AN: Hey, guys! Sorry about all of the changes, and don't worry the chapters that I posted are coming back, just better and with other chapters mixed in. Sorry about the wait!

Chapter 1- Zhen De Ma? (Really?)

The grand hall of the Gallagher Academy mansion was always filled with the chatter of the girls.

At noon on the first day back to school, Cammie walked into the Grand Hall of the Gallagher Academy behind Bex, her stomach grumbling. "Why did I skip breakfast?" she moaned.

Liz pointed up at the sign that read Chinese- Mandarin and said, "Zhong wen."

"Wo wei shen me mei chi zao fan?" Cammie corrected herself.

"Ni zhao le wo men," Bex replied, with no hint of her British accent showing.

Of course, Bex was right (she had been looking for them), but Cammie just shrugged as she grabbed her lunch.

Macey, still somewhat new at speaking different languages all the time, switched to English, "And you were waiting to hear from Zach." Trust Macey, the resident Boy-Expert to realize that Cammie had been waiting to hear from Zach. She hadn't heard from him since the end of last year when she'd told him that she couldn't run away with him.

Bex turned to Cammie, "Zhen de ma?"

Cammie nodded as she took her seat at the table where the rest of the Seniors were sitting.

"Wo ting shuo," Cammie heard Tina say, and she automatically tuned out. Tina had heard a lot of things, and as a third-generation gossip-columnist-spy, many of the things she'd heard were wrong. Although some of her crazy theories held some truth, Cammie had learned it was better to wait and find out than to listen to Tina's theories as if they held any truth.

However, it was evident that Eva Alvarez hadn't learned this lesson, because she responded, "Ni ting shuo she me ma?"

"Wo ting shuo CIA-men xiang wo men qu e-hai-e-zhou," Tina said proudly. Cammie laughed. She knew that now that they were seniors, the CIA would start sending them on low-risk assignments, but it was absolutely ridiculous that the CIA would want them in Ohio.

But Tina didn't get a chance to elaborate because a boy who could have been Brad Pitt's body double walked through the doors, and all of the girls (except Macey, Cammie, and Liz) turned to gawk at him. "Hey, girls," Grant said as he entered the hall and took the seat between Bex and Tina.

The boy with glasses who followed Grant in didn't receive the reception that he had. However, Jonas seemed to take no note of this fact and slid into the seat next to Liz, with whom he started a conversation (in Mandarin) about particle physics.

"Grant, Wei shen me ni zai zher?" Mick Morrison asked, which was a very good question being as it had been almost two years since he'd last been in the mansion.

"We're here to be debriefed for a mission," he said.

"Is the CIA sending you to Ohio, too?" Tina asked, causing Grant to look at her like she was crazy.

Grant tried to return the conversation to normal, "So how are you girls?"

There was a chorus of "Hao le"'s and "yi dian-dian"'s, but Bex didn't respond, instead choosing to stab her peas with her fork. Grant turned to her, "And how's my British Bombshell?"

Bex giggled and flipped her hair in a way that wasn't taught in P&E, "I'm brilliant."

"Wo yi wei Bex hen cong ming," Macey whispered to Cammie, implying that the way that Bex was acting was an insult to intelligent people.

"Ta hen cong ming, dan shi…" Cammie responded, but trailed off. Bex was smart, but at the same time, when it came to Grant, she could be rather dumb.

"Grant, Zach zai na li?" Cammie asked. Grant would probably know where Zach was. After all, they were best friends. They went to the same school. They were both… Well, Grant would probably know.

"Wo bu zhi dao le," Grant shrugged and turned the conversation back to the girls who were fawning over him.

As soon as they'd all returned to their dorm from their afternoon classes, Bex said, "Grant is so-" But Liz cut her off.

"Macey needs to practice her Mandarin," she said.

Bex groaned, but started the sentence over in Chinese. "Grant you shuai you ku you cong ming you…"

"Liz, I don't need to practice my Mandarin," Macey said. "And Bex, none of us want to hear about how handsome, cool, and smart you think Grant is. And Cammie, stop moping about how you haven't seen Zach all summer. Either you'll see him again or you won't, but there's no use worrying about it. He's not worth it."