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Chapter Eleven - A mistake with that Jerk


Cam's POV


The next day in our Italian lesson I sat between Macey and Bex, the word of mine and Zach's kiss seemed to have spread to everyone but Josh, it had almost become an unspoken rule that he was not to find out.

"But it wasn't even a proper kiss, it was mistletoe." I stated bluntly to Macey who insisted the news could not spread and glared at anyone talking too loudly about it when Josh was around. "I just don't get why he can't know, we trust each other."

Macey rolled her eyes and Bex shook her head next to me. "Cammie, Cammie, Cammie," Macey said in a sing-song voice. "Look, you've said before that Josh feels threatened by Zach, I mean it's pretty damn obvious! But also Zach doesn't exactly like Josh either. So, it's better everyone just steps lightly around the issue, don't you think?"

I sighed nodding, knowing that Josh took these things seriously, I mean just look at how he reacted on the athletics field a couple of months ago. "I don't get why he feels threatened, it's not like Zach and I have a particularly smooth history, we haven't even become friends until recently."

Macey and Bex looked at each other, I looked at both of them separately trying to work out what they were thinking. "Well," started Bex unsteadily. "I guess maybe it's because you're quite similar. You know, you both love and play loads of sport, your both good at languages, you love arguing, you tease and have fun with you friends constantly, and you have the same friends so you spend loads of time together…" She trailed off as she saw my face.

I quickly pointed out all the reasons we were different too, I mean interests don't mean you like someone, I have all those things in common with Grant, Jaz and the two of them and I wasn't going to suddenly fall in love with them?

But Macey obviously came back with an argument, "But you're similar where it counts, you both love and value your friends and family above everything else, you're both loyal to the point of stupidity and your unbearably stubborn. Also, you both pretend you hate each other way more than you actually do." She finished softly.

I glared at her but couldn't help but think about how I'd been trying to work out for a while why we even started arguing in the first place.

"Look," concluded Bex, "We're not saying that Josh is right to feel threatened, I mean you don't like Zach right?" I gave Bex a look, how long has she known me?

"No Bex, Zach and I… we're just friends."

She nodded consentingly, "Ok, so Josh is wrong to be jealous, but I can see why he might think that. I can see his reasons for thinking that you and Zach could be a couple."

As if it had automatically been trained into me I wrinkled my nose up in disgust. "But Josh and I make a couple too." I said. I'd addressed it to Macey as a question really rather than a statement. And she quickly gave me a reassuring nod.

"Of course Cam, it's obvious that you really care about each other."


Zach's POV

"What are they whispering about, do you think their talking about it?" I asked Grant quietly from the back row in Italian.

"God, Zach if you ask me that once more I swear I'll tell everyone you've turned into a freaking girl! Why do you care, their girls, how the hell are we supposed to understand them, let alone know what their gossiping about?" Grant replied exasperated, looking like he wanted to strangle me.

I sighed and went back to attempting to listen to their conversation or lip read them, but we were too far away.

I turned back to my work laughing softly but not meaning it. I glanced up at Cam again. How did I not realise before how beautiful she was? The kiss really hadn't sorted my feelings out, if anything it had made it worse. For the past 12 hours all I could think about was her and how much I wanted her, she was intoxicating.

It had been bothering me, really bothering me. I resigned to going to find Tina after class and letting out some tension.


The Christmas party was not going well. I'd spent too much time talking to Cammie and dancing with her, so now Tina was beyond pissed at me. But I couldn't help it, she looked amazing. Her blue dress emphasised her eyes, and they were attracting mine.

She could wear an old sack and I wouldn't take my eyes off of her.

Damn it Goode. Get it together, when the hell did you turn into a pathetic, sappy idiot?

I turned away from her, she was talking to Josh. Like properly talking and having an intellectual conversation, they didn't tease each other, that's all Cam and I do. Everything he did made me feel inferior to him, made me realise that Cam would never pick me over him.

I changed focus to see Bex and Grant. They were standing incredibly close and looked like they were having a very intimate conversation. I felt a small smile spread on my face, it was about time those two got their act together. It is so obvious to everyone else that they love each other; that they should truly be together always.

That was one thing I knew though, I knew I didn't love Cammie yet. But I couldn't drown the last bit out of my mind, I couldn't let go of the yet.

I shook my head, I had to get out of here. I strode to the door, I involuntarily glanced back for her but she'd disappeared from my view thankfully.


Cam's POV

The evening was sadly drawing to a close, it was such a shame as I'd had a wonderful time. Josh was perfect, he was funny, smart and the perfect gentlemen. He spun me round the room and had even been relaxed when I'd danced with Zach a few times.

He was walking me back to my dorm but we stopped outside the common room. He gently held me close to him and kissed me lightly before pressing deeper. Tomorrow we were both leaving to go home for the holidays so it was our last chance to be close for two or three weeks.

So our goodbye was longer, more heated than normal. I felt his hands run up and down my waist while mine explored his back muscles and our kiss deepened more than I thought was possible. I felt my emotion pour into him as we embraced and kissed.

One of his hands moved to my neck where his mouth quickly joined it kissing me tenderly. Meanwhile his other hand was moving daringly downwards to cup my ass.

I moaned gently at his work on my neck and I buried my face into his hair. We'd never been this intimate, always been sweet, it felt so good to give him more than I'd ever given to anyone.

