Agent Reptilian: Exploiting Gold|editing

Chapter thirty eight: Looking for Phoenix (part one)

"Absolutely not."

But it was like my words went from her left ear and immediately out the right one.

"But we're not going to see them-ever again." I snorted.

"Like I care. I'm more interested in becoming a normal human again then seeing people I hardly know again. We're not meeting them Nix, no matter how much they insisted. It's too late now, plus we met up in school already. Now go call Del up so she can pick us up from this hell hole."

School had finished and we sat on a lunch table outside, waiting for Del to pick us up. She was supposed to run a couple of errands with us, I'm not sure exactly what but probably dragging us through another grocery store.

I opened my phone up and went to where my recent calls were. River's call had magically disappeared within a few hours and no one had questioned anything about the money.

"She says that she won't pick us up. Something else came up." Nix spoke as she cut the phone line. I threw my head back and groaned. Come on.

The streets were wet with puddles that could be as deep as the Mariana Trench. The clouds looming over head were a dark grey and thick with water ready to pour over our heads at any given moment. The wind whistled and was slowly starting to grow stronger. The trees were gently swaying side to side as if doing a dance though they seemed more eerie than silly.

"I guess we'll just have to walk through all this." I hauled my grocery shopper over my shoulder, ready to get up but Nix pushed me back down. There was a glint in here eyes.

"Let's stay. Del told us earlier that she wasn't going to be at home until 5- maybe even later since she said something came up. Let's just go out with them." I shook my head.

Since when had Nix become so rebellious? We had been given specific instructions to follow. I know that we had been off track a bit but it was probably not a good idea to keep going astray. So far most of the risks we had taken were calculated, this just stupid.

We were leaving tomorrow and there was no answers as to why there was a random lady watching me with a pair of binoculars- it could've been one of those crackheads that would meet up in the cemetery and do weird things for all we knew but I didn't have a good feeling about her.

"We're going home Nix, and that's it." I ordered but of course, she protested.

"You can go home if you want Al but I want to live my life. I don't want restraints around my neck. I don't need you to be constantly ruining everything." I turned my gaze towards her. Ruining everything? What had I done? I was suffering as much as she was. She wasn't the only victim here.

"Where is all this coming from?" I asked.

"Alaska, look, I hate saying this, but for the past two months while you weren't here, school was great. It has been better than I could've ever imagined. Sana, Darcy, Dhruv and Kaleb have shown me their hospitality and kindness. We've gone out so many times and just lived our lives. We enjoy each other's companies, we enjoy being with each other."

I furrowed my eyebrows. "So? What's the point you're trying to make here?"

She sighed. "I just don't need you telling me every 5 minutes what I should do or what I shouldn't. I don't need your negative energy around, I don't want to hear your constant paranoias about people watching us-"

I looked at her incredulously, "You're the one who theorized that a reptilian could be after us!" I yelled at her. No one was near by and to hell if they were. I was too angry to speak. How dare she say all those things. I understood that I did have this negative energy looming around me sometimes and that she needed a break since she was drained which was fine, but I had every right to be paranoid.