Diclaimer: I don't own any of the characters they all belong to the awesome Ally Carter!

And basically this is Cross Your Heart and Hope to Spy in Zach's POV, starting from chapter 7 in the original book. I hope you enjoy! I'll update as soon as possible. And please Review!

Chapter 1

I arrived at Blackthorne when I was nine. My dad had gone MIA and my mom, well I didn't like to talk about her. The only other adult I had in my life was Joe Solomon, but he wasn't my dad and we weren't blood-related.

Joe Solomon is the best spy I know. He'd known my dad and mom, and become like a surrogate uncle. He was the one who enrolled me at Blackthorne. He was an alumni and vouched for me. Blackthorne isn't a normal boarding school either; it's a school for spies.

I'm one of the best spies my age, if not the best. I'd been learning and training since I was three, and had a natural talent for it. I was a spy legacy but that never really mattered to me. All I care about is being the best, which I am.

I was sitting in my room with my roommates Grant and Jonas when Dr. Steve, one of the school's crazier teachers popped his head in. "Time to get moving boys."

"What do you mean?" all three of asked simultaneously.

"CoveOps. Pop quiz."

Okay when Dr. Steve uttered the words 'pop quiz' I got extremely excited. Seriously, the only thing that kept me from jumping up and down like a five year on Christmas morning was my reputation. My excitement almost over took me when Dr. Steve led us to the helipad a top the main building. At Blackthorne, well once you're in you don't really get out. Maybe once a year, but other then that you're fenced in. So the fact we'd actually get to fly somewhere had me on cloud nine.

Beside my roommates and myself there were nine other juniors on the helipad; all from my Coveops class. I quickly glanced around to see if I'd somehow missed where our Coveops teacher Mr. Stein was (even though it was highly unlikely I would have), but he wasn't there.

"Where's Mr. Stein?" Grant asked, reading my mind.

"He's occupied with another class. It's just us today boys." Great, a day with Mr. Steve. There went my excitement…

"Where are we going?" Jonas asked eyeing the helicopter that had just arrived nervously. The boy was always nervous.

"That's for me to know and you to find out," Dr. Steve smiled, before climbing aboard our ride.

We were forced to where blindfolds when we all got in the helicopter. The ride was 83 minutes and 15 seconds exactly. When we touched down, we were all forced into what I assumed to be a very large van. The car ride was another 22 minutes and 54 four seconds. When we finally arrived we were told we could take our blindfolds off. I kicked Grant who appeared to have fallen asleep; that dude could sleep anywhere!

"Alright boys, your mission today is to tail these girls." Suddenly Dr. Steve was pushing envelopes at all of us. I opened mine to find a picture of a dirty blond girl with blue green eyes. There was also a small sheet of paper with a few facts like her name, age, height, and eye color. I stared at the picture for a couple of seconds. Whoever this girl was she was cute. Really cute.

"We're tailing high school girls?" Jonas asked confused. I couldn't blame him, I was just as confused. After all, this was way below our skill level.

"These aren't just regular girls," Dr. Steve said, "These girls attend Gallagher Academy for Exceptional Young Women."

"So?" Grant said.

"So, Mr. Newman, Gallagher Academy has to this day been a girl for spies."

I'm pretty sure at that point every guys jaw dropped. There was a school for girl's spies! Really, how was it possible I didn't know this? After all, I'd been doing the spy thing since I was potty trained, Jonas had one of he highest IQ's in the world, and Grant, well Grant could charm information out of anyone. The three of us, my roommates and me should have known this!

I looked back down at the picture of the Gallagher girl in anger. "So what we just follow them?" I asked.

There suppose to meet their teacher at 5 o'clock pm. You job is to make sure they don't make it…tail free."

I smirked. Even if I'd been momentarily stunned by the fact there was a school for spy girls I knew there was no way they could beat us. Exceptional or not. Grant proceeded to throw the van door opens and step out. "Cool we're at the Mall," he said.

"Perfect," I said, "They'll be so busy fawning over clothes and purses that they'll never know we're there."

"Uh, Zach, it's not that kind of Mall." Grant said. I got out of the van and looked around.

"Cool, we're in D.C."