Chapter 7: Time to go

I closed my eyes imagining floating in the dark liquid. I would open them making myself see only darkness, a few shadows would pass above my head. I would glance up seeing figures moving around the surface, panicking. I would then try to swim to the surface reluctently but a stabbing pain would pierce my heart, I would gasp making me swallow the black water. The figures above me would fuzz out and I would fall into blissful darkness as someone grabs my arm.

All I felt was wetness come over me and my breath cut short. I sat up chocking on water. I squinted against the bright sun light and coughed up black water that also poured out of my nose. Suddenly someone was tapping my back shouting my name.

"Are you alright?"

I didn't answer still shaken by the events that I couldn't seem to understand. I could hear people shouting.

"Are you mad? She could have died!" Someone shouted.

"Indeed she could have but he saved her before that happened didn't he?" Another person retorqued.

"I don't understand! I just don't get what happened!" A third person butted in sounding panicked.

"Please calm down Miss Sutton or we shall have to remove you from the premises."

"But I DON'T UNDERSTAND!" She screamed back.

"I see that you are distressed by not understanding but please step back and let us take care of the situation."

"NOOOOOOO - !"

"Bloody stand back Liz! In what language do they need to tell you?" Someone else interrupted followed by some odd noises.

"Thank you Miss Baxter, though I don't think that knocking out your best friend was entirely necessary."

"I'm impressed I never would have thought you capable of something like that and I think you capable of a lot of things." A fifth voice said sounding surprised and admiring at the same time.

Black out

"Cammie, Cammie! You're awake!"

"Are you okay?" I was being carried bridal style. I simply buried my head in this persons chest and groaned.

Black out

"I'm impressed."

"I still can't believe you did that…" Someone told another.

"Will you bloody drop it? I had to! You were losing your mind." The other person replied.

Black out

I fluttered my eyelids getting used to the blinding light. I moaned and rolled over onto my side. I felt sick and soon I was vomiting all over the person next to me who let out a small shout of surprise.

Black out

"That took a while."

"She vomited all over me, what did you expect?" A male voice responded.

I propped myself up on my elbows and screamed as I was attacked with a stabbing pain in my chest.

"Cammie! Lie down don't try and move. It'll only hurt more."

I stayed quiet for a moment getting used to the pain.

"What happened?" I croaked.

"You were right it was a trap. I'm so sorry I should have listened to you. Madison said then she burst into tears. I feel so guilty!" She sobbed.

"Gallagher girl you fell in. It was so strong you started drowning." Zach said.

"Guillaume jumped off the platform and dived in after you. He saved you!" Madison squeaked in between sobs. She looked at Guillaume her gaze filled with admiration as tears streamed down her cheeks.

"I tried to get to you in time but I was too far away."

"You barfed on me." Was all Guillaume said.

"Sorry… Thanks for saving me."

"No problem."

"Oh my gosh Cammie, we were all so worried." Macey exclaimed.

I looked at everyone in turn: Zach was at the edge of my bed, Guillaume was watching me from his seat, Madison was weeping into my blanket, Macey and Sebastien were standing extremely close, Liz had her head buried in Jonas's sweater who was awkwardly patting her head, and Bex and Grant were sitting on the couch making out.

"Yeah I can tell you were all worried." I joked and nodded in their direction.

"Bex was totally horrified. Grant was comforting her and things just happened." Macey defended.

"Yeah don't go judging. She even knocked me out for you!" Liz squeaked finally lifting her head out of Jonas's embrace.

Guillaume then suddenly stood up and hugged me tightly in his arms. I looked over his shoulder and saw that Bex and Grant were still kissing but Liz and Macey were waiting behind Guillaume, I realized the hug was lasting a bit too long so I pulled away then I stood up slowly wincing in pain and walked over to them.

"You shouldn't stand. The healing antidote Dr. Fibs had prepared is still working on you."

"I was worried about you. I'm disgusted that I wasn't the one to save you, Gallagher girl. I tried but he got to you first. I really did try." Zach said coming up behind me and wrapping his arms around my waist and wresting his head on my collar bone. I tried to hide my smile from him. I placed my hands on his and separated myself from him.

"I know you tried Zach." I said and somehow I really did know.

"Next time it'll be me. I hope there won't be another time but if there is you can ALWAYS count on me." He whispered in my ear sending a shiver down my spine. I twirled to face him, my now darker blond hair whipping his face.

"And I'll always be here so that you can frustrate me." I said sarcastically.

"You know you like it." He smirked.

