Spied On

Finding The Truth

 I am standing over Cam at the hospital. Her eyes are closed and she has several bruises.        

'Cam?', I say. 'Cam, can you hear me?'

Her eyes stay closed and the nurse comes over to me.

'She's in a coma.', says the nurse. 'But she might be able to hear you.'

I don't say anything else, I'm too shocked. I then walk out of the hospital back to the Academy.

When I get there, I tell Becca about Cam.

'Becca!', I yell. 'Cam's in hospital!'

'I know,' she replies. 'It's a bit suspicious, isn't it. I'm not sure who hurt her.'

'Me neither,' I say. 'But we need to find out.'

We started doing a bit of snooping. We found out who the other monitors were in the test. Monica, Kayleigh, Sophia and Samantha. They are our main suspects. Then there are the students. We googled them and found  out their names. We're not sure if anyone else could be a suspect. Maybe Mr Roder. Apparently, he stayed at the base camp when we were doing the test, but why would he knock Cam out? Hopefully things will look better in the morning.

I wake up late, because I normally get woken up by Cam at 6. I look across from me and see Becca on her back, snoring. I pull on my uniform and give Becca a shake.

'Becca', I say. 'Get up!'

She yawns, looks at the clock, then immediately jumps out of bed and gets changed. I laugh at her as she hurriedly pulls on her uniform.

'Hooope!', she says.

I run to my first class of the day with Mrs Long. Code cracking. We each get given a paragraph to translate for our exam. In my opinion it's the most boring and easy class of all. I finish mine in five minutes flat and start texting under the desk. I give a big yawn, and Miss comes over to me. I quickly slide my phone into my pocket as she stands over me.

'Are you finished Hope?', she asks.

'Umm.. Yes Mrs Long.'

She collects up my paper and goes to her desk to mark it. I see her wrist flick up a lot, so I'm pretty confident about it. She walks over to me and hands it back. Yes! A! I can now relax for the rest of the lesson while the others finish their tests.

Later on, we can discuss the Cam problem again and do a bit more snooping. We decide to go and check on the teachers lounge; just to be sure. So then we start walking, me in front, Becca behind. We reach the wall with an engraved dagger on. I tap it twice, whisper 'Westbank' and the door opens. I hear Mr Roder talking to one of the other teachers.

'We nearly did it,' he says. 'We were so close to succeeding, yet we failed. We have to try again.'

'Yes Sir,' the teacher replies. From his voice, I suspect that it's Professor Smith, teacher of Morse.  I hear footsteps and me and Becca run, just making it in time.