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Last chapter

"Friday, 7.30, at the cinema in the mall, lover boy! Be there!" Picking up her handbag, she walks out of the classroom and all the people who are coming back from their confession time let her through them. She shouts to the teacher, "Good afternoon, everyone! Have a nice lesson!"

"Oi!" the teacher yells. "Come back here, Miss McHenry!" He rushes out the door after her.

"We'd better go after her," I tell Liz, Dee Dee and Bex. Liz and Bex nod, but Dee Dee says she should stay with her old friends for once. I can understand that. There are moments when I just want it to be like old times again, with just me, Liz, Bex and Macey. So I go to the front of the classroom and call out, "Class dismissed!" and walk out.

We're searching for Macey when suddenly Liz points out of a window.

She shouts, "There she is!"

Bex and I look out too. Liz is right. There's Macey, running across the parking lot, our RS teacher hot on her heels. It's hilarious.

Laughing so hard, I stagger out to the parking lot and it's kind of like a wild goose chase.

Then we spot Macey kicking our teacher in the place where the sun don't shine. Hilarious. Luckily for Gallagher, she purposefully kicked in an amateur way, so nobody would suspect anything. Our teacher doubled over in pain.

Macey jumps into my Mini and we follow her into my car. Macey drives off speedily. We're going to be in SO much trouble when we come back. Oh well, who cares?

Cammie's POV

"Do you think that Abby's in there?" Macey says suspiciously.

"Nah," I tell her. "She said she's helping out on a Gallagher CoveOps mission."

I unlock the door and step in…

To find Aunt Abby glaring at me.

"Girls, do you always skip class when I'm on missions or helping Gallagher?" she frowns.

I shake my head. "Only today."

"I see," she says, with the same intense look as before. "And why aren't you at school?"

"Macey kneed our RS teacher in the groin," Bex stated with a neutral face. "We had to get a fast getaway."

"I see…" Aunt Abby said, her face relaxing. "Well, I guess we could go shopping then. To the mall!"

"Yes!" Macey yells, and she and Bex high five.

With a faint smile, Aunt Abby says, "Well, let's go then."

Half an hour later, we're walking through the mall, Macey dragging us into literally every store. She's buying so much from each shop that I swear, if you put all the clothes she's bought together, it could fill my bedroom top to bottom. We all have to stumble along, each with enough clothes to last a lifetime. It's so heavy that we almost collapse, and that's coming from a Gallagher girl! But we're too busy feeling giddy about the fact that Aunt Abby didn't make us go back to school. Bex and I are playing 'spot the cameras', which is relatively easy, but still fun. Liz and Aunt Abby are talking about the properties of some sort of medicine or something.

"Well, I've got to buy some food for dinner," Abby says suddenly, and hurries off in some random direction. She calls out, "I'll meet you back here in three hours!"

"Ok then…?" Bex says suspiciously.

Macey shrugs and says happily, "Don't look so suspicious! We've got three hours with no overprotective Cammie's aunt!"

"Hey!" I grin, slapping Macey lightly on the arm.

We start walking around, laughing and joking and generally having a great time. It's just like the old days, when we were back at Gallagher. Just us four having fun. Even Bex, who has been acting distant ever since the day when me and Josh kissed, has been having the same amount of fun as the rest of us.

Wait a second.

Bex has been distant since the day me and Josh kissed. Right?

So that must mean…

Bex likes Josh?

Say what?

Since when has my life become so complicated?

Pros and Cons of Your BFF Liking Your Ex

Pro: You now know why she's been distant for ages.

Con: She likes the boy you like.

Pro: You're not dating the boy anymore.

Con: Your other friend is.

Pro: You can tell your BFF what your ex likes and dislikes.

Con: If they get together, it's gonna break your heart.

Pro: Now you have a good reason to make you stop loving your ex.

Con: If they get together, your other friend is gonna have a broken heart too.

Well, at least I've got those things straight. Right?

I've got to do something about it.

"Let's go to Starbucks," I say suddenly. Everyone looks at me. I explain, "Uh… I'm hungry."

We all head over to Starbucks and sit down, after we buy our coffee and hot chocolates. Macey looks annoyed and keeps looking longingly at Hollister, which is the shop across from Starbucks and Liz clumsily spilled her coffee all over. I bite my lip to stop myself from smiling. I have to be serious for this. Under the table, I reach for my truth bracelet in my pocket and quickly put it on.

