Double Crossed

Rumours

The next day at school is no different, I wake up and meet with Bonny, Kim, Jacky, and Mel to walk to school together. No one mentions the elephant in the room though. I think in some way we all know that things are changing, and that right now is one of the few times we have left to honestly call ourselves normal teenage girls. Where we don’t have to worry about the fate of Canada or protecting the hard drive of the CSIS computers, where our biggest problems are calculus not staying alive. I’m not sure that I’m ready for that, it is a lot of pressure and from the sounds of it, making mistakes is not a luxury we’ll be able to afford if we accept this.

Before we even reach the front doors of the school, immediately something feels off to all of us. Walking up the steps we notice that the regular people sitting out front before school are staring at us. Glancing at each other we brush it off, all fearing the same thing. I think our normal teenage lives are going to end sooner than we hope.

“Hey, is that them?” Someone whispers as we pass them in the hall.

“I heard they were kidnapped,” another murmurs.

“No, they ran off with some really hot men yesterday, no one saw them the rest of the day. We don’t know what they did,” a third chimes in.

The rumors on what happened yesterday during our chemistry class have already spread throughout the school, I wasn’t expecting this. In fact, the thought didn’t even cross my mind, I only clue into what they are talking about at the last person who spoke.

“Guys, they’re talking about what happened yesterday during Chemistry,” I say, my face filling with worry and embarrassment.

“I thought CSIS was going to take care of that,” Bonny says shaking her head. I can tell that she is not impressed by this, she seems a little angered by that. “I mean they invite us to join the Canadian equivalent of the CIA and they don’t even take care of the fact that their own agents threw us over their shoulders in front of our entire Chemistry class! If these guys are supposed to be the good guys, then why don’t they take care of their own?”

“Because we haven’t actually joined CSIS yet. Besides, wouldn’t it be suspicious if the government was always there to bail out five high school girls?” Mel says shrugging, her face not changing. She doesn’t really care about the rumours, being the party girl she is there has been more than one rumour about her this year.

“Well of course, but we can’t just let these rumours go on, it will draw attention to us, and the more that happens someone is bound to notice or catch on that we are hiding something,” Bonny says. Then, before anyone else has the opportunity to say anything, a girl from my English class last semester that I barely know walks up to us, her friends giggling in the corner looking at us. I think her name is Kate.

“I heard you guys left in the middle of chemistry with some attractive guys. Apparently your teacher tried to stop you, but you left with the guys anyway.” Well, she is certainly blunt. Just come right up and get to the point eh? I can see how this conversation is going to go.

“That’s not what happened, we-” Before Jacky could finish the explanation, all of our phones go off. Pulling out my phone, I see that I have a text message, but it’s from a number that is not in my phone, and all the message says is ‘remember the confidentiality.’ I look at my friends who are just as equally confused as me, and from the silent conversation we have I can tell they got similar messages. My attention is drawn back to Kate when she speaks.