"No actually, I don't." I responded only being half certain of my statement. Unfortunately he must have noticed my small hesitation because his smirk widened. I groaned in frustration.

"How long have I been out?"

"Well you've been coming and going but it's been 9 hours and 23 minutes and 18 seconds. It is now to be approximative 2:38:47 in the morning." Jonas said glancing at his watch for some peculiar reason.

I had to stay in this room for the night and everyone was sent to their suites so that I could rest.

The week passed by in a flash as trust games came and went the one crazier than the other. We enjoyed it all but soon enough all the Gallagher girls were jumping up and down anticipating the end of the week for the begining of the competition events oddly enough the other schools didn't seem excited at all.

At breakfast the day before our total (almost) humiliation Mr. Solomon made an announcement that we were none too pleased with.

"Ladies and gentlemen after tomorrow we shall all be separating until next month so in three weeks. The students from France will stay here for two more weeks then fly to our next location where the competition will begin. Boys will be going back to the Blackthorne Institute and girls will be heading back to Gallagher Academy." Mr. Solomon announced at dinner. Immediately all girls started to protest:

"What?"

"Are you crazy?"

"But I packed for a whole year!"

"This can't be happening!"

"He has to be mad!"

"I'm going to kill him!"

"Ladies, ladies calm yourselves. Joe said raising his hands in a calming motion. I shall explain everything in detail on our way home." He said insisting on the words: explain and home.

There was still a lot of un-happy mumbling.

"You guys weren't aware of the fact that this was a week thing?" Jonas questioned looking surprised. We all shook our heads.

"Well Gallagher girls, seems we know more than you, once again." Zach said. I was slightly jealous that he had called all my sisters "Gallagher girls" even though they technically were.

"Are you sure about that?" I asked smirking his I-know-something-you-don't smirk, I didn't know anything he didn't but he couldn't know that could he? Something like suspicion flashed through his eyes but it was gone before I could make it out entirely.

After dinner we all went to our suites then crowded into Bex, Liz, Macey and I's living room once again.

"Listen girls we have to give the boys a little goodbye gift." Macey said.

"Like what?" I inquired.

"Oh just a little somethin'something for them to remember us by for the next three weeks." Macey smiled an evil smile.

I shuddered for the boys. We planned our "gift" for 30 minutes and 28 seconds. We went out to get some things while Liz took out some of the things we needed from her suitcase. We dressed in black just for the fun of it. We waited for the boys to be asleep then sneaked into their rooms.

"Girls be quiet! The boys mustn't hear us!" I hissed through my teeth. I heard more giggles and couldn't help but smile. This was going to be epic.

We were each assigned a boy, Macey had been assigned Sebastien who was staying in Zach, Grant and Jonas's suite because in the other ones f bed was missing, I was assigned Zach, Bex was with Grant and Liz was with Jonas. We went into their bedrooms and placed napotine patches on their head not wanting to risk them waking up. Then we went into the living room, I saw the girls already there, pulling out the spy spray paint of their bags. We started decorating the walls with messages and girly stuff. Then we went into their bedrooms and searched for their boxers in the closet. Macey was horrified to see that two boys were sharing one cupboard in this case Zach and Sebastien, Grant and Jonas.

"I don't see how they can survive like this." Macey whispered.

We stuffed all their boxers in our garbage bags. We then scurried over to the boys; they looked so sweet and innocent when they slept. We drew hearts and flowers on their faces. After that Macey and I ran into Seb and Zachs bathroom giggling, we put food coloring in their tooth paste and hair whitener in their shampoo. Macey and I pulled out our lip sticks, hers bright pink and mine was blood red. We applied some on our lips and kissed the mirror then we signed and left a private message to our boy with our lip stick so that he would guess who did it. I laughed when Macey pulled out cling film from her backpack, I helped her place it on the toilet. (This had been Maceys idea. Apparently she had done it once one she was in rich kid camp and that it worked wonderfully. The point of this prank was that when the person wakes up he wouldn't be expecting cling film on the toilet and he would go to the toilet to pee and well the pee would bounce back and splash on him.) (A/N: I have no idea if it works but my mom said she did it when she was a teen in camp and that it had been hilarious to see the guys reaction.) We picked up their alarm clocks and programmed them so they would ring every ten minutes playing once the song "Best of both worlds" by Hannah Montana, "I'm a Barbie Girl" and then "Baby" by Justin Beiber then back again. I kissed Zach's cheek before removing the patch and left a lipstick stain on his cheek. Oh poo it's the permanent lip stick Liz made for me! Oh well, it won't kill him. Everything we had used was made permanent by Liz; they were going to have a hard time cleaning up. Before leaving we placed bugs in places they would never find them then puts some in obvious "well hidden" places so that they wouldn't get suspicious. Then we dragged the boxer filled bags out into the hall way and down into the entrance lobby. All the other girls were already there hanging up the underwear in plain sight. Macey, Liz, Bex and I did the same then scurried back to our rooms, pretending to be asleep. We ended up really falling asleep. The alarm clock woke us up and I glanced at my roommates, we all burst out laughing then hurried down to the lobby to go to the hotel restaurant. Me and my sisters were eating when we heard the ding of the elevator and saw all the Blackthorne boys burst in fuming. I would have been afraid of them at that very moment if they hadn't been so funny looking. They still had our little drawings on them and we could see bags under their eyes from the lack of sleep. When they saw the maids in the lobby trying to detach their boxers from the ceiling they paled but soon turned red again. All the other Blackthorne boys turned to the Gallagher girl that had taken care of him last night. Grant marched up to us.

