Isle of flightless birds

11. Touch

"I need to speak to my husband." I panic at the cop in front of me. "Daniel Alexander." I tell him and he types something on his computer. "My name is Elisa Alexander." I tell him. Luckily Danny fixed so he had a wife if this would happen. "Do you know why Daniel is in here?" The cop asks me. "Something about hacking. But that can't be true. He isn't a hacker." I lie to the cop. "Well, you can meet him now. Follow me, and leave the bag here." He says and starts to walk. I put down my bag and walk after him. " I need to search you for things that you can't take with." He says and starts to search me. I'm so going to kill Dave when I get back. "I will take care of this." The cop tells me and takes my lighter and cigarette packet. "You will get them back when you go." He says and open a door. "Danny." I say and walk up to him and gives him a kiss. "Elisa. They say that me and my colleagues have hacked something." He tells me. "I know, are they going to lock you up in prison?" I ask him. "I don't know yet. There will be a trial." I takes his hands. "They can't lock you up, you didn't do anything wrong." I say with a smile. "I have to tell you something." I say and put my hands on my stomach. Time to do some real acting. "I'm pregnant. I found out yesterday." I tell him and he hugs me. "Pregnant? I will be a dad?" He asks and I nod. Why do I have to do this? I hate playing married couple. "I will hire the best to get you out of here. "He kiss me again. "Thank you honey." The door opens and the police steps in. "Mrs Alexander, the visiting is over." He tells me. "And congratulations to the baby." He adds and Danny kiss me again. "Goodbye honey, see you soon I hope." He says and the police leads me out.

"I hope that you erased all data of the case." I tell Dave. "I hate playing married. Plus the cop asked hundreds of questions about the baby. Next time you have to figure out another way to make the cops let us stay longer." I complain and Dave laughs. "Everything is erased. You did a good job he says and then my phone rings. "Hello?" I answer it. "Elisa, apparently there's no evidence. I'm coming home to you tomorrow." Danny says into my ear. "Really?" I fake cry. "That's amazing. Should I pick you up?" I look at Dave who's laughing at my bored face. "No, the police will take me and my colleagues back to our work." He says and then a voice tells him that he has to end the call. "See you tomorrow honey." He says and end it.

"Miss Petrova, what's the answer?" The teacher asks and I look up. "It's Mrs, and the answer depends on the question." I answer her and goes back to writing down a list on everything I need to get for my room at the base. "The question is..." she starts. "I don't want to answer it, thank you." I interrupt her and she slams a stick in my table. "Not that tone to me. Mr Stewart's office right now." She screams and I get up. "Whatever." I roll my eyes at her and starts to walk to his office.

"Hey Charlie." I say and take a seat in his couch. "What have you done now?" He looks up from his computer. "I interrupted a teacher and I didn't want to answer a question." I tell him and takes out my phone. "Which teacher?" He sights. "Don't know. I don't know what lesson I have either." I tell him and he lets out a small laugh. "You need to pay more attention to class." He laughs. "Plus she just assumed that I was miss Petrova." I tell him and he laughs again. "Maybe because everybody student here has never been married, except for you." He tells me. "Fine, but I want to change class." I tell him and he types something on his computer. "Mr Anderson's class instead. You start tomorrow." He tells me and I exist the room. "Ugh, I need cake." I mumble and take out my phone to call Matt. "Hey Thea." He answers after two tunes. "Can you fix me a cake?" I ask him and he sighs. "I will text you when I get to your school, I will bring cake." He says and I end the call.

"First day back and you got kicked out from the first lesson?" Matt laugh and I push his shoulder. "Shut up, you didn't even go today." I laugh and he gives me a piece of cake. "I was in school, but I left because you wanted cake." He takes a bite of his piece. "Thank you." I laugh and gives him a kiss on his cheek and then I take a bite of his cake. "You have your own." He pouts and tries to take a bite of mine but he misses and falls down from the bench. "Did the ground look sad so you decided to give it a hug?" I laugh. He just sits up on the ground with a sad face. I start to laugh more and then I fall down on him. "You got cake on your face." He smiles and then he lick my nose. "You licked my nose!" I laugh. "Why did you do that?" I ask him still laughing. "Because you had cake there." He says and lick it again. "Stop." I laugh and tries to get away from him, but I accidentally roll backwards and hit a wall. "Ouch, my head." I say and open my eyes to see a pair of brown eyes looking back at me. Not a wall. "What are you doing?" Nate asks and lifts me back to the bench. "He licked my nose." I whine and point to Matt who stands beside us and looks adorable. "I would never do such thing." He smiles. "Tell Nate why you're doing here then." I smile evil at him. "I came here because you wanted cake." He smiles. "You missed the part of waking me up with water." I tell him and Nate laugh. "You woke her up with water?" He laughs. "Yes. Don't ever do that. She almost killed me." Matt says and Nate laughs more. "I'm a teenager, I sleep with a gun and keep an eye on you son." I tell them and they look at me like I grown another foot. "Never mind." I mutters. What a waste of a joke. So what happened with your leg?" Nate asks me and I point to Matt. "He pushed me of a bed."
"No I didn't. You fell out." Matt argue back. "A bed?" Nate wiggle his eyebrows. "A bed." I confirm Tries to hit him on his shoulder, but my hand slips and I hit his nose instead. "Sorry." He puts his hands to his nose. "You broke my fucking nose." He exclaims with blood running down his face. "How? You didn't even hit hard." He asks me. "I have no idea. That actually happens a lot." I tell him and he laughs. "You kicked my nose so I broke it the first time we meet." Matt point out. "I thought you were a intruder." I explain myself. "I went into the wrong room." Matt explains to Nate and who nods. "You should be happy that Dave had borrowed my gun I have under my pillow." I mumble and Nate's head shots up in shook. "Gun? Under your pillow? You were serious when you said that you sleep with a gun?" He asks. "What else would I have under my pillow? My knife? Don't think So." I shoot him a smile. "Is she serious?" Nate looks at Matt who shrugs. "Yeah." He says casually and Nate look back at me. "Why would you sleep with a gun?" He look suspicious at me. "Let's just say that I have a price tag on my head." I tell him and he looks kinda horrified. "I'm just kidding. It's in case of a robbery, it happened when I was eleven." I laugh. Nice save, Thea. "Oh, okay." Nate laughs, but I can see how he hesitates. "I need to get going." I say and jump over to my car. "Bye."

