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CHAPTER 1: Suspicious

"Hello room, how have you been?" Ok now I'm sounding weird but how could you blame a girl who's alone in a room for four. I started fixing my things while wondering about things, people and it. As I now prefer calling the person, it. I slumped back to my bed trying to count the number of hours I'd have to spend alone waiting for my friends, that'd be around 16 hours, 25 minutes and 28 seconds, though I wouldn't want to dramatically point out that they are not coming any sooner. I don't understand why I'm suddenly depressed over something. I started walking around the halls of Gallagher academy, trying to see things in a practical light when I heard a disturbing thud and a couple of yanking sounds.

"What on earth…" I started moving towards the place where the sounds came from when I saw an angry girl trying to protect her suitcases.

"If that lands on the ground in a manner that I don't see fit, I will make your life a living hell". She threatened the chauffer with a smile from hell. "And that's Macey" I was at the front door waiting for her to successfully unload her luggage, with the a full emphasis on the number of the cases, there were nine cases that could fit a fat kid for crying out loud.

"Hey Mace! Want some help?" I was grinning happily to at least see another being in this school. "Cammie!" She ran towards me in an embrace, abandoning her bags, which I'm telling you got out of the car's trunk with blood and sweat at stake.

"So you're back early huh?" I broke of our hug and asked. "Well I thought I'd rather suffer here alone than stay with my dad and his guards who kept thinking that I'd die just by touching stuff that they didn't inspect" She was rolling her eyes while going back to her bags. "Well, that's an acceptable reason. Well whatever let's just go in!" I started pulling out her bags to our room when I saw Liz picking up the pieces of a broken vase.

"Oh hi guys!" She exclaimed while holding up a piece of the broken vase then she started explaining what happened when we eyed the vase "Well I was trying to grab my coat when it got stuck to the table and, and…" Macey cut her off "No need for an explanation, at least we know that you weren't kidnapped and replaced while staying in Alabama" We all laughed off while hugging each other.

Finally we reached our room to see our friend dancing something that may cause anyone to disown her, but knowing Bex, this is an indication of something juicy. We stared at her until I cleared my throat causing her to look and run towards us, giving us all a tight hug. "I am so dying to see you guys!" There was the glint, the deadly glint in the eyes.

"Spill it, what do you have up your sleeve" I tried to get it out of her but she seemed dazed.

"Earth to Bex!" Liz was now swiping her hands in front of Bex's face when she realized that she went into her own world for exactly two minutes and 49 seconds. "Ugh. Can everyone allow me to have a happy moment!" And Bex was bouncing up and down while we all stared at her.

"So really Bex, What's up? Tell us before I change my mind into giving you the top that you super wanted" Macey was talking in a sing-song tone while inspecting her nails.

"Ok ok! I have to breathe slowly" she was doing this yoga movement pulling her hands in a relaxing movement "Grantsentmeapictureofhim!" She was screaming at the top of her lungs and no one even understood a word of it.

"Slow down! There are no horses here!" Macey retorted while Liz tried to get a pen and paper thinking that whatever Bex was saying was as important as a bomb threath since there was so much commotion.

"Phew! I said Grant-sent-me-a-picture-of-him!" Bex was saying it slowly to the point that I had to connect the words while thinking when I realized that it wasn't that important. "And I thought it was to die for…" Liz said as she slowly put away her pen and paper.

"Oh so that was it…" I turned around ignoring Bex and her waiting-for-a-reaction-hand-gestures. "Oh come on guys!" She looked at us questioningly when I suddenly realized the implication of that confused Grant sending his picture to Bex. That asshole! And yeah I was now thinking of Zach, the it that I tried to avoid thinking about the entire vacation.

I think they were able to read my expression as they were now looking at me with contemplating eyes as if waiting for a reaction and with a sigh I reached for my bedside trying to mask my facial expression "What?" Then I looked at them with the most innocent face my spy senses could muster. Yeah right as if I looked believable enough.

"Let's not dwell on this now, I'm getting dead air chills!" Macey was now rubbing her arms when we heard a knock on our door.

"Girls, are you in there?" My mom, the headmistress asked as I motioned for the door "Hey mom! Need anything?" I stared at her trying to read her expression but of course my efforts were wasted.

"Well I wanted to call you for dinner and because nobody answered and its just us here, I took the liberty of calling you myself" My mom asked us while glancing around the room "Oh then we'll follow in a jiffy!" Bex replied while we all nodded in agreement.

"Ok then, see you in a while" Smiling, she closed the door when I heard my friends talking; and true enough we had the same suspicions.

Bex looked around "Was that just me or did you guys notice how Mrs. Morgan had this weird glint in her eyes? Like…" but was cut off by Liz who was now up on her heels in excitement "She was hiding something!". "Exaclty!" Bex retorted.

"And I though I was just seeing things" Macey was now looking at me, expecting an answer, well what can I do, people would expect me, the daughter to at least know right?!

"I don't know what she's up to, but I get what you guys are saying, she was acting a bit weird. It was as if she wanted to say something more but suddenly hesitated" I held on to the doorknob, pondering on the weirdness of things.

"So whatever! Let us go eat first then think after, my stomach is now under civil war here!" Bex scrambled out the bed then through the door and so we followed her. We arrived at the dining hall with all sorts of stuff laid out so we started grabbing on whatever we could find when I saw Mr. Solomon whispering something to my mom, and the spy in me kicked in.

I tried to act as if I wasn't listening at all, using much to my surprise my dessert spoon, I tried to lip read while giggling to my friends just to seem as if I'm having a conversation with my friends. But I think I got distracted upon "reading" out something that goes like school…mission…tomorrow morning… and surprise. I'm sorry okay, We've just started with lip reading to I practically still sucked at it.

My friends seemed to have caught on what I was doing as I turned my full attention to them the moment Mr. Solomon moved away from my mom who was now staring at us, while smiling. I repeat smiling. Now everything is getting weirder, my mom does not smile in such a way that we seemed to be walking food in the eyes of a starving dog!

"Guys I don't know if this is good news or if we are practically screwed" I was now eying them to act as if I wasn't telling them anything of the secretive nature, but Liz's face was totally giving us away, but its okay since she always looked like that so it'd seem normal, for now.

"And what might that be, that would get us in deeper hell than we are now?" Macey kept on twirling her pasta while asking me, atleast she was good in faking a normal teenage conversation, though everyone knows that us, spy and normal can't be found in one sentence without a couple of negating words to come with it.

"Mr. Solomon whispered these to my mom, school…mission…tomorrow morning… and surprise" I waited for a response as they analyzed what I just said.

"Those words mixed together sounds like deadly fun to me, I just hope we aren't talking about surprise attacks here" Bex was taking a sip of her drink when we heard my mom say "I'd be heading out first girls, I just have to tend onto something, just enjoy your meals" My mom walked to us stopping to hear our reply

"Sure mom, goodnight as well then!" I looked at her then smiled

"No problem Mrs. Morgan! Night!" My friends said in unison, they all did so while keeping up their unsuspecting covers. So with that my mom bade us goodnight then went out the doors of the hall.

Then we all sighed. "I just want some fun and a more or less normal life." I said as I got up, followed by my friends. We walked to our room while attempting to figure out what was about to come our way.

It was normal that I was the only one left awake, this usually happens since my friends are tired, no need to question the fact that they just came from who-knows-where-in-the-world. So I let them drag themselves to their beds while I wonder about what just happened awhile ago, hoping to the deepest part of my brain that what ever that was, involved one particular person, Zachary Goode. I slowly drift off to sleep, hoping that my brain would start connecting the pieces of information I have on its own.