A/N: Hello again everyone! Long time no post, but I do have a good reason (I feel obligated to defend myself) I had a major major major project due in history class I had to work on (National History Day if you know what that is) and my friend and I (my partner on our project) have been spending every free moment working on it. I think we did really well considering we only had about half the time our classmates did since we had to switch topics half way through for lack of sources (especially after seeing our competition). Anyway I got a 1 on my solo (5 is the worst, 1 is the best) so that went well. And my lovely reviewers whom I heart muchly are Crizzy4RFR, jhhhhjfjk89, and ZephrWiltshire! All that being said I want you all to enjoy part 40, big things are about to happen.

Part 40: This Spy Thing

Lily sat silently behind a bush just outside of Travis's front yard. She'd managed to overhear a conversation between Travis and Anneke's mother that revealed he'd be done babysitting at 6:30. She'd gone home after that, and, in an attempt to make herself feel better about what she was doing, pulled out the envelope. Shamefully she dumped the contents into her lap.

"If only I'd just had the courage to ask you about this, Travis," She chastised herself and shook her head, "Maybe I wouldn't be doing this now. But you're just so closed Travis. I don't know you. Parker doesn't even know you and she's your girlfriend."

A single tear slipped down her cheek, but she ignored it and randomly picked 2 papers out of the stack from the envelope. At first glance they appeared identical. She'd figured out that the first column was the date. Both papers had the same dates, but the rest of it was different. She glanced up at the top of each paper. One read Travis Strong-Grade report, but the other paper had been cut off. She looked down the list of grades on both papers; they were almost all different. Some on the cut-off paper were higher, some were lower, but they all seemed really close to the ones on the other paper. Something wasn't right and Lily found a renewed sense of urgency and finally a feeling that what she was going to do was good. Quickly she shoved the papers back into the envelope and, carrying them with her, ran out of the room toward Travis's house. It was nearly 6:00.

AAAAA

She sighed and peered through the bush straight at Travis's door. It was 7:00, half an hour later than it was supposed to be. She'd been waiting for 45 minutes with the distinct feeling that something wasn't right. All of a sudden out of nowhere a hand clasped down on her mouth, silencing her. She was too terrified to turn around, deep down she knew it had to be Travis.

"Oh come on, Randall," The voice of the person said, "Don't tell me I wasn't expected."

In a gush all the tension left Lily's body and she gave a small smile beneath the hand.

"Eropaque," She laughed.

"I didn't quite catch that."

"Hello, Parker." Lily repeated. "You're late."

Parker shrugged, "Sorry."

Lily shook her head, "He's still in there with Annie."

"You gave her a code name? Give me one too!" Parker replied.

"What?" Lily asked completely baffled, "Annie is the nickname I gave her."

"Oh," Parker looked disappointed, "I thought you were really getting into this spy thing."

"Yeah, I guess sorta." Lily replied.

"Well that's good…because…I kinda have some bad news," Parker put her hand sheepishly on the back of her neck.

Lily stared at her, waiting.

"I have to bale." Parker explained as she started backing away in preparation for the outburst Lily would no doubt have, "That's why I'm late."

Lily sighed, she couldn't say she hadn't expected it, and even more importantly she couldn't say she was sorry to see Parker go. Something inside of her wanted to follow Travis alone. She felt betrayed that he had never mentioned a school in Paris and for some reason she wanted to get the answers alone. She knew that Parker and the guys needed to know too, but it would be easier right now not to tell the guys. Only she and Parker knew anything was wrong, except for the envelope incident a while back that seemed forgotten. And until she was sure that whatever Travis's secret was wouldn't hurt his relationship with Parker she couldn't tell her. She loved both her friends very dearly and she didn't want something from the past to hurt them.

"I understand," she said finally.

Parker stared at her, "What?"

"It's ok. I can handle it on my own, and besides it'll probably be easier if there's just one person to blow our cover." Lily replied.

"Don't you want an explanation?" Parker asked incredulously.

Lily shook her head, "No. I trust you Parker."

Parker raised an eyebrow suspiciously, "But there's a reason you don't care?"

Lily shook her head, "Parker, you do know that I can change my mind at any time, right?"

"Right. Point taken. Um…bye Randy." Parker shrugged.

"Randy?" Lily asked.

"If you're allowed to call her Annie then I'm allowed to call you Randy," Parker shrugged and with that she walked off leaving Lily alone with her thoughts.