~flashback~

"Don't try anything." A masked man scream at me and I do as I'm told. I don't dare to do anything else, who would when you have three guns pointing to your head. "Where is he?" The man asks and I feel how his gun is pressed against my temple. "Who?" I ask innocent. "Andreas Hurley, I know that you knows him." The man whisper, his voice is like sandpaper. "I find it hard to think when the guns are pointed at me." I tell him with a smile. "And if I tell you, you will kill me." I continue. "I don't really see how this benefits me, I will die in both cases." I think a while. "Plus, even if I told you, he's clever. He will know as soon as his location leave my lips, and then he will be gone. The man's pretty much a ghost." I tell him and he lowers his gun. "I think your men should lower their guns too." I laugh. "Count with me, one red dot, two red dots, three red dots." I say and look at the three men in front of me. "If I were you I wouldn't move a finger." I laugh. "Drop the guns." I smile and they do as they are told. "Nice meeting you, now you can all do me a favour and rot in hell." I laugh and jump out of the room as three guns fires.

~end of flashback~

I take out the black boxes from the top of my wardrobe and put them down on my kitchen table. The table is big enough to fit all the five boxes and more. I open up the first fox and empty it on the table, the guns I had stored there falls out and I take up one. "You can never be too careful." I mumble and open up the second box. I take out five packs with ammunition and put the gun and the ammo in the fridge. I put out more guns and ammunition around the house and then I open the last two boxes. The first thing I see is the beautiful knife I got from Andreas and I put it aside, then I empty the boxes on the table. I sort out the smaller knives so I can store them in my bras, the I fix bags with some knifes and guns in case I have to run away again.

I hear how the front door opens up and I sit straight up in the couch. I reach under the couch and takes out a knife. I sneak behind the door and wait for the person to come. I see a person walk into the room. I sneak up behind the person and put my knife to his throat. "Who are you working for?" I ask the person. "Thea?" I hear Gabriel ask. Wait, what? "Gabriel?" I ask confused. "Why are you here? I could have killed you, don't sneak up on me like that." I say and remove the knife. "What are you doing with a knife?" Gabriel asks and I throw it to the couch. "I thought you were a murder." I tell him and he look annoyed at me. "You're a bad liar, Nymphaea." He laughs and I punch him in the arm. "Don't call me that. And I thought you were here to kill me or something." I tell him and walk back to the couch. I put the knife back in its place. "So, how did you even get in here?" I ask him and he laughs. "You gave me a key when we were fifteen." I nod. "Right." He sits down beside me and I snuggle up in his safe arms. "God, I have missed this." Gabriel whispers in my ear and I turn around and meets his brown eyes. "Me too." I tell him and kiss his soft lips. He take my shirt off and then his own. "Are sober you still in?" Gabriel asks and I kiss his neck. "No feelings and no telling the others." I answer and he turn us around so he's on top of me. "Good." He says and kiss me harder. "Ehm." A voice says and both me and Gabriel looks at the door. "Nate?" I ask frighten. "How's your nose?" Gabriel ask trying to change the subject. "Don't try to change the subject." Nate warns and show us his phone, with a video of us. "We're screwed." I whisper and Gabriel nods. "Totally."

Night is young and we're living
Hands move, moving steady
And the time is moving slower
I can feel we're getting closer, closer

Song of the chapter is touch by Troye Sivan

(An:wow, that went well. I haven't updaten in a week now. But today you will get two chapters and I will post a new book. It's more of a short story actuly. Like its not even 2000 words, but who cares. Anyways have a gay day.)