Please Read

I'm sorry it's taken so long, but I am in school so I was busy. This chapter is dedicated to two of the four people who actually reviewed.

NarnianFairy and rymar16

I'm going to say it now THE MORE REVIEWS I GET THE QUICKER I WILL UPDATE! So, please R&R.

If you have any questions or ideas you might like to see, send me a private message.

To Fizzydrink101: Just wait, I think you'll like what I have in store.

To BooksLover2000: I liked it! I feel like it moved a little too quickly though. I understand the whole love at first sight deal, but personally I feel like all good love stories need that whole will they wont they right from the beginning. Just keep that in mind for whatever you choose to write next, which I know will be great. Loved the story.

Now, before I start, can I just say, in the stories that I've been reading lately, I HATE ZACH? I mean yeah, he's supposed to be annoying, but in a cute, endearing way, not the, "I just want to punch you in the face right now because you're acting like a complete and utter D-bag," way. Seriously, I get that he's cocky, but he's not that cocky and he isn't that freaking annoying! It's so annoying; it got to the point where during one of the stories I just wanted Zach to die. I'm not supposed to feel like that!

Chapter 7

Cammie's P.O.V.

Once again I wake up to something tickling my face. Every time I breathe in through my nose, something tickles my upper lip. I try to shift away, but the second I move, I feel pain shoot through my body, and I allow my eyes to fly open. I look down to see that Harley is practically on top of me with her head tucked right under my chin. Her hair sticks up in every direction. I blow her hair out of my face and look around trying to take in my surroundings.

I hear some slight murmuring and I look down to see, Abby and my mom holding my hands as they sleep with their heads by my thighs. Suddenly the events of yesterday flood my mind. I just sit there for a second thinking about what I should do next. I can't stay here, that's for sure, Catherine may not be able to get in, but that doesn't mean she'll stop. She'll kill whoever she has to in order to get to me and I can't let that happen.

"Harley, wake up Sweetie, come on, it's time to get up," I whisper to her, trying not to move too much.

"I want waffles… cotton candy… mmmm M&M's," she mutters into my shoulder.

"Come on Sweet Pea, we'll go get you some waffles, okay?" I tell her as she slowly nods her head and starts to roll off of me.

"Okay," she says quietly. She silently gets off of the bed and walks to the door to wait for me.

Slowly I pull my hands out of Abby and mom's hands. Then I gently slide down to the end of the bed, trying not to cry out in pain as I do so. Harley rushes to me to help me stand. When I do I sway for about two minutes, trying not to pass out from the pain, before I can finally start walking.

"Stop," I tell Harley, "I need some clothes, go check the nurse's office."

As she runs off I have to lean against the wall to keep myself from falling. I look over at Abby and my mom to see that they haven't moved an inch. I look back towards the nurse's office to see Harley running towards me waving a pair of sweats around in the air, along with a matching sweatshirt. As soon as I get changed she's dragging me off towards the Grand Hall.

"Harley, how do you know we're even heading in the right direction?" I ask her as we reach the stair case that leads to the front doors.

"I can smell the waffles Cammie, I can smell them!" she squeals. I just chuckle and follow her without anymore questions.

The whole time we're running I can't help but think that I probably should have stayed in bed. I really just want to cry right now, but that won't happen.

Harley starts to giggle as we run through an empty Grand Hall.

"Harley, where are we going? Breakfast hasn't even started yet, there's no one here!"

She waits until we slip into a deserted hallway behind the Grand hall to speak.

"We're going to the kitchen!" she tells me as she starts sliding down the hallway with her back against the wall.

I can't help but laugh at the sheer childishness of it all. When we finally get to the end of the hall she stops me again to make sure the coast is clear. She rushes to the door and as she opens it we could hear the quiet sizzling of bacon and the clinking of dishes.

"Shhhhh!" she tells me, even though I didn't even make a sound. I can't do anything but stifle my giggle and hold my hands up in surrender.

When we get to the kitchen we can see all of the food that they have prepared for the students, and lucky for us the waffles were right by the door. Giggling quietly we both grabbed a waffle and a thing of syrup, and we bolted. Well, Harley bolted; I kind of followed slowly after her trying not to collapse onto my face.

"Cammie," Harley starts as we walk, "we forgot plates!"

"Well Harley," I turn to face her as I tip a picture on the wall opening a passageway, "I always thought that plates were over rated."

She giggles and rushes inside with me following closely behind her.

We sit there just talking and eating. I watch Harley laugh as she tears a piece off of her waffle and pour some syrup on it, laughing.

