Alex Rider: Living with the SAS

Chapter 15

Alex pulled up in the private carpark and trudged up to her dorm room. I'm so tired. I'm so tired. I'm so tired. I'm not tired. I'm not tired. Alex was chanting that in her own head to keep herself busy. At first those thoughts made sense, she was think about random battle strategies and then it was reciting the periodic table and then it changed into random crap. On the ride back she was contemplating about things, she shook her head at the bad thoughts of her killing her friends. Don't make bonds. Stop making bonds... No. You can make bonds. Don't make the bonds obvious. Alex was very tired when she finally got out of the shower. She had completed a few of her mission task. Make friends with Jace. Done. Shop for her belongings. Done. Make sure Jace is always in her sight... Uh... No need for that. He stalks her. Not really but close enough. Alex collapsed on the bed in exhaustion. There is gonna be dinner but she doesn't have the energy to drag herself out just for food. She has learnt to survive on minimum amount of food and still obtain maximum performance.
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"Where's Alexa?" Jace asked as he sat down with his food at the squad's table and with their new members. Skylar and Ash, Alex was nowhere to be seen. Ash and Skylar stopped eating and looked at each other. "Shit!" They both cursed. Skylar took off while Ash scrambled for his phone. Alex could be kidnapped! Killed! Tortured! Goddamit! Stop thinking negatively. Skylar pushed away those thoughts as she ran as fast as she can towards their dorm room. "What's going on?" Paris asked. Ash contemplated about how much he should tell them and how. "She's a trouble magnet. She doesn't need to look for trouble to get in trouble. Take the robbery for example. Before she came, she got into a fight. Then she stared down the barrel of a gun just now." Ash explained as he tried to reach Alex on her phone. When she finally picked up, there was a loud bang behind her. Before the line went dead. Ash mumbled curses under his breath as he tried again. "Can you reach her?"
"No."
"She'll be fine." Jace reassured them but it was more for himself.
When Skylar came back, she continued eating like nothing happened. "What happened? I couldn't reach her."
"She fell asleep. She doesn't want to eat."
"But why couldn't I reach her?"
"I entered the room and she thought I was an intruder. She chucked the first thing she could grab hold of and unfortunately it was her phone." Skylar replied, breaking your phone is no big deal. Especially when you're rich. But the phone was special as that is an MI6 issued phone. Oh well. Alex can always get a new one from MI6.