They all tensed when the doorbell rang again.
"Maybe it's Uncle Ted?" Ashley stated doubtfully.
Andrew glanced at his watch. "That's not possible, he went to Zuba did he not? He can't be back by now. Anyhow get the door," he turned to Ethan and Suzanne, "We'll stay out of sight in case it's someone other than your Uncle."
As they all stood up the doorbell rang again, followed by three knocks on the door. Then a voice.
"Ashley?"
They all froze.
"It's Ryan!" Ethan said in a loud whisper.
"Go, go, go...," Ashley shooed them and they disappeared into the kitchen. She checked to make sure they had gone before going to the door.
"Coming," she said sweetly.
Meanwhile Andrew, Suzanne and Ethan hid in the kitchen.
"Switch off your phones or put it in aeroplane mode, quic
Suzanne entered the yellow bus that pulled up at the bus-stop. She got a seat by the window side and looked out at the scenery as the bus drove by.Believe it or not it was Ryan's birthday and they had some things left to do but Alex had sent them all a text about a mission in a certain location.Suzanne sighed again.Andrew had told she, Ethan and Ashley to bring their bagpacks along with their party dresses and work clothes in it as they were coming so right after the mission it would be easy to head to Potter's field and also change.Already as it was the Squad 15 and Jamie were already at the venue, spicing things up.Shane and his football buddies were also helping out in exchange for some treats to have in their practice the next day.Andrew's mum and Kevin were also there to organize things.Kevin had agreed to be the DJ. At first
"Sorry I'm late!" Suzanne said as she rushed into Blueberry café.All eyes turned to her. She looked around nervously when she saw she attracted stares. She sheepishly walked over to where Alex, Andrew and Ryan were seated in a stall."Um....where's everyone else?" She asked once she had greeted Alex and she was settled comfortable in a seat beside Ryan's."Beats me," Ryan shrugged.Not too long after, Ashley and Ethan both entered at the same time.Ethan was munching some cookies, it was not so hard to link up what had truely happened. Ethan had gone to Ashley's house first because he wanted a cookie and hence delayed the both of them as Ashley just had to bake a fresh set."Sorry, sorry I'm late," Ashley apologized profousely.Ethan didn't even render any apologies, he just sat down magestically after greeting the busy Alex.
Ryan pushed open the main door to the mansion.He saw his parents clad up in business suits. His dad was on a phone call while his mother used a laptop as she sat on the couch.He frowned slightly as his mum looked up at him and gave him a small smile.Kailene sighed sadly and returned her gaze back to what she was working on with the laptop. She knew Ryan was still mad at them for leaving him when he was eight.She still recalled how he had reacted when they finally returned."Ryan!" she exclaimed and rushed forward.She hugged him while he stood tense and stiff, making no effort to return the embrace. Ryan's eyes rested on the man that stood where the she had been seated. The man's lips were in a straight line and his face was one that could easily form a frown. He regarded Ryan with a dissaprovi
Ryan entered his bedroom and sat on his grand king sized bed with violet silk sheets, all expensive looking.Ryan glanced at his phone that laid on his nightstand and grabbed it.He went through his contact list and dialed Dylan's number."Hallo!" Dylan's voice echoed from the other end."Hey Dylan," Ryan said. "What's up?""Ryan, Ryan, my man! Who'd have thought you'll of all people would call me!" Dylan chuckled. "I'm actually pretty cool," Dylan said.Ryan heard some music playing at the end of where Dylan was. "Are you at a party?" Ryan couldn't help asking."Yes! Your--" Dylan caught himself quickly. "You're at home?" He said instead."Hm mm," Ryan hummed in response. "I actually thought we could hang out today.""Oh, sorry man," Dylan said."No worries, bye
