Chapter 1

Lies. That's what was bothering me as I sat in the window sill of the attic in the in the tower at the Gallagher Academy for Exceptional Young Women. My school, and also my home. Home is supposed to be a safe place. It's nothing like that here, because I go to spy school where my mother is the headmistress, and lies are our specialty. My life is filled with them. More so recently since a certain Blackthorn boy showed up in my life. Ever since the exchange program, the lies just keep pouring in to the point where I don't even know what's real any more. But being the Chameleon that I am, I can usually hide it. Not this time. I came back from my Grandparents house early this summer giving me a few weeks before school, and since my mom got called away on some business trip that left me in the mansion, alone. The silence in this place can really do things to you. All I could do was think and process all the unknown things in my life. And it just made me realize a few unsettling things. My whole life I've been lied to my mom never tells me what's going on when I deserve to know. Zack knows things about me that even I don't know and may never will but there was one question that was eating away at me. What happened to my dad? All these questions and the excessive thinking made me realize that I was NEVER going to know the answers. Even though I had fallen in love with Zach Goode, I was happy that he was out of my life, for now anyways, because he was becoming the primary source of the lies, and he was no good for me. I was different now than last semester. I was a completely different person with a completely different outlook on life. I tried to find as much truth in those lies as I could, and the truth was that I was never going to know. All of my time not spent eating or sleeping in these past few weeks, was spent walking up and down the hallways or sitting in my favorite passageways thinking about lies, or dreaming of the truth. I had never thought about that one special day in Roseville with Josh, or that opportunity that would never expire until now.

*Flashback*

"It's my life, and I'm not sitting on the sidelines watching it pass me by", I sang in the gazebo as I waited for josh. I felt a tap on my shoulder and I turned around to see him with a smile on his face. I blushed hoping he hadn't heard me, but knowing he probably did. "Josh!" I hugged him. "How much did you hear?" I asked. "Enough. Cammie you're amazing, you have the most beautiful voice I've ever heard!" He said. "You're my boyfriend you have to say that." I joked. "What do you have planned for us today?" "Ah ah ah! It's a surprise!" He teased as he pulled a blindfold out from his jacket and tied it over my eyes. I giggled as josh picked me up and gave me a piggy back ride to wherever it was he was taking me. "Ok. Were here!" he said sounding I little to sneaky for my taste. He pulled of the blindfold to reveal that we were standing in the lobby of the Roseville recording studio. I was angry until I realized that in the studio was Jack Daniels! Only the biggest agent in…………….well, he's BIG! "Ok, ok. Before you get angry, let me just tell you that when I was walking to the gazebo today and I heard you, I was shocked Cammie. You're amazing. Then I remembered that I read an article that Jack Daniels was going to be here today and the owner of this place is a family friend. Cammie please just sing them one song!" "Josh! Uhh……….that is the most annoying, most frustrating ….and sweetest thing I've ever heard!"

*End Flashback*

And I did. I sang for them. They said I was amazing and the most talented they'd heard for years. I spent the next month meeting Jack at the studio every Saturday to record my new album. When we finished, Jack begged me to sign a record deal with his company, he offered me millions of dollars to do it, I dint even give it a second thought I said no. He gave me his card and said that I was making a big mistake and I should reconsider. He said the offer would always be open and that I should call anytime day or night. We made a few copies of the CD, and josh kept one. But I never told anyone else. No one. And I never thought of it until now. It was my opportunity, my option. I could get up and leave right now, and I would have a place to go and money to spend, but more importantly, I would be happy with a purpose. But for now, I was hanging on to what was left of my life as a spy. Which sadly was not much. Just then the vans started to pull up and I saw my mom step out along with my sisters. Every other year, at this point I would put on my happy face and greet my friends, not this time……………