That's Life Sweeheart
Gallagher Girls Book 5: Chapter 1
Cammie POV
It had been 7 Months, 45 days, and 3 hours since my mother Rachel Morgan, Abby Cameron (my Aunt), Mr Solomon my Cove-Ops teacher/Father Figure, Zachary (Zach) Goode my boyfriend, Elizabeth (Liz) Sutton-Rebecca (Bex) Baxter and Macey McHenry my best friends and sisters had stood in an empty classroom while I drew out names of people who were currently involved in the Circle of Caven. Leaders or someone-with-a-high-rank to be more specific. Someone or people like Catherine Goode Zach's bitch of a mom. Zach was one of those people who if you called him a son of a bitch, he'd actually agree with you.
Of course even a spy doesn't have the ability to stop words written on a steamy window from fading so once I'd finished on my current window; Liz had had the sense to shove a computer in front of me with a word document already powered up. With that I had started to type. Once I had finished every name left in my head I then once again wrote down the names from the windows.
After that I had stood up, cracked my knuckles and walked out of the room down to the P&E Barn, Macey-Liz-Bex and Zach following behind me silently. We had sat down and talked (you should know what about if you have read Out of Sight, Out of Time) for hours and then gone back to our rooms to sleep.
Since that day A LOT of things have happened, mainly being this:
The school boards had finally decided to do something about the Circle of Caven being able to recruit anymore kids and so had arranged that Blackthorne be merged with Gallagher. Obviously though they had made tonnes of safety precautions involving a very detailed and high-end polygraph test for every boy, harsh interrogation for quite a few of them and many, many threats involving what might happen if they ended up working for the circle, luckily only about 18 boys had never been heard from again which meant the threat wasn't as big at that moment as we had thought. Of course I had known about the merge for almost five months before my mother announced it and even though I was the Chameleon and not to mention a CIA Legacy, I just couldn't hold it in and had spilled to Liz, Macey and Bex about two weeks after finding out. Of course this had meant that a new dormitory building would be needed and construction on the schools massive grounds had started around 5 months ago. I know what your thinking- 5 Months?! It's gotta take way longer than that!- but actually 5 months is more than enough time if the building work is being done by a company owned and employed by spies, or more specifically spies with access to particular equipment/knowledge like a special kind of concrete that expands to 15x its original size when drying and is 8 times as strong as regular concrete, or extra thick paint that doesn't require any of the undercoats and doesn't show the brick pattern underneath as well as being fireproof and normal building companies most certainly don't have Dr. Fibs and his top student (or quite possibly most smartest girl to ever attend Gallagher) Elizabeth Sutton as project Managers. Of Course all of which hadn't gone unnoticed by Tina Walters who had spread about 17 ghastly-stupid-funny-and weird rumours until Bex had finally cracked and started to scream at her one day. This had then lead into a verbal punching match between her and Tina. Tina fought well but Bex won fair and square. My personal favourite insult being her final one which was something along the specific lines of 'Oh look, I spy with my expert eyes… a stupid bitch in front of me who loves to spread lies- OH! Ohmy look what I've done! I insulted you, your meagre skills and rhymed at the same time! I Think this verbal war is won… by me!' Bex had then smirked in Tina's face and stormed away. Tina had never mentioned the building again. When my mom had finally announced Blackthorne's arrival… well let's just say a couple of girls had looked like they were going to slip into a coma, one had actually fainted, everyone had started whispering excitedly and Tina had claimed she knew it all along earning her a punch in the face from Bex and Bex earning a Morgan glare from both me and my mom.
Mr Solomon had got his job back after many inquiries, interrogations and so on involving the school board and the CIA.
Preston had been shocked about his father but had handled it surprisingly well. He'd also been put under so much security and protection, he had started to joke that he was even better protected than the Queen and the Presidents of the world put together and times by 4. I'd never tell him this but it was probably more like times 7. He and Macey had talked and he had finally admitted that he wasn't looking for a relationship, Macey had agreed with him and admitted that even though she wouldn't mind one, she would only ever consider him as a friend. 3 months later we had received a postcard from him claiming he was in Bora-Bora though he was actually in Sweden. Claiming life was great and he was really happy with his new boyfriend. At this we had all burst out laughing, Macey had joined us after reading the postcard last, shrugged her shoulders and said 'I knew it- No straight, self-respecting young-adult male would still be wearing a Spiderman watch at his age'. This had just made us laugh even harder
Since the Blackthorne Boys arrived Me and Zach are totally together! Bex is with Grant or as he likes to call her his 'British Bombshell', she hits him every time he calls her that but I know she likes it secretly. Liz is with Jonas and they do lovey-dovey geeky stuff together, they even wear matching shirts (much to Macey's disgust). Macey met a pretty fit guy called Nick Cross, His short slightly curly hair was described as –Bex's word not mine – 'Wetherton Candy Brown' but his eyes were a normal grey. His attitude however well he's like Macey's version of Zach. So cocky attitude, totally full of himself, badass, protective, witty/smartass and leaves you with the feeling that he's broken many hearts… physically and emotionally. He also as an AMAZING sense of Fashion, He and Mace got together about a month after his arrival.
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Of course before all of this and that happened the last thing left on the list is The Interrogation. I'm using caps because I know that in my life I will be interrogated many times because of my line of work. However I do not expect to ever go through another interrogation like this one ever again, I'm pretty sure it was 'the interrogation of my life'. Of course you must now be wondering –'Interrogation? WHY?'- well you see it didn't take anyone including myself to realise that since I'd been able to remember what Catherine had wanted with me, It also didn't take long to remember everything else that had happened over the summer. Trust me it was not what I or anyone else was expecting.