8 months later: Malibu Spa
8:00am
Today is my birthday. 4th August. 16 years old. My agent name has changed from Agent MM15 to Agent MM16 (every agency uses their age as a code for their agent name).
Nancie and I have been allowed a day off to celebrate. I haven’t heard from Leon in eight months – and I don’t want to. Nancie says that she wrote him a letter to explain what I had done. I don’t believe her though, there has been no reply.
We have organized a spa day together. I am so excited. The usual me is returning and I have got back into the boring everyday routine. Tests, coursework and more tests. Exciting, not. I am also allowed to do proper assigned missions. That is fun.
I have a loose, white lace sundress on and Nancie has a green sundress on with small brown polka dots on it. The spa is just what we need on a hot day. Yesterday, Nancie helped me pick out a bikini. It is white with blue straps and red roses. Nancie has a florescent green bikini with small white beads on the straps. I think we look fab.
We went into the changing rooms and stripped down to our bikinis. I follow Nancie to the huge pool. It was huge – and empty. They bring us funky mocktails and we settle down into the pool. Then they turn on the Jacuzzi. A whole pool with Jacuzzi jets! Nancie and I yelp with laughter as we dive into the rippling water. As I come back up, I see glimpse, a flash of green. It can’t be. I rubbed my eyes and looked but nothing was there. He wouldn’t, couldn’t.
‘Are you alright Maggie?’ asks Nancie.
‘Yeah, just though I saw… somebody,’ I say and turn back and splash water at her. We kick and chuck water at each other. I am happy, happier than I have been in a long time. Leon stuck in the back of my mind for the rest of the day. I didn’t think anything of it, but it was still there niggling. Nancie and I had back massages and face masks. It was so refreshing and relaxing.
I was rather sad to leave the spa. I had had a great birthday there. As we paid at reception I thought I saw a flash of green, again, from inside the office. That creeps me out. He can’t be here. I’ve only just got over him.
I rush out of the spa and Nancie soon follows. What is it with him? If it is him, that is.
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Life of Maggie Marshall
Teen FictionMaggie Marshall is 15 and is a London spy. She desperately wants a normal life, but with the lifestyle that she's living, she knows that it's never going to happen. That is until she meets Leon Matthews, and everything changes. She is going to beg...
