoulder at the wrong time and ran into the wall, falling. He stopped chasing me and kneeled down next to me, checking me over to make sure I wasn't hurt, looking at me with a concerned face. I just stuck my tongue out at him before standing back up and helping him stand up. After checking me over (again) he asked me what I had chosen for the mission, I told him what I was going to do and he just wished me good luck, huffing and leaving back to his room. For a while after that I just went around the base, talking to everyone that had the time to talk to me, or I would eat something, I was bored. As soon as it turned 7:50pm I started walking over to the meeting room, where James and I had agreed to meet up at 8 because I was going to be sent out at 8:30. As soon as I arrive at the meeting room I open the door saying "knock knock" sarcastically, sitting down and staring at James. He awkwardly coughs and speaks up, "Hi Oliver... um, we will be sending you out at 8:30. We will be hoping that they take the bait and, um, take you"
I nod, acknowledging his words, "okay sir, I will try my best to inform you of anything there. I will be wearing a listening and recording device so that you guys can get the information." James nodded, "Thanks Oliver, I'll be letting you go at 8:15 so that you get there by 8:30, okay?" I nod "okay sir."  Jeremy runs into the room "They're on the move! If we want this shitty plan to work we need Olive' out now!"
James and I looked at eachother, nodding, I stood up and James followed me wishing me good luck, telling me where to go for the plan. I ran, quickly putting my comms and camera on, checking to make sure that both worked. James told me the location once again and Jeremy was checking me over hastily to make sure I wasn't injured before letting me out. James spoke up before letting the plan start "Oliver, you need to make sure to be careful, convince them that your comm is a hearing aid. We can't let them figure you out." I nodded, grabbing my phone and running out of the base. Once I got to the location that they were most active in I adopted a calm face and relaxed my body, walking normally and 'playing games' on my phone to appear calm. It took two minutes to just hear a swish and feel something heavy -'maybe a bat?'- hit the back of my head before everything went dark.