Chapter 8.

What's up baby sis." He greeted with a smile, his group were surrounding him like he was the son of the president, well she won't deny that he's pretty talented, otherwise no one would stick close to him, she couldn't lie to herself on this.

        "Henry...? What are you doing here." She said with a frown. Annoyed, irritated and frustrated, her eyebrows quickly showed her anger.

         "Um, a little thank you would be nice." He said. Melanie looked at her tracker and noticed something. She kept staring at them, wondering what was going on. "Is something wrong Mel." With a polite smile and yet a rather disturbing stare, she couldn't understand how he could look innocent but deadly at the same time.

         "...Your...Hold on, the tracker, it doesn't indicate that you're in here. How?" She said avoiding his gaze, but all she got was a chuckle and a pat on the head.

         "That's because we took them off." One of Henry's teammate said. The girl didn't look like she was joking. 

        They stared at each other confused, nothing seemed to make sense, not even that explanation. "But you aren't supposed to, you're teammates has to have this on." Melanie said.

        "But we do, Jeric and Austin." The girl said, "there's no law that says everyone has to wear them.

         "Well then why aren't they moving." Autumn said. "It seems like they stopped moving and fell asleep, I mean others must have found out by now. 

        "Because, they're still sleeping in the boys locker room, their work is to stay there and do nothing, its like a diversion to fool people. They must have figured the trick that they were just decoy and walked away." Henry said with a smile, now it made sense, everyone was counting how many they are and confirmed they were only eight.

         "Wow, that's a smart plan." Melanie muttered.

      "Yeah, looks like you weren't lying when you said he was good." Emily said. Autumn could almost kill Emily when she said that, admitting how good her brother was, was something she would never say to his face. 

     Henry was glad to here this and couldn't help but smile, his smirk made Autumb shiver as she avoided his gaze. "You did."

        "I didn't and besides if I did then it wasn't a compliment." She said.

       He pouted but smiled, watching her tell such a cute lie to protect her dignity was enough for him. "Well I have to go, see ya soon baby sis." He said as he ran away 

       "Stop calling me that in public." She shouted, she turned towards the rest of the group who was staring at her, "what?" She asked.

        "I wonder how you turned out different than your sweet brother." Melanie  said.

        "Yeah I mean he's fucking awesome." Jay said, she shrugged, suddenly getting a feeling of throwing up, as if him finding out what she said wasn't enough, they were praising him before the jealous sister. "Get a life." Emily took out the tracker and looked at the people left.

       Surprised at how much she hated her brother Adam said, "You should be glad, he's really tough and he fucking loves you, are you that blind."

         "What do you know, you have no idea of what it means to belong in my family." She said with anger, she didn't get it, she wandered how could they possibly love her brother and find him cool when she doesn't.

          "So what, don't be such a bitch." Emily said,

        "How am I being a bitch." Autumn asked turning to Emily, Emily knew she couldn't fight Autumn, she was after all a rebel, so she decided to end the fight.

          "You know what, screw this, we have a lot more important things to deal with." She said walking away but Autumn just got more offended.

          "Oh..., so am no longer important." She shouted,

          "Autumn." Melanie said raising her voice, and Autumn replied with a more harsher tone, 

          "What?" She shouted, Melanie breathed out to calm herself and said to her, 

          "You need to stay calm, we don't like the new attitude."

          "Well if you don't like it, then go fuck yourselves." Autumn said,

           "Fine." Melanie took her bag and walked away from them, she couldn't lose her patience, not in front of a friend, her friend.

            "Really, that sounds impossible." Jay said, Melanie stopped on her tracks and shouted,

            "I'm not talking about myself or any one, I just won't say anything to her ever again". Melanie said in anger as she walked away leaving the group alone, they knew they couldn't pull this off without her and ran after her, but Jay stopped on his way,

        "You're not angry at your family, you're just jealous that you don't get all the love and attention Henry does and you're mad Henry that Henry keeps treating you like a child, if am wrong then we really don't know you but if am right then you should appreciate that you have a big brother like him and go apologize to Melanie, she was only trying to be nice and a good friend." Jay said and left, Autumn stood there reflecting on her past actions, she really miss arguing with Henry early in the morning, at times she stayed in bed for an extra hour to see if he might wake her up but he never came, she did hurt his feelings and although he was tired of always waking her up, he really loved his morning job. She finally got it, it was her mostly her fault.

       "Hold up." She said as she ran towards them, she was able to catch up with them but not with Melanie. "Where's Melanie?" She asked.

         "She ran off, but hey, cheer up, we all make stupid mistakes like you did." Jay said, hugging her. The loud sound of a crashing, went an object, everybody ran to see what was the cause of the noise in hopes to find Melanie. They walked into an empty dark hall which was supposely the school theater and couldn't help but feel it was a trap, soon, other groups came rushing in to see what caused the noise, as soon as they sighted each other they quickly pointed paint guns at each other, waiting for someone to take the shot.

       "Fuck, I told you it was a trap." Someone from a separate group said. They stared at each other, waiting for one to take the first hit. However no one did, even Melanie's group had fallen into a trap.

         "Well it wasn't us. We also fell for it" Adam said, the groups folded their arms and stared, a boy finally spoke.

      "Well if it wasn't you then I suppose you tell us who's responsible." Another boy said.

      None of them had planned an attack, they stood puzzeled, but none of them dared start a fight. "How are we supposed to know, we ran here in hopes to find Melanie and then you showed up." Daniel said.

      "How do we know for sure that its not a trap." Another boy said.

      Daniel snapped, "Wait a minute, I didn't say it wasn't a trap, I said it wasn't us who set you all up, there has to be thirty of you, we can't take you all down." 

        "Sure you can." The first boy said. They were warming up for an attack, their eyes moved around the huge hall waiting patiently as they argued.

        "Am telling you the truth, it wasn't us." Daniel said but no one was willing to believe him, all this while, Emily was away from them rubbing her chin and thinking hardly.  

      "Wait, there's only one clue for this, it wasn't accidentally that we all came rushing here like a child. Its not accidentally that we're all arguing and if you look around very few of us is missing." Emily said.

          "Of course, why didn't we see this. There's only one person who could pull this off, one mastermind who's mind is sharper than the end of a blade, someone smart enough to fool us, who could use us like pawns and win this game like it was nothing. We have to get out of here now." Daniel said as they began running, but before they could reach the door it was shut so they couldn't see. Suddenly a sound of moving engine was heard and then, the lights were turned on and they were covered in flour.

     

       "And who might that be?" Another asked.

       "Henry." They all shouted. 

      They heard a laugh coming from the light. "You should had started running instead of saying how great I was. Sup baby sis."

         "Henry, what a horrible surprise." Autumn said looking away.

          "Really, enough with the fake act, we won." Henry said smiling, but it was obvious that Autumn wasn't happy.

          "You won, Henry, its not a we, its a you, I don't wish to share your glory, thanks for ruining today. Wow, I can't believe you got all of us." She said.

         "Not all of us." A voice said.