An Adventure to Last a Lifetime

five

The next day I felt much better, considering I had slept the rest of that day. I didn't see Owen at breakfast when I saw the rest of the boys for the first time in two days. They obviously had no idea as to what had happened between the two of us and I would very much like it to stay that way. I gave Mark a thankful smile as we took a seat at the table. He responded with a soft hug, by wrapping his right arm around my shoulder and giving my small body a tight squeeze.

"So Sam," Seth spoke up in between shoving sausage in his mouth and gulping down orange juice. Did Boss not think to feed the boys on this mission? They're eating as if they have been deprived of food for a few days. "Owen tells me that you two had fun the other night with out us." He nearly winked at me but didn't quite. He tilted his head towards me and continued to chew his food.

I froze in shock and I tried to control myself. I couldn't help but let my eyes grow to the size of my head and stop chewing the food in my mouth. If I had been in the middle of drinking my water I swear it would of been all over him. I could also feel a cold sense behind me. Almost as if a fridge door had been left open. The cold air didn't move and as I looked around the table I knew what it was behind me. Or who it was rather; Owen.

The other boy's eyes feel on me and Mark tried to act natural, as if he had no idea.

"Didn't you Owen?" Seth joked, "But you guys could of at least shared you know!" He tried to act mad but Seth was not the best at being angry. Serious and determined yes, but not mad. "Where did you even get your hands on champagne?" He asked and my muscles instantly relaxed. The presence behind me, otherwise known as Owen began breathing once more.

"Uh-" I said pulling myself back together, "Owen wouldn't tell me where he got them." I paused and looked at the boy who began walking around the table to take his seat between Kevin and Seth. "Would you Owen?"

His eyes shot up at me with half a bit of scrambled egg hanging out of his mouth. He shrugged his shoulders as if some how coming across such a rare thing around here was nothing. I hate to say that we never found out where he acquired them from. Seth practically twitched with curiosity and I could tell that he was under the assumption that I was as well. But at the moment I was not the least bit concerned about that. I just kept praying that no one else found out about what me and Owen had done after consuming that champagne.

Boss' assistant, Cherry, at least thats what we all called her, for all I know that isn't even her real name and just some fake name to hide who she truly is, walked into the room telling the six of us to come into Boss' office. She exited the room and the terrible chill that I had felt earlier was back but only worse. Much much worse. Everyone in the room was frozen. Even those who were not in our group for they knew that being called to the Boss's office was never good.

Seth, being the leader, took the initiative and stood from his chair first. I followed causing Mark to do the same and soon we were all taking the dreaded path to the deepest darkest pits of the underworld. The teams who had been sent in their before us rarely ever came out and if they did they were never the same. Of course there was that once when Seth and I snuck in but that was different. It was like a child when they are told not to go somewhere because they don't want to see what's inside but that only makes them want to see it more. It was the innocent act of a child, what we did and him and I are still proud and quiet about that to this day.

I could see the door up ahead and the closer we got the more nervous I became. It mysteriously opened before we even got to it. Seth glanced bravely back at us telling us that everything was going to be okay. That was the only lie he ever told us. Before we entered any battle that seemed frightening he always gave that look and by now we had learned that it was just a force of habit for Seth. Sometimes the rest of us even believed that it was Seth's own way of telling himself that everything was going to be okay.