Today's the day Cammie's dad died...

Zach's POV

I did a double take at Liz's soft words. Oh. Oh.
"Why didn't anyone ever tell me that?" I whispered to myself.

"It never came up." Macey replied, even though I wasn't expecting an answer. I went over to Cammie and lay down on the bed. I gently pried her fingers off the covers so that I could get in, too. Her back was facing me, her face pressed into the pillow. I turned her around and cradled her to my chest. I smoothed her hair as she sobbed, ruining my shirt, but I didn't care. After a while she stopped crying.

Cammie's POV

I stopped crying and stopped pressing my face to Zach's chest, pulling away to see that I ruined his shirt. Oh well. I'm too tired to care right now. I'll get him a new one. Suddenly, I felt his warm finger under my chin, and he lifted my water stained face up to meet his.

He kissed my lips gently at first, but slowly started kissing harder. I wrapped my arms around his neck and played with the brown hairs that curled against his neck. He shifted so he was laying on top of me, and he brought one hand to the small of my back and hugged me protectively against his body. We kept kissing, forgetting that my three best friends were still in the bathroom doing who knows what. After a while, we broke off for air, and he started sucking on my neck.

"I love you."

"I love you, too. More than anything." We fell asleep – both of us laying on our side, facing each other. My arms were curled up against his chest, and he was holding my body to his. His chin was resting on the top of my head. Right before I fell asleep, I heard Bex talking to someone on the phone.

When I woke up, Zach was still sleeping. I shifted – careful not to wake him. His emerald green eyes snapped open, and he forced me back down.

"Who said you could leave?"

"I did?" I gave him my innocent look.

"Well, I didn't." he smirked and kissed my cheek.

"Hey, Zach?"

"Mmm?"

"I'll pay you 25 dollars if you smile."

"Okay." He smirked.

"That's a smirk, Zachy."

"Don't call me Zachy."

"Smile!"

"I just did!"

I sighed.

"Fine...I guess I'll just...tickle you!" I starting tickling his tummy, but when I looked up, expectant, he had a blank expression on his face. Ooooh. His poker face.

"I'm not ticklish, Cam." I would've believed it, too, but his lip twitched slightly.

I giggled. "I saw your lip twitch!" I tickled some more. It didn't work. Suddenly, Grant showed up out of no where. I looked at him and looked back quickly, doing a double take.

"What the hell?"

"I know how to make Zach laugh!" he bellowed.

I laughed. "How?"

"He loves bad jokes!"

"Excellent! I know a bunch of lame jokes!" I clapped my hands together and laughed. I looked down at Zach and made my face very serious.

"Hey, Zach."

"Yea, Gallagher Girl?"

"You wanna hear a joke about pizza?"

"Sure."

"Nevermind. It's too cheesy." I collapsed in a fit of giggles. I opened my eyes and saw Zach's poker face back on.

"Ooh! His poker face. He's trying to hide something." Bex laughed. They were all around the bed now – Macey, Liz, Bex, Grant, and Jonas. Bex had her camera out to capture the moment when Zachary Goode smiles. Oh! I have another one.

"Hey, Zach. Why aren't pokemon allowed in the locker room?"

"Why?"

"'Cause they'll Pikachu!" Everyone in the room cracked up – except for you know who. Zach's lip twitched.

This went on for 30 minutes at least – eventually Zach and I had sat up in bed, and then Zach finally, FINALLY cracked. It wasn't a full-out laugh, but it was a mini-chuckle, and for the first time ever, I saw Zach with a smile on his face. I saw the camera flash and knew Bex had gotten a picture. I bounced over and we all crowded around the camera to see – except for Zach. He stayed on the bed.

It was a really good picture – his dark green eyes suddenly became lighter, and he was smiling extremely cutely, with actual teethage. I never noticed before because whenever he smirked his mouth was closed, but he has really straight, white teeth. And then I noticed that I was in the picture, too.

I was sitting next to Zach, his arm around my waist – which I never knew was there, and I was laughing with him.

"Cutest picture ever!" Bex and Macey started gushing over it. I walked over to Zach.

"It is a really cute picture." I smirked.

"Hey! That's my smirk!" he complained.

"Well I do it better!"

"Who says? I've been smirking all my life!"

"...Zach."

"Mmm?"

"We have school today."

"Shit."