Jack

Pranks

I watched carefully from my position in the bushes. He moved unknowingly towards my trap and opened the door.
    "JACK!" Lucas yelled, furiously searching for me. I giggled a bit too loud and his dark blue orbs met my shocked green eyes. He charged towards me, dripping with the ice water the bucket above the door to the house.
    A lot has changed in the ten years since I first arrived here at the Academy. Lucas and I trained hard and became the most feared hunter team in the country, we both lived in a small cabin together as roommates, and all the classes we take in the Academy, whether they were physical training or just education courses, we got high marks in. We had gotten really close over the years. Our hunting abilities are unmatched from the rest of the Academy, meaning we get the top priority cases.
When we aren't hunting or training, we are usually pranking each other, which is what is happening now. Rigging up a bucket of ice water above the cabin door, easy. Running away from a fuming Lucas, not so much. As I ran through the trees covering the Academy's grounds, I can sense Lucas coming up fast on my right. I duck just in time to have him flying over me as he tried to tackle me. Getting up I resume running but soon trip over a tree branch sticking up from the ground because I was laughing so hard. Lucas used that to his advantage and laid on top of me, hugging me close. Looking down in my eyes, his eyes glanced at my lips briefly and returned to my eyes. His sapphire orbs swirled with an untold emotion I was trying to read. He has always looked at me like that but I could never pinpoint the right emotion for it. Asking him about it only results in him looking away and changing the subject; I've learned to not ask anymore.
"Luke, you're making me wet." I told him pointedly. After giving me a blank face for a second, he burst into laughter and rolled off my now soaked body. I rolled my eyes at him as I giggled from our childness. My phone rang in my pocket and I pulled it out and looked at the screen. Reading the name 'Liam' I immediately answered and shushed Lucas.
"Jack, I have a new mission for you and Lucas. How fast can you two be in my office?" Liam, the Director, asked. After I started my training, Liam took a special interest in Lucas and I, pushing us to be better. It helped us get to the ranking that we are now. I looked up to him like a father figure.
"We can be there in about five minutes if you don't mind that we are both currently wet." I replied, smirking at a chuckling Lucas.
"I don't even want to know why you're both wet..." Liam mumbled. "Alright, make it ten minutes and please be dry, I don't want to have to clean water out of my office... again." he said remembering a few other times when Lucas and I were fooling around and got wet but we needed to be called into Liam's office and left a huge mess. I agreed and started to get up.
"Liam needs us, we have a new mission." I told Lucas, offering him my hand to pull him up. He grabbed it and we looked at each other's eyes, which for me has gotten harder since he grew to be much taller than me. We both smirked and knew what the other was thinking. I took off yelling behind me, "Last one to the cabin does the dishes!"