So this is really a really quick update for me and i definately still want anyone who still hasn't read chapter 3 to review it too with any suggestions!

I usually wait a while before i publish another chapter but i wrote this one quick and I decided to go ahead and publish it so everyone can give me a lot of reviews and tell me what you think and any suggestions because i need them for next chapter! so PLEASE R/R FOR ME!:)

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I had betrayed my own kind. But I decided that my school getting robbed because of me, was better than them dying from being put in danger by the circle because of me. So that's why I did what I did next. At least, that's what I told myself and tried to convince myself I was doing them good. I needed to hide, I knew that. And I needed the crew's trust, I knew that. So I only had one option. I would rob my my home, that's what was necessary.

So that's why I decided that I would explain it to them. I would describe the complete layout of my home. I would give it away, just like that. I would tell them all those secret passages I spent years finding, all those special ops technics I spent years perfecting, and all those years of learning secret ops at school, I was about to use against my academy. I couldn't help but feel like I would be one of those people that the academy talks about years later as a bad example of how some Gallagher girls would turn out, they wouldn't all turn out good. I would be mentioned along with Zach's mom. I never thought I would be in the same category as her, yet here I was, betraying my mom, my school, my girls, just like her.

But I decided my priorities, I set them straight. I might set a bad reputation for myself and everyone may hate me, but at least the people will still be alive. So that was why I was next to speak the words, "I'm in."

Hale glanced at me, "Of course you are, what, do you think you pull one job and you're done?"

I laughed, "No. I mean I'm in. As in don't give me some bull crap job like last one, like tripping over a wire? Really? I'm either all in, or I'm out."

"Do you really think you're going to be one of the main parts in the operation? You really believe we can trust you already? And do you know how hard this job is going to be? Do you know what you're getting into because this is going to be one of our biggest jobs yet. Their security is high tech. They've got the whole building surrounded, full security system including 10 seco-"

"-nd rotating cameras, full lockdown when unknown detected within a 8 mile radius of the school, and floor panel sensitive and laser beams surrounding the most valuable stuff. Yeah, I know." I kept going on and on describing every last detail of the building as Hale's eyes grew wider and his jaw dropped.

"H-h-how do you know that?" Kat stuttered.

"I robbed it once." I lied thinking quick on my feet, "but you see, that's not really how it goes."

"What do you mean?" Hale questioned.

"It's all fake. All this information you think you know about the security system, you don't know the half of it. All those statistics and measures and numbers are wrong. They're used to throw people like us off," I hesitated for a minute because I said us, as if I was one of them; a thief, but then gathered myself again and finished, "when you researched it, you found what they want you to find, not what's really there because in all reality, it's a completely different game." I smiled at my success, "but yanno, I'm not so sure I can help you if I won't even be involved, and when I say involved I don't mean faking a fall, I can do that all by myself, I mean a real part of the job."

They all stared at me for a few minutes but then Kat finally answered me, "Okay, you'll get a real part in it, now tell us what you know."

I smiled as I began to give away the long kept secrets of my school, although I felt a pang of guilt, I knew that after this I would have the crew's trust and I could keep my family and friends safe because I could stay away from them, they would be in no danger.

6 hours later it was midnight and I was pointing towards the blueprint I had drawn out. Hale had one planned out, but I made a whole new one because he had it all wrong, no wonder we never got robbed at the academy, if our fake security system could fool this crew, I'm pretty sure it could fool anyone else, except for maybe the circle. I was drawing out the last secret passageway, the one I always traveled with my girls to get out of the school, and was explaining the last few descriptions of the camera rotating intervals and the laser layouts as 2 questions finally came to mind that I hadn't even been considering.

"Wait," I asked, "when are we doing this and…what are we even stealing?" I know it sounded stupid but there are a ton of valuable things there and I was just spending the last 6 hours just showing them what the school looked like and the security; I didn't even know what they had in mind.

"Well," Hale started, "we are stealing the sword of course."

"The sword? The sword? As in THE SWORD?" I screamed. I didn't mean to, I swear but I had no idea. How did they plan on doing this? It's THE MOST protected thing in all of the school. And, personal reasons for me, that sword is meaningful to me, I mean that's not something I could easily steal and not care about, it means a lot to us. It means a lot to me.

