A/N: Hey hey hey! Como va, chez toi? Ahhh I'm so stupid…^^ Did I ever tell you that I'm crazy? Well I sure as hell am and proud to be! After all it's just better to be crazy than to face… everything else shall we say… Oh and as for 'is Dubai really the place with the biggest mall in the world?" I would say I don't know really… I mean when I lived there, there was talk of attaching the tallest building in the world to the biggest mall in the world but that was four-five years ago and they haven't finished the building yet… But they were planning on building it and probably still are so I'm not pulling this out of my imagination.
Here we are surrounded in heat and sand. I squinted my eyes, examining the landscape. I couldn't concentrate on what I saw because of the large heat waves emanating from the ground. I wiped the sweat from my brow and stepped forward. I smiled at Guillaume who was standing before as soon as he grinned back I felt a protective arm snake around my waist. I turned my face slightly to look at Zachs face and saw him scowling deeply at Guillaume. I tip toed and pecked his cheek then I twirled out of his arms and raced up to Bex, Liz and Mace who were staring up in wonder at the huge building before us. It was the Burj al Arab in all its wonders. They pulled me inside and we got our keys to our rooms and ran up to our suit. I twirled around in wonder at the sight before me: none of our hotels had been this nice before. That was probably why this was the only 7 star hotel in the world.
"So what should we do now?" I asked Bex as I turning in circles sitting in the desk chair. I was staring at the ceiling of the room with a dopey smile on my face. My hair flying and spreading out around my head.
"No idea, I suppose we could go check on the girls." She suggested.
Just as I was starting to feel really sick there was a knock on the door and for lack of anything else to do I raced to the door, screaming at the top of my lungs, "I'll GET IT!"
I stumbled to the door, my dizziness not having kicked in completely. I threw the door open, letting it rebound off the wall and back into the face of the person stepping in.
"Ow! What the hell Cammie?!" Jonas shouted, clutching his nose.
I was too much under the shock of him having raised his voice to answer instead I heard a squeal come from behind me and Liz flew by me and dragged Jonas into her room.
"Hey Gallagher Girl." I heard the smirk in his voice before even seeing him.
I rested against the door then started to walk to the bathroom for fear of being sick. I really shouldn't have turned around in a circle for five minutes, 1230 quick turns to be exact. I zig zagged left and right, bumping into the walls and objects. I tripped on the hem of a carpet and waved my arms around as I saw the ground race up to my face. In a blink of an eye my back was parallel to the floor, my hair grazing the carpet as a pair of extremely muscular arms held me up. I opened my eyes my dizziness residing. I looked into his eyes and he gazed back. We stayed silent for a while simply getting lost in the others eyes. Then he ruined it with his sexy smirk as he leaned in close.
"Remind you of anything Gallagher Girl?" He asked huskily.
"I'm not sure…" His smirk widened if that was even humanly possible.
His lips grazed mine and he pulled back a slight bit teasing me. Being close enough to me so that our lips were touching when he spoke but not quite close enough to call it a kiss.
"Humm, well perhaps I should jog your memory?" He asked not waiting for a reply as he planted his lips on mine.
I was enjoying it when I all at once felt my stomach heave. I didn't have time to push him away because when the door opened abruptly and a shocked gasped followed I fell to the floor just as the words, "Oh MY! Am I interrupting?" escaped from my mother's lips.
Of course she knew Zach and I were unofficially together I understood that she still wasn't very comfortable with public displays of affection. I stood up from the floor and brushed off the back of my skirt.
"As a matter of fact-"
"Not at all Mrs. Morgan." Zach interrupted me.
"Oh well good I need you all to head down stairs into the lobby. The girls will join me whereas the boys will meet with Dr. Steve." She then glanced at me hesitantly and turned to leave.
"Did you really have to drop me, Zachary?" I fumed.
