When In Doubt, Spy It Out
part six
thanks to RebeccaBaxter for the idea in this chapter
chameleon pov
11:02 a.m.
gallagher academy for exceptional young women
roseville, virginia
madame dabney's tearoom
Madame Dabney glided around the room, "We have a treat Ladies and Gentleman, today, don't we Cameron?" She said, looking at me.
"Uh, yes?" I agreed confused.
I was sitting at a table between Liz and Bex with Macey, Grant, Jonas, and Zach.
"This is the first time the Gallagher Academy has ever had a brother and sister-twins nonetheless- in the same class. And since this is Cultures & Assimilation, today our lesson is on brother-sister relationships."
"Um, Madame Dabney?" I said, raising my hand. "Couldn't we just watch 7th Heaven or something?"
"No!" She snapped. "Television is a disgrace with all the sex and drugs!"
"Speaking of se and drugs, I need to catch up on Gossip Girl," Macey commented, and Bex snorted very un-lady like.
Suddenly I was jerked out of my seat as Madame Dabney dragged Grant and I to the front of the class.
"Notice the similarities," she said, circling us.
"I feel violated!" Grant blurted, inching away from Madame Dabney.
"Nonsense! No one in here is wearing X-ray contacts!" She glared at Tina Walters, "Correct?" Tina nodded vigorously.
Grant and I inched back to the table.
"Alright, well, class," she clapped her hands, "let's start with basic American culture! Usually there is a lot of fighting,"
"Check," Macey spoke up.
"A protective feeling from the brother,"
"Check!" Bex yelled.
"and something similar to ESP." Grant and I crossed our arms.
"Check!" Liz yelled, as if she had to beat Jonas to the answer.
"And depending on the situation, siblings are usually close, in some cases in the absence of a father, the brother will walk their sister down the wedding aisle," she sighed. "Oh how I love weddings!"
I leaned into Grant, "Maybe if we make a break now, she won't catch us,"
He laughed.
"I have a brilliant idea! Let's roleplay some scenarios!" Madame Dabney yelled excited.
"NO!" Grant and I yelled at the same time, him annoyed, I, scared.
"Rebecca, darling, would you join us up here?" Madame Dabney said, dragging Bex up, and for the first time in a while, I saw a scared expression on her face.
"Now, say, Rebecca here, who is best friends with Cameron decided to date Grant." Bex and Grant turned bright red and Zach and Jonas laughed loudly from their seats. "There are two possible situations that could occur from here," She grabbed my hand and pulled me closer to Bex. "Cameron would either attempt to strangle Rebecca, or except it graciously."
She raised her eyebrows at me, "And a proper lady would accept it, Cameron."
My mouth dropped. What did she know about Grant and Bex that I didn't? Besides the um—occurrence that happened previously between my best friend and brother.
"Seriously, Madame Dabney, I'm pretty sure we all know the basics between siblings," Macey interrupted. "I'm sure Cameron would accept it graciously,"
"I love you," I mouthed to Macey who smiled in turn.
Madame Dabney hmphed. "Well, I suppose, how about we have some tea with iodine to build up our resistances?"
I scurried back to my seat, anything was better than this.
Madame Dabney poured the tea and added the iodine.
"What's the matter, Gallagher Girl?" Zach said, smiling at me from across the table. "Non-existent cat named Suzie got your tongue?" He took a sip of his tea (he even lifted his pinky!) and laughed as I glared at him.
"EVERYONE PUT DOWN YOUR TEA!" Madame Dabney yelled. "DID ANYONE DRINK THE TEA?"
Zach and Grant and Jonas raised their hands. Of course it would be the boys. I rolled my eyes, anything that was edible—they ate immediately.
"Oh dear, I accidently mixed up the iodine with the valium,"
I started cracking up. "Unintentional payback!" I high fived Bex.
"You. Are. Screwed." Macey said, smiling at the boys.
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After we struggled to bring the boys up to our room, Macey accidently knocked Grant off her bed where Bex had put him, and flopped down. "Oops."
"Watch it! He already doesn't have enough brain cells!" I joked, throwing Zach on my bed.
Liz led Jonas to her bed.
The effects of the Valium had just started. "Haha! I'm in Cammie's bed!" Zach said, nearly rolling off the bed.
"Oh my God Bex, YOU ARE SO HOT!" Grant yelled.
