Disclaimer: I'm so so sorry to say I don't own Gallagher Girls. If I did, Zach and Cammie would be together forever! :]
Thanks to my awesome beta, melonme23. You rock, Ash!
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"You're sick, Grant!" I yelled back.
"You know that's just the way I am, and I don't give a damn!" He commented back.
I waved him off and boarded the plane-rocket. "Sweet." Macey nodded.
"Ehmagawd! We totally have to catch up and talk, and ehmagawd, Cammie! I read the briefing. Totally sorry- you must be bummed. Having one ex-beau is enough, but two? Seriously suckkks." She droned on and on.
"Tina!" I said, finally getting her to stop, "Zach and I were never really together." I muttered.
"But you guys ki-"
"How do you know that?" I asked suddenly.
"Uhm…lemme think… oh! I totally saw it, I mean, come on! Right in the main foyer of Gallagher! How can you not expect to see that?" she exclaimed loudly.
"See what?" Grant yelled.
"You finally using your brain!" I shouted back. He and Zach were seated behind Macey and I, with Tina sitting across the aisle. It was an airplane seating set-up, just more advanced.
I sighed and laid back. "I'm going to go PEEEEEE!" Grant announced and got up to go to the bathroom. Macey was in a riveting argument with Tina about some celebrity.
Suddenly my chair fell backwards, taking me with it.
"Nice of you to drop in Gallagher Girl." He said, smirking, and let go of the lever that controlled my seat.
"What do you want, Goode?" I asked, sighing, and closing my eyes to try to relax. All of my muscles tensed when I was around him. Same as in the tenth grade.
"You and I both know. It's weird, every time I come see you, Jimmy shows up in the picture."
I laughed, "You still call him Jimmy huh? Well, you and I both know that his name is Josh, so why don't you tell me why you call him Jimmy?" I opened my eyes to look into his. My breath hitched realizing how close his face was to mine, and he heard it, smirking again he replied, "You already know why." Then he pulled the lever and I flung back into an upright position along with my seat.
"Ladies and Gentleman prepare to shoot into space." A voice came over the loudspeaker. "Please stay seated while the seats are moving."
I heard the engine starting, an explosion-like sound, and I could feel us lift off the ground.
"AW SHIT!" we heard from the bathroom. "GROSS!" Oh, Grant, what are we going to do with you?
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"Thank you for your patience ladies and gentleman, and welcome to the United States of American Space Station. We hope you enjoy your stay. Thank you and have a nice day." The voice commandeered over the speakers. I hadn't spoken to Zach for the rest of the ride, which had lasted 28 hours. Yeah. I slept for about 12 of it, played cards for 3 hours, beat up Grant for 2 another hours, and it took me another hour to tell Grant how to get out of the bathroom , when all he had to do was twist and pull the knob. How can you not understand that?
I talked with Macey and Tina for the rest of the time, and watched taped TV shows which included Charmed and 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter.
Once we arrived, we all stumbled off the plane.
"Ah, you must be the technical crew that was supposed to arrive today, correct?" A voice asked.
"Yes we are." Macey replied coolly.
"Well, I'm Henry James, one of the pilots of this craft. This is Josh Abrams, my co-pilot. Here are a bunch of maps to the station," he said handing them out, and I could see Josh staring at me… and so could Zach. "And this is where ya'll be staying. This over here is where the computer base is." He said circling places. "If you need anything, we'll be in the cockpit, and that's where our bunks are located too."
As Henry finished up our group started dispersing. But I stood my ground, watching Josh stare at me.
"Are you done looking?" I asked.
"C-Cammie?"
"Yep." I said popping the p.
"Wow. I didn't expect to see you here. I haven't seen you in what? Ten years? You look great." He said smiling.
"Thanks, so do you. I can't believe you recognized me. I have to go, so I'll see you around." I waved a little and joined Macey, who was waiting for me.
"It's okay sweetie, you've done it before, you can do it again. I know what it's like to see the ex-beau again." She said leading me away.
"Where are we going?" I sighed.
To my left, I saw an anti-gravity chamber and a bunch of scientists yelling at Grant to get out- he was floating around, pretending to sleep, and going "Sweeeeet!" Oh boy.
"We are going to the computer center, to see what's up." Macey said. We followed through a maze of chambers each leading to another. It reminded me of the garden I had been in on a previous mission in India.
We entered a broad room filled with dim lights. I rubbed my eyes tiredly. Tina and Zach were in the room, looking at the equipment.
"Alright, so it seems that the drive was overrun with a program that we could send Liz. She can inspect it, and she and Jonas can create a virus to destroy this one. It will probably take two or three days tops." Zach said, announcing it to Macey and I.
"Ok, I'll talk to Liz. Can you set up the computer?" I asked him.
