A New Revelation: Zach's Secret Revealed
"You sure you don't want to come with us, Cammie?" Liz asks.
"No, I'll be fine here." I tell her, intent on convincing them to go to town, thinking me and Zach could have some quality time together alone.
"Are you sure about that?" Liz asks again, worried about me staying here alone. "Fine, since you seem so sure, we'll go ahead now. Bye. We'll be back soon."
After saying goodbye to them, I head out to the garden, thinking Zach would be there and he was. "So now it's just you and me." He says, holding both my hands.
I can't help but blush when he says that. "Wanna come inside?"
"Sure, why not." He smiles.
We spent our whole time joking around with ourselves while kissing here and there. Then, finally I had the nerve to ask him, "What are you not perfect at?" But all he does is continue to stare at me with his arms around me. "C,mon tell me something you're not good at."
"Nobody's perfect in this world, Cammie."
"I know, that's why I want to know one of your flaws."
"Love. That's what I suck at so badly." He confesses.
"How?" I ask, not believing a word he just said.
"Well, everytime I love someone, it doesn't quite…end well for me," He tells me. "I end up losing that person."
It was getting late when we decided to go to sleep. Remember that nightmare when I caught myself crying? Yea, I think I'm having it again. But this time, I'm running away. From Zach. I know it sounds weird. I hate it for that. Then, the word "truth" flashed in the end. And that's what woke me up from that terrible dream.
Zach's got a habit of disappearing whenever I'm sleeping. So I got worried, when I found him nowhere beside me. I went downstairs to look for him, figuring that's where he might be. I stood in front of the window that I found him at the last time, looking throughout the darkness outside. "Looking for me?" He says, coming up from behind me.
"Yea, where did you go?" I ask him.
"I just grabbed a glass of water. C'mon, let's go back to bed." He tells me, taking my hand and leading me back to bed.
This time, when I woke up again, Zach left a note saying, "I have to go. I'll be back in the afternoon – Z"
That day, I couldn't help but think about Zach. He just seems so mysterious. When I found him nowhere next to me when I woke up the last time and he told me he went to grab a glass of water, I had a weird feeling that he was doing something else. I know that he was just thinking about that girl that left him. He just can't get over her. I have to say, that made me feel hurt. I just had to know who this girl was, that he can't get over her even when he's with me now. So I made a plan. I had to finish this mission. This mission of sneaking into his house just to look for some clues in order to know who this girl is.
I went over to his house. I tried the front door, but it was locked. So I figured he wasn't there. I went around and one of the windows was slightly open. So, I put my hand through and unlocked the kitchen door that was next to it. I was glad it didn't creek. To make Zach even more perfect, he lives in such a grand home. Anyways, I went up the stairs, thinking that I where I should start.
I went down the hall when I noticed a door. It was bigger and fancier. So, I opened it and found myself in a room full of old stuff. It took my breath away. I saw pictures of Zach. But the things is, he wasn't alone in them, he was with a girl. A girl that looked so familiar, I felt like I was staring at my own reflection. A girl that looked like me. But I couldn't believe it was me 'cause we never took any pictures together. I was speechless. He had a photo album and the pictures inside them dated back to years before my time. In fact, centuries! I cannot believe this! It was always the same girl, just in different years. One in 1402, another in 1619, and one in 1821. And now, me. I've been reincarnating all these years. If so, then how old is Zach? I mean how can he look so young through so many years. Were they the same man all these years?
Is this fate? To meet him after all these years? This can't be! He tricked me! I sat down to get my head straight. All this was just too hard to believe. I tried to get back up, holding onto a table and that's when a piece of paper slipped out. I reached out to grab it and on it said, "June 8 1620 My beloved has left me once again, leaving me here alone, yet to find her once more when she is reborn – Z" This, I couldn't believe. All these years, Zach Goode has been living and living. Finding me, just to claim me once again. That's what he's been keeping from me all along. This secret.
I ran out. I just couldn't hold it in any longer. Tears started to blur my eyes. And as I ran down the stairs and just getting ready to open the door to leave, that's when he came, "Cammie! What are you doing here?" Zach says while shock filled the look on his face.
I couldn't face him, tears were trailing down my cheeks, my head was filled with anger and confusion. So I ran out of the house while Zach chased me out. "Cammie! Cammie! Wait up!" he reached out and grabbed my arm.
"Why didn't you tell me?" I cried. "Just who exactly are you?"
"I'm the person you've always known, I'm Zach."
"Oh yea! Then who am I?" I say. "How long have you known me? How many of me have you known? How long were you going to keep this a secret?"
"Cammie, you don't understand." He tries to calm me down, instead I don't listen and I run away from him just like the nightmare. "Cammie! Cammie!"