Okay so this chapter is only from Cammie's point of view.
Cammie's P.O.V.
"Cammie! Cammie can you hear us! Cammie!" Cammie could hear Bex's British accent and Liz's sobs. She slowly opened her eyes and blinked rapidly. Her sight slowly cleared, with each blink a small part of Cammie's vision came back. Her head was pounding and it was as if she could hear each dust particle hitting the ground with an ear splitting bomb.
Cammie's thoughts soon cleared and she jerked up into a sitting position. Her stomach heaved but she ignored the pain. "Zach! Zach, are you okay?" Her voice was hoarse. Macey stood outside the secret passage way punching and kicking, trying to break the old stone.
"Cammie? Is that you?" Zach's voice was muffled between the stone but the effect it had on Cammie was instantaneous. Cammie jumped to her feet and ran toward the wall.
"Zach! The man! Is he gone?" Cammie called through the wall.
"Yes he got out the must have hit a button to disable the passage way!" Zach called back. His voice wasn't scared, just annoyed and angered.
"Liz? Whatcha got?" Cammie spun on her heels and stared hopelessly at Liz. Liz, the girl who knew all of the passage ways from listening to Cammie's stories committed the school's complete blue prints to memory. Not the fake blue prints that they school leaves online to confuse enemies, but the real one's that only a select few can see. Cammie began to run through all of the passage ways she knew too, but her slight concussion made the information inaccessible.
Liz's eyes widened. "Well…" She bit her lip. "There is the air ventilation system that goes over the passage way. I don't know if it will be able to hold us though."
Cammie remembered. "I've been in that air vent! I'll go alone." Before anyone could stop her, Cammie took off toward the kitchens and began to climb up the air vent. For the first few feet, Cammie had to climb vertically, using her arms to push herself up. The air vent quickly leveled out and Cammie was small enough to be able to crawl through it. Being alone in a passage way seemed to clear her mind, and she was thankful, for she needed to remember where to turn. Every once and a while, Cammie would crawl over an entrance to another room. She listed in her head, knowing she would need to know when she was over Zach and the secret passage way.
"The labs for the freshmen, the labs for the sophomores, the legend room (where computers generate legends for girls on missions), the countries of the world classroom, and finally Cammie reached the opening that should lead to Zach. Cammie pulled off the grate and prepared herself to drop into the room. The room was dark so Cammie just hoped she wasn't going to land on something. She griped the air vent and lowered herself down, hanging on by her fingers. Once Cammie was as close to the ground as she could get, she let go. Cammie fell for only a few seconds, landing on the balls of her feet.
"Cammie!" Zach chuckled and kissed her. "Let's get out of here." Zach prepared himself under the air vent.
"Wait. I want to look around for a second. Cammie reached into her pocket and pulled out the flashlight that she grabbed before they all left to go see Cammie's mother. The flashlight was invented by Liz and Doctor Fibbs. It was the size of an eraser on a pencil but it could illuminate an entire room, take pictures, and blow up if the possessor felt threatened.
Cammie clicked on the light and shined it around the room. Cammie could hear Zach gasp. Cammie stumbled backwards, and if Zach didn't catch her than she would have passed out again. The room was covered in pictures of the ring, the sword, and many pictures of Cammie. There were pictures of Cammie on the roof with Macey, pictures of her in Roseville, her with Zach, with her friends, with her mom and Mr. Solomon, but the one's that scared her the most were the one's of her in school and in her dorm.
Cammie turned around and stumbled to look around the room. Three of the walls were of Cammie, but the fourth wall made Cammie's heart stop. One life size picture covered the wall.
"Cammie." Zach warned. But Cammie just ripped herself out of Zach's grip and ran toward the wall. The picture was of Cammie's dad. In the clothes he left in, but one could barley tell, for his clothes were covered in blood and caked with dirt. He sat in a chair with his hands tied behind his back and his mouth gagged, but his eyes stared into the camera, begging for help.
Cammie sank to the ground and became hysteric. "Cammie! Cammie this was meant to play with your mind! Please Cam! Don't let them get to you." Zach tried to drag Cammie away and back up the air vent but she kicked and screamed. He released her and she ran back towards the wall. She began clawing at it until her nails bled. Sobs shook her body and her screams slowly got quieter and quieter, because her voice was still hoarse.
Soon, Cammie just opened her mouth but no scream came out. Tears poured from her eyes until she couldn't cry anymore. Cammie's body was mentally and physically broken. After hours of Zach trying to pull her out and Cammie refusing to leave her father, Zach just held her shaking body as she cried and thrashed in her sleep.
Cammie woke up in her own bed, surrounded by Bex, Macey, Liz, Zach, and Mr. Solomon. "What? What is happening?" Cammie asked Mr. Solomon. "It wasn't a dream, was it?" Cammie asked Zach now. She glanced down and saw her hands and arms bruised and scratched while her fingers where heavily bandaged. "Oh." Cammie choked out a sob, but tried to hold the rest in.
Everyone glanced at Liz, who was obviously the most comforting of all six and isn't afraid to sugarcoat. On normal occasions, Cammie would want Bex to explain, but Cammie didn't mind the sugarcoating at the moment.
"Well, I'll just start from the beginning, I guess. Yesterday afternoon you, Bex, and Macey had to give a tour to a girl named Tiffany Carter. Then at two in the morning we found out Tiffany's name was actually Gabrielle Bishop. At three in the morning, we went and told your mom and Mr. Solomon…" Bex and Macey glared at Mr. Solomon. "But the profiles were changed. When we were walking back to our rooms you were saying…goodbye to Zach…" Liz blushed and glanced Mr. Solomon. "Then someone attacked you and Zach chased after them and then got locked inside the secret passageway."
Liz paused and took a deep breath. "Then you went to get Zach out, and inside the room there were pictures that freaked you out. Once Zach explained what was happening, Macey went to get Mr. Solomon and he went to the Subs and turned the passage way back on. We carried you up to your bed, and you woke up about three hours later. It is eight in the morning. A day after you gave the tour."
Cammie appreciated the fact that Liz practically skipped the part about my dad. But she still can't get his picture out of her mind. "Cammie, please don't do something stupid." Zach begged.
"I won't." Cammie replied. But, as she began to think, would she do something stupid? She needed to save her dad. "I won't to talk to my mom. Where is she?" Cammie looked around the room as if her mother would pop out of the closet.
"Cam, we didn't tell your mom about what happened. We just told her that someone broke in." Macey said slowly.
"What! She… she has to know. It's my father! He husband!" Cammie stuttered.
"Cammie, we didn't even tell Abby. If it was someone else, I wouldn't have even told you. I wish I didn't even know." Mr. Solomon shook his head. "We are in this alone." Mr. Solomon added, knowing that only Cammie and himself were allowed to truly mourn for Mathew Morgan.
"So, what's the plan?" Cammie whispered, for she was still holding in a sob.
"We don't have one." Zach smirked.
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