Academy Assassins

Dormitory

After Noah had gone we all rushed to our respective dormitories.

Clove and I walked in last (stealing a glance at Tobias as he enters his dorm) and quickly claimed to beds in the corner of the room.

I pulled out my clock and eye mask and placed them on the bedside table of my new bed. I pulled out 3 of my biggest books and placed them in the drawers of the bedside table. I sat on the red quilt on the bed and watched clove unpack her stuff. She had a lot more stuff than me. On her table I saw a clock and a slim book. She pulled out several photos of 3 young girls younger than her but looked exactly the same, bouncy and happy and eternally smiling. She takes out another photo of an older woman with bright shining eyes and a sad smile. Clove looks just like them all. 

"My mum," she says holding up the photo for me to see. "I love her so much."

I smile although I don't understand love. I never have. I've never been loved by anyone not even my parents.

"You Ok?" Clove asks me.

"Yeah" I reply rubbing my eyes.

"You sure?" Clove sits down next to me on my bed and takes my hand in hers. I nod frantically still wiping my eyes but no one can see me cry certainly not here. Here weakens means the end of your time here. No assassin can be weak.

"I'm fine" I say pushing Cloves hand away. Standing up, I walk to the end of the bed to the chest of draws. I open the drawers revealing the clothing the Academy provides. I pull out a pair of black leggings and a black figure hugging tank top and a baggy black hoodie.

"Why's everything black?" Clove asks looking in her own chest of drawers.

"Assassins always wear black." I say in simple explanation. My parents may not have taught me much but they did teach me a lot about assassins. As much as they thought they should anyway. 

I take my new clothes into the small cubicles next door and change into them in moderate privacy.

Mizzie xxx