Ryan took in a deep breath. Lots of people all around were talking and congratulating him.His teammates stood with him as people came to shake his hand one after the other."That's Jamie," Suzanne nodded at the green haired boy that approached them. Jamie was with a guy that had long black and violet hair and mauve eyes."That's Charles," Suzanne told Ryan as they got to them."He's annoying," Ashley whispered as she leaned nearer to Ryan's ear."Yo! Celebrant!" Charles grinned as he gave Ryan a playful slap at the back. "Um...," Ryan moved away. He didn't like strangers touching him."Happy birthday," Jamie said politely and smiled."Did your aunt make it?" Ethan asked looking around.Jamie nodded. "She's over there chatting with my parents." He pointed at some people talking and holding fruit wine glasses, standing
"Man, it's raining hard," Justin said as he looked out of Suzanne's class window. The bus they ought to take had broken down. Suzanne watched the lightening flash and crack again."Looks like a storm," Annabelle who was seated beside them said. Justin nodded in agreement."How will you get home now?" Suzanne asked Justin.He closed his eyes and smiled, "Don't worry about me Suzanne, my driver's picking me up."Her eyes widened. "You have a driver?!"Annabelle snorted, "Justin family is also filthy rich, he's just a humble little soul."Justin frowned at her. "You say it like it's a bad thing," he said and crossed his arms."Okay, bye. I have to find my level I guess," Suzanne said as she proceeded to leave the classroom."I could drop you off also," Justin suggested."No thanks," Suzanne said and
Ryan frowned to himself as he knocked sharply at Suzanne's door.Ashley, Andrew and Ethan stood behind a building where they could watch him.He frowned as he glanced towards their direction.Ashley pointed at Suzanne's door while Ethan who stood behind her scowled at him. Andrew just leaned on the wall, using his phone.Ryan rolled his eyes and faced the door again.His teammates had dragged him to apologize.He knocked again before the door was thrown open."Hey....Ryan," Suzanne said a bit startled to see him. She was already better but she didn't expect Ryan of all people to drop by to check on her."Suzanne," Ryan briefly glanced at her before looking away. "Could we talk? For a minute?"She smiled and nodded. She closed the door and stepped out."Yeah!" She replied cheer
Ethan, Suzanne, Ashley and Andrew were in school garden.Ethan laid on the grass while Ashley knelt in front of him, bent over a textbook. Andrew sat not too far from them, his legs were crossed as he sat down. He kept his laptop in front of him and a textbook was by his side. Suzanne was furiously scribbling away in a book. She sat beside Andrew."You won't get the formula by cramming it only, you've got to practice it," Andrew told her boredly after stealing a glance at what she was doing.They were all studying Mathematics together."Waahhhh!!" Suzanne wailed and canceled down all the formulas she had been transferring from a textbook to her jotter."Don't be too rough Suzanne, you needn't have canceled it. You'll still need to know the formulas to get the solutions right," Ashley told her with a smile."I hate Mathematics!" Ethan groaned and slammed the t
Andrew walked to the window and looked out of it. He wasn't seeing the scene before him but the scene of what happened eight years ago."Big brother," Andrew raced into Asher's room.Asher was packing his bag. His Squad, Squad 7 were supposed to supervise some kids camping in the woods. Asher faced his younger brother with a smile. "Andrew, what's up Champ?" He grinned. Andrew plopped down on his brother's single bed.Andrew made a face. "Are you really going on the camping trip? Why don't you just stay home with me?" Andrew asked with a small pout. Asher laughed. Andrew always acted differently when they were alone, freer. But when with his mates or other outsiders he tends to be curt and reserved.
