Adopted Assassin

Chapter 3

Mari's POV

Today is Nora's birthday. I woke up at 4 this morning to make her favorite breakfast. It's now 7am and I have successfully made Belgium Waffles, mini doughnuts, red velvet pancakes with cream cheese icing, bacon, and fruit smoothies for drinks.

I walk upstairs to Nora's room and wake her by screaming "happy birthday!" in her ear. She jumped up screaming and shoved me to the ground.

Jenna comes running down the hall moments later and yells, "What the hell is going on in here?!?!??!"

"I just was waking her up on her birthday so she could eat her special breakfast," I said trying to act innocent while staying on the floor.

"Yeah, right. She came in here and screamed in my ear." Nora says, seeing through my poorly crafted rouse.

"Did you expect anything different from her? You've been living here for 4 years, what does she do on every one of your birthdays?" Jenna asks Nora.

"True, she's hardly ever serious," Nora responds.

I stand up and we all begin walking to the kitchen. We were almost to the kitchen when I remember the gifts.

"Jenna, we need to go grab our gifts for her," I say.

"Oh, right. Nora stays here. We'll be back soon." Jenna says while running to who knows where.

I run to my room where I moved the gifts to last night so Nora couldn't sneak a peek. I grab a gift-wrapped medium sized box, a gift bag, and a manila folder. I run back to the kitchen and notice I got back before Jenna. I place my gifts on the counter hiding the manila folder. I sit down at the bar top next to Nora and we wait for Jenna. About 3 minutes later Jenna arrives with 2 bags. She places her bags on the counter next to mine and joins us at the bar top. We begin to fill our plates with the food I made and of course Nora is piling her plate so full that it looks like it will topple over. We begin eating and 30 minutes later the food that took 3 hours to prepare was gone. We gathered all the dishes and placed them in the sink to clean later and then sat down again to open gifts. We bring the gifts over to the bar top and I put the folder behind me. First Nora opens both of Jenna's bags. Jenna got her a new set of throwing knives, a dress, and heels. I know a weird combo, but Nora isn't the average girl. She neatly sets aside Jenna's gifts and goes to grab mine. She grabs the bag first. She pulls out tons of tissue paper and finally got the actual gift. She pulls out 6 different colors of spray paint and an ankle holster for her knives. She then opens the box. She pulls out a black hooded shirt, black pants, black gloves, and black shoes. She sets it all out and looks baffled.

"What's all this for?" She asks.

"Wait a second. We have one more present for you." I respond.

I pull the folder from behind my back and hand it to her. She looks at me in puzzlement before opening it. She begins reading the papers inside. After about 3 minutes of her just staring at the page, she reacts by jumping up and down screaming.

"Really, really? Do I get to go on my first mission? Is this for real?" She asks rapidly.

"Yes, it's real. You will be going with me and we leave in 2 days." I inform her and she begins jumping and squealing again.

"I can't wait! I'm so excited!" She declares.

"Don't be too excited, before we leave you to need to have that file memorized," I tell her completely seriously.

Two Days Later

"Come on Nora, it's time to leave." I holler for her.

"I'm coming!" She yells back.