Hey there! Sorry I haven't posted in a while, but I've been busy. Also it's interesting to see a very high number of views and a very low number of reviews, so please read and review! This isn't a long chapter and I need to work on making my chapters longer. Sorry if the character are not like Ally Carter's characters, but I am trying. Anyway here is Macey with the disclaimer!

Macey: FGG26 doesn't own the Gallagher Girl series. Duh.

Chapter 4

"Zach, I'd like to introduce you to my daughter, Cammie. Cammie, this is Zach." Mom said. Zach looked between my mom and me, as if searching for the resemblance between us. Besides the fact that are hair was the same color, I didn't see much of resemblance.

"We met before mom." I said. My stomach clenched and my hands we sweaty. Was the room spinning when I first came in here?

"Oh really? Well, even better! Cammie, do you mind walking Zach to his room?" Mom asked. I think I nodded. I think I smiled and waved good-bye to my mom and Mr. Solomon. I think I was able to hold down the sudden outburst of emotion that was fighting to get free. I walked out the door and Zach followed.

"So….you're the Headmistress's daughter huh?" Zach said, but I sounded like a question. I nodded.

"So….you're our new teacher's son?" I said, but that also sounded like a question. He nodded. We walked alongside each other. I never heard silence that was so loud before. "So, welcome to Gallagher, This school is really advanced, all the sophomores are already doing PhD level physics. And there are a lot of cool extra-curricular activities to do here. History of Espionage is one. I don't know why we need that, but it's really cool. We have Culture and Assimilation class, which is fun, and Madame taught us how to send messages through embroidered handkerchiefs. We have a lot of cool things here." I was rambling. I was giving him the welcome speech. I was ignoring the fact that I had a crush on my step-brother to be.

"Gallagher Girl, are you okay?" He asked. He looked concerned. He sounded concerned. But I told the part of my brain that thought that was sweet to be quiet.

"I'm fine Zach." I started walking faster, but Zach easily kept up with me. He grabbed my arm and forced me to look at him.

"Cammie….are you sure you're okay?" He said. I wanted to tell him no, I wasn't ok. That I was the opposite of ok. I wanted to do anything but smile and shrug my shoulder and act like I didn't care.

"Why wouldn't I be ok? My mom is happy, that's all that matters."

"But are you happy? Are ok with…having a step brother?" I knew what he was asking. He was asking if I was ok with him as my step brother.

"Of course. Are you ok with having a step sister?" I asked him. He looked at me, and seemed to be trying to decide something. Confusion and hurt flashed across his face so fast I would have missed it if I hadn't been watching him so closely, then there was nothing but the intensity of which he looked into my eyes. I shivered, not from the cold and not from fear. I had to fight the magnetic pull that seemed to be pulling me towards him.

He leaned close to me, his lips just an inch a way and whispered, "No. I'm not okay with it." He leaned away and said "I know where my room is." The he walked ahead of me, and I could do nothing but stand there stunned.

I was completely dazed on my way back to my room. I shut the door behind me, leaned against it and closed my eyes. My heart was racing and he didn't even kiss me.

"You look like someone just proposed." Liz said laughing. Bex came out of the bathroom and glanced at me. She tapped Macey and then Macey looked at me.

"Not proposed, but my guess is something happened with a guy." Macey said.

"A hot guy with green eyes, disheveled hair, muscular…" Bex trailed off, probably lost in her imagination about hot guys with big arms.

"Zach kissed you didn't he?" Liz shrieked-asked. I was so dazed and confused that I didn't realize when the word I answered her question truthfully. "He tried to kiss you!" Liz squealed with joy.

"No. No, he doesn't like me like that. He's doesn't even like me at all. He said he wasn't happy that I was going to be his step-sister. I mean…he just doesn't like me…" I said.

"Oh c'mon Cam! You can't be serious." Bex said as I sat on my bed and she sat across from me on her bed.

"Cammie, he's upset that you're his step-sister because he likes you. If you're his step-sister, you guys can't date." She looked at me like she was questioning my intelligence. Needless to say, I did not like being looked at like that. I looked at Liz for back up, but she was smiling as if she just introduced Princess Ariel to Prince Aric. I looked at Bex, and she was just nodded in agreement. I groaned at fell back on my bed.

"You guys are impossible."

"Impossible, no. Truthful, yes." Macey said, as she pulled the covers up to her chin.

"Well what do you suppose I do, just go up to him and ask whether or not he likes me?"

"I would." Bex said as she closed her eyes and fell asleep.

"And if I do, what if he says no?"

"Then that makes it easier to ignore your feelings for him." Liz said as tucked her book under her pillow.

"And if he says yes?" I pulled the covers over my head and closed my eyes, only to have them snap open after listening to my best friend's answers.

"Oh, that's simple." Liz said.

"We just break up your mom and Mr. Solomon." Bex said.

"Duh." Added Macey.

I was officially worried.

And that was before Mr. Solomon broke our bedroom door down.