What should she say to him? She internally freaked out at the picture of the boy she was supposed to tail, but now was not the time to tell her friends she kept the most important part of her life from them, so she kept her face neutral.

He was her boyfriend of four years, best friend of twelve, and most certainly the bane of her existence. So how was she supposed to look at him, tail him, or, God forbid, talk to him, without blowing one of her covers? The cover on her mission- a normal girl out for a stroll on the Mall, or the cover she'd developed at school- the girl that was never popular, had no friends worth keeping in touch with, and was single until Josh, the boy she dated during a fight with Zach, whom she tried so desperately to hide. Both covers were equally important at the moment, yet neither would she be able to keep the moment she saw his face, and she knew it.

"Alright, ladies! Out, you go, we're here!" Mr. Solomon announced in an uncharacteristically cheery voice as he shooed Cammie and all of her sisters out of the van. Many of the girls began wandering aimlessly around the Mall, but Cam spotted Zach before she even left the van's back step. Being able to recognize someone from long distances away was just something that kind of happened when you were so close to them for so long. If she could notice him that easily, it wouldn't be that difficult for him to spot her, despite the fact that she was a far better pavement artist.

Upon closer inspection, she realized he was wearing the tee shirt she had gotten him for his last birthday. It said "Bite Me" on the front and had a picture of a girl in a bikini and a boy in a swimsuit on it, in reference to both their beach vacation for his birthday and their inside joke.

Flashback

"Who are you?"

Six year old Zachary Goode looked up. He shrugged. "Call me Zach." Even at such a young age, he had the smirk Cameron Morgan would later fall into a love- hate relationship with.

He chose to ignore the implied What are you doing in my sandbox? as she inched farther and farther away from him. Farther still until she had to rise to sit on the wooden rim of her favorite childhood playground feature.

"Don't worry," he said, "I don't bite... Unless provoked." He winked, sounding more like his older cousin, the high school player, than his kindergarten self. In fact, it was a line he picked up- no pun intended- straight from James, the cousin who lived with his family. And even though it wasn't original, it became a sort of inside joke between the two.

The shirt and the flashback were too much, and they reminded her of her utterly hopeless cause. Yet it was nothing like her spy self to surrender a mission so easily, she and Zach hadn't had a date in ages. A movie with the love of her life was definitely worth failing CoveOps. Mr. Solomon could just suck it! But then, it was common knowledge that that was Aunt Abby's job...

To get unwanted thoughts of my aunt doing things I knew she did but liked to avoid, I began looking for Blackthorne Boys. They were pretty simple to find considering that we were restricted to the confines of the Mall, and I knew most of them from the Blackthorne annual visiting weeks I spent with Zach.

I had nine of the ten of them in seventeen minutes, leaving only one. Zach. I walked up behind him and slipped my arms around his waist.

"Zachary Goode, codename Lover Boy, wearing a hot bite me tee shirt his girlfriend bought him for his birthday, currently being felt up by some random girl on the street, which I'm sure said girlfriend would not like very much," I whispered into the comms Solomon gave me that I had rewired to connect to the Blackthorne frequency, instead of my sisters'.

"Well, I'm sure that girlfriend would not like this very much either!" With that, he grabbed be and swung me onto his shoulder potato sack style.

"Actually, I think she loves getting abducted randomly on the streets. But what she likes even more is when her boyfriend takes her to movies. She heard that Tower Heist was good." I swung my legs around so that I was sitting on his back piggy back fashion.

"I think he'll have to take her then. They haven't been on a date since the summer! Isn't it so depressing?"

"Very. But can we stop talking about ourselves in third person? It's not like we're British royalty or anything," I whined.

"But we will be, once we take over the world," he reminded me.

"Is that still on your to- do list? I heard you're staying with us for the semester, so we can have some time to conspire." I grinned evilly. "Maybe we could get some tips from the movie?"

We located a theater a few blocks away, and Zach carried me the whole way. The ticket lady raised her eyebrows at us but said nothing. I grinned at her.

The popcorn man wasn't quite as soft spoken about our situation though.

"Young love," he sighed. "Quite a fine catch you got yourself there, young man," he said to Zach.

"I'm not a fish, and I'm right here," I complained brattily.

"We know, babe. Your radiant beauty is like a ton of gold. It's kind of hard to miss," Zach complimented me. The people behind us awed and I pecked his neck, which was pretty much the only kissable place I could reach, besides his earlobe, which I felt was a bit too intimate for the candy line at the movie theater.

We got our popcorn and made our way to the screen room. As we settled into our seats, I heard Grant's voice in my ear. I had almost forgot about the comms, which we couldn't turn off. Our options were too listen to Grant's cheesy comments about Zach and I's romance or connect to the Gallagher frequency and alert my sisters of how I'd lied to them as long as I'd known them. I wasn't prepared for that, leaving only one choice.

Great. Because my first cousin listening in on my dates is definitely on the top of my Christmas list! Not.

Meet Joe, he will be your line break today. Say hi, Joe! *Hi...*

I wanted to wait until I had more written to upload this, but I also wanted to publish a story on leap day, because I'll probably never have another chance too, so... Thanks so much for reading and please review! :)