DUSK

CHAPTER EIGHT

One of my worst enemies is waking up in the morning. I am not a morning person so when the alarm clock decided to mess up my amazing dream with its annoying sound I decided to throw it away where it crashed and finally the room fell silent.

"Wake up Chloe, its ten o'clock; you will miss the new episode of Castle season eight." A robotic voice rang through my head and I would have discarded it as part of my dream if I didn't remember I have a robot named Dusk in my head. This made me jump from my sleep and almost fall.

Not a second later, my bedroom door burst open and everyone I knew came flooding in.

"Damn, I wanted to jump on her bed and scare her like last time. Oh well, I'll just jump on your bed. Happy birthday Chloe!! Welcome to the grown-up side." Ashton yelled as he threw himself on my bed and almost crushed my legs. Everyone in the room laughed and muttered their birthday wishes. My parents came in holding my favourite cupcake with a lit candle.

"Happy birthday honey, make a wish." Mom said in a loving tone. I blew the candle after making a small wish (that I won't tell you) and greedily ate the cake.

"Wow, you still eat like a pig." Em exclaimed with a serious face making everyone laugh.

"Hardy har har, very funny Em." I retorted sarcastically making everyone laugh even more.

"Let's all go and have some breakfast, I made the traditional birthday waffles and the last one down is not getting any." Mom chimed as she walked down the hall with dad. We stared at each other for a minute before everyone scrambled out of the room.

Usually, I would be the last person because I can't run to save my life but today I found myself moving with ease and I even beat Ashton who stopped and gaped at me. He opened his mouth to say something but closed it, thrice. He looked like a fish out of water.

"How...how..." he tried to form a sentence but his mind was not processing it quickly enough.

"How did she do that? Easy, it was all thanks to Dusk and her super speed. We all know Chloe can't run to save her life." Em, so sassily reminded them.

"Times like this I wonder why you are my best friend Em." I tatted in a sophisticated manner making them laugh.

"You know you love us." She retorted and stuck out her tongue at me; very mature.

Everyone sat round the table and we did the normal birthday ritual; told stories of interesting encounters with Ashton going on about his 'secret missions' since he is a 'spy' on a mission to protect 'the princess' from the most vile creatures on earth.

We all know it's a load of bull crap but we always let him humour us because his stories are surprisingly very interesting and he's the only one who can come up with such stories not to mention how he can have all of us, including my parents hung up on his every word. It's pathetic really but it's what makes us great friends; we listen to each other.

"So I got the message from HQ that there was a traitor among us but they had no clue who it was so it was up to me to identify him and keep the princess safe." Ash told his story about how he was able to foil an attempted kidnap on a certain princess. We all waited for him to resume his story after pausing dramatically for almost five whole seconds; a new record for him.

"I knew I shouldn't let word get out so I went to my partner; the only person I trusted and I was like 'hey dude, there's a mole here who's working for the vile ones' but Leo thought I was just fooling around so I went on detective mode to find who he was. You won't believe who it was," he paused again making Em groan in frustration.