The Good Boy's Bad Side (The Double Life: The Secret Of The Clarks) Book 1

# 3- The talk

Stephanie

They had entered the library. My heart was beating hard in my chest. No one was there in the room and hence stood casually by a table, the table where I was hiding.

Marc held out his phone as a voice came from it.
"Hello, Marc, sorry for disturbing you but it is an important message." It was a British voice.
"Jerry, why you did not whoop us?"Megan asked.Whoop? What did she mean by whoop? Did it have a different spelling?The voice belonged to a person Jerry. A good way to go.

Jerry(The boss)- "I just wanted to tell you something and whooping you all did not seem appropriate." He sounded so formal.
Marc-"Cut to the chase, Jerry, and tell us the message."

" After studying your data statics, I realized that the villains are getting stronger and it is getting difficult for you to conquer them" he explained. I was confused...way confused.
"But we are improving, right?" Lee protested.
Jerry-"I know you are improving but the thing is, if you have more people working in an organization, the more it benefits."
"This means you are adding another team-mate?"Tony guessed.
"Well, I will not be adding a new one, since it is your team, I am giving you the chance of choosing a new girl for your team."He answered. New girl? Data statics? Villains? What is going on?

" A girl, huh? Jerry, I do have a suggestion..." Marc said. lee looked at him round-eyed," Marc, don't tell me it is Stephanie." I felt I was going to cough. I could not hold the excitement.
" What is your problem?" he asked. I don't have any, I thought.
"You mean Stephanie chase?" Jerry asked. How did he know my full name? " A straight-A student, captain of her ex-school swimming team. Wow!" How did he know about this? Did he hack into the school main PC? And that too so fast? I felt butterflies in my stomach.
"Oh, I did not know she was a jock too." Megan stated and said to lee," Looks like you got competition here."Lee replied," You bet..."

" We will take the necessary tests of her. I guess now you should go back." Jerry said- " I'll keep you updated." He said as Marc hung up the call. Necessary tests? Are they going to test me? I felt nervous.

The Clarks rushed towards the door as I out of excitement banged my head against the bottom of the table!

Tony-" Guys, is it only me or there is someone else other than us." I covered my mouth with my hand. I can get caught.
Megan-" Relax T, you don't need to be so paranoid."
Marc-" Yeah, now we must worry about going back."
Lee-" And see Stephanie." As he giggled a bit.

" Now don't mean that! Okay!" Marc replied bluntly.
" It sounds like that." Did he mean a crush?
Marc punched Lee's shoulder and blushed." Just a punch, got it?" Marc said in a serious tone and added," and the next time- your face!"
" No offence to a geek," Lee said. I guess he might have it, But who knows? He might blush due to Lee's reaction to his suggestion.

They closed the door as I tried not to hit my head again and stood up. I pulled the door and closed behind me. I heaved a sigh and sprinted down the hallway to the cafe.

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They had not arrived yet, how much time they take. Maybe Marc and Lee got into a fight against each other. I was sitting in my seat waiting for them. I had finished eating my food and the Clarks came and looked at me worriedly. they did not say anything but sat on their seat and proceeded on eating. I could not stop myself from asking them-" where were you?"

"We...uh..." Tony began and then hit marc's arm. He glared at Tony."Shit." he murmured and then quickly said-"Principal shield gave us some work...uh... to carry books to her office. Yeah, that's it." He said hesitantly.

" well let's finish our lunch. the recess is going to end soon,"I said trying not to laugh.

After finishing their lunch we stood up and went to form a queue to dispose of our plates by putting them in the conveyer belt. A blonde girl along with her friends was breaking the line. She looked....stupid, and rude. She stooped in front of us. She had soft purple eyes and a smile which showed disgust. Here we go...

" Hey losers, what are you doing here." She scoffed. losers and hey seemed as if she was the Clarks' old enemy.
"Tami just get out of here." Megan snorted. I was confused and Marc looked at me and said, " She is our worst enemy" He said reading my mind- " she is really mean and bossy."

" mean..huh! You guys are not at all interesting, and very stupid, except for Lee. You see I am the most popular girl in school." Did she have a thing for lee? I looked at him, he facepalmed.

She looked at me and said -" who are you? and what are you doing with these people?".
"My name is Stephanie and just try to hold your tongue, got it?" I said annoyingly. She laughed and high-fived with her friend's for some stupid reason. She was making fun of me. " look who is talking..." her friends said as the whole cafe was staring at me. Think, Stephanie, think!

" You know what, sometimes it's better to keep your mouth shut and give the impression that you're stupid than open it and remove all doubt. " I said as her cheeks got red and the crowd hooted-"ROASTED!" She looked away and headed for the conveyer belt as Tony stuck out his leg in her path and she fell. Luckily nothing spilt on the floor. Everyone laughed at her, unknown of the fact that Tony did it." Watch, where are you going." Tony said as she returned a stare and then looked at me," You'll pay." She threatened. " Whatever you say, Ms.Popular!" I replied as she quickly put her plate on the belt and shuffled out of the room, her friends following her. We followed suit and were out of the cafe.

"That was one attitude there, Stephanie..."Megan said and kept her hand on my shoulder," and I love it!"
"Thanks, Megan," said I as the bell rang.

"I TOLD YOU ONCE, I TOLD YOU TWICE, JUST SHUT UP!" Marc shouted as his brothers chuckled- " Oh really! How much you were admiring her when she roasted her."Tony said. who else could she be? marc returned a glare and looked at his watch." shit ! " then he looked at me," Stephanie we are late !".
"I know."
" Come fast," Marc said as I followed him. His sibling were chuckling behind us and headed for their lockers.

Our classes went normally but I was not really interested in the lecture for I already knew about the basics. I was only thinking about 'the talk' in the library. Their boss was Jerry that was for sure and it is also confirmed that they have a secret job and for whatever they were suggesting me for-

I have to know about it.

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Who is Jerry? What is the Clarks secret job? Will Stephanie be able to find it?Stay tuned for the next chapter.