"I FORGOT TO DO MY LATIN HOMEWORK!" Jonas yelled, sitting straight up.
"No one cares about your 4.56 GPA man!" Zach yelled.
"That's .01 higher than me!" Liz screeched, running over to her desk to viciously finish her homework.
That girl...
"At least your mother isn't trying to kidnap the girl you've been pining over for 2 years!" Zach yelled.
"Who's that?" Grant asked bluntly.
"Your sister!" Zach yelled back.
"You guys are really stupid," Bex commented.
"No, they're all loopy," I shook my head, "they don't know what they're saying."
"But, Cam," Macey said "Don't you remember? You just kept blurting out the truth. Everything they say is true. Zach is telling the truth."
Immediately the three-well four, but Liz was busy with her homework- realized something.
Zach would tell us anything now.
"Zach," I said, sitting at his feet and pulling him up by his arms into a sitting position.
"Yesssss?" He drawled.
"Why aren't you working with the Circle?" I asked, trying to get him to lock eyes with me.
"Classified." He said. "You're really pretty."
I ignored that.
"Zachary," Bex said, snapping her fingers in front of her face. "Its not classified, you just don't want to tell Cammie something, isn't that right?"
His head drooped. "Yes,"
"Let me guess-" Macey said, leaning down in his face, "You fell in love with our Cammie and realized your mother was wrong and decided you would protect her?"
Zach turned to me his mouth opened in an 'O'. "She's good!"
"I'm hungry!" Grant yelled from the other side of the room.
Macey grabbed a chocolate bar from her bedside table and chucked it at Grant- hitting him square in the head.
"Enjoy, idiot."
"You're really scary, Macey." Zach commented.
"Thank you," She smiled.
"Cammie's right, your smile is weird!" He reached out, just like I did, as if to get rid of it.
"Hey Zach look what me and Jonas found!" Grant yelled, happily holding up his treasure.
Zach laughed and fell off the bed.
I turned to see my brother shoving a tampon up his nose.
A tampon.
Up his nose.
And laughing.
Jonas fell on the ground holding his stomach and laughing.
A flash went off and I realized Macey took a picture.
"Everyone will know by breakfast tomorrow." She said, smiling evilly.
"Grant! Those don't go up your nose!" I yelled, attempting to grab it from him.
"Where do they go?" He asked all too innocently.
"Someplace you'll never be able to see in your life if you don't take that bloody tampon out of your nose!" Bex threatened, pulling it out of his nose.
"Ooo! Grant's never gonna get laid!" Zach laughed from the floor.
Grant glared at him, "I've gotten farther than you!" He yelled.
I rushed over to Zach, trying desperately to stop him from what I knew he was going to say.
"Its not like I've never had the chance... with your sister!"
"ZACH!" I yelled. I picked up the closest thing- Seventeen magazine and started beating him with it.
"No! Ow! Caaaaammmmiiieeee!" Zach yelled, protecting his face.
"Keep!" Hit. "Your!" Hit. Hit. Slap. "BIG MOUTH SHUT!"
"That problem is wrong," Jonas said from across the room.
Slap. "Shut up, Jonas!"
Zach grabbed the magazine in my second of hesitation and grabbed my body and pulled me to him before turning over so he was on top of me.
"I win, even when I'm high!" He laughed. He was cut off short when he looked at me. "I feel like having sex right now. I think we'd have really good sex." He said, like he was imagining it. (Yes that's from Knight and Day!)
"ZACH!" I pushed him off of me.
My friends were laughing uncontrollably as I turned bright red.
Luckily, Grant was occupied with another tampon and Jonas was either sleeping or Liz had knocked him out. Probably the latter.
"But Cammie I loooovvveee you!" Zach said attempting to get up and reach me.
A fist flashed and hit him right in the face, and he was out cold.
I breathed out a sigh of relief and then realized that Bex had just punched Zach.
In the face.
"Bex! That was incredibly rude!" I yelled.
"I thought it was hot!" Grant chimed in.
I heard another punch and turned to see Macey smiling down at my brother's unconscious body.
"What? He was using up all the tampons." She said smiling.
"I cannot wait until they wake up tomorrow." Bex said smiling along with Macey.
"Especially when everyone sees this picture of Grant tomorrow!"
Oh, boy.