Spy School:Unnamed

Chapter 9

Happy Wednesday! Even though I feel like trash, lovely. The meme above is also so relatable.

NYPL Stephen A. Schwarzman Building

1010 hours

Ben's POV

As Erica led Mike, Zoe, and I away from the adults, I pondered as to how this convention really added up do anything. For all we could know it could be a ploy to distract us from what we really need to be doing. I mean lots of previous Spyder agents were involved and libraries, and tech were not their style. Even though I'm pretty sure they are teaming with Croatan which was also not their style, since they were an extremely old organization. I also wondered if there were new people working with Joshua as they had lost quite a few upper-status recruits in Paris.

Suddenly, Erica walked behind, and thrust an audio guide at me as I gave her a questioning glance. She then leaned into me and jammed an earpiece into my ear and whispered  "I'm going to talk to them  make sure you keep in touch." all the while pretended to find the other earbud at the audio guide between us. I tensed as the side of my ear was turning red from the fact that she shoved it in my ear. She then continued following them up the stairwell leaving me no second to gather my thoughts.

"How is she going to get their ID's and clothes?" Mike asked, as confused as I was. The only difference was that I waited and watched, whereas, he flat out asked with no hesitation.

Zoe rolled her eyes at us, "Pay attention you guys, she's obviously going to talk to them then take their ID's."

As much as I disapproved of her baiting them and then stealing their ID's, it was better than what I thought she was going to do. Zoe grabbed Mike's hand and dragged him closer to the wall inconspicuously  crouching themselves down behind some planters. I noticed there wasn't much space, and I wanted to give them privacy since I sincerely hoped they got together. So, I sat behind stray tri-folds and cardboard boxes lining the hallways by the check-in desks. I sat for a couple more minutes trying to read their lips and see what Erica was saying. I squinted as hard as I could but they were too far for me to see. Erica came back from down the hall with some ID's tucked in her pockets and I assumed clothes under a dry cleaning hanger. We all stared at her in minor surprise as she threw ID's to Mike and I, and gave Zoe a pair of nude heels and a red business casual pantsuit.(This is what they would look like) She handed me a blazer and told me to wear Mike's white t-shirt underneath. Lastly, she gave Mike a plastic bag and I assumed his clothes were in there

"Um Erica, where exactly did you get the clothes and how is this going to work?" I asked, although I had a sinking suspicion on what we were going to do.

"I found these in a coat-check, the lost and found pile there and someone left their stuff on a bench outside the bathroom," she said nonchalantly, ignoring my other question. Zoe was the next to ask a question as we tried to follow Erica's brisk pace.

"Er Erica" Zoe asked," I don't think I will pass as a 20-something year old,"

"Neither will we," I stated, gesturing to Mike.

"It doesn't matter you guys just need to blend in a little, just to keep suspicions off you. Also as long as you act mature enough everyone should be too busy to notice" Erica said looking directly at Mike.

I had a billion more questions but I kept them to myself as Cyrus came storming towards us at an alarming rate.

"Where WERE you, I was looking for you everywhere. Whose stupid plan was it to run away from us" Cyrus growled, and it seemed like he  directed the last statement on me.

I looked at him ready to make my case, or an excuse for Erica even though she hadn't told us the plan.

Erica quickly intervened to my surprise, "Grandpa I was the one that led them here. I have an idea"

Cyrus was quickly intrigued by this and forgot Erica's previous, and may I add, reckless behavior. As he tried to gouge the details out of her she lowered her voice and they slowly drifted away. I was rather annoyed that he completely filled him in while leaving the rest of us half in the dark. I idly tapped my foot as Mike and Zoe looked over their outfits

"Well, that does seem like a solid idea, but when is the convention?" Cyrus questioned when they neared us again.

" The people who I... borrowed from said it was tomorrow at 9:45 am but presenters should be here an hour early" Erica replied.

"So why are people already here?" I asked.

"Today is for people to set up, and meet other companies and tomorrow is when the actual thing is," she responded. After that we stuffed the clothes in the backpacks we brought and exited the library. It had warmed up a little more outside so I let the sunshine warm me up as we walked back to the garage. When we reached the car Mike pulled the door open and asked me where I wanted to sit. Instead of answering I just nodded my head.

This was 915  words. Sorry if it's slightly short, we might post less because of school and other things. Very random but we were eating ice cream while writing. What's some good flavors? Hope all's good :)

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