Secret Agent, Counterspy (?????????) | Rewritten From Chapter 51+

Chapter 18- Kieran Gone Crazy

What Kieran got her wasn't original, like chocolate.
It wasn't anything she could eat either.

It was a proposal ring.
Joking.

He made her a necklace by himself with 'M A R I A - G R A C E" beautifully embroidered on it, in caps lock.

The necklace itself was cyan but Kieran somehow made the lettering gold, using real gold.

Not the inexpensive, fake ones he got online.

Maria Grace was just too precious to him to not give her a present that was worth any sentimental value.

"Thank you so so much!" She echoed, hugging Kieran again. This time she made the hug so that Kieran was turning her round and round and round until she stopped.

Kieran grinned but frowned when Maria Grace's smile fell.

"You okay?" He wanted to know.

Maria Grace nodded although Kieran didn't look too convinced. She explained to him how all of her friends backstabbed her and walked away, leaving her on her own.

Kieran felt annoyed on why unpleasant things kept on happening to perfectly good people, but told her that he couldn't really stay due to the principal wanting him to draw a design that went on the school walls.

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School was atrocious.
All of it.

Although it beat staying at home anyways, despite the bullies, despite Clyde suddenly turning against Kieran and going off with Justin.

It beat Kieran having to watch his stepmother and stepfather argue with his siblings, and his siblings trying to escape because they hated their stepmother that much.

When Kieran rang his doorbell because he forgot his keys, his stepmother did something really malevolent to him.

She opened the door, saw him, rolled her eyes at him, and closed the door again, but Kieran stopped her halfway.

"Katherine?" He hissed.

"Oh. Hello, Kieran," she moaned, fake smiling. "Come on in, unless you want to freeze and die out there. Hopefully you do."

Kieran didn't know who he hated more, his stepmother Katherine or his stepfather Anthony. They were both conceited to him.

Kieran was about to walk upstairs until Katherine whispered something behind him.

"I wouldn't go upstairs, if I were you," she told him.

Looking half shaken, Kieran glared at her back, ignored her, and walked up the stairs.

"Why?" He pleaded, although Katherine didn't reply, just gave him another look that read 'I tried to warn you' before finally walking off into the kitchen.

Kieran headed to his room to drop off his school bag then headed over to his siblings'.

The ones that were still alive anyway. Cameron and Jessica.