HELENA'S NIGHT TROUBLE

' If you guys are done taunting me, can you tell me what you found ' Helena says.

The group turns serious. Beverley opens a laptop revealing a photo of a middle-aged man.

' This is Drake Domini popularly known as Danger. Specialises in embezzlement, fraud and contract killing. Most wanted and not so wanted criminal.' Beverley says.' Why do you say so?' Helena ask. ' This is not his real face. He wears masks and possesses several identification documents. All investigations leads to dead end which makes whoever investigating the case give up.' Beverley replies. Helena is silent for a while and then she says ' Check the production center for the masks he wears. Check where his guns are gotten.'

Beverley types on the keyboard and then she says' The masks are made in California at a place called "Hide and Seek". The gun is from an arsenal in Russia.'

' California?? Hide and seek? I know that place. To get information about customers is very hard .' Orion says. ' We know how to deal with stubborn people. Let's settle the matters in New York city and then we'll go to California.' Helena replies. ' Enough, is time for bed. Get some rest especially you Helena ' Jimmy says.

The four lie on the bed and closes their eyes.

A while later,

Helena opened her eyes.

She blinked several times before she regained her clear vision. She saw a man chasing a woman carrying a baby, another man was pursuing the man who was chasing the woman.

The man chasing the woman catches up to her and holds her at gunpoint. ' Put your gun down and kick it away. Then raise your hands in the air or else the woman and her baby dies' The man threatened. The other man places his gun on the ground and kicks it away with his hands in the air. The gun stops at Helena's feet.

The men hadn't noticed Helena standing there.

' Please spare my baby. He is innocent take me instead ' The woman pleaded with tears in her eyes. ' Do you know how much money you will make if the baby dies?' The man says. ' I don't want anything I just want my baby.' The woman says. ' Well I can see how it all ends. Detective Matthew dies. The woman dies and the baby dies later.' The man says and cackles.

Helena felt a surge of anger. Was it the alcohol or was it how sleep she was? She didn't understand what made her pick up the gun and pulled the trigger at the man.

The three turned to the girl in shock.

Helena wakes up sweating profusely. That dream again. Jimmy, Beverley and Orion were also up. Beverley wiped her forehead and whispered to her ' It's okay we are with you '

Orion passes her a glass of water which she gulps down. ' I am fine ' She replies.

Jimmy gently pats her back and the four friends go back to sleep except Helena who was deep in thought.

It was Seven years ago,

Helena had always been bratty and reckless which constantly troubled her single mom.

Miss Tina would always be called up from work each time Helena got into a fight. Though Helena excelled Academically, She was renowned for her constant fighting along side her group of friends who they called the Ferocious Four.

Jimmy and Orion were two years senior to Beverley and Helena. Helena who was the youngest in the group got advanced twice.

On the morning of her 15th birthday, The Ferocious Four decided to celebrate by going to a club house. Helena decided to skip school under the pretext of being sick.

She had gotten home and found some doctors in her house. What she heard shook her.

' Miss you need to get treated as soon as possible. Your heart is getting weaker and you might not be able to hold on much longer. It seems you have been under stress lately. Without the surgery, you have an estimate of two years to live ' The doctor says. ' Doctor isn't there any other way? I don't have 30 million ' Miss Tina replies.

Helena left her house and went straight to the Khurana's.

She told her friends about the issue and they agreed to take up a job offer given to them by a producer in order to make enough money for Miss Tina's treatment. They had drank till her friends couldn't move but Helena was still sober.

She called their respective drivers and Got them sent home. She took the long route home and there she met with the chasing scene.

She had later found out that the other man was a detective who had been trailing the other man who was a child trafficker. The trafficker had wanted to sell the baby's heart.

Detective Matthew offered Helena a training opportunity as a secret agent. Helena took some time to think and talked about it with her friends who wanted to join.

Soon the Ferocious Four started training as secret agents and started missions. They rose from the newbies to the youngest most talented spy squad in their jurisdiction.

Enough money was made and Miss Tina got her treatment and became better.

One thing hadn't changed. Helena kept having dreams about that night.

Helena sighed. Her life wasn't as simple as she portrayed it to be. This was one of her deepest secrets. She slowly drifted to Lala land.

The next morning,

Helena woke up before everyone else. She freshened up and goes downstairs. She would had gone for breakfast but she wanted to eat with her friends. She decided to go to the garden. Ever since she came to the Astrovana estate, the garden was the only place she felt at peace. She starts watering the plants.

She is still watering when she feels someone behind her. She turns back and sees Aiden.

Few moments ago,

Aiden had involuntarily memorised Helena's activities. She would wake up by six, go out for breakfast and then go to the garden.

He knew this because his window overlooked the garden. He smiled as he lifted the bags he held. He couldn't imagine how his assistant face would be when he asked him to buy nightgowns for women. When Assistant Jeff asked the size, Aiden visualised Helena's lean body, not excluding her glorious chest and backside.

He said a size that he thought would fit Helena and specifically told Assistant Jeff to get conservative clothes.

Now he was face to face with Helena.