Mr. Robertson

"Sadie!" Mr. Robertson said as she and Alex walked into his office.

"Hello, Mr. Robertson," Sadie said as she and Alex stood in front of his desk.

"What brings you here? And who is this?" Mr. Robertson said examining Alex from head to toe—his shaggy blonde hair (grown out from when he had to cut it from the mission in France), his handsome face, his good size biceps and triceps, his skinny waist that was almost a six pack if not already one (Mr. Robertson thought), and his strong legs and sneakers.

"Eric Davenport, sir," Alex said as he and Mr. Robertson shook hands. Alex's arm muscles showed every bend and curve in them through his now tanned skin.

"Nice to meet you," Mr. Robertson said. "Sadie's like my daughter."

"Yeah," Sadie said laughingly. "No, umm… Dave we were sent here…"

"I know, I know. You have detention. I spoke to Olive this morning," Mr. Robertson said as he sat down in his chair.

"Mrs. Laster," Sadie explained who Olive was after seeing the confused look on Alex's face.

"Yes. She said for ya'll to act like you have it, but you don't have to do anything. I know you'll be leaving in two days to go to the STORM plant. I think that they want you to go ahead and pack, and I think that ya'll will be taking the privet plane," he continued.

"Really?!" Alex exclaimed. "Thanks."

"Yeah," Sadie said. "Thanks. Eric you can go on back. I'm going to stay here and talk."

"Ok, please hurry. You'll have to help me pack," Alex said grinning as he walked out the door, remembering that she had unpacked his things and put them up. "Bye!"

"See ya!" Sadie shouted back.

Alex walked back into the cool air conditioned building. He walked down the hall and into his dorm. He pulled out his cell phone and sat there thinking of what to do. Sabina! He should call her. He had been thinking about it, and when Sadie got back he could talk to her. He pushed a few numbers and waited.

Ring, ring, ri-. The third time she pickup.

"Hello?" Sabina's voice rang out.

"Hey," Alex said as he plopped down onto his bed.

"Alex, I haven't heard from you in forever," Sabina said sounding excited.

"Yeah I know it has been a long time hasn't it?" Alex said happily.

They talked for about half an hour, but then Sabina had to go. They had caught up on what they had been doing and the different things that had happened.

"Hey, Alex," Sabina said as her voice started to drift away.

"Yeah?" Alex said.

"I have to go my parents are calling me," Sabina said sadly.

"Oh, ok. Well I guess I'll talk to you later then," Alex said as he started to pull the phone away from his ear.

"Bye!" he heard Sabina say.

"Goodbye Sabina," Alex said and then there was a click and he heard nothing more. He stood up and stretched and headed out the door for lunch. "Oh, Sadie!"

"Alex," Sadie said as she stepped away from almost being run into by Alex. Her eyes were watery and her voice was shaky.

"Are you okay?" Alex said with concern spread across his face and in his voice.

"Oh yeah I'm fine," Sadie said swallowing back tears. She walked towards her room, stepped in, and ran to her bed.

Alex knew that she had heard his whole conversation with Sabina. He walked up to her door not knowing what to do. Should he knock, or should he just leave her alone? He stood by the door for a second. He could hear sniff after sniff. He imagined the tears flowing down her face. Why would she be crying? What was wrong? He had to find out, but he couldn't find out from her. He had to ask someone else. He went on down to lunch knowing that there really wasn't anything he could do.