I pulled his face back up to kiss his mouth again but I nearly toppled over as the support disappeared. I opened my eyes to see Zach pulling Josh away and shoving him to the floor.

"What the FUCK Goode?" Josh yelled at Zach angrily pushing himself up.

"I could ask you the same fucking question, you two are practically shagging in the hallway, so you want to know what I'm fucking doing? I'm making sure Cammie here doesn't make a fucking mistake."

"ZACH!" I screamed embarrassed, confused and beyond pissed at his odd behaviour.

It was so ridiculous that Zach was telling me this, that he, the guy who has shagged at least 4 girls, the guy who has done more X-rated things than I've ever done whilst waiting outside a classroom for a lesson, the guy who supposedly fingered Courtney Bauer in a Maths lesson last year. Surely he knows what shagging looks like and it's not what we were doing.

"Get a grip Goode, we weren't fucking, we we're kissing. Besides what is it to you what we were doing, you can't stop her doing anything she wants to do." At this Zach went red, he was so angry he started to charge at Josh and punched him.

Josh quickly reacted and before I could blink they were brawling each other in the fucking corridor. I stood shouting at them not wanting to get in the way when before a minute was up Mr Smith, the football coach came up and yanked them apart.

"What the hell are you boys doing?" He yelled at them


Zach's POV

Tonight had just gone from bad to worse. What was supposed to happen was that I was going to mess around with Grant, undermine Jimmy in a clever, witty way and then get laid by Tina.

Instead Grant had ignored me, Cam had been totally dazzled by Jimmy and practically ignored me, while Tina had felt neglected so dumped me instead of shagging me, fucking girls.

Now I was heading back to the common room with Cammie as we'd been told to go straight to bed, well after Mr Smith had yelled at us for 10 minutes. Apparently I should count myself lucky that I hadn't been hurt and that he wasn't going to suspend my Co-Captain duties.

We reached the common room door before Cam finally turned to me glaring and demanded why I'd 'attacked' her boyfriend.

I raised an eyebrow, "Me, what the hell was I doing? What were you thinking Cam, you were going to fuck him in the corridor, I thought you had standards. I didn't want to see you making a mistake with that jerk in the middle of the freaking corridor! You aren't the kind of girl that has a reputation." I tried not to think about the fact that I didn't want to imagine her with any guy that wasn't me.

"What, like the girls you sleep with?" She said glaring back at me. What the hell was that supposed to mean?

"Why are you bringing my life into this? God forbid I ever try to help you, well hey memo received, it won't happen again." I said sarcastically.

"Jeez, double standard much Goode. I can't talk about your personal life yet you can talk about mine, yet you can fucking interrupt mine?" Cam said getting more pissed by the second.

"No Cam, stop you're twisting my words." I said half pleading, trying to get her to understand that I was helping her.

"No I really don't think I am Zach. But if that was you trying to help then don't. I don't need your help, I don't need you in my fucking life at all, and not when you act like you did tonight." She turned away from me walking the last few meters down the corridor to enter the common room. I quickly followed after her shouting her name. But as it turned out everyone we knew had stayed up waiting for us in the common room.

"Where have you guys been, we were getting worried about you?" Jaz asked anxiously as soon as we entered. But her voice turned angry when she saw Cam's face was red. "What the hell have you done now Goode?" She asked bitterly shaking her head and moving towards Cammie.

"Nothing." I said defensively as everyone turned to stare at me accusingly.

"Nothing! You beat up my boyfriend for kissing me goodnight you asshole!" She yelled at me.

"Oh please," I rejected on principle. "He was not kissing you he had every intention of going the whole fucking way with you right there in the corridor!"

"Are you not happy with my progress Zach? What was it you said on the first day when I caught you and Eva together, oh yeah, that I should get a boyfriend, that maybe if I shagged someone then I'd loosen up and get off your case a bit?" I saw her eyes start to tear up a bit.

Oh God, I couldn't just watch her cry and do nothing about it... I had to help, had to fix this.

"You told her what?" demanded Grant icily turning to glare at me cold and hard.

Jonas looked like his whole world had been pulled from beneath his feet as he heard what I'd done. "You told my sister to shag someone so she'd leave you alone?" He asked me in total disgust.

"Yeah, yeah I did but it was a mistake, it was in the moment you know. Anyway I thought we'd worked past it. I thought we were okay?" I turned back to Cam feebly.

"Yeah, I thought we had too Zach, but then you go and do something like tonight and you just become the same jerk you always were. You can't just beat people up Zach, you have to apologise to Josh. You really need to stay out of my personal life if our friendship's going to work Zach. Every time I think I've got a handle on you and I start thinking that you're a really deep, caring guy but then you just turn around and throw it in my face." She finished dejectedly. I looked into her eyes wondering how she'd formed such a low opinion of me. I just wish I could even begin to understand the root of our disagreements.

"I'm sorry." I said quietly and solemnly, I didn't know what else to do. I had no defences left.

"I know," she replied back just as softly. "I just wish you would start acting like the guy I only see glimpses of."

She turned and walked out of the common room and I suddenly became aware of all the angry glares being aimed in my direction. I couldn't look at them. I kept my eyes down and shook my head resignedly while I wondered over to the window and sat down on the sill. I tipped my head back against the pane, eyes closed.

Why was it that I ruined everything I started with that girl?


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