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Zach's POV

"So are we sneaking into the girl's room or what?" Grant shouted from his bed. Jonas, Grant and I had all been sent to our room as soon as Ms. Morgan came back with pyjamas and we had finished eating.

"No, we shouldn't." Jonas said but he sounded unsure. I sat up and looked at my friends; they were both looking at me for an answer. I had the deciding vote.

"Jonas is right, we shouldn't. I kind of need Ms. Morgan, Abby and Mr Solomon to like me and I already think Mr Solomon is going to kill after the whole 'laid' situation. Thanks again for that Grant." I shot him a glare which he rolled his eyes at.

"That was not my fault; it was your kids fault. Wish it was my fault like." He sniggered; even Jonas gave a little chuckle having now been filled in on the whole situation.

"It was your fault." He shrugged.

"Anyway back to the matter at hand. Why wouldn't they like you?"

"I don't know, perhaps because we have snuck into the girl's room, something we were told not to do."

"And since when did The Zachary Goode do as someone told them?" I didn't have to answer because we all knew the answer was never, "Anyway we aren't going to get caught and the girl's won't grass. So I think we are good." Jonas seemed to have been sold on the idea.

"I don't know." I said as they stood up and moved around the room collecting anything we may need for our 'escape'.

"Come on, has becoming a dad made you soft?" I think he was trying to rile me up and I tried not to let it work but I couldn't. So I stood up and walked to the door, not needing to collect anything from the room.

"Alright I'll go," Grant smiled as did Jonas, as they wouldn't have been able to leave without me. "Now come on everyone will be in their rooms by now including teachers." I smirked as I saw Jonas look a little worried, I knew we weren't going to get caught going to the room as it was the perfect time, after living at Gallagher for a while you figure out the perfect time to go for a stroll without bumping into anyone. "Don't worry guys we'll be fine. Now let's go, I want to get there before morning." I was still smirking as I walked out of the room and heard them follow me.

It was relatively easy for us to creep down the corridors and up the staircases without seeing anyone and make it to Cammie's and everyone's room, as I said it would be. The only problem was whether we knock or not, we didn't know if the children were asleep and if we would wake them. However, it became very clear that they were still awake when we heard giggling. Still did we want to knock or surprise them and enter with some style by picking the lock? We went with picking the lock; Grant knelt down and began work on the door lock.

Halfway through the procedure we heard something behind the door, some whispering that not even we could hear through the wooden door and then hysterical giggles. We all leaned on the door to see if we could hear anything else.

I guess we should have expected the door to open but that didn't stop us falling on the floor as it did. There goes our entrance of style and surprise.

I looked up to find Cammie laughing at me and giving me her hand. I grabbed onto it and she pulled me up from the heap on the floor. Grant and Jonas however, didn't get the help from their girlfriends as they couldn't control their laughter, and they had to try and untangle themselves which from my perceptive was quite hilarious. They didn't quite agree.

Grant shut the door as soon as he had managed to stand upright. He turned on us, "We never speak of this again, got it?" He looked around, we nodded in between our laughter but I'm sure I saw Bex's finger's crossed.

"That was hilarious." Maddie said, it was weird but I think I had finally figured out which one was which. Internal fist pump.

"Glad we amuse you." I said jokingly, while ruffling her hair to which she giggled and tried to push my hand away.

As everyone started to talk I got a good look at the room. Two mattresses had been placed on the floor and Noah was asleep on one of them covered by a blue cover. Lucy was sat on the other and looked close to sleep and Maddie, who had just joined her, looked a little tired and they both seemed to be trying to stay awake. The rest of the room looked the same as normal; messy but it everything had a place.

The girl's didn't question us for being there, obviously it was expected that we would sneak in. Definitely glad we did now, who knows what Cammie would have done to me if I didn't.

Jonas and Liz went to the desk in the corner of the room and I could hear them talking about some equations or something. Grant, Bex and Macey sat on Bex's bed and were talking and laughing about something. Which left Cammie and me to entertain Maddie and Lucy, I guess they were our kids but they could have at least helped us.

I sat down on the edge of Cammie's bed, Cammie sat next to me. She seemed tired and leaned into my side; I put my arm around her. Maddie and Lucy looked up at us from the mattress on the floor.

