Please read the prologue again! It's pretty important for this chapter!
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"Everyone in position?" I asked to the watch, which was supposed to be a walkie-talkie. It really felt weird.
"Yes," Jacob replied back, equally politely and emotionlessly. I always knew we had the capability of becoming robots.
"You're killing me now, guys," Chris sighed from his end.
It had taken Chris ten minutes to figure out something was wrong. Maybe it was the fact that Jacob and I were ignoring each other until it was necessary to speak, or maybe the fact that we called called each other only as 'Black' and 'Danger'. Maybe it was the fact that we were actually civil with each other, talked pretty politely and without any emotion. I don't know. I mean, we have always been very polite and nice. I don't thinks anyone would dream of saying that we were ill mannered.
Okay, maybe it wasn't true for Jacob. But I am always a picture of helpfulness and smiles, right?
"Are you at your station Gold?" I scowled at the watch, not in a mood for any nonsense. Okay, maybe I wasn't always smiles. But that was very rare. Really.
Do you think I would lie to you? I would never! Don't even think like that about me.
"Yes, I'm at my station. Are you guys going to ignore each other the whole day?" Chris's voice filled the air. I pressed my lips into a thin line, refusing to answer that uncalled comment. Apparently Jacob also had the same idea, because no comment came from his side as well.
When Chris got no reply, he continued, "I mean, it's a bad thing- definitely a bad thing- that such close friends are not talking to each other, but does this mean that you both won't argue for a while anymore?"
"No need to be so happy Goldilocks," Jacob muttered through the walkie-talkie.
"Report in every half hour," I said clearly into the walkie-talkie, looking around for any suspicious activity and ignoring them both.
"Got'cha," Chris replied, and I could feel him yawn, even though I couldn't see him.
"I will," Jacob replied politely.
I peeked above the so-called 'Monster Sunflowers' (I have no idea why they were named that.) I was kneeling behind, at the black lilies. I stared at them for a few moments before sitting down and sighing. There wasn't even any wind movement. This sure was gonna be a long day.
Maybe I could get some help...
I looked around at the trees in the garden. I spotted a sparrow on a tree near there. Calling it to me, I chirped with it for a while, asking it to inform me if anyone entered the area and tell all it's friends to keep an eye out too. Man, guarding a bunch of lilies made me feel stupid.
I know many people must be wondering why a bunch of teenage Super Heroes were guarding lilies. Why not the police or someone else?
The thing was that firstly, no one knew that black lilies existed. According to the world, black lilies had been a failed experiment which wasn't possible.
You may ask how we had gone to get interviews for the school when they didn't exist. Well, the world had been informed that black daisies were being stolen. Only the owners and SAE knew the truth. The truth was that black lilies were very rare. They were made artificially and costed billions of dollars. Then they had the ability to enhance the powers of a person. If a normal person was to take a bite of the flower, then they would either get a wonderful immunity system and never get sick, or one of their body function, such as eye sight would grow better, this creating a new race of super heroes.
Heroes who, since, are affected by the earth's inner radiations would not even be discovered by The Machine. Who could turn evil and no one would be able to find them out. So these lilies were very precious. However, they were also used for treatments in SAE hospitals, since human medicines were too weak to work on Super Heroes.
Yes, SAE was rolling in money. I mean, they did have superheroes who had powers like those of Chris. I wish I also had them. I have no idea how Chris isn't a freaking millionaire by now... I would've totally become one.
Now coming to how I had gotten permission to hide in the garden of Tweetie ( I think Tweetie suits Mrs. I-Can't-Remember-Her-Name more than her real name. I swear to God, that woman wouldn't stop twittering like a nervous bird.), Jacob, Chris and I had been sitting on her drawing room sofas when she arrived there.
We all were wearing our superhero costumes. So she wasn't able to see who we were. Unfortunately, she thought that we were burglars and fainted on sight.
I don't know why she even thought that. I mean, hasn't she seen the news? The news was always full of Superman and my heroics. Okay, maybe she might have been scared by how we were wearing black... But Chris wore a white jeans and blackish-golden shirt! It wasn't totally black! And okay, maybe I had been scowling, but I swear it was all because Chris was irritating me. But you know what? I bet you ten bucks it was Jacob and his monstrous face which made her faint. I mean he is very....... Not hot. Yes, he's not all that.
