Journey to Sanity

Chapter VI: The Mission, The Meeting

       I continued reading through the pages of Allina's Privacy. I knew that somehow this journal would lead me on my journey back to the real world. I also got information on Starr, Silver, Mom and Dad. It turns out that this Allina persona is not in good terms with her siblings and hates doing chores unless Knight is around. Allina also made a strategic plan to kill Nina but Knight exploited and stopped her from doing anything unprofessional.

       I must have fallen asleep while reading because when I felt my body turn sideways on my bed, I fell face-first on the floor. I heard footsteps rushing towards my room and a few seconds later, Mom was knocking at the door frantically. "What is going on in there? Allina! Why did you lock yourself in?" "Nothing! I just fell off my bed. That's all," I said while struggling to get up. When I finally got the strength to get up, I went to my room's side-window and looked through. The sun's vibrant rays of its violet color blinded me; I have always wondered why violet instead any other color. Teachers say that it's because of the immense mixture of hotness and coldness of the sun. I didn't argue with any of them since no one had a better explanation. I packed my things for school and went down for breakfast. I was about to leave the house when something, or should I say someone, caught the corner of my eye; it was Knight, seating on the couch in our living room and holding a bouquet of fresh flowers. "Knight, what are you doing here this early in the morning?" I completely forgot about how I just run off on him last night until he mentioned it. "When we were about to kiss last night, you slightly pushed me away and locked yourself in your room. I figured it was those situations where the boyfriend doesn't know what he has done wrong so here I am, standing in front of you. Whatever it is that I did wrong, just tell me and I'll think of the best way to make it up to you," he said with pleading eyes. I just looked into his eyes and smiled; I needed to play the part.

       After a few moments of silence and awkwardly staring at each other, we decided to walk to school together. Knight was about to reach for the doorknob when I felt a familiar sensation. Someone was watching us. Having an assassin's instinct, I didn't moved around rashly to look for the person but rather to simply pretend to check my things and look around if I was forgetting anything. Unfortunately, I only saw a shadow through the window, not even knowing if it belonged to a guy or woman. I couldn't help frown, feeling disappointed of myself.

       Knight attempted to open the door again and but this time, something else happened. The whole inside of the house was flashing with red lights. I heard the door get automatically locked in front of us and saw the side windows were being covered with metal bars. I heard my mom shouting from the kitchen, "Allina is Knight still with you? You two better come here." I faced Knight with a confused look on my face but he just shrugged and pulled me gently to the kitchen. "What is it?" Knight asked in a serious tone. I then noticed that our dinner table has turned into some sort of high-tech computer. "You guys are going on a mission to South Créalla. You've been hired by their government to kill a bunch of terrorist. The sooner you guys kill these thugs, the higher the reward we will receive. Of course we already checked the possibilities of you winning. There's a 60 percent you'll succeed so remember all of what you've trained. "But what about school? Classes are just starting." I stated. Mom just giggled before saying, "Allina Eleanor Claud, have you forgotten that you're father is the principal of the school you're attending?" She said so proudly with a cunning smile. "Having the school as a reward for being the official family guard dogs of our country is really too much but the president was really persistent," Dad said as if reliving the past. I was shock but I maintained my cool. Ever since I entered this program, it was so strange that I kind of got used to discovering weird details. I nodded simply and we all sat down around the table. Mom and Dad briefly explained to us the details of the said mission and finally giving us the gadgets that we will be using. Mom also gave some pocket money to last for two weeks.