Spy School: Trust (Completed)

Chapter 6

This chapter's sort of slow-and-fast at the same time. There's also going to be that ? POV again. Action's probably in the next chapter.

SORRY I DON'T UPDATE LIKE I'M SUPPOSED TO. 😓

Erica's POV

I woke up the next morning with high hopes. I didn't even know why I was so excited at all. We were just going to Joshua's, and nothing else. I heard Ben softly humming to himself as he walked downstairs. I got out of bed, changed from my pajamas into some jeans and a top and headed downstairs.

"Hey, Erica," Ben greeted when I entered the hall. He passed me a protein bar and smiled. "Today's our big day."

I took note of his beautiful brown hair that fell into his face as he shook his head. His smile was warm, not huge. His eyes spoke for themselves. I couldn't help but stare. That's exactly when I realized that he was staring back at me with the same dreamy eyes I supposed I also had.

"What time should we get going?" he asked, finally breaking the silence between us.

I shrugged. "I don't know. Maybe sometime around nine?"

"It's ten thirty, Erica," he said, forcing back a laugh. I mentally slapped my forehead as I realized that I had overslept. He laughed.

"Okay, then let's get going right now," I said. He nodded, then headed towards the coat closet, from where he produced two jackets. April was always cold. We slipped into our jackets, then drove to Joshua's.

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"Come in," Joshua said, opening the door for us. "We'll get to decrypting the location of the WBC lab. We don't know anything other than the fact that it's somewhere in the woods."

I pulled out my laptop, which I had thankfully remembered to bring. Ben opened his as well, and I could see him opening up his decrypting software.

"This is all we know about WBC," Joshua admitted. "T.R.A.C.K labs wants Abigail to find this location, and she wants our help."

"This should be somewhere near..." Ben trailed off, his face etched with concern. "No."

"What?" I asked, growing worried as well. If it worried Ben, then something wasn't right.

"WBC labs is somewhere near Spy School," he said.

I gasped. "Wait-what?"

"Yeah," Ben replied. "It's just half a mile away from Spy School."

Jessica walked into the living room with her laptop pulled up to the T.R.A.C.K labs home page. She placed her laptop in the center table and clicked on a link that showed us a photo of the mind-controller.

"You need to be an official T.R.A.C.K member to access this website," she explained. "Abby gave me this information."

The mind-controller machine was basically just a chair with a laser pointer that I presumed would go into your head, somehow controlling you. It all looked good, but we needed to go meet up with Abby.

"Let's meet up outside spy school at around three in the afternoon," Joshua said. Ben and I decided to go to a restaurant for lunch and so we went to Pike's Diner. Ben ordered some salad and sandwiches. We found a table and sat down to talk.

"So, what are we going to do now?" I asked him. He shrugged.

"Probably go and see what we can find. Though we might need to stay alert," he said.

I started to eat my salad and Ben started on his food as well. We ate there in silence, staring at our food only. People came in and went out. The whole place was loud, the only sound being people talking.