Hello fellow spies! This is a new series that will mostly rewrite some events in the original Spy School series although I might write some of my own. This will largely consist of one-shots. Requests are allowed. The themes will be Berica, Boe and Zoke? This chapter is about the "girl talk" scene between Erica and Zoe before the helicopter ambush by Dane Brammage. The start of the story is just same as the book but stuff changes so you can skip the beginning part.

*Contains a large amount of Major Spoilers*

Disclaimer:

Spy School and its places, events and characters are owned by Stuart Gibbs.

Spy Ski School- Ski Lift Girl Talk scene (Without Helicopter Attack)

I almost took the earpiece from my ear, feeling even worse than I had before. I hadn't thought I

was doing any of what Erica said, but maybe I was wrong. Maybe I had overplayed my hand, leading Jessica on, getting her to hug me, and then ruining everything.

But then, to my surprise, Zoe started laughing. Hard. "Oh my gosh," she gasped. "Erica, you're

hilarious."

"What's so funny?" Erica demanded.

"You know so much about everything in the entire world," Zoe explained, "except yourself."

"What are you talking about?"

"You're jealous of Jessica Shang! Because she hugged Ben."

"That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard in my life," Erica snapped. Only, while this was exactly

the sort of thing I'd heard Erica say plenty of times, the way she said it didn't sound like Erica at all.

Instead, she sounded strangely ill at ease. As though Zoe had struck a nerve.

Zoe seemed to sense this too. "I don't think it's so dumb," she said. "And just so you know, you

don't have anything to worry about. Ben has no interest in Jessica Shang."

"He has a crush on her," Erica said flatly.

"He only thinks she's pretty," Zoe emphasized. "But he likes you. A lot. And if you're jealous of

Jessica, I'm betting you like him, too."

"This conversation is over," Erica said.

"Oh, come on!" Zoe protested. "You need to deal with your feelings, not avoid them."

"Fine," Erica lowered her voice but still loud enough for me to hear her through the earpiece, "I do like Ben, okay? I just want him to focus on espionage and not just think about his love life 24/7."

I could not believe my ears, Erica actually does like me! And she liked me enough to be jealous of Jessica. I nearly pulled the earpiece out once again and gagged.

"Is something wrong?" Woodchuck asked.

"No, I'm fine." But I was not. Hearing Erica say that was like seeing her having fun.

"So do you love Ben?"

Erica hesitated a long time before answering, as if she was thinking to answer truthfully or not.

"Is this a secure private conversation?"

"Yes."

"Are you going to keep this a secret? Because I am taking a massive risk in saying this right now, and if Ben hears about this, he is not going to concentrate on the mission."

"Yes, this is a completely covert conversation, I cross my heart that I am not going to tell anyone about this."

"Yes, I do love Ben."

Zoe instantly became quite excited but I could hear a hint of annoyance in her voice. "Do you love him romantically?"

Erica sighed, "Yes, I do love him romantically."

"Well, Ben's all yours then..."

"It's fine, if you want him I'll let you have him."

"No, you guys make a cute couple."

There was a long pause, probably because Erica was blushing.

"So you were jealous of Jessica right? Because Ben never hugged you?"

"I guess..."

"But you always glare at him with that icy look, do you think anyone would give a hug to you like that?"

"No, but that's the point, I don't want relationships to affect my espionage."

"Just flirt with him a bit Erica, he's already crushing on you a lot, if you just give it that small push, then you'll get what you want."

"Fine! I'll only drop a few small flirts every now and then, but I seriously don't want our relationship jeopardize the mission. Frankly, I don't want him to be careless and get killed."

I couldn't help but grin, so Erica does like me and wants to protect my safety. However, I probably shouldn't eavesdrop anymore on their conversation, before Erica finds out.

Speaking of which, I felt a huge sneeze building up in my nose, I fumbled for my earpiece and tried to get it out but the earbud got stuck. When I finally plucked it out, I couldn't hold in my sneeze anymore-and sneezed right into the earpiece.

Erica probably felt the vibrations in her pocket from the earpiece, because she turned back and gave me a glare.

"BEN!"