Italia

20.

University of Milan

Deception dressed herself in concealment. My identity hidden behind black frame glasses and light green eye contacts. With a black shoulder length bob cut, it highlighted the softness of my jawline. The contour sharpens as in an air of attentiveness, I tipped my chin upwards, eyes scanning the ceiling for cameras.

Documentation of virtual notes, skirted across the smart board. A reflection from the midday sun, layered across the surface whilst not mistakenly, hitting against the context of data science and analytics. On one side of the classroom, ceiling to floor windows represented walls, I could see a perfect outline of the alley.

A perfect escape route if this plan went south.

A wide table was positioned just a few feet away from the board with a water bottle situated on the surface as well as a bunch of dis-organized papers. After a thorough check, I stepped over to the water bottle, uncap the cork and dropped the pill cam into the container.

The classroom was empty. The class for professor Silvio di Pietro hasn't begun as yet. I was thirty minutes early. I wanted time to map out the outline of the classroom and determine if any surveillance cameras were present whilst determining vantage points for attack. That is if... this shit turned out to be a pain in the butt.

"There is one to two camera's positioned at the entrance of the class." Sam muttered into the earbud that was fitted into my ear.

I hummed, my eyes scanning the board as I took in the notes presented there on screen.

"There is none here." I lowered my voice.

Sam sighed in relief almost as if he expected me to say something completely opposite to what we planned about this mission.

"Just be safe okay, remember our code word?"

I rolled my eyes. "Stop worry that pretty little head of yours idiota, everything will be fine."

"Yeah that is what you said about Alexandros and look where it got you."

My eyes narrowed into slits and just as I was about to gave my two cents, a heavy accented voice echoed behind me.

"I didn't think anyone would show up for this mornings discussion." I turned my head and took in the man of the hour.

Silvio di Pietro.

With a mop of sandy blonde hair, a pair of dark green eyes curiously scanned me whilst he leaned his hip against one of the desk that was positioned into a row.

White long sleeve shirt gripped his bulky upper half, his chest was wide that it made him look like some warrior with the tattoos that went up to his neck. Whilst black suit pants clung from his waist down and a black leather belt secured the narrow path. There was no mistake that this brute work out. His thighs were thick and sturdy.

As he stood at a height of six foot two.

"Why monsieur? who would want to miss out on a hot computer date with the sciences?" I winked and immediately withhold the cringe.

Sam snickered in the background and I could just imagine him writing that down to toy me with it later.

"Definitely gonna haunt you with this, not even your sleep can save you from this..." I ignored the little bugger and watched as the professor chuckled a bit at the awkwardness and then walked up towards the table with his laptop in hand.

"I'm afraid to admit but I wouldn't.."

He leaned against it with his hands gripping the edge of the table, his head drifted to the side as he took me in. "Afterall, computer science is my specialty if anything I'd be the first to show up at the date with deep interest and all."

I mocked tears as I sniffled and used my thumb to imaginary wipe away the droplets. "Thou art as wise as thou art beautiful."

He throw his head back and laugh and just like I planned he took up his water bottle and drank it in one go. He swallowed then toss me a smile.

"I'm sorry I know this isn't an excuse at all but this is a pretty big class and the semester is just two weeks in. What is your name? You look oddly familiar..."

I lifted an eyebrow and innocently shrugged.

"Maybe you see me around campus? I reside here. Plus I have what is called one of those unforgettable faces..." Silvio grinned but nodded slowly.

He parted his lips to say something but the ringing of his phone broke his attention from me, he glances at me for a second then excused himself out of the classroom.

"He just went out to take a phone call and he also took the capsule." I muttered and then turned towards the laptop.

"Okay good, He's just outside the door."

"Can you tell what he's saying?" I heard his fingers typing away on the keyboard as I turned the laptop towards me, my finger tips moving acorss the trackpad as the monitor flickered on.

"I'm trying..."

"We have approximately five minutes until his class begin." I type in his password which was pretty easy to get for some reason then maneuver the cursor across the screen towards files.

"Install the USB drive into the slot, it will install a camera software malware into the laptop that would exploit the computer system undetected and give us access to his camera."

I sighed as I inserted the drive. "How long the installation going to take."

"60 seconds."

"Fuck."

I watched as the installation ran into the background.

1..

I thinned my lips, eyes locked on the door as I watched in anticipation to see if the professor would come back.

"Conversation seems pretty heated."

I glanced down and notice that it was taking it's pretty freaking time loading.

20...

I inhaled, my heart, although it was beating at a normal rate, my fingers curled into a fist from the tension. For every few seconds that the software loaded into the computer, my system kept me on high alert as I watched the door, the thoughts in the back of my mind conjuring up the end game of this situation. It also map out plans that would get me out of each and every one of them.

"That shit should have uploaded by now. His laptop might be slow which is odd because he's a computer geek." Sam chewed as he uttered in astonishment.

40...

"Sam tell me..." I calmly began.

70....

Just 30 more to go.

"You're right about the unforgettable face, I know exactly who you are..."