313 Very well... (1/2)

When her eyes met with Cia's for a brief second, Layla was quite pleased to see someone was waiting for her. When Erin had disappeared and left them. It felt like she had no one to lean on, no one to confide in. Erin had been the strong figure that Layla wished she could be, and yet it was something she would never be able to achieve.

However, when she disappeared Layla was a little lost, she had Quinn, but after finding out she was with Pure there bond was a little broken. There was also the fact that Vorden would constantly get in between the two and kept trying to fraction that relationship.

In the middle of all these events that surrounded her, there was a little ray of hope and that was Cia. After the last portal expedition, she had seen a scared little side to Cia during that time. She seemed afraid of Quinn and the others and was confiding in her due to that. Layla, when seeing this, was seeing a version of herself when she looked at Erin. In a way, it made her believe she needed to become a stronger figure to know that someone was relying on her instead of the other way round.

This time, she would be a pillar of support for Cia.

That was until the words spoken out of her mouth were like a thousand knives had been stabbed right in her back.

There was a straight look on the young woman's face, her tone was serious, ”I've been waiting for you agent 100,” Cia greeted.

There was now not a doubt in her mind, there were only two groups of people that knew her identity, Pure and Quinn's group. However, what Quinn's group didn't know was her agent number, and her ranking had recently just dropped as well. The fact that Cia knew this confirmed that she was part of Pure herself.

”I know you might be shocked, but it was all because of agent five,” Cia explained.

Agent five, this meant Cia being close to her was all of her mother's doing. Suddenly a realisation was coming into her head. From the very beginning, since she had entered the academy, Cia had been her roommate. They had specifically told Layla that she was the only agent that was sent to military base two.

'Was everything a lie?' Now she didn't know what to believe. Was hee new friendship Cia fake? Was her acting scared was nothing but an act? What was worse was how much did she already know and how much were they reporting back to Pure.

Her own mother hadn't trusted her to even complete a mission like this, that they had to send backup to look after her. When there was a bond of trust, it went two ways, but her whole life it had always been one-sided. She trusted her mother with the Pure's true intentions even though she had so many questions.

She trusted her mother when going through her hellish training that she felt like was torture.

She trusted her mother when she had told her life would be better in the future.

Layla walked right past Cia, ignoring her.

”Wait, what are you doing agent 100?” Cia asked, a little shocked by Layla's actions.

”Don't call me that I'm not a number!” She shouted back. ”I have a name and I have a pretty good one.”

At that moment, the automatic doors to the hotel Lobby opened and in walked in, Quinn and the other boys. They immediately could see her bloodshot red eyes, but had mistaken them for sadness instead of anger.

”Are you okay Layla what's wrong?” Quinn said as he rushed over, placing his hand on her forehead, checking if she was all okay.

”Idiot. Why didn't you come sooner.” She said. ”And your hands cold.” At this moment, the full waterworks had come out, as tears of waterfall started to fall and her head was now laying deep into Quinn's chest.

”Hug her dude,” Fex whispered in his ear. While the other two boys pretend to look away and whistle.

Not knowing what to do in this type of situation, he listened to Fex's advice and gave a strong and firm hug to Layla as he tried to calm her down.

”Quinn!” She cried. ”I don't want to be useless anymore…. I don't.”

”Layla, when have I ever said you were useless?” Quinn replied, at this point, Vorden had decided to step away, knowing full well he had said that a few times.

”You have done nothing but helped me from day one.” He replied back.