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Chapter One
Trick
“Have you heard anything yet?” Luc asks from the couch, as we watch Jensen and Cash battle it out on some game.
“No, but it’s Atlas; if he wanted us to know, then we’d know,” I reply.
“I know man, but aren’t you worried?” Luc asks again.
Riot lifts his head from whatever he’s been doing on his phone and says, “He’s right. Atlas just up and left with no word, note, or anything.”
“We’re trying to find him. We’ve got all the resources we have currently trying to find him, and I haven’t heard back from any of them,” I reply. “The thing is, we’ve known for a while that there’s something else going on with him, and we were giving him time to tell us what it was.”
I get why they’re all worried, I do. He’s one of us, and we have no idea what happened to him.
“Yeah, I kind of wish that we pushed him on that now,” Rafe signs.
“I could probably get into the security cameras, the ones that are on both of the roads that lead out of town,” Jensen adds, his eyes still on the screen.
“You can?” I ask. He’s never mentioned having the skill before.
“Yeah, I mean, it sort of came up when I was securing our money from the Pit, so the cops didn’t find it when they took it down. It still amuses me that they thought the operation was so much simpler than it was and that it was just kids messing about. If they’d dug any deeper, then we would’ve been fucked. Anyway, I figured it was a good thing to learn. The cameras here are old, so I need to actually plug my laptop into them, but as soon as I’ve done that, I should be able to get the footage; we know that he had to leave by one of those two ways: there isn’t a third.”
“What are we waiting for? Let’s go check it out,” Cash says, quickly abandoning his game.
“Now?” Riot questions.
“We may as well; we don’t have to start organizing anything for the fight at the Pit until later this week,” I reply with a shrug.
It’s the first week back at school, and that means tensions are going to be running high since we haven’t been able to do any of the fights since the Pit was taken down at the beginning of the break, which means the fight at the Pit that we usually do before school starts is even more important to ensure that the tension doesn’t spill out elsewhere and cause us issues.
“Are you sure that we should risk it? It’s only been a couple of months since we got caught, and the Pit was taken apart,” Riot questions.
I sigh; it is something that I’m worried about, but the alternative is a lot more violence, “We’re testing the waters with this fight; we’ve got a new location further outside of town and a temporary setup. We’re going to be putting escape routes in place for everyone, and we’re only doing three fights.”
“I’m still fighting, right?” Jensen asks, violence prominent on his features.
I nod, “Yeah, I’m waiting for Trev to get back to me with information on your fighter. I think he’s struggling to find a match for you since no one wants to go up against you.”
Jensen grins proudly and then frowns, “As proud as I am of that, it’s going to be pretty fucking shit if I don’t get to fight anymore.”
“We’ll figure it out,” I tell him, knowing that it’s going to become a big problem if he can’t fight. I’ll cross that bridge when we come to it; for now, I carry on answering Riot’s question, “If it goes wrong this time, then we’re going to have to stop for a lot longer to make sure that the interest in us has really died down. My mom is watching me a lot more closely and has only just started to relax a bit.”
“Mine too,” Cash adds with a slight grimace. “Although, the track on your grandad's farm was a nice silver lining we got out of it.”
“Not as good as fighting,” Luc mutters.
“No, it’s not,” I agree. “Come on, let’s go and check the cameras out and see if there’s anything that will give us some more information about what happened to Atlas.”
“Sounds good to me,” Luc agrees as he stands up and stretches.
“Let me just grab my laptop and the cable I need,” Jensen says as he jumps up and throws his controller down on the bed.
"Have you got the cable with you?" Cash asks with a confused frown.
Jensen shrugs, "Yeah, I was planning on suggesting it before, but I got distracted and completely forgot until you mentioned Atlas."
"I'd question that, but it's you, so I'm just going to go with it," Cash replies.
