The sun rose over the mountain at exactly five thirty on
Sunday morning. Mira Albernik awoke
exactly at that time. She crept out of
her room and slowly tip toed down the stairs being careful not to wake her
fellow orphan children.
“Mira! What are you doing?” Miss Hendry was unfortunately
already awake.
“Uh… I just had to go to the bathroom and now I’m going
back to bed.” It was a pretty good cover-up.
Miss Hendry didn’t buy it.
“Why would you go
back to bed? It’s five thirty! Get down here, eat breakfast and start
getting ready for my date today” she said.
“Okay” Mira faked.
She slapped a dress on, jumped out the open window and slid down the
roof. Now this was the hard part,
jumping off the roof onto the ground.
Mira placed her hands directly in front of her feet and jumped. Suddenly a sharp pain shot up her shoeless
foot. She looked down; a patch of white
sumac lay beneath her.
She shook it off and ran towards the small hole in the
landscape off in the distance. As she
got close the hole began to open wider.
When she finally reached the hole tired and in pain a hand came out,
grabbed her and pulled her in. The world
swirled around her and a screen appeared.
“Agent Mira, welcome back,” A futuristic computer voice
said. “You have ten new missions”.
“Great” Mira
slapped her forehead “let’s just get this over with before Miss Hendry figures
out I’m gone for her ‘special date’.
Technically every Miss Hendry date was considered ‘special’ when she was
in charge of the Ellikna Hills Foster Home for Children.
The screen
disappeared and Mira stepped into the darkness where the screen once
stood. Then, another face appeared this
time it was not recognizable to Mira.
“Hello, how are
you today?” his voice was rough like sandpaper.
“Uh I don’t talk
to strangers”
“I’m not a
stranger Mira” his face turned into a frown beneath his matted brown hair. Mira frowned along with him. “I’m your father”. Mira’s mouth dropped open. She couldn’t believe it. After twelve years of knowing nothing it happened
now, at this moment, at this time, now?
“Why? What?
How? Who are you?” she didn’t try
to say it, it just came out.
“I told you Mira,
I’m your father” his blue eyes pierced her skin.
“Why are you here?”
“Because, I’m your
father Mira.” Slowly his hand wrapped around her wrist.
“What are you
doing?” She slowly began to slide her wrist out of his grasp. He was silent. “You aren’t my father, are you?” Silence
again. Mira tried harder to pull her
wrist out of his grasp, but he was just too strong. She pulled again, nothing. Again, and again, and again she tried. His face curled into a small smirk.
Then she saw
it. She recognized that face. It was the face of the enemy. Any well trained secret agent could see that,
and thankfully the enemy just happened to be an army of robots. Her hand curled around to the back of the
robot’s neck and felt for any type of different surface. But she couldn’t find one. It all felt like rough skin. A sharp pain was felt around her wrist and
she groaned.
“Not this time
Mira” the robot knew what she as doing.
“Great” Mira said
slamming her head into his knee “OW! Why
do I have to get so mad? Suddenly she
sensed her body was being let go. The robot’s
head fell onto her head and all of a sudden she felt a sharp pain in her neck.
“Mira, Mira are
you awake?!” Mira’s eyes fluttered open
to an array of head above her.
“Oh, thank the
heavens I thought you were dead! No one
would date me if I killed a child” Miss Hendry’s face stuck out among the rest
of the children. “Missy, you have a lot
of explaining to do”
“Oh yeah about
that” Miss Hendry’s face formed a smile “I’m kind of a secret agent who got
attacked by a robot. Then I Turned him
off and somehow fainted.”
“I’m not dumb it’s
kind of obvious that happened to you.”
“What?”
“I know you are a
secret agent. Everybody here is a secret
agent.”
“Seriously?” Mira
looked around. Everyone smiled
“Here, I’ll help
you up,” Miss Hendry flashed a smile.
Mira smiled too knowing that everything was going to be okay.
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