Spy Mixup-Paused

Chapter 3

BRING!!! That was the sound of the bell. Everybody rushed out of the door leaving English and headed to the next class they had. As soon as everyone left I walked over to Mr. Renolds and asked him if we could talk. His only response was to get up and locked the door. He turned around and finally spoke. “I have a free period right now so we can spend the next hour planning our moves and talking about why on earth you’ve been avoiding me.”

 “Haha, well you see you’ve gotten the wrong idea. I’m not Agent Mason I’m just plain old Lita. I don’t know why you think I’m her, but I can assure you I’m not a secret agent for your covert intelligence agency.”

 “Well ‘Lita’ explain how you got the code right. You have to admit that looks odd. Look if you really don’t want to work with me then just say it.”

 “Ok fine” I responded deciding to just lie I mean how much trouble could I honestly get into? “I don’t want your help I want to be alone” I said, practically shouting as my voice got louder with each word. “I just want…” but I was cut off by Renolds yelling at me to be quiet. I quickly followed his gaze to the door to see a teacher looking in on us as soon as I glanced in her direction the teacher fled from the spot.

 “Shit” was the only word uttered from Renolds mouth. “Did you have to talk so loudly?”

 “I um…I didn’t…I” mumbled but before I could say anything coherent I fled from the room to my next class.

I finally made it to 6th period; I would be free to go home within the hour. My teacher a balding lady (I know it sounds weird but it’s true) handed out a few scripts and had the people she picked including me go up and preform a scene so she could rank us on how good we were.

 “No Devon please don’t go” I said while grabbing his shirt. I turned my face to look him in the eyes, but as I was doing that, I saw out of the corner of my left eye the teacher who had seen me and Renolds talking earlier.  The teacher must have realized I’d seen her, for she quickly left. I put the thought out of my mind, it was just a coincidence, right?

 The bell finally rang signaling the end of the day. As I was walking home, I heard the sounds of children playing and turned to look. That’s when I spotted the same teacher from earlier. What was up with her? Creeped out of my mind I ran the rest of the way home.

 The next day after English I stayed back again to talk to Renolds. “Um, sir you know lady that was watching us from yesterday well she won’t stop following me. So could you do something about that?”

 “Really?” he said sarcastically. “Well that’s your problem isn’t it? After all, you said you didn’t want my help”

 “Please do something.”

 “Agent Mason has never needed help from anyone ever, and you did say so yourself that you were her.”

 Great, now I was screwed, that lady following me was beginning to unnerve me. When I walked into pre-calculus I received a detention for being late to the class twice in a row. Now I was stuck here for another hour.

 The day passed by dreadfully slow, but I guess it always does considering I have no friends and I’m not very good and making them either. Drama finally ended and I slowly trudged my way to the detention room.

Sitting down I pulled out my school work, might as well get it done now. Halfway through my biology homework it dawned on me that I hadn’t seen that weird teacher all day long. I was almost too scared to look towards the door, but when I did I saw her standing there again. “What do you want?” I said.

“You” was her only response. “Ok, then take your things and go” was the response of the teacher who was holding detention. As soon I grabbed my things and headed out into the hallway I was shoved up against the wall and a knife was pressed against me neck.

 With all the courage I could muster I said “what on earth do you want from me?”

 “Oh don’t act stupid Agent Mason you should obviously know I’m going to kill because I don’t want what I’m doing to get out. I could lose my job after all.”

 “But I’m not Agent Mason I protested.”

 “Of course you are I heard you tell the other man about it, I know you two are working together, and now I’m going to kill you.” But before the lady could press the knife any harder against my neck, I slammed my foot into hers causing her to drop the knife and for me to pick it up.

“Want to try that again?” I said while holding the knife extremely close to her face. The lady turned and fled. I don’t know why, but a sudden urge came over me and I started chasing after her. We ended up running through most of the school. Twisting and turning through many hallways and even going down a flight of stairs. We’d nearly reached the other end of the school by now. My hands were becoming sweaty and I nearly dropped the knife twice. We ended up passing Renolds leaving his room as I continued our chase to the end of the hallway.

 We were nearly there and I thought I had her trapped until she wrenched open a door, no doubt heading into a classroom, but as soon as I entered what I thought was the classroom I stumbled on the top of a set of stairs leading downwards; falling forward I lost control of the knife and it flew forward into the air.

 *          *          *~Renolds POV

 As soon as I saw Mason running I knew that she was out to capture the lady and had already figured out that she was the one behind the disappearances. I dropped my stuff and started running after the two of them.

I saw both Mason and the lady enter a room and when I got there I almost stumbled down the stairs, but I caught myself at the last moment. I quickly made my way down the stairs only to find at the bottom Mason crumpled against the wall and the lady who was behind the disappearances dead with a knife through her heart, covered in bright red blood. At that point I knew it wasn't Mason lying on the floor next to her, but in fact the student named Lita.

I pulled Lita up into a sitting position and shook her awake. “Are you alright Lita?”

“I think so…wait you called me Lita, why?”

“Because Agent Mason would never kill any enemy outright until she had extracted all the information first.”

“But I didn’t. .  .” Lita had stopped talking when her eyes fell onto the dead body. “No, I didn’t, I couldn’t have, I accidently dropped that knife.” Her face was starting to turn green and it looked like she was about to be sick.

“It’s all right, that lady deserved to die. Look over in the corner, she was cutting up the bodies of the teenagers she’d captured and was doing an experiment on them.”

“I need to get out of here” Lita mumbled. She got up and started heading towards the door.

“Wait!” I called, but it was too late Lita had already fled from the room. Now I would have to face my Superior alone.