Oh who am I kidding? Let's just forget it.
Jacob had to fly her to her bed in her bedroom and I had gone to the kitchen and gotten some water. Splashing it on her face, we had woken her up. She had been a bit disoriented when she woke up, thus giving us a chance to explain who we were and what we were up to. After listening to our explanation, she had been very grateful.
And had then proceeded to give us a very long explanation of how she was a true patriot of the country and how she would always love to aid us in anything. Taking advantage of this fact, we had ordered three large pizzas, three cokes, three white pastas and three garlic bread boxes with extra cheese as breakfast. She totally payed for it.
All this while she had kept on twittering around, telling us how her great great grandmother's aunt's daughter's husband's younger brother's son's wife's sister had also been a Superhero and how it was the duty of everyone to aid them. If by aiding them she meant giving us extra food for free, then I was all for it.
She had vacated the house as we had asked her and now we had all hidden in our positions. Waiting for the thief to strike.
One hour had passed.......
Another.......
Another.....
"No!" I threw my phone onto the grass as I lost just a few points before making a new high score in Crossy Roads. I groaned, closing my eyes and shaking my head in exasperation. Screw this thief. Why wasn't he or she coming?
I decided to give myself one more chance to make a new high score on Crossy Roads. I looked at my phone lying a few feet away in the grass.
Why the hell had I thrown it away?
I huffed. I was really stupid at times. I stretched my hands out to reach the phone. But it was still a few inches away.
Stupid phone, making me move. I'll show it! I won't move and get it! That'll teach it a lesson.
I stretched my hand a bit more. Now if I wriggled my fingers I was just touching its edges. I grunted as my aching muscles stretched. Why the hell had Melody, Liam, Chris and I gone to the gym yesterday and practised so much? My muscles were hurting like hell. I wriggled more on the ground. Almost the-
"Tweet tweet?"
I froze. I slowly looked up to see a pigeon looking at me curiously.
"It's not my fault! It's the stupid phone's fault!" I told it angrily.
The pigeon just kept on looking at me.
"What?" I asked looking back at it. It still kept on staring at me, scrutinising me with each and every glance.
"I'm not crazy!" I snapped.
"Tweet," the bird said, taking a few steps back. Waddling a few steps back.
"Sorry, I'm just tired," I groaned, rubbing my eyes.
"Tweet tweet tweet tweet!" The bird replied sympathetically.
"Tweet tweet tweet?" I asked, raising an eyebrow.
"Tweet tweet." The bird replied in confirmation and flew away.
The thief had arrived. I cursed as I lunged towards my phone, pocketed it and dived behind the 'Monster Sunflowers' again. Just in time.
"Yeah, I so totes agree," I heard a female nasally voice come nearer and nearer.
"Yeah, I mean those shoes were so last season!" She whined.
I scrunched my face up in confusion. This couldn't be the thief. Had those pretentious 'I'm-So-Popular' wannabes ( because let's get real. No one really likes those guys sitting in the cafeteria, acting like they owned the place. So they aren't really popular. They're just well known.) started becoming thieves? I was so not aware that thievery was also a fad this season...
"Oh my god, I know right," the girl gasped.
I stole a look above the flowers as quick as possible. The girl I saw was.... Well... Not what I expected.
She was around Chris's age. She was wearing black combat boots, black tights and an oversized black shirt which had the words 'I'll clap when I'm impressed' written on it. Dunno how it was related to this.
However, she still managed to regain an 'Ice-Princess' aura. I hadn't seen her face, but she wore long earrings. Around her hand, there was a really cool watch. One of those digital ones which were really expensive.
She might have been talking like a whiny wannabe, but she certainly acted original.
While talking on the phone, she had been literally yawning and had a really bored expression on her face. Walking with an attitude of her own, her presence had totally taken over the garden. She had this aura... This aura of nothing fazing her, of having seen it all and have not finding it up to expectations. She looked in control, something very rare for her age group.
I decided to risk another glance above the vale of flowers and slowly inched up. To find the amused face of the girl staring right back at me.
"Shall we get this party started?" She asked me with the amused look still on her face.
"With pleasure," I replied, not showing how startled I was. With that, I lunged at her. I was gonna remove that freaking smile off her face.
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