Something Happens

After enduring two agonisingly boring lessons of second rate teachers, Six followed Rachel to the Cafeteria, hoping that he could just sit by himself to watch over her from afar, but no. She had to drag him to her group's able, with an extension of people who had been there that morning, and introduce him 'properly'. This involved him talking to numerous people, which he flashed fake smiles at to keep them happy.

Shayla moved over to sit beside him, continuing the conversation from where it had been left off that morning. "How's your first day going so far?" she asked politely, grinning at him and apparently forgetting his anti-socialness from that morning.

"Alright. Pretty boring" Six thought he might as well humour this girl.

"I know right? English with Miss Gronski is agonisingly and painfully dull"

"Agonisingly and painfully mean the same thing" Shayla kept glancing over his shoulder at something. Six didn't know what, but it probably didn't concern him, so he didn't bother looking.

"Oh, do they I thought agonisingly meant thoughtless" she looked over his shoulder again and nodded at someone.

"Who are you looking at?" Six asked. Shayla looked like she was about to panic but instead she grabbed Six's shoulders and pulled him into a hug. Six flinched away, pushing her back. He glared at her, his mood of 'humouring' her instantly gone. He got up, and sat a few seats away from everybody else, scanning the group for Rachel.

Rachel wasn't there. He stood up, trying to look merely curious in his surroundings and looked for her. Scanning the several hundred students present on the third floor cafeteria, he finally spotted her heading for the stairwell on the other side of the room, with the boy in tow. Six moved towards them but Shayla ran up to him. "Hey, where're you going?" she asked.

Six quickly thought of an excuse. "Oh, just to the bathroom" he said, moving away from her ad the stairwell, towards the bathrooms. He glanced quickly as Rachel and the boy he had seen earlier disappeared down the stairs. It mightn't be anything of issue, they could just be going to have some alone time, but Six needed to be sure.

"Okay then. Do you know where they are?"

"Yeah" He said absent-mindedly. And Six turned away from her, towards the toilets which were on the opposite side of the room from the stairs. He walked quickly away from her, but not fast enough to attract any unusualness. Upon entering the bathroom, he walked into a stall, closed the lid of the toilet and stood on it, to access the small window above it. Considering his small size, he managed to fit through and climbed onto the outside of the building. Remembering the building's blueprints, he should be able to climb down without being seen by the pair to the ground floor, the next level. He knew there was probably an easier way but this mission wasn't exactly something that was hard. It was already rather dull and he needed to do something to keep him amused.

He climbed round the edge of the building, on a windowsill to access a drainage pipe which he slid down. He stopped where he estimated the ground floor's toilets would be and climbed through an open window into a, luckily empty, toilet cubicle. Six quickly flushed the toilet so as to not see inconspicuous, then washed his hands and rushed out, hurriedly glancing the room for Rachel. He saw her and the boy entering a door that he knew was the staff exit. He walked towards the main exit, flashing the student pass that The Deck had provided him at the card machines that stopped students from leaving. (the main entry, beside the exit, was completely blocked the whole day until school finished).

Casually, Six walked with his hands in his pockets, flicked his hair out of his eyes and stopped at the corner of the building, which then turned into the alley where the staff exit led onto. He peeked round, only slightly, so as not to be seen. He saw Rachel and the boy heading in his direction so he turned round, scruffed up his neat hair and pulled up the collar of his shirt, then walked away from the pair as the entered onto the street and turned right, away from the school.

Six instantly turned around, following the two students towards the busier main street. He smoothed his hair and collar back down and then, when the two ahead stopped, he halted in front of a cheap shop, taking a cap surreptitiously from a rack and walking on while the other two turned down an alley. He stopped again when Rachel looked back so he looked down to try to avoid catching her gaze.

Rachel leaned against the alley wall while Six turned back. It would be too easy for him to be noticed here. He went to the other side of the building, turning into another alley and climbed onto the fire escape to the roof. Walking quickly to the other side, he leaned over and saw the boy she was with leaning on the wall beside her. They passed a cigarette between them, expelling smoke, and since the building was only two storeys high (one of the rare heights for a building in the City), he caught wiffs of the smoke. It definitely wasn't nicotine smoke.

Rachel Wockner was in the alley below him, getting high with some random from her school.

Six climbed down the other side of the building from where he had come and waited on the street beside the alley, his arms crossed.

Eventually, Rachel and the boy returned to the street, looking as if they were slightly drunk. She looked up and saw Six leaning against the wall. Rachel looked confused for a second and then her eyes widened. "Oh my, look who it is. Mr Si- Ryan. What're you doing here" She said, slurring and falling slightly against the boy.

"Trying to do my job" Six said simply. He reached forward to grab her arm, to lead her back to the school, but she jumped back surprisingly quickly.

"Don't touch me dimwit" She said, then turned to walk away but Six stepped in front of her.

"I said DON'T TOUCH ME!" She went into a shout and tried to push him but he easily ducked under hands and side-stepped her.

"I didn't" He replied, "Now come on, we've got to go back". Six couldn't care less about what happened to the other boy. With useless protests from his charge, Six dragged Rachel back into the direction of the school, then changed his mind and pulled out his mobile phone to call her father.