Suzanne groaned and kept her head on the desk.Ethan curiously peered at her, leaning over in the process to see her face as she had the back of her head turned to him."Suzanne?" Ethan called.They were all locked in a class as Aiden had given them all a time-out when he caught them stalking him.He was standing behind the classroom door waiting for the time he would release them.Ashley walked to the window.Even though they were being punished she was satisfied she had found out the true identity of the girl.She was Aiden's girlfriend.Ryan glared at Ashley angrily.He on the other hand wasn't happy about being punished by Aiden. Apart from the fact that he was their CIN, he was also a sort of elder brother to him."I'm really disappointed in all of you. Especially you
The doorbell of Suzanne's house rang.Shane who was eating chips while watching some football as it was Saturday groaned as the doorbell rang again."Go away!" He yelled.He didn't want to get up and open the door, he couldn't even get up to grab the remote to change the channel away from the sports channel he kept.He felt like watching documentary but due to his laziness he refused to get off the futon he laid on.Though the remote was on the center table he was too lazy to reach for it.He had a huge bag of chips opened beside him and a can of malt by the futon on the floor where he could easily reach it. A pizza box was lying on the futon as well.The doorbell rang again.Shane groaned aloud.He and Suzanne were the only ones around as their parents had earlier gone to a couple’s program and they were
"Hey Suzanne!" Annabelle rushed to Suzanne's desk.Suzanne kept her books inside her bag."Let's go home, I'm ready," Suzanne said looking at her."No..., no time for that! C'mon! Let's go quickly before it's all filled up!" Annabelle said breathlessly and grabbed Suzanne's wrist and yanked her out of their classroom.Annabelle ran across the hallway, pulling Suzanne along.The hallway was unusally crowded as people were headed the same direction as Annabelle.Annabelle roughly shoved some people aside as she made her way through until they got to the front.It was rowdy as lots of people were yelling at each other, shoving themselves as they held their pens.What's happening? Suzanne wondered with wide eyes as she saw Ethan holding a fistful of someone's cloth angrily. A senior that was in C-rank was t
The boat docked.The water had really been the fastest route they could take.The port was extremely busy as people walked up and down, boarding huge ships while some well built men hauled huge vessels into their containers."We've arrived at civilization," Ryan said pleased.Their boat struck dry land making them all jolt forward.Ethan was the first to jump out of the boat, unto the white sandy beach.Some people threw them curious stares but that was it, they still went on about on their way.Simply because this was Herotapolis, and weird things happened so it wasn't a strange sight to see five teenage kids jumping out of a rickety boat.Andrew had smartly advised them to put on the clothes they had on when Aiden left them off in the jungle.In this way they all had their code colors on, along
"Dude, you're pissing me off!" Suzanne growled at Andrew."You shouldn't be a klutz," he replied in a cool tone, not at all fazed by her temper."It was an accident!" She yelled at him."Maybe you should work on controlling your body movements, like you need to work on controlling your tongue," Andrew told her curtly and turned back.He glanced at the broken pieces of the clay bowls Suzanne ought to have brought out where they were all camped outside around the fire before he started walking out of the kitchen."How about this for control?!" Suzanne hissed as she grabbed a nearby small pot holding water and hurled it at Andrew's head but he simply moved to the left without looking back and she missed her target.The pot connected to the wall beside the entrance to the kitchen.Ryan who was coming to check what was taking th
Suzanne opened her eyes. It was already morning.Ashley and everyone else were already up and they were all in the room, except Andrew."Hey guys," Suzanne said as she got up."Suzanne!" Ethan cheerfully turned her way.Ryan just scoffed and crossed his arms. "I thought you were never going to wake up.""Good morning," Ashley smiled at her."Alright! Let's go get some breakfast! I'm starving!" Ethan said."Thankfully we should have some meat from your hunt yesterday," Ashley told Ethan.Ryan frowned slightly, "But we'll have to be lighting up the fire and fanning up the flames again. All that work.""It's a good thing we start early then," Suzanne said and they all walked towards the kitchen."Yeah, and then we'll do something about having a small bathroom and maybe some cloth
Suzanne sat up in her leafy hammock.Andrew had made a hammock each for everyone to sleep on out of broad leaves and some strong vines that were lying around.Of course Ryan had made a fuss about sleeping on a hammock made out of leaves but Ashley piled all their jackets and coats on his own hammock so that he could be comfortable.Ethan had yelled about Ryan being a brat and Ashley shared some cheery story about her childhood as they sat round the fire, before they all retired to sleep.Suzanne rubbed her eyes and she glanced out of the small square window. It was still dark.I wonder what time it is. She said and adjusted herself on her hammock. Her eyes roamed round her sleeping teammates.Ethan was snoring loudly and one of his arms was swinging out of his hammock. She rolled her eyes at his sleeping figure.She got up softly
"CIN really left us here?!" Suzanne shrieked, horrified."No, we thought he left us in our cozy bedrooms and he went back to bring us breakfast in bed," Ryan snorted."You better shut up now!" Suzanne snapped at him."Or what?" He scoffed.Suzanne's nostrils flared.Some minutes later he was yelling that she should let go of his ear that she was twisting around."That's enough," Andrew bored voice made Suzanne let him go.Ethan smiled snidely at Ryan who was rubbing his ear painfully."I suggest we just follow the path!" Ethan said.Andrew who had bent down, stood straight. "No. That's useless. I was awake while CIN was driving. There's too many turns and we can get lost," he told Ethan."What now?" Suzanne moaned.Ashley glanced at her wristwatch.