"Can we play a game?" Lucy asked, while yawning, Maddie nodded in agreement.

"Well, I think we could…" I said drawing out my voice, Cammie giggled at their excited faces, "But…" Maddie and Lucy's faces fell, "only if you go to sleep after the game." They both nodded and started talking with each other trying to figure out what game to play.

"Okay, we want to play…" they started after a few minutes of deliberation, "Extreme Hide-and-Seek!" They whisper shouted with excitement.

"What's Extreme Hide-and-Seek?" I asked, I expected one of the twins to answer but it was my girlfriend's voice that gave me the answer.

"It's like Hide-and-Seek in the dark. You are allowed to move to different hiding places but as soon as you are found you must help the person who is it. The last person found is the winner but has to be 'it' in the next round, simple really." She said, Maddie and Lucy nodded with her explanation, but I just looked at her confused as to why she would know the game so well, I mean I knew hide-and-seek but not well enough to explain the rules. She noticed my look, "My dad used to play it with me, he always called it Extreme Hide-and-Seek even though it wasn't really extreme." I didn't say anything else on the situation knowing it would probably upset her.

"Well then let's play, but remember we have to be careful because people are sleeping and we aren't really supposed to be playing." The twins nodded.

"What about Noah?" Cammie asked worry colouring her tone.

"I'm sure he'll be fine, and we'll check on him and them lot are going to be in here." I pointed at everyone else on the other side of the room.

She nodded and Maddie was about to say something when Grant butted in, "Hey, can't we play?"

I was about to say 'no' because the more people the longer the game went on for and it was already pretty late for the twins to be up, but Lucy had other ideas, "Yes, it gets more fun the more people that are playing."

Once everyone was ready, Maddie did 'Coconut, coconut, coconut splat.' Which lead to Macey being it, she didn't seem to mind much. "Nobody is allowed in any secret passages," she looked at Cammie, "And nobody is allowed in classrooms or offices or the subs and we have to stay inside the mansion." Everyone nodded, "Okay 1, 2, 3, 4, 5…" We all ran out of the room, surprisingly into this game already, "And no making out!"

Macey's POV

I can't believe I was playing Extreme Hide-and-Seek, I had never played Hide-and-Seek. My parents were always too busy for games and I had no siblings to play and hardly any good friends that would play a 'silly child's game' with me.

I stopped counting and opened my eyes; everyone was gone apart from Noah who lay asleep. I sat down waiting for a respectable time to go and find them. As a sat there I saw Noah stir, he sat up and looked around. He seemed to be frightened as he couldn't see his mother, father or sisters he noticed me and smiled a little while stumbling up and across to sit on my knee.

He was so cute, "Hey Noah, we are playing Extreme Hide-and-Seek, you wanna join? You can be on my team." He smiled and nodded.

"I like this game." I stood up and held Noah's hand as we left the room to search the deserted hallways for everyone. Noah stayed silent for most of the trip apart from a few moments.

"Do you think my mummy and daddy are missing me?" His little voice almost broke my heart; I guessed he was talking about future Cammie and Zach.

"Of course they are. How could they not?" I tapped him on the nose with my index finger and he smiled up at me. He was a very easy going kid from what I had seen, and he was so darn adorable. I was a little jealous that Zach and Cammie made such pretty children.

"I miss Mummy cos she tickles my tummy and she reads to me and helps me when I'm stuck and she's always my partner in games and we always beat Daddy." I laughed at the little boy's enthusiasm, "and I miss Daddy because he lets me win and he picks me up when I fall and I fall a lot."

I laughed at the cuteness of this conversation, "Is that so?"

He nodded, "Yep, and he tickles me too and lets me have chocolate and stay up late when Mummy is on missions." He looked up at me like he had said something he wasn't supposed to, he beckoned me to lean down. I leant down and he put his hand around my ear and whispered, "But don't tell anyone!"

I tried to keep a serious face as I replied to that statement, "I won't."

"Cross your heart?"

I nodded and made a cross over my heart, "Cross my heart."

We continued around the mansion and found everybody on our travels apart from Cammie, big shocker there.