"Why did you do that?" He shouted.

"It's what we call vengeance… Perhaps you're familiar with the word?" Bex said plainly.

"Oh what? So the humiliating e-mail wasn't enough? You should be over it by now! It happened two years ago, just because we proved the Blackthorne Boys were better than the Gallagher Girls?" He asked.

The room fell silent. My roommates and I looked at each other and burst out laughing.

"This is not funny, Gallagher girl!" Zach shouted. I stopped laughing and tried to make a straight face.

"You're right it's not funny. I paused. It's HILARIOUS!" I said laughing like a mad man.

"You guys are so gonna get it!" Jonas screeched.

"Then why haven't you guys tried anything yet? It's been a week since the first prank." Liz stated.

"Why did you do it to me too? I'm not from Blackthorne." Sebastien said quietly.

"Yeah about that, the fact that you were in a Blackthorne boy room made you as much of a target as any other Blackthorne boy… Well that and the fact that we didn't want you to feel left out." Macey explained.

"It's alright if it was you Mace." At those words Macey started blushing. The girls and I exchanged looks. What was happening to her?

"Just wait till tomorrow, you won't be laughing so much." Zach smiled.

I did a double take spitting out my orange juice over everyone. Oh yeah, someone call the pentagon: this world was spinning out of control.

That day was just a day where we had to pack up since we were leaving at mid night tomorrow.

The next day we were sitting on a couch in a room attached to the lobby when a young man walked in at 6:24 A.M. He was talking on a phone.

"Yes they're right here. I've found them, okay I'll get down to business then." He then hung up.

We stood to walk out when he stopped us. He had red-ish brown curly hair, well defined muscles and dark green eyes.

"Oh no ladies, I want to speak with you. I was sent to see what you were made of before you leave tonight." He said barring the passage. He pulled out a phone and started typing on it which reminded me that I still hadn't gotten my phone back from Zach and it had been a week.

"And who might you be?" Bex asked politely hiding her British accent.

"That's confidential but call me Jason. All I can tell you is I'm from the CIA and they sent me to make sure you were our type of material. Miss Baxter you're welcome to join we would gladly send you're results to MI6." He added looking Bex up and down.

We gaped at him and blinked at one another.

A/N: Okay so I'm sorry for not putting the traductions of my French sentences. I'm going to put them on from now on but just in case any of you needed it for previous chapters here they are: Chapter 4: the frenchies are weird: J'ai du mal comprendre… Ils dissent qu'ils mangent des doigts. Soit j'ai mal compris soit les Américains sont plus étrange que ce qu'on pensait. Is: I must have misunderstood… They said they're eating fingers. Either I misunderstood either Americans are stranger than we thought.

Chapter 6: Who wants to play games?: "N'importe quoi! Je ne boude pas! J'ai plus trois ans tu sais ? Pff nan mais….Is: That is not true! I am not sulking. I'm not three years old anymore you know? Bouding: Is sulking. Tu connais le terme : Je rigole ? Is: You know the term: I'm kidding?

Preview of chapter 8: Can't believe they even tried.

"Okay so how did you know?" He asked.

"We're spies."

"And…?" He encouraged.

"And you were far too obvious." I stated.

Just so you know I wrote these chapters in advance, saved on my computer so it's going quickly but when I arrive at my chapter 10 it might go slower because I have my ideas written down but not typed completely. This chapter and the next might be a slight bit confusing but it's just two chapters about the "war".