The Spy Who Totally Had a Crush on Me by Michael P. Spradlin

Author:Michael P. Spradlin [Spradlin, Michael P.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-4804-5789-8
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2014-04-01T21:32:00+00:00

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

The New Kid on the Block

IN THE END, we had no choice but to add Rinteau to the team. It would have been one thing if he found out about Top Floor. We probably could have come up with some reasonable explanation, like it’s a special wing for the drama club or something. Yeah, that’s it. We’re all theater arts students and we practice shooting commercials and music videos up there. We could have sold that one. Mr. Kim was our P. Diddy record producer and we were doing a reality show for a cable network. No problem. I would have believed that myself.

But, like me, he’d discovered Mr. Kim’s situation room. And that wasn’t so easy to explain away.

Besides, Mr. Kim, user of big words, who likes to put a positive spin on everything, pointed out to us that Mr. Rinteau’s “life experience” brought a certain “skill set” to the team.

What he meant was that Rinteau had street smarts. Because of how he’d lived, he’d been in a bunch of tough scrapes. He had a certain point of view about the world that Mr. Kim thought might come in useful. He had an attitude that neither Alex nor Brent—and I say this with all possible kindness—could pull off. Street cred. Thug mentality. Bad boy image. Whatever you wanted to call it, Rinteau had it.

Blackthorn Academy was great and all, but it kept everyone so busy that we didn’t have a lot of time for normal teenager stuff like listening to music, hanging out, and keeping up to date on essentially useless pop-culture phenomena. Even though I’d only been there a few short months, I felt myself being slowly pulled down the slippery slope of un-hipness. I hadn’t had time to surf the Net in weeks and I was pretty sure my subscription to This Week in Entertainment had expired.

So Rinteau started working with us. Mr. Kim told us that he’d filled Rinteau in on most of what had happened to our team the past few months. He’d explained that he consulted with the FBI occasionally, and that the FBI sometimes needed some of his best students for certain operations. He’d told him a little bit about Blankenship: that he was a former agent gone bad who was trying to get his hands on some very valuable antiquities and we were currently concentrating on trying to stop him.

He didn’t tell him everything. He said nothing about Blankenship thinking I was Etherea and the weird little incident when my hand went all Statue of Liberty in the cave in Hawaii. Which was good, because I was trying to forget about that myself.

(I know, I know. Most people would think, “Hey, superpowers! Awesome!” But the whole thing was still creeping me out, so most of the time I just tried to forget all about it. Besides, I wasn’t sure the “powers” were all that “super.” I could recharge a flashlight with my hand? Great! That’s very handy in confronting villainy. Why couldn’t I fly or have superstrength or something? But I digress.

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