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The Gallagher Exchange –

Chapter four

Later that evening I was sitting on my bed casually talking to Bex, Macey and Liz when I felt like there was somebody or something watching us. Deciding not to give away that I knew anything I covertly looked around the room searching for the source of the strange being watched feeling I was experiencing. As my eyes once again swept over the room I noticed the light reflecting off of what looked like a little black dot on the wall; but I knew better.

Using the secret language I had made up with Liz, Macey and Bex during a very boring snow storm one year at Gallagher, I informed them of my discovery and we all set to going around the room and disposing of all of the bugs we could find. However we left one audio bug so they would think we missed one just to make them feel slightly successful. Well that and also because Bex was planning on telling them how hot she thought some of the teachers were just to wind them up.

After we successfully completed our objective we all headed down to dinner together still talking in our secret language so that we could discuss who we thought placed the bugs in our room. We all seemed to think it was Zach and his friends but just to make sure Liz was going to check when we got back to the room after dinner.

We headed in to the dining hall following other people in other years and took the seats we occupied earlier that day already previously deciding that we weren't going over to the boys; we had tried that once unsuccessfully. Besides we (as in Bex and Macey) had concluded that this way we would be able to find out if they wanted to sit with us by sitting in the unoccupied chairs opposite.

It turns out that they did indeed want to sit with us a soon after we had all sat down the chairs across from us were being pulled out and sat in. Bex and Macey sneakily smirked at each other without them noticing (which they should really have spotted seen as they are spies and all).

"Hi Ladies, I assume these seats aren't taken" Nick politely addressed us once they were all sat down. I had the desire to tell him that actually they were but I knew that I would just end up being a dead spy walking seen as this was what the girls had been hoping for.

As everyone started talking with each other I looked across the table at Zach who was once again staring intently at me. Sighing I just ignored him started picking at my food, not particularly hungry after eating a bunch of sweets in our dorm.

"So Gallagher girl how's Blackthorne treating ya?" Zach asked me with what seemed like pure curiosity. This question baffled me slightly as I had barely been here long enough to tell him how Blackthorne was treating me but deciding not to argue I simply told him it was treating me fine.

I continued eating in a comfortable silence for the next couple of minutes before I realised that I actually needed to talk to Zach about some homework we had to do. "Urmm I was talking to Joe- I mean Mr Solomon earlier and he said that he was planning on setting a paired assessment on brush passes tomorrow, so – I uh- was thinking that maybe you wanted to go to the library tomorrow so we could do it" I told him stuttering like crazy.

"And who said that I would want to do the assignment with you?" Zach asked me almost immediately after I finished my sentence. I knew he didn't mean that in a mean horrible way from the way he was smirking at me and that he just wanted to know why it was him I wanted to do the assessment with so I wasn't offended by his question.

"Uhh nobody said that it's just that we have to go with the people we were in pairs with early for the brush pass practice" I replied turning a bright scarlet red even though I had no reason to be. He however seemed to find my blushing rather amusing as the smirk that was plastered on his face started to grow.

By now we had gotten up and were heading towards the main hall when he slowed to a stop and I followed his lead. Our friends continued on walking so deep in conversation that they barely noticed we had stopped at all. Zach started heading in the opposite direction to where I was headed so I just stood there and watched him walk away.

Just as he was about to turn the corner he turned back around and looked at me "It's a date then" Zach called over the heads of a bunch of 7th grade boys who were passing between us. My face turned bright red and all of the younger boys started wolf whistling as Zach just chuckled and turned the corner.

I rushed back up to my room to find the girls sitting there once again talking in our secret language. They filled me in on what they were discussing as it seemed I missed quite a bit and that this was important.

It turns out they found out it was Zach and his friends who had planted the bugs and they wanted to get closer to each of them to find out why they had done. It also turns out that they had taken the liberty of pairing me up with Zach whilst they all took one of the other three. As you can guess Macey was paired with Nick, Bex with Grant and Liz with Jonas.

I was about to start complaining about it when I deciding best not to go against both Macey and Bex when they had set their minds to something. Also I saw my whole "date" with Zach tomorrow as the perfect opportunity to put this plan into action. I voiced this to them, leaving out him calling it a date part and they automatically decided that they would be doing my make up to make sure I looked presentable.

After a while I gave up on trying to convince them that I didn't need any make up and that because I was only going to the library and decided just to let it go.

For some reason that night I settled into bed feeling surprisingly excited for tomorrow though I couldn't work out why that was. It definitely had nothing to do with meeting up with Zach because that would be weird. I mean I barely know the guy. Thoughts like those kept floating through my head till I finally drifted off to sleep.