Days passed. Atleast I think so, it was just so boring. All we did was sit and wonder what was going to happen. If I could have done this with anyone, it would have been Bex. She always seemed to have a little hope, but I could tell even SHE was a little scared.
Then the day came. The day that everything happened. We were sitting against a shelf, like we had been doing the whole time. But then I heard a clink and a sound of metal against the floor. A small black disk with a blinking light slid in front of us. The disk beeped and blinked slowly, then it got faster. The sound became even more high-pitched and we had to plug our ears. We ran over to the gate that led to the hallway of the mall. We were hoping to squeeze our fingers through the holes and try to shake it off. But something seemed to block it. It was like they had put a whole wall there in its place while we were asleep. I saw it move and heard some talking. Then I gasped, they were holding the wall there.
Then there was a boom. The room quickly fogged up with the gas the disk had released. I started coughing and tried to cover my mouth with my shirt, but the gas still got to me. Me and Bex fell to the ground, coughing. I could feel my throat clogging up, and I was soon unable to breathe. I kept on coughing, but I still couldn't breath. I gripped my throat and everything started to go black. Then I heard a clinging of metal and footsteps. With my vision going black, I couldn't see who was standing right in front of me. But my eyes opened wide in shock as the man said, "get the boy." The everything went black.
I woke up, but my vision was still unclear. My head throbbed and pounded. The floor was cold and made me shiver. I heard faint voices but couldn't recognize anyone. "No," someone seemed to yell. "I'll never do it!" there were whispers above me. "She's awake sir!" My heart pounded. "Do it" a deeper voice whispered. There was a whir of wind, then an even greater pain in my head. It felt like someone had thrown a rock on purpose at my head. I shouted in pain and put my hands to my head hoping it would somehow ease my pain. As I did I felt something oozing onto my hand. It was thick and squishy. I shut my eyes and wanted to cry. "Will you now?" then everything went black, again.
I woke up, again. I seemed to be sitting up. I looked around, my vision fuzzy but clear enough for me to see everything. When I looked to my right, I saw someone was sitting next to me. I blinked a couple times and I could see clearer. "Zach?" I coughed. "Cammie are you okay?" Zach scooted over to me and hugged me. I tried to smile, I really did. My lip muscles just didn't feel like working now. "I'm okay I guess, how are you? I tried to find you sooner." I choked on the last words. Then I cried, I cried all of my heart out. It seemed forever until the last tear fell down my cheek. "I'm just glad your okay." Zach's soothing voice filled my heart. "Ditto."
"Since we are all alone" Zach started to say, but I interrupted him. "ALONE? Where's Bex?" I tried to get up, but I noticed my ankles were tied together. "Well that's annoying." I struggled but just got rope burns. Zach just sat there watching me. Then I noticed he looked skinnier, skinnier then he usually does. "Since we are in this condition, maybe we should just talk." He seemed a little nervous. "Talk why?" I stopped struggling, it seemed useless. "Well, to burn time. There's nothing we can really do now." He sighed. "I'll start."
Zach went on and on talking about how he found out his parents were spies. How he came to learn about Blackthorne. When he was finally done, he looked over at me and stared into my eyes, "now it's your turn." I didn't know what to do, it was so confusing. My gut told me to not say anything, but my heart won and I poured out everything. When I found out about my mom as the principal of Gallagher, when she told me Dad would never come back home…
Hours past when we were both done. My eyes grew heavy and when I lay down and closed my eyes, I fell asleep instantly. When I woke up I looked around, and noticed I was alone. Zach was gone.
"Did you get it?" A hood covered the man's face, making a shadow darken his skin. The only part of his face you could see was his lips. "Did you get the information I need?" The other man looked nervous, "yes, but not exactly. I got most of it." The shadowed man grunted, "as long as you have most of it, it will probably work. But you have one final test." The man looked stunned. "What? You said after I…" the shadowed man yelled angrily, "I will not do my part of the deal until you do whatever I say and it is done correctly!" the other man shivered and stepped back. "Fine, what do you want?"
"To fight alongside with me. You are a great fighter. Together we will beat the battle soon to come."