"Bex, I need to ask you something."

"What?" she says nervously.

"Are you…" I begin awkwardly. "Uh… Do you like Josh? I mean… like like Josh?"

Bex looks surprised. "What?! Why would you think that?"

The bracelet doesn't buzz, which means that either Bex is a really good liar. Or that she's telling the truth.

"I mean, on the day that me and Josh kissed…" I trail off when I see that my three best friends are staring at me excitedly.

"You and Josh kissed?" Bex laughs with happiness for me. "Macey, Liz, what does that mean?"

We looked at Macey and Liz, our Boy to English translators.

"It means…" Liz starts.

"That he's into you!" Macey finishes.

I blush a furious red. "Macey, Liz, Bex, you guys are sweet. But I'm not with Josh anymore. We've gone our separate ways."

"Aw, come on," Macey groans. "Dee Dee told us about the conversation you had with Josh after you crashed their sleepover." I stiffen instantly, but Macey pretends not to notice. "You guys both love each other, it's obvious. You weren't meant to be with Grant anyway. He's a heartless bastard."

I wince when she mentions Grant and say quietly, "Not you too. Everyone keeps coming up to me and telling me: Oh, stay away from Grant! He's evil! But the thing is, I'm pretty sure he won't dump me! For the last time!"

Macey looks directly into my eyes when she says, "Grant is a heartless, cheating son of a bitch."

My bracelet doesn't beep. She must mean that Grant was a heartless, cheating son of a bitch. Not is. Right?

"Cammie…" Bex says quietly, pain in her eyes.

Then it dawns on me. Bex likes Grant? That explains why she never laughs or jokes about me and Grant kissing, while everyone else does.

Pros and Cons of Your BFF Liking Your Boyfriend

Pro: Now you know the real reason she's been acting so distant.

Con: It is a lot worse than your BFF liking your ex.

Pro: Now you have more control over the situation, like you can now dump your boyfriend so your friend can jump in and become his girlfriend.

Con: Your boyfriend will hate you.

Pro: You don't need to feel guilty for dumping your boyfriend, because you had a good reason for it.

Con: You'll be single.

Pro: You don't need to worry about boyfriend problems.

Con: You didn't have any problems with your boyfriend, so the previous pro was pointless.

"You like Grant, don't you?" I stare at her.

She gulps and says in a scared voice, "No…"

My bracelet buzzes. I cover my mouth with my hands.

Bex likes Grant!

"Shit," I whisper.

Bex quickly says, "Cammie, I'm so sorry-"

"No," I interrupt. "I'm the one who should be sorry. I was too blind to even notice my BFF's feelings. I was stupid and I'm sorry. I'll sort all of this out."

Bex fumbles with her sleeves. "So you're not… angry with me for any reason?"

I shake my head and Bex relaxes. Odd. Why would she be scared of me. She didn't do anything wrong.

"Well," Macey glares at Bex for some reason. "Now we've sorted that out, let's go do some more shopping!"

Bex jumps up with Macey, while Liz and I groan. A few minutes later, we're walking around, chatting and laughing, the awkwardness all gone, when I feel a prickling feeling at the back of my neck. I pretend to continue giggling, when actually, I'm looking around me.

I notice some of the Gallagher girls tailing us. Interesting.

"Guys, let's… uh… go into this shop," I say loudly.

My friends look at me a bit weirdly. I continue to drag them into the shop. I take some random clothes off the rack.

"Here, here, and here," I say dumping the clothes on my friends. "Go try them out."

Macey starts to protest that the clothes are disgusting, when I snarl and she quickly holds her hands up in surrender. We each go into dressing rooms next to each other to try out the clothes.

I take out the spare comms units I have in my bag. I take one before quickly, I write a note:

Gallagher is tailing us. Probably a CoveOps mission. Take one and pass it on.

The Chameleon

Then I slide it and the through the gap underneath the wall and into Macey's booth thing. I see her fingers take it from on the other side. Phew, she got it. I silently put on my own comms unit, hiding it in the soft scarf that I'm supposed to be trying on. Then I emerge from the booth.

A few moments later, Macey appears, grinning at me with excitement. It's been ages since we've had a proper opponent to tail us. Bex and Liz come out too, smiling, and altogether we come out of the shop.

