Chapter 9:

Grant POV

Zach questioned her, "Luck? How so?"

Bex looked like a proud mother of a pageant girl when she replied, "He started flirting with her. It happened just like that!" She snapped for dramatic effect. I saw her eyes drift over to one of the guards by the door. His gaze was fixed on Wally and Cam.

To put her to ease I tried to explain, "I'm sure he's just keeping an eye on Wally. Let's be honest who would even suspect Cam in that dress?"

Bex laughed; her smile made a little piece of me melt as she expanded, "Yeah that dress. You two have no idea how much effort it took to get her to even buy the damn thing! I mean seriously she was so hell bent against it."

My best friend mumbled something, but all I was able to decipher out of it was, "I bet." He then shook his head and grabbed a drink off of a waitress's tray. "Okay so what have you two got so far?"

Bex look skeptical when she answered, "The best in of all time. What do you guys have?"

I listed off what we'd obtained so far, "DNA, Fingerprints and a bunch of receipts."

She smiled directly at me, "That's great. So what do you two think we should do? Split up again or hang with Wally and Cam?"

"What about you and I go look a little more around and Zach can take Cam's back." Bex nodded at my suggestion. Zach sighed and then smiled as he started to make his way over to Wally and Cammie.

It wasn't long before Bex and I were upstairs hunting for more things on the list. We did pretty well. We happened upon what we assumed was either Wally or some other teenager's room. We took a wallet, a toothbrush, a phone and the hard drive of his laptop. Bex had also taken pictures of almost everything in the room with the phone.

By the time the two of us got back down stairs, Zach, Cam and Wally were gone. Bex was quick to suggest we hide our bounty and then search for them. When we got to a new patch of wall then the one we'd gone to before I climbed up. Bex watched for any by standers as I threw the wallet, the tooth brush, phone and hard drive over the wall. I'd put them all in a pillow case so they'd be easy to find later.

I was just climbing down the wall when the explosion happened. The wall shook form the blow and I was sent flying to the ground. I laid there beside Bex who's been sent onto her butt, when it hit me. The phone had a GPS; if it went off the estate without some kind of permission it exploded.

Bex and I were getting to our feet when the screams started. As we ran away from the scene and back to the center of the party I heard Bex whisper, "We need to leave now."

Cammie POV

Wally was coming to the end of his story about his crazy European adventure last week when Zach walked up. Wally stopped abruptly and smiled at Zach, "Hey."

Zach grinned, "Hey, I brought shots." It was true he had four shots in his hands. Soon the two of us had shot's in our hands. "I thought I lost you outside Cam."

I rolled my eyes, "How could you not it's crazy out there!" I turned to Wally, "This is my friend Zach." I put on a mock sorry expression, "I hate to tell you but it wasn't just Bex and I who crashed."

Wally chuckled and shook Zach's hand. "Nice to meet you man." He shot me a side glance, "Glad you guys could crash." The three of us laughed. "I just got to ask though how did you guys get in?"

Zach's answer was perfectly timed; not too quick not too slow. "The only reason we even got past the door was Cammie's famous puppy dog eyes." I blushed and shyly laughed.

Wally smirked, "That does not surprise me." His gaze landed on me, "With eyes like that I don't think anyone could say no."

I smiled, "Thanks." Registering the shot that was still in my head I grinned, "Bottoms the hatch!" I took the shot, but kept it in my mouth. Wally downed his; while he wasn't looking I ditched my shot in the planter. Zach took his shot down fast. I quickly looked over to Zach, "Who's the fourth shot for?"

He grinned in a devious way and sneered, "For which ever girl catches my eye first." As a cover reaction I laughed; I noticed that Wally was laughing with me when he placed his arm on my back. As out laughing died down Zach made his departure, "Okay I'll see you guys later." His eyebrows wiggled when he said, "And Cammie don't do anything I wouldn't do!"

I thought I couldn't blush any harder, but Wally proved me wrong when he said, "Wanna' hear something really bad? I'm secretly hoping he's a tramp."

Zach POV

I had quickly found a girl. Her name was Jessica and she had red hair. That's literally all I knew about her. The whole time she'd been telling me her life story I'd been reading Cam and Wally's lips. She is an amazing HoneyPot. I could tell by Wally's body language that he was hanging on her ever word.

Jessica on the other hand thought I was listening to every word she said. Who could blame her though; I was nodding and responding and looking right at her. I was even using body language that screamed "You've got me hooked!" She seemed nice and that made me a tab bit guilty, but if I was going to feel guilty about pretending to like this girl, they were going to need to invent a new word for what I felt for the Morgan family.

