Hey! This is going to be a full story but I am also continuing my other story Back and Ready For Revenge.
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This is set during the summer after Cross My Heart and Hope To Spy. Cammie gets a surprise over Summer Break. And, we have heard all about Rachel and Abby, the Cameron side of the family. Now what about the Morgans? What if Matthew Morgan had a brother, who had a kid? So now Cammie has a cousin. Hope you like it! I'm going to write the last pages of Cross My Heart so that you don't get confused and stuff.
All rights to Ally Carter!
Last pages of Cross My Heart:
Mom looked at me-and I could have sworn she was seeing straight through me. "If you hurry, you can catch him."
"Catch who?"
"Zach," Mom said. "The boys… the Blackthorne trustees want them to take finals with their classmates." My mother must have sensed my confusion, because she said, "They're leaving."
"You're already packed," I said when I reached him, because, really, there wasn't anything else to say—or too much—I'm not sure.
He smiled. "We've all got baggage."
A crisp, clean breeze blew through the open doors. Breakfast was waiting. And classes. And finals. But the entire school seemed to be frozen in space and time. The boys carried suitcases and backpacks, while our world got ready to return to normal—whatever that's supposed to be.
I pointed to the bruise on his face, "That looks bad."
But Zach shook his head. "It isn't. He—"
"Hits like a girl?" I teased.
But Zach didn't smile; he didn't laugh. Something else hung in the air between us as he said, "Not the girls I know."
I thought about the boy I'd met in D.C.—the kid who'd teased me all semester—and I tried to reconcile those images with the boy who stood before me.
Zach was still cocky; he was still tough. But on the other hand, he'd offered me candy once when I was hungry, and I couldn't help thinking that maybe that made him sort of knightlike after all. That maybe it wasn't his fault his armor was kind of tarnished.
A semester was gone, so I didn't let myself think about what might have happened if things had been different. After all, trust is a hard thing for any girl—especially a Gallagher Girl—and this is the life I've chosen. These are the questions and doubts that will probably follow me for the rest of my life.
I turned slowly, started to walk away—toward my friends and my future and whatever was supposed to come next.
"Oh, and Cammie." At the sound of his voice I spun around, expecting to hear him crack a joke or call me Gallagher Girl. The last thing I expected was to feel his arms sliding around me, to sense the whole world turning upside down as Zach dipped me in the middle of the foyer and pressed his lips to mine.
Then he smiled that smile I'd come to know. "I always finish what I start."
He stepped toward the open door and the warm spring sun that was just waiting to burst into summer, a new season. Another clean slate.
"So this is good-bye?" I asked.
"Come on, Gallagher Girl." Zach turned to me. He winked. "What would be the odds of that?"
He walked out side and got in the van, and as far as I can tell, he never looked back—
Because neither did I.
I didn't think about the rules we'd broken or the time we'd wasted. I didn't dwell on the questions that seemed so important once and were now fading like a long-lost note in a heavy rain.
There are secrets in my world. They stack side by side like dominoes, and last September they'd started to fall—all because I'd said hello to a boy. Now I was saying good-bye to another one. But now, at least in Zach's case, I finally knew the truth. Well…most of the truth.
And it had set me free.
The whole summer lay ahead of us—time to rest, time to wait. And when the future comes—no matter what comes with it—I'll be smarter. I'll be stronger. I'll be ready.
I started to walk back to my dorm room. I needed to grab a couple of my books before I went to finish finals. I grabbed my COW and C&A books that were on top of my journal and saw a note laying underneath them. Picking it up I noticed that it was Evapopaper.
See you soon Gallagher Girl.
-Z
I just smiled and chuckled. But then I got to thinking…Zach wouldn't just leave a note like that for no reason, which meant that he would actually have to be seeing me sometime soon. I screamed in my mind (happy, of course). I was going to get to see Zach again.
I pushed the thought away, no matter how hard it was and headed off to finish finals and then get on a plane to Nebraska, to see my grandparents.
"Hello ladies and gentlemen,The plane is about to land. Please make sure your seatbelts are secured and fastened tightly. Thank you, and welcome to Nebraska!" The loud speaker on the plane announced.
I got off the plane to see Grandpa Morgan waiting there for me. I ran up to him and gave him a big bear hug.
"I missed you Grandpa!"
"Missed you, too Cam Cams!" He said using his nick name for me. "Now lets go hurry and get home. Your Grandma is making a big dinner and if we are late her and your cousin will start without us!"
"Oh yah…we don't want to miss her pie." I said smiling. We got in the car and drove off towards the farm.
I hoped you liked it! Please review! It makes my day!
What do you want Cammie's cousins name to be and what do you want him to look lik? I dont really have any ideas. If you review with the name you want and how you want him to look, I might use it in my story with all rights to you!
~Gabby22 :)
