Disclaimer: I don't own Gallagher Girls or any of the characters. Ally Carter does.

So, I decided to start another story even though everyone wants me to finish the rest of the stories first… I'm working on it… But I had an idea. I hope you enjoy! Oh and for anybody who has a panic disorder, I'm not trying to offend you, I have a panic disorder due to depressions and stress, so it may not happen to you but it happens to me, so don't get offended in anyway.

Cammie and Zach have always been friends. Not just the friends who would say 'hi' in the hallways, but the best friends who had seen each other sleep, half naked, covered in sand, grass and blood, and with the biggest bed head hair dos ever.

It all started when Cammie was about 4 years old. She was new in town when her parents packed up their entire house in Maryland and moved to Minnesota. Cammie didn't mind, she only had just started preschool and only had one friend, but she was kind of mean. Her name was Macey. She stole Cam's animal crackers. While they were unpacking the boxes in Cammie's room with the window right open, a young boy about her age was walking in. Not that Cammie was watching him through the window; the windows were just so close. If you reached out you could touch the other person's house.

The boy happened to have his window open as well. He called over to her. They stood with their arms on the window sill talking back and forth. I know what you are thinking. Why didn't they just go outside and talk? They thought it was cooler to be able to communicate with the other child while still being in their own rooms. They found many ways to talk with their windows even when they weren't home. Cammie started it when she would write out notes in crayon and stick it in crack of the window, at night when they were about 8, they would use their flashlights and talk in code.

They were in pretty much every class together. Preschool, kindergarten, first grade, third grade, and fourth grade. In second grade, Zach was in Mrs. Jacobson's class while Cam was in Mr. Smith's class. Which if you were the recess aide, you would be very sorry that they weren't in the same class. At the end of recess she would have to pull them apart from their death bear hug. They were so cute. All their teachers would say the same thing. Someday these two will fall in love. And did that happen? You'll have to find out later.

Anyways, Zach and Cammie were best friends to get to the point. They still were, even at 16.

One day Cammie came home after a tiring day of school, she lay on her bed not noticing that someone had opened her window while she was at school.

"What's wrong Darlin'?" Zach commented while writing something at his desk which was right underneath his window. They both placed their desks under their windows for easy communication with each other.

Cammie got up from her bed and sat at her desk. "Nothing. Everything is fine." She put on a fake smile hoping that Zach was having an off day and wouldn't notice the fakeness of the smile like he always does.

"Cameron." Zach looked straight up at her through the screen of her window "I know something is wrong. Do I have to come next door?"

"Yes." She looked down at her hands.

He raised his eyebrows at her, widening his eyes. He only has to go over when something really bad happens.

"I'll be over in a minute."

And by a minute he literally means a minute. He rushes out of his room and calls to his mother who is in the kitchen. "Mom, I'm going next door, don't know how long I'll be."

His mom was a big supporter of Cammie and Zach's friendship.

"Tell Cammie dear, I say hi."

"Will do." He yelled back while rushing out the front door to Cam's front door. He opens it and walks in. The Morgan's never mind. Zach always walks right into Cam's house and she walks into his.

"Hello Zachary." Rachael Morgan greets him with a smile. "Here to see Cam?"

"Yup, is she still upstairs in her room?" He asks with urge.

"Hasn't come down since she got home. Is anything wrong?"

"That's what I came over for."

"Was she being all moody?" She raised her eyebrows.

Zach nodded.

"Good luck." She stated plainly as he hurried upstairs to find Cam yet again hugging her knees, rocking back and forth. He saw her do this before. She is having a panic attack. It rarely occurs, at least for what he'd seen. She told him about her panic disorder a while ago. She only had these attacks when she is overly depressed and stressed.

By now Zach was sitting next to her on her bed, not touching her in anyway, knowing to give her space.

Once she calmed down a bit, she sat up straight and looked him in the eyes. His emerald green eyes. The eyes that have calmed her many times before. When she fell off the playground set when they were 7 and she broke her ankle at school and she had to take the ambulance because her parents were far away, when Cammie was rejected by her crush in the 7th grade, and mainly when her father died. He has always been there for her. And always would be.

"What's stressing you out Darlin'?" Zach looked at her lovingly. (In the friend love way)

"Well finals are in a couple weeks and-" She started before Zach cut her off.

"I know that is not why you were just panicking. What's really bugging you?"

"You saw my mother downstairs right?" She whispered.

"Yeah why?" He looked at her confused.

She looked down at her hands, "She has been keeping it together, but my aunt Abby is really sick, and she is in the hospital."

Zach wrapped his arms around her and kissed her forehead. "Oh Cam. I am so sorry."

She started lightly crying, "I'm flying out to Maryland next week, my mom doesn't exactly want to go, so I'll be by myself, and I don't think I want to face anything that happens to her by myself."

"Shhh, sweetie. It'll be alright." He reassured her.

Cam pulled away from the hug and looked him right in the eyes. "Will you come with me Zach?"

Hmm, what will Zachary say? So how did you like the first chapter? I'm hoping to get a good response!

May the Odds Be Ever in Your Favor,

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