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Everybody Knows
Cammie
Three weeks. Three whole weeks I have to spend with Zack Goode in a foreign country. My plan of never speaking to him again is clearly out the window. He spent months with me. Was he secretive? Yeah. But I thought that maybe I was falling in love with hm. But then he left. Along with all the other Blackthorn boys. And he never contacted me again. All summer I waited for his call. His e-mail. His post card. Did the time we spent together mean nothing? I let him into my head like no one else. We talked for hours about anything and everything. I thought he felt what I felt. But he didn't even try to contact me. Through the summer or the year that followed. He broke my heart.
So you can imagine my discomfort when I get promoted and two days in, I find a folder on my desk telling me that I will be going on a three week mission with Zackary Goode to Rome. I didn't know what to think. I didn't even know where he was; what he was doing with his life. Never mind where he worked. That just happened to be in the same system as me. In the same office.
The look on his face said everything. He never felt anything for me. It was a high school fling. A way to fill his time. It was love for me, but a joke for him. He had that smirk all over his face, just as he always did. I wanted to care. God, I want to care. But I refuse to put myself through what I felt back then. Zack Goode is a player. And I'm not a game.
After my talk with Zack, which ended with his smirking and me pissed, I needed to go and talk with Bex and Liz.
"Hey. You busy?" I walked up to Bex and Liz who were stood talking y the coffee machine.
"Hi Cam. How's your first week? I told you that you would settle in strait away." Bex said with a smile as she blew the steam from her coffee.
Bex and Liz had been here before me. I decided to stay in the lower department for a bit longer, because it was closer to Gallagher and closer to my mom. But the time came and I knew that it was time to stop holding myself back because I was too scared. I was a graduated spy. I needed the space to grow up. So, I moved up, and started to find my feet.
"Yeah. We told you that you would fit in fine. Did you erm... see anybody? I mean... you obviously saw somebody, because there are people everywhere... but I mean, um... did you-"Liz mumbled in a rushed voice, the blood rushing to her cheeks making her blush furiously. But she was cut off by a voice I knew well.
"Liz, stop. We wouldn't want you to pass out, now would we? Cammie, what she is trying to say is, have you seen Zack? We know he works in this department." Macey McHenry said in her confident, controlling voice as she strutted down the hall towards us, not shying away from the topic I had been avoiding for so long, but getting straight to the point and throwing it out there.
Shit. I was hoping I could just avoid the whole thing. I really didn't want to talk about Zack. Not now. Not after the morning I had. The mission. The new job. The new apartment. I didn't need this right now.
"Uhh... yeah, I've spoken to him. We um.. I am going on a mission with him. We are going to Rome for three weeks to find Mason Lewis. He has been smuggling drugs in and out of Rome." I confessed looking down, suddenly extremely interested in my shoes.
When I raised my head I saw five sets of eyes looking back at me and I realised that Grant and Jonas had joined the group when I had been looking down, fighting the emotions that were trying to take over.
"Oh, hey guys. How's your day been?" I said, trying to lighten the conversation and move it away from talking about the mission I had to endure the boy I had been pissed at for the past three years.
"Cammie, don't try to change the subject. We heard what you said. You and Zack on a mission? Sounds like fun." Grant said with humour clear in his voice as he raised one dark eyebrow on his perfectly tanned face.
Now, don't get me wrong, I can see an attractive male when they are in front of me, and Grant Newman is an attractive man. His dark hair and tanned skin with clearly pronounced muscles get girls staring where ever he goes. And Jonas, although his personality doesn't match Grants confident, outgoing look on life; and he would rather keep his nose in a text book than chat up girls, his looks don't suffer for it. With sandy blonde curls, fair skin and blue eyes, he gets attention. He just chooses to ignore it. It's clear he only has eyes for Liz.
"Well maybe you shouldn't be listening to other peoples conversations and hear things you shouldn't." I said in my failed attempt to defend myself.
"Now Gallagher Girl, why shouldn't people know we are going on a mission together? Something to hide?" I could just hear the smirk in Zack's voice.