We all split up, to make it more fun and exciting. Liz heads towards the Apple store (naturally), Macey heads towards Hollister (also naturally), and Bex takes one look at the sign saying Karate classes here! And runs in that direction. Sighing, I do what I do best. I blend into the crowd.

I see two people tailing me: Courtney Bauer and Kim Lee. They're making it kind of obvious that they are, because they're looking around themselves and making a lot of noise.

I allow myself a small smile. Then I have an idea.

I wait patiently until they decide to split up, before letting Courtney know I'm there, acting as though I haven't realised that she was there. She follows me as I lead her into the toilets. Then I attack her. Surprised, she dodges my first few kicks but after a while, I finally get a hit. Well, rather a light tap, only just hard enough to send her sprawling on the floor, because I'm not prepared to use the sisterhood's skills against my sister.

"Courtney, do you mind if I borrow your comms unit," I ask sweetly.

She grins. "Sure, Cammie."

She hands it over and I thank her, before hastily putting this comms unit on too. I'll call them comms 1 (for me, Bex, Liz and Macey) and comms 2 (for the CoveOps mission).

I sepak loudly into comms unit 2, "Mr Solomon, don't you think it's extremely rude to get everyone to tail us without telling us? You know sometimes I think that you should take some Culture and Assimilation lessons with Madame Dabney. She'd find you appalling."

I hear some gasps from the other students and chuckles from Mr Solomon and… Aunt Abby?

"Abby, are you there too?" I demand.

Abby says, "Course I am. What, did you really think I was going to buy some food for dinner? You know how I always order pizza on the phone. I told you that you're getting sloppy!"

"Yeah, I'm getting sloppy," I say back sarcastically. "I'm the one getting sloppy, even though I'm the one who's got your comms unit."

Mr Solomon chuckles again. "Who's did you take?"

"Courtney's," I answer.

"Where is Courtney now?" Mr Solomon demands, but with humour.

"Oh, probably shopping," I reply.

Some of the other students groan and whine, "Unfair."

"Mr Solomon, why exactly did you choose to tail us?" I ask. "And Abby, why didn't you tell us we were being tailed?"

"Well, we wanted to see how you were getting on," Mr Solomon admits. "And whether or not you were as sloppy as Abby said so."

"Hey!" I say loudly, fake offended, which earned me some strange looks from the people I was walking past.

"Oi, I wasn't the one who had the idea of tailing you," Abby defends herself. "It was Mr Solomon and Rachel's idea!"

"Oh yeah, tell Mom I said hi!" I smiled.

Mr Solomon chuckled, yet again. "Sure-"

"Hi everyone!" Bex's singsong voice cried out. "Anyone miss me?"

"We all did," everyone chorused back.

"Who's comms did you take, Bex?"

"Uh… Kim's…" Bex says nervously.

"Spill," me and Abby said at the same time.

"Well, Kim was looking for Cammie and my tailers had lost me-"

"Sorry," two other girls said.

Bex continued, "But then Kim saw me hiding in the Karate class, so she came along too. They put us in pairs to practice and then everyone came to watch us, because our fight was more intense than the teachers' demo, so I threw a punch and boom! Kim's unconscious. Sorry!"

"You beat Kim?" Jessica says, amazed. "Since you, Cammie, Liz and Macey left, Kim's been our best fighter! And you haven't trained in ages!"

"Well, the things is… we do train," Bex explains.

"Who with?" Mick Morrison asks.

"Um…" This time I was the one who spoke. "Aunt Abby. We used to do one hour of training, but now it's up to three. We wake up at five for two hours of P&E, and we do one hour after school, not including CoveOps for two and a half hours. Oh and she constantly tests us on languages and we do Culture and Assimilation for two hours. School homework only takes about half an hour."

"Wow," Jessica gasped. "Aunt Abby is a better teacher than you and Mrs Morgan, Mr Solomon. She fits all the Gallagher lessons in with their school hours too!"

"Yes, yes," Mr Solomon admits, before swiftly changing the subject. "So… where is Kim now?"

"She became conscious a few seconds ago," Bex replied. "Right now, she's running away from the people who want to call an ambulance. I think she's coming your way, Chameleon."

"On it," I say immediately.

I run through the throng of crowds and stop in front of Kim.

"Got her!" I called through my comms unit.

Kim struggles to get past me. I think she hit her head on the floor too hard. But luckily, Mr Solomon and everyone else comes before any harm can be done.

Sorry, it's a kinda slow chapter! But I hope u liked it anyways!