Reading their lips was easy from this distance. Especially because it was obvious that Wally wouldn't notice and Cam didn't seem to mind. They were currently talking about Wally's Christmas.

" … and they just leaves me there sitting beside that stupid tree with the maids and butler, who by the way stepped around me like I was glass for the next six days." Wally looked distressed. The two of them were still sitting on that love seat, but now Cam had her legs up brushing Wally's left thigh. Her hand drifted from her lap to his.

"That's awful Wally. I mean you shouldn't be alone on Christmas."

"Tt! Tell me about it! And for business and boob jobs! I mean seriously what kind of parents do business and plastic surgery on Christmas?!"

"Honestly?" She looked like a small child asking if it was alright to tell the truth. I could see her knuckles got a pale white as she gripped onto his hand tight. He nodded in response. "Terrible parents Wally. I mean I only really know what my parents do, but that just seems awful. They shouldn't have both left you alone."

His forehead fell forward, "I know. You know I haven't seen him today. He's not even called me on my birthday. He's flying in tomorrow. And my mom, god she's even worse. Guess what she did this morning!" Cammie stayed silent as she looked blankly into his eyes. "She sent up breakfast in bed with a note that was generic. Worst part?"

"What?" I couldn't hear the sounds their mouths were making just the shapes, but I knew she couldn't have spoken above a whisper.

"It wasn't her writing. She'd gotten one of the maids to write it; either that or they just did it out of pity."

"I'm so sorry. Neither of them should treat you like that. Ever." Cam hugged him around the chest and under the arms. It seemed to catch him a bit off guard, but when she tried to recoil he held on to her and leaned his face in the crease between her neck and shoulder. The two of them stayed like that for what seemed like minutes.

In that time there were five things I learned about Wally. First, he was a lefty by how his left arm was slightly bigger than his right. Second, he'd been outside in the last couple of hours by the mud on his shoes. Third, He must have been somewhere tropical in the last month from his tan. Fourth, he had a nervous twitch with his left leg. And finally, he had fallen head over heels for Cammie.

When Wally finally let go of her he spoke sowly, "Do you wanna' go somewhere quieter?"

She nodded, "Yeah I'd like that."

Soon he'd taken her hand and was leading her through the crowd. I tailed them and was sure he'd never notice me. Cam however made the most subtle movement with her hand to follow just as they were walking past the two guards in front of the door they entered.

It was obviously a VIP spot, so I quickly scurried around the corner and figured out that one of the bathrooms would be directly over where I thought they were. I quickly locked the door and took a deep breath. It was only after I'd pulled the ceiling vent off to crawl into the air duck that I realized I'd left Jessica without so much as a bye.

I'd been too busy paying attention to Cam leaving the crowd and being pulled into a dangerous secluded area to worry about civilities. One in the vent I pulled back on the grate and started making my way through the small space. It became clear fast that this system went throughout the whole house. It was easy enough to make my way to where they would be. Once there, the sounds of the party were replaced with the sounds of Wally and Cammie talking.

I could only see half the room through the grate, but I could hear them clear as a whistle. They were out of my view, but from the beeping noise I could tell Wally was opening a safe. A safe which I was positive Cam now knew the combination to.

That's when our luck started to run out. That's when I heard and felt the explosion. That's when Wally looked at Cam with eyes full of worry. That's when Cam looked at Wally with eyes filled with terror. That's when my mind started to race with the possibilities. That's when the thought of going to two funerals went through my mind.

That's also the moment when Connor Morse came running through the doors with two guns in his hands, and shouted, "Wally you okay?!"

The boy in question quickly responded, 'Yeah, I'm fine Connor. You?"

"Yeah, I'm just peachy." Wally stood while his ally retorted sarcastically. Connor's spare gun was passed to Wally. "Who do you think is here? I got the signal that it was one of the wired personal items on the estate." Cammie had kept up her frightened girl act perfectly. Her eyes kept darting from the guns to Wally's face with no hesitation.

Wally shook his head, "I don't know, but I know how we can find out." My ears and eyes perked up at this. Wally's gun was slowly pointed at Cam as he said, "Because we have one of them right here with us."

Connor quickly grinned and followed suit in pointing his weapon at her. She looked lost; a bat in the blue sky. It wasn't until Wally said a little more hoarsely that she unfroze, "Come on Sweets! The jig is up! Tell us who you are or I'm going to wreck your pretty makeup with a couple bullet holes!"

As she unfroze I tensed up. She stood up and raised her hands. "We were sent by the Circle of Cavan."

My muffled "what?" was heard by all three of them and soon Connor's gun was trained on my spot in the vents. Past the yelling of Mr. Morse I could hear Cam whisper faintly to herself, "No."