Chapter 1- Meeting the Headmistress

POV Rachel

I took a deep breath. I knocked on Cammie's door…even though I was sure that she heard me from the time I walked into the house. She has good ears. She got them from her father.

"One sec mom!" Cammie's high-pitched 12-year-old voice sighed.

I waited patiently. I could hear her computer keys clicking. There was a mouse click and her computer chair rolled across the floor. She opened the door. There she was, sitting cross-legged on her computer chair smiling at me.

"Hey mom. How was work?" her blue eyes were so innocent.

"oh...it was fine. Honey, I need to talk to you. Meet me at the dinner table in 20 okay?"

Cammie smiled and nodded. I walked down the hall to change out of my suit. I pulled out a pair of sweats and my round house kick like a girl shirt.

"Oh crap." I just remember I need to leave a message for the boss. I didn't feel like getting all dressed up again so I just threw my blazer over my t-shirt. I made sure Cammie wasn't standing at my door. I could never tell anymore because she moved soundlessly.
I kicked the doorframe to my "closet" and stepped into my office. I left my boss a message, telling him I couldn't take the mission to Morocco this weekend because I had some family issues I needed to take care of.

I signed off and went down too the kitchen to attempt to make dinner.

As I popped the frozen pizza into the oven, I couldn't help feeling nervous. I had been lying to her for too long. I had been lying about my job, my past, her father and her future. This wasn't going to be easy. She was happy at her school. She was breezing through all her classes and she had friends and I didn't hear her cry herself to sleep every night like she did after her father died. I couldn't believe I had waited this long to tell her all this.

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Cammie POV

I signed off IM and slipped on my bunny slippers. They made it so I could move around the house soundlessly. I slipped down the stairs quickly. I had memorized which stairs and floorboards creak. I opened the French doors and walked into the kitchen.

"Mom? Why are you so tense?" her back was facing me. Her shoulders were tense and for some reason she was having trouble opening the frozen French fry package. She still had her blazer on over one of her weird T-shirts that I never really understood. She didn't even do karate.

"Cammie, put your cell phone down and join me at the dinner table." How did she know I was holding my sidekick? Ugh whatever. She had her lawyer voice going so I didn't argue. I plugged in my cell phone at the charging station and got myself a diet coke out of the fridge. My mother had given up on the French fry package and had pulled out some tortilla chips. Something must be up. My mom usually doesn't just give up on things.

I quickly fed Elvis (the school bird I was taking care of for the summer) and waited for my mom at the table.

She pushed some half cooked pizza and tortilla chips in front of me and took a deep breath.

"Cammie…"

"Mom."

"Cammie. Do not interrupt. This is very important."

"Sorry."

She takes a breath " I'm not a lawyer. Do you know the Gallagher Academy For Exceptional Women? I am the headmistress."

I froze.

"Why would you lie about something like that?!? That doesn't even make any sense! That school is for rich snobby girls! You aren't snobby!"

"Cammie! Calm down!"

"No! What are you going to tell me next? Dad wasn't a judge?"

My mom suddenly seemed very interested in my Diet Coke.

"Are you serious! You have been lying to me! Why! Why would you do that?"

"There is more Cameron Ann. SIT DOWN AND DO NOT INTERUPT." My mother had never sounded more strict. I obeyed.

"Your father and I did not meet in law school. We met in the CIA. Your father went missing on a mission. He and I are spies. The Gallagher Academy is a school for spies. I am now a part time spy and full time Headmistress." I started to feel dizzy.

"Cammie? CAMMIE!" Everything went black

A/N- I guess yall have figured out by now that there were a few tweaks to the story. Cammie's mom kept all these secrets from Cammie until she was old enough to attend the academy.

PS- she thinks he dad died in a car accident in Germany at a judge conference or something. And when Ms. Morgan is away on missions, she says she is at a deposition (legal term not important at all, just involves traveling)

PSS- R & R