Six years ago. That's how long it's been since the incident, since I watched the love of my life walk out of my life, since my heart was ripped out of my chest, since my other half walked away.
May be I should tell you about myself. I'm Cameron, The Chameleon, Morgan. I go to Gallagher Academy. Everyone in Roseville, Virginia thinks that it is a school for rich, snobby girls whose daddies sent them off to boarding school, so they wouldn't waste away their young lives shopping and texting and traveling around the world. But in actuality it's a school for spies. My dad went on mission when I was five, and he never came back. After that my mom enrolled me in the Academy, where I became the spy I am today, the pavement artist, the girl whose depends on her sisters. My best friends, Liz, Bex, and Macey, also attend the Academy, and last year our school hosted an exchange with our brother school Blackthorne of which no one knew of until then except for the teachers. That's were I met him.
Zachary Jay Goode. The green eyed, smirking, mysterious boy who always appeared at the times I most needed someone. It's like he could read my mind. He knows everything about me, but I know nothing of him. He built walls up to keep others out, but I intended to break them down and see the real Zach. And I did, and that's why I fell for him.
He had so many sides of himself. The mysterious, annoying, cocky, smirking, know it all that everyone saw. The serious side that only came out when anyone he cared about was in danger. The care free side where he lets go and forgets that he is a spy. And the side where he lets all of his walls crumble. I've only seen that side once in the year that we had been together. The time I was sitting in my favorite passage crying on the anniversary of my dad's death. He found me and told me about his parents. The wall fell and that's when I decided that I loved him, but love doesn't last forever. Fairytales lie. My prince charming was a frog in disguise.
My friends, except Macey because she was on a campaign trail with her father, and I plus Zach and his friends were sent on a mission in our senior year. Zach and I had been together since our junior year, and we were planning on renting an apartment together after graduating and getting jobs in the CIA. We had to infiltrate the Circle of Cavan's head quarters and bring it down. I didn't know that everything that was to happen that day would be the worst day of my entire life.
Liz and Jonas had just given Bex and Grant the signal to go in. Through the comns I could hear grunts and thumps as fist flew and men fell. Bex gave the word that their entrance was clear, all was good, and they were going to locate the main computer for the list of COC agents. Zach and I dropped from the air vents. We made our way to the office where we would find the leader, but what I would find there would change everything.
Zach kicked down the door, and we ran in to find the leader and a group of COC agents ready and waiting. The woman, the leader, smiled and said five words that haunt me to this day, "You did well my son." I looked up at Zach, but he wouldn't even look at me. It all made since like how he was there when Macey and I were attacked, the black code, Philadelphia. He was the son of the leader of the group trying to kill me, and I loved him!
The leader laughed at me as all the pieces fell into place, and my emotions played like a movie across my face. Shock, realization, anger, hurt, sadness, and betrayal hit me in waves. As I stepped away from him, he looked at me. His face was emotionless, but I could see it in his eyes. That's when the COC agents attacked. They all came at me, and I fought them off as best as I could. I saw Grant and Bex charge in knowing that they heard everything. I saw Grant's hurt and Bex's anger flash across their face towards Zach. Zach stood by his mom's side looking as silent and still as ever. I saw Bex fall to the ground unconscious, and with that Grant fought with blind rage eventually being struck unconscious, too.
I heard the leader tell the others to fall back. The man I was fighting pulled out a gun and shot me in the shoulder. I fell to the ground and looked up crying not from the pain of the bullet but from the hurt of Zach's betrayal. He looked as if he didn't care. His mom and the rest of the agents not unconscious began to leave the room. As Zach turned around to follow, I said, "why did you lie to me, I trusted you Zach, I LOVED YOU!" He froze but didn't turn around. All he said was "We are spies Cameron, we don't trust anyone, and we don't have time for love." I was in tears by the end. Something in his voice told me different, but I didn't know it at the time. I haven't heard from Zachary Goode since he shattered my heart and took all the pieces.