Chapter 7
Shopping with Macy, Bex and Liz had positive results:
I cheered up
I actually got pretty nice cloths.
We got ice cream- yum!
We were walking up the path leading to Gallagher academy when we saw, you guessed it, Zach, Grant and Jonas walking towards us.
"Hey, what are you guys doing here?" asked Bex.
"Actually, there's this party a few blocks away" said Grant. "We were looking for you, wondering if you wanted to come?"
"Yes! A party sounds like fun, even if there was one last night. But Cammie wasn't there. What do you think Cam?"asked Bex eagerly. A chance to get to dance with Grant is a chance Bex will always take.
I shrugged. "Sure, why not?"
"Great let's go." said Bex tugging on Grant's hand.
"But where do we put our bags?" asked Liz gesturing to the shopping bags they were holding.
"We can go and put them inside really quick and get changed." said Macy running towards the school already. We followed her while the boys waited outside.
It was an out door party by the way and was pretty awesome. It must have cost a lot to rent the place because the dance floor was on the ground but there was another floor with a balcony and everything too.
The second we arrived at the party, Bex grabbed Grant's hand and they started dancing.
"Macy!" called Liam a second later, waving towards her. He was standing near the punch table talking to some guys but came over when he saw her.
"I'll see you kids later." she said with a small wave as Liam took her hand and led her over to the dance floor.
Surprisingly Jonas asked Liz to dance too, which left me and Zach, standing there, ALONE. But of course that couldn't be possible as a second later Anna and Tina each hooked their arms with his and made him turn around to face them. I rolled my eyes even though their backs were towards me, but on the inside I was breaking down again. Of course, he asked one of them to the dance last night and probably wants to spend time with them. Who was I kidding?
But then I said what the heck and was walking over to the punch table when some random guy asked me to dance. It was actually pretty fun but a few songs later I politely excused myself, got some punch and headed over to the second floor and leaned on the balcony. From there I saw Zach still talking to Anna and Tina and some other girls with his back still towards me. Bex and Grant were dancing like crazy and having a lot of fun too. Liz and Jonas were a little farther away but they were dancing too until Liz accidentally stepped on Jonas's foot. She turned a bright shade of red and launched into a full speech of how sorry she was (I guessed and was right) and would've run away if Jonas hadn't grabbed her hand and told her it was okay. That made Liz smile and they continued to dance to the now slow song.
I smiled then heard someone say "You look a little down."
I turned and saw Zach standing behind me with two glasses of punch, one of which he handed to me. I glanced down to where he was previously standing but only saw the girls that had surrounded him looking around the dance floor.
"I do?" I asked.
"A little." he said leaning on the balcony next to me. "Is it because of Jimmy? Who is he anyway?"
"Josh, and he's my ex-boyfriend." I said.
"Ex?"
"Yeah, we broke up last night."
Zach whistled low and long. "Not to be rude or anything but shouldn't you have broken up before you moved here?" he asked taking a sip of his punch
"I guess we sort of did." I said.
There was a long pause before Zach said "Your mom was really worried last night."
I looked at him. "I know. Ever since my dad, er um, it's just been the two of us."
"Your dad?" he asked
"Yeah, he died 5 years ago." I said and my lip quivered.
"Hey." said Zach softy as he gently wiped a tear that was trailing down my cheek. "You wanna talk about it?"
I looked at him again with a confused expression on my face. "I've heard that talking about things helps, but if you'd rather not than that's alright too." he said quickly.
This time there was a really long pause. I looked at the people around or below us but Zach never took his eyes off me.
"He died in a car crash. He was getting back from work one night when a drunk guy drove his truck straight towards his car and well you can imagine what happened next."
"Truck?" said Zach both eyebrows raised.
"Yeah. The doctors said he died instantly. I guess that's a good thing. I wouldn't have wanted him to die a slow and painful death. That would be a terrible way to die." I said softly. "While me and my mom were at home arguing, totally oblivious to what had happened. The guy who killed him is now has a life sentence in jail" (I made this whole thing up since this story isn't really about spy's so I can't really say he went missing on a mission)
"You couldn't have known what was happening. I guess we're more similar than I thought."
"Huh?"
"My dad, he died when I was seven. My parents weren't exactly the best people in the world, and knew people from the bad crowd, and were part of it too" he said making quotation marks with his fingers. "He was murdered by one of his supposed friends. My mom went ballistic after that. She hunted down and killed the guy who murdered my dad and is now a psychopathic criminal on the run. She even works for criminal organizations or so I've heard." he said cheerfully
"That's terrible." I said looking at my feet.
"Yeah but no worries. My uncle found me at home the next day after both my parents went missing. He took me in." said Zach with an actual smile and surprised me by putting his arm around my shoulders, drawing me closer. "But I guess my point is, cheer up." he whispered in my ear. I smiled at him and then looked away mainly because a blush was creeping up my face because of how close he was.
We were both silent after that until "So are we going to dance or are you just going to stand there all day?" said Zach smirking. And I'm pretty sure he could see me blush. The cocky Zach was back.
"I thought you'd never ask." I said smiling and taking his offered hand.