"Yep." Then we all went to work.
"Hello party peoples! What did I miss?" Grant boomed as he entered the room.
"Nothing much. Just saving the world, little pieces at a time. I saw you floating in the anti-gravity chamber. Fuuuuuun." I said sarcastically.
"Ha-ha, very funny Chameleon." He said and strutted over to Zach to help.
"I do not know what Bex sees in him." Macey whispered in my ear. I giggled.
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After I hung up with Liz, and she received the program I decided to crash for the night.
"I'm going to go crash. Liz and Jonas will update us tomorrow. Anyone else coming?" I said- mostly asking Tina and Macey.
"Let me just clean up in here and then we can go." Macey said. Tina nodded.
"Whatever." I mumbled and continued to rub my eyes. I stumbled out of the room, getting a head start.
I could have swore I heard someone following me, but whenever I turned around no one was there, and there were no places to hide! Was I going crazy? But my spy gut told me there was something going on. Shrugging it off, and letting sleep drown out my thoughts, I heard the clamor of my friends coming from behind me.
"Wow, Cammie, five minutes and you get this far?" Grant's voice protruded from the rest.
"Shut up, Grant." I said, leaning against the wall. Was it just me, or was this more than sleep deprivation?
"Hey, you feeling okay?" he asked suddenly. I shook my head no.
Tina bounded up and felt my forehead. "Fever. Approximately 102 degrees Fahrenheit. What did you eat Cam?" she asked seriously.
"A bag of popcorn hours ago, but I did have a soda on the plane that had a weird substance at the bottom. I thought it was just foam. It didn't taste any different." I slurred.
"Great! She's going to DIE!" Grant yelled.
"Shush!" Macey hissed at him, "Alright, you're going to bed. I'll sleep with you tonight." She said. I barely managed to nod, since I was still leaning against the wall.
I was slowly losing consciousness. The last thing I remembered was being swept off my feet and carried by someone very muscular to my room. I also faintly remember Macey stripping off my pants and changing me before laying down next to me. Then whatever drug that had invaded my body took effect, and I drifted off to sleep.
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I woke up with a start, jolting out of bed. I swung my legs over the bed and scurried around the room looking for my cell phone. Among it all I realized I was wearing my bra, a white tank top, and boy boxer shorts. Where did they come from?
Macey was snoring softly on the bed so I crept out into the hall and called Liz.
*Ring* "Hey, Liz." I said when she answered.
"Oh hey," she yawned, "Jonas and I are working on the program. It should be done tomorrow. Just sit tight for now."
"Okay, thanks Liz. God, I feel awful." I said leaning against the cool wall and feeling my forehead.
"What did you do know? Fall in love again?" she said jokingly.
"HEY! It is not my fault that whenever something happens and I get over a guy, another one comes in, and then a guy from my past comes back! Did you hear, Zach and Josh are here? Seriously, does the CIA hate me or something?" I whisper- shouted into the cell phone.
"Ha-ha. They don't. Look I gotta go work on the program, and… other things. I'll update Bex-a-million, and I'll call you for a check later. Hang in there, Hun. We're all rootin' for ya. Love ya, bye bye!" she called.
"Love you too Liz! Ciao." I heard a crash and 'oopsie daisies!' just as I hung up. Typical Liz.
"Hey." Came from my right.
"Hi." I said, cradling my head. I was now sitting on the floor, in the hallway of the USA space station, in a see-through white tank top and boxer shorts. Um, want to start over?
"How are you feeling?" Zach asked, sliding down next to me.
"Like shit." I murmured. Slowly, I lifted my head.
"Someone tried to drug you. I don't like that." He said slowly, clenching his teeth.
"Why would you care?" I asked, standing up. I waited for him to follow suit.
"HEY!" interrupted us and Tina walked out of her room and skipped over.
"Hi." I greeted coldly and walked down the hall, away from both of them. Recalling the map that Henry had shown us yesterday, I knew where the kitchen and cafeteria were. Hopefully it wasn't packets of food. Then again, I don't think the CIA would do that to me too, I mean after they put me and Josh and Zach on the same space station, they at least owed me decent food.
No such luck.
The cafeteria served cruddy cereals, stale-like juice, and hard bagels. I sighed and grabbed a bagel and started chewing on it when I bumped into Josh. Again. Sigh.
"Fancy meeting you here." He said, as he started scooping cereal from a Tupperware into his bowl.
"I guess. Although I'm surprised to see you here. So you didn't join the family pharmacy business?" I asked, munching on my bagel.
"Yeah," he smiled, "I finally persuaded my father to let me pick what I wanted to do. You know he and my mom still live in Roseville and run the pharmacy. And, I guess you know Gallagher Academy is still there."
