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
"What?"He raised an eyebrow at her. "You wanted me to get you a can of sprite didn't you?" She nodded. "Well, I need the money to get you your drink." He told her.She looked away."I thought you were treating us," Marissa said in a meek voice."No." Ryan replied in a cool tone. "I'm treating my team, Squad 10. You're just studying with us; you aren't one of us. So you're paying your bills yourself."She hid her embarrassment with a small nervous chuckle."Of course!" She said brightly, as she fished into her purse for money. "How silly of me to assume you'd help me out as well.""Yes. It was quite silly of you," Ryan said coldly as he collected the money she gave him before walking off.Suzanne stifled her laughter as she covered her mouth and looked away.Serves her right. She thought gleefully.
Suzanne smiled in her sleep as she turned on her single bed.Suddenly she heard a noise, like the one an alarm clock would make. With her eyes closed she felt the top of her bedside table for her alarm clock. She wanted to put it off.She frowned slightly when the space was vacant.Right, it hasn't been replaced yet. She thought tiredly and kept her pillow over her ears.The noise grew louder."What the heck is that?!" She groaned as she sat up in bed, highly annoyed.It was dark in her room but she knew she wasn't alone in the room. Two figures were standing by her door, she could see part of their shadow.She frowned and flickered on her lamp.She saw that the annoying noise was coming from a device Andrew held in his right hand. His eyes were trained on her, he was fully dressed. Beside him was her brother
"If you can't be skilled in attack you must be extra skilled in defense and the number one way to defend yourself is by running away," Andrew said as he walked towards hismachine which he had brought along to the open field that served as a training ground for running or any other outdoor sport activities.Superhero High was always open 24/7 as that was where all the D-ranks and below trained and the training could be at any time of the day or night.Some CINs were stationed there and had to do shifts as well to monitor the upcoming heroes.Even though it was still early in the morning, the whole area was brightly lit up as it all belonged to the Hero League.Ryan sat on the track a bit tired.He had worn a purple overcoat as the weather was chilly."So that's it? We just run?" Ryan asked skeptically. He couldn't believe Andrew had come all the way to h
Suzanne sighed once the closing bell rang."Finally," she grinned to herself as she packed up her books in her bag.Annabelle came to her seat just as she stood up. "Suzanne," she started on a natural tone, "Since you guys aren't planning Ryan's birthday party anymore, we're going home together today, right?""Sure," Suzanne nodded and they both started walking out of the class."Pity you got sick some days ago," Annabelle commented."Yeah," Suzanne said. "I still can't believe Justin and Ryan fought over me."Annabelle frowned slightly and pulled Suzanne back, "Don't let Justin know I told you. He so badly didn't want you to know about the fight."Suzanne nodded.Annabelle then kept her hands on her hips. "And also don't make it sound like that! Ryan would never fight over you. Like I told you
Ryan crossed his arms as he watched Suzanne gesculate wildly as she explained what she was telling him.She had just ran in and was panting heavily.Just then Marissa walked up to Ryan."I'm ready to leave!" She announced chirpily but her smile turned to a scowl when she sighted Suzanne standing near Ryan as well.Suzanne gritted her teeth as she faced Marissa."You thought no one would know your tricks, huh? You thought you could fool Ryan and get away with it?" Suzanne demanded."You've just been exposed," Suzanne then snorted, feeling pleased with herself for informing Ryan quickly."What's she talking about?" Marissa asked Ryan in the softest tone she could muster.Ryan was too busy glaring at a satisfied looking Suzanne to answer her."No one is fooling anyone, especially not me.
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.