Chapter 21

As I walked into the classroom, many of the students glared at me. I ignored then and did a small eye roll. I heard Zach behind me chuckle and I smirked. We took the two empty seats in the back of the room.

I sat down in my seat and immediately the girl in front of me turned around and smiled. Let's see if you can guess who it was! Deedee! She smiled at me with enthusiasm and I emulated her expression.

"Hey Cammie! Hey Zach!" she said, waving a little

"Hi," I replied

"Look's like we have a class together," she said

"Yeah," I answered back, unsure where this conversation was going

"Do have any other classes with me or any of my friends?"

"Oh, I'm not sure. I wasn't really paying attention…" I said, hoping she wouldn't mention Josh or Dillion.

"That's okay. If you let me look at your schedule, I can tell you if you have any classes with my friends."

I had already figured out her plan, so I knew that by friends, she meant Josh. Unfortunately my mother was surprisingly nice about handling my schedule because Josh wasn't in any of my classes.

Beside me, Zach smirked at me and I knew something was up. I narrowed my eyes in his direction and tried to make out his expression underneath his annoying but really hot smirk.

The bell rang and the teacher announced that the assignment he had just handed out would be due next week. I got up and Zach followed but not fast enough before Deedee came up next to me and hooked her arm through mine.

She giggled and led me down the hall. Zach chuckled and followed us. I sighed and hoped that we were going in the right direction because everything was going a little fast. We stopped abruptly in front of a classroom.

Deedee waved goodbye and ran down the hall to her next class. Thankfully there was only one more hour to go before I could leave this school and…end up at Josh's house. Crap!

Zach went inside and I trailed behind him. We sat down in the very back as usual and the teacher introduced herself and began the lesson. Since I already studied these things in 7th grade, I didn't bother copying down any notes.

When the bell rang, signaling that the school day was over, I shot out of my seat and I heard Zach calling my name. The perks of being a really good pavement artist. I found Bex and Macey talking about all the stupid people at school.

Liz was over near the fountain with Jonas talking amiably about the new prototype that she had created the night before, a new tranquilizer pen. I smiled at their geek love.

I started walking around the school campus but when I turned the corner, a hand came over my mouth and I was being pulled into somebody's arms. I nudged the person in the stomach and they grunted in response and let go of me.

I turned around to find Zach doubled over. I rushed over and helped him up. He smirked at me and stood up to his full height. I grabbed his hand and we started walking back to where everybody was.

"Sorry," I said, hoping I hadn't hurt him that bad.

"It's okay. Just glad to know what the consequences are if I sneak up on you like that." he replied

I laughed and when we got back to my friends, I found them waiting for us with Josh and his sister, Joy. She had a video camera in her hand and was filming everything around us, namely Macey.

Josh barely said a word but led us to the buses. We climbed on and he sat down in a seat by himself. I sat down in a seat behind him with Zach in tow. The last person climbed on the bus and made a huge disruption. Guess who?

Dillion! That's right! He swaggered over towards Josh and Deedee and sat down across from them. He sneered at me and I glared at him. He turned his head ans started whispering to Deedee and Josh.

Once the bus reached Josh's stop he waved us off the bus. We started walking in total silence until Josh muttered something about how crazy his mother was. In the distance you could make out his mom waving on the porch to us.

I covered up a laugh and Zach smirked in response. Josh sighed and went up the porch. His mother kissed him and hugged his little sister before she grinned madly at us. I heard Bex then mutter, "Bloody hell!"

I smiled and said hi and introduced everybody. She ushered us in and said that she made apple pie if we would like a slice. We followed her while she gave the grand tour and took us to our rooms.

Us four girls would be staying in one room while Zach had one all to himself across from us. We went into our rooms and found that all of our luggage and stuff were already in the room, along with 4 twin sized beds.

We started unpacking and did our homework in record time. We really didn't know how long a normal kid would do their homework so we stayed in our rooms until Mrs. Abrams came in and said dinner was ready.

We left our rooms and saw that the table was set and all the food was laid out. Josh and his sister were already there and so was Zach. We sat down at the table and waited for the rest of the Abrams.

I ended up sitting in between Zach and Josh. I fidgeted and tried to breathe evenly. Zach took my hand and squeezed and I smiled back. This was going to be a long dinner.