"Girls, your forth secret mission has finally arrived! You will be going to Wild Wadi with the boys. At the park there will be a family there, they will be acting like strangers towards each other but it's your job to find out who's related to whom and how." We nodded sounded simple enough. "They are a family of five and very good at what they do, so be wary."
Liz raised her hand. "Yes Liz, your question?" Mom sighed.
"Um well what and where is Wild Wadi?"
"Oh Wild Wadi is just down the street and is a water park." I smiled wickedly, finally some use in the bathing suits Macey forced me to bring!
"I don't see anything secret about this mission apart from the fact that the boys can't find out… but it has nothing to do with them." Macey said from her seat behind me.
"Well Macey the teachers never actually said the secret missions had to involve the other school.
"No but it was obviously implied." She defended as if it were well obvious.
"Guess you just thought wrong Mace, admit it." She crossed her arms deciding to ignore me and stared out the window.
We were meeting the boys at the park and I was so excited, I absolutely LOVE water parks and I guess the fact that Zach was going to be in a bathing suit was an upside. We climbed out into the sun that was beating down on us. I saw Zach and floated over to him he smirked and kissed me carefully on the lips.
"Can't wait to see you in a bikini Gallagher Girl." He whispered so only I could hear.
I smiled slyly then skipped away with the other girls into the changing rooms. We stuck our stuff in the lockers and hurried out. I was wearing a simple turquoise bikini whereas the other girls were all wearing gorgeous bikinis too complicated for my simple mind to describe. The girls and I all gathered and nodded. We split up into little groups joining some guys or just going off alone. I stayed with Bex, Liz and Macey and they guys Grant, Zach and Jonas came to join us along with Guillaume, Sebastien and Madison.
We had finished the secret mission that believe it or not Tina and Anna had done almost all on their lonesome's. The other girls and I had completely forgotten about the mission. We must have done almost every single ride when we heard a blood piercing scream I turned and saw a super tall and long slid exiting a really tall tower. I grabbed Zachs arm and shook it while pointing to the water slid.
"What is that? Why haven't we done it yet?" I questioned jumping up and down eagerly.
"Well truth be told Gallagher Girl we weren't too sure you could handle it." If it wasn't for the fact that he looked totally handsome in his swimming trunks and with his wet hair I would kill him for mocking me. Damn his hotness!
"Of course I can.
Oh God no I can't! Why did I say I could! I can do lots of things: kill a man with a tooth pick or speak in any language in the world or even jump off a moving plane which in its self is similar to sliding down a slide but I CAN'T DO THIS! The name of the water slide should have hinted me, I mean it wouldn't be called the Jumeirah Sceirah (Pronounced Jumeirah Scare ah) for nothing!
"You want to go first?" Zach asked, with a knowing smirk.
I gulped and nodded slowly. I felt a bit neauseous as my toes dangled off the edge of the tower. I was about to sit down when Zach caught my arm and spun me around so that my face was buried in his chest.
"Come on Gallagher Girl, I know you don't want to do it alone or at all so what do you say we go together?" He proposed.
I nodded eagerly and he sat down first spreading his legs slightly so I could sit between them. I carefully placed myself in front of him and I felt his arms wrap safely around my waist and over my stomach so each of his hands were resting on one of my hips. We advanced slowly at first as we got to the steep downhill a safety guard pushed us down so that we were lying down, my back resting on Zach's chest. I saw the slide disappear before us and as I felt us slip down I screamed.
You should have seen your face Gallagher Girl!" Zach laughed.
We had left the park not long after going on the Jumeirah Sceirah. Zach and I had decided to walk back to the hotel since it was only about ten minutes away and we wanted a bit of time alone. He interlaced his fingers with mine as our hands swayed peacefully between us. He paused and I rotated to face him and saw him gazing down at me. I smiled hesitantly at him but he just kept on staring. Everything was so peaceful and perfect and I couldn't help but hope that he'd ask me to be his girlfriend right then under the moonlight and the garland covered palm trees and decorated in small strings of light. The beach before us: reflecting the lights of the city and the town behind us. The calm atmosphere was broken with the screeching of tires and the honking of horns. Soon three black vans had come to a stop on the road next to us and 10 men clad in black jumped out of their backs. Zach gripped my hand tightly and we broke apart when the attackers became too numerous for us to keep holding on to each other. I fought them all, gaining a pace: ducking, punching, kicking and twisting and soon I was left facing one similar and friendly face. Or should I say formerly friendly face.
