Chapter 10: Zach's Story

"Zach?" I said in disbelief. "What are you doing here?" There he stood in front of me in dark jeans and a leather jacket. His dark brown hair tousled in that messy but perfect way it always is. His dark eyes the colour of rich soil.

"You didn't hear?" he asked. I shook my head. He sighed, "This might take a while then."

Ten minutes later we were sitting in Mr Solomon's living room with a bowl of M&Ms in front of us. Mr Solomon had gone over next door to inform Charlie about what happened, well that was what Zach had said anyway. He offered the bowl of M&Ms to me but I refused and stared at him. Zach shrugged at took a handful.

"Talk", I said to him. He looked at me and threw back the M&Ms into his mouth. He swallowed them and sighed. "It's a long story-"

"So talk", I interrupted. I was anxious to know if my mom and friends were okay, because after the phone call I had overheard yesterday I wasn't so sure.

Zach looked at me. "I was until you so rudely interrupted me. I thought Gallagher Girls are supposed to be "super patient" or something?"

I glared at him. "We are. But some of us are not so patient when their only parent and the 3 closest people she has to blood sisters could be in danger. Not to mention the rest of her classmates, the rest of the faculty and basically everyone in the entire school!" I spat out at him.

"Gallagher Girl calm down it's nothing like that" he said to me, his eyes staring into mine. "Then I don't know why it's taking you so long to explain!" I nearly yelled at him.

"Okay…." He trailed off. "Nothing is wrong with the Academy or with anyone in it. Just with me. My mother is after me, and not after me as in she wants her 'precious and only child with her as they try to get revenge on Gillian Gallagher, or whatever it is that they are trying to do, together as a family' , no she wants me as in she wants me dead."

I froze. "What?" I asked. I knew Catherine was heartless but to go as far as murdering her own son was low even for her. "Are you sure?"

He smiled sadly at me. "Yes. The Circle found us on a Cove-Ops mission when we were in Roseville. There was about 50 of them and only 20 of us. Abby and Mr Moskowitz were there as well so I guess that 22. Anyway a group of them including some very familiar faces, that I once considered friends, from Blackthorne surrounded me. I tried getting away from them but they kicked me in the stomach and in the head which gave me a concussion and knocked me unconscious."

I stared at him in horror. Zach never lost. Not once. That only meant the Circle was getting stronger. "Anyway", Zach said breaking me out of my trail of thought. "From what your mom and Abby told me, Bex, Liz, Macey and surprisingly Anna Fetterman came and took care of them. They wouldn't tell me the rest. Apparently it was 'classified' or something which I think is really stupid. I only got 2 minutes to briefly say goodbye to the girls so I didn't get to ask them what happened. This reminds me."

He put his hand inside his jacket and pulled out a brown envelope. He handed it to me. "It's from Liz." He told me.

Written in Liz's handwriting on top of the brown envelope was "The Cullens."

Author Note

Okay…. So I know it's been what almost 3 months since I last updated? So for that I am EXTREMELY sorry L I have been super busy lately and every time I'd go round to writing this chapter it wouldn't come out right or I'd have to go somewhere and then I'd come home later that day and I'd have completely lost where I was going with this chapter. Well you get the picture.

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