A/N: Alrighty guys this chapter is full of things I made up. We didn't have a lot of facts so I had to make do with what I had and make up the rest. I hope you guys like it and remember, this is not cannon, just what I thought fit the girls best. Also, some things might've been mentioned and I didn't remember it, or wanted to change it.
Chapter 12
I climbed silently up the steps and slipped into the room Macey and Bex were sharing.
"It's about time." Bex said as I set the treats on the floor and sat next to Liz, grabbing the ice cream container.
I took a bite of the softened ice cream. "So sorry to keep you waiting. So what are we gonna do?" I asked passing the container along to Macey.
"We are going to tell secrets." Macey said. "As creepy as this sounds, but you guys are my best friends, I want to know all there is to know and then some. I want to be sure there aren't any surprises, I hate the idea of not knowing you guys. I mean, obviously we know what happens at school but I want to know what happened before you guys went to Gallagher, I want to hear the kind of trouble you got into, the guys you met, the stupid mistakes you made." She finished.
"I agree with Macey, outside of Gallagher, I feel like I hardly know you guys." Liz said.
"I think it's a great idea, but I know there's some stuff that's classified from my life." I said.
"Mine too." Bex agreed.
"But," I continued "I trust you guys, so I'll try to be as honest as I can when it comes to those things. What about you Bex?" I asked her.
"I'll do the same, I hate the idea of keeping things from some of my only friends." She said determinedly.
"Hold on, if we're doing this, I'm turning this on." Liz said
"What is it?" I asked
"It's a machine that will deactivate any and all bugs within a ten yard radius. It isn't perfect yet but it should serve its purpose for the night." She said picking up a very complicated looking box.
"It won't explode on us will it?" Macey asked uncertainly
"It shouldn't" Liz replied.
"That's comforting." mumbled Bex and Liz turned it on. We all waited in suspense for a few minutes. Nothing happened, we all let an audibel sigh of relief.
"Okay, how are we going to do this?" I asked "Are we going to ask a question and have everyone answer it or each tell individual stories one at a time?"
"I think we should ask a question and have everyone answer it, that way everyone gets a chance to talk and we learn a little about everyone." Bex said.
"Okay, Mace this was your idea, you go first. Ask a question." I said.
"How did you guys meet?" She asked in a small voice, almost as if she didn't want to hear the answer.
I exchanged a look with Bex and Liz. Silently we decided, Bex would tell the story.
"Cam and I met first." she began "We met a few years before we came to gallagher at what I only describe as an international spy convention. Our parents had been on missions together and since Cam and I were the only kids there, we spent pretty much the entire time together. Cam helped us sneak out of the main room and I lead us up to the roof. We scared our parents out of their skins. As they reprimanded us for sneaking off, I glanced at Cam and realized that she didn't look the least bit sorry, she was fighting off a smile even! That's when I knew that she was going to be my best friend. We wouldn't have even been roommates if she didn't ask her mom to put us in the same room.
"We met lizzie the first day of school seventh grade year. Cam and I obviously knew each other already and it was pretty clear that Liz didn't come from a spy family so we decided to let her into our little group. It was apparent from the first day that Liz was brilliant and we decided that we made a pretty good choice. Well, except for the fact that she managed to break almost everything we owned within a week of being at school" She said with a smile, Liz looked sheepish "We learned pretty quick to keep our valuables away from Liz." Bex finished.
"I never heard the story of how you and Cam met before." Liz said with a smile.
"Alright Bex, your turn. Ask us a question." I said
"What was your most embarrassing moment?' She asked.
Macey went first "Throwing up on a teachers desk. I was in first grade and I had the stomach flu, but stubbornly insisted on going to school. That was a mistake."
Bex went next "I once tripped over rock in the middle of the road that I was trying to jump over after bragging that I was such an amazing spy to the older kids that lived down the street. It was mortifying, although they later regretted laughing." I smiled, classic Bex.
"Judo flipping Josh was one of my most embarrassing moments." I said with a small smile.
"You what now?" Macey asked. I quickly recounted the events, getting embarrassed all over again.
When I was done the girls started laughing, making me blush red. I was about to protest when I burst into giggles too. It was a little funny.
"Alright, alright, enough about Cammies pathetic ex, Liz, what's your most embarrassing moment?" Bex asked with a smile.
Liz turned a light shade of pink. "I was changing in the bathroom at a friends house once and her older brother walked in on me." Her face turned red. "I had the biggest crush on him and I thought I was going to die when I saw him standing there."
"Aww" We started to giggle just a little.
"You guys!" She said with a small smile "It wasn't funny."
"It might not have been then, but it is now!" I said as my giggles turned to laughter.
Bex laughed so hard she let out a snort and we all burst into laughter. A few breathless moments later, we finally reduced our laughs to giggles.
"Okay, okay, next question. Your turn Cammie."
"What's the scariest thing you've ever done?" I asked ominously.
