115–The Suicide Mission.

EUDORA.

I knew exactly when the clock struck nine.

I knew because my eyes followed the hands of the clock right from when it was 7 pm when Zena told me to go wait in my room. According to her, he leaves the house sometime around nine at night and I need to be in his car before then.

I was sure I was ready to do it. Certain that it was going to be okay, that all I needed to do was follow him, see where he goes and then inform Zena when I return but as the time got closer for me to actually do it, I became a bundle of nerves, sweating away on my bed as I waited.

When a minute passed and Zena still didn’t show up and even Alpha Rex wasn’t home yet, I hoped she already gave it up. I couldn’t go to her and tell her I was too scared to do it anymore but at least I could pretend to be surprised if she told me not to go anymore.

When my door burst open, my heart sank and I wanted to cry. The expression on Zena’s face wasn’t that of someone who was coming to tell me that I didn’t have to