"Happy birthday, Sweet Pea," I tell her. Her eyes shoot up to meet mine and her face splits into the biggest smile I have ever seen in my life.

"You remembered?" She asks me. I shoot her a quizzical look as I take a bite of my plain waffle.

"Of course I did! How could I not? It's not everyday, a little girl named Harley turns five!" I tell her. She blushes and looks down.

"No one's ever wished me a happy birthday before," she whispers, playing with her shoelaces.

"Well," I tell her grabbing both of her tiny hands in one of mine, "then you better get used to it." She looks up at me and smiles again.

"I love you Cammie," She tells me, throwing her arms around my neck. I flinch a little bit but luckily she doesn't notice.

"I love you too Sweet Pea," I tell her. As an after thought I add, "More than you'll ever know."

"You know," a voice starts, making Harley jump and me flinch, "you should really be in bed."

Zach's P.O.V.

"She's gone!" A voice yells interrupting my peaceful slumber.

"What?" I ask, sitting up groggily, rubbing the sleep out of my eyes. I look towards my door and I see a panicked Headmistress Morgan and Abby Cameron.

"Cammie's gone! She wasn't there when we woke up!" Abby says. By now all of my roommates were sitting up trying to comprehend what was happening. I immediately shoot out of bed and get dressed.

"What about the little girl?" I ask as I follow the two women down the hall.

"She's gone too," the Headmistress says barely sparing me a glance.

"Well, she can't have gotten too far. With all of her injuries she won't be able to last long without resting again," I tell the two of them.

"No, nothing can stop a determined Cammie, it's virtually impossible. If she wants to leave then she'll leave." Abby says quietly.

"She won't want to leave," Headmistress Morgan says. "Why would she? She's safe here."

"You don't know her like I do," Abby says making Headmistress Morgan flinch. "She knows that her being here can put others at risk and she won't like it, not one bit, she's gonna want to leave eventually."

"Why don't we split up?" I ask them. "We'll cove more ground that way, I'll go get the girls to help me."

After that I rush to the girl dormitories, making my way to the girls' room. I quickly knock and wait. When I don't hear anything I try again. After that I'm met with a thud and the sound of Bex cursing. When she opens the door she looks like she's going to yell, but as she takes in my appearance, she stops. I can see Macey and Liz standing of to the side behind her.

"What are you doing here Zach?" She asks me. "It's sin in the morning on a Saturday."

"I need your help," I tell her, "I need all of your help" I look over at Macey and Liz who come forward a little more.

"What's going on?" Bex asks me. I begin to tell her but then I falter. I don't even know where to start.

"Bex, do you remember that mission you went on about five months ago?" I ask her. Slowly she nods her head.

"The one where we were supposed to grab that girl?" she asks me.

"Yes, her name is Cammie and she's here," I tell her. I wait for the murmurings of disbelief to subside before I continue. "She got here last night. She was being chased and the gunshots are what started the Code Black. She managed to get inside while carrying a little girl, but she was really injured. We took her to the infirmary and this morning when everyone woke up the two were gone. We're looking for her now and I need your help."

"Okay just let us get dressed," she tells me, closing the door. Two minutes late they're following me down the hallway towards the front of the school.

"First, let's check all of the secret passageways," I tell them. "That's how they got in last night. Macey and Liz, you two go right; Bex and I will go left."

As we head off to the first passageway Bex decides to talk for the first time since she left her dorm.

"What's going on with you Zach?" she asks.

"What do you mean?" I ask her. She shoots me a skeptical glance before she continues.

"I've never seen you like this before," she says as I pull on the lever for the passage way. As we head in she continues, "Everyone has noticed the change Zach, Ever since New York you've been different, hell, you even punched Grant last night. Yes I know, he told me."

"I have no idea what you are talking about Baxter," I smirk at her and continue on my way.

"Whatever," she mutters. Finally I hear voices up ahead.

"Happy birthday, Sweet Pea," a voice says, I immediately recognize it as Cammie's voice.

"That's her!" I whisper to Bex as we creep forward quietly.

"You remembered?" a little voice asks. I freeze as I kick a pebble and Bex glares at me.

"Of course I did! How could I not? It's not everyday, a little girl named Harley turns five!" Cammie says softly. Bex and I just look at each other again as we continue on down the passage way.

"No one's ever wished me a happy birthday before," I hear Harley whisper. And when she does I can't help the little pull I feel in my gut. Finally the two girls come into view, when we see them we speed up a little bit.

