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Chapter 7

Cammie POV

Cammie woke up the next morning, forgetting about yesterday's events. She sat up and looked around the room. As the sight non-familiar walls of Cammie's new home settled in, all her memories came flooding back into her brain. The Outlander attack, Catherine's story, Zach's kiss. Cammie blushed at the last thought. She stepped out of bed and padded softly into the bathroom. After taking a shower, she found a pile of clothes in her dresser with a note on top. Hope these fit –Bex :) was scrawled on the paper. Cammie silently thanked Bex and slipped her clothes on. She knew that she would have to show up for breakfast, otherwise it would seem a little rude. Cammie left her apartment and walked down the hallway, asking a couple of people on the way for directions.

The breakfast hall was apparently called the cafeteria, just like in Gallagher. It was a large room with scattered tables and a long counter in the front. Cammie entered and spotted Macey, Bex, Liz, Grant, and Jonas sitting at a table in the corner. She walked over to the table and Grant smiled as he saw her approaching.

"Camster!" he yelled and threw her arms around her.

Wow, Zach was right, Cammie thought. Camster, seriously? Cammie stood stiffly and didn't move until finally, Grant stood back and ruffled her hair.

"Hey, Cammie. How was your sleep?" Liz asked.

"Fine," Cammie sat down at the table. Her stomach started to rumble as she glanced at the food that was sitting on the table.

"Here, help yourself," Liz took a plate of pancakes and handed it to Cammie.

"Thank you. Oh, and Bex, thanks for the clothes," Cammie smiled at her.

Bex waved her hand dismissively. "Anytime."

"Hey, we're going to go now," Grant and Jonas stood up. "We'll be in the lab. And before I forget; Joe said that we have to meet in the conference room in an hour."

"Kay, bye," Liz waved to the boys as they left.

"Where is Joe, anyway?" Cammie asked the girls.

"Dunno," Bex answered. "He doesn't really show up for meals. You only really see him during meetings."

Cammie nodded and glanced at Macey, who had been sitting quietly. She leaned forward and looked Cammie in the eye.

"So," Macey said. "We didn't see you at all after we showed you around yesterday." She raised a questioning eyebrow. "Where were you?"

"Um," Cammie started. "In my room," she lied.

"The entire time?" Bex asked doubtfully. "Because when I went to drop of your clothes, you weren't there."

Cammie deflated and looked at Bex with a sheepish smile.

"I know that look," Macey pointed a finger at Cammie's face. "You were at someone else's room last night. And, judging by the way you're acting," Macey chuckled. "I'd go ahead and say that you were at Zach's."

"What?" Cammie sputtered. "Zach?" She faked an annoyed look. "Come on, you know how immature Zach is."

"Please," Liz shook her head. "Don't every try lying again. You're terrible at it."

Cammie scowled and sat back in her chair.

"So you don't deny being in Zach's room last night!" Macey said excitedly. Again, Cammie said nothing and only glared at Macey.

"Did you guys do anything?" Bex asked slowly.

"It was perfectly normal night," Cammie assured the girls. "All Zach did was properly introduce himself."

Bex snorted. "Zach? Talking about himself. Yeah, I'd like to see that happen."

"As long as you didn't…you know," Macey lowered her voice. "Do anything with him." Her eyes widened when she saw Cammie's cheeks turn red. "Oh my gosh! You did it!"

"Keep your voice down," Cammie hissed. "You can't tell anyone. And we did nothing that serious. It was literally a kiss that lasted a couple of minutes."

"Okay, fine, I promise I won't tell anyone," Macey smiled. "I knew you liked him though! I could tell by the way you were looking at him yesterday."

"Was it that obvious?" Cammie groaned.

"Oh, don't worry," Liz patted Cammie's shoulder. "He likes you too. When you were unconscious, he stayed by your side 24/7."

"Really?" Cammie asked. "Huh. Well, it doesn't matter now. I'm pretty sure he hates me." She looked at the girls. "He shut me out last night."

"I can go punch him right now if you'd like," Bex started to stand, but Cammie stopped her. "It's okay."

"Don't worry, it'll all blow over," Macey assured Cammie. "He's in his room right now if you want to talk it out…" she added slyly.

"No, I don't," Cammie said defiantly. "I think I'm over Zach now." She stood up and stared down at the other girls. "You wanna show me the rest of Blackthorne?"

"Sure," the girls replied in unison and walked out of the cafeteria with Cammie.

After walking around Blackthorne for at least an hour, Cammie's legs were beginning to get tired. Yet Liz told her that there was still a lot to see in the building.

"Maybe you should meet some of the students," Bex suggested.

"Okay," Cammie answered, hoping that this would be the last stop of the day.

The girls dragged Cammie to the girls' common room, which was where most of the girls spent their time. As they entered, a collective hush fell throughout the room. Cammie stood timidly as fifty pairs of eyes stared back at her.

"Guys," Macey announced. "This is Cammie Morgan. She's new here, and she's Joe's daughter."

"Hi," Cammie gave a small wave.

The girls started talking excitedly and crowded around Cammie. Most of the girls were her age, if not younger.

"Hi! I'm Courtney Bauer!" one girl extended her hand out in the midst of all the pushing and shoving.

"Uh, nice to meet you, Courtney," Cammie smiled and shook her hand. She looked at Bex, Macey, and Liz for help.

"Okay everybody! Get into a line!" Bex shouted. The girls immediately responded and formed into a straight line.

"Eva Alvarez," the girl at the front of the line gushed. "It's so cool to see you in person."

"Um, thanks?" The reply came out more like question than a statement. Cammie had no idea that she was this famous in Blackthorne. The line continued with more girls complimenting Cammie.

"OMG, it's really you! I'm Kim Lee!"

