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Chapter 4

"Not yet, but maybe sometime soon. If it can work out with you and Zach then it could work out with me and Grant," she said confidently. Great, if my relationship with Zach fails then that means my friends' does too. Fan-tastic.

When we got back to the Academy all of the other classes were already over. We headed upstairs where we were met by an excited Liz. "Guess what?"

I raised my eyebrows and looked at Bex. She was just as confused by Liz's expression then me. "What Liz?" I asked sitting on my bed.

"Did you guys just see the Blackthorne Boys?" she asked. I nodded my head slowly. "I think I can find out where the Blackthorne Institute for Boys is!" she squealed.

My eyes widened before I asked, "Where? How?"

She bit her lip and smiled meekly at me. "Well…about ten minutes ago Zach may have sent you and e-mail, and I glanced over at your laptop to see what made the pinging noise, and I read it."

Now I'm confused. "What did he say that would make you think you knew where the school was?"

"All I read was the first line. It said: Just got back from getting my butt kicked by you. It said more, but that's all I read ," she said quickly. "You're not mad that I read it, are you?"

"How does that have anything to do with finding their school?" Bex asked before I could answer Liz's question.

"It will actually be pretty easy. All I have to do is find out how many miles per hour their helicopter went and find out how far the went. Then I do a search on the internet of schools in all of those areas. What did you do with the boys?" Liz asked even more excited now. Wow, we might actually found out where their school is.

"We were at the Mall of America, and we were tailing them just like they tailed us in D.C. last year. It was pretty easy, everyone accomplished their missions-well, except the Blackthorne Boys," Bex said pushing Liz to her computer.

A voice from behind us said, "What about the Blackthorne Boys?" We all turned around to find Macey walking in the doorway.

"We just saw them, and Liz thinks she can find out where their school is," I quickly explained.

Macey looked a little surprised by this but she quickly recovered, "How are you going to that? Last spring we couldn't find anything."

"We are going to see how many miles they flew from the Mall of America. They left right after we did," Bex said looking at the Liz's computer screen while she talked.

Liz gasped.

"What?" I asked as Macey and I rushed to the computer. When I read the information on the screen I don't think I took one breathe. Here are the things we found out:

The Blackthorne Intitute for Boys is and elite Military School (that's their cover)

They have about one hundred students ranging in ages from eighth to twelth grade.

They are located at 1537 Orchid Rd. Canhime, Virginia. (WHICH IS ONLY TEN MILES FROM HERE!)

"Oh. My. Gosh," Bex whispered. "I can't believe we didn't see it before! How could we have missed that? It's impossible, we tried everything last year," she asked Liz.

"I have no clue how that could have slipped through the cracks," Liz said incredulously.

"I do," I said. "We missed it because the Blackthorne Boys didn't have anything on record in the web. Look at that," I said pointing to a date on the screen. "According to this website, they just opened the school this year."

We all stared at the screen wordlessly for a while until Macey asked, "What does it mean?"

"Either they needed to find a new cover or they moved this close to the Gallagher Academay for a reason," I whispered as if the walls could hear us.

"Why would they have to move closer to us?" Bex asked sounded a little panicked-which is really bad-because Bex never sounds panicked unless there is a good reason.

"I don't know," I whispered back. "But we are going to find out."

That Sunday night we had a plan. Liz, Bex, and Macey would all hide out in the secret passageway behind my mom's office while I have dinner with her. My mission: to find out whatever my mom can give me about Blackthorne.

"Hi, Cammie. We're having shrimp puffs," she said stepping into the hall before she could even hear me coming. "How are you doing kiddo?" she said pushing me into her office and closing the door behind her.

"I'm fine. We saw the Blackthorne Boys on Tuesday," I said watching her expression carefully.

She smiled and nodded her head, "I know. Mr. Solomon said you did a very good job."

"Yeah, I guess," I said looking at the floor. Now this is where the acting comes in.

"What's wrong Cammie? Aren't you happy you saw them?" my asked stroking my head.

"I saw Zach," I whispered.

"Isn't that a good thing? I thought you liked Zach," she said scooting closer to me on the couch.

"I do, that's the problem," I said trying to sound sad.

"How is that a problem?" my mom asked confused.

Man, this is going to be harder than I thought. Can't she take a hint? I sighed heavily and said, "I won't ever see him though, I can't even talk to him. I mean, who knows where the Blackthorne Institute even is?"

I made sure to look at her when I said that. Their was some kind of spark in her eye when I asked her where it was. She said, "I'm sure you'll see him sooner than you think." And that was all I needed from her. When my mom says things like that I know she means them. All we needed to find out was why we would see them sooner than we think…

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