"Facing down terrorists." Macey said immediately.
"Shooting a gun for the first time." Liz said as she shuddered.
"Coming to Gallagher for the first time." Bex answered quietly.
We all looked at her like she was crazy. "Bex, are you serious?" I asked her.
She nodded, "It was the first time I had to spend an extended amount of time in a new country without my parents. I was terrified, I didn't know anyone other than Cam and I wasn't sure what to expect." She shrugged. "I got over it as soon as I figured out Cammie and I were rooming."
"Awww" I said with a smile. "You really do care" I teased.
She shoved me a little. "Of course I do you dork, you're my best friend! How could I not" She smiled back at me.
"Alright, Macey's turn again." I said turning to her.
"Okay then." She said thinking "What's your greatest accomplishment."
"Passing the first level of cove-ops." Liz said with relief in her eyes. We giggled at her.
"Making it this far in school." I said
"Not punching Macey that whole first month she was with us." Bex said with a smile.
Macey scoffed and threw a pillow at her.
"Oi, I'm being serious, you were very hard to deal with for those first few weeks." Bex defended. Macey looked to us for back up but we just nodded in agreement.
"Well, it's not like you guys were so easy to handle either, you know." Macey said. "Bex was terrifying and Cam's mom was the headmaster and I was always terrified you were going to get me in trouble!" She laughed a little. "At least I was right about that."
We burst into objections. "It's true!" She yelled over us, "Trouble follows you three wherever you go!"
"Well, now it follows you too! It rubs off on you!" I said in defense.
She rolled her eyes at me, "Well duh it does!"
"Alright, back to the questions." Liz said
"Okay, what was your life like, growing up?" Bex asked.
"It was nice" Liz started "My mom stayed at home and was always around to help us with projects from school and with homework. She always had a snack waiting for us at home, she tried to teach me and my siblings all that she could so we would be prepared when we left home. We she discovered I was too smart for my own good though, things changed. She didn't spend as much time with me, and she treated me different. Like she was scared of how smart I was. My dad on the other hand was ecstatic when I was smart. He was an accountant and he loved to go over his work with me to see how much I could learn or what my limits were. When we heard from Gallagher my parents had a huge fight about whether or not I should go. My mom wanted me to have the best education I could, so I could have my best chance, my dad didn't want to lose his little genius. In the end I ended up coming to gallagher as you can tell" She smiled at us.
"My life was full of traveling." Macey said "I spent a lot of time with nannies and then with my parents for photoshoots. They never really paid much attention to me, as soon as I was old enough they shipped me off to the farthest boarding school they could find. I started pulling stunts to see what I could get away with and what I couldn't. It didn't start out as a way to get attention but I guess that's what it became." Macey shrugged. "I didn't exactly have an amazing childhood."
"What about you Cam?" Bex asked.
"I had a pretty good childhood. My parents were mostly gone on missions but I could usually count on having someone around to talk too. I excelled in public school and couldn't wait to go to Gallagher. I spent a ton of time learning as much as I could ahead of time so when I got to Gallagher I would be well prepared and ready to make my parents proud. After I met Bex I spent some time with her while my parents went on missions, sometimes in Nebraska, or wherever I was living at the time, sometimes in Britain. Everything changed when my dad disappeared though. Mom spent more time away, I stopped focusing so much on trying to do what was hard and kind of gave up for a while. Until Aunt Abby came by then she kicked me into gear, I went crazy training and doing everything I could to be the spy that my dad would want me to be. I kind of calmed down when I got to Gallagher only because I had other things to focus on." I smiled at them. "I guess there are worse lives to live. I really liked my childhood, I'm even still friends with a few kids from ages ago."
"Really? Like who?" Macey wanted to know.
I waved my hand, "Just some kids from Nebraska, I used to live just down the street from where my grandparents live now."
"Maybe we'll swing by and say hi" Macey said with a mischievous grin.
I shook my head like crazy "No way, the whole point of this summer is to avoid Nebraska like the plague!" I said anxiously.
"Oh really?" Bex said "And why is that?" She asked with an eyebrow raised.
"No reason." I tried to say normally. That was my mistake.
"Alright, who is it?" Macey asked.
"What do you mean?"
"You obviously have someone you want to avoid seeing this summer." Liz said as they crowded around me like a pack of wolves getting ready to attack.
"Just this guy from scho-"
"A guy?!" They exclaimed in unison. I hurried and shushed them.
"Yes," I whispered, "A guy that I in no way am attracted to, but cannot seem to shake. Gram says the kid's in love with me."
"Maybe we should bring Zach along." Macey said with a sly look in her eye.
"No need, we aren't going!" I told her firmly. She gave me a look that said 'this conversation isn't over'.
"Alright, Bex's turn" I said quickly trying to change the subject.
