The Mission

Fathers

Madeline POV

I woke up at 6am thanks to my alarm. Emmaline whined and wrapped an arm around me.

"I don't wanna" she whined into my shoulder.

"Babe we have to go to school. We start detention today, remember?" I said lifting her up from under the covers.

"I can't forget. You know I've been to 37 schools in 4 years and that's the only one that's ever had an issue with my sexuality!" She said wiping her eyes.

"Well that's good. Means most people are fine and they'll have no choice but to accept us"

She nodded and got out of the bed and I followed her once I found my glasses.

We got ready for class both of us completely not trying. I wore one of her oversized sweaters with black shorts and my convers. I put my hair up in two side braids and I kept my glasses on. Emmaline wore a grey hoodie and black leggings. Her hair was just pulled into a bun with most of the back out since the hair was too short.

We had a good amount of time before class since both of us had a free period. We went to waffle house and ate breakfast there.

We got to the school and still had 20minutes so we just sat in the car making out and listening to music.

We had 5 minutes to get to class, so we ran to class on the other side of the school.

At lunch, I walked out of my class and heard people shouting. I walked over to my friends and asked about it.

"Emmaline and your father" Lily said worried.

I got worried and pushed through the crowd. She had tears running down her face while she looked my father in the eyes. Her guard was up.

"Emmaline back down. Don't hurt him. You'll blow cover if you do anything that looks to good." I whispered into her ear.

"He wants to take you away and hurt you Maddy. I'm not letting him do that okay! I love you Madeline and he is not going to hurt you if I have something to say about it!" Emmaline cried.

People around us awed and a few people cheered. My father was red in the face and grabbed my wrist. I tried breaking his grip but couldn't after a few seconds. Emmaline lifted her foot up and slammed down on his grip. I could tell it was painful.

She grabbed my hand and dragged me out to her car. We got in and drove away from the school. We kept driving while both crying.

We drove with no destination for an hour or two. We had both stopped crying after 30minutes and just listened to music while holding hands.

We got to a school that was shut down. Emmaline got out of the car and took her bag out of the back seat.

"Where are we?" I asked her.

"My first school. This is where everything I do happened first." She said.

"There's something in the school I want to get back"

We walked up to the building and around it. We found stairs and climbed onto the roof thanks to the railing. She helped me up of course.

She walked to the middle of the roof and sat down. I came and sat with her.

"What is it you want back?" I asked her.

"Keys" she said.

"Can I ask what they open?"

"A storage space with all of my fathers things." She took a breath and laid down.

"I never met my father but he was alive when I was. He just couldn't have a kid because of his job in the military. He died when I was 6 but I never knew till I joined the academy and read my files. I looked for anything I could find about him and he went to school here. I searched everywhere in the school for something of his and found a pair of keys and when I got them identified they lead to a storage unit under my fathers name. I've always been to scared to go open it but I remembered that it expires in a month so I need to go and move the stuff before I loose everything about my father, forever." She said quietly.