The Academy of Undercover Agents

Part 2: Chapter 1

“ I love you daughter, you are as wise as your father and as passionate as me. You never back down from a fight.”

“I learn all I know from you”. I smile then become serious again.

“We can’t run away….I think it’s time to call in that favor mother. We are going to need it.”. I eye her phone and she turns away as she sighs, picks up the phone and dials the number that will confirm the decision that will uproot our lives and turn it to chaos.

“Good morning Tamra, long time no see.”

“ Hey Isabela, I know it’s been too long since me and my mother have interposed in the academies doings.”

“No worries things have been doing good here…. But I hear that it’s not doing so good with you” she says, her face becoming a shadow of despair and her voice an intruding spectator on the thoughts of my current situation. I know that she is only trying to help but can’t accept that this is my current situation in the first place.

“Listen I don’t want to talk about it right now. Maybe later like in that meeting we have in two hours.”

“Um, ok I don’t mean to push tamra, I can understand how hard this is for you.” she walks away quietly murmuring to herself. I continue to walk down the hallway towards my old classrooms, I reach my combat class first. I remember when I was 10 and I finally mastered the crane kick. My mother was so proud of me and I used it on my brother to get him to leave me alone. I had so much fun memories in the academy for undercover agents.

I walked into the center of the room and assumed the position for a crane kick I focused, breathed and followed through. As I was landing I heard something crash in the closet full of staffs. I stopped what I was doing and silently ran to the closet opening the door slowly I saw a shadow at the wall behind the door. As swift and silent as a hunter about to pounce on prey, I pushed open the door fast knocking whoever was behind it to the ground then I proceeded to use some rope I found in the closet to tie his arms behind his back before he was able to get up again.

“who are you and why are you here?”

“my name is Caleb. I live and go to school here.”

“you don't seem to go to school here otherwise you would have not hid after you dropped the staffs on the ground”

“I didn't want to disturb you, you looked focused.”

“to late for that now isn’t it.”

“what is your level in the academy?”

“I am a level 11”

“hmm…….I passed level 11 three years ago.” I wondered,

“how old are you?”

“17”

“oh so you started late then at least a year. My name is tamra, I'm 15 an advanced combat participant. I am sorry to have tied you up.”

“ no, no it is fine I shouldn't have spied on you. Besides you are very good. Have you studied interrogation techniques?

“I have had experience with it yes. Never paid much attention in that class. But I think they need to update the curriculum in the combat class. What ever there teaching clearly isn't working anymore. I should not have been able to apprehend you so easily.”. Caleb looks away and I see him blush a little. He looks back and waves his hand for me to follow him, so I do. We start down the long hallway and he guides towards the living quarters.

“How long ago did you leave the boarding of the school?”

“About 3 years ago. I was ahead of the game really everything came naturally and my mother wanted me to live a bit more like a child. A lot of stuff that I know about I can think my mother for.” I paused, I really shouldn’t have to tell him so much so I decided to change the subject off of me.

“So who are your friends?”

“Your about to find out right now” we turn the corner and come face to face with a door he knocks and enters first, doing a scan of the area before letting me in.

“Yo! Everybody come here!”. Four guys enter the room and one was already on the couch.

“What’s good?” the boy who spoke was fair skinned, he had soft eyes and sly smile. He looked like the type of guy who would work out but hide his muscles from everyone else because he never liked to boast.

“Ain’t nothing much going on right now. But, I wanted to introduce you all to my new friend tamra. Tamra this is Raven, Corey, Miguel, Alexander,and Tyler. He explained pointing to them one by one. Raven had hazel eyes and jet black hair, Corey had three ear piercings and a snake tattoo on his left arm, Miguel was the fair skinned boy who had talked earlier, Alexander had full lips and a kind of slouch with his posture, and Tyler looked to be the youngest of them all. All in all this looked to be a group of different kinds of people that was just thrown together.

Then corey spoke up, “oh, um gabriel said he would be here in half an hour with food”

“Awesome” replied raven “I’m starving.”

“Since when are you not hungry?” Tyler joked

“Shut up. Since when are you not a douche?”

“Hmm, I don’t know since when are you not a screw up?”

“Maybe when you decide to deliver a left hook like a man” At this point caleb interjected.

“guys , guys both of you should stop because none of you can even beat me in sparring practice. You know sneak and seek is a personal favorite.” It was amazing how fast they all shut up.

“Oh, really” I said smirking slightly, “I would love to play a game you all then”.

“Sure” said alexander

“No problem” said raven

“Game on!” replied caleb

“Cool” said tyler

“Imma love this!” said miguel. At that moment another boy walked in he looked to be about 17 and had multiple ear piercings as well as a faux mohawk that fit the shape of his face quite well.

“Hey gabriel this is tamra and were all playing a game of sneak and seek. I hope you don’t get too distracted this time” said corey before dashing off into the school somewhere as the rest of us laughed and did the same. Caleb was it.

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I ran straight to the ballroom….yes it was one of the most open spaced places in the school, but I knew of a secret hiding spot in the walls that I used to go in when trying to avoid my mother after getting in trouble, or when I was trying to avoid one of my instructors. I was not an easy kid to teach when I was young.

I take a quick scan around and guarantee that no one has followed me, I hear as caleb finds tyler and I find the false wall. When I put the wall into place I climb up into the shaft and look through the air system as caleb walks by the ballroom with tyler and gabriel.

“Yo, so what’s up with that girl you brung in, caleb” I hear gabriel start off. Me being nosy and all follow them through the vent and walls.

“Oh, um...Tamra?”

“yes”

“She found him in the weapons room. Apparently she used to go here”said tyler.

“Used to?”

“Yeah. I didn’t know that they allowed people to come back in”

“Well her mother is a really big part of the academy, when she came in I texted a friend and he found out that she is Somalia royalty”

“Royalty!”

“Yes, can you believe it?”

“Hell naw, she don’t act like no royalty”. I follow in the vents and decide to confront them without letting out my location. At this point they’ve also found raven.

OMG she's royalty.

What do you she'll say to them when she confronts on there snooping?

-Royal T