It's the End of the World

Chapter 3

From that moment on, me and Justin were good friends. Justin ended up changing his mind and let me live with him. The fact that we needed to team together to stop the Vespers might have helped also. The Friday I went back to school was the first time that I had heard from Vesper 1. It was 4th period, English, right before lunch. I was doing my bell work when somebody's phone started ringing. I rolled my eyes. They were supposed to have their phones off during class. I wasn't thinking of my Cahill phone at first, but after nobody was claiming the phone, I thought of the Cahill phone. When I went to check on it, I found that it wasn't ringing. I put it back in my backpack, but I noticed that there was another phone in the other pocket in my backpack. I took it out. It had a V on it. I caught my breath. The Vespers. It turned out to be the phone that was ringing.

"I've got to take this."

"Mr. Thomas, you know that phones are not allowed in school."

"It's really important." I answered the Vesper phone.

"Hello little Cahill. I would like to congratulate you on your escape. You have proved yourself worthy of the job that I am about to give you."

I heard murmurs around the room.

"What's the guy on the phone talking about?"

"I thought he was a Thomas, not a Cahill?"

Vesper 1 continued. He told me about the next mission, which was where I had to steal a lost artifact from Marco Polo.

After class, my teacher called me to her desk.

"What was that phone call about?"

"My uncle's best friend's cousin's son likes to get me in trouble by calling me during class because he knows that phones are not allowed during school."

"I thought you said it was important?"

"Well I was assuming it was because I rarely get phone calls during school."

"I thought you said that guy calls you all the time?"

"No, I said that he likes to get me in trouble. He gets me in trouble many ways. This time it was by calling me."

"OK, just don't let it happen again."

Outside in the hallway everybody was asking me questions about the phone call. I managed to get them all to stop asking questions, except for one person. Abby Johnson.

Me and this girl have a complicated relationship. If you can even call it a relationship. I like her and she might or might not like me back, but if anything, we're really good friends. I thought she might like me, but ever since I got into Jr High, we've been growing apart.

"What was that all about Jeff?" Abby asked. I really liked her, but there was no way that I could ever tell her that I was a Cahill.

"You can tell me, we're friends."

"Oh look, here's my locker."

I ditched her, and I kind of felt bad about it too, but there was no way that I could ever tell her.

After I went on my mission to find and steal the lost artifact from Marco Polo, I had to find who the Vesper Enforcer was, or V6. When I came back to school on Wednesday is when the real interesting part begins.