Chapter 36:
Cammie POV:
The waves beat against the sides of the ship, and the breeze slipped past, bringing with it the smell of the ocean. We stood at the edge of the desk, gripping the rail, concentrating on the task at hand. Or trying to,
"Oh my gosh! You didn't mention you were coming too!" Callie squealed from the other edge of the deck. She shuffled towards us, wearing an outfit her mother had no doubt forced he into. She told us yesterday that her mother wished she was more of a young lady, and Callie all but refuses to touch a skirt most days. Looks like her mom had won out this morning.
"Callie! I didn't know you were going to be on the same cruise!" I squealed, smiling widely.
"Who is that?" Liz asked, and I could already tell what she would be doing tonight, looking up every detail on Callie and her family's life.
"Liz, this is Callie, we met her yesterday on the beach and she came to that party we told you about." I said and Liz put her worries aside and pretended to be friendly, but I knew she was analyzing everything about her. "Callie, this is Liz one of my best friends, and she came all the way down here to surprise us with this cruise with our other friend, Jonas." I added gesturing towards Jonas who gave a shy smile.
We talked for a while, but Liz was on edge the whole time, though she did manage to relax enough to have a decent conversation. Riley and Callie continued acting like a couple, and I wondered what was going to happen when we went back to Gallagher. Eventually Callie's mom made her go attend to some family business and Liz hauled all of us back to the rooms.
"Are you crazy?" she started as soon as the doors closed, "You can't just trust her! You should all know that there is hardly such a thing as a coincidence! I mean, what are the odds that she is here, especially considering the mission and just happened to meet you at the hotel?" Liz continued to lecture us and I was about to tell her to calm down when Riley spoke up,
"I agree with Liz." He said receiving puzzled looks from everyone, since we all assumed he would be the least considered about whether or not Callie was part of a terrorist group. "We can't afford to let anyone in at this point. Especially, since we're going up against something this big."
"Okay, Liz you can research on Callie while the rest of us read over the mission files again." I said and she nodded once before setting to work with Jonas.
We sat in silence for a couple hours, soaking in all of the information. Our mission wasn't complex, but the details needed special attention.
There would be a party on the ship tomorrow, extremely exclusive, all members of the COC. Liz had explained this yesterday. Our mission was to steal and copy and replace a disk with a list of executive members on it, without raising suspicion. The party was new dress worthy according to Macey so she went on an emergency shopping spree before we boarded. The security would be extremely tight so Liz and Jonas would have to add our names to the list tonight, if we would pull her away from her project to reveal Callie as some kind of villain.
But then there were the obvious problems, like the fact that the COC was after me, and that Zach's mother was part of the Circle. But Liz was careful to make sure Zach's mother and anyone who might recognize me wouldn't be attending. So we were all in the clear, well as soon as we got on that darn list.
"Alright! I can't stand this anymore!" Macey cried flinging her file across her bed. We all looked up startled, as she kept going on, "We're not doing anything, Liz hasn't found anything on Callie and we're on a freaking cruise ship! But what are we doing? Locking ourselves in our rooms and reading! Liz and Jonas can stay here and keep looking if they want, because at least their being productive, but the rest of us are going to the main deck." She said ushering the guys out of the room and instructing them to change.
She began the rigorous task of making Bex and I look nice, for the second time today. She pulled our hair, poked our eyes with brushes, and made us change into outfits that where surprisingly comfortable, compared to most things Macey forced us into.
I wore a white loose-fitting off the shoulder top with a black tank top under it, and white shorts. And Bex wore a black tube top with silver wings drawn on it and white shorts. Her exotic legs looked like they would stretch for miles paired with the black wedges Macey paired with the outfit. Macey pulled on a white sleeveless sun dress with a thin leather belt around her waist.
When we finally escaped from the bathroom the guys were back all chatting around the computer where it looked like Liz and Jonas where finally putting our names on the list.
"Alright, let's go," Macey said herding us out the door leaving Jonas and Liz to their computers.
"What are we going to do?" Grant asked,
"Limbo contest, just to kick of the cruise!" Macey said and the majority of us rolled our eyes, we stepped out onto the huge deck, one of the many on the ship to see a long line of passengers dancing in line.
"Alright, guys let's get started!" a peppy woman standing on a stage overlooking the whole thing said as they set the bar up. Macey pulled us into line and we started to dance, a while later Callie popped out of nowhere,
"Hey!" she said dragging out the "y" for an unnatural amount of time,
"Hey!" Macey Bex and I repeated, dragging out the "y" for just as long,
"If I didn't know any better I would think you're following me!" she yelled over the noise and winked as the line started to move, and we laughed.
After a while Liam ducked under the bar followed by the rest of us, still laughing loudly and singing along with the music, any suspicions about Callie forgotten. The guy on the other side of the bar handed each of us a sticker, meaning we were still in the competition. We went to the end of the line and the woman on the stage yelled,
"Round two!" and everyone cheered as they lowered the bar, and the contestants proceeded to duck under the bar. We resumed dancing and singing, telling jokes and telling stories until we got to the front of the line. Again we ducked under the bar without any real problems and received a sticker on the other side.
"Round three!" and the crowd erupted into cheers as the remaining people slid under the bar, we got to the front quickly and before we knew it there was only ten people left.
"Round seven!" the woman announced and I surveyed the line, Liam, Zach, Macey, Riley, Bex, Grant, Callie, two younger guys I didn't know and me. Zach slipped under the bar, his back almost parallel to the floor. I startled to move under the bar, and it was then my phone vibrated, starling me. I slipped and fell, and everyone started to laugh, including me. I pulled my phone out of my pocket and checked the caller ID, Liz. I told Bex and she faked, knocking off the bar and the crowd erupted in a chorus of, Ohhh's.
"Hello?" I said into the phone and Liz's voice came through rushed.
"You need to get back here, now. I found something interesting." She said and the line went dead.
"Well that was odd," I said, and explained what Liz had said to Bex.
Fifteen minutes and thirty seven minutes we were rushing off the deck, while Callie walked up onto the stage to claim some prize.
We ran to the room and when we entered Liz and Jonas were bent over the computer,
"Good you're back." Jonas said as the door swung shut behind us,
"Yeah, why did you need us?" Zach asked and Liz turned in her chair,
"It turns out your friend Callie has a pretty interesting life."
Oh, Liz isn't she so smart?
I bet you guys are very smart too, soo what do you think she found out about Callie?
This chapter wasn't too thrilling until the end, and the lack of interaction between the main characters bothered me, but I guess I'm just having an off day, what do you think?
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