I grinned. "Yeah I know. That's nice for them. I'm glad your father let you do what you want. I know how much you didn't want to go into pharmaceuticals."
"You remembered." His grin became broader.
"I remember a lot of things." I said, and winked. Too bad he doesn't know what that means, I thought as I walked away.
Macey was chewing a bagel while waiting for me outside the door.
"Oh hey, I didn't see you come in." I said, frowning.
"That's the point of being a spy, Cammie. I see you're taking the old love boat for a spin?" she said, using a tone in her voice that was very suggestive.
"Oh, shut up. We're in space. Having sex with Josh is the very last thing on my mind." I pushed her shoulder. "Plus, I don't even like him. You know that. Well, only my BFFLADWIBAS would."
"Huh?"
"Best friend for life and death which includes being a spy. DUH!" I said, mockingly.
"Uhm, Cammie, please tell me I did not just hear you say you were going to do it with Mr. Hunky Co-Pilot over there." Tina said. I didn't even realize she was standing a couple feet in front of Macey and I. Grant and Zach were standing by her with their mouths hanging open.
"Tina," I sighed. "How many times do we have to go over this," I walked up to her, then looked her in the eye and put my hands on her shoulders to shake her a little, "I. Do. Not. Like. Josh. Abrams. Got it?"
"Yeah, Cammie's got bigger fish to fry!" Macey shouted from where she was.
I stuck my tongue out at her. "Yes Macey, because I have planned world domination and also plan on making Channing Tatum fall in love with me. Oh, I swoon at the thought." I said sarcastically.
"Hey, he is pretty hot." She shrugged.
"Are you kidding?" I snorted, "That guy is ten times hotter than Brad Pitt. Remember Step Up came out on DVD right when Blackthorne came for the exchange, and we had that list comparing them all to Channing?" I giggled.
"Oh yeah! I remember that!" Tina exclaimed.
"What?" Grant said. "You mean this whole time I was wondering about it, there was an actual list I could of just looked at?" He practically screamed.
"Come on Grant," I said, "You basically had every girl drooling after you. Except a few choice girls." I shrugged and started walking off.
"Are you one of those choice girls?" He shouted back, "'Cause I was pretty hot! I won't blame you for loving me!" He yelled humorously.
I turned around briefly as I was walking, "Duh!"
"Why don't you love me Cammie? I'm hurt!" Grant said, putting his hand over his heart, "Am I ugly?"
I laughed in response. "Sorry Grant. I was… preoccupied back then, I guess you could say."
"Doing what?" he asked obliviously, rocking back and forth on his heels.
"Liking a different Blackthorne Boy. I'm sorry to tell you this Grant, but you weren't the only hot boy attending Gallagher at the time." I shrugged and turned a corner, but I heard footsteps pounding after me.
It was Grant. Wow. Never would have guessed. However, he was alone. "Truthfully Cammie, did you like Zach back then?" He asked seriously.
"Surprisingly, yes." I said turning to look at him. "And then he kissed me and you all left."
"Aw," he cooed, "Does someone feel unloved and need a hug?" he said holding out his arms.
"You are such a freak, you know that?" I said when he hugged me.
"Yeah, but you know you totally love me." He said, smirking.
"In a way, sure. But not like love-love. Like the kind of love Bex ha-" I clamped my hand over my mouth.
"BEX LIKES ME?!?!" he yelled.
"Shut up you idiot! I didn't mean to say that! Don't let anyone hear you! You're such a loudmouth you could be a girl." I hissed at him.
"Dude, I've been trying to get the nerve to ask her out. I'm afraid she's going to hurt me for asking her. I've liked her since the exchange. She seriously likes me?" he asked me.
I nodded in response.
"CHA-CHANG!" he said, pulling his arms towards himself in the 'cha-chang' motion. "Now let's discuss your love life, Cameron." He said, putting his arm around my shoulder and starting to walk us forward.
"Alright Grant, you're seriously starting to sound like a therapist now… in a scary way." I joked as I let him lead me somewhere.
"Let's not dwindle off the subject, Cameron. Or would you like to be called Chameleon?" he asked.
I slapped his arm, "Shut it Grant-ary. I'm not talking to you about my love life."
"Why not!?" he whined. "It would make life so much easier if you would just tell me! UGH!" he threw his hands up in the air and stomping his foot.
"Seriously, Grant? Seriously?" I said, referring to his child-like behavior.
"Whatever. Later." He said stalking off.
"Interesting." I said before I returned to my room to shower.
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Alright, I'm sorry to say, I do not know when I'll update next. I promise to try to update soon. But I have a lot of things going on, and I have a field trip for school this week! YAY!
Hope you all liked it. Thanks to my wonderful beta, melonme23! Check out the GG awards in the forum people! Nominating is currently in session, and voting starts March 14th! YAY!