Come Find Me

ME: I can't and I won't.

Bex: You can and you will.

Me: And what are you going to do about it?

Bex: *Cracks knuckles menacingly*

Me: OKAY! OKAY! Ally Carter owns all rights Gallagher Girls, and I do not.

I only got to the gates of Gallagher when I realized what was missing. I was already caked in mud and pretty sure I'd have a nasty bruise popping up on my right thigh later and all of this came from trying (and to my surprise, succeeding) to escape my school's security. I sighed, and turned back around to Gallagher to go find what was rightfully mine. To find what belonged to Cameron Anne Morgan.

I was glad nobody was in my room. I wasn't good at goodbyes. Running away from school so that the Circle of Cavan couldn't find me was hard enough to do, but to see my best friends crying and begging me to stay…that I can't do.

I walked to my bed and retrieved my pillow. Now, I know what you're thinking. How cliché? Hiding something near and dear to my heart under my pillow? Well, you're wrong.

I snatched a pocket knife from Bex's night stand and ripped open the pillow. I threw the knife towards Bex's wall, and it stuck straight into it. I reached into the pillow, and found it.

My father's wedding band.

I found a chain in my jewelry box and stuck it through the ring. My mom gave this to me for my 13th birthday so I would never forget him. As if. I was on my out the door when I saw a picture on Liz's nightstand. It was one of Macey, Bex, Liz and I. That picture was taken on a Town Day. We were going to see a movie, but thought somebody was trailing us and snuck around town trying to lose him. Finally, Macey had enough and roundhouse kicked him to the face. Unfortunately for him, he was just a man with bad luck. Yep, that's right. He was just a civilian. There goes another case of just how special that special tea really is.

And then the memories flooded my head like a movie scene.

Macey prepping me up for my date for Josh, then complaining that I used all of her mascara. I then convinced her she didn't need mascara and she forgave me.

Bex and I sparring in PE.

Me kicking Bex's butt in PE.

Bex sending me to the infirmary after PE.

Liz using her Boy Translator to see what Josh meant when he wrote those notes to me. The her using that same machine to see what Zach really meant.

Zach. Zach. Zach.

I bit my lip trying to keep from crying. He would be hurt that I ran away without him. He wouldn't show it, but that's what he felt. I took a shaky breath as I remembered how his lips felt against mine. His mom was out to kill me. That killed him.

But he could keep me safe. All of them could. I'm staying.

I smiled and went to empty my bag. I threw open one of my draws when a note fluttered out.

C,

We're coming. Be prepared.

-COC

I read that note until it was soaked in my tears. Stop it. I chided myself. Spys do NOT cry. I shoved the note in my front pocket.

They were here, and that means they can get me. That means they could get them. I pulled my bag over my shoulder and fled.

I was right from the beginning. I had to leave.