"Where could she be?" Grant asked, he was very annoyed that he had been the first to be found and everyone found his anger quite hilarious. "Damn that girl and her amazingly annoying hiding skills." He gave a frustrated sigh and we all laughed at him.

"You said a bad word!" Noah said, Maddie and Lucy nodded in agreement with their brother and gave Grant a scolding look, to which he cowered slightly at. Wimp.

"She could be anywhere." Zach said, but he didn't look frustrated, to be honest he looked proud that Cammie had won the game.

We looked for a few more minutes before I heard a squeal and a cheer. I made my way towards the noise, along with everyone. We all found Cammie being sat on by Noah, who had a massive smile on his face. "I found her!"

Cammie's POV

Once Noah had found me we, well Maddie, Lucy, Bex and Grant, decided we had to play again. I didn't really mind, I loved this game and it reminded me of my dad and how he would always play with me.

As I stared to count I noticed that Noah didn't leave with the others and he seemed dead on his feet. "Mummy, can I look with you?" He yawned and wiped his eyes with fisted hands. The way he called me 'Mummy' still shocked me and my heart beat a little faster and I couldn't stop the slight smile that made an appearance on my face.

"Sure you can kiddo." The pet name that my mother used for me rolled off my tongue, and Noah smiled at me and clambered over.

"Ready or not here we come!" We both shouted when it was time to go and find everybody. Noah seemed really tired as we walked around the mansion and I found my arms lifting him up and he placed his head on my shoulder. He was heavy but nothing I couldn't handle. And I continued my search for everybody.

Zach's POV

I heard footsteps coming closer to my hiding spot, I kind of wanted to win the game this time but oh well, and of course Cammie would find me. She always seemed to know my mind. But it was not Cammie's face that I saw when the chair I was hidden behind was moved. It was Abby, she was smirking at me.

"Zach, I thought you were told not to sneak out?" Darn it, it was just my luck that I was the one caught being out of my room and everyone else was fine.

"I'm not sneaking anywhere; I was just going for a midnight wonder." I spoke with confidence but it wasn't likely that she would believe me considering I was hiding behind a chair. I hastily stood up so I was level with her.

"Yeah right, I totally believe that blatant lie." She smirked again and I knew I wasn't really in trouble and that I should be glad that she had found me and not Ms. Morgan or God forbid Joe. "You better go back to a room, before somebody else finds you." I liked the way she said 'a room' and not 'your room' because he was going back to the girl's room no matter what. She was walking away from me and then she turned back just before she was out of sight, "Oh and Zach, next time you sneak out don't play hide-and-seek around the mansion." With that she disappeared from my line of vision and I let out a breath that I didn't know I had been holding.

A few moments later everybody was walking towards me, Maddie and Lucy started running as soon as they noticed me, still stood up and in plain sight. When they all got to me I noticed that Cammie and Noah were missing. Bex seemed to notice my looking, "Noah fell asleep, so she took him back to the room."

"We should all go back to the room now as well." Everyone agreed and we started walking back, I didn't tell them about Abby as it was easier not to.

We got back to the room and the door was unlocked, I was the first to enter and what I saw made me smile and my heart felt like it had grown. Cammie and Noah were both fast asleep snuggled together. I couldn't even bring myself to be angry that Noah had technically taken my spot because they both looked so cute. I heard a few 'Awww's' from behind me.

Everybody was already ready for bed as we had all been in pyjamas before we had started the game so we all just went and lay on our respective beds and mattresses.

Before I lay on my mattress I went over the Cammie and Noah and gave them both a kiss before tucking them in. Neither of them stirred.

"Daddy, can you tuck me in too?" Maddie asked she was staring at me with wide eyes.

"Of course I can, princess." I don't know where the nickname came from but it felt right. I knelt down and tucked her in, I also tucked Lucy in who was fast asleep. I also kissed them both on the forehead. I then lay down on the other mattress.

I pulled the covers up over my arms and turned onto my side. I was close to sleep when I heard Maddie speak again "I love you, Dad." It shocked me, the only other person to say they loved me and mean it was Cammie. My mother hadn't been one for the word or feeling of love.

And so just before I went to sleep I spoke quietly into the darkness, breaking the silence. "I love you too."


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