But the problem was, was I keep throwing the word 'us' around, except I'm using it for 2 different things. I referred to myself as one of the thieves and as one of the spies. So I started to feel all alone, which I guess was what motivated me to keep on going and try to fit in here with my crew since I can't go back to the academy.

"Yeah, and…well," Hale stuttered, "we kind of have to do it tomorrow."

Now it was my turn to be surprised. My eyes widened and my jaw dropped, "It's not possible. It can't be done." I stated matter-of-factly.

"We've never failed a job, we can do it. We've prepared for jobs in hours." Hale said.

"Maybe, but you've never robbed the Gallagher Academy. This is huge, with everyone on duty and the school running and everyone back in school, and security on high-" I started.

"It won't be." Hale smiled.

"What do you mean?" I asked suspiciously.

"Well, it so happens tomorrow is their winter dance, or is that a fake cover up too and really is no dance?"

My mouth turned into a huge grin, I can't believe I forgot it was tomorrow. The dances at Gallagher Academy were a big deal, I remember, no one allowed outside the ballroom, everyone off duty, nothing protected except the front doors but I had to remember, it's easy to get, I did many times before, but it's almost impossible to get back in. But I'm known to quite often do the impossible.

"Ok, we should be able to do it," I said, "but you're going to have to trust me."

The next day surprisingly I wasn't nervous. I was going back to my home, just not for the reason I wanted to. But I was comfortable there, no matter what I was doing whether it was going to eat, going to class, getting secret books from the levels below, or I guess I could be comfortable robbing it, at least as comfortable as robbing could get.

I laughed to myself and Hale glanced at me but didn't bother to ask me what I was laughing at because it wasn't worth an explanation.

We were on our way to the school, and I had it all planned. Unlike last time when I had no idea of the game plan, I was the one who wrote it. They each had a job and I explained where everything was, how to get there, where not to step, where not to look, how fast to run to avoid the cameras, when to jump, and just how high.

Not to brag or anything, but I knew it all, and they actually listened to me and my plan. I had Angus and Hamish blowing up the entrance to one of the passageways, because I remembered before I left it had been closed off mostly because of curious and sneaky people like me that knew all of them and used them.

I had Kat turning of all the security cameras and rewiring them with reruns of a screen of an empty room looking like it was all clear when really, it was full of thieves, I was so clever sometimes. I laughed out loud to myself again and I think Hale was starting to worry about my sanity but I didn't know what was wrong with me, I guess it was just the moment we arrived at the school, it made me so happy inside I didn't know why, because I wasn't there to see my friends or my family or even go to school, I was there to rob it. But I never realized how much I missed it and I couldn't stop smiling. I was having too much fun with this; planning how to break in. I spent most my life making security systems like this to protect things, now I was going to ruin all those years of work with a few minutes of ruining the foolproof system, but I couldn't think about it, or I would lose it and mess up.

I had Gabrielle on lookout because if anyone did leave the dance, she would distract them enough. I had Hale and Simon rewiring all the security lasers and sensors. Then I, I had the main job, I was the one getting the sword. And the thing was, was I could rob it, and I could rob it easily. The reason I could rob it was I knew everything about the sword a person could know, more than any of the girls at the academy, and all most as much as my mom.

Why? Because the academy always had a plan. They planned for the worst and they planned for the best, they planned for the circle attacking, thieves attempting robbery, even random people looking to find information about the school, but what they had never planned for or even considered, was a robbery of a Gallagher Girl. The people inside the school were the one group of people their secrets depended on, and I was going to let them down.

I knew the positions of every laser, every camera, every sensor. I knew what glass was bulletproof and what sections of the glass was weak. We, as in Gallagher girls, knew it all in order to protect it. I could do it all easily, avoid everything, and I got the sword with no problem. I know that sounds impossible with THE SWORD but secrecy is what the academy depends on and I took advantage of that. In no time, like, literally, seconds I was walking back through the hallway on my way to the secret passageway out when I don't know how to explain it but I felt like everything was going in slow motion, everything was so simple, almost too simple. Even though this was my home and it was supposed to be easy to navigate the halls, everything, the dance, and me being in the crew, and my ease in getting the sword all got to me and I hesitated, because the feeling was overpowering, this was way too simple. Something isn't right.

The next moment I heard a whisper behind me and my heart sunk as a voice that I could recognize anywhere said in a broken voice, "Gallagher girl?"

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