OPERATION UNKNOWN

Chapter 5

As I stood there pondering on Rileys body language when I told him about Ms. Robot, I got an unexpected hug from my gorgeous little sister which made me stagger back a little.

"Hey kiddo!" I said looking down with a smile.

"You're alive!" she exclaimed. Weird from a ten year old, yes, but she wasn't any normal ten year old. I mean come on how many kids have their mom, dad and older siblings in the secret service? Not a lot.

"Why wouldn't I be?" I asked.

"Why wouldn't you be dead or on the road to death?" she asked looking up.

"Ok good question smarty pants." I grinned and started to walk over to my car, but then I got a call from a man. I turned around and saw a guy in gold rimmed glasses approaching us with a small smile.

"Can we talk for a minute if you have time?" he asked kindly. I felt Maddie gripping my hand tighter, I looked down and saw her face. Being the older sister/spy I was I said "Sure."

He walked us to his classroom and sat us down. "Now," he began. "I understand your parents aren't available at the moment since they are out of the country so I figured I could talk to you."

Ok, totally not what I was expecting because 1. My parents are in the same country that this teacher was in and 2. I am in no way the correct person to talk to. I mean seriously I was as reckless as a ten year old. Now Riley would be the perfect person here....But nonetheless. I was stuck here.

"Madeline hasn't been doing well in her classes mentally and academically. In fact she got into yet another fight today. It was her third one this week. Myself and the other staff members and parents are concerned." he said and to be honest he did look like he wanted to help.

Not sure how to deal with this considering this was out of my comfort zone (my comfort zone being interrogation of course) I turned to Maddie and boy was she terrified.  "Why did you do it Maddie?" I asked gently. Something very unusual for me. She didn't reply immediately but after some more coaxing she hesitantly said "I- I- She told me that I was a loner....And said  I had no real family coz they're always away w-without me."

"And what did you do?" I asked, which earned me an incredulous look from the teacher. I think he was looking for some kind words.

"I socked her in the nose." she said quietly. My eyebrows shot up into my hairline. I wanted to laugh but I knew it would be inappropriate.

"You punched her?!"  I got a timid nod.

"So you will spread the word to your mother and father, yes?" asked the teacher.

"Sure. I'll deal with it." And by that I meant Riley will deal with it. I'd probably lose my temper and punch the wall or laugh till I cried. 

*

Sure enough Riley was home and I told him the whole story while Maddie hid behind me. Riley had a disapproving look on his face but he knew what that other kid had said wasn't right. So he launched into his daddy role while I went into my room and got changed. I came back to see Maddie crying and Riley calming her down.

"What the hell did you say daddy?" I teased.

"Savannah." he warned. I grinned and sat down next to Maddie and said "O come on Mads, you know him. And no offense you probably didn't hurt her face. Was there blood?"

"Savannah!" Riley said again. Me being me ignored him and asked Maddie again. She nodded a 'no.'

"Well then get up! I'm gonna teach you how to Hi-Five a face perfectly and ruin a nose job without doing much harm to yourself." I said pulling her up from Rileys lap.

"SAVANNAH!" Riley said aghast.

"We'll talk after this training session." I replied with a cocky smile on my face.

"SAVANNAH!"

"Stop calling my name I know how awesome it sounds already." I said walking to the back garden.