A/N Okay, first of all, I want to dedicate this chapter to my awesome first reviewer: fashion forward. Your review made my day and I was like another chapter dedicated to you! Second of all, this year my mom let me buy the presents from Santa for my two little brothers, and I know for a fact I'm getting a tablet since I checked the whole house for presents and I found a tablet with a ribbon with my name on it! So here is chapter 2, Lies, Lies and More lies
Merry Christmas Eve ~Alex
I know Gallagher Girls don't keep secrets. We're sisters, and sisters aren't supposed to keep secrets. But I knew if I told Paris, Amy and Grace (Aunt Bex's daughter) about my mother's journals, Paris would probably tell the secret to Vogue and Seventeen magazines or something, Grace would threaten my mother with more information besides the information in the journal, and I was pretty sure Amy would possibly get caught hacking into the CIA database. So I didn't tell them anything. And I felt really bad. I don't know about other teenage girls, but when you're the daughter of spies, life is way more hectic than just dances and dates and parties (if we even have any in our teenage spy life), so let's just say we never get any free time. Not even to learn to dot our i's with little hearts, much less to read journals. I knew that I had at least 3 hours of homework already (not counting the second period homework, which Professor Buckingham hadn't given us yet). Sadly Dr. Fibs had recently developed a machine that could tell whether you truly did you homework yourself or someone (like Amy, who just can't get enough homework) did it for you, or at least gave you the answers, so I couldn't get Amy to do it for me. When the bell rang Grace, Paris and I headed for CoveOps while Amy went down to the lab with Dr. Fibs. The very first thing I noticed was that, there was no one in there. Not even the rest of the sophomores, not even our teacher. I glanced at Paris and Grace and the same thought puzzled the three of us. We're not late, we didn't see the class go by, and there wasn't an official note canceling class, we all thought. But then again the Gallagher Academy isn't very official, either. Just then I heard a loud "OW!" from the elevators. Grace stormed over there and forced the elevator opened where Mamie Walters and Sidney Bauer stood together, Sidney tapping her finger on the touch pad. "What happened Grace?" said Mamie, eyes wide. "Did Mr. Solomon call in a group of KB operatives and have them infiltrate Sublevel 1 and then kidnap Paris or Jenni?" Grace rolled her eyes "No, Mamie, we just can't find anyone, and Mr. Solomon isn't anywhere, just so you know" "I'm gonna go find Amy and get her to hack into the Sublevel 1 database so we can find out where the heck Mr. Solomon is" said Grace, going toward the elevator we had come through. By then, we saw Mandy Morrison, Miriam Fetterman, Yocelin Alvarez and Nikki Lee had joined us, Grace having gotten them out of the elevator with success. "Hello, ladies" we heard a male voice behind us. We turned, and I was shocked that Mr. Solomon was standing there…with my dad. I saw Grace give me a quick glance, but my dad glanced at each of us in turn, and his gaze didn't dare linger longer on me. I heard a knock on the elevator doors. "Will someone get me out?" called a female voice. My dad went and opened the elevator and I saw my Aunt Abby emerge, along with my mother. "You called us, Joe?" asked Aunt Abby. "We're going to play spy tag…" said my dad. I saw Grace get a mischievous look on her face, but I also saw, out of the corner of my eye, Mom glancing particularly at me. We walked to Roseville and I heard Mr. Solomon say "You're it, Ms. Newman", Grace had a clever smile on her face as she calmly walked toward the park. As soon as we had separated, Mamie, Paris and I walked together toward Abrams & Son Pharmacy, where we saw my mother's ex-boyfriend Josh's son, Cody, sitting on the front stoop, while his dad manned the counter. As soon as we were out of earshot, Mamie took off her comms and mine and Paris' as well, and exclaimed "Jenni! That was your mom and dad, wasn't it?" I nodded slowly. Just then Grace turned the corner, and Mamie, Paris and I quickly hid behind a car in the parking lot to the pharmacy. Just then Cody came out and gave us one strange look. "What are you doing behind a car?" he asked. His voice didn't sound angry, just confused, and his looks were… I had to admit, hot. His hair was brown like his dad's and his eyes were blue like his mom, DeeDee. He looked like an older boy version of my little sister, Cameron Ann, who had brown hair and blue eyes. I don't think I was the only one gazing at him as Paris told him "We're playing tag and our friend is trying to catch us" I had thought she was going to blow our cover when she said "tag", but thankfully, she didn't say which type of tag. His voice snapped me out of my thoughts as he said "Aren't you too old to play tag?" "We changed the rules so it's more exciting" I told him. He hadn't noticed me much until I spoke (which, for a chameleon, is taken as a complement). He looked at me closely and said "Aren't you the daughter of my dad's ex-girlfriend?" I felt really uncomfortable as I looked into his eyes and murmured "Yeah"
A/N Ooh, Jenni's in trouble! She must be feeling awkward. Sorry for the cliffy, but I just felt like updating so sorry if it feels short