The Gallagher Exchange
Chapter 1
Grant and I walked down to sublevel 1, Grant was talking about the chances of getting a girl at are all boys school. Again. Thankfully, he stopped talking when we got to class because Mr. Carter, our CoveOps teacher was already here. Mr. Carter started talking about surveillance and I got my stuff out and started to take notes. It was boring, as usual – that is, it was boring until my uncle, Joe Solomon, walked through the door with his hair dripping wet saying "Sorry I'm late Bill."
Every one knows me at my school, but not because I've been here since 7th grade. It was because Joe Solomon is my uncle – and Joe Solomon is legendary. He is one of the greatest ex-spies in the world, but he was also a Blackthorne Boy (my school). So that's why every one is pressuring me to be the best. "That's quite alright." Mr. Carter said, motioning for my uncle to continue.
"Good morning, boys" he said, now addressing us. "I am excited to tell you that this is not the only school of it's kind."
At this every one started talking at once. I just sat there stunned. "Please, let me finish." he continued. "The Gallagher Academy for Exceptional Young Women."
Wow! There was another school for spies. Better yet girl spies, maybe –. My thought was interrupted by my uncle speaking. "In three days time, you will be going on a mission. Your cover, normal teenage boys enjoying a day out. Your goal, stop the Gallagher Girls from arriving at their meeting place on time." He pulled out a stack of files. "These contain the name of the girl you will be tailing, as well as a picture of them for identification. Have a good day."
As soon as he left, the talking started again, but seized when Mr. Carter told us to get the file with our name on it. After that we were dismissed. Grant and I went up to our room to look at our files. I had a girl named Cameron Morgan and Grant had Rebecca Baxter. When we were done looking we waited for Jonas – our computer-genius friend/room mate – to back from Advance Organic Chemistry. We had a next and then lunch so we decided to stay in our room.
When Jonas came back I asked him to run a search on Gallagher, but nothing came up. It took him almost ten minutes to come up with anything at all, and another twenty to get through all the firewalls. Grant complained exactly once, and all Jonas said was "Hold on, this is going to take a little bit longer than I thought, Gallagher has more protection than Blackthorne." and let me tell you Blackthorne has a lot of protection.
I was almost falling asleep when he finally said "I'm in, what do you want to know?"
All I said back was "First get all the main info on the school, then we'll search the girls."
He found the information I wanted on the school like the headmistress is Rachel Morgan (yes the Rachel Morgan who once killed a man with nothing but a bobby pin) and I'm guessing, Cameron is her daughter. We also found out that Solomon woks there – he didn't bother to tell me this even though I was staying with him all summer – as well as Henry Smith, one of the worlds most wanted ex-spies. The school cover is a prep-school, and every one who knows about Gallagher and is not a spie, thinks it's a school for bored heiresses with nowhere else to go.
"Okay, now search Cameron Morgan, if I'm going to tail this girl, I need a little more information on her." I finished.
"Gotcha." Jonas replied. "Umm... Parents are: Rachel Morgan – Alive, ex-spie, headmistress at Gallagher Academy
Christopher Morgan – Presumed dead, ex-spice, sent on mission never returned.
A.K.A. Cammie, cam, Chameleon
Acomplishments: Successfully snuck of campus to see 'Josh' (the subject)sophomore year first semester, cracked NSA codes at age of 6, pavement artist."
Grant was the first to break the silence. "Wow Zach, you're going to have your hands full at that mission on Saturday."
"Thanks, Grant because I didn't already know that." I retorted
"Hey, it's time to find out about my girl now. Right?" he asked looking like a little kid on Christmas morning.
Grant," I said "Technically she's not your girl, you haven't even met her yet."
"Guy's!" Jonas interrupted "I'm in. So her parents are: Sydney Baxter – Alive, spice for M16
Abe Baxter – Alive, spice for M16
A.K.A. Bex, Duchess
Acomplishments: helped parents with mission summer before sophomore year, assisted Cameron Morgan with the subject. Well that's about it on Bex."
"Wait a sec," I said, thinking about what Jonas had said. "It said that she helped cammie with the subject. What does that mean? Are they friends? Does Cammie have something over Bex?"
Grant just shrugged but Jonas said " I can check that out if you want."
"Go ahead." was all I replied.
"Okay, well it says Cammie and Bex are room mates, as well as a girl named Liz Sutton and Macey McHenry."Jonas explained.
"Do you mean Macey McHenry, the senator's daughter?" asked a confused Grant.
I replied "maybe, but I really doubt it. That girl is a real air head." Then I thought of something else I wanted to ask Jonas. "Jonas what happened to that Jimmie guy, cammie was dating?"
"Well... All it says here is that she lied, saying that she was home schooled, than she finally told him the truth, but right after she walked away, they kidnaped her for her CoveOps final. The kid saw, and thought she had really been kidnaped, so he called the police and it ended with him driving a forklift through th–" I cut him of there.
Wait, you're telling me this kid drove a forklift through something."I snickered
"Just let me finish. As I was saying, he drove a forklift through the wall and it knocked Solomon out. So they brought him back to Gallagher and told him everything but then Mrs. Morgan gave him some kind off special tea to make him forget all about it. That's it." he finished his explanation.
"She sure knows how to cause trouble." I said and we all burst out laughing, but looking at the faces of my two best friends, I could tell they agreed with me.
Chapter 2
I walked down the front steps of my school, today was the day of my mission. Of course, it wasn't a real mission, it was a CoveOps test – for a grade. I looked around, expecting to see a Blackthorne van. Instead, I saw a helicopter. Okay, so I guess this place was farther away than I thought.
I got in the helicopter, sat beside Grant, and settled in for the ride. It was a long ride with Grant jabbering about bex the whole way. "... helped parents on a mission last summer..."
I tuned him out – I tuned every one out, and soon enough, we were getting ready for landing. When we got off of the helicopter, there was a Blackthorne van waiting. Waiting to take us to the Gallagher Girls.
Grant and I walked over to a bench and sat down to wait. We had been sitting there for 47 minutes when Mr. Carter came over the comms units saying that girls had arrived. Not five minutes later, I saw Bex walking in our direction, or more accurately, twirling in our direction. I started looking all over for Cammie, until I finally realized that she was walking right beside Bex. I could tell she was a real pavement artist, because I honestly hadn't seen her until right then.
Bex's eye's flickered in our direction. "Grant," I said calmly "I think they're onto us."
Then bex flashed us a smile, and flipped her hair over her shoulder. Okay, now I get it. She thinks we're just normal teenage guys – and she wanted us to notice her. Cammie, on the other hand, looked like she wanted the exact opposite. She was the Chameleon, she didn't like people noticing her.