"I'm Anna Fetterman. Cammie—wait, can I call you that? Okay, Cammie, I just want you to know what you're awesome!"

"'Sup, Mick Morrison. I think that it's pretty rad you're here today!"

This is getting weirder by the minute, Cammie thought to herself. Then she came face to face with a girl with straight brown hair.

"Hi! I'm Tina Walters! I'm like, your biggest fan! I've heard so much about you! You know, Joe always tells us all these stories about you when he's teaching our CoveOps class. That's short for Covert and Operations, by the way. Oh my gosh, I just taught Cammie Morgan something new! Isn't' that like, so amazing?!"

"Uhh…" Cammie could only stare at the girl in bewilderment. "Yeah, that's pretty amazing…I guess…"

"Great! Oh, but I wanted to ask you a quick question, before you leave," to Cammie's surprise, the girl pulled out a notepad and a pen. "Is it true that you hooked up with Zachary Goode yesterday?"

"What?!" Cammie whirled around to face Macey who looked as shocked as she was. "Macey! I thought I told you—"

Macey immediately threw her hands up in the air. "It wasn't me, I swear!"

Cammie turned back towards Tina, who smiled innocently back at her. "Who gave you that idea?"

"Oh don't worry, I didn't hear from Macey. One of my sources saw you entering Zach's room last night," Tina smiled.

"And that's supposed to make me feel better?" Cammie muttered under her breath. She sighed and said, "Look I don't know what your source saw, but all I did in Zach's room last night was talk about…" Cammie desperately looked around the room for an idea.

"Jackets!" she blurted out, spotting a pink jacket draped on a chair.

"Jackets?" Tina said slowly. "Interesting. So you're saying that the fact you were in Zach's room last night is true?"

"Yes, I am," Cammie said tiredly.

"Okay!" Tina snapped her notepad shut. "That's all I need. Thanks for your time, Cammie!" She handed Cammie a card. "If you need anything else, just give me a call," Tina pointed at the number on her card. "That's the number for my comms unit." She gave Cammie one last hug and bounded away.

Cammie stood there, staring down at the card. Bex grabbed her hand and dragged her away from the girls' common room. "Okay, enough of that," Bex rolled her eyes. "Sorry that you had to meet Tina."

"That's okay," Cammie forced a smile. "Hey, is there actually any other adults here that teach besides Joe?"

"Of course!" Macey pulled Cammie towards a wall. There was a large poster hanging on it that had pictures of at least one hundred people. "These are all the teachers of Blackthorne."

"Here are our teachers," Liz pointed to several photos. "Professor Smith, who teaches Countries of the World. Dr. Fibbs, who teaches Research and Development. He's my favorite teacher. Madame Dabney, who teaches Culture and Assimilation. Mr. Mosckowitz, who teaches Computing, Jonas's favorite teacher. Professor Buckingham, who teaches—"

"Wait a second!" Cammie peered closely at the photo. "That's Patricia!"

"Oh, so you know her?" Liz chirped.

"Know her?" Cammie replied. "She's one of the Council Officials in Gallagher! Or…was one of the Council Officials."

Bex nodded. "That's not too surprising, considering that she's one of Joe's most trusted teacher."

"Wow," Cammie stood back. "Do you know where she is? Did she even survive the Outlander attack?"

"Of course she did," Bex nodded. "She was at dinner yesterday."

"We'd love to take you to her," Macey was looking at her watch. "But we have to go to the meeting room right now."

When the girls entered the meeting room, the only people inside were Grant, Jonas, and Joe. Joe smiled at Cammie as she walked in.

"Hey there," he ruffled Cammie's hair affectionately like he used to do in Gallagher. "How are you? Sorry for losing my temper the other day."

Cammie nodded. "I'm fine. The girls were just showing me around the place. I got to meet some of the students."

"That's nice," Joe glanced towards the door. "Hey, does anyone know where Zach is?"

"He's in his room, sir," Grant spoke up. "Hasn't come out since…yesterday night." Cammie looked at Macey, Bex, and Liz knowingly.

"Was it really that bad?" Macey whispered.

"No, it wasn't!" Cammie whispered back. "I didn't know that he was so emotional!"

Just then, the door opened and Zach entered the room. Cammie stood up straight and watched silently as Zach walked over to Grant and Jonas. She shifted her eyes over to Joe, but could feel Zach's burning gaze directed towards her.

Joe cleared his throat. "This is going to be a short meeting. Now that we're all here," he said. "I'd like to go over the changes we will have to adapt to now that Cammie is part of this family."

He looked at Cammie. "First, you will have to start attending classes with Bex, Macey, and Liz. You will receive separate instructions from your teachers since the rest of the class is ahead. Besides schoolwork, you're going to have to start your physical training," Joe paused. "You won't be joining the other students for this, but instead with someone else.

"Zach, I am appointing you as Cammie's personal trainer."

"What?" Cammie and Zach both exclaimed.

Joe looked slightly surprised at their outburst. "Yes. Why, what's wrong?"

"Joe!" Cammie cried out desperately. "You can't make me train with this…this…jerk!" she sputtered, pointing at Zach indignantly.

"Guys," Joe explained calmly. "The more you tell me that you two can't work with each other, the more I am going to approve of my decision." He looked around the room. "Meeting adjourned."

Zach scoffed, shaking his head and stormed out of the room. Grant and Jonas worriedly followed. "We'll try and talk some sense into him," Grant assured Cammie before leaving.

Cammie plopped down in a chair and buried her face in her arms. Bex came over and rubbed her back.

"Oh, and Cammie?" Joe spoke out from the doorway. "Your training begins today."

A/N: Was that okay? I know that there wasn't a lot of Zammie, but there will be more in the next chapter. See you guys then! Remember to review your thoughts! Bye :)

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