Spy School: NYC

Motel

Western Long Island

New York

March 4th, 1300

We arrived to the supposed city where SMASH is located. Montauk, New York.

It was around eight hours from the academy. I slept for about six hours of the drive.

Surprisingly when I woke up, Erica was still sleeping. She was snoring a little bit too.

Cyrus and I were the only ones awake. Louis and Catherine were both snoring as well.

Cyrus looked at me in the rear view mirror, and sighed.

"I see you and my granddaughter have feelings" He stated.

I tensed, scared he may want it to stop. But I replied "Yes, we've been dating for quite awhile now".

Precisely almost nine months since our last mission.

"Yes I've noticed, and I hope you know if you ever break your heart I will-" I cut him off "Yes kill me I know, she says it just like you".

He nodded then continued "Even though you two are dating, you have to put those emotions aside for this mission, millions might be in danger, and I can't have you two making out while we need to stop these guys".

My face instantly went red, embarrassed.

"Yes sir I understand" I said embarrassed.

The next thing Cyrus said to me surprised me a lot.

"I don't usually be this nice but, you've been great for her Benjamin, and I am thankful for you watching my granddaughter" He said, almost looking like he was trying to hold back the nice words.

I looked at Erica then responded "Thank you sir, I hope she feels the same" I smiled.

I looked around at everyone else in the car, seeing if they heard that.

Seeing as their very good spies, they very much could be faking their sleep.

I enjoyed the rest of the car ride, knowing Cyrus approves of Erica and I's relationship.

Eventually they all woke up, then we arrived to a run down motel.

"Why can't we ever stay in a half decent hotel ever" I thought to myself.

"This is the motel we'll be staying at the CIA picked for us" Cyrus told us all, then noticed the looks on our faces.

"Yes I know, it's not the best, budget is tight on missions now" He added in.

He handed us all our room keys, Catherine and Erica shared a room, while me, Cyrus, and Louis all shared one.

We quickly unloaded our luggage from the rundown van, and realized there's only two beds in the room.

"Ben, since us two our much older than you, you get to sleep on that sofa over there" Cyrus pointed towards the stained, weirdly smelling sofa.

I sighed, but agreed with Cyrus, since him and Louis were both over 60, but still somehow managed to keep up with younger new spies.

Eventually the others came to our room to discuss our first move for the mission.

"Tonight me, Catherine, and Louis will go scout out the warehouse, while you two stay back and have radios and cameras" Cyrus said looking at Erica and I.

Erica tried protesting that she should be able to go with, but me personally I'm perfectly fine with staying out of trouble's way.

Cyrus shot down all of Erica's protests and got the three of them equipped with radios and cameras.

That took surprising longer, because for being spies Louis and Cyrus both suck at working technology.

Eventually it came around to about 9pm, when they headed out to go on their recon mission.

But of course before Catherine left I heard her teasing Erica about getting left by ourselves here, and saying stuff I will not repeat.

My face got red from the stuff I overheard, and I'm very sure Erica's was definitely red as well.

But they headed out, now Erica and I were stuck staring at screens.

We couldn't talk to them though, all we could do is listen and watch the camera feed on the laptop Cyrus brought.

I was perfectly fine staying back with Erica, because we don't spend that much alone time.

She was just staring at the screen sadly, obviously pouting for not being able to go on the recon.

I grabbed her hand and squeezed it tightly. "Erica, it's okay I bet you'll be able to go on the next" I told her.

She faintly smiled, but I could tell it was fake "I wish grandpa would stop acting like I'm still a little kid" She said with an annoyed tone.

"He's just looking out for you, he just cares about you a lot just like I-" before I could finish she grabbed me into a hug.

"I care about you too Ben, I care about you a lot, and I heard you and Cyrus' conversation in the car" She told me.

"Of course you heard it nothing gets past you" I grinned, hugging her back tightly.

And for us dating for almost nine months, we've only kissed about five times in that span.

Until now, she made it six.

And for my surprise she didn't pull back instantly, she left us there kissing for about ten seconds.

She pulled away from me, and I must have had a dumb smile on my face because she started giggling.

"Alright Ben, we actually gotta do our jobs now" She said, going back to her usually mission focused self.

But lucky to me, she kept holding my hand.

And it stayed like that till they got back.

That one kiss made me think...

Maybe this mission won't be so bad after all.

Famous last words right there😂😂

Anyway I feel like a writing machine today.

Except like another 2 today, and I'm just blasting jcole while I write.

Let me know if you wanna see more Erica and Ben romance scenes!

Until next time,

-CR