Bex took a deep breath. "I spent most of my early childhood in Britain, a new house almost every month and when I was finally old enough my parents started going on missions again, for a while they tried to leave me with a nanny but it became very clear very fast that I was a devil child for anyone other than my parents. That's when they started taking me on their missions or wherever they were going. Like Cam said, after we met they started putting us together when they could, but when Cam's dad disappeared that all stopped. Which was kind of a blessing because we had a very interesting situation with a brat at her grandparents house." Bex let out a small laugh at the memory, I rolled my eyes but smiled. "Other than that my life before Gallagher was just full of excitement and trying to stay out of trouble."
We all gaped at her. "Trying to stay out of trouble? You?" I asked incredulously.
She rolled her eyes. "Yes, I'm not stupid I don't go looking for attempts on my life, or fights with a terrorist. I was pretty good at it too until I started spending time with you." She said playfully as she tapped my leg.
"Oh, ha ha." I said sarcastically "I assume you all believe I'm the cause of your trouble." I said looking around at my friends.
"Well…." Macey said drawing out the L with a smile on her face. Liz started giggling.
"What?" I asked them seriously. Liz burst out laughing.
"Cam, it's kind of true." Macey said giggling as Bex let out a hoot.
"It is not!" I tried to protest over the sound of their laughs but eventually I just gave in and laughed with them.
"Whew, I'm going to have a six pack after tonight." Macey said wiping her eyes.
I covered Liz's mouth before she could start a lecture about how that was physically impossible. Liz stared at me then licked my hand.
I jerked back and wiped my hands on the ground giggling. "Ew!" I exclaimed.
Lizzie just smiled at me. "You asked for it. I have a question." She said looking at Bex.
"What happened with the brat in Nebraska?"
Bex and I burst out laughing. Bex quickly managed to control her laughter but I couldn't seem to stop. "Okay, here's the story," Bex said in between giggles. "There was this kid, this guy named Brandon, he was a real know it all, a super huge jerk. He always challenged what Cammie said so one time, it was spring break or something like that and this kid would not leave us alone so I," she burst into laughter again for a few seconds. "I gave the kid a wedgie and stuck him up on a tree branch." She laughed again. "Then I called over a few of the younger kids down the street and called them over to where he was hanging trying to get down and I handed one of them a stick and said 'Look kids its a talking Pinata!' and just let the kids whale on him!" This time Macey and Liz laughed with us. "He was all like 'I'm not a pinata! I'm not a pinata!' and the kids were screaming hitting him, laughing and Cammie and I just sat there watching and laughing." We regained our composure and stopped laughing momentarily.
We looked around at each other and burst out laughing again, I tried to smother it in a pillow but it didn't work very well and it wasn't long until we were all squealing and laughing so hard we weren't making sounds. We all fell silent when we heard a knock on the door. Macey went towards the door as the rest of us tried to stop the giggles that burst out every few seconds.
"Oh, hi Mr. Solomon." Macey said straightening up a little. We looked at each other and wiped our eyes before going to stand by Macey.
"Hello girls, I understand you're all having a wonderful time tonight, but some of us need sleep, including you four, don't you think it's time you settled down for the night?" He said sternly. It was very clear that he wasn't making a suggestion.
"Yes sir." We replied in unison.
"Thank you." He turned on his heel and walked back downstairs.
We looked at each other and laughed silently. Holding our sides, Liz and I crossed back into our room after saying our goodnights to Macey and Bex. We braided each other hair and climbed into bed when a question crossed my mind.
"Hey Lizzie?" I asked her quietly
"Yeah Cam?"
"Do you regret coming to Gallagher?" I propped myself up on my elbow so I could look at her face.
She thought about it, no doubt weighing pro's and con's in her head. It didn't take as long as I expected for her to respond.
"No." She said with absolute certainty on her face.
"Why?" I asked curiously. "Don't you miss being an innocent?"
"Not at all," She said firmly "Normal is beyond overrated, at Gallagher I'm part of something special, I can do the things I'm good at and help people. I've been on the other side and there's no way I'd go back. It may not seem like it to you, but there is no benefit to being an innocent, there are definitely bad things about our line of work, but the good far outweighs the bad. Trust me." She said confidently.
"I never thought about it like that." I said honestly. "I love my sisters at Gallagher but there was something that seemed serene about the normal life."
"There are serene moments to this too," She replied. "Moments like this, that made the exciting moments more exciting, which in turn makes the serene moments more peaceful. It's a life full of highs." Liz explained.
"You're right." I said with certainty.
"I usually am." She said with a smile and I grinned back at her.
"Night Lizzie."
"Night Cam."
A/N: I am SOOOOOO Sorry guys! I can't believe it took me this long to post! I've been really busy with things at school so I tried to make this one super long to make up for my absence! I'll try to get the next one up soon! Just a note, I don't need a certain amount of comments to post, but the comments remind me that there are people actually reading my story and I need to write! Everytime I get a fanfiction email, I write a page.
