Thank you to everyone who reviewed, this isn't really an exciting chapter mostly just Zach's POV of the last chapter but the next one will be better. I promise.

Disclaimer: I do not own any of the Gallagher Girls characters, they are owned by the wonderful Ally Carter.

Zach POV

After Cam left I fell back onto the couch and everyone gathered around me. They all stared at me waiting for an explanation but all I could think of was Cam and how I just messed everything up. Why do I have to be so stupid? I mean I'm a trained spy. I'm a trained assassin. I should know how to act and how to keep my cool but when I'm with Cam, it's like she brings out all emotions in me. Tonight was a meeting for the circle, important information was to be discussed, maybe even a better lead on what they were planning but theybrought up Cammie and I lost it. There was 6 goons, luckily, Joe and Agent Cameron found me or I might be dead.

"What the hell, Goode! Are you going to tell us what happened?" Macey was the first to lose their patience and snap me out of my thoughts.

"I told her how I felt and she doesn't feel the same way." I got up and made my way to my room and texted Joe saying Cam was on her way home. I got a text back saying she was safe and with that thought I fell asleep.


~At school the next day~

I was talking to Grant about random stuff, mostly his football game, Bex and Macey were ignoring me while Liz gave me a friendly smile but didn't talk to me. Preston and Jonas were doing something in between the two, almost obviously uncomfortable. I saw Cam pull up next to Grant's car, when she got out we said our hellos and I excused myself. All I wanted to do was kiss her, then hold her in my arms forever and not let anything or anyone get close enough to hurt her.

When she walked into English class, that Jimmy kid walked in after her and sat down next to her and started saying something about getting interrupted and then she invited him to her house. Okay, that has to be out of context, I mean Cam wouldn't do that, not when she has someone like me. I don't want to sound full of myself but I'm way better looking than Jimmy and most likely better in bed. I went back to typing on my laptop making a mental note to ask Cam about Jimmy later, I was trying my best to focus hacking the Circle files I didn't realize Ms. Mor- I mean Mrs. Solomon walked in.

"Mr. Goode, I trust that you can handle the class?" I quickly nodded my head to make it seem like I was paying attention and not doing something illegal, I don't even mean seeing her daughter, but she probably saw right through it. She is one of the greatest living spies in the world let alone the CIA. I walked up to the front of the classroom.

"Were any of you paying attention to him because I wasn't." Everyone remained silent. Great. I saw Cam turn around to face Bex and Bex raising her hand. She spoke without hesitation.

"Mr. Goode, just a question all of us have been dying to ask. Do you have a girlfriend?" A few girls perked up, Preston tried to hide his laughter while Cam sunk into her sit but Bex just smirked. Did Cam not talk to them about it? Is she double checking that I still want to be with her? Did I not screw everything up?

This is what was running through my mind as I smirked and said, "It's... complicated." I risked a glance at Cam, "I hope so." she gave me a small smile that sent the butterflies in my stomach wild. Man, what is this girl doing to me?

"Do you know what Mrs. and Mr. Solomon are talking about?" Preston questioned.

"No, but it's probably something important." I started to lean against the desk, thinking about what could be so important but brushed it away thing that it's just about another student. Joe then suddenly came back into the room making me jump, "And that ladies and gentlemen, is why Shakespeare wrote Romeo and Juliet." I looked at Joe who was just staring at me.

"We are reading Hamlet." Joe crossed his arms and gave me a look that he has given me more time then I would like to admit.

"I know that. I was informing them about other Shakespeare plays." Joe was shaking his head, "I'm just going to sit down." I went back to my laptop and decided to stop everything with the Circle before I make things messier. The class ended with Joe passing out copies of Hamlet and assigning Act 1. After the bell rung Joe came over to talk to me while the kids filed out of the room.

"Catherine escaped last night and there is no trace of where she might be. A double agent heard that she looking for you and Cameron, there is going to be another meeting tonight and possibly a kidnapping, so please keep an eye on Cammie for me." Joe was whispering so no one else could hear. I could hear the worry in his voice and it probably reflected on my face, "It's just precautions, Cammie has been keeping a low profile there is a slim chance that she will find her." Joe then put on his mask as second period came in and the bell rung, I followed suit.


~Few Hours Later(Lunch)~

After the bell rung Joe said I was good to get lunch, I went to the lunch room to find Cam only to discover she wasn't with her friends or in the lunch line. I refused to panic. Catherine couldn't have found her already. I went up to Grant, "Where is Cam?" not too worried if other kids heard me calling her by her first name.