"Well," Cammie tells her, I watch as she grabs both of Harley's tiny hands in just one of hers, "then you better get used to it." Harley looks up at Cammie and smiles. I can't help the smile that starts on my face, but with one look at Bex I hide it.

"I love you Cammie," Harley tells Cammie, throwing her arms around her neck. Harley flinches a little bit but Harley doesn't notice. I know that now would be a good time to get Cammie to the infirmary.

"I love you too Sweet Pea," Cammie tells her as I step forward. "More than you'll ever know."

"You know," I start causing the pair to jump, once again I see Cammie flinch, and I continue quickly, plastering a smirk to my face, "you should really be in bed."

"Pffft," she says, "I've been through worse." I just continue to smirk at her as her eyes narrow at me.

"Doubtful, you're looking a little fragile," I tell her, she just continues to glare.

"Idiot," I hear Bex mutter. Before I can respond with a comeback I hear Cammie burst out laughing.

"I like you!" she tells Bex. "I'm Cammie, Cammie Morgan."

"Rebecca, "Bex" Baxter," She says using air quotations before she holds out her hand to Cammie and Harley.

"I remember you!" Cammie exclaims smiling. "You're "Bloody Hell" Waitress Girl."

"I knew you looked familiar!" Harley says giggling as Bex says, 'bloody hell' just for her benefit.

"Sorry for crashing your private moment, but Cammie, you really should be resting. It looks like those injuries are really draining you." I say as I move to turn around when her voice stops me.

"Oh, please," she says, "these are just a few scratches, nothing to major." Cue nonchalant shrug.

I can't help but gape at her. Nothing major? Try two bullet wounds and a ton of deep, shallow gashes.

I pull out of my little funk when I hear everyone laughing at me.

"You… face… oh!" Bex is trying to talk between laughs.

"Oh shut up!" I snap at her. "Let's go, Ms. Cameron and Headmistress Morgan must be ready to call in the freaking Navy Seals."

At the mention of her aunt and mom, Cammie's eyes widen and she struggles to her feet, refusing any and all help for her to do so.

"Well let's go then," she says as she brushes past me.

"I'm Zach by the way, Zach Goode," I tell her. I watch as at the sound of my last name, Harley runs up to Cammie and hug her side not even looking at me. Cammie starts to gently stroke her hair to calm her down. It was only then that I noticed that Harley was shaking slightly.

Cammie's P.O.V.

We walk for what feels like forever before we finally get to the door in which Bex and Zach entered from. We had walked in complete silence after Zach told us who he is. As soon as I open the door I hear the yelling.

"Cameron Ann Morgan! If you ever scare me like that again, I will hunt you down and string you up by your toes!" Aunt Abby yells as she pulls me into a hug.

"What do you think you were doing?" my mom asks me. I look at her over Abby' shoulder and I have to look away again.

"We were eating waffles. Harley turned five today, I wanted to show her that someone was there for her like Abby did for me." I whisper. I bury my face into Abby's neck and I try not to cry. "I didn't have anyone but Abby when I turned five and it meant the world to me. I just wanted that for Harley."

"It's okay sweetie," Abby says stroking my hair. "Why don't we get you back upstairs, we'll have a nice little party up there."

"Thank you mom," I whisper to her, by the way she tightens her hold I know that she was the only one who heard me.

"Anytime Squirt." She whispers as she pulls away. Then she turns to look at Harley and says, "Happy birthday, Harley."

"Thank you, Abby," she says as she hides behind my legs to shy to talk to an actual adult.

"Of course! Let's get this show on the road." She says just as two girls walk up to us.

"So I take it you found them?" the one with black hair asks. I take in her appearance and realize that she is extremely pretty and it's unfair. With dark hair, blue eyes, the cheekbones of a goddess, and that nose ring, it was impossible not to get jealous.

"Macey!" the little blond squeaks looking at me. Hm, she looks like a pixie "Be polite! I'm Liz and that's Macey."

"I'm Cammie and this is Harley," I gesture to Harley as I hold out my hand for them to shake.

"I'm having a party today in the infirmary. Will you come?" Harley asks them as she still hides behind my legs.

"Dork!" I whisper to her with a smile. All I get in return is the pointing of a tongue.

"We'd love to," everyone says at the same time causing Harley and I to break down laughing.

"Yay!" Harley yells as she takes off running, dragging me behind her. Both my mom and Abby make a move to stop her but I shake my head letting them know that I was okay.

This is going to be one interesting day.

And that's chapter seven! Sorry for the crap ending! But I had to end it somehow! Please R&R, and let me know if there's anything that you want in the story I'll try to work it in there! Thanks for reading!

-S