A/N: I'M SORRY I'M SUCH A HORRIBLE AUTHOR AND THAT I SUCK AT UPDATING! Oh, and if you see something that's wacky, like a chapter with no paragraphs or a ridiculous typo give me a heads up! Leave a comment and I'll get it fixed right away!

Chapter 14

We pulled up to the house and immediately, a waiting Preston, jumped off the porch and ran towards the van.

"Finally! I thought you guys would never get back!" He yelled as he practically ripped the doors of their hinges. "They've been making out ever since you left and they won't stop!" He yelled with a crazy look in his eyes.

"WHAT?!" Bex, Macey, and I yelled in unison. We jumped out of the car and sprinted to the house.

We make it across the driveway and up to the door in six seconds flat, as one we burst through the door and were instantly drenched. As we pushed open the door a bucket full of who knows what fell from the doorframe and covered us all.

We let out a small gasp of surprise, small smiles playing on our lips when we looked up to see Jonas sitting there laughing, with Liz tied up and gagged behind him. Bruises covered her arms and there was a small cut on her cheek, the substance in the bucket forgotten, we glared at Jonas. He quickly stopped laughing when he saw our expressions, we were glowing with rage. Bex growled and we jumped on him, absolutely pummeling him. He fought back as best he could but he was no match for three extremely angry Gallagher Girls.

When Grant, Zach, and Preston heard Jonas' screams they raced through the front door. They came in with smiles on their face, but they quickly faded when they saw their friend.

"Whoa! Guys!" Grant yelled as he tried to pull Bex off of Jonas. Quickly Bex switched from hitting Jonas, to hitting Grant. When Bex was pulled from Jonas, Macey and I whirled around, the techie forgotten, as we attacked Preston. It wasn't long before Bex was free from Grant and joined us.

"Maybe this was a bad idea." Grant mumbled as he once again tried to get Bex off of Preston, but this time Bex was ready and fended him off.

"I told you so! Gallagher Girl!" Zach yelled as he tried to pull me away from his buddy. I shook him off and continued hitting Preston. "Bex, Macey, Cam, seriously!"

"HELP!" Preston yelled hoping to attract the attention of the adults in the house as he tried to fight us off.

My mom and Solomon ran out to see Grant and Zach failing to pull us off of Preston, Liz tied up, and Jonas groaning on the floor. My mom gasped and Solomon burst out into laughter. Seconds later my mother joined him.

"This isn't funny!" Grant yelled, a panicked look in his eyes. They only laughed harder.

"Are you going to help us get them off of Preston?" Zach asked wildly as I fought off his attempt to pull me away with a roundhouse kick to the gut.

Solomon fell, to the floor, I don't think I've ever heard him laugh this hard. In fact, I think this is the first time I've heard him do anything above a chuckle. My mom wiped her eyes as a constant stream of tears fell from them.

My mom was holding her stomach, trying to catch her breath when she finally replied. "Girls, girls" she said in between giggles. "Get off of Preston. He's learned his lesson." She dissolved into giggles once more.

Macey, Bex and I stepped away from the bleeding boy and ran a hand through our hair.

"I hope you've learned your lesson." Bex said examining her bruised knuckles.

"Next time, we won't go so easy on you." Macey said as she straightened her dress.

"I can't believe you tied up poor Lizzie." I exclaimed crossing to my tied up friend. I quickly untied her hands and let her pull the gag out of her mouth as I untied her ankles.

She stood up as soon as she was free, flustered she exclaimed "Well! Don't you boys go thinking we'll forget about this." She said crossing her arms, her southern accent more pronounced than ever.

"Aw, come on Liz, it was just a bit of fun." Jonas said, struggling to get off the floor.

"Don't you talk to me!" Liz said as she shoved Jonas back and stomped up the stairs.

I turned around and slapped Zach square across the face before following her upstairs.

"Come on Bex, you did the same to us!" Grant exclaimed. I heard rather than saw Bex punch him in the stomach. Grant let out a breath as the air was knocked from him.

I reached the top of the stairs and stood by Liz as we watched Bex give her reply. "That's not why we're mad." Bex announced before stepping over Jonas and stalking towards the stairs.

Macey kicked her leg up high, nailing Preston on the mouth. "Mess with one of us, you get all of us." She hissed before practically flying up the stairs in rage, together we walked to Macey and Bex's room, slamming the door behind us.

"Liz, are you alright?" We asked her in concern, as I locked the door.

She sniffed. "I think so, just a little bruised." We looked at her apologetically and she sniffed once more. "I understand that they wanted to get revenge but, they were so rough." She said showing us her bruising arms before tears started falling silently from her eyes.

"Oh Liz." Macey exclaimed before we engulfed her in a hug. She let out a forced laugh before stopping her tears and wiping her eyes.

"Those bloody idiots." The fire was gone from Bex's eyes as she gently stroked our best friends hair.

"They didn't mean to, I'm sure." Liz said quietly "Don't get mad at them for my sake. Especially you and Cammie, Bex. You just got them to ask you out." She said with a small smile.

"Our sisters come first Liz, you know that" I said smiling at her. "He's just going to have to get used to that."

"Seriously Liz, what they did was uncalled for, I swear when I saw those bruises, oh and that cut!" Macey let out a huff of frustration. "I could have killed them I was so mad!" She practically growled.

Liz practically beamed. "Thanks guys, your the best friends a girl could have." She said as she wrapped her skinny arms around our necks, then quickly pulled away. "Whew! What did they put in those buckets? You three smell awful!" We all laughed at our precious little techie friend, before wrapping her in another hug.

Two hours, three showers, and four hungry stomachs later, we finally decided to go back downstairs. We decided before hand that we would give no mercy and give the boys the silent treatment for the rest of the day.

With heads held high we quickly trotted down the stairs and into the kitchen. When they caught sight of us, the boys quickly climbed to their feet and started shouting out apologies while my mom and Solomon leaned up against the counter with mischievous looks in their eyes. I eyed them suspiciously but ignored the boys' cries.

Macey and I opened the cupboard, looking for things to eat that the four of us liked. We grabbed a bag of pretzels, some chips, pop tarts, peanut butter, and oreos before planting two bugs in the cupboard, and then walking to help Bex and Liz carry the drinks, ice cream, fruit, and utensils.

Without uttering a single word, we turned in unison to glare at the boys to send them into silence before going back up the stairs and shutting the door behind us. We quickly put down our snacks before turning on Liz's computer and watching to see what the bugs could gather.

The camera we planted didn't get much of a view, it only picked up Jonas and a fraction of my mom and Solomon since we had to hide it out of sight of the boys, but the microphone got plenty of sound.

It was silent for a few seconds before Grant spoke "So…" he said dragging out the "oh" sound "That didn't help at all."

"Help with what?" Bex asked. We shushed her.

"Yeah, no kidding." Jonas said rubbing his hands over his face and through his hair.

"How about Mrs. Morgan goes to ask them what they're mad about?" Preston suggested.

My mom shook her head. "Sorry guys, if you're going to have any hope with your future relationships, you've got to figure it out for yourselves."

"How about you Mr. S? You wanna ask them?" Zach asked.

We snorted in unison with Solomon. "I'm surprised you haven't figured it out, it was very obvious if you know the girls at all." The boys burst into protests so loud, we could hear them through the door. Mr Solomon held up a hand and they all stopped. "I know you four pride yourselves in knowing your girlfriends bu-"

"Macey is not my girlfriend!" Preston exclaimed, cutting Mr. Solomon off. Solomon stared at him and I assume Zach and Jonas hit him in the head, because he grunted in pain.

Solomon continued "But, how well do you really know these girls? If you think them half as well as you think it wouldn't be difficult. Heck, if you're half the assassins you think you are it wouldn't be difficult." Jonas winced and looked to the stairs when Solomon said assassin, we can only assume the others did too.

"Why are women so hard to understand!" Jonas exclaimed. All the boys groaned and we heard a few heads hit the table.

The boys fell silent, and we starting opening the food we brought upstairs with us, waiting for the boys to speak again.

I crossed with Liz to the bed and we leaned against the foot rest.

"I wonder why Jonas winced when Solomon said assassins." Liz pondered aloud. Macey crossed over to us and sat across from Liz.

"Maybe he doesn't want to be one?" I suggested. Liz shook her head.

"He probably isn't proud of it." Macey said, her eyes shifting from the oreos to Liz. "He looked to the stairs too, he probably doesn't want Liz to know what he really is." She said so quietly, I almost didn't catch it.

"But that's ridiculous, I already know." Liz answered just as quietly. This wasn't one of our favorite subjects.

"But they don't know that we know." I answered grabbing Liz's hand. Liz nodded.

"Guys!" Bex said, joining us with the laptop. "I think they're gonna start again." She said plopping down in between me and Liz, Macey hurried over to Liz's other side.

We sat eagerly waiting to see what the boys had to say. After almost two minutes I turned to Bex. "Bex, are you sure that-"

She cut me off. "I'm sure, give it a few more seconds." I sighed and resigned myself to waiting.

It was practically silent, the only sound being the intermittent sighs coming from the boys.

Startled, I almost jumped when Grant spoke again. "Mom, you're really sure you won't go talk to them for us?" He whined.

"Why that little-" I began before the girls cut me off trying to hear my mom's reply.

She chuckled a little. "I guess I'll go see what the girls have to say. I'm not promising anything, but I will go talk to them."

Jonas looked up so fast I thought it would give him whiplash, and Solomon looked shocked. "You really don't know why they're so upset?" Mr. Solomon asked surprised.

"Oh no, I know why they're upset, I just want to know how long they're going to keep the boys in the dark." She said with a wink and a smile before heading upstairs.

We leapt into action, Macey quickly hit play on her iPod and skipped to the middle of a song, Bex laid down on the bed and Liz and I situated ourselves in a more relaxed position before Liz picked up her laptop and Macey landed on the floor next to me, her head in my lap. I started to play with her hair as she started eating pretzels nonchalantly.

A few seconds after we reached our positions, we heard a knock on the door.

"Go away!" Macey yelled, acting as if she didn't know who it was. Liz picked up headphones from under the bed and plugged quickly before placing one in her left ear.

"Girls, its me!" My mom's voice came from the hallway.

"Bex, go get the door." I said before gesturing to Macey to give me a pretzel.

"Open your mouth." Macey said as Bex unlocked and pulled the door open.

My mom entered the room just as Macey threw a pretzel right into my mouth.

"Nice shot." Mom commented as she walked in and sat across from us. We sat in silence for a few seconds before my mom spoke again. "So girls, how long are you going to keep the boys in suspense?" She asked calmly.

"Hmmm…" Bex said thoughtfully. "Not sure, at least until the end of the day." She answered for all of us.

My mom nodded like that's what she thought. "I would do the same, if I'd noticed what they were doing, I would've stopped it. I must admit I was a little preoccupied at the time."

Macey and I shot our eyes towards my mom and we gave her a knowing glance. "What exactly were you preoccupied with?" Macey asked with a teasing tone.

Bex's head shot up as she climbed onto her stomach, her head just above mine. "Yes, please share." She asked waggling her eyebrows.

My mom gave us a withering look, "For your information, I was having a very important, very classified conversation with Mr. Solomon."

"Classified." Liz repeated with a small smile playing on her face.

Macey scoffed "Conversation." She wagged her eyebrows again.

I couldn't help it, I burst out laughing at my mothers expression, and it wasn't long before my friends joined me. My mom stared at us for several seconds before giving in and chuckling a few times after rolling her eyes.

"You girls remind me of Abby and I when we were your age. I see so much of us in you four." She said after we had calmed down.

"In what ways?" Macey asked with a smile on her face.

"Well, Cammie I think has most of our traits." She said thoughtfully.

"Surprise surprise." Bex said with a smile and a swat to my head.

"It is actually," My mom said "When Cammie was little, she was so much like her father. She's the spitting image. We figured that when she got older, she would either remain the spitting image of her dad or become exactly like Abby and I at that age, never in a million years would I have imagined that she would retain all of those traits."

"I can honestly say I never thought I'd see the day when someone said Cam was like Abby."

"Enough about me, I already know I'm like you." Cammie said

"Well, Macey is absolutely like Abby, a brilliant fashion sense, great friend, and an attitude like nobody's business. Not to mention she can hold her cover in the toughest of times." My mom said grinning at Macey.

"What about me!" Bex asked excitedly.

"I would like to say that you're most like me. It prides me to say that I was the toughest girl in my Gallagher class." Bex grinned wickedly. "I must admit, you do have Abby's sense of humor." My mom added.

"And now, little Lizzie. You are quite the genius, I can't say that I'm the smartest girl in the world but I like to think that certain trait can be attributed to me. You have a dark side that fits my younger years fabulously. You are incredibly loyal which fits both me and Abby. However you have a certain kind of charm that only fits Abby." My mom explained to us.

"Well, sounds like Liz has the best mix out of all of us." Macey said with a laugh.

"I agree." I said nudging Liz's arm as she smiled at the description.

"I think most of it rubbed off on me from Cammie and Bex. They've brought me nothing but trouble!" Liz said teasingly.

"Hey, don't look at me, it's all Cammie!" Bex said defensively.

"Not this again!" I groaned, dropping my head in my hands.

"I must admit, I'm curious." My mom said leaning forward.

"We've decided that Cammie is the source of all our trouble." Bex said with a smile.

My mom smiled wide. "And how did you reach this conclusion?"

"None of us got into any trouble before Cammie, and all the sudden we're having the greatest adventures of our lives!" Macey said with a nudge to my arm.

"That's not how you phrased it last time!" I exclaimed laughing.

"It's true!" My mom exclaimed as she laughed louder than I have ever heard her laugh before.

"Mom!" I exclaimed laughing. We giggled until our sides ached.

"I'm sorry sweetie, but you're trouble!" This makes Bex and Macey explode with laughter.

I tried to act mad, tried to be offended but it was very true! I think I laughed harder than anyone else.

"We better warn the boys, I don't think they know what they're getting into!" Liz said as she giggled.

"Well, I don't know, they may not be able to get out of it! She may never let the go now!" Macey joked. I could barely breathe I was laughing so hard.

"Well, I certainly can't let you guys go! You know far too much!" I got out between giggles.

"Well, I certainly know more than I wish I did!" Liz said with a wink.

With that wink, she communicated hundreds of things. First she communicated, that we should follow her lead. Second she communicated that, she knew something we didn't and we she jostled her computer slightly, everything clicked into place. My mom had brought a bug with her,whether she meant to or not, and the boys were watching. It's time to mess with the guys. The final thing she communicated with that wink was that we were going to have to get creative. She planned to drive the guys crazy and I knew that there was no one better at revenge than Liz.

I laughed and flipped my hair a little. "Well you guys are no saints either, I can't believe some of the stuff you guys talked me into!"

Macey caught on next. "You weren't all that hard to persuade some of those times!"

"Come on Cam, we all know no one has more fun with our ideas than you do!" she winked at me. Bex's response surprised me, but nothing prepared me for my mom to start playing along. Maybe she knew about the bug and didn't agree.

"Cammie, how often do you come up with these schemes? How many do I know about?" She asked with a smile

Macey raised an eyebrow in surprise. "You don't even know the half of it, we've only told you about the more...innocent ones." She drawled out slowly, winking at the end.

I was terrified, I did not want to know what was going through her mind. I was kind of hoping the girls would just let it go and move on. I was sorely disappointed.

Liz hopped on the idea. "I honestly can't believe some of the things we've done on town days!"

"I can't believe the townies went along with some of the ideas!" Bex added in, excited at the change of topic.

"I for one can't believe how creative Cammie got!" Macey exclaimed pushing the topic even farther. Who knew what the guys were thinking!

"I should start sending Solomon to watch you girls! You're a bad influence on the younger ones." My mom said teasingly. "But just out of curiosity, what exactly have you girls been up to?"

"I'm afraid that's a secret." I said trying to change the subject before the girls came up with something insane.

"Well, parts of it are." Macey said as she smiled wickedly.

"Color me curious, what happened?" She asked leaning forward on her knees.

"Well, it all started on the first town day we went on like ever." Liz began.

"We've been doing it ever since, we convinced Macey to do it with us when she came." Bex added.

"I'm afraid all I can say about this, is that it starts out with guy in the middle of the night, involves four different kinds of fruit, a hammer, honey, peanut butter, and ends with a bang!" I said trying to bring the conversation to an end.

"Cammie, you forgot the most important detail!" Macey exclaimed.

"We can't tell her that!" Bex said hitting Macey softly to get her to stop talking. "All we can share is that...well, it's why our uniforms get so dirty."

"It also explains some of our more interesting bruises and cuts." Macey added in. "And why Cammie hates the word flamingo." I winced for good measure when she said it, trying to play along, but inside I was asking myself 'Flamingo?'

"It explains why Macey refuses to eat french toast any more too!" I added in, trying to get revenge for the flamingo comment.

"And why Liz refuses to eat peanut butter." Bex added in thoughtfully.

"Well of course Bex can't see a plum anymore without-" Liz tried to say before I cut her off.

"Without thinking of that one night in 8th grade when that one guy, who can remember their names, 'accidentally' slipped and landed right-" Macey cut me off this time.

"Right on her lap and his hand went-" Bex cut her off before she could get too graphic.

"OKAY! Now we're getting to the part of the story we can't mention anymore." Bex said waving her hands wildly.

My mother raised her eyebrows. "Well, I was certainly right about you girls being like me and Abby."

"I don't think I want to know!" I said quickly.

"I do!" Bex said. "May give us some good ideas."

"Well, let's say that we did something very similar... just maybe not as creative. You girls really are something else." She said with a wink and a smile. "I'll leave you to your silent treatment, let me know if you need anything." She waved goodbye and walked out of the room.

We waited exactly 15 seconds before Liz gave us the all clear. "She took the bug with her, we're good."

"What the heck was that?" I exclaimed before whacking Macey on the arm.

"What was what?" She asked before hitting me back.

"The whole 'Cammie's the most creative' crap!" I said hitting her again.

"I was going with the plan! That was the whole plan, we were trying to drive the guys nuts and that's how I was going to do it! I promise Zach won't stop thinking about you." Macey said, moving to hit me each time she said plan.

"Guys! Check this out, I recorded the guys' reaction to our stories, it's what I was watching the whole time, it was hilarious." Liz said pulling her computer into view for all of us.

"Jonas is that bug up yet?" Zach asked his friend impatiently.

"Just about, I've got picture, no sound."

"Dude! Hurry up!" Preston yelled.

"Chill, she's still in the hallway! Aaaaaand, we've got sound." Jonas said hitting a few keys.

"Boys, I'm telling you, this is a horrible idea." Solomon said.

"I'm out of ideas! This is all I can think of! I honestly have no idea! Besides, this is how assassins would do it." Zach said.

"Zach out of ideas? The world is ending." I said sarcastically.

"Shhh!" Bex exclaimed

A few minutes went by without a comment. "They didn't mention why they're mad!" Preston whispered. "What the heck are we going to do?"

"Well shut up first of all, it may come up again." Grant said leaning closer to the screen.

They fell into silence again.

There was some background noise, probably our conversation.

"Cam really is a good mix of Abby and Rachel." Grant commented.

"Don't I know it." Zach said appreciatively. I blushed.

"You know Liz is kind of incredible." Jonas said about a minute later, I guess they got to the part about Liz. The best was about to come.

"Whoa, wait what's that supposed to mean?" Zach asked quickly.

"Wait what happened?" Grant asked a few seconds later.

"I'm lost, I'm so lost." Preston said rubbing his hands through his hair.

"Flamingo?" Zach asked himself.

"Plums? What happened! I want the rest of the story!" Grant practically yelled.

"What on earth do these girls get up to?" Solomon asked. All the boys turned to look at Solomon quickly before looking back at the screen.

"Well boys, did you find what you're looking for?" My mom asked as she threw the bug from the top of the stairs to the table.

"Not really." Jonas said before realizing what he just admitted.

"You sir, are the smartest idiot I know." Zach said lightly hitting Jonas on the head.

"Boys, you may never find out why the girls are mad, the best advice I can give you is to start groveling." Solomon said and we turned the computer off.

"Well that was interesting." Macey said with a small smile.

"I don't understand men." I said rubbing my eyes.

"That's okay, they don't understand us either." Liz said copying my motion.

"I wonder how they're going to try to grovel." Bex said thoughtfully.

"Candlelit dinner on the beach? Night beneath the stars?" Macey said wistfully.

"Well whatever it is, I hope it's not tonight." I commented as I got up to stretch my legs.

"Why not tonight?" Liz asked.

"Because we'll be at the party." I said as I grabbed a carton of ice cream off the dresser.

"What party?" Macey asked.

"Did I forget to tell you about that? Sawyer mentioned it earlier, there's a party at the beach tonight, sundown to sunrise, bonfires, s'mores, night surfing, the works! It sounds epic! I told him we would be there." I said nonchalantly.

"Hmm...The guys will never let us go alone...we'll have to sneak out." Bex said with a smile.

"Should be easy. Mom expects us to be up here moping the whole time, the boys will just think we're ignoring them and Solomon won't care." I said thinking it through.

"We can get out and in through the windows easily." Liz put in.

"Since it's a beach party we don't have to wear anything too fancy which makes climbing easier." Macey finished.

"Well, we've got like 2 hours to finalize plans and to create back ups and fail safes." Liz said.

"Are we staying the whole time?" Bex asked.

"Heck yeah!" I exclaimed. "We need some stories to give to Tina after all." I winked and pulled my hair up into a knot moving to my room to find something to wear.