When In Doubt, Spy It Out

part ten

chameleon pov

6:39 p.m.

gallagher academy for exceptional young women

roseville, virginia

suite of cameron morgan, rebecca baxter, elizabeth sutton, & macey mchenry

"HAPPY BIRTHDAY!" Macey, Bex, and Liz squealed as I entered our suite.

They ran forward and hugged me.

"Thanks guys!" I stepped back. "Look, I'm sorry I've been such a bitch lately, and I just wanted to let you know that I'm so glad that you guys aren't just my best friends, but you're my sisters."

They awed and enveloped me into another hug.

"We forgive you, and we love you too." Macey said.

"Did you like your present!" Bex yelled, jumping up and down.

I laughed. "YES! I absolutely LOVE it. Thank you, really! It was the best idea ever!"

"Glad you like it," Macey winked. There was a knock on the door. Liz opened it revealing the boys. "In fact, it was Zachary's idea."

"THE PARTY IS HERE!" Grant yelled, throwing up his arms.

I got another hug from Grant, and even one from Jonas.

Zach stood back awkwardly, his hands stuffed in his pockets. He was watching me.

I walked up to him and threw my arms around his shoulders. "Thank you," I whispered in his ear. His arms circled around my waist and he hugged me in. I breathed in his scent.

He owned the best soap and shampoo in the world.

"Anything for you, Gallagher Girl." I stepped back and he smiled a real smile at me for the first time in months.

"Hey Cam?" Bex asked.

"Yeah?" I turned around to have Bex shove a piece of cake into my face and laugh hysterically.

Everyone cracked up. "Oh you think that's funny huh?"

I wiped a piece off my face and shoved it into Zach's nose and then threw more at Grant and Bex.

"CAKE FIGHT!" Liz yelled.

"MY HAIR! MY CLOTHES!" Macey yelled earning six pieces of cake to be thrown at her at once.

"What is go-" Solomon burst into the room and I turned to throw a piece of cake at him. Everyone froze, including Solomon.

"Oops?" I said, a little too innocently. "Sorry, Solomon."

"Cameron Ann..." He trailed off wiping his face off and walking toward me. Suddenly he reached toward the pile of remaining cake and shoved it in my face.

Grant laughed. "Who's your Daddy!" He yelled as I stood there dumbfounded.

"Happy Birthday, Cam." Solomon said before turning around and leaving.

"Coolest. Dad. Ever." Bex said as the door closed.

"Hottest. Dad. Ever." Macey said.

I turned around angry. "MACEY! That's disgusting!"

"CATFIGHT!" Grant yelled.

"Grant," I said sweetly, slinking up to him.

He was surprised and he looked around nervously knowing something was up. "Um, yes, Cammie my wonderful sister who would never hurt me?"

I smiled sweetly before kicking the back of his knees, making him go down, and grabbing the gun he had gotten for his birthday out of the back of his jeans.

"Why are you bringing a gun to the party?" I said holding it.

"Oh, she's good." Jonas said smugly.

"Come on Cam, give it back!" Grant whined.

"Give the man his gun back, Cammie," Zach said.

"Why? I like it." I said, jumping on top of my bed.

"Cammie, I love you." Macey said laughing.

"Come on Cam, it's like taking away his pride." Zach said. "Give me the gun, come on," he coaxed, holding out his hand.

"You want the gun, huh, Zach?" I said, jumping off the bed.

Surprising everyone I grabbed the front of his jeans and stuck the tip of the gun down the front of his pants.

His eyes widened and he froze.

"Here you go." I said, skipping away to the bathroom to rub the cake off my face.

I heard Macey laughing from the bedroom. "I LOVE CAMMIE!" She repeated.

"Dude, I'm waiting for the day Zach grows some balls and asks Cammie out for real!" Jonas chided.

"Don't make me use the gun, Jonas." Zach said.

"Seriously, she's my best friend," Macey said, obviously being ignored.

I washed the cake off my face and walked back out the door. "Why was Solomon here to begin with?" I said, starting a new conversation.

"To check up on his spawn of course." Macey said sarcastically.

