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- Head over Heels -
The helicopter took a sudden dip and I almost lost track of time, almost. However being the good spy I was, I continued to count the seconds: two thousand five hundred, two thousand five hundred and one.
I pushed my mental clock to the back of my mind refusing to be even a second off. Ever since Mr. Solomon had announced that the junior class would be taking a day "vacation" to the "beach" (notice the quotes around vacation and beach) I had been paranoid.
Since when did the future woman spies of America ever take a day off of spy school for a vacation anyway (two months after summer break)? I mean shouldn't Mr. Solomon be teaching us how to disable some sort of bomb (he had been hinting at it for weeks) instead of taking us to the beach?
I had been fully convinced that this was a set-up but Liz, Bex and Macey had completely ignored me and instead they all just squealed at the thought of spending a day with Solomon at the beach (not that I personally have anything against that).
I shifted slightly, hoping that the blindfold around my eyes would magically fall off (so I wouldn't have to explain anything to Soloman). Bex was snoring next to me while Liz was probably reciting Einstein's theories in her head. As for Macey, she had finally caught up to the class over break and this was her first trip with the class (but she still had to catch up in the CO's department). She sat next to Liz and she was probably as bored as I was. I was dying to know exactly where we were and so I made an attempt to steal a glance under the blindfold.
"No peeking Ms. Morgan." Solomon said flatly. Did he have to notice everything?
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In exactly five hundred and forty – four seconds later I found myself standing in front of a huge lake house with the junior and senior class (my mother had unexpectedly brought the seniors). And it just so happened that the lake house was isolated in a dense forest. This was probably some top secret spy training facility disguised as a beautiful, mansion sized lake house or maybe it was–.
"Cam," Bex whispered nudging me in the side (where I am sure will be a large bruise tomorrow). "Look!"
Several vans were pulling into the long driveway. But they weren't Gallagher Academy vans, they were–.
"The Blackthorne boys are here!" Liz said shrieking just as a crowd of boys started pouring out of the vans.
"Oh, great." Macey said sarcastically.
My thoughts exactly.
"I don't think your eight-grader lovers are here Macey." Bex said standing on her toes to look around.
"Oh, great!" Macey said smiling widely.
I guess I lost her.
But wait; were the sophomores, now juniors here? If so, was Zach here? Oh no, I had definitely planned much more time (10-20 years) for me to sort out my feelings for Zach before seeing him again. But looking at the situation on hand, that had definitely been a big mistake.
"Hey, I see Jonas!" Liz said breaking out into a wide smile. "And some of the seniors that came last year. So it's probably the same, our juniors and seniors are here and their juniors and seniors are here."
My stomach dropped, oh no. So maybe Zach was here and now what? Or maybe for some strange reason Zach wasn't here. Maybe everything would go according to schedule. As I thought through all the possible situations, everyone started to move inside.
Even while I was freaking out, I managed to notice just how beautiful the inside of the house was. Everything was a beautiful blue, white or a light purple. The whole house seemed light and cheerful and I wished that I could share the same feelings. But instead I felt my lunch moving around.
"Alright everyone," Mr. Solomon said. "Settle down. For the next eight hours you are free to do what you want. But, be packed up around 20:00 which is when we will be heading back."
"Excellent, have fun everyone!" Dr. Steve said smiling fondly at everyone.
And with that , Mr. Solomon, Dr. Steve and my mother, who winked in my direction, before walking into a room and shutting the door.
What was that all about? And there was still no explanation at why the Blackthorne boys were here.
In a matter of minutes everyone had spread out and the noise level rose to a high. Many people had run out onto the beach or had spread out throughout the house catching up with the boys or shyly introducing them-selves.
"See you guys later, I am going to tan on the beach. Meet me there whenever." Macey called strolling out; ignoring the countless stares she was receiving from the Blackthorne boys.
"Hey I think I see Grant over there," Bex said. "I am going to go say hi. Wanna come?"
"Sure!" Liz said. She probably wanted to find Jonas.
"Umm, I just have to use the bathroom, so I, ah, will meet up with you guys later." I said. I could probably do better on any pop-quiz Mr. Smith threw at us right now than to see Zach at the moment.
Bex and Liz just looked at each other knowingly before turning to me and smiling.
"It's ok for you to like him you know."
"I don't know what you guys are talking about." I said watching their smiles widen.
And with that I walked away quickly before they could say anything else. I pushed back a group (that was already watching some movie on a large flat screen) and ran up the staircase hoping that my chameleon ability wouldn't choose today to fail.
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