"I don't know." he looked at me, this then caught the attention of the rest of her friends.

"What did you do?" Bex stared daggers at me.

"Nothing, I just need to talk to her." the girls started to get up, most likely to look for her but I stopped them, "Stay here, she's probably at her locker or with her mother." I motioned for them to sit down, surprisingly they did, and I made my way to her locker. She wasn't there so I waited for about 5-ish minutes(6 minutes and 27 seconds) but still she did not show. I started to walk to the office but didn't get far when someone walked into me. It was Cam but she had tears running down her face.

"Are you okay?" I could hear the worry in my own voice as I wiped away her tears from her cheek but she pulled away.

"I'm fine." she wiped away her tears with her sleeve, "You said you love me, did you mean it?"

"More than you could ever know." I grabbed her hands and pulled her closer to me.

"Well, I'm finding out I know less and less each day." she looked up at me with her big eyes that were a blueish gray right now, like a storm, "What were you and Joe talking about after class today?" Shit. I wonder how much she heard if anything. I'm not at liberty to tell her all what was going on, she was in the dark for a reason, right? But I can't tell her that without the chance of repeating last night.

"Nothing I can get into right now but after school we can talk. When do you have work?" Not a lie but not the full truth. My hands went to her waist and rested there.

"I work at 6 but I can't after school, I'm working on a project with Josh." As she mentioned Jimmy my grip on her tightened. Noticing this her hands went around my neck as she stood on her tippy toes and kissed me, "Let's meet a little after 10 to talk. At the park, same place, okay?"

"Sounds good." Right as I said this the bell rang and she would have to go to her next class.

The next few classes went by fast and kind if boring, Joe teaching, me nodding my head that I was listening to him talk. I didn't even listen for when he was my teacher. But during most of the classes I was trying to hack into the Circle to figure out when and if they even knew where Cammie is. I tried my hardest but I'm not the best hacker, you need a team for this sort of thing. Before I knew the last bell rung and the kids rushed out like the Plague was behind them.

"I need you to keep an eye on Cammie, use Grant if you have to. Have him invite her over but keep an eye on her, Townsend and I will go to the meeting and find out as much information as we can." Joe said low enough for just me to hear as he made his way to the door. I rushed out behind him to find Grant, I ran to his locker, he wasn't there, I ran to the parking lot, he car was there but he wasn't. Finally I checked the football field, thankfully he was there.

"Grant!" I called him over to the fence. The school has a rule, no one on the field while the football team is practicing, distraction and safety. And stupid.

"What is it, man?" He grabbed his water bottle and chugged half of it.

"I need you to go to Cammie house and just stay there."

"Dude, Josh is there, they are working on a project. Are you jealous?" He started to grin but I just scoffed.

"I'm not jealous. I'm trying to protect Cammie." Okay, I might sound jealous but I'm not.

"Okay, but what am I suppose to do? I'm at football practice." Grant motioned behind as if to prove it.

"I got it." I looked behind him and got the coach's attention then screamed, "Grant Newman is excused from practice today. He has a doctor's appointment for his rash." I looked back at Grant and to say the least, he was pretty mad. "Thanks, man, I owe you one." then ran off.

Grant POV

I hate him. He is an asshat. I walk back to my coach, Mr. Williams, and excuse myself to the locker rooms to get my stuff, grumbling the whole way. I throw my duffel bag into my back seat then get into the drivers side. I quickly text Bex saying that I was going to Cammie and to get a ride home with Macey or Liz. She texted back a quick okay. Bex and I have been dating for almost 4 years, since the end of 9th grade and we are easily the best couple in school. As I was sitting at a light, listening to the radio as a guy from school pulled up next to me and rolled down his window.

"Hey, how the rash, Newman?" he started laughing with his friends but I decided to be the bigger person. As a Katy Perry song came on I blasted it and speed of right as the light turned green.

I pulled up to her house as I hummed the ending to Roar by Katy Perry. What can I say, she's a queen. I got out my car to see a guy and a woman shoving a girl into a van, I quickly put two and two together, "Cammie!" I scream at the top of my lungs. The van doors shut and they hopped in, I quickly jumped back into my car and chased them. Ain't nobody kidnapped my little sister. I fiddled with my phone trying to call someone but didn't want to take my eyes off the road. I ended up calling Bex.

"Bex, Cam is in danger! Get her mom or Joe!"

I bet most of you thought it was Zach shouting her name. I also don't like how a lot of fanfictions describe Grant as dumb, I mean he is a spy/assassin. Tell me what you think in a review, etc. etc. I'll post next Sunday (the last Sunday before I start school).