I glared at her. "Not funny. The idea still freaks me out." I said, plopping down on Bex's bed next to Grant.

"We better have been the best sex of their lives..." Grant said randomly.

"WHAT!" Liz screamed.

"I mean there's just so much drama now, that sex better have been worth it. I mean, it must've been pretty damn good. I mean- look at me! I'm gorgeous, and I am also great at having sex. So it must be genetic. So that must mean Cammie is too. Ew, wait. She's my sister. That's gross. Ignore. Ignore. Ignore. Ignore."

"Are you done rambling fucktard?" Macey asked, obviously annoyed.

"Excuuuuse me. I am not a fucktard. Even though I am very good at fu—"

"Okay, thanks Grant." I said. "Why don't you clean up this mess," I gestured to all the cake, "and I'll watch. Kay? Thanks."

"Can I at least have my gun back?" He whined.

"Sure, if Cammie's willing to stick her hand down Zach's pants to get it. So yeah, I'm pretty sure you'll get your gun back, Fucktard." Macey said, from her windowsill perch (while reading Seventeen magazine).

I blushed when Zach smirked. He pulled the gun out and handed it to Grant.

"No need. I don't need an excuse for Cammie to stick her hand down my pants."

"EXCUSE ME!" Grant and I yelled at the same time. "I'M PRETTY SURE I'M THE ONLY ONE GETTING ANY ACTION HERE." Grant continued.

"Yeah, we know." Jonas rolled his eyes. "It's all you talk about."

"Why don't the three of you just leave?" Bex said embarrassed, pushing them out the door. "Great, thanks, bye!"

"BYE FUCKTARD!" Macey yelled as the door slammed closed.

/\/\/\PAGE BREAK /\/\/\

The next day after a normal day of classes and eating in the Grand Hall, Jonas and I got into an argument about the chemical compounds of plutonium and chloride.

We were walking back to my suite so I could show him the life size model of the compounds I had made when I opened the door and walked in on Bex half naked and my brother only in his boxers on her bed.

"OH MY GOD!" I yelled, shutting the door quickly and turning back to Jonas.

"HOLY SHIT." He said. "I can never un-see that!"

We sped walked to his dorm room and slammed the door shut once we got in.

"YOU? I JUST WALKED IN ON MY BROTHER AND BEST FRIEND HAVING SEX!" I whisper-yelled.

"Well then is he any good as he says he is?" Zach's snide voice asked sarcastically from across the room.

"Shut up." I replied flopping down on Grant's bed.

"Sorry, Cam, but I have to go meet Liz in the library. You can show me the compound later, 'kay?" Jonas said, flying out the door.

"I HATE YOU!" I yelled as he closed the door.

"And then there were two," Zach said, throwing a football on his bed.

"Fantastic." I mumbled, plopping down on Grant's bed (which was next to Zach's!).

I heard a crunch and looked down. I picked up the offending object.

"What is this?" I said, reading the label. "Texturized for a better experience. Troj—" I dropped them on the floor, "OH MY GOD." I looked on Grant's dresser. There was a box there. "How many does he freaking need?"

Zach laughed. "Looks like you're the only virgin in your family now, huh?" He smirked.

I blushed. None of that was any of his business. And how would he even know?

"That's what you think," I shot back.

He raised his eyebrows. "Oh? Am I wrong?" He laughed. "Is Jimmy less of a wimp then I presumed? Was he any good?"

I threw a pillow at him and he caught it, laughing.

"I hate you." I said, turning my back to him and crossing my arms.

"Aw, that hurts, Gallagher Girl."

I didn't respond. I heard him move off of his bed. "You know you never properly thanked me for your birthday present..." He trailed off, sliding onto Grant's bed next to me.

I ignored him.

His face was next to mine as he leaned over. "Come on, Cam, where are your manners?"

I still had no clue how shampoo and soap smelled so good on him. I could just breathe it in all day.

"Just." He got closer. "One." Closer. "Kiss."

I almost stopped breathing the moment his hands took hold of my hips and he kissed me.

We kissed for seven seconds before he pulled back and started kissing my neck.

I breathed out unsteadily as we slowly fell back on the bed. I had to stop myself from moaning.

Then I realized we were lying on Grant's bed and getting pretty physical.

So I did what Gallagher Girls do best.

Reaching under Grant's pillow (because I knew him too well) I pulled out a pair of pink fluffy handcuffs and snapped one onto Zach's hand and the other to the bedpost before pushing a confused Zach Goode away.

I smirked. "Sorry, it was more than one kiss."

"Come on Gallagher Girl!" He yelled, as I headed toward the door.

I turned back and laughed. "Be thankful I left you with your clothes on. Because you're handcuffed to Grant's bed. What's he going to think?"

I left Zach cursing his head off laughing.

/\/\/\PAGE BREAK /\/\/\

The next morning at breakfast was extremely awkward.

"Uh, what's going on here?" Macey asked, clueless, as she watched us all glance at each other, and then look away embarrassed.

"Nothing!" Jonas, Zach, Grant, Bex, and I blurted at the same time.

Liz looked up from her toast confused. "What?"

We all looked away.

"Alright, I'll do this the hard way," Macey said, leaning across the table and grabbing Jonas' collar and pulling him across the table. "Pick the weakest link. Look, I don't care if you're a fucking assassin. I will put non-removable makeup all over your body and then torture you slowly and painfully if you don't tell me what's up right now."

Jonas gulped and starting talking extremely fast. "Well it started when Cammie was going to show me her organic compound and we went back to your suite and we saw Grant and Bex uh, getting busy? And then we went back to Grant, Zach, and I's suite and then I left Cammie there with Zach and when I came back Grant was yelling at Zach who was handcuffed to Grant's bed with a box of condoms on the floor. That's all I know I swear!" His voice got unusually high at the end.

"I will never erase that image out of my head," I said horrified.

"Well we weren't naked or anything!" Grant proclaimed.

"Trust me, Grant, you were pretty close to naked," I said disgusted.

"Well then missy, why did I come back to find condoms all over the floor and Zach handcuffed to my bed?"

"Because I dropped the condoms when I realized what they were and I handcuffed Zach to your bed because it was fun." I said, smirking.

"Great! Now she's smirking like him too!" Macey proclaimed.

I frowned. "Shut up."

"Oh and while we're at it," she grabbed my wrist and held up my charm bracelet for everyone to see. "What did you promise Zach?" She said referring to what he had written on my charm.

"Nothing." I said, clenching my teeth.

"She promised to floss everyday," Zach interrupted sarcastically.

"This isn't a joke, Goode," Bex shot at him.

"So Liz, what did you get on your Organic Chemistry test?" Jonas asked.

"A 102, how about you?"

"Same!"

"I'm going to beat you to a pulp, Goode!" Macey exclaimed.

"I'll help!" Grant butted in.

"Shut it, fucktard!"

"Would you stop calling him that?" Bex yelled angrily.

"No! Because he fucking is one!" Macey exclaimed, turning on Bex.

I got up from my seat and walked away. Nobody even noticed.

Well good, I didn't want them following me.

I entered the hall where last year Bex, Macey, Liz, and I had overdosed Edward Townsend with truth serum.

I didn't hear the footsteps behind me. Even though I should have.

"Hey, Squirt."

I turned around. "Hi, Aunt Abby."

"My have you grown up."

"I'm eighteen now." I felt a sense of déjà vu.

"I know," she ruffled my hair, "and I meant in the emotional sense. I know things have been hard lately," we sat down on a stone bench next to a window, "but I just wanted to say that I'm proud of you."

"Thanks." I replied softly, swinging my feet and looking down at the ground.

"And I know you've been wondering, so I'll tell you. Yes, Solomon lied to you before. There is nothing going on between him and I." I looked up at her stunned. "He's always been in love with your mother. And that's the truth. And deep down, you know your mother loves him too."

She got up and looked back at me one more time. "I'll see you in CoveOps." She winked and strutted away.

Just one more thing to add to the list of things that are making my life more stressful.

First I find out Solomon is my father, then Grant is my brother, and now Solomon and my Mother are secretly in love?
FML.