"What are you doing?" I questioned in a small voice.
"Isn't it obvious Cammie? We're kidnapping you and Zach." He replied as if that were a totally normal thing to say to your friend.
"Why?"
"Because I've been given orders but don't worry it's not what you think. If you come with me you'll understand that this is all a big misunderstanding Cammie."
"Like I'll believe that!" I screamed. Where had Zach gone?
"Looking for your boyfriend? No point in doing so, we've taken care of him." He smirked.
"He's not my boyfriend!" I spat and then I saw him struggling against five assailants. "Zach! ZACH!" I screamed and he turned to look at me.
"CAMMIE! Run get out of here! I'll find you!" He shouted. I nodded and started to run but arms wrapped around my waist and the world fell into horrifying darkness.
"Did you really have to be so harsh, Guillaume?" A female voice questioned.
"Hey, please don't judge I just wanted to have a bit of fun." Guillaume said.
I heard the female sigh a very familiar sigh but because of my head ach and dizziness I couldn't place who it belonged to.
"Well get her camera ready, her friends will be hacking us soon." She ordered.
"Oh she'll be ready and her friends will regret the day they hacked us to see what was becoming of their friends." Guillaume said menacingly.
"Don't go to hard, they have to believe she and Zach are still alive or none of this will work. They can't find out the truth until they've done what they have to do. If they find out the truth they won't try as hard." The lady insisted. "Be careful."
I heard footsteps and then a door slammed shut. "Oh Cammie you already look horrible what's he going to do to make you look worse?" Fingers caressed my cheeks and I could hear the faint smile in the ladies voice. When her fingers left my cheek I recognized the touch and was about to gasp when the world started spinning again and I started falling into darkness once again.
My last thoughts faded into nothingness but I still managed to keep one thought in my mind.
She wouldn't do this to me would she?
Zachs POV:
I woke up feeling dizzy. My head was covered in a sort of hay bag and my hands were tied behind my back, on the back of a chair and my feet were roped to the chair legs. I heard talking around me and soon the bag was ripped from my head and I was taking in everything around me as my head lolled to the side slightly. I blinked a few times trying to rid my eyes of the thick liquid trying to seep into them. There were ten masked armed men, plus one reading from a piece of paper. I felt something dripping from my face so I looked down to see what it was and that's when my breath caught. I was covered in dry and fresh blood, dirt and sweat my clothes were ripped and I could see all the bruises and deep cuts. Something was off though, something was completely wrong I could see all of this and knew that I should be in excruciating pain but instead I felt nothing, I felt numb. I looked straight at the camera that was filming the scene. I opened my mouth to say something but a man behind me stepped forward and hit my cheek with the butt of his revolver making my face whip to the side. The odd thing of it all? It didn't hurt; I didn't feel any pain when it crashed to my cheek. Something was wrong so when I was brought into a private room and a familiar voice said, "Hello Zachary." I couldn't believe my ears.
"What's happening?" I asked her.
She smirked. God I'm starting to rub off on everyone. "Isn't it obvious? This is the last stage of the hunt, you're friends are all trying to figure out what the little note we left for them means… and you're what they have to find."
A/N: Dun dun dun… So yep that's it. One more chapter or maybe two depends on if I want to separate the next one in two parts. What do you think? Everything ends or almost all ends in the next chapter! About time too! Wouldn't you agree? Anyway any ideas as to whom the woman is? (Hint: she's the same lady that left the room at the beginning of chapter 19.) Hope you like it and review if you wish because soon you won't be able to review this story anymore! Okay well buh bye for now!