Mission Impossible

Chapter 28~ The Game

CLARA'S POV

  My legs ached as they worked themselves more then they had in awhile, my feet hitting the ground constantly, creating a soothing rhythm. I found the school's track, and had been running around that for the past hour and a half. Exhausting work but I needed to clear my mind. As I was rounding the corner, about to run another lap, something caught my eye off in the bushes. I slowed down, coming to a stop in front of the reason for my distraction. Most people wouldn't have even noticed this, but I was hardly most people.

  There was the smallest of openings, with crushed branches beneath it after many trips over them. But the thing that had caught my attention was the small droplet of blood resting on a crushed leaf on the ground. I bent down to get a closer look. It was dried blood, but I still needed to take a closer look. I pushed through the greenery until I reached a small opening, cautiously stepping out into it. Leaning against a tree was Danielle, reading a book intently.

  "Dani?" I asked, and the small girl jumped, startled.

  "Oh, Evie, hi," she said sitting up, but not closing her book, probably not expecting me to stay long. I walked further into the opening and looked around and examined Dani as well, trying to see where the blood had come from. "Did you get lost?" Dani asked and I know she didn't mean for it to be rude, just honestly wondering how I wound up here.

  "Something like that," I said, walking even further into the opening and leaning up against a tree of my own, opposite of Dani. "Is that how you found this place?" I questioned.

  "Not exactly. I was walking around the track when I heard people talking and my curiosity got the best of me and I followed their voices. I saw Tanner and some man arguing in here, his dad I guess, it was dark. I thought it was a nice place though so I come back when they aren't here," she told me shrugging. That couldn't be Tanner's dad, they lived across the country.

  "Do they come back a lot?" I asked her and she nodded.

  "Rocky relationship I guess or else they'd just talk out in the open," Dani explained.

  "Next time you see them here can you tell me?" I asked her. Dani had a confused look on her face but she nodded.

  "Sure, I'll let you know," Dani told me and before I could thank her, I heard a crinkle where we had came from and a flash of blonde before it disappeared. Dani heard it too and was looking in the same direction, a worried look on her face.

  "We should go," I told her and she nodded, getting up and stuffing her book in her bag before we hurried out back into the track where people could see us. I looked around for the person who had been listening in on our conversation, but no body was on the track.

  "Everyone's getting ready for the game probably," Dani explained and I groaned, realizing I needed to go and get ready for the game too.

  "Hey Dani, I gotta go are you going to be okay?" I asked her and she was confused as to why I asked, seemingly have ruled the strange noise out to a animal.

  "Yeah, go on," she said with a smile and I returned one before I ran off to my dorm room, finding Claire and Melissa still in their red and gold outfits, hair up in pretty bows and pom poms at the ready.

  "Ew. You better shower before the game," Melissa said and I rolled my eyes.

  "I know," I said. "Claire, can you pass me my shampoo and stuff?" I asked as I ruffled through my things for a towel. Claire nodded and tossed me what I asked, but my body wash went in a different direction then the rest of my things. My hands snatched all three things out of the air with ease. Melissa noticed and raised her eyebrow, while Claire happily smiled, obviously pepped for the game tonight.

  "Nice catch!" She said, and I smiled at her before going back to getting ready to shower down the hall. From the corner of my eye I saw Melissa walking towards me, sipping from a plastic water ball. Just as she reached me, the bottle slipped from her hands, and my hand shot out, stopping the bottle from hitting the floor. I looked up to see Melissa staring at me with a smile on her face.

  I let the bottle slip from my hands, splashing all over the floor.

  "Oh no!" Claire said, rushing over to us. "Evelyn, go shower. We'll clean this up," she instructed and I hurriedly rushed out, trying to ignore Melissa's smirk searing into my back. I quickly showered, my mind crumbling as Melissa knew something. Maybe not the whole truth but she knew enough. I needed to do something. 

  I turned off the water, drying myself off before hurrying down the hall and back into my empty room. I glanced down at my bed to see my uniform spread across it, a bow and pom poms. I rolled my eyes and put my uniform on before slipping on the pair of bright white shoes left for me and lightly jogging across campus to the large football stadium, already radiating with noise.

  "Evelyn so nice of you to join us," Melissa mocked me as I jogged up to them. "Maybe if you lost a few pounds it wouldn't be so hard to lug your body here," she remarked, and jaws dropped around all the cheerleaders on the sidelines. I knew she was just trying to make me mad so I'd do something stupid like copy a dance perfectly I had seen once. Yeah, I messed up with that one...

  "Since you missed warm ups, you'll have to do a little cheer in front of us all before we go out there," she told me, reminding me of when Mr. Cormack made Dani and I go up in front of the whole class. I glared at my roommate and picked up my pom poms, plastering a fake smile on my face.

  "Give me a B! Give me an I! Give me a T! Give me a C! Give me an H! What does that spell? Melissa!" I cheered, and jaws dropped once more and my defiance against the captain. She just smirked, enjoying getting me mad.

  "Perfect," Claire said, taking my hand and dragging me away from the crowd of cheerleaders, and taking me aside and teaching me some of the routines. I picked them up easily and 10 minutes later we were lining up on the sidelines and I was placed in between Melissa and Claire, closest to the players.

  "Let's go Badgers!" the large crowd of girls screamed, their pom poms up in the air and bright smiles on their faces. I joined them, and prepared myself to stand here for a few hours to watch a sport that stops every two seconds for unknown reasons. I frowned when I remembered how I didn't know Harry was on the team. I didn't even know he played football.

  "That's Charlie!" Claire nudged me as she screamed over the loud fans as our team ran onto the field. "Number 32", she told me. I found the number, and saw it matches when a lean yet build player, his hair hidden by his helmet. I small smile stretched across my face as I saw him, lining up out there, like a real teenage boy.

  But we weren't real teenagers. We weren't even teenagers. We were on a mission, and we let ourselves get so distracted that he was on the football team and I was a cheerleader. But Harry was following the lead of Tanner, and I had just found one in Melissa at her little tests she kept trying. And the person I saw in the woods today was blonde...Melissa had also been in my group for archery, and she had spoken of Cormack before like she knew him.

  I looked over at Melissa and saw her cheering. She kicked her leg up, and it snapped up high, in what could have been a dangerous kick. Afterwards she looked over at me and smirked, and I thought that maybe, just maybe, she was dangerous.