6. Happy Birthday

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I stand next to Cody's bed waiting for him to wake up. He has been out for almost a full day. I look through his drawers, because I'm snoopy, and find his wallet.

I open it and a picture falls out. I pick it up and stare at it. He is sitting on a couch and staring at his phone while a guy is sitting on the floor in front of him, smoking. I look back at his wallet and see..............I see.............. him in a uniform and CRAIG RIGHT BEHIND HIM!? I look closer at the picture and see Cody with a smirk. Craig has his hand on his shoulder and is also smirking.

I look at the next one and see Cody and two boys his age next to him and a girl in front of them. I don't recognize any of them! And I have seen every team from every agency.

The pictures are ripped from my hand and so is the wallet.

"What are you doing?" Cody hisses.

"What were you doing?" I snap.

"These are old pictures." He says.

"How old?" I ask.

"Last year." He answers.

"Last year!? That's not even old!" I say as I reach for the pictures.

He pulls them away from me and I crawl onto his bed trying to get them.

"Just forget you ever saw them!" He yells.

"How can I!?" I yell back.

I jump on his arm and grab the pictures from his hand. He flips on top of me and pins my arms down.

"Give them back!" He grits out.

I kick him, where it hurts, and roll off the bed. He gets up in pain and gets out of bed. He falls back down and grips his thigh. He grunts as he try's to stand up again. I sigh and put the pictures on his desk. I walk to him and help him back into bed. I get the pictures and hand them back to him. He takes them slowly and puts them back into his wallet.

"Sorry." I mumble and leave the room.

As much as I want answers, he is in enough pain. However, if he doesn't tell me I'll make everything worse. I head down stairs and open up the fridge. I grab a root bear and turn around to see a cat on the table.

"Allen!" I yell.

A few seconds later I hear him running down the stairs.

"There you are, Chat Noir!" He yells as he grabs the cat.

"Chat Noir?" I question.

"It's black cat in French." He answers like it's nothing.

I nod my head slowly wondering how he became an agent.

"Where's Miwa?" I ask.

"She's in my room.....I MEAN HER ROOM! Yeah, she's in m- HER room." He says quickly.

I face palm and hear him run to the stairs with the cat.

"You were shot and you act like nothing happened." I point out.

"I think smiling and playing is better than sitting around being hurt." He says happily.

My mouth opens a bit and I feel a hit of sadness come over me.

"I'm sorry about what I said the other day." I say.

"It's okay! I know you didn't mean it!" He has the most happiest voice in the world.

He runs up the stairs and I look down at the counter. Oh Jake, he reminds me so much of you.

***

          

"Ow!" Hailey yells as a piece of glass it taken out of her hand.

"No more with these solo leader missions!" I yell.

"We need stealth and the only way to guarantee that is if I went alone." She responds

"And look at how that turned out." Jackson rolls his eyes.

Caden got a syringe and put a blue liquid in it.

"W-What's that?" Hailey questions.

"Poison." He says.

Jake punches him in the arm and Caden giggles.

"It will just stop the pain." Caden says.

Hailey nods and Caden puts the needle in her. We are in our safe house fixing up Hailey. She thought she could be heroic and kill an assassin. We are only eleven! We can't do everything!

Hailey sits up and looks at her hand.

"Its better to smile than sit in pain." Jake smiles.

"Thanks, Jake." Hailey says and hugs him.

About two years later

I finish washing my hands and step out of the restroom. A hand goes over my eyes and I panic. I punch whoever was holding me in the chest.

"What the fuck?!" Jackson yells at me.

"You know better than to scare me!" I yell.

He covers my eyes again and leads me down the stairs. We enter a room and stop. I hear people moving around and finally me eyes are uncovered.

"HAPPY BIRTHDAY!" Everyone yells.

I see a cake and a happy birthday sign over it. Everyone is wearing a birthday hat and have confetti exegesis in their hands. All four eyes hit me in the face and all I see is color. I start laughing and shake the confetti off me.

"We know how hard it is to have your birthday while on a mission so we did the best we could." Hailey explained.

"It's perfect." I smile.

They sing happy birthday to me and we all eat cake while talking about old memories. Jake had the funniest ones because he's the only stupid one out of all of us. Hailey was the poster child so her stories were kinda boring.

We were in Nigeria, but we were going home tomorrow. We hear a knock on the door and Caden gets up to answer it. Oba walks in and greets us, and he had a basket of fresh fruit.

"I brought this as a gift for destroying Gamba." Oba explained, "And we were also hoping that you could help us with another problem?"

"We would be happy to." Hailey says.

Oba pulls out two pictures and hands them to Hailey.

"His name is The Shadow Killer." He says.

"He's just a kid, like us." Jake points out as he looks at the pictures.

Hailey hands me the pictures and I stare at them taking in every detail. One picture was of him in a black hooded vest and a blue long-sleeve shirt under. He has a full iron face mask and couldn't even see his eyes. He had blue pants on and black boots.

The next photo showed a kid with dirty blonde hair and dark blue eyes. He was smiling and looking right at the camera. He had a red shirt on and black pants and regular shoes on.

"Are they working together?" I ask.

"No, they are the same person." Oba says.

"Seriously? This huckleberry is an assassin?" I ask.

"Yes. He is responsible for many deaths. Including the death of my son." Oba says.

I pass the pics to Caden and Jackson.

"When we get back to the agency, we and some other teams will come back and find this guy." Hailey says.

"I thank you." Oba bows to us and leaves.

"Can you guys believe it?! My birthday is tomorrow!" Jake cheered.

"Yep. After tomorrow we will all be thirteen." Hailey rubs his head.

"Your flying us home, right?" I ask Caden.

"Yep." Caden answers.

"Take is down the prettiest route." I say.

"I was already thinking that." Caden smiles.

We finish our cake and all of us head to bed. I sleep on the top bunk and Hailey sleeps under me.

I can't wait to go home tomorrow. Africa has been great but I would like to go home. I can just feel that tomorrow is going to be eventful.

***

"Are you going to bed?" Im asked and I shake away from my thoughts.

I look at the stairs and see Steve with a tired expression on his face.

"Y-Yeah, I'll go to bed right now." I say and head to the stairs.

I go to my room and lay in bed. I look up at the ceiling for awhile until finally falling to sleep.

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Hey!!

Okay so Oba means king in Nigeria and Gamba means warrior in Zimbabwe. (I did my research).

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