AN: You guys are amazing! And since I love all of you so much I decide that I would update early (or as early as possible)! This part is somewhat kinda like the beginning of the second book. And yes, Zach comes in later!! Trust me there will be some major Zammie in future chapters!
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Chapter 2
Only One Way...Make That Two
I sat alone in Sublevel 1, Mr. Solomon showing me the video footage from my necklace. Comparing the new footage to the old footage of when I first met Josh.
"Sloppy," he said shaking his head, "very sloppy," he stopped the video on Josh, "Isn't that the same boy, from the carnival? I believe so." He turned off the videos. "What was the first thing I told the class?"
"Notice things." I mumbled under my breathe.
I looked down at the ground. How could I have been so careless that I forgot that my necklace was videotaping the whole thing, not to mention the comms? I guess something when I see Josh just clicks and I forget that I am a spy on a mission until someone is blaring 'Chameleon!' in my ear.
"Come with me." he said and I followed him into a small room with a one-way mirror on one side of it. A man said in the middle of the room with a lie detector, Mr. Solomon went behind the one-way mirror.
"Is this really necessary?" I asked, but no one answered.
"Cameron Anne Morgan, have your breached security to see said boy before?" the man said staring at me. I didn't answer.
"Answer the question Ms. Morgan." I heard Mr. Solomon's voice ring out.
"Yes." I answered reluctantly.
"Does this boy know who you really are Ms. Morgan?"
"No." I said looking down.
"Who does he think you are?"
"Homeschooled girl with a cat named Suzie," I explained my cover to him. He nodded.
"That will be all Ms. Morgan." The door opened behind me and I walked out of there as fast as I could without looking suspicious.
Mr. Solomon stood outside the door looking as stone like as ever. "Cameron Anne Morgan you are now on lock down," he said, "You don't leave the mansion without anyone. No secret passageways. No secret boyfriends."
I nodded and walked out of the room, not intending to keep my promise, but knowing I have to.
***
I told my roommates everything, from the debriefing, to the lie detector.
"I'm sorry Cam." Said Macey looking at my zit again, "But hey you almost kissed him again that's great right?"
"It's not about that Macey." Bex said sitting on the other side of me. "They really know now, don't they...?" I nodded and pulled out another tissue and blew my nose in it for the thirteenth time.
"I'm never going to see him again." I said as Liz handed me another box.
"You don't know that Cam," she said reassuringly. "Maybe seeing him one more time will clear your head," This got my attention
"How am I going to do that?" I asked.
"Well, we have a video tape of you and him..." started Liz sarcastically.
"And we are spies," blurted Macey, "We sneak out on a regular basis, and we have Miss. Invisible on our side." She leaned into my face, "We. Can. Do. Anything."
"Except kiss without your CoveOps teacher watching." I said.
Macey waved this off, "Well, that's a minor setback." She inched towards me, "Now let me at that zit!"
"MACEY!" I yelled. She backed off.
"So what do we do?" asked Liz confused.
Bex and I looked at each other and said the same thing at the same time, "Sneak." Just then, my mother walked in our suite.
Oh. My. Gosh.
How long had she been there, listing to our conversation? "Kiddo, we need to talk." Bex and Liz walked forward half a step, "Alone." I followed my mom out of the suite and into her office.
"Sweetie, Mr. Solomon told me everything." She said trying to stay as good of a mom as possible, "We can't have you risking security like that." I nodded. "But I understand that you are a fifteen year old girl and these kinds of things happen." (I highly doubt fifteen year old girls sneak out to see their boyfriend...wait scratch that) "You will she Josh again, soon." She promised and my heart rose.
"You mean you want me to tell him?" I don't know what made me say that because I already knew the answer.
"No kiddo." She said smiling. "You can't tell him, but don't sneak out anymore. Trust me you will see him again." She walked up to the door and opened it before anyone even knocked. Joe Solomon was waiting at the door holding the file titled CONFIDENTIAL from our assignment. As soon as I saw a familiar name sticking out the side of the folder, I knew I had to know what was inside. The name was DeeDee.
***
As soon as I told my roommates, Bex and Macey's jaws dropped. Liz shifted in her chair, a sure sign she knew something. We all looked at Liz who looked extremely guilty. Ask Liz to hack into the CIA, she can do it in less than three minutes; ask her to lie to a trained Operative, she melts under pressure.
"Liz," I cornered her, "What do you know about that file?"
She didn't answer at first. "I can't say." she said barley above a whisper. "It's Top Secret. Only three sophomores know what's in it." I knew she was not lying.
"Who?"
"Kim Lee, Eva Alvarez, and me." she said naming the three people who hacked into the school computer. "I'm sorry Cam, I can't tell you what's in that file; I swore not to tell." She picked up her book, ran into the bathroom and locked the door.
"So much for her help." Muttered Macey, Bex shot her daggers. "What, I'm being realistic; there is only one way we can get information out of Liz." We all looked at the tweezers on the ground.
Bex and I looked at Macey. "Make that two." Macey held up two fingers.
A few seconds of silence passed until there was a crash, "Oopsy Daisy!"
We all ran to the bathroom door, "Liz what did you break?" screamed Macey. Don't mess with her when it comes to her excessive amounts of skin cream.
"Nothing, but you might want to come look at this." She said a hint of fear in her voice.
There are only a few things that would make a Gallagher Girl scared.
Bex got ready to kick the down the door, "Bex," I started, "Just pick the lock." She nodded and pulled one of Macey's bobby pins out of her hair and picked the lock in less than thirty seconds.
We burst into the room to find a green glowing mess on the floor running up the shower curtain and dripping off the ceiling. One of Macey's more expensive skin creams was open and the glowing mess ran into it. Most Gallagher Girls would kill, others walk away from the scene in denial, what does Macey McHenry do? She faints, and lands straight into the glowing mess. Liz, on the other side of the green catastrophe, was smiling a nervous smile. "Oopsy Daisy..." she said.
"Liz what did you do?" I kneeled down to Macey's level and nearly touched the green goop before Liz stopped me.
"Cammie you don't know what that stuff can do if contact with skin is made." She said sounding like the scientist I knew.
"Well I think Macey is going to find out the hard way." I muttered as she opened her eyes.
I don't think I have heard anyone scream as loud as that girl did, in my life.
"I'M BLIND!" she screamed trying to stand up, Bex helped her stand. Her eyes were a hazy gray.
"Liz, she will get better, right..." I asked.
"I BETTER!" Macey screamed again trying to walk without running into anything, "LIZ WHEN I FIND YOU, YOU ARE DEAD!" and I had no doubt she meant it considering she had a diamond weapon right there in her nose.
"Well you did say that some of these were illegal," said Liz trying to lighten the mood, "now we know why."
"So that's what it does." Muttered Bex, "Liz do you think you could make this stuff into a Napotine patch?" However, Liz was way ahead of her, she had scooped up some and had some that was dripping into a container.
"I'll see what I can do." she said, "In the mean time, get Macey to Dr. Fibbs. I have an idea."
"Bex, Truth Serum. Now." I said and Bex handed me a bottle of shampoo we pretended was truth serum. "Now Liz, I would hate to do this to you," I said as I inched closer to her, and she backed against the bathroom wall. Bex followed close behind me making sure Liz didn't try to bolt. "Tell us who was in the file." I uncapped the shampoo bottle, "Or we'll make you tell us."
First, know that I would never ever in a million years hurt Liz, but sometimes a girl has to pull a bluff or two to get a girl to talk. And this was one of those times.
"I'll tell you if you promise not to tell Mr. Solomon." She swore. I nodded, as if I would tell my CoveOps teacher after what happened last night. "We had sources that there are a few people there like Macey," at her name she looked up, "descendants of Gilly Gallagher. Two to be exact, one is DeeDee." She looked at the ground and messed with her finger nails, "Mr. Solomon had us hack and find them. And you know how Tina thinks that there is a boy's school in Maine?" I nodded. "Well she's not far from the truth, only it's not in Maine, its here in Roseville." Macey passed out again. "Blackthorn institute for boys." She paused for what felt like ages. Bex had her ears and eyes trained on Liz, "And Josh is one of them."
Oh.
My.
Gosh.
Tee hee. It's a cliffy... just to keep you reading. Again, Review because I cannot change anything if you don't tell me what needs to be changed.
