Belongs to Ally Carter
part two
Macey stood there on the grass, watching Cammie run towards the woods.
Making a decision any other spy would make, she ran yelling after Cammie, and pressing the nifty button the watch Liz had given her. It would record and feed everything back to Bex, Liz, and Zach who were currently still at Gallagher, Macey had only been visiting Preston.
"Cammie Morgan, get back here!" Macey yelled, following her figure into the woods.
Macey's phone immediately started ringing, but she ignored it.
Macey knew she could run faster than Cammie, and eventually reached her, grabbing her arm, and pulling her toward her own body.
"I don't care if its not safe, you're not leaving without me as backup or coming back to Gallagher with me. Everyone is worried about you, and we can solve everything from Gallagher." Macey's phone chorused again, and she silently cursed it.
Cammie just looked at her. "Sure you don't wanna answer that? It's probably important." She was goading Macey into losing her thoughts for a moment so Cammie could escape. "What if it's Bex? Or Liz? It could be desperately important. It could be Preston bearing his soul to you."
Macey's grip tightened around Cammie's wrist. "As much as I appreciate you re-surfacing to save my ass, which needs to be saved way to often for my liking, you knew there would be repercussions." Macey smirked. "You didn't know I was coming, for one. If you can't predict my pattern how can you predict the Circle's? You need me. You need us. We're your team."
"No." Cammie scowled, yanking her arm away from Macey. "Where's the rest of your backup, huh? Didn't you have a team escort you to Preston's? Weren't they in the limo?"
Macey raised an eyebrow. "Oh so you thought you and Zach were the only ones who can sneak in and out of the school?"
Cammie flinched at the mention of Zach's name.
"Hit a nerve didn't I? Was it the subconscious mention of Josh or the obvious pain of Zach's name?" Macey's temper flared.
"You know this has nothing to do with Josh at all. And we're leaving Zach out of this. That's why I left without him. To keep him safe. It's my turn to look out for him now." She snapped back at the girl in front of her.
"He doesn't want that." Macey retorted.
"It doesn't matter. I saw his mother again." Cammie leaned back against a tree. "She's so lethal, God, sometimes I wonder what I got into." She leaned her head into her hands. "The time I met her, you know, when I jumped off the cliff," Cammie clarified, "She knew just what to say to undermine everything I ever learned. Question everything I know, I jumped off a freaking cliff." Cammie paused. "That and I thought Zach and Solomon had died..." She thought for a moment. "Sometimes I think things would be better if I was just... gone." She looked wistfully up at the dark sky.
Macey grabbed Cammie's hands ferociously. "Don't you ever say that. Without you we would all be different. You can't leave us, Cam, we all love you so much! We all need you in our lives."
Cammie shook her head. "No, everything would be less chaotic, less casualties, less emotional distress... everything would be better."
Macey took a moment to glance at her best friend. "Cammie," she said evenly. "Are you saying you don't want to live anymore?"
"Maybe. Maybe everything would be easier if I had died that day I jumped off the cliffs." She answered not looking away from the sky.
"Have you been eating, Cammie?" Macey asked, surveying the obvious weight loss Cammie's body showed.
She shrugged. "Sometimes. Maybe once a day. I never feel hungry. I just want to feel peaceful. I just want the Circle to end and I just-just," Cammie's eyes started to tear. "I want my Daddy, and I don't want to run anymore, Macey. I just want this all to end. And there's only one way to do that." Her eyes took on a new look. "I have to take down the Circle." She turned to look at Macey. "But I have to do it alone. Then I'll come back to you."
Macey was so surprised that she didn't grip onto Cammie as she gave her one lass fleeting moment of a hug before turning and running off into the night.
Macey knew it was no use searching for a Chameleon so she trudged back to her limo, hoping Liz was analyzing Cammie's speech patterns, and the picture she has taken of Cammie with her watch. Not to mention the tracker she had placed on Cammie's shirt when she had first caught up to her.
This time when her phone rang, she answered it. "Did you get it?" Macey asked.
"Yes. Do you have any clue where she's headed?" A male voice asked over the phone.
"No, but wherever she goes, whatever mission she goes on, we'll be there. Her well-being is our priority, and as you can tell her mentally and physically incapable of completing this vendetta she has on her own. We need to bring her back to safety if we can, Zach."
"I know, Macey."
"Why are you helping us, Goode." She asked, as she stepped into her limo and signaled her driver to head back to Gallagher. "I know you feel its your personal duty to keep Cammie safe but what I want to know is why."
After a pregnant pause his voice reached Macey's ear. "You know that answer to that, McHenry." He said before hanging up.
Macey just smirked. She did know. Through all of this, how did Cammie not realize what a lucky girl she was?
Preston turned out to be a dud, and Cammie had a sexy, mysterious, Blackthorne Boy (that is if he enrolled for senior year) looking after her. All because he was in love with her.
How tragically clichéd.
It was okay, because Macey liked clichés.
And she was determined to bring her heroine home safely.
