CLOUD (short story)

[Spoonsnuggle]

Well, here's my first post on the FA&F section here at AN. Here's the paper that I wrote for my short story for English. It had to be this short because of length restrictions. Maybe I'll elongate it later, you never know. Please give Feedback! Thanks!
ANYWAYS! W/OUT further ado, ClOUD! By Me!

CLOUD
By Spoonsnuggle


I stood there, gun in hand with it point-blank to the man’s forehead. I just wondered...Why? What did this man do that was so bad that he deserves to die? Who was I to judge? According to my boss it didn’t matter, and I needed to finish that mission.
“Where is she?” I asked.
“ I DON’T KNOW WHAT YOU’RE TALKING ABOUT!!! -Hic,” the man screamed, crying so much that he was hyperventilating.
“ Yes you do! Don’t play games with me! I have your life in my hands right now. The power of life and death. The greatest power of all.”
“-Hic-Shut up! I have no idea who or where ‘she’ is!” the man screamed.
“Yes you do!”
“If you’re gonna’ erase me, can’t it just wait until Wednesday?”
I started laughing. It was truly hilarious. Then I asked,“Ha ha ha! What? Why?”
“My favorite television show appears on Tuesdays!”
“You are my first victim to make me laugh. Ever. Just run away, before I change my mind.”
He ran. Just like that, I failed my mission. I will probably never see that man again, but he is going to call the police and I am going to have to take out somewhere around five cops. About an hour later, my phone started vibrating.
“Hello?”
“Agent Cloud? This is your boss.” I was scared. That was my first failed mission in years.
“Ok. Say what you need to say. Shoot.”
“ I just filed the report that you failed your mission. This isn’t like you,” he said.
“I know. Listen, I’m going home, OK?”
“No. Meet me at H.Q. in three hours. I’ll see you there,” he hung up.
I lit up a cigar and looked at it for a long minute. It was terrible. Why do I smoke? I wondered. Whenever I did it, I had to spit every three inhales because it was so disgusting. With a lot of willpower, I threw away the cigar and the box of them. Time to quit.
Three hours. That gave me until exactly 12:00 midnight to do whatever I wanted to. In that small amount of time I saw so many people walking across the street, and I was one of them. I also saw the man who I was ordered to wipe out. I immediately covered up my face with my newspaper. Please don’t notice me, please don’t notice me, please don’t notice me!
“Hey, you!” he said. But there was no anger in his voice, in fact, he said it kind of pleasantly.
“Who are you?” I asked, acting like I didn’t know him.
“Don’t give me that. You were the one who tried to do away with me, Maiya Zabel. A.K.A., Agent Cloud!”
“What?! How do you-,”
“That’s right, Agent Cloud, I know all about you. Nice contact lenses and wig, by the way. I know that your hair color is dark-brown. I know that your eye color is light-blue. I know that you’re five-foot-eight. I know that you’re an assassin,” I was shocked. How did this man know so much about me?
“Who are you?” I asked, with fury in my voice.
“Did you like my acting back there? ‘Oh! I don’t know who you’re talking about!’ Ha. Priceless. You were such a beautiful girl back there, Miss Zabel. A truly stellar performance,” he said. He was so polite that I almost didn’t want to be mean to him. But I was angry because he still hadn’t answered my question.
“You haven’t answered my question. Who are you? How do you know so much about me?”
“Who am I? A curious question indeed. My name is Raul Razzi, but just like yours, it’s an alias. You may call me anything you like. I know so much about you because I am a detective. It’s just what I do, Cloud, so don’t be so hostile. In fact, I came over to say I was sorry and would like to be at least friends with you.”
I started giggling again. He was funny, and he was never going to stop. I said, still laughing, “Haha, fine. You’re an odd one, you know that? The weirdest being I’ve ever met.”
“Yeah, I know.”
“Oh no! I’ve got to go! I can’t believe it’s already twelve! Goodbye!” I said, and quickly ran away.
“Wait! I-,” but I couldn’t hear him anymore.
I ran as fast as I could to headquarters, and arrived about five minutes late. This wasn’t good. What’s wrong with me?
“You’re late, Agent Cloud. You’re just getting weirder and weirder every hour, aren’t you?” Boss asked.
“Well...I...um...I guess so.”
“What did you do with your three hours of spare time? I haven’t given you that long of a vacation in years.”
“Nothing really. I just sat down on a bench and thought about some things,” I said. That was the first time I had ever lied to Boss. This was a day of firsts.
“Don’t hide Raul, Maiya. I know that you were talking to him. I know that you like him, I know that you know that he is a detective, and I know that he knows that you are an assassin. Good, you two know each other,” he said, with evil, and humor, in his eyes.
“Sorry. I’m sorry,” I said.
“Lately your feelings have been getting in the way of your missions, Maiya. I don’t like it. I don’t like it at all. And Razzi is just going to make it worse. I want you to find him, and end him. This time for real, Cloud. If you don’t do this and decide to take an alternative route; then I will have someone find you, and end you. Is this clear?”
“Yes.”
“Good. You have three days to complete this task. Your mission starts now,” and just like that, I was sentenced to exterminate my first friend in years.
I started walking away with a tear going down my cheek. I put my hands in my coat-pockets and found a piece of paper that I didn’t recall. I opened it up, and it read as follows:
Maiya Zabel,
Meet me at the park at 1:00 A.M. on the hour. I’ll see you there.
-Razzi
Oh no. It was a horrible sight. Should I go? I asked myself. I went anyways. When I arrived at the park, he was standing there in a long, black trench-coat.
“Whydidyouwantmetocomehere?” I asked, and it came out as one huge word.
“I just wanted to see you. Why did you have to run away an hour ago?”
“Duty calls!” I wasn’t thinking about what he was saying, I was just trying to think about how I was going to solve this problem.
“Do you want to go out sometime, Maiya? Maybe tomorrow?” What was I supposed to say? Before I thought about it, the words came out, “Sure, Raul. I’d love to!” I felt like a little schoolgirl who had just been asked out on a date by her five-year-crush.
“Ok, then. I’ll pick you up at 8 o’clock tomorrow. Or-I guess tonight, since it’s 1:00. Bye,” and he was gone.
This was bad. I had to make up my mind quickly. I spent about eight hours debating on whether or not I would stay. Getting too close to Raul would only make it harder to leave. With another hour, I made my decision: I would run away that afternoon.
I began packing my things. Where would I go? What would I do? Both questions that I didn’t have answers to at that time. And then I remembered why I had debated for so long: I would be wiped out if I ran away. I didn’t care. I had my gun. I had ammo. I had money. I had everything to survive for at least a month. So I ran. I didn’t care that, yes, I would one day run out of those essentials. I just cared that I was saving my new friend’s life at the time.
But I was stupid then. Now I am out of money and ammo, and the F.B.I. is chasing me down. I am officially scared to death, and I regret what I did. Because now I know the truth: Raul Razzi was hired by Boss so that all of this would happen, and Raul works for the F.B.I. I will be annihilated any day now, and there is nothing I can do about it.

end.

[Spoonsnuggle]

Did anyone read or like it?

[Mavin Maverick]

I started reading it. I don't know why I didn't comment on it. LOL